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Chapter 6
It was recess, and Zak was bored. Bored and Lonely. Both Maddie and Jordan were in the infirmary, having had mysterious fainting spells. It had the fifth grade in an uproar, and everybody seemed to be convinced that he was going to fall victim next. Mainly because he was always hanging out with Maddie and Jordan.
But, just because he was bored and lonely didn't mean he couldn't try and have fun. It was recess! You were supposed to have fun, not be bored and lonely. There was a ton of kids having recess, it wasn't like he couldn't jump into some game. Yet, he missed what he, Jordan, and Maddie did everyday at recess.
They would always race through the equipment, trying to be the first to get through it all. Originally, it had just been him and Jordan, before they met Maddie.
Maddie had transferred here from some ritzy all girl's boarding school in fourth grade for apparently being too rough. Because of that rumor, almost nobody wanted to be friends with her. And of course, Maddie had been all too welcome to try and disprove the rumor. However, halfway through the year she gave up, deciding the cause hopeless.
Of course, Zak had to approach her and invite her to play with them, saying she looked lonely. Maddie had hesitantly agreed to join him and Jordan, afraid that it had just been some ploy to make her seem like even more a freak than she had already been deemed. Yet the boys had been nice to her, and they had made fast friends, and became like peanut butter and jelly- always together, no matter what.
Well, that was, until now. Jordan and Maddie were in the infirmary, and he wasn't allowed in there for some reason. Zak bet it was because Maddie's parents were blaming him for their daughter fainting. Zak found that dumb- he wasn't anywhere near Maddie either time she fainted!
"Zak? Zak are you alright?" Cathy's voice rang up from below Zak. Zak looked down at Cathy, seeing her upside down. For a moment he nearly panicked, before remembering where he was. He was hanging upside down from the monkey bars on the playground.
"Yeah, why?" Zak asked Cathy, and her face blushed crimson.
"Ah, well," Cathy stuttered. "It's just that you seemed kind of lonely without Maddie or Jor… dan?" Cathy gave Zak an odd look, panic starting to spread through her body.
"Zak, I think you should get down now." Cathy told him, fear evident in her voice. Zak's face was losing all color, and to Kelly, she thought he was going to faint.
"Zak?" She said when he didn't answer. She was frightened- was it possible for someone to die from falling off the monkey bars? "Zak?!"
Zak's legs started to slip from the monkey bars and as he fell Cathy began to scream bloody murder for the third time in two days.
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"Dude, you look horrible!" Jordan exclaimed as Zak woke up. Zak groaned, hand going to his head.
"Ugh, what happened?" He groaned. He felt like he had been run over by a ten ton tractor trailer.
"You, my dear Zak," Maddie was grinning, and Zak knew this couldn't be good. "Fell from the monkey bars and caused Cathy to have a panic attack. You dislocated your shoulder, and the nurse wants you to be kept under observation just in case you have a concussion." It was then Zak noticed that his arm was in a sling.
"Aw man!" Zak whined. "My parents are so going to kill me now!" Zak was on the bed directly to the left of the window in the infirmary, with Maddie right next to him and Jordan on the other side of Maddie.
"Look, boys," Maddie said, sitting up straighter in her infirmary bed. "We have bigger things to worry about." The boys sat up and looked at the red head.
"Like what?" Jordan asked, and Maddie rolled her eyes.
"Like," She answered. "Why we all fainted for no reason." Zak nodded.
"Yeah, I don't get that either," He agreed. "There's really nothing to distinguish something. We're all different races, ate different things at meals, etc… Really the only thing that connects us is that all three of us are eleven and we were at Maddie's house on Friday." The kids nodded. Maddie looked thoughtful.
"I still have my lap top," She said. "We could start with stuff that happened the year we were born." Jordan and Zak looked at Maddie confused as she reached down and opened her backpack, pulling out a black lap top with a red rose on the front. She opened it and turned it on.
"Why the year we were born?" Jordan asked. "Shouldn't we think of looking up that Leonidas guy or whatever he's called?" Zak nodded in agreement, and Maddie sighed as she logged on and clicked on the internet.
"If this was your lap top, I'd let you call the shots," Maddie told them sharply. "But, as it is mine, I call the shots. Got it?" The boys nodded and Maddie searched the year the kids had been born.
"Let's see…" Maddie said as the boys leaned over towards her bed to see onto the lap top. When that didn't work, they got off their beds and crowded onto hers.
"I don't think it has to do anything with the world's largest meatball," Zak said, eyes jumping over the picture of a disgustingly huge ball of meat.
"Same with a new discovery of some weird type of beetles in the south pacific," Jordan agreed.
"Ditto with the first half-horse half-wolf offspring." Maddie clicked to the next page. IT showed just as much promise as the first, and Maddie was about to click to the next page when something caught her eye.
"Huh?" Zak said. "What's that?" He pointed to the same title that Maddie had spotted.
"I have no idea," She breathed, mouse moving to click on it. She was about to press the button on the mouse to see what was inside it when the nurse came bustling in.
"Jordan! Zak!" The nurse was scandalized. "You two should be back in bed! And Madeline, put that lap top away!" Maddie scowled at the use of her full name, but deftly and subtly saved the page to her favorites and shut the lap top down.
"But we are in bed!" Jordan protested, and the nurse seemed even more scandalized.
"In your own beds!"She yelped, and Jordan and Zak slid off of Maddie's bed and got back onto their own beds. Sheesh, old people.
Maddie let out a soft giggle as she put her lap top back into her backpack.
"Hey!" Zak said, trying not to shout so he wouldn't anger the nurse. "What's so funny?"
"Just thinking." Maddie said, giggling even harder.
"About what?" Jordan asked, and Maddie giggled even worse, the giggles gaining in number as the nurse shouted,
"No laughing!" Maddie grinned and tried to stop her giggles, but couldn't.
"Well?" Zak asked. "Breathe, Maddie, breathe!" Maddi sucked in a huge breath through her mouth as she giggled even more. She took another deep breath, and finally calmed her giggles.
"Well?" The boys asked her, impatient.
"Oh, just ways to scandalize the nurse." She said, and the boys started snickering. They then started talking of different ways to scandalize the nurse, even though they knew none of the ideas would work, besides letting Zak and Jordan sit on Maddie's bed again.
And yet, even as they talked, none of them could get the thoughts of that sight they had seen out of their heads.
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There's chapter 6 ^_^ I've had some people ask me about Zak's powers, and things like, will he have them and such. And, all the authoress can say about that is read and find out for yourselves. *smirks*
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