Chapter 2: The Others
Cara Wise sat at her table working hard on her summer homework. At the moment she was fretting over a paper for Honors Chemistry.
She gave an exasperated sigh and cried out in frustration. "Oh, no! I'll never have enough time to finish this before school starts!"
Unknown to Cara, a small figure was creeping up slowly behind her, holding something in its hand…
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Kaiting smiled broadly as he happily worked at dismantling a computer. This time it was going to work when he put it back together.
He got up and went over to the window to rest his eyes for a moment. There was a large group of children playing outside in the street.
"Idiots," he muttered to himself.
As he sat back down, he turned up the volume on his boom box. He smiled again as his favorite Chinese rap song came on. Then he got back to work on his computer…
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Mr. McGowan was enjoying his summer. He was so relieved to have a break from teaching.
Stupid 9th graders, he thought to himself. They were all so annoying, especially Headbutt and that other one, whatever her name was. Teaching was such a stressful job. He wondered what Headbutt and 'that other one' were doing right now. Probably something strange…
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John Williams, called 'Billy' by the swim team, turned into the McDonald's drive-thru. He was in his old truck.
Billy hummed to himself and drummed his fingers on the steering wheel as he waited his turn. The song he was humming was "B – B – B – Billy," the song the freshmen had made up for him this year. The kids had driven him crazy, but he still decided that he liked coaching enough to come back next year.
After he placed his order, he sat and tried to remember all the words to the song he was humming. He could not, but he remembered that he had liked most of the song (even if Billy could remember all the words, it's not like I'd really put them in the story).
Billy shrugged his shoulders, said, "Oh, well," and paid for his food. He began to eat as he turned out onto the road…
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Rachel Kurta stepped up onto the starting block. She was calm and collected as she heard her coach call out, "Swimmers, take your mark."
Her muscles tightened, and she waited for the sound that would signal the start. There it was.
She began to shut out the rest of the world as she pushed off the block and dove into the cool water.
End of Chapter 2
(Oh, by the way, all of these people are real, and yes, I really do know all of them. I'm not entirely certain that this chapter has all that much to do with the story, except to bring out the randomness. Oh, well. If you know me, you know that this is what I'm like)