Delilah and Jojo walked outside as the final bell rang, both of them ready to go home.
"Dude, those new kids look REALLY familiar..." Delilah told Jojo as she unlocked her car.
"How so?" He asked, getting in the passenger side.
"Like...the way they dress, the way they look...their names even seem suspicious to me." She replied getting in and starting the car.
Delilah turned her head to see the three new students getting into a red truck that was parked a few spaces away, Chris was the one getting in the driver's seat.
"You still hanging out with me for a while or am I taking you home?" Delilah asked Jojo as she started to leave the school parking lot.
"Home today, I've got homework." He replied.
Delilah kept on driving until she got to Jojo's house. She stopped in front of the house and Jojo got out, the two waved and Delilah continued driving until she got to her own house.
Her house was a small two bedroom place left to her by her grandmother that passed away. She pulled her car into the driveway and parked, got out, got her backpack, and locked the car up before she headed towards the front door. She heard a noise like doors shutting from across the street and turned around to see the three new students getting out at the house across the street.
"You've got to be kidding me..." she sighed, waving as Cora waved to her first.
Delilah waited until the three went in their house before rushing into her own. She tossed her backpack in the corner behind the door and hung her uniform jacket on a hook before kicking off her shoes. She made her way up to her room and changed out of her uniform, putting on a pair of jeans shorts and a black tanktop. She let her hair loose and ran a brush through it before putting it up in a ponytail.
"It's great to get out of that uniform..." she sighed in relief, stretching her arms and back as she went down to the living room and picked up the tv remote. She then heard her cellphone ringing, so she rushed to her backpack and got her phone out to answer. "Hello?"
"Dee, hey. Everything ok over there?" asked Jojo.
"Yeah, fine. Just got out of that uniform and into some normal clothes." Dee said as she flopped onto the couch, clicking through the channels on the tv. "And the new kids apparently live across the street from me..."
"Seriously? Maybe I should've came over."
"Why?"
"That Cora girl's kinda cute."
"Dude..."
"What?"
"Crushin' on the new girl? Really?"
"Hey, you can't tell me that you don't think one of her brothers are cute."
"Eh, not really." Delilah shrugged.
"Liar." Jojo could be heard laughing.
"Oh, hush! We only just met them, we don't need to be getting all attached and stuff already."
Jojo was still laughing, so Delilah hung up. Her phone rang again and she answered again.
"Yes, Jojo, I hung up on you."
"Don't do that! You know I can't help getting all giggly sometimes."
"Yeah, yeah, listen...I think I'll just walk over to say hi and see if they'd want to hang out with us this weekend. Sound good?" Delilah said, standing and looking out the window at the house across the street.
"Yeah, sounds good! Call me back later, ok?" Jojo said with excitement in his voice.
"I will, don't worry. Later, bro." Delilah hung up again, this time placing her phone in her back pocket as she slipped her old black running shoes on.
She opened up the front door and walked outside, shielding her eyes for a moment as she was met by the still bright sunlight. She let her eyes adjust before walking across the street and making her way to the brick house that she saw the new kids enter. She was about to knock when she heard talking on the other side of the door.
"We can't stay here, either! That school is insane! Almost as bad as back home!"
Delilah recognized this voice as Cora.
"That's impossible, maybe you're over reacting." Said a voice that was unfamiliar, probably the father of the three.
"There was a fight in the hallway, blood was everywhere, and one of the kids in the fight was a DEMON! A literal demon!" Cora yelled.
"And the ones who stopped the fight were...well, the guy lifted a kid with his mind and the girl pinned the demon kid to the wall! And she's a toothpick compared to most of the other students!" Yelled a third voice, Delilah recognized it belonged to Cameron even though she only heard him talk once.
"You're all being WAY too loud...I'm going outside..." said a fourth voice, who she assumed belonged to Chris even though she hadn't heard him talk all day.
Delilah raised a fist to knock when the door opened, she found herself staring up at her taller classmate and he even tried hiding behind the door.
"Um, hi...sorry for just coming over like this..." Delilah said, awkardly kicking at the ground. "Sounds chaotic in there...they freaking out about what happened at school?"
"A little, yeah." Chris looked over his shoulder, then back at Delilah.
"You wanna take a walk? Let me show you around the neighborhood or something until they calm down?"
"Sure, just...let me grab my jacket and I'll be out."
Delilah rolled her eyes. "Dude, it's like eighty degrees out here...you'll burn yourself alive."
"I-"
"Just come on..." Delilah grabbed Chris by the hand and pulled him outside, but immediately stopped and stared at him. The shirt he had on actally had the sleeves cut off and his entire right arm was made of metal. "...you..."
"Come on, let's just go..."
The two walked in silence and Delilah lead the way to a nearby park so they could talk. Once they were out of direct sight of anyone, Delilah broke the silence.
"We both have questions, we both want answers, who's going first?" she asked.
"I don't think I need to explain anything to you. The way you looked at me showed that you knew something was going on from the beginning."
"Yeah..." Delilah said. "...but I won't say anything to anyone and I'll keep calling you Chris even though it's not your real name."
"Now YOU need to explain what the heck went on at school...what kind of place is that, anyway?"
"Spellbound High isn't a completely normal school. It doubles as a training academy for those of us who aren't exactly normal...we have normal classes, some normal teachers, and a secret training room under the gym."
"The JROTC class?"
"Mostly normal students and a human instructor. The only non normal students are you, me, and two others."
"Who were the two kids fighting?"
"Xavier and Greg. Xavier is a tiefling, which is a demonic human race that usually stays in a human form to blend in with the rest of the humans. Greg is just, well...he was in some superhero group when he was a kid, but there was an accident on a mission one night and he can now use his powers whenever he wants instrad of being limited to only using them at night. I'm not sure how that worked, so don't ask." Delilah shrugged.
"Now...what. Are. You?"
Delilah bit her lip in thought.. "It's hard to explain. I may not look like much, but I'm a lot stronger than I look. I'm what most call a mettahuman, which is just a human with superpowers. Though, the more correct term would be mutant...or, you know...freak..." she sighed. "...aside from my tiny physical appearance, I can actually make myself bigger but that's only if I HAVE TO...like, the bigger I am the stronger I am. But I prefer to stay like this: small and innocent looking." Delilah stopped talking and just sat on the grass, hugging her knees to her chest. She never really talked about her abilities to anyone and it made her uncomfortable just letting anyone know about them.
"Show me." 'Chris' told her, making her stand up.
"What?" She asked, looking up at him.
"Show me what you can do. Just, pick me up or something."
"I don't think that's a good idea..."
"You won't hurt me or anything."
"If you say so..."
Delilah then bent down and grabbed Chris by the legs, lifting him off the ground with no problem. The girl's body then doubled in size, then she threw him up in the air before easily catching him when he came back down. She put him back on the ground and her body returned to its normal size.
"That enough of a demonstration for you?" She asked, a little embarrassed.
"It's hard to believe a girl like you can do something like that." He said, a hint of a smile on his face.
"Just don't made me mad, ok? Last person to do that...well, they got to see a military tank fly through the air." Delilah laughed, a light blush dusting her freckled face.
It was silent again, the two unsure of what to do next.
"I...guess we should get you back home..." Delilah sighed.
"Yeah, they probably noticed that I disappeared by now."
The two began walking back, stopping at his house and standing in the small front yard.
"You'll have to show me sometime." Delilah said.
"Show you what?" Chris asked.
"The real you! We'll have to make a trip to the underground trianing room sometime, it's the safest place to do anything." Delilah answered.
"We'll see, Delilah."
The two walked up to the front door and could immediately tell that things had calmed down.
"Before I forget...you three feel like hanging out with me and Jojo this weekend? I live right across the street and we can just, I dunno, be ourselves or whatever..." Delilah asked, blushing a little.
"I'll talk to them about it and see what they say. I'm not sure how well it'll go, though..."
"If they don't want to, then just come by yourself." Delilah said, then mentally slapped herself. "A-and don't forget to wear your PT clothes tomorrow! We're going to be in the gym."
Voices could be heard again.
"I need to get in there...see you tomorrow." Chris said as he opened the door.
"Behave yourself, Private. If you need me, I'm right across the street." She said, motioning a hand to her little wooden house.
He nodded and went inside, then she rushed back home. Delilah pulled out her phone and texted Jojo, telling him everything that happened and what was said.
"Tomorrow's class is going to be intersting..."
Author's Note: Well, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Yes, there's going to be relationships. Yes, there's going to be awkward moments between people before the relationshps are official. Not sure if I'll include smut, but there WILL be some suggestive moments that suggest certain things going on.
Thanks for reading!