Amara shook her head. Kandra and Taylor were impossible to deal with. Already, Kandra had tried to skip all her classes just to sit in the computer lab all day. Taylor wasn't much help. She had just gone along with Kandra, not even trying to object.
"Temi, your class is the second door on the right. Why don't you go ahead to class while I deal with Kandra and Taylor?" Temi just shrugged, causing her long braid to dance a little, and walked towards her class where she sat in the back of the room and started working on making some her of her poetry she had written earlier in the day into lyrics. The music in her head was more than enough to drown out the teacher and for the first time that day Temi smiled as she memorized the complex drum beats she had thought up for her newest song.
"Kandra, you need to go to class!" Amara exclaimed losing her temper as the girl just stared at her as if speaking some foreign language.
"Why?" Kandra asked playing with her bracelet, which Amara was pretty sure was made of several different wires woven together. The bracelet matched the tattoo around Kandra's shoulder, except it was in different colors while the tattoo was just black.
"Because if you don't go to class, you won't learn anything."
"That's where you're wrong. I can learn everything off the net," Kandra stated her voice not showing any emotion, almost as if she were a robot of some sort. Taylor didn't even comment, instead she just watched the other students in the hallway, most of whom were watching Kandra and Amara argue. Not for the first time, Taylor wished Kandra had picked someone else to be her net guide, since when she merged with the net; she had to have someone at the keyboard or mouse to guide her. Immediately Taylor regretted that wish. She was too small to go to school normally. At only eleven inches tall, Taylor's room, both at the Institute and previously at the Thorne Academy, was full of Barbie furniture. Even her clothes were made for dolls. Her size had always been nothing but trouble, and even if she did try to stand up to Kandra, who would be lost without her, it was doubtful any one would hear her tiny little voice.
"Fine, go, stay in the computer lab, but let Taylor come to class with me." Taylor's heart leapt when she heard what Amara had said, but she knew Kandra wouldn't allow it.
"I cannot allow that. Without the mouse I cannot interface," Kandra said, her voice still emotionless causing Amara to blink her eyes in confusion. Kandra didn't even seem to notice that Amara didn't understand her and Taylor was looking at Amara sadly as she walked back into the computer lab, Taylor still sitting on her shoulder, with one hand handcuffed to Kandra's ear by a silver wire earring.