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Enjoy chapter 5 peace sign

Fights Nights and Babies

Two weeks went by without too much incident. I was immediately put under the label of loner, the problem with that was I hung out a lot with Honey and a few of her friends.

They accepted me, but we weren't exactly friends. They were mostly Heroes, and as I watched them together I saw Honey staying quiet a lot, and just going along with what they said and did.

What made things a little worse, was that I could never see her eyes for those pitch black glasses she wore, so I could never even see what she was feeling!

Those people weren't the popular crowd, more like the ignored people, who only took pity on some. I hated that.

I ended up talking to the side kicks a lot, I found myself far more comfortable with them, they didn't judge by power or anything. And their powers were pretty damn cool.

One girl I met could transform into a ginae pig! Her whole body into a guinea pig!

Another, though she was actually a hero, could control plants and nature, that was amazing. Funny thing was, almost all of her friends were sidekicks, which is sort of why I thought she was in sidekick to begin with. But she was so sweet and nice I wasn't sure how she fitted into Hero (apart from her power). I found out later, she had been in sidekick, and she had been forced into Hero after they found out her powers.

Those two I didn't really know or hang out with, they were amongst Peace's friends.

Me and Peace… we didn't get on.

His best friend, Will Stronghold (son of Jetstream and Commander) tried to make peace between us after I shot water at the hot head. But it didn't work.

"I don't know why you can't give the guy a chance," sighed Will in Mad Science, when he had been put next to me, "he's decent, even if it's a pain to see that sometimes."

"Because," I told him, taking a beaker out of his hands so he wouldn't break it with his super strength, "I don't like show offs. He's a show off."

Will looked at me sideways. "And your little episode with Coach Boomer wasn't showing off?"

"He was pissing me off!" I defended, "I get like that!"

"So does Warren," he pointed out.

I growled. "Shut up before I make the bunsen burner malfunction… It'll be a long time before I give Peace a chance."

Will muttered something like, "both stubborn… blow each other up… not careful…" which got me grinning.

Will was one of few Hero supers that I got on with. We weren't friends, but we got on quite well. I got stuck with him in mad science and almost set his hair alit (by accident) with a bunsen burner. I drenched him with water because I panicked, then got him dry again in a matter of about five minutes, while I went red in the meanwhile.

After that he got on very well. That was how I met the nature girl, Leila. They were dating, very cute story too. But basically it was all Peace's fault. I guess it was the only one good thing he had done.

The basic-ness of it was- I didn't have any concrete friends, most of the heroes avoided me in case I got mad and fried or drowned them and the sidekicks were fine with me because for the most part, they weren't all that judgemental.

That, and the fact that the Lash kid and I would occasionally talk in the halls, seemed he had taken a liking to me after I had been put under the loner label. But there was something I didn't like about him.

Two weeks may have gone by quietly in school, but at home little Jack got sick, Mike's voice still went up and down and Lucy broke her arm by getting into a fight in school because she tried to defend another girl in class who had already discovered her super powers a week after being exposed to radiation without pretty much anyone knowing (poor kid). Apart from that, everything was fine.

I settled into my job pretty easily, doing my homework when I got spare time, helping Iris (the daughter Paul was talking about) with the stacking and helping out at the till and such.

We only had one incident of someone trying to burgle the place, and even then they were amateur, and it was a lucky punch from me that stunned him for long enough that a burly customer could restrain him as I snatched the gun and knife away from the would be criminal while Paul called the police.

Home got boring one evening, and I called Honey to see if she wanted to meet up and go out. I liked being on my own, but me and Honey were starting to get close, and she was starting to become more and more of a friend. She agreed and ten minutes later she was waiting outside.

"What took you so long?" I teased, letting her in, at least for a little while I hunted around my shoes.

"I walked," she replied, coming into the front room, to sit with Lucy, who had already met her about twice.

Poor little Lucy had her arm in a sling, sitting down watching TV looking miserable. Mike was out at the local skate park to blow off some steam after hearing his ex-girlfriend in england was slagging him off, poor kid. So not even he could get Lucy's mind off the fact that she couldn't do anything.

"MUM!" I called, "me and Honey are going out! Want me to pick anything up?!"

Lucia walked in, carrying Jack in her arms, I took out of them immediately and cradled the baby in my own arms as she answered.

"You wouldn't be able to take him with you?" she asked tiredly, "he loves you already, and I just need some time to get dinner sorted for the others."

I smiled at her. "Yeah sure, Honey loves him to bits. We'll go out some where to eat," I added, "so it'll be you, dad and Lucy tonight. Mike's probably gone off with some friends- you know him."

She laughed, nodding, then reached up to kiss my forehead. "I'll get you out some of his milk to take along, it should be his dinner time soon."

"Oh God…" I complained, "he's gonna yell!" I shrugged. "Meh… I can deal with him… I'll just make pretty shapes-"

"That won't go near him."

"No Lucia," I teased, "they won't."

I put Jack in Honey's arms as I grabbed my shoes, pulled them on and got out his buggy.

Five minutes later the three of us were out walking in the twilight. Jack gurgled happily at being allowed out, finally. He didn't like being sick. I don't think he even understood why he felt so hot and uncomfortable. Poor kid.

"You been to Paper Lantern?" I asked suddenly as we passed it, "I wanna eat out and I've been promising myself to come here for ages!"

"I heard it's good…" mused Honey, "c'mon, lets go, I'm hungry."

I backed up the buggy, and tilted it to go up the stair, as Honey pushed open the door.

"Need any help?" came a surprisingly familiar voice from behind us.

"No no," I said politely, smiling, not turning round, "I'll be fi- Peace!" I added almost in a shrike as he came round to stand next to the buggy, not taking 'no' for an answer.

"Sanderson?!" he sounded more shocked than me!

He stared at me for a moment, then at Jack then at Honey. He frowned, then took hold of the bottom of the pram helping me get up the stair.

Evidently, he couldn't be bothered to argue with me just then, and I didn't see any point in letting a school feud spill out onto normal grounds. "What you guys doing here?" he asked, still seeming surprised as he let me pass him with the pram.

"Eating," I stated, coldly. I didn't want the feud to spill, didn't mean I had to be all that friendly to him. That would just be weird.

Before Peace could say something to set me off, Honey added, rather quietly, "we wanted to try this place out, Pyro lives near by now." She smiled, going very slightly pink, at him. "What'cha doing here?"

He growled slightly, looking a little embarrassed. "I work here."

"Oh, cool, then you could seat us?" asked Honey.

"And soon please," I added, "Jack needs his bottle."

I lifted the little boy out of the buggy and balanced him on my hip, as I grabbed for his things as well.

To my surprise, Peace took it for me instead, and smiled gently at Jack. Jack looked at him with his enormous brown eyes, then gurgled a smile at him.

"Is it safe to hold him like that?" asked Peace suddenly, nodding at us to follow him (so he could seat us).

"Like what?"

I looked at how I was holding the child. His belly resting on my arm, so he could look out, my hand securely under his nappy holding him in place. His little hands reaching out when he saw something interesting, his legs kicking slightly.

"Yeah sure," I shrugged, "he's fine like this."

He looked at me oddly, then gestured to the table, and set the bag down next to me as I sat down.

"I'll get your menus in a sec," he mumbled gruffly, "don't get pissed if I don't come back for ten minutes… I'm late so I'm gonna get screwed at." He rolled his eyes, and moved away still giving Jack odd looks.

Honey burst out laughing as soon as the guy was out of ear shot.

"What?" I asked mildly, getting Jack out of his enormous jacket thing that protected him from any cold outside. Inside was very warm, even Honey was taking off her hoodie.

"Warren thinks Jack's yours!" she giggled hysterically, as I handed Jack over to her, and grabbed his bottle and bib.

"You're kidding!" I spluttered, my voice muffled, it made me giggle too! I shrugged as I saw him coming back, taking Jack from Honey (he looked pretty irritated at being passed back and forth). "Well he can think what he want, just don't out right say he's not."

Honey nodded, looking sly. I didn't like that face when I was on the receiving and of the plan she seemed to be formulating.

Peace handed us the menus without a word. "How old is he?" he asked suddenly.

"Five weeks," I stated, testing the warmth of the milk, then muttering a curse, I heated up my hands and manipulated water to surround the bottle and heated it up to warm it up.

As I said before, I love my elementals.

"You-" started Peace, then stopped and shook his head, "I'll send one of the waitresses over in a few minutes."

"What do you do exactly?" asked Honey suddenly.

"Bus boy," he muttered and walked off.

"If he tells anyone I have a kid," I said demurely as I fed Jack, "I will make it my own personal mission to ensure he cannot reproduce."

"You gonna tell him?"

"No… he should know."

I nodded decidedly. Half wandering if he would try to black mail me with it. Wouldn't be a first that someone had tried to black mail me with something that wasn't true and that had no proof.

The food was amazing, and Jack was very good, but fell asleep as we ordered our desserts.

The poor kid was just getting over a high temperature, so I had him cradled in my left arm turned on his side into my tummy, while I ate and gesticulated wildly with my right. I have a small habit of using my hands to talk.

We called for the bill and split it, and went to get the buggy. To my surprise I spotted Peace setting up, chatting to one of the waitresses casually in Mandarin. Didn't think he could speak chinese…

"You didn't have to," I muttered to him vaguely as he stopped talking to the girl, and looked at me expectantly.

Though to both his and my surprise it came out in badly spoken, but clear Mandarin. I hadn't spoken the language for a while, and it was one of the languages I had picked up on as a child when I moved around a lot.

Others were russian, french, spanish and a little Italian. I have an ear for languages, it's cool! And funny when people don't realise I know what they're saying. I can't speak them fluently, or very well, but I can get by and understand what's being said.

"Seemed the right thing to do," was all he said, replying in the same language, acting as though the fact that I had come out with a foreign language without realising it hadn't phased him.

I put the newly coated up Jack in the buggy, smiled at the girl and told her thanks (keeping to chinese) and left with Honey.

"I didn't know you could speak chinese!" explained Honey, shocked, trying to keep up with me.

"I hadn't for so long!" I replied, "didn't think it was a big deal."

"Can you speak any other?"

I explained about not being able to speak it well and all that, and told her.

"That's just cool."

I smiled crookedly. "I know. Where to now?"

"Dropping Jack off home, the poor little babe is dead asleep, then we'll go looking for some trouble or something."

I couldn't get used to outgoing overly happy Honey. This Honey, as much as I liked, was so different to quiet, self-contained, studious Honey in school. This one was rebellious and loud! I felt so… so privileged to see her like that.

"Hey- I know this awesome club," she stated as we wandered down the path to my house, through the small front garden, "some really good bands play there. But… I dunno… it's sort of like… what's that band called? The Useless?"

"The Used?" I asked sceptically.

"Yeah, that kinda music mostly. Not my usual forte but it's just fun to go to!"

Did I mention I love this girl?!

That night was a blur of fun and excitement. Best Friday night out I had in such a long time. The sort I never thought I'd have in America, not till I was so much older.

Worries about Jack getting sick again disappeared, the fact that Lucy was already getting into fights, about Mike getting worked up about his ex, the fact that Peace probably thought I was a teen mum… all that went.

I just wanted some time to loose control and have a laugh. I needed that.

Honey, from that night on, became the closest and dearest friend I had ever had.

She would never know how much she meant to me, but from then on, we were almost inseparable.