The next morning I did NOT want to get up, but when the evil alarm rang I rolled out of bed. I dressed in a black boatneck shirt and put a red net scarfe around my neck. I then went into the kitchen and made Beccah and myself breakfast. I left her's on the counter and headed for school. I got there before the bus so I had some time to think before my friends got there. Would Warren hate me now? Would Lash become a problem? Why is life so complicated?
I was contemplating these things when Layla came up.
"Hey, how you doing?" she said.
"Ahhh!" I screamed as I fell over,"Don't sneak up on me like that."
I gotup off the ground and cleaned myself off.
"Did you talk to Beccah last night?" Layla asked gently, unsure if this was a subject that she could ask about.
"Yeah," I sighed dejectivly.
"And?" she said worriedly.
"She said she was sorry about making Warren mad at me, but I don't know if everything is resolved yet."
"Well maybe it will all work out," she said as she turned to watch Warren walk towards the school. He didn't acknowledge Layla or me, but I couldn't tell if he was just being Warren or if he was still mad about yesterday.
"Well," I said as I watched him go,"I might as well get start get this day over with."
"Don't be so pestimistic," Layla said,"Who knows what could happen."
I didn't have to face Warren until Mad Science, so when I walked into the room I was a little... aprehesive. Again when I sat down he didn't acknowledge me. I just stayed quiet not wanting to prode where I wasn't welcome.
"Today, class, we will be studing the effects of heat. We will be making a heat shield to protect yourselves from the bad guys," said Mr. Medulla
Speed and Lash behind us laughed. Speed came up beside Warren using his super speed when the teacher wasn't looking. "This should be a piece of cake for you," he said with a laugh,"Get is Peace, Piece."
He rushed back to his seat before he could be caught. Warren's face darkened, and his hands started to smoke as he turned towards Speed.
"Don't," I pleaded gently,"He is not worth it."
He glared at me and then turned and faced the teacher. His jaw clenched in anger. I started to put the heat shield together quietly. I wasn't thinking about what I was doing so I sliced my hand on one of the sharpe parts.
"Ouch!" I said startled.
Blood quickly seeped out of my hand and started to drip onto my desk.
"Mr. Medull?" I said my voice wavering because of the shock.
He turned to see what the problem was.
"Good grief! You're hard on your desks Ms. Pride. Mr. Peace take her to the Nurses office imedietly."
Warren grabbed my elbow and started to drag me too the nurse office. I followed behind, stubling and tripping all the way there. 'I am such and idiot,' I thought.
The nurse saw my injury and immedietly took action. In no time my hand was bandaged and I was sitting on the check-up table waiting as she got me some medicine for the pain and called my parent's.
"Just couldn't take all the pressure," Warren said in his monatone voice, shaking me out of my daze.
"What? What's that suppose to mean?" I said.
"Your all uptight about what Beccah did, right?" he said with a smirk,"So you hurt yourself to distract the attention from the real problem."
"Stupid Segmend and Freud," I said under my breathe.
Warren stared at me for a while.
"That's not the only thing bothering you, is it?" He said.
I started at his observation. How did he know? Was it that obvious?
The nurse came back in before I could say anything.
"You can go Mr. Peace," She said,"Now for you Ms. Pride here. Take this with water and try and stay out of here for a while."
We both got up to leave and headed to the lunch room. When we got there, the cafeteria was in total disoray. "What happened?" I said in shock.
Warren just looked around at the tables that looked like they had been thrown across the room and it looked like everything was seared and charred abit.
"It looks like after Beccah gets mad and throws one of her star globes," I said and then I thought about what I had just said.
"Where's Beccah," I said as I turned to rush out of the room.
"Hold it." Warren said sternly.
He stood there in though for a minute. He then took my elbow and proceded to drag me down the hall for the second time that day.
"Whoa, were we goin," I said as I tried to keep up.
We slammed to a halt in front of the...
"Dention room?" I said.
Two seconds later Priciple Powers came out.
"Ahh, Ms. Pride I was just about to go looking for you. Your sister and her friends were just a fight with two certain individuals. And for once the two trouble makers didn't start it," She said.
"What!" I said," My sister started a fight? You've got to be kidding me?"
The principle just raised an eyebrow in reply.
"Who exactly is in detention right now?" Warren asked.
"Mr. Will Stronghold, Ms. Layla Green, Mr. Zack Vanerwall, Mr. Ethen Jones, Ms. Rebaccah Pride, Ms. Megenta Comte, Mr. Speed Tomes, and Mr. Lash Long."
"And what was the fight about?" He asked.
"I have no idea perhaphs you can find out when they get out. In the mean time I think that you two should go eat you lunch. The cafeteria has been temporaraly moved to outside," She said as she walked toward her office.
Warren started to go get some lunch. After a few yards he realized I wasn't following. He turned and walked back. He placed his hand on my elbow to lead me outside, but I jerked it away.
"I am going to kill him," I said the wind rushing around us as I spoke.
"Your going to kill who?" Warren asked. He had never seen me us my power outside of save the citizen.
"Lash," was all I said in reply.
He looked at me for a moment and then took my elbow again to take me out to lunch. This time I just followed quietly.
After school got out we both waited for the others to get out of detention. Neither of us had said much during lunch or the rest of the day. The other students just whispered and looked at us, but no one supplied any information on what happened. While we were waiting my Dad flew up in full costume. I stood up to greet him.
"Hey daddy, why are you here?" I asked.
"The principle called me ans said I would have to pick up my child from school because she would be home late because of detention," He said.
"Uh-oh," I said softly.
My dad looked a Warren. "You were at our house for dinner last weekend, weren't you?" He said reaching out to shake Warren's hand.
"Yes, sir," said Warren.
"What is your power?" my dad said with interest.
"It's Fire," Warren said simply.
"He can create and manipulte," I said.
"That's mighty impressive," Dad said,"well, I'll go get your sister and fly home with her, okay."
Warren watched my dad go into the school. "You dad is Eagle Eye?" he said in awe.
"Yeah, didn't you know?" I said.
"No," said Warren softly.
"And my mom is WhirlWind," I said.
"Who are your parent's or did you fall into a vat of toxic waste," I said jokingly.
That just fell flat though because he didn't respond, but just glared at me. I wondered what I had said wrong, but Layla and the others came rushing out of the school towards us.
"Hey you guys. What happened?" I asked.
"It was so cool," Zack said,"We aorked like a real team, except that you and Warren weren't there."
"That still doesn't asnwer my question," I said.
"We were eating lunch and Lash and Speed came over to bug Beccah," Layla said,"Zack some how caught on that Lash had been peeping on us and ..."
"Peeping on you?" Warren said.
"Shhh, I want to hear this," I said.
"Well, once he caught on Zack punched Lash right in the nose. Too, bad that having a strechy self doens't make give you quick reflexes, but any way. After Zach decked Lash, Will started in and then we all kind of joined in. Magenta bit Lshes ankles, oh it was so funny," Layla said hoolding her side and laughing as she told us.
"Lash was peeping on you?" Warren said definitly sounding angery.
" It's okay," I said," We took care of it."
Speed came rushing out of the school and got on the bus and Lash was flipping behind him. Warren started to wind up to throw a fire ball but I tugged on his arm,"Please don't."
He just shot a look of venom at me and then relaxed his arms. "Will you give me a ride home?" he asked Will.
"Sure thing man," Will said.
"Whoa, we all need rides home," said Ethan.
Will looked at us all.
"Don't look at me. I can fly on my own," I said.
"Alright who lives closest to whom?" Layla asked logicaly.
We all disscused it and in the end Will was taking Layla, Ethan and Zack home and I was flying Warren and Magenta home. Warren got on my back and Magenta turned guinea pig so I could carry her in my hands.
We soared toward Warrens house first. He gave directions. When we got there was a Chines lady standing on his front porch looking very angery. She started yelling at Warren in what sounded like Chines, but Chines is Greek to me. Warren said something back and she seemed to calm down. Warren turned to me and Magenta and said,"This is my mother, Ling Peace."
"Nice to meet you Ms. Peace," I said holding out my hand in greating.
"It's nice to finally meet you my dear," She said sweetly.
Magenta just gave her usualy wave and nod greating.
"I'll see you later Warren," I said.
"Oh, you must come in for tea," Mrs. Peace insisted.
"I would love to, but I have to get Magenta home and I think my mom is worried about me," I said politly,"Thank you very much for offering."
Magenta and I left and headed toward her house.
"So nice to finly meet you," Magenta said mimicing Mrs. Peace's voice,"I wonder what she means by that."
"Stop it," I growled.
"He must really like you if he tell his mom about you," Magenta said.
"Magenta it's only fifty feet two the ground. I'm sure you won't sustain too much damage," I threatened.
"Alright, alright," she said,"But you know that he is never going to make the first move."
"Have you been talking to Beccah!" I said exsaperated.
I dropped her off and then headed home. What a wierd day.
When I got home, the house was in up roar. My mom and dad were trying to decide how to punish Beccah. Briar rabbit she lay low.(Translation: I stayed out of thier way.) I made dinner, Tacos. Beccah came down for dinner, but she didn't eat much. She just turned the food around her plate to agited to really eat anything. When she went back upstairs to her room, I followed her.
She sat down on her bed and I sat down across from her on mine.
"So... I guess you being sent to your room until futher notice," I said.
"Yep," She said.
"Do you want to tell me what happened?" I asked.
"Nope," she said bluntly.
"But will you just so I can keep my sanity?" I asked.
"Okay," she said with a sigh,"Lash and Speed came up and were teasing Magenta, Zach, and Ethan for being sidekicks. Magenta told Lash to back off or a certain piece of information would get out to the whole school. Lash sort of squirmed at that threat, which is really funny to watch seeing as he is so flexible. Speed wanted to know what that was about, but Lash said to for get it and started to leave. Speed grabbed him so he couldn't leave and kept asking Magenta what she had meant. She dropped little hints about him spying on us. Zack got what she was saying way before Speed did. He just light into Lash and then all panic ensued. Because we were all fighting, we all had to go to the detention room and you know the rest."
"Yeah," I said,"I guess it's good to know that the men in the group are willing to protect the women."
"You mean it's nice to know that our team looks out for each other," Beccahs said.
"Yeah, whatever," I said as I headed out the door," Our 'team' doesn't even have a name yet."
