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Headmistress's Kid

Margret slowly opened the door, and stepped cautiously into the classroom. All eyes turned to her and at which point she wished she were invisible.

"Hello," said the teacher sweetly, "And who might you be?" Margret said nothing but gave the teacher the note Marie had given her to give to the teacher. "Ah, I see," said the teacher as she read the note, "Welcome Margret I guess this will be your homeroom for at least the rest of the semester my name is Ms. Perke."

"Oh." said Margret dumbly, she tried to think of something to say but nothing came to mind.

"Class, may I have your attention please." the teacher asked calmly. "Jonny if you don't sit in your assigned seat this second you have lunch detention. Coby what did I say about poking Clare with pencils. I don't care if she stuck her tongue at you you are not to poke her. Clare keep your tongue in your mouth. Shon if I see you do that one more time you have lunch detention." Margret noticed that the teacher was beginning to get aggravated. "Nicole this is the hundredth time I've had to talk to you today about passing notes."

"Third." retorted Nicole, rolling her eyes.

"And for that disrespectful remark you have lunch detention, Shelby bring me the note unless you want to join Nicole." glancing nervously at Nicole as she walked by Shelby got up and handed the note to the teacher who read it and then promptly ripped it in half and threw it in the trash. "See me after class." she said narrowing her eyes. If looks could kill, Margret observed, Nicole would be dead. "And now that I seem to have everyones attention I would like to introduce to you a new student. Everyone please welcome Margret."

"Hi," said Margret trying to smile.

"You my take a seat over there behind Janell." Margret slipped quietly into her seat.

"Now class how many of you have read the book called Moby Dick written by Herman Melville?" Margret and a couple other students raised their hands, Nicole just snorted.

-X-X-X-

Finally! Lunch. Margret came to a dead halt when she came the lunchroom. There were so many people, some of their mutations obvious. Where am I going to sit? There was no place in particular that looked rather welcoming. She spotted an empty bench and headed over in it's direction. But when she got there it was no longer empty.

"Shouldn't you be at lunch detention?" Margret heard Shelby say. She turned around to see Nicole backing Shelby into a corner.

"I don't care what that witch tells me to do." sneered Nicole. "You gave her that note, why?"

"because she told me to." said Shelby.

"Oh, so now you betray me to be a good girl."

"No it's not like that!"

"That note was private and because you gave it to Perke I have in school suspension tomorrow!"

"I didn't even get to read it!" cried Shelby helplessly.

"Well I bet if you had and you hadn't given Perke the note you would have told her what it said anyway."

"No!" Shelby had ran out of room to back up. Margret had heard enough. She walked over and tapped on Nicole's shoulder.

"What do you want?" said Nicole.

"To introduce myself." Said Margret quickly then holding out her hand said, "I'm Margret McDoe." She noticed that Nicole stiffened when Margret said "McDoe."

"You mean you're the headmistress's kid." said Nicole slowly. Uh oh.

"Um, yeah."

"Well nice to meet you." sneered Nicole turning back to Shelby. Rude!

"Hello," said Margret to Shelby pushing past the now outraged Nicole, "I'm Margret." Shelby shook her hand cautiously eying her with slight suspicion but seemed relieved that Nicole was mad at someone else.

"Hey McDoe." said Nicole, "Get lost." Margret resisted the urge to slap Nicole.

"No."

"What do you mean no."

"Exactly what I said."

"Just because your the headmistress's kid doesn't mean you can do whatever you want."

"Just because you got in school suspension doesn't mean that you can take it out on her." said Margret pointing her thumb over her should at Shelby. Margret could barely keep from laughing as she watched the anger build up in Nicole's face.

"You'll pay for this McDoe!" She called over her shoulder as she stormed away.

"Sheesh."

"You shouldn't have done that." whispered Shelby.

"Why not?'

"Nicole knows people, and she's real strong."

"Hey don't worry about it." Margret went back to the bench which had returned to it's empty state."

"Uh, thanks." called Shelby.

"Don't mention it" Margret shrugged ignoring the queasy feeling that was building up in her stomach.

-X-X-X-

What a day thought Margret as she stepped into the main office.

"Hello Margret." Said John, "How was your day?"

"Different," replied Margret,

"Oh?"

"Well P.E. was interesting to watch."

"You didn't participate did you?" He asked looking over his reading glasses at her.

"No, he said it wouldn't be safe for me or the other students till we know the extent of my powers."

"Speaking of which Marie and I were thinking that we should take you the testing room to personally find out what you can really do."

"The testing room?"

"Yes," then seeing her discomfort, "Oh no, we'll just run a couple of scans, maybe a blood test, and I can explain the rest when we get there."

"Okay," said Margret who was only slightly comforted. They went down a series of halls, down a flight a stairs, down an elevator, and into a room full of medical high-tech looking equipment."

"Wow," said Margret.

"Hello," called Marie from where she was seated at a computer. I think everything is all set up. Come over here Margret. Margret walked over and Marie began to explain what they were going to do.

"First we're going to take a blood sample, have you ever done that before?"

"Yes," She shuddered, "They did it both times at the hospital." I hate needles!

-X-X-X-

"Are you ready for the final evaluation?" asked Marie

"Yes,"

"Okay, what we want you to do is see if you can trigger your power and see what it can do."

"What? How?"

"That's what we want you to figure out."

"Oh."

"Ready?" asked John.

"Yeah, I guess so."

"Okay just step into this chamber, don't worry, we'll still be able to hear and see you."said John. Margret stepped carefully into the chamber.

"Ready?" asked Marie.

"Yes." Marie closed the door and then Margret heard John's voice."

"Can you hear me Margret?"

"Yes, I hear you."

"Good," said John, "Margret, first of all can you remember how to activate your power?"

"No,"

"Well can you sort of remember what triggered your initial burst of power?"

"Yes." How could I forget?

"Try to remember exactly how you felt, and your conditions when it happened." Margret closed her eyes. She could remember clear as day, the purple electricity zapping her again and again. The spot on her back begun to sting, she felt her anger building. What gave them the right to torture me? She felt a tingling sensation in her fingers. It's working! I have to focus, focus on the energy, focus, focus! She looked at her hands, they were glowing and deep blue color similar to the streaks in her hair! Then she saw a target appear on one of the walls. Oh I get it! She gathered up as much of her energy as she could and focused it into her hands. Then when she could barely hold it anymore she lined up with the target and released the energy. There was a loud explosion. She fell back from the force, she heard the door open and her parents rushed in and then nothing.

-X-X-X-

"What happened?" asked Margret, her head throbbing.

"You should let out a lot of random energy." said Marie.

"Did I break anything?"

"No, you just have a couple big bruises."

"How long have I been out?"

"Not long,"

"Oh. I'm really hungry." Marie laughed.

-X-X-X-

"You are now aloud to participate in P.E. But do be careful, little blasts okay."

"Okay, bye mom."

"Bye sweetie." Margret walked into Ms. Perke's room and took her seat. Janell, who was already there, turned around and asked, "Is it true you took on Nicole?"

"Took on? All I did was make her leave Shelby alone."

"Well thats brave."

"Why?"

"Because... Oh right you don't know her."

"You're right, I don't, care to inform me?"

"Well first of all her boyfriend is Mitchel who's power is that he can control rock. Second she can manipulate fire."

"Oh glorious."

"So you really are the headmistress's kid?"

"Yeah, why."

"Well I think it's pretty cool."

"Uh, thanks."

"Okay class, I assume we are all ready to begin." said Ms. Perke.