I slowly got of the car and scanned my surroundings. What I found sickened me a block filled with picket fences, perfectly kept lawns, clean streets and nice expensive. This was an extreme change from what I'm used to. Which includes the lovely ratty old apartment buildings, sparkling shards of glass scattered all over the streets and well, our ever so friendly neighbors that try to shoot you if you come to close to their property. After giving a quick glance towards my mother I took a deep breathe and dug one of my boxes out of the moving van and climbed into my new home. I walked into a room on the ground floor and that I had claimed my own earlier that day. Setting the surprisingly heave box and sat down on my bed that the movers had put in earlier that day and sighed. Since I knew I was mostly the reason that we moved here. For two years my family has been living in fear of me, really I don't blame them since I'm afraid of myself. The reason being is that I'm a freak and in this town somewhere lies a school that is especially for freaks like me and tomorrow would be my first day. I slowly laid down across my bed and stared at the ceiling silently praying that tomorrow would never come and that things would go back to how they used to be. But it did and things would never be the same for me ever again.
I awoke the next day to my alarm clock that had magically appeared in my room along with the rest of my stuff. I sat up and found I was wearing the same shit from the day before. I just guessed that I had fallen asleep and they moved my crap in here for me. I sighed and opened the door that separated my room from the kitchen and found my mother hovering over the stove making what smelled like eggs and bacon. I walked in and my mother looked up and smiled.
"Oh, good you're up. I thought I was going to have to wake since you don't want to be late to your first day."
"And wouldn't that be a shame." I replied in a dry tone.
"Look, Suze I know you would rather be in New York right now, but this is for the best. Now go get ready I'll just make you something that you can eat on the way to the bus stop."
"Alright, whatever." Soon I was dressed and feeling refreshed as I shrugged on my black motorcycle jacket and walked over to my mom who was holding both my messenger bag, but also my breakfast.
"Well, you're all set I packed you a lunch since cafeteria food sucks and here's your breakfast. Have a great day sweet heart." She said giving me my bag.
"You too mom and by the way don't call my sweet heart it gives me the creeps."
Before she could say anything else I walked out the door and toward the bus stop. I had to wait about a minute before the bus finally showed up, there were two other people waiting with me but I just ignored them since all I wanted to do was get on that bus and get the day over with. The doors opened up and I walked up the steps but was stopped by the driver.
"Whoa, miss where exactly do you think you're going."
"To the back of the bus so I could be alone while you drive the bus to school. What does it look like to you, Mr. Ron Wilkerson?"
"I meant what school are you going to?"
"Well, couldn't have just asked that in the first place Ron you had me all confused. I'm going to Sky High I guess I mean that's what it's called right?"
"Oh so you're the new student. Okay get on and watch you're mouth because tomorrow I might not wait for you."
I just rolled my eyes and made way to the back of the back of the bus. I watched as the two kids I had seen from before made their way and then sitting in the seat across from me. I watched as they sat down and talked to the kids that I was guessing were their friends. They sat their and made jokes and laughed at things that the other said before a girl that was sitting next to the boy in the red white and blue shirt smiled at me.
"Hi, you must be new here seeing the way you acted with Ron. I'm Layla be the way and what's you're name."
"I'm Suze nice to meet you."
"Well what's your power?"
"My power?"
"Yeah like I can control plant life, Will here has super strength and can fly. You know you're power."
"Oh right that, well this one is kinda hard to explain." I said as I formed a small ball of purple energy in the palm of my hand and started to throw it up and down as if it were a baseball. Layla stared at it while she nudged the guy sitting next to her I was assuming was Will and he gave me a weird look before I decided to continue. "But my other power is that I can heal myself in seconds."
"Really that's amazing, but what's the purple thingy?" Will asked confused.
"Well, to tell you the truth I have no idea. All I know is that when it hits you it hurts like hell trust me I know since I've done it before."
"I believe you, I don't want you to demonstrate on someone either. So what year are you in?"
"Well I was a sophomore at my old school so I'm guessing it's the same right?"
"Yeah, it is you just have to go through Power Placement with the freshmen."
"What's Power Placement?"
"Oh it where you get place into hero or sidekick. It's not as bad as everyone one sa."
But he didn't get to finish since I started to scream my head off as the bus flew over the edge of a ravine and started to flying into the sky. When my mom told me about Sky High I didn't think they meant it literally. Ten minutes later we landed and I stumbled off the bus with Will and Layla kindly guiding me towards the school. Soon as we reached the front steps a very tall guy came towards us wearing a striped shirt. I gave him a funny look and he just smirked before turning to Will and Layla.
"Well well well, if it isn't my two favorite people in the world, Stronghold and the hippie."
"When did you get out of jail Lash?"
"Two weeks ago. They let me out on good behavior can you believe that. Hey Stronghold who's you're little friend?"
"My name is Suze Radisson nice to meet you Lash."
"Wow Stronghold would you lookie there, the newbie was actually nice to me you know maybe this is a fresh start for me."
"Yeah well I wouldn't get used to it."
"Really and why is that Stronghold?"
"Once she sees who you really are she'll want nothing to do with you. Seeing that you're an evil bully with an attitude problem"
"That hurts you know and to think that I was actually be nice to you. You watch Stronghold I'm gonna make your life and everyone of your friends' a living hell." He started to walk away a little dejectedly before he turned around and smiled "Oh, I forgot to welcome you to Sky High, see ya around Suze." Then he walked away disappearing into the crowds. I turned to Will and Layla and quickly decided that I would ask later seeing as they were both fuming and turned finding a boy in yellow smiling down at me.
"Just let them calm down a bit Lash kinda ticks them off."
"No, you think? What's with that guy anyway?"
"Oh Lash, well last year at homecoming he joined up with the Royal Pain and tried to take over the world. He's been in jail ever since and just got out a couple weeks ago. Me, Will, Layla and the rest of our friends stopped them that's why he's a little ticked at us."
"A little the guy is threatening to make your guys lives a living hell. Tell me yellow boy how is that a little?"
The yellow boy looked a little hurt but just smiled and shrugged it off "I have a name you know, It's Zach and don't worry about Lash he's harmless without his friends since, right now everyone at school hates him. Really I think it's his life that's going to be a living hell not ours come on let's get you to the gym you don't want to be late to Power Placement."
As we walked to the gym, Zach and I parted ways as he went to sit on the bleachers and I went into this arena type thing with a bunch of scared little freshmen. I listened to some Coach Boomer guy drone on before I started to zone out not realizing that he was calling my name till someone had lightly tapping on my shoulder and turned to find Lash waving at me pointing at Boomer mouthing 'it's your turn' before nudging me a little to hard before he retracted his arm. I slowly made my way up to the platform looking questionally towards the Boomer guy.
"Well finally, what's your name?"
"Suze Radisson."
"What's your power?"
"I can't really explain it, but I can show you." I said as giant purple balls grew in my hands. I looked around and saw a bench in the corner and launch the two balls at it and watched as it blew into smithereens. Coach Boomer looked at me unimpressed and called for a car I looked at him like he was crazy and that was the last thing I remembered.