Rachel sat at her desk in the classroom, daydreaming. English. Bleh. She hated that class! She already knew all the types of sentences, punctuation, and grammar rules, yet they still had the same class year after year! Now in the other classes, you learn something new each year. Those were the kind of classes she liked. Like algebra and science. Those were her favorites, but she liked science the best. She only wished she could have the brilliant Dr. Otto Octavius as her professor. Gym was fun, too. Exercising, she thought, was awesome. She loved to always be in good shape, just in case she ever needed to fight or something.
Rachel was a sixteen-year-old junior in high school, who enjoyed working out, writing, music, and, of course, the internet. She had shoulder-length brown hair with blonde highlights, and bright blue eyes. She loved school, especially science, and was obsessed with Otto Octavius.
She was calculating what she needed to do when she got home. Homework always came first, to get it done and out of the way. Then she'd hop online to check her sites. First, she had to check her email for reviews, author alerts, and other various messages from She was a fan fiction author, and always had some type of message from the site. Then she had her message board about fan fiction. She also had an online journal, which was always fun.
And finally, she had her famed Otto shrine. She had invented that site completely devoted to Otto. Message boards, polls, quizzes, anything you ever needed to know about the infamous Dr. Otto Octavius. Only about three people knew about it: Herself, her friend from the UK, and Rachel's best friend Anna.
Now Anna and Rachel had met in summer camp one year when they were in junior high. They were assigned as partners for archery, and got along wonderfully in the first round. They had lots of stuff in common, but the one thing they could never stop talking about was Otto Octavius. Through the years, their interests changed, but they always shared that fanatical love for the four-armed genius. Anna was seventeen, had long black hair, brown eyes, and wore baggy boys pants and glasses. They were both on , and were always encouraging each other that one day they'd finally get to meet the infamous doctor they adored, and would become his two partners in crime. After all, they did live in New York. The odds were pretty good. They instant messaged each other every night, and met at Rachel's house every morning to walk to school together. The two friends decided one day to make a shrine for the beloved doctor. They created a web page, and called it 'Otto-Obsessed'. They also created a message board for giggly fangirls who loved Otto. Rachel managed to get Otto-Obsessed into a few little-known search engines, so maybe the wonderful doctor would get some more popularity.
Rachel was distracted from her dreaming by the class bell. She stood up, gathered up her books and headed out of the classroom, on to her favorite subject, science. Anna ran up to her in the hall.
"Hey Ray! Ray, I've finally figured it out!"
"What's that, Anna?"
"I've finally got it! The perfect plan to meet Otto!"
"Oh, come on, Anna, not again! Remember that one time when we visited his old abandoned apartment and got arrested for trespassing? And the time when we hired a pilot to fly us over rooftops to see if Otto was up there? Look, I'm all for meeting Otto, but we need a better plan! So, what's your idea?"
"Pier 56 is only a couple miles away." Rachel was silent for a moment, and then grinned at her friend.
"Anna, did I ever tell you you're a genius?"
"Thank-you. I told you it as a great plan."
"Let's do it tomorrow, since it'll be the weekend. Are you coming over after school today?"
"Of course! We always do that!"
"Good. We can plan out how we're gonna do this. This is gonna be great!" Anna giggled.
"When two fan girls get together, there's bound to be chaos."
"Amen to that, Anna. Amen to that." The girls giggled all the way to science class.