"How did he know we were here?" I said.
"Did he see us take those pictures?" Magenta worried,"if he teases me about wearing a dress like that I'll bit his ankles."
We all tried not to laugh at her guinea pig threat.
"Correta, is now one of the times you feel it would be wise to use your powers of sound?" Layla asked sweetly, but the devilish grin she gave afterwards told me that she was planning to take action against the outrage that had occurred.
"Yes," I said serenely," I think that this would be a very good time to use my powers."
I opened the window and stepped out.
"Magenta, will you shape shift and I'll carry you to Lash's house. Beccah can bring Layla?"
"Yes. Layla grow a vine to tie us together. That way I'll have an easier time of carrying you," Beccah said.
We set out quietly and silently making our way towards his house. Beccah drew away any light that might shine on us and give away our flight.
"Hey, guy?" she said as we neared his house," don't hurt him."
"We won't hurt him," said the guinea pig in my arms," just mame him."
"We won't hurt him," Layla assured Beccah," but we will teach him not to be a peeping Tom."
"Quiet," I instructed.
We landed on the roof. I kept any sound we made from being heard.
"Magenta, try to find where he is. We'll wait on the roof until you get back," I sad as she scampered into the attic through a hole in the roof.
We waited for a few minutes for her to return. She came up though the hole and changed back.
"He is in his room studying," she said in disbelief as she pointed out the window to his room.
"I guess even would be villains have to study," I said.
"He might not turn out to be a villain," Beccah said.
"So did you have a plan?" I asked Layla.
"Beccah can create one of those Star Globes?" she asked.
"Yeah, but I don't want to throw one of those at him. He could get seriously hurt," she said in return.
"We won't throw it at him," Layla said mischievously.
Beccah held out her hand and closed her eyes in concentration. A bright globe of light generated above her hand about the size of a soccer ball.
Layla laughed and said,"Guide it into his window and I'll take it from there."
We flew to a tree a few yards away from his window so we would have a clear view of what happened. Beccah sent the globe into his window with the wave of her hand. Lash didn't see it at first, but then a looked up. He started at it and then drew closer to inspect it. Layla suddenly grew a plant from the middle of the Star Globe. Lash jumped back as it grew and seemed to reach out for him. I laughed and then added my own effect.
"If you ever look in another girls widow again your punishment will not be so lenient," My voice boomed from the direction of the Star Globe.
We took off from the tree. Flying back towards Layla's house.
"That was so awesome," Layla said," and we didn't have to result to violence."
"I wish you guys would have let me take a nip at his ankles though," Magenta said.
"That was funny," Beccah said through her laughter.
"We make a good team," I said,"All villains will scream in terror at the name of the- what should we call ourselves?"
"Scream like Lash did when a freaky talking plant star attacks him?" Layla asked.
"Even worse," I grinned.
"Can you get more freaked out than that?" Magenta asked.
We all laughed. We got back to Layla's house and went to bed for real this time.
The next day we went back home after a wonderful breakfast of fruit salad.
"We're home," Beccah shouted as she entered the house.
"Yes! We can practice," Elaine said as she and Noelle rushed to great us.
"I found a place were we can play," Annalee said.
"You got us a gig!" Beccah said excitedly.
"Yeah and it's at your school for the school dance," Annalee said.
"Our school is having a dance?" I asked.
"Well if we're going to play for it I assume your going to have a dance," Annalee said teasing me.
"What kinds of songs should we play?" Beccah asked as we headed to the loft.
"I we need about twenty songs," Annalee said.
She handed us a paper that had all the particulars for the job.
"Let's ask mom and dad if they know some oldies but goodies," Beccah suggested.
"Like gross" Noelle said instantly.
"I want to sing Take my Breathe Away," I said adding my two cents.
"We should have You are the Devil and the Devil is Bad," Elaine said suggesting one of her favorites.
"Well lets put a list of songs together and then we can decide what we're going to play," Annalee said.
We worked the rest of the day practicing and putting together a show for the school dance.
On Monday I got to fly to school all by my self. I liked to solitude, but I missed Jet stream's and the Commander's company. In Mad Science we were supposed to put together a gun that paralyzed your enemy. Warren and I were putting it together.
"So, I heard that you had an interesting night on Friday," he said in a dis concerned matter.
"Did Layla tell you?" I laughed.
"No, she told Stronghold and he told me," he explained as he put in the trigger.
"Those two are so cute," I commented.
He just gave me a dry look and didn't say anything.
"What? You don't think that they look cute together?" I said.
"I don't think it terms of cute," he said curtly.
"Yeah, I guess your too manly and macho for that," I said.
He grunted but didn't say anything else for the rest of the class. As we got up to leave for lunch I said,"I got to stop by the little super heroes room. I'll be at lunch in a minute."
He grunted his assurance that he heard me and walked off. As I came out of the lady's room I heard my sister yelling at some one. I peeked around the corner and she was yelling at Lash,"What were you doing outside of Layla's window. Do you know just how much I worried about you? I thought my sister was going to kill you? And if she didn't I was?"
"Okay, I'm sorry," Lash said trying to calm her down," I just wanted to see you."
"How much did you see?" Beccah said her voice quiet and deadly.
"I saw you guys take the pictures in the yard and then watch some dumb movie, but I didn't see anything inappropriate," he assured her.
"Fine," she said still disgruntle, but no longer livid at him,"I'll see you after school. I need more help with my hero class. How am I suppose to know the best way to stop a radio active spider from terrizing the nation?"
She walked off in the direction of the cafeteria. Lash watched her go and then sagged against the lockers.
"Stupid, so stupid," he said to himself.
"You have no idea," I said flatly.
He jumped at the sound of my voice. He looked at me and started to turn away to run.
"Don't even think about it," I said picking him up with a gust of wind,"So your my sister's tutor."
"Yes," he said.
"Well, I hope that you will take my advice and treat her with the utmost respect," I said.
"I wouldn't dream of hurting your sister in any way," he said.
"Then I wouldn't repeat the little scene from Friday," I said as I dropped him and sauntered away.
I walked into the cafeteria and saw them all at the lunch table already. "Just let me go get my lunch," I called over.
"Warren already got you lunch," Layla said,"Didn't you ask him to?"
She gave him a quizzical look, which he ignored trying to look totally consumed with his book.
"No, I didn't but thanks," I said.
He just grunted showing that he had heard me, but that was the last sound he made all of lunch. I looked at what he had gotten me and realized that he knew what I liked. A salad and a yogurt with cranberry juice were on the tray before me.
I looked up and found that the whole table, with the exception of Warren, were looking at me with huge grins on their faces. I gave them a glare and then sat down to enjoy my lunch.
"Hey, did you guys hear about the school dance," Layla said.
"I hope this one goes a bit better than the last one," Will said.
"What was so bad about the last one?" I asked.
"We saved the school from Royal Pain," said Ethan.
"Wow, why didn't we hear about this?" Beccah wanted to know.
"I guess it's just old news," Will shrugged.
"Well I can guaranty that the music will be good," Beccah said.
She continued to talk but there was no sound because I had blocked her voice. She turned angrily toward me. She patted her throat.
"What? Can't speak?" I grinned.
She stuck her tongue out at me and pulled out her note book. She wrote and told the rest group that we were doing music for the dance.
"That's so cool!" Layla said.
"You guys have a band?" Zack said.
"Yeah, my parent's made us learn different instruments when we were home schooled. We eventually formed a band because we were bored one day," I said.
"Can I speak now?" Beccah asked and then did so with out waiting for my reply,"Annalee and Eric will be playing with us. I'm going to play the keyboard and Coretta is going to sing."
"You sing?" said Layla interested,"Care to give us a demonstration?"
"No," I said leaving no room to argue.
"Oh, don't be such a spoil sport," Beccah said.
"If you don't stop everyone in the whole cafeteria will found out that your nick name as a child was-"
"That's okay," Beccah said nervously,"If you don't want to sing you don't have to."
Warren choked on his juice. Will gently patted him on the back as Warren coughed and try ed to regain his breath.
"What is her nick name?" Zack asked.
I smiled but didn't say anymore.
When school let out I walked with Layla to the bus stop. We were in a passionate discussion about when it was right to use your powers, but we paused when we saw Warren stalk over to Beccah.
"Don't ever do that to me again," he ordered.
"What?" she said distracted by the sun's rays shinning through the clouds.
"You set me up and I didn't appreciate it," he said obviously angry.
"My sister is never going to tell you she like you so I need to give her a push in the right direction," she said standing up to him.
"Stop messing with other peoples affairs," he said.
"My sister is my affair," she countered.
She got onto the bus, leaving Warren just standing there seething. He was so mad you could see the steam coming of him.
"Warren," I said timidly.
"What!" he said turning and flaming up at the same time.
I looked at him but didn't flinch.
"I'm sorry she did that to you," I said quietly.
He glared at me for a moment.
"Tell her to bug off," he said gruffly, yet most of the anger had left his voice.
"I will talk to her," I promised.
"What good will talking to her do?" he said ruffly," She didn't listen to me when I talked to her."
"Yes," I said in a calm, scary voice,"But when I talk I'm am always heard, when I want to be."
He looked at me sizing me up as the wind rustled around us.
"I don't want to be there when you confront her," he said looking away.
"Nether will she," I said with a sad smile," Need a lift home?"
"Nah," he said,"My mom is picking me up."
"Well I'll see you around," I said lifting off and gliding off.
When I got home Beccah had gone over to Magenta's. She was staying for dinner. Drat that girl. When she got home, my sisters wanted to practice music. We practiced until 9:30. Beccah and I then headed for our room.
I shut the door behind us and then turned to Beccah.
"I know what you did to Warren," I said.
"You do?" she said.
"And I know about Lash," I added.
"How did you find out about that!" she said angry to be found out.
"You shouldn't yell so loud in the halls. The walls echo."
"Did they have help?" she asked meanly.
"I didn't mean to hear your conversation, but I'm glad I did. Beccah, he's trouble."
"You don't know that. You barely know him at all," she protested.
"So do you," I countered.
"Yeah, well at least I'm willing to admit I like him. You won't ever let Warren know how you feel."
"Yes, but I don't want to intrude on his privacy. You don't seem to give it a second thought, when you embarrassed him in front of all his friends."
"But now you know that he knows what you like to eat."
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"He has been watching you," she said," I'm pretty sure he like you."
"But if he doesn't want to let me know that just now thats fine with me.," I said,"Besides we aren't aloud to date right now."
"He needs to at least start to get to know you though so that when you are aloud to date you guys can talk to each other."
"You really think that you did the right thing, don't you. Well did you know that Warren is so mad at me that he can barely look at me let alone speak to me."
"He is," she said softly.
"Yeah," I said gently.
"I'm sorry," she said.
"Who you really need to apologize to is Warren," I said giving her a hug,"But I forgive you."
"May be he won't be so mad tomorrow," Beccah said.
"Maybe," I said hoping.
