Logan:

The next morning, there was a lot of excitement in the classrooms. Once the teachers had made sure they had everything and the kids had everything, we walked out of school and waited. While we waited for the bus since it was running really late, the teachers decided to take us down to the gym for a game of dodge ball. When we got there, Mackenzie Samson was already deciding to be team captain.

Now let me give you some heads-up advice about Mackenzie so you know what's coming.

She is the worst bully in the school. She hates my guts and my wake up call at school is her trying to sock me in the face. Mackenzie has a drawn in face, like a ferret with rough, shoulder length, rust-colored hair. She's also quite beefy but surprisingly, she can chase you down if you don't move fast enough.

Anyways, the once she decided to be team captain and I was also, automatically, all the girls and boys she hung around with moved to her side. No surprise, they were the ones that hated me also.

"Not a surprise," I muttered to myself.

I took a look at the people who had been pegged as losers, freaks or retards. There was Aki Bushel, the math whiz with braces that had the full head gear. There was Sharnell Lainer, the nerdy science girl who had huge glasses and always had huge explanations for a simple yes or no question. If I were to go through the list of losers, freaks, retards, nerds etc., it would just get worse. Trust me, you do not want to know.

On the other hand, there was one good thing. There was only two people left who hadn't decided whose side to be on. A boy named Abbot Allen and Christina Blake. Abbot Allen was kind of popular and sometimes hung around Mackenzie but I was surprised to see that he hadn't moved to her side. Mackenzie decided we should choose. If Abbot got chosen by Mackenzie, then we were doomed because he was a great thrower. I didn't know about Christina because I've never seen her play.

But we had a two way going. See, Mackenzie hated Christina after Christina got in her face so Mackenzie would definitely hate having Christina on the team. So that would make her choose Abbot. She also had told all her girlfriends that she'd seen how Christina plays sports. She spread rumors and said she sucked. And guess what? I believed them for some reason. Anyways, Mackenzie took the safer choice and took Abbot, unbalancing the teams. Mackenzie had two extra people but with Christina, they would still have one extra good player on their team. So I just sucked it up and took Christina. We grabbed the balls, laid them in the middle of the gym and had everyone back up to the walls, having one hand on them.

"On your mark, get set…"

Coach Nusley blew his whistle hard, signaling go.

Everyone rushed towards the line but Christina beat them to the dodge balls by a long shot while we were only halfway there. She grabbed three, tossed one to me, one to Malcolm Caliph and then started striking the other team down. As dodge balls soared to the other team, I recognized something. Something that might help us win.

It was Christina.

She was dodging balls and catching balls with one hand as she ran back and forth with amazing skill. I stopped to watch which was my mistake. Mackenzie threw a ball and it slammed into me. I didn't think girls could throw so hard. She laughed at me and began chucking dodge balls at Christina who dodge every single one. Mackenzie got mad, got three more people, and gave two balls to each of them and two to herself.

"Read, aim, FIRE!" she screeched. Eight balls hurtled at Christina who leaped, dodged and battered away the balls with her own with just unbelievable grace. As Christina dodged the sixth ball, she threw her ball that she had been wisely holding onto. It flew through the air like a fast ball, whistling past everyone and hit Mackenzie square in the chest with such force, Mackenzie got all the breath knocked out of her. It was incredible and so amusing to see her coughing with tears dragging down her face in pain, I was trying to stifle a laugh. I knew everyone else was but it was completely impossible. We busted up laughing which deserved us a glare that said, "I will kill you all later. Don't think it won't happen."

Christina grabbed other dodge balls and threw two, both hitting people who were now out. See, Coach Nusley's game of dodge ball is different. He has several different kinds. One of them is free-for-all and you just hit random people, no teams (which I always lose at because they all go after me). Then you have three-hits-and-your-out dodge ball which is the one we are playing.

Christina kept hitting people and I followed her lead. Already most of our team was out. There was a few standing on our side and half of Mackenzie's team. One ball sent by Abbot hurtled at Christina but she caught it meaning he was out. Even if you haven't been hit three times and the person catches the ball, you're still out. Abbot looked at Christina in surprise. He never, ever, ever, got out. Abbot went and sat in the bleachers with the other kids who had been taken out.

"HA-HA! Beat that!" yelled someone off the my right who was not Christina. Christina hated gloating in simple things like this.

The way it was working now was, if Christina chucked a ball and got someone out, the other team would try to take revenge by throwing three or four balls at her. But she would dodge and catch some. Finally, there was only four kids left on Mackenzie's team and just me and Christina on ours. Two of them sent balls. The first one Christina dodged and it hit the wall bouncing off. The second one came fast and as quick as lightning, she turned, swinging her fist and slammed the ball back, sending it right back to its owner. It was an awesome, amazing, something I-can't-describe move. It hit him and he was out since it was his third hit.

"Coach! That should be an out!" the kid protested.

"I didn't say anything about deflecting balls in the game isn't allowed," replied Coach. "So shut up and sit down."

"Awesome," Christina muttered, a smirk playing at the corner of her mouth.

The kid stomped his foot. There was three kids left. One chucked at Christina and another one chucked at me. We both caught the balls and they went out.

The last kid standing was Mark Carter. He was second best at throwing and catching however, stupid when it came to catching. If a few balls came at him, he would try to catch them all. I knew if I threw my ball, he might catch it. But hey, it was worth a shot. I threw with all my might, hoping by some sheer luck, it would hit him out, but he caught it.

"No doubt about that," I murmured as I passed Christina.

"Nice throw though. But I've got your back. That bastard is going down."

I smiled, feeling proud.

Christina threw several and he tried to catch them all. No luck. He tried several dodge balls on her. He missed. After a while of Christina dodging and throwing and Mark trying to catch every ball, Christina used a great move. She chucked several at to one side of him and of course, he lunged for them. At the same time, Christina got close to the boundary line, grabbed a ball and threw with all her might. It sailed through the air and struck him in the side. He fell down just as he threw his own high in the air. Christina made a desperate lunge and miraculously five feet in the air, caught the ball! Everybody cheered on our side and Coach Nusley blew the whistle.

"Yeah Christina! There's that jump we haven't seen in a while!" Griffin cheered. He winked at her and Christina chuckled, smiling; a rare smile that barely every happened. As the kids on our team high-fived Christina and some of the others on Mackenzie's team who weren't poor sports, one of the teachers who had been checking regularly for the bus, came in and announced that the bus was here. Everyone started talking like we usually do.

"Ok everyone! Settle down, settle down! When I call role, I want you to say 'here' or 'present'," said Ms. Sabrina our math teacher as she pulled out a roll sheet.

Ms. Sabrina was a pretty Asian woman with long, black flowing hair that was always in a tight bun or ponytail and who made her room always smell of a light scent of cinnamon apple. She was nice but stern and had pegged me for being a troublemaker. But she didn't neglect me, or purposely call out on me for the simplest things that made a commotion in class. She treated me like I was just a regular student who got in trouble occasionally. And you can probably guess what that makes Christina. One of her 'favorite' students.

Anyways, she called out the names and we all said 'here' or 'present'. Mr. Johnson, who was the other teacher on the field trip, told everyone to make sure they had everything. Then Ms. Sabrina shuffled everyone out the gym door, down the sidewalk and out onto the bus.

"Mr. Johnson, what is the point of this field trip?" I asked.

"Nothing. This is an end of the year field trip to celebrate everyone making it through the year. And," he glanced at Christina. "to test something important." I was about to ask what that important thing was but just then, Griffin had just walked up and interrupted with a worried look on his face

"Logan, did you bring any money since we're buying food at the water park? I forgot mine."

"Um, yeah. I think I grabbed a ten dollar bill." I reached into my pocket and pulled out my wallet.

"I have enough money for you and me," I told him. His face relaxed.

"Thank the gods because I didn't eat breakfast and I'm hungry and also, you usually have money. But when it comes to field trips or other big things, you tend to forget."

Wait.

What did he just say? Did he just say, 'Thank the gods'? Why would he say that? There's only one god…well unless he a different religion. But wait…he said he was Christian? And what did Christina mean about going back to camp and fighting and training? I shook my head, figuring I would have time to think about it later and pushed that thought away for a bit.

"Thanks. Glad you reminded me," I said laughing. We boarded the bus and once we made sure again that we had everyone on the bus, we started off.

It was a terrible thirty minute ride. Mackenzie was being a little bone-head and Mark was throwing things at Griffin who kept muttering things to himself. I got up several times so I could go after Mark and teach him a lesson but Christina finally had enough of it and when I stood up after the final straw, she grabbed me and hauled me back into the seat without a struggle. And so, I had to wait, fuming in the middle of the bus as Griffin got hit some more.

Once everyone jumped off the bus, we followed 'You-Are-Here' signs and after a while, we began to see the slides and other water stuff in distance. As soon as we had reached the water area, everyone went berserk. Everyone changed into their bathing suits and jumped right on in.

At one side of the park was one of those river things float down in. It was called Raft River. You sit in one of those inner tubes or one of the inner tubes that have two connected. Then you float around down the river as water jets spray you every 20 feet. In the middle of the water park, there was this tower that had three slides. The top one was like a big blue tunnel that twisted around and around like crazy and went all over the place. The second one was a yellow one that was opened, and the third one was a green one that was opened also but simple. It went around twice and then straight into a huge pool which was only two feet deep so not at all dangerous (well, unless your two and half feet tall and you slip). It also had at the other end of the pool, something that looked like a tiled beach. On the front of the tower, it has a huge waterfall that you can stand under and go behind the water.

Then next to the tower with the three slides was a bigger tower called Orange Rush. On the top, there were some rafts that look like inner tubes but they have a bottom that was made of that bouncy stuff that's on a trampoline. You put it at the top of the slide you sit down with how many other people you want (we found out that the limit for sitting in one was four people) and then the managers push the inner tube down the slide and down you go! Then you end up at this medium size rectangular pool. The managers at the end grabbed your inner tube once your out, stick in this machine, that takes it up with several other ones. Then you climb the stairs and start over again. On the same tower that has the Orange Rush slide, there is a slide called Splash Out and it is 240 feet in length. Then below that level is two slides called Twin Chasers which is 130 feet in length. The Twin Chasers are two side-by-side slides that lead out into the pool that has the tiled beach and three slides.

"Whoa," we all said.

Somewhere off to the side of the pool where the three slides lead to, there was a crazy looking tower that had a clock on all four sides and water guns. Once the clock strikes 12, the bottom of the roof opens up and dumps water on all the people who are under it or are close to it. Its called Joker Soaker. To the left of the pool-with-the-three-slides, there is a bridge that leads over to the smaller baby pool. The other end of the bridge sits on a small concrete island with a river that goes underneath. Of course no one else wanted to go to the baby pool. But the water park was huge! I was thinking about starting with the inner tube that goes down the slide with someone but I figured no one would go with me because I had no friends except Griffin and Christina kind of.

"This is a huge water park," said Griffin who was in a full wet suit for some reason and had water shoes on unlike all the other boys who were wearing just trunks and were barefoot.

"What the heck are you wearing?"

Griffin looked uneasy.

"Just have to for, um, protection?"

"What?"

"Where do you want to start?" he replied quickly, switching subjects faster than I ever heard him before.

"I don't know."

"Want to start with the big raft slide?" said a girl's voice behind me. I turned around to see Christina walking up.

She looked amazing. She was in a sea-green bikini outlined in ocean blue and one of those that were only tied. Not to mention, she was well-tanned. Not Snooki from Jersey Shore tan (no I do not watch Jersey Shore, I just hear about how tan Snooki is) but a nice tan. My face turned red but thank goodness it was hot out so she thought I might be getting hot.

"Sure thing," I replied.

We walked up the stairs until we had reached the top. Surprisingly their wasn't a line. We sat down in one of the inner tubes, waiting patiently. They were checking to see if anyone was at the end of the slide. Once the all clear was given, the managers pushed us down. We went down, twisting and turning and going up against the sides of the slide. When we reached the bottom, I tried to stand up in the inner tube, laughing.

Then I yelled, "Yeah! That's what I'm talking about! That was so much fun, we-," I got cut off because I had fallen into the water since the inner tube was not that stable. I guess it was meant for lying and sitting down in on the slide and not standing in on water. I came up still talking, "-and do that again!" Christina and Griffin laughed and but it was Griffin's turn. He was sitting too close to the edge so when he leaned back, he fell out too. Christina started laughing harder.

We climbed the stairs again, still laughing. But when we got to the top, there was a short line. So we decided to go and do the three slides. We went and did that, and Christina challenged us to a race. She would get the top slide, I would get the second slide and Griffin would get the third. We positioned ourselves after telling the managers at the top we were doing a race. Christina's slide manager gave the signal over the radio to the my manager and Griffin's. We pushed ourselves and down we went. Christina got there first but she let herself hide under water until Griffin and I came out. She jumped up and scared the skin right off of us.

"Ahhhh!" Griffin and I screamed. She laughed and dunked our heads in the water. Then she went under. When we came back up, she said, "Hey watch this." She went under and started swimming until she had crossed the pool and up onto the tiled beach. I counted how long she was under. She had been under for two minutes. But I noticed she wasn't even wet. Really weird.

"What in the world? How did she do that? I don't think anybody can be under water for two minutes and swim that fast underwater."

"Maybe she took a deep breath and made it." But that didn't sound convincing. It sounded like he was convincing himself.

Afterwards, we kept going down the slides and getting soaked under the waterfall and under the Joker Soaker. When lunch rolled around, we all went to the Beachfront Grill, paid and sat down and ate. It was a delicious lunch. Afterwards, everyone got back into the pool. I was having a blast, trying to have fun before it was time to go, when Mackenzie came up to me in front of the waterfall. She had gotten tired of picking on other people and being mean. I guess I was the only one that amused her when she was bullying me because she always knew I would get in trouble.

"To afraid to go down the water slides?" she sneered.

"Pfft. I've been going down the water slide all day. But of course you wouldn't notice or remember. Your brain and eyes slow-process just about everything and you have short-term memory loss," I retorted. She got in my face, her breath smelling like hotdog with ketchup and mayonnaise.

"Short-term memory loss and slow-processing mind and eyes, huh? Well look whose talking. You're ADHD, ADD and dyslexic. So I wouldn't talk," she hissed.

"So you do admit that you have short-term memory loss and your mind and eyes slow-process everything?" I answered.

"I didn't say that."

"Basically you just did." Her face turned red and she shoved me into the waterfall. I came out of it sputtering and angry. Just about Christina and a lot of people had gathered around when the picking-on-Logan started but Mr. Johnson and Ms. Sabrina weren't noticing a thing. Christina narrowed her eyes and watched me. I had a feeling she was seeing what I was going to do. Then I remembered what Mr. Johnson had said about testing something which wasn't really an anger management solution.

I was so angry that my mind went completely blank and the next thing I knew, Mackenzie and all her friends screamed. A large wave rose in front of me, rolling forward and slamming down upon Mackenzie and her friends so heavily that they sat down hard in the water with a SPLASH! Mr. Johnson and Ms. Sabrina looked up startled while people all around me were whispering and pointing at me.

"Whoa. Dude what just happened?"

"Did you see that?"

"Yeah."

"The water like turned into a tsunami and like, smashed onto Mackenzie."

"Weirdo!"

I looked at Christina for help but she too was looking at me as if I had just appeared in front of her out of thin air.

"What?" I demanded.

She stared at me some more and didn't say anything but she did glance at Mr. Johnson mouthing something. He mouthed something back. I turned to Mr. Johnson who was sitting in his automatic wheel chair, now staring at me.

Help me! Make them think that it was just some freak wave that came up and hit her. Make them think that I don't know what they're talking about. Make them take their mind off of it! Anything Mr. Johnson! I pleaded with my eyes. He nodded slowly as if he understood.

"Uh-hem," he coughed as he faked cleared his throat. "Ah, I think that the water park manager said earlier before we came that they had a water problem that happened every once in a while. They said that waves tend to happen and people standing near them get hit by it in the pool."

Everybody turned their attention to Mr. Johnson.

"Can you repeat that again, sir?" Mackenzie asked as politely as she could, smirking at me quickly so that Mr. Johnson wouldn't notice. She waited for a reaction and I gave it to her by rolling my eyes.

"Idiot," I growled.

Mr. Johnson repeated what he said.

"So Mackenzie, you were just simply in the wrong place at the wrong time."

While Mackenzie tried to make up some lame lie, a voice from someone I had forgotten about came from behind me.

"Where did you learn to do that?" a person hissed.

I spun around to see Christina glaring at me.

"What are you talking about? You're th-"

"You know exactly what I'm talking about Logan."

"No I don't. You don't know what you're talking about. I do. You're th-"

"I don't know what I'm talking about? I do know what I'm talking about but you don't obviously," she said.

"Oh now that's just great. You're saying that I don't know what I'm talking about. I really don't know what the heck you're talking about? You're th-"

"Don't lie. You do know because you're blushing right out of your cheeks!" she hissed.

"I do not blush that bad! I seriously don't know what your talking about! You're th-,"

"Yes! You do know what I'm talking about. If you're so stupid, then why should I bother asking? I'm talking about the wave and you. When you like made it hit her in the face!"

"Yeah then. Why even bother asking?" I retorted. "I don't even know what happened with the wave and everything. It just happened. But you shouldn't be talking! You're th-"

"So you do know what I'm talking about!" she growled. Now at this point, she was starting to tick me off because this was like the fourth, no wait, fifth time she had interrupted me. "You are such a bad liar! How did y-"

"Will you just shut up and let me finish? This is fifth time you've interrupted me from saying something important!" I snapped.

"Ok fine then! Spit it out!" she snarled. Now whoa. Wait a sec. The snarl sounded so close to a real snarl from a tiger or something. That was just scary.

"Ok! You're the one who swam the whole length of the pool under water in two minutes to the tiled beach!" I said heavily.

Christina paled in the face.

"Yeah, and? You've got a point because…?" she sniffed.

"No one can swim this huge pool within two minutes!" I said. "How did you do it?"

"I bet anyone can do it," she retorted.

Her voice didn't sound very convincing.

"I bet not. How did you do it?" I repeated, pressing on.

"Why are you so concerned," she sneered.

"Because you're picking on me about the wave."

"Because everyone noticed it!" she snapped. "They didn't notice me!"

"Yeah because you were underwater and no one was around to watch! You're obviously hiding something. Before we were going to leave, Mr. Johnson said to 'test something' and he looked at me and then at you. Then, whenever something strange happens to me, later all I see is you going down the hallway to Mr. Johnson's class with Griffin. Why won't you tell anyone except for Griffin and Mr. Johnson. Why won't you tell me anything! Why won't Griffin tell me anything either! I'm his best friend!" I demanded (did I mention this beforehand?).

"I have my reasons and so does Griffin. So stay out of this until its time," she answered.

"What reasons? Until its time for what?" I questioned.

Christina looked at me as if deciding how to get me in trouble until we heard a growl. Her eyes widened slightly, just enough so a thin rim of white showed around her sea-green eyes.

"What did you do?" Christina muttered, half to herself, regarding me some more.

"What do you mean?"

We heard another growl and I looked around. Mackenzie was glaring at me and I looked at Ms. Sabrina. She was also but something was up with her. She seemed to be scratching her throat, snarling and looking in my direction.

"Christina, what did you mean by, 'what did i do' and 'until it's time'?" I asked, slowly tearing my eyes away from Ms. Sabrina.

"Oh look, its time to leave," she answered instead, glaring at me now for some reason. The way her tone sounded told me to drop the subject or else something bad was going to happen. I followed her to the water park lockers buzzing with questions. How was I ever going to manage for the rest of the day?

And what had I done?