A few weeks passed and Alphonce seem to be adjusting well to his new home, at least that's what Kim assumed. His first day from school was nothing but excitement and new things he wanted to show to others back at the flat. Still Alphonce was happy, happier was Kim when she heard Alphonce made a new friend, Danny. He was a small pale boy with dirty blonde hair and brown eyes. Alphonce enjoyed having a kid his age to play.
The next day Kim was waiting besides the car. She looked all over for Alphonce among the group of kids. She soon spots him and waved to him, but Alphonce was different. He walked slow, didn't look up at her and wasn't smiling. Kim let him inside the car. She was about to help him up like usual but Alphonce refused it. Kim felt something was wrong. When they got home Alphonce raced up to his room and slams his door. Kim went up to check on him. She found him under the covers.
"Alphonce," she begin asking, "Did anything happened at school?"
"Alphonce?" She leans in close.
Alphonce jumped at her screaming, "LEAVE ME ALONE! YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER AND I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!"
Kim noticed the red in Alphonce's eyes, glaring at her. She backs away. The phone rang, she turn her head away when she heard it again and looks back at Alphonce hiding under the covers again. Quickly she went downstairs to answer the phone, it was from the principal.
"Mrs. Niccals, I know it's shocking for a mother to hear this, but today your son was sent to my office today," the principal said to her.
Kim's heart dropped. She started asking several questions. The principal that Alphonce was send to the office for being in a fight. Kim was furious why it too the principal or anyone to alert when it happened.
"You see the strangest thing happened today the power suddenly went off in the entire school, we had send someone to find an electrician to help fix it before we could contact you and Mrs. Dodger," the principal explained.
Kim knew the other person as Danny's mother, she had met her once after school when picking up Alphonce from school the other day. She soon forgotten about the strange power surge that happened. Alphonce's power could have cause that power surge without him knowing it. Soon she heard static sounds off the phone, the lights in the kitchen begin to flicker, and a few other power appliances started turning on and off. Kim had to hang up as she hurries back upstairs to check on Alphonce.
When she opened the door she had to duck at an incoming object thrown to her. Alphonce was still under the covers, unaware at what was happening as the flying objects circled around him. The window slammed open and let in a rushing gust of wind that filled the entire room.
"Alphonce!" Kim cried out.
She had to get down on her hands and feet and crawl to get closer to Alphonce. Kim was frighten. She fear she might lose Alphonce if she didn't get him to calm down.
"Alphonce, please! Whatever is upsetting you, please tell me. I know you said some hurtful things, but please I want you to know I love you. I don't want to ruin that, please think of your father, he wouldn't want you to be upset," Kim told him.
The wind slowed down, the lights stopped flickering, and the flying objects fell onto the ground. Everything was calm, she carefully got up and sat at the edge of the bed. Alphonce shaking under the covers. Kim lift the blanket off, Alphonce cried.
"Danny is leaving," Alphonce finally confessed.
"Is that why you got into a fight?" Kim asked.
"No! A big kid was picking on him. He had him in a headlock," Alphonce told her. He begins to explain what happened to his step-mother.
It was during recess, Alphonce spots Danny talking with a big kid. Soon the other children gathered around, Alphonce made his way closer and watched the big kid knocked Danny down. Alphonce attacked the big kid. Danny told him to stay out of if but Alphonce didn't listen.
It didn't stop until Miss Murphy came to stopped them, the bully peeled Alphonce, knocked Danny down again and ran off before he could get caught. Alphonce and Danny were sent to the principal's office.
"He said, 'It was my fault.' That I shouldn't have helped him out," Alphonce explained to his step-mother, "I don't belong here. I want to go home."
Kim looked at him more closely. Alphonce did had some bruises on his face and his hair was messy. His face was red and stained with tear rolling down his cheeks. Kim hugged him and told him things will get better.
"Oh, honey. You only wanted to help. You were being a good friend stand up for him," Kim told him.
The phone rang again and Kim carried Alphonce downstairs to answer it. It was Danny's mom. She listen close to what Mrs. Dodger started explaining to her. When the phone call ended she told Alphonce the news.
"It seems, she told me a different version on what happened," she starts telling him, "She said it wasn't your fault and want me to tell you that Danny is sorry and hope you're not mad at him."
Alphonce didn't know what to believe. Kim advised that they should try to talk it out again and that he ask Danny if anything was wrong. She also had Alphonce promise to stay calm if things go wrong.
