Updated! I hope you like it. I kinda hurried this because my science teacher gives-well, not too much, but confusing homework. I'm not even kidding. We hadn't even watched the whole video! Anyway, read and comment!

-MuseGoddess

THE PAVILION

HALF-MOON THEATER

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17

8:23 AM

Charlie's POV

Charlie hurried to the Jackie O cabin (well, if you could call it a cabin, because ohmuhguhd, it was more like the penthouse of a skyscraper).

She grabbed the Alpha-issue cute silver shoulder bag with the adorable shimmery gold-bronze buckles and threw in the stuff she needed for her inventing class. Shira had cut class hours to include the impromptu meeting, but Charlie still wanted to get there to set up early. Amazing, really, that she could focus on class right then. It was just one of the things she loved about herself.

She reached the lightbulb-shaped inventing lab and stepped back, shading her eyes to admire it. The design had actually been her idea, passed to Shira through one of the top architects in the world. She'd dropped him an email from an unlisted address.

Charlie entered. The only person there was her professor Irina Gorbachevsky, although (she checked her aPod screen) there were only three—no, two minutes till class started.

Professor Gorbachevsky swept around the empty classroom, surveying the empty desks as Charlie started unpacking. "Where is everyone?" she asked Charlie, happy that at least her star student was present but frowning at the poor attendance.

"They're…getting to know our guest." Charlie said shortly as she headed to the back of the class and entered a biochemical freezer room, retrieving a potted ficus.

"Ah," said Prof. G (her name's just too freaking long!), understanding. "But what about you?" She peered at Charlie over the rims of her dark, square glasses.

"Oh, I already know him," Charlie mumbled, silently hinting her professor to drop the subject.

Her professor caught it and stopped. "Well, I hope they'll be there soon, or they will be…" the threat hung in the air.

So, what do you think? I know it's a bit incomplete, but I'll save it for another chapter. The next one is probably going to be Skye's. I need ideas for Allie. Please comment with one if you have one. I'm at a block here, sure you know the feeling.