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Chapter 5

Here's what you missed in the Amazing Adventures of Ella and her Quest to find Mutant Teenagers:

Jay just disappeared.

And that's what you missed in the Amazing Adventures of Ella and her Quest to find Mutant Teenagers.

"Oh, you're not serious." I said. "You are not serious! Are you freaking serious?"

"Yep." Jay's voice said.

"Oh, shut up!" I waved my hand in front of me and hit something.

"Ow." Jay appeared. "That was my nose."

"Yeah. You were invisible!" I hugged him again. "Oh, wow. Okay, we are going to be the most bad ass team of mutants freaks EVER!"

"Actually, I wasn't invisible."

"Yes you were. I just saw you." I said. Crack, went the thunder in the distance.

"Nooooo." he said, really annoyingly. "I was just blending in with my surroundings."

"What?"

"So you know how you sometimes can't see chameleons because they blend in with their surroundings?" he replied.

"Yeah. Okay, I just had a big idea in my brain!" I yelled. "You could be called Chameleon Boy!"

"Like Legion of Superheroes?" he looked at me with a weird little smirk on his face. "You watch that show?"

"Only when it's the only thing on TV." I looked at my feet.

"Cool." he said and looked out the window. His eyes widened. "Oh my…"

"I know. It's a pretty bad storm." I said, hearing thunder rumble loudly.

"That is NOT what I am talking about." he said, pointing. I raised my eyebrows and walked over to the window. When I saw what was out there, I pressed myself up against Jay's wall.

"Oh, okay. Do you know that guy?" I asked him.

"No, I was just wondering why he standing in the middle of a wind storm at night."

"Well, that's a legitimate concern." I replied, peeking out the window. There, in Jay's driveway, holding a clipboard, was none other than Jeb Batchelder. "Mind if I open the window."

"Feel free." he said.

I threw open the window and felt the wind against my face.

"JEB!" I screamed. "GO AWAY!"

He shouted back something that I couldn't hear.

"NO, GET OUT OF MY LIFE!"

He held up the clipboard. I couldn't read any of the writing. "GET IN YOUR CAR AND DRIVE AWAY!"

Suddenly, he took out his phone and punched some numbers into it. Do you think he was calling to order pizza? No, of course, my cell phone started ringing immediately.

"Did he just call you from out there?" Jay asked.

"Yeah, hold on." I pulled out my phone. It said 'Unknown Name'. Maybe I should call him that now. "WHAT?" I screamed into my phone.

There was the sound of the wind in the background and then a smooth voice broke through. "Ella, this is Jeb Batchelder."

"No freaking duh, I know who you freaking are." I whispered. I figured I'd gone past the point of treating grownups with respect.

"I see you're with a boy. Is he…?" Jeb trailed off.

"Yeah, he's mutant. Why would I be talking to him if he wasn't?"

Jay tried to grab the phone from me, but I pushed his arms away.

"Good. Oh, Ella I am so very proud of you." his voice sounded like he was smiling.

"Go. Jump. Off. A. Freaking. Cliff." I said, feeling so very proud of myself. "Listen, Jeb, I need you to get away from me and I'll see you at the end of my three weeks. Do not follow me."

"Ella, I have to check on you. Max and her flock are helping to save the world. You can't waste time."

"How am I wasting time?" I asked. "You know what? Bye." I hung up sharply.

"Ella!" Jay whined. "Why'd you tell him?"

"Because he's my sisters dad and he wants me to help her and her flock save the world from ultimate destruction or something like that." I glared out the window. Jeb was standing there, looking sad.

I stuck my tongue out at him. "Anyway, so he needs me to find six mutant kids by the end of two weeks and six days."

"Whoa, this is kind of a lot to process." Jay sank down against the wall.

"Oh, good, Jeb's leaving. That's right. Go away you mean, stupid, weird, stupid guy."

Jay stared at me. What? I can't help it if my life is kind of spiraling out of control so I can't think of proper swear words to say at Jeb.

"So, if I were part of your…group thing. What exactly would I have to do? Fundraising for the rainforest?" Jay asked.

"No, not really. Have you heard of the School?" I asked. Jay's face paled considerably and he started to quiver a little bit.

"No," he said. "I mean I've probably heard of it, but you know…"

"Yes, I think you know what it is." I narrowed my eyes at him.

"No. I. Don't." his answer was firm and he stood up to full height.

"Well, anyway, they're basically trying to combine human DNA with animal DNA so that we're these things called 'hybrids'. Like you're a chameleon hybrid and I'm a yorkie hybrid. And they made us for their own personal enjoyment or something and now our DNA is all screwed up.

"Okay, so these scientist guys who are called 'whitecoats' because they wear white coats, they're doing all these experiments and so, um…yeah. I think that's it." I thought about it for a moment then decided that I would think of anything else that I should tell Jay later.

"Oh, that's bad." Jay said, but I could totally tell that he knew all of this and it was bugging the heck out of me. I mean, we were basically best friends now, right? Because he was mutant and everything. So we were best friends and everything and he wouldn't even tell me about how he knew all of this and everything. UGH! (and everything)

"Yeah. Okay, do you have a cell phone?" I asked.

"Yeah." he said.

"Give me your number."

He did. I plugged it into my phone. What? Did you think I was actually going to tell you his phone number? Then if you were a whitecoat, you could call him. Or if you were a crazy person you could call him and be all like, "You have seven days to live." That's kind of stupid of me to give you his number, no offenses to reader.

"You give me yours." he said.

And of course, I did. But see above reasoning if you're wondering why I'm not telling you.

"Cool." he kind of breathed. "So…"

"If you ever need to talk or anything…I don't like too far away." I said. Suddenly, I saw a giant bolt of lightning. You know when you see lightning and then it's really quiet and you just know that there's going to be this giant BOOM and you're going to flip out?

"Cover you ears." my hands immediately went up to my sensitive ears. Jay tentatively put his fingers over his. I heard the obnoxious crack through my hands. We both jumped a little.

"Ella!" my mom's voice called up the stairs. "Time to go, sweetie!"

I looked over at Jay, warily. "I'LL BE RIGHT DOWN, MOM!" I shouted, causing Jay to cover his ears once again. "Would you mind…looking around? If you see anyone that's acting fishy…or lizardy, or horsey, or…cantaloupey-"

"Cantaloupe is not an animal. It's a fruit." Jay grinned.

"Cantaloupe is a fruit? Cantaloupe? Cantaloupe." I murmured. "Now it doesn't even sound like a word." I really didn't know that cantaloupe was a fruit. OH WAIT! Cantaloupe/ Antelope! That must be what I was thinking. Antelope not Cantaloupe, stupid!

"Antelope is not a fruit, right?" I asked.

"Nope, I don't think so." Jay said.

"Good. Alright, see you in school tomorrow." I said.

"That is the first time someone has said that to me in a non-threatening way." he grinned like a dork.

"Don't make this weird." I said, laughing.

"Sorry." he pushed me out the door of his room. "I have to go back to playing with my action figures. Next time you're here and we're not trying to save the world, you can play too."

"Jay, that is the sexiest thing anyone has ever said to me."

We both grinned like dorks.

One mutant down. Five to go. Oh boy.