Teenage Wasteland part 2
It was a normal morning in classroom 402 of Gamma junior high. Pre-teens of each and every planet in the Galactic Alliance giggled and gossiped amongst each other before the bell rang, when a teal bat like woman walked in. Clapping her hands to get the children's attention she sighed as they continued to talk to their friends about the latest trends or if they saw what happen on TV last night, meaning this called for drastic measures. Taking a deep breath, she opened her mouth and let out a loud sonic blast, either knocking children to the ground or throwing them up against the back wall of the room. Scrambling to their desks after regaining their scenes, the kids smiled sweetly at the woman.
"Good morning Mrs. Vexus." The class said in synced. Smiling sweetly, she started to write on the blackboard.
"Good morning class, now that I have your attention, let's get to today's schedule. We'll start with Jillian's career day guest." Mrs. Vexus said writing out the words 'Career Guest' in big white letters. She froze when a soft cough was heard, and turn her head to see that said student's hand was up. "Something wrong Jillian?"
"Um, my dad couldn't come. He's really busy with work." Jill said bashfully. Mrs. Vexus looked at her sadly.
"Oh…I'm sorry to hear that. Well I guess these things can't be helped." The Chiropteran like woman said before patting Jill on the back and smiling sweetly at her. "We'll just take attendance and have silent read then." Walking back to her desk, she sat down, pulled out a folder containing the attendance sheet and began to read off the names.Unbenounced to the rest of the class, who where whispering about Jill's always absent parents, she was celebrating in her mind. She had avoided two situations in which her parentage would have been reviled. Snapping back into reality, she noticed her name was coming up on the roll call. "Hammerhold?" Mrs. Vexus called before a raven haired grasshopper like girl raised her hand. "Lepton?" A blond girl with deep blue eyes smiled and raised her hand. "Liteyear?" Jill was about to raise her hand when a loud knocking was heard from outside the door. Getting up, the young teacher walked out of the class as a tardy boy dashed in. Panting the boy smiled broadly.
"Buzz Lightyear is outside!" As soon as this left his lips, all the kids gasped and gleefully whispered in excitement…well almost all the kids. Jill was pure white as she began to shake. How? How did he find out? She shredded all the notes, deleted all the e-mails, and never passed on the phone calls. Bonnie Lepton, the blonde blue eyed girl and one of Jill's closes friends in school, squealed in delight.
"Oh. Mai. Gawd! Buzz Lightyear! I've seen him at Star Command when my dad takes me to work with him!" Petra Hammerhold, the grasshopper like girl and daughter of Senator Hammerhold, blew a lock of hair from her face as she sighed.
"Down girl," She joked "Don't make Jill and me duct tape you to your seat. Right Jill?" Pausing for a bit for a response, she looked to her friend when no response came. "Uh, Jill?" Both girls panicked as their friend was white as a sheet and gasping for air as the teacher reentered. Clapping her hands, she quickly got the kids' attention as she smiled.
"Class, settle down. Today we have a very special career day guest." Jill sank in her seat as her father walked proudly in. "The Buzz Lightyear!" Smiling, he stood at the front of the class.
"Hello there, kids! I'm Buzz Lightyear. And as you know, I'm a space ranger." A boy in the front row raised his hand. "Yes, you there in the front."
"Mr. Lightyear? Why did you come to our class?" Buzz looked at him oddly.
"Because I received an email telling me that today is Jill's turn at career day." The room went silent as all eyes fell on said girl. Praying for an asteroid would strike her where she sat; she felt their questioning eyes befall onto her. "There she is! Hi Sweetie Pie!" Jill whimpered as his view locked onto her. The boy who had started all this, looked at him in shock.
"Jill Liteyear, is your daughter?" What was wrong with these kids?
"Of course she is! She's my lil' space cadet!" Buzz said as he walked up next to her before he knelt down and gave her a hug. Blushing like mad, she remained quiet all threw out his speech about what it was like to be a space ranger, eyes glued to her desk. After what felt like an eternity of humiliation, it was finally over. The bell rang and after giving Jill a kiss on the head, he saluted the students then left. As the students gathered their things and left for their next classes, Jill was bombarded with questions.
"What's it like to have THE Buzz Lightyear as a dad?"
"Do you get to go to Star Command and play with the LGM?"
"Have you ever gone on a mission with him?"
"Did he really save an entire planet with a broken jetpack and a half charged laser?"
"How come you've never said anything about being his daughter?" Slamming her books down angrily, Jill glared at them.
"It blows because people expect you to be like him, yes I do but only when he's super busy, no I haven't, yes he did, and because crater headed dorkwads like you bother me with stupid, annoying, obvious questions. OKAY?" The kids nodded slowly and stood back as she stormed out of the classroom. After getting as far away as possible, she hid under the stairwell leading up to the second floor, and cried. Why did he have to come here? Why did he always have to ruin everything? She had it great up until now, she had fooled everyone by coming up with a new last name, told everyone her parents were super busy and couldn't come to events. She was treated like everyone else, no special treatment, and no annoying questions, no anything. But now the truth was out, she was the daughter of the galaxy's greatest hero. And just like in elementary school she'd get annoying questions, odd looks, and picked on relentlessly. For the rest of her study hall period she remained there, crying until the bell rang for math. Collecting herself, she cleared her face free of tears and went to her next class.