It was Monday September 22nd. Mondays were always the worst for Cori. She feared that it made her look like she was getting over a hangover from her drowsiness. Then again she was more awake than most. April was talking to her but she wasn't listening. "Cori, is it true you saw Slash? Cori? Cori?" "Huh, oh yeah. I mean it wasn't really Slash. It was just like a hallucination." April just looked at her. "I'll explain it to you at lunch," Cori said.
The bell rang as Science finished. Cori stretched and started walking downstairs to math. Cori loved math. One of the only people who did anyways. She had a good teacher too. She was real close to him because her mother is a friend of his. Cori opened the door to her class. She sat down in a desk and yawned. Her teacher walked in five minutes later and began writing notes on the whiteboard. The day dwindled by until Phys. Ed. This was the only class Cori had with April except for science. She was in the locker room changing. April almost slammed into her locker. She was late, as always.
Cori laughed at the sight. April opened her locker. "Not everyone can have a class downstairs you know." Cori pulled on her white t-shirt that had her name on it. "I never said anything," teased Cori. April began to get dressed. "Well, it was pretty obvious," April replied impatiently. Once dressed, April and Cori joined the other students in the gymnasium. Their teacher, Ms. Strenold, began to speak. "Today we are going to take a pacer." Everyone groaned. "And," she continued, "You'll need a partner to track your progress each round. Group up now." Of course April and Cori were going to be in a group. Cori never liked anyone else in her class.
Cori lined up with some other girls on a line while April got a piece of paper and a pencil. A voice came through one of the speakers in the gym. "The pacer will start in thirty seconds…" Finally there was a ringing noise and Cori started running. She pretended to breathe heavily and have trouble running. Finally she got to thirty-seven laps when she stopped. She sat on the floor next to April.
"Why'd you hold back," April asked. Cori was fake-panting. "What do you mean?" April stood up and passed the paper to the teacher then returned. "Well, I know you could go more laps. You're not that out of shape considering you roam the streets at night." Cori stretched out her arms and stopped panting. In her normal voice she said "Haven't you ever read Spider-man?" April rolled her eyes. "No because I don't like comic books," she said. "Well if you did, you would know that you shouldn't seem like you are the superhero. So Peter acts like a wimp and stuff when he's really Spider-man," Cori said.
April got up as the pacer started again. "BRB," she said. Cori waved at her and took a piece of paper. She wrote April's name on it. She sighed and recorded April's progress on the paper.