"Wait a second," I said the wheels turning slowly,"I can't have a dislocated knee. We're playing at homecoming in two days."
"I think you'll still be able to play," the nurse reassured me,"You'll just have to do alot of flying and you need to get some rest."
"I'll take you home right now, baby," Mom said.
"Can we come over later and see how she's doing," Layla asked.
"Sure," Mom said.
She picked me up and flew me to the nurses office where they set my knee. OUCH! Then we flew home.
On the way home we talked about what had happened.
"I'm not sure I like the fact that Coach Boomer is trying new and harder games on you guys," she said.
"But aren't the bad guys always trying to find new and improved ways to get us. I think that we do need this kind of training. I mean the world isn't pretty. Why try and paint it that way?" I said.
"But why put yourself in danger before you have to. Yes, prepare, but do it in a way that is wise and not foolishly getting yourself hurt," my mom said with the wisdom of a lady who has had five kids; which kind of suited her because she had.
Once at home I moved toward the kitchen. I wanted to bake some cookies. That might help how I felt. I didn't know what it was, but I felt like I was being watched. I looked around the kitchen. I opened the fridge door and screamed like a banchi. Noelle was sitting in the fridge. "What are you doing!" I yelled.
"I was hot." She said coolly. " Anyway Eric fixed it so that I can breath in here with some special thingy. Mom doesn't know yet though."
"Nether did I!" I said angerly. "why did you do that? I could've hurt you?"
"No you couldn't have. I would have froze you before you did anything to me."
"Where did you put all the food?" I said annoyed.
"Eric rigged it so that when I'm sitting in here the food swings around into the secret pantry that he built. When I'm not sitting in here the food comes back normally. See," She said getting out and closing the fridge behind her. She then reopened it and the food was there.
"That's pretty sweet," I said finally getting over my bad mood.
"Why are your flying?" Noelle asked,"Your in the house."
"I dislocated my knee at school and it hurts to put any weight on it," I said.
"Wow," she said in a monotone voice.
"Yeah, but when they put it back in socket is when it hurt the most."
We stood looking at the open fridge for a moment and then I said,"Want to help me make cookies?"
"Sure," she said.
She and I stared to get out the ingredients for Molasses cookies.
"Eric and Annalee are home from college?" I asked.
"Yeah, they got home an hour after you guys left for school. I was complaining about how hot mom keeps the house and Eric fixed up the fridge so I could sit in it. Mom doesn't know because she left to go see to you."
"Are they here now?
"No, they took Elaine to the zoo. They said they would be back at three o'clock so they would be here when you guys got home, but you got home early."
"They should be home in about half an hour," I said," I think we should prepare a little surprise for them."
"I'm all for that," Noelle said mischievously.
Twenty minutes later Annalee, Eric, and Elaine, or the dog I assumed was Elaine, came through the door. I was hidden in the fridge with a blanket wrapped around me. Noelle greeted them and saying," I made cookies. Would like some?"
They said they did. Noelle got out the plates and cups and she asked Annalee to get out the milk. When Annalee opened the fridge door, I blew a gust of wind at her. She screamed and grew some plants to get me. Then she realized it was just me. Noelle was on the floor in tears with laughter. Eric was trying not to laugh, but failing miserable at it. Elaine had turned into a monkey and was screeching with laughter like monkeys do.
Annalee looked around sheepishly and then she turned to me.
"I'll get you later," she said.
"I'm sure you will, but I'll just remember your face when you opened the fridge and that will make it all better," I said in reply.
Annalee turned to Eric and whacked him on the back of the head. "Why do you have to build things for my sisters?"
Eric rubbed the back of his head. "I'm sorry. I thought that you would be pleased that your sisters have finally stopped scaring me and started scaring you." The rest of the night we all had a fun time trying to get each other back.
The next day I got up and went down stairs. I opened the fridge very carefully to make sure that Annalee wasn't in there. "Don't worry. I don't hide in refrigerators." I jumped and turned around to see Annalee at the table.
"Don't do that again." I said breathlessly. "What are you doing up? I thought it was your habit of sleeping in past noon. Or was Eric lying?"
She looked like the living dead because of the dark circles under her eyes. "Didn't Noelle tell you yesterday? Today all of us are going to your school to set stuff for tomorrow."
"I don't think that will have enough room on the bus." I said taking out a yogurt.
Annalee smiled. "Don't worry we're not going to go on the bus. Eric built a device into his car so we can fly. All we have to do is follow your the bus."
"This is going to be a bad day." Noelle and Elaine said together as they came in. Elaine was wearing a shirt that said "Dogs Rule!" With a pair of blue jeans. Noelle was wearing white bondage pants, a black t-shirt, and a white trench coat. She wore a little make-up. Annalee rubbed her eyes.
"That's what you're wearing to the school?"
Noelle gave Annalee a long look. "Yeah." Then she turned to me. "Can I go with you. Please. I don't want to die in case Eric's car breaks, which is very possible you know."
I had to laugh at her face. "Ok, but you'll have to be ready to go in a couple of minutes."
"I'm ready." She said leaning on the door way.
"Ok well lets go then."
The flight there was fun. The air was nice and fresh. I took a deep breath in before I took off. Noelle held on tight through out the ride. As we landed I spotted Will. "Hi!" I yelled. Noelle covered her ears.
Will walked over to me. "Hi, who is this?"
"You've met my sister Noelle." I said hugging her.
"Oh, I remember." He said smiling still. The buses started to come in. I saw Eric's car.
"Whats that?" Will said staring.
"Oh, that's the rest of my sisters. We are doing the music for the Homecoming dance. "
"Oh, yeah I remember you talking about that."
I watched Eric's car get closer. I heard some yelling. I enhanced it. It was Elaine yelling bloody murder.
"We're going to die! You don't really know to fly this thing do you!" I quickly made sure that no one heard my sister yelling. Beccah got off her bus with Lash. She gave me a weak smile.
"How did your ride go?" I asked.
Beccah's smile grew wider. "You would not believe how much screaming there was on the way here. Elaine was totally freaking out when they started to fly. It was totally funny."
Warren came up and stood next to me. "How's your knee?" He asked.
I looked up at him. "Oh, it doesn't hurt very much at all. I'm still going to fly most of the time though."
Warren grunted. Eric landed the car like it was a rock. Noelle hid behind me while people came out to see what was going on. Elaine came out as a huge, angry crock. It was quiet certain that she did not like they way Eric flew. Several people backed away not knowing that it was really Elaine.
She snapped at the nearest person which unfortunately that was Principle Power's. She screamed as Elaine hissed at her. Noelle, Beccah, and Annalee were cracking up, but everyone else was scared out of their whits.
I blocked everyone out so Elaine could hear me. "Stop it silly! They think that you are a really crocodile."
"Cool!"
"No it's not cool. Change now." I said t heartened.
"Make me." She said in a sassily.
Noelle tapped my shoulder. "What?" I said a "little" annoyed.
"If I where you I wouldn't scream at your little sisters in public." She said cracking her neck.
"But I blocked them." I said confused.
Noelle smiled at me. "Yeah you blocked them out so that Elaine could hear you, but you didn't block them out so that they could hear you."
"Oh," I said in small voice. I knew that I was getting tired when I didn't do a good job of using my powers.
"So shut up before I have to freeze every one in sight."
I looked at Noelle strangely. "You froze some one?" I said wondering if i wanted to know the answer.
"Well since you were yelling at a crock in the middle of hundreds of people I thought that I would take the liberty of stopping some of them from spreading the news that you're a crazy woman."
"WHAT!" and at this point Noelle and Elaine (Who was now changed back into normal) Dashed head longing to the school. Looking around I noticed that every one was staring at me.
I shrugged it off and followed my sisters into the school. This was going to be a long day.
The rest of the morning I didn't here a thing about my sisters. They had been in the gym most of the morning setting up. In mad science Warren was out of it. "Hey, was' up?" I asked being as cheerful as I could.
"Nothing much," he murmured.
"Yeah right," Lash said sarcastically as he passed us taking his force field shield generator up to Professor Medulla.
Warren glared at his back and his hand started to smolder. I blew a gentle breeze across the desk and his hand stopped smoking. He turned his glare to me.
"I just don't want you to do something that you will regret later," I said not backing down from his glare.
He turned away, but seemed a little less tense. We finished our force field shield generator and then headed to lunch.
