Chapter Four: Daydream
Claire's eyes and mind drifted into oblivion, all she could think about was the amazing guy that had made her feel safe, as safe as she felt when she was around her father or Peter Petrelli, the guy that could not stop staring at her from the day their eyes met, this guy's name was West. Unusual name, Claire thought, but she liked unusual, because she was unusual.
The next thing Claire remembered was being shaken back to reality. She could hear someone calling her name, but it all seemed vague. She turned around and saw West saying her name.
"What?" she asked him.
"You were daydreaming" said West in a hushed voice.
Claire finally realised she was off in her own little world, her cheeks flushed red with embarrassment.
"Oh was I?" she said finally.
"Yeah, but don't worry you didn't miss much, I mean, I would've dozed off myself"
Claire looked at him and smiled then realised they were alone in the classroom.
"Where is everyone?" she asked.
"The bell rang, didn't you hear it?"
"I guess not"
They continued talking as they got up to go to their next class.
"So what were you daydreaming about anyway?" asked West
"Oh nothing" she replied
"Nothing?" he asked with a cheeky grin.
from the day he saw Claire, west knew they would be close, and he wondered if he should reveal his secret to her, his ability to fly, but he was always a bit afraid of how she would react. He wondered if she was like him, and one night, his questions were answered.
He thought he might fly by Claire's house to pay her a visit, he hovered at her bedroom window but she wasn't inside, so he flew around the house until he spotted her, sitting on the couch in the lounge room watching T.V. with her dog next to her, with a pair of scissors in her hand. West hovered at the window, just out of sight, hoping she wouldn't see him watching. He wondered what she would be doing with a large pair of scissors, then what he saw next frightened him and totally changed his opinion of her, he saw her cut off her little toe on her right foot, he thought she was insane, but what he saw next changed his view again, her toe grew back, just like the salamander lizards they had been learning about in Biology class at school.
From that moment West knew he wasn't alone, he had met someone that was like him, a person with a special ability like him, but different, she had the ability to regenerate her body, which made he invincible, West could fly, he thought they made one hell of a super powered couple.
At the doorway to Claire's next class, West stopped her, pushed some of her hair behind her ear and leaned down and kissed her. Claire totally lost herself in West's lips; she knew she wasn't alone in the world since meeting Peter and now West.
"I'll wait for you at your locker after the last bell" he told her "you better go" he said, with one last kiss before he made his way to his last class.
Claire sighed as she walked into class and sat down at her usual desk in the middle of the room, she could daydream about West all day long, but unfortunately now she couldn't, her last class was Math, her best subject according to her grades, so she had to concentrate to make her parents proud, and after all, this teacher was the teacher from hell.
Finally Math was over, the last bell of the day had rung, it was friday afternoon and she had no homework. Claire smiled to herself as she packed up her books and headed for her locker where West was waiting, her boyfriend of a few weeks now, her superman, she called him, because he would always be flying up and rescuing her, even though she was the one girl in the entire world who didn't need rescuing and West knew that, he still insisted to rescue her just because he wanted to, and this flattered her.
As she approached her locker she could see West's muscular figure leaning against it. She walked up to him and placed her arms around his waist from behind which startled him. He spun around quickly, smiled and hugged her back.
"Hey" he said "so, do you have any homework?"
"Nope, I'm free for the weekend. You?"
"No homework"
"Great, so we can have some fun"
"And by fun you mean..?"
"Let's go somewhere so we can be alone"
"Ok, so where do you want to go, you do know we can go just about anywhere?"
"Yeah I know, like on top of the Hollywood sign"
"And you let me catch you"
"Yeah even though I didn't need catching"
"Oh then how would you have gotten back up onto the Hollywood sign?"
"Good point"
"So where do you want to go?"
She thought for a moment
"How about on top of the library down town, I hear they have some great dark places for making out and other stuff"
"Oh, and other stuff?"
"And other stuff" she replied with a cheeky grin.