I looked at the schedule and saw I had Mad Science. 'Yes, I love science.'
I rushed to the class room. Man, was this school confusing. I knocked on the closed door and a man with a GIANT HEAD opened the door.
"AHHHH," I screamed.
"May I help you?" he said looking very annoyed.
"I have Mad Science with a Professor Medulla. Is this the right class room?" I said all the while trying not to stare at his scary head.
"Yes, please come in and take a seat. Your name?"
"Correta Pride."
"Humph," he said as he turned to start explaining again what he had on the black board.
I turned and tried to find an empty seat. There were sooo many faces staring back at me. Apparently, me coming in late was more interesting than whatever the teacher was talking about.
"I said take a seat Ms Pride." Professor Medulla said sharply.
"Um... Where?" I asked. It didn't look like there was any where to sit.
He turned and scanned the classroom.
"Over there by Mr. Peace there is a seat."
I looked over and started to walk towards were he had pointed. To do this I had to walk in front of the entire class room and then try and squeeze between the narrow rows of desks. I nearly knocked this one kid in the head with my back pack and tripped over the back pack of this green tinted kid. I finally made it to the desk I would share with Warren and slumped into the seat glad to have that ordeal over with.
"Stunning entrance," whispered a voice behind me.
I turned around to see the kid heavyset kid from the bus. I smiled at him then turned around and blocked all sound from my ears except the teacher.
All through class the guy kept trying to get my attention, but I ignored him. As we got up to leave the I unplugged my ears. I then heard a gruff voice say,"Stop it Speed. She doesn't need you to try and distract her."
I looked at Warren who had said it.
"Hey, Sorry to mess with your girl friend here. Didn't know that you two had a thing going. I won't mess with her any more," the heavy set kid ,Speed, said.
"Yeah, we'll make sure no one harms her." said his friend as he stretched his arms to tip over some liquids in a bottle on my desk. It fizzed and crackled and started to eat away at my desk.
"What did you do Ms. Pride!" Professor Medulla yelled as he rushed over and poured some other chemical over it to stop the reaction.
"I-I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean to," I stammered. Man, was this teacher intimidating.
"Just go and eat you lunch Mrs. Pride. I'll get a new desk for you from storage," he sighed.
I burst into tears. Luckily, most of the student had left the room by now.
"But I don't even know were the Lunch room is," I wailed.
Professor Medulla turned and saw Warren just exiting."Mr. Peace will you please escort Ms. Pride to the restroom to get herself cleaned up and then to the Cafeteria."
Warren glared at me still sobbing and then grabbed my elbow and backpack and steered me out the door. He headed quickly down the hall and every one made room for him. I stumbled behind him and never would have kept up if he hadn't held onto my arm.
He stopped abruptly in front of the lady's bathroom and shoved me towards the door. I went in, got control of myself, washed my face. Who knew that regular school was so hard. It was all so confusing.
I went out of the restroom and saw Warren waiting for me. Talking to him were Will and Layla. As soon as she saw me Layla rushed to my side. "Oh, you poor thing. I'm so sorry. We need to get you a ginger ale."
Both Warren and Will just looked on as she mothered over me. She gently lead me to the cafeteria and sat me down at a table. She then handed Wail some money and instructed him to get some crackers and a ginger ale for and a salad and a juice for her. He headed off to get the food.
"I normally wouldn't want any one to drink soda, but ginger ale when your sick is the exception to the rule," she said.
Beccah popped up.
"Hi, how are you? I got placed in Hero. Coach Boomer had never seen anyone who could manipulate light and when I threw one of my star globes at him he had to leap out of the way. And when I walked on light he was even more impressed," she seemed to say all in one breath.
"Seems as if someone is having a good day," I said.
"What's wrong? Are you still sick?" she asked noticing my red eyes and pale complecion for the first time.
"I'll be fine," I said as Will came up with our food.
"Here you are my precious," he said handing Layla her salad and juice," and here you are."
"Gosh, you sound like Golum and Layla is you ring," said Magenta as she came up and sat down.
I took my ginger ale and small packet of crackers and thanked him. I took a small sip of the ginger ale and then waited to see how my stomach would react. It seemed fine to I slowly started to eat and drink.
Zack, Ethan, and even Warren joined our lunch table, even if Warren did not sit at the far end slightly apart from everyone else. Beccah and the others started a conversation about who had cooler powers Spider-man, Batman, or Superman.
"Spider-man because he had to learn how to be great and he had to say no to the only woman he had ever loved to keep her safe. How much sweeter can you get then that?" Layla said.
"No, Batman because even though he didn't really have a super power he still was a hero. He had to use his smarts," Ethan put in.
"Yeah, you would say that because you don't have that strong of a super power yourself," said Magenta.
"I think Superman was the coolest. He was invincible. He was strong, he could fly. nothing could penetrate the Man of Steel," Will said.
"Your just saying that because you have similar power," said Ethan.
Warren snorted at this. We all turned to look at him because this was the first sign that he was even part of our group let alone listening to the conversation.
"Who's you favorite super hero," asked my sister Beccah as she winked at me.
"I like The Human Torch," he said bluntly.
Magenta burst into laughter at that and the rest of the group, except Beccah and me, smiled and laughed as well.
"What's so funny?" I asked.
"Warren in a pyrokinetic," Layla explained.
"You mean you can create fire!" asked Beccah excitedly. She gasped in awe and wonder as he held up his hand and it burst into flame.
"Wow, that is too cool. You can make you own light," she said.
Warren gave her a strange look.
"Beccah has power over light. She can create, manipulate, and walk on light. This gives her the ability to fly and she can also use light from sources other than her own like you fire light," I explained.
"So who is your favorite super hero, Magenta?" asked Wil.
"Wolverine."
She looked around to make sure none of us made fun of her. We didn't.
"What about you, Zack?" Layla said.
"I like shape shifters." he said looking at Magenta.
"Who's your favorite, Correta?" Ethan asked.
I thought for a minute. Who was the best?
"I like all of the ones you guys mentioned for different reasons. But I guess if I had to pick one I would have to pick Storm or maybe Invisible Girl. I don't know."
"I like the Hulk," Beccah put in.
"Why him? He doesn't have a very cool power," Zack said.
"Because he can be tamed by the one he loves," said Beccah again giving me a knowing glance.
I am going to kill the girl when I get her alone... and I start to feel better.
"I guess we all see traits in the Hero's we like that we want to personify. We want to have certain quality's that these people have. I guess you could say that these are our role models," said Beccah thoughtfully.
"Am I you role model?" said strecho boy from behind her.
