Chapter 3
"Bevy," Kiyo said. "You look… like you've been showing a human emotion…" At school the next day, Bevy looked like she had been beaten with a bat in the head, then cried for hours. Only one of the two actually happened. Today, however, she was determined to put her mom out of her thoughts. "No," she said waving her hand as if to fan the air. "I'm fine. Just a bad dream and some fatigue." As they walked on to their next class, she started humming the tune from the wind chime. "That's pretty!" Ato said. "Where did you hear it?" Bevy stopped suddenly. She hadn't told her friends about the secret admirer, whom she suspected (or rather knew) was Itachi. "The radio!" she responded. The bell rang right after and she rushed off to class in a quick hurry.
Kiyo sat at his desk in his advanced physics bending class and began to doodle. The oval turned into a face, which turned into a head, and the head sprouted a body, and before he knew it, the teacher was calling him to demonstrate the technique he had just taught. He knew he wasn't paying attention, so he decided to make him think he did it wrong. He got up in front of his class with his selected opponent. His job was to transform his opponent's attack into a light bulb. His opponent sent the blast, but instead, he forced it back at him. His opponent flew into a row of desks and passed out. "Oops…"
Ryu was trying hard not to tell the boy behind him to shut up. He was sitting in his human anatomy class and the boy behind him named Wihuske was singing a song…BADLY! After five minutes of trying to listen to the teacher, he broke. He tried to put his hands on his ears but that didn't work either. Finally, he turned around and Wihuske asked him what he was looking at. "SHUT UP," Ryu yelled at him. "JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP! FOR ONCE IN YOUR PATHETIC LIFE FULL OF SICK, PHOTOBIOTIC FANTASIES ABOUT MR. H, JUDT SHUT THE FUCK UP, STOP SINGING AND BE QUIET LIKE EVERY ONE ELSE! YOU CAN'T SING SO I SUGGEST YOU DON'T!"
In the office, Ryu came in and sat next to Kiyo. "So?" Ryu asked. "Endangering student welfare." He replied. "Endangering emotional student well-being." Ryu said. They sat there in silence to await their meetings with the principal. They sat there for what seemed like forever. The song that plays on "Jeopardy" when they answer the final question seemed to be playing. When the principal came and called Ryu, he looked at the secretary and said, "Could you turn that off, dear?" The secretary apologized and pressed the stop button on her stereo. The music stopped instantly.
When everyone met up at the forest grove where they hung out, Ryu and Kiyo explained to the others about their mishaps at school. Each of them got off with five detentions each and school mascot duties for three games. Bevy, Ato, and Bera all thought it was funny. "OK, OK!" Kiyo said. "Down to business. Who is going to do something about those damn squirrels?" "Right…" Bevy said slowly. "Anyway, are we here to talk about that new technique that we are supposed to learn for school?" Ato's brain sparked. "Oh yeah! We are here to train and I was sent to teach you! Isn't that great!" Everyone looked at her as though she were crazy. "OH my god!" Bera said. "She's gone insane! We-are-here-for-you!" she said slowly. Ato punched her in the gut and continued. "As most of you know, I am proficient in the Doppelganger technique." (She stole a glance at Ryu.) The school possesses knowledge of this and has asked me to teach it to you guys. Believe it or not, we are the best in our class…AND Bera!" Bera was amazed. "Oh cool! I'm smarter than someone! YAY!" she rocketed up on her feet and Ryu pulled her down. "Oh help!" she yelled. "I been violated! I need an adult!" Ato smacked her in the back of the head. "Shut up! Lets begin."
Within an hour of practice, everyone had a doppelganger. The only difference was that Bera's was deformed in several places but nonetheless she was still happy about it and thought it was the cutest thing in the world. The copies were made out of the individual power each of them held. Ato's was slightly purple, because she used cherry blossoms. Ryu's was tinted with blue because he used ice. Bevy's was slightly green and looked like it was seasick because she used some wind. Kiyo's copy had a black tinge to it because that's what color electricity he generated at the time. And Bera's was very red and looked like a boiling teapot because she used fire. After training with Ato a little more, she had her copy looking normal, but still a little too red.
That night they decided to go out. They all put on their party clothed and set off for the teenage nightclub. When they got there, some cool dance song was playing. They decided to skip the dance floor at the moment and get something to drink. Just when they sat down, none other than Itachi came up to them. "Hey!" he said. "Wasn't expecting to see you guy's here!" Bevy was looking at him while blushing. "Hey Bevy! Would you like to dance?" Bevy nodded her head and Itachi took her by the hand. "Watch my stuff," she said absently to Bera. "She's got it bad…" Bera said. Kiyo and the others nodded their agreement.
On the dance floor, Itachi and Bevy danced to some remixes of the "Spongebob Squarepants" theme and a Japanese song, never taking their eyes off of each other. Then an oddly familiar song came on… It's the song that the wind chime plays, Bevy thought. "You know it was me who left you the flowers and the wind chime right?" Itachi said. Bevy smiled openly. "I had my suspicions." She said modestly. When he leaned in to kiss her, she thought, oh my god .Is this really going to happen? Their lips touched and Bevy felt her whole body fill with the warmth that spread from his lips. The slow ballad continued, as they remained connected. People danced around them and it seemed like an ending to a teen movie. Fire works seemed to go off as the remained in their affectionate entanglement. Somewhere in the club, Ato and Ryu were following in their footsteps while Bera and Ryu sat at their table. Kiyo was making the fire works by shooting electricity into the air. All the while, the song played on. "If you need to crash then crash and burn. You're not alone."