Author's Note: I noticed I put "Molly" instead of "Eva" in my first chapter. Well I like to think she refers to herself as "Molly" when excitement is in air and when it comes to family issues such as her father, her name returns back to "Eva." Just wanted to clear that up. Anyways, here's the second chapter. Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer:I don't own Oban Star Racers nor its characters.

"School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn."-Leonardo DiCaprio

Chapter 2: Concentrate

As car drove up on the side walk of the high school, the young girl stepped out from her father's vehicle. Just as soon she closed the car door, she heard her father's voice as he said, "Have a good day at school today, Eva. I know you'll do your best." Her eyes looked back with smile and nodded as a replied back to him as an answer. Running with a wave goodbye, she ran downwards the hallway to make it to her first period class before her teacher, Mr. Bowman, would sign her up for detention again. She couldn't be late today. It was running practice meeting at P.E. and whenever she felt the need for speed, she couldn't miss out on it. Slipping through crowds that crossed her way, she managed to sneak through the back of the homeroom to take a seat in the back row. A sigh of relief was let out from her mouth. "Just made it", she thought to herself as she ran a hand through her hair before looking back at her text books as she grabbed them out from her bag. The bell rang and all the students gathered up for class that started within a few moments.

The lecture on both "USA History" and "English literature" was still going on as everyone was taking notes and looking at their hologram computer screen for details. All except a certain day dreamer in the back row. Her attention was on the window, looking at the clouds that drifted by. One of the clouds shaped into little heads of the people she had encountered on in outer space. Even her Nourasia crush she once had, Prince Aikka. She wondered what his kingdom was like or even if he remembered her after all this time. It was only a year but memories could fade, depending on the person. He did promise her a tour of his royal grounds but when was that going to be? Did he even know how to arrive on Earth and look for her? Her pencil began to move side ways lightly in her hand as she continued to look out until the teacher called out, "Miss Eva Wei! Are you paying attention to today's assignment?" A stuck of embarrassment came onto her as she stood up from her desk. "Oh, Uh, No, sir. I wasn't. I apologize, Mr. Bowman.", as she bowed her head to show respect to her instructor. The hologram educator looked over at her for a moment as he shook his head. "What I was saying is that I'm going to assign you each a journal. Your going to put in your most interesting thoughts on what's happening in your life. Think of it as writing your own history book down only it's about your life on what's going on. I want you all to fill it up when the school year is over. Then I'll decide which one has the best life experiences." All the students looked at one another with excitement on what their personal enjoyable events could be shared. Though, Eva, couldn't say much about it. All she did now in her spare time was doing track. If the government agreed to share the thrill on Oban then maybe she would win for sure. But even if she did, who in their right mind would be believe her when she said she raced in a large star ship cruiser on another entirely different planet for the Earth's safety and won in the end? It would be the laughing stock of the school. Not to mention calling her names such as "Freak" or "Liar." Maybe some things were best left unsaid. Plus the idea of writing things down seem pointless. And she was never one to be the best in writing. After the journals were transported onto the students' desks, Eva took hers and exited out of the room as the bell rang for break.

Eva wasn't much of social person to seek out the crowds. Though she had made one or two friends in the process that seemed promising to her. But still, she never really made a effort into hanging out with them. She made her way into the girl's locker room to get ready for P.E. and practice some of her runs before the big meet. Changing from her dark purplish top and skirt, her outfit was now a red and white gym attire. She stretched out to make herself balance out and even before jogging right out. The sunlight shinned through the windows that made her amber orbs looked out as she made her way out of the door. It became brighter when she stepped out and a small breeze brushed upon her cheek that made her eyes close to relish it for a split second. Her mind narrowed in front of her as she looked out to see how empty it was. All the other students were on the other side of the school, enjoying conversations and grabbing snacks from the snack bars. But that always seemed tedious to Eva. Just then, the light shimmered on the gates that separated the running track to the bleachers. There were ten stand poles, holding up the gate itself as it held all the way across for the separation to be notice. Looking at it closely, Eva had an idea. She had remembered Rick's training he had given her. Back on Oban, she had to stand on high poles as they had huge gaps between themselves and below was water surrounding around. She had to jump from pole to pole without falling. It was a great way to keep her balance, strength, and way of thinking always active. And it was probably a great time to try it out on the school grounds. Just as long as no one was to stare upon her as she did it. Eva climbed up to make it to the top, standing on one of her feet and keeping the other out forward. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to determine which time was ready to start. As the wind brushed right through her hair fully, her eyes sprung open and she started to jump to the next pole. After she did, she began to increase her speed to try to keep up with her balance and stepping on each of the top poles. "Keep alive, little mouse! Your almost there," as the sound of Rick's voice could be heard in her inner thoughts. A smile grew from her face of how much she had remembered from the hard working practice and it felt she was living through it all over again. Making her way through, she finally made it with her arms spread out to the sides and keeping her position as she first did back on the first pole with her feet. Some chuckles were let out as she felt that uproar of doing some old training again. But as soon as her amber orbs face downwards, two young female students were glazing up upon her in bizarreness. Eva let out a nervous chuckle of discomfort of making a fool out of herself.

She hoped off of the pole and landed easily as she placed a hand behind her neck and gave an embarrassed smile. She then was trying to explain what she was doing around there. "Eh heh, you both are probably wondering why I was up there. Well you see, its cause-"but as soon as she could say anymore, one of the girls smirked as she replied, "You mean it's cause the rumors are true. Your nothing more than a weird military freak. We've all overheard you do repairing on air crafts we never heard of it and your little demonstration just prove it all." The other girl near her began to laugh of seeing how the rumors were beginning to seem actively true. Eva's face just glanced before she gave a small growl of anger. She then ran upwards to the girl as she held up her fist and shouted, "Oh yeah?! Say that to my face you little bimbo." The other female gave a furious look on her face as she charged at her. They were both punching and pulling each other's hair as they rolled around on the floor. The female's friend ran off to get help from the teachers and within moments they returned to find the girls continuing to fight. Eva got on top of the girl as she began to charge her fists at the girl's face but her arms were held back by instructors. She struggled, wanting to continue the fight of what the girl's remarks were. "Ugh, no! Let me go!" The other girl gave a secret smirk to herself as she began to show fake tears and said out, "Did you see how she was coming right at me? I just had to defend myself." The instructors pulled Eva even more away, thinking she was the cause of the fight to start with. It just made her even madder than she was before as she kept kicking and being pulled away from the scene. Suddenly, the principle came in and said, "Miss Eva Wei, I have no choice but to call your father in!" After that, Eva was dragged to the principle's office with the door shut until it was time for her father to come in and meet with the head educator of the school. Today was the worst day Eva had to ever put up with in her life. Not even back on Oban was it this complicated for her…