Author: Hi guys! Here's chapter 5! Thanx to all of you you reviewed don't have time to list you, sorry. If i don't update please don't kill me.
The Sound of Music
Chapter 5: Forget Regret
I missed the bus the next morning and had to fly to school. I actually managed to beat the bus to the school. I waited for my friends on the steps. Jessie wasn't with them. "Hey guys where's Jess?"
"She wasn't on the bus." Said Zach. "We just assumed that she had another way to get to school."
We then headed for the cafeteria so Magenta could get something to eat. While the others got in line I looked for a table. I looked around the room and saw Jessie. She was asleep. I sat down beside her. She didn't move. I poked her in the side. She grunted. I poked her again.
"Leave me alone." She muttered.
"Why so grumpy today?" I asked.
She lifted her head and gave me a glare. "My Aunt Holly brought Benny over for us to watch while she went with her hero to save something or another."
"Oh, little Benny who likes dragons?"
"The one and only… and he decided that he was going to play lets see how much destruction he can cause in one hour. I had to put him in a musical force field…. Which means I had to play music nonstop for 5 hours. Fun until you need to wake up the next day and realize that you only got 2 hours of sleep the night before."
"Ouch, wasn't there anyone who could have helped you?"
"No, my brother is sick and my best friend Vicky's powers down work with that sort of thing."
"What does she do?"
"She can communicate with animals… well she sort of is an animal."
"Why doesn't she go to school here?"
"She's very down to earth and is terrified of heights. Not to mention when her parents tried to send her to a normal school it REALLY didn't work well."
"I can only imagine how that worked out." Then Warren came in. He spotted me and came over.
He looked at the lump that was Jessie. "… And would you be Jessie?" She grunted. "I'll take that as a yes."
"Hi Warren, this is Jess." I looked at her. "She's a little tired."
"I noticed."
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"See you tomorrow Ron." We got off the bus on the street corner near my home. Jessie had found enough sugar and caffeine to wake up and was now singing some song from a musical. I have to admit that her voice was unbelievable.
"Once upon a time when I was just a kid. You never let me do what all the older kids did. Now lose that laundry list of what you won't allow. Cause momma I'm a big girl now!"
"What's that from?"
"Hairspray, it's a Broadway." She explained. "We sang it in my school play in 8th grade."
"Cool… how many musicals have you seen?"
"Oh God only knows… or the box-office." She joked. "So which house is yours?"
I pointed. She looked a little surprised. "Expected it to be bigger didn't you."
"Yep, But then again I'm probably just used to my family's houses." She reasoned. I led her through the back door and into the kitchen. "It looks really…"
"… Normal?"
"Yeah," she said almost guiltily.
"Don't worry that's most people's reaction. Most people expect super gadgets everywhere but all they get is a normal home… except for the secret sanctum."
"… Which I won't get to see."
"Exactly," then I remembered. "Oh, my parents want you to stay for dinner."
"Oh," she looked a little taken back. Then she thought it over. "Actually that makes my life easier. I wasn't planning on having dinner tonight… common lets get to work."
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My parents got home at 5:30…. And they were as crazy as usual. At first I worried about Jessie's reaction. Until it became apparent that she was used to this kind of weirdness. Then the subject got onto family. "So Jessie do we know your parents?"
"No, my family is mostly made up of sidekicks and normal humans. My brother and I are they only heroes since my great great grandfather. My great great grandfather is Sonic Boom's great grandfather."
"So you and Boomer are related?" asked my Dad shocked.
"Yep, but my end of the family hasn't really had contact with his end. My great great grandfather was so upset with his daughter for not being a super hero that we sort of split off from the rest of them."
"So does Boomer know you are related?" I asked.
"Yes, we met at a family reunion a few weeks before school started. My mom was so proud of me that she made me show off. Boomer was shocked later when he learned that I wasn't even accepted into Sky High and that I was going to C.A.P.A. instead. C.A.P.A. is a local art school." She explained. "Then he spoke to Principal Powers and got me enrolled."
"Wow, That's probably the first time he's ever done something for someone other than himself." Said my dad surprised.
"Actually I think he did it so he could say that so he could shoe me off. But he kinda failed at that because I have a different last name. Few people would put Boomer and Tetrachord side by side and think that we are related." She said.
"Who would have guessed? You two seem so different."
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Dinner was over and I sat with Jessie on the roof were Layla and me used to hang out. With an uncanny certainty the conversation turned to Layla. "So what happened to her? I haven't heard you talk about her."
I sighed. "It's kind of a sore subject. She meant a lot to me."
"I understand. I've lost several people close to me in the past." She said. "How've you been handling it?"
I shrugged. "As well as someone can. I just keep hearing her final words in my head."
"What'd she say?"
"She made me promise her that I'd move on. That I would keep living." I said remembering.
"She sounds very intelligent." She looked at the full moon in the sky. "She's right you know."
Then she started to sing…
"There's only us, there's only this,
Forget regret or life is yours to miss,
No other road, no other way
No day but today.
"There's only now, there's only here,
Give into love, for living near,
No other time, no other way,
No day but today."
"When I first heard that song I didn't understand what it meant. But I do now." She said sadly. "So much has happened to me since I learned of my powers."
"How do you deal with it?" I asked.
"You just do."
: That poem is actually the Finally from Rent... :