(To those of you who are about to read this, feel free to do so, but this is an old story of mine. I am moving it from my original account to this new account, which is mainly for old stories that I do not wish to keep on my main account, which is named Dylexa. I won't have anything good up there for a while, sadly. I am working on it though!)

Chapter two:

A decision to make

(Dylexa: Well, Hope you guys like! Oh yeah, I forgot the disclaimers:

I do not own Zevo 3, or any of the characters in the show. I also do not own the music that I will be mentioning in the story, or if I mention any TV shows or books, I do not own them either. I only own Marissa and her family.)

(Marissa's POV)

"And I cannot guess what we'llll disssscoveeer when we turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovellllls..." My boom box sang as it played the song "Soul Meets body" by Death Cab for Cutie. I had "borrowed" the CD from my step father, Chris. (I haven't given it back in months)

As the song played its last lines, someone knocked on the door.

"Come in!"

My mother opened the door to see that I was jumping on my bed.

Mom sighed. "Honey, you could get hurt!"

I giggled, crossing my legs as my butt landed on the bed with a thud. "I'll be fine."

"You said that last time you jumped on the bed. Ten minutes later we were rubbing your knees with peroxide because you skinned them on the dresser."

I grimaced at the memory...falling off the bed on the dresser did hurt...a lot.

"So, what do you need?" I asked, turning off my boom box.

"Some boy wanted to talk to you," Mom explained. "I told him that I'd send you right down."

"Who is he?"

Mom shrugged. "I think his name was Jason."

I felt my face flush with anger.

That stalker! How the hell did he find out where I lived?!

I saw that mom looked somewhat worried at my angry expression.

"Should I tell him you're not home?"

I shook my head. "No. I want to talk to him." I walked out of my room into the living room to see he was standing there, looking a bit nervous.

I scowled. "How did you know where I live?"

"Lucky guess?"

I continued to glare, crossing my arms.

"Look, I know this seems weird, but...well..."

"What? Tell me!"

He sighed. "Look, you're not going to be too happy when I tell you this, but...I kind of told my friends about your...Zevo compound thing."

"Mom! I'm going out!" I called out to Mom, struggling to keep my voice steady.

"Don't be out too long!"

I felt my anger trying desperately to escape my body, but as much as it killed me, I kept calm.

It had been a few weeks ago since Jason had found out about my wings...for some weird reason, I had actually thought he forgot about it, but obviously not.

"Let's talk somewhere private," I said coldly, walking to the door that leads out of the house.

"Right...um...my friends are kind of waiting outside." He now sounded as if he thought that I was going to take him out to murder him in a place nobody would have seen…he's lucky that I didn't feel like having his blood in my hands at the moment.

I said nothing, feeling my face burn even redder. I unlocked the door to see that Jason's friends were waiting outside. One of them was Matt, and the other was a girl that seemed to be his sister. I recognized her as one of the girls I often saw walk by around the school. I think her name was Ellie.

"Ah, the two other Musketeers," I said nastily. "The only things that would make the three musketeers complete."

Matt snickered. "Nice."

I was silent as Jason walked out behind me.

"So, where are we going to talk?" I asked.

Jason shrugged. "I guess anywhere."

"Are we having another meeting this week?" Matt piped up excitedly.

Ellie elbowed him.

"What?! I was just asking!"

I sighed. "Where do you guys usually have this...meeting?"

Ellie shrugged. "Anywhere private I guess."

"Right..." I walked ahead of them. When I looked back, they all looked confused. "C'mon. I know a place."

...

I sighed, feeling uncertain, but knowing I had to take them here. Everywhere else was too crowded.

"This place is awesome," Jason muttered.

"Looks deserted," Ellie added.

"That's because it is," I explained. I looked around in case anyone was eavesdropping on us, although I knew it was impossible. Who would want to follow a couple of weird kids into an abandoned ally? I know I wouldn't. I looked up at the abandoned building. "You all can fly, right?" I looked back to see they were nodding. I unfolded my wings, ignoring their gawking expressions. I flew up to the balcony of the abandoned building.

Last week I was walking around town again when I had discovered this area. Nobody was living here. It was completely abandoned...

Just the way I liked it.

I turned back to see that Jason, Matt and Ellie were right behind me on the balcony in their odd costumes.

"There are a lot of abandoned buildings in Stankvile," I say. "It's the perfect place if you want to be alone."

"Or meetings," Matt concluded. "Speaking of which, where do we start?"

I sighed again. "Well, what is there to talk about? Besides...hm...I don't know...oh yeah! How about you guys not tell anybody about my wings? That would be nice."

"We wouldn't tell anyone!"

"That's the same thing Jason said when I asked him not to tell anyone!" I snapped. "And then next thing I know, you two know." I scowled.

"Well..." Ellie started. "That's kind of our fault. Matt and I followed Jason the night you two met...we didn't exactly know what was going on, so we asked Jason what had happened..."

"And we always tell each other if there's anything weird going on," Matt finished. "It's really important that we let each other know what's going on, so if there's something going on, we can stop it from affecting the town."

I knew he didn't mean for that to be offensive, but I was pretty offended by it.

Oh, so you're basically saying that I'm a problem that might affect the town in a bad way? Oh, yeah, thanks. I'm flattered...not.

But I reacted a little calmer than how I usually would...it was still pretty affective, but not as harsh. At least I thought. "Oh, affecting the town? Like the time you froze that kid to a building?"

Matt was dumbfounded by that remark. "How did you know?"

"That really was a stupid idea doing that...especially in public."

He just gawked.

"I told you people could have seen you do that," Ellie said in an 'I told you so' tone.

Matt glared at Ellie. "But they were torturing that poor fish!"

"Maybe we could have gotten it back without having to freeze him to the building!"

"Jason was the one that stapled him to the ceiling!"

Jason rolled his eyes.

"Well..." I unfolded my wings again. "...if this is all were going to talk about, I'm going home."

"Wait!"

I folded my wings again. "What?"

"Um..." Matt was at a loss for words. He glanced at Jason.

"I told you, she's not gonna want to do this. What's the point in asking her?"

"Maybe she might want to!"

"What might I want to do?"

The three just stared at me.

Ellie nudged Matt. "You ask her, Matt. It was your idea."

"Fine." He glanced at me, his usual jovial, innocent expression serious. "We were thinking...well, were kind of super heroes...you know, protecting the town from evil? Well...we were thinking...maybe another teammate might be a good idea...so...what do you think about joining our team?"

Now it was my turn to be at a loss for words.

Are you serious? Me? In a team? That's like putting an infant into a wrestling match with a man that has 300 pounds of muscles.

"I've never been good with team work," I admitted. "Heck, I'm barley good at anything. I'm no athlete, I'm no smart ass kid with straight A's...I don't know."

"Nobody is perfect," Ellie replied. "I mean, were just a bunch of kids! And yet we're trying! It wouldn't hurt to try..."

"And you can quit any time you want," Jason adds.

"Well..." I rubbed my chin, looking at Matt...his big blue eyes filled with so much hope...something I never really had in my life...

I grimaced. "I've got nothing better to do anyway...okay."

Matt beamed excitedly. "This is so cool! Now were like the Fantastic four!"

I couldn't help but chuckle. "Oh boy..."

"You do realize that were gonna have to get you a costume, right?" Matt was trembling with excitement.

"Say what?"

Jason smirked. "That'll be a sight..."

Ellie snickered.

(Lol! Thought I'd end this chapter kinda happy with a slight cliff hanger because I usually always make my stories depressing! Well, hope y'all like!)