Stones and Glass Houses (Book 1)

🕷 (49) To My Significant Bother...

Brooklyn POV-

She was barely through the school doors with Harry and Peter by her side,  when they were ambushed by their two tother friends running their way. Tanya was the one pulling MJ into a simple trot, but the two still pushed their way past the rowdy students around them just to tackle Brooklyn into an embrace.

"I thought you'd be dead!" Tanya exclaimed, "Just how did you survive? Don't tell me getting punished by the principal did any good in getting rid of that old family feud"

Brooklyn smiled but returned the hug from both the quiet and frantic girls.

"Enemies we may be, but there is one thing we care more about that killing one another, and that's our grades. There is no way I'll beat Peter as valedictorian if I fail history, so I made peace for a few hours" she said, leaving out the part where she and two others would be going after the Joker tonight.

As the group made it to Brooklyn's locker, she was getting a lecture from an equally worried Harry about how having to spend more days working on the project might actually end in death.

"I swear, one time I saw Damian break a reporter's mic with his bare hands! What if you two disagree on something? He could break your wrist!" Harry said, only pausing his exaggerated hair flip to shoot a wink to some passing girls from the basketball team.

Slamming her locker, Brook leaned against it, an amused smile on her face.

"Not to worry my friend, I got it handled" she said, trying not to have some sort of reaction when Peter gently held on to her hand, shooting her a small smile.

"She's right, Damian is not gonna do a thing. I saw them yesterday and everything seemed fine. We should just focus on getting through the week, then on Thursday we can go to the arcade to cool off our nerves" Peter said, always the voice of reason that eased the group of friends.

Though she had a mission today, the promise of a fun and normal day with friends was probably the only thing that got her through another boring lecture of Romeo and Juliet. At least MJ seemed to enjoy it, that always put the teacher in a good mood.

Even when she hadn't seen Damian Wayne all morning, she could actually feel when he walked into history class.

They already had their plan for today, so there really was no need to talk to one another throughout class.

Someone did seem to wanna talk to her, but that was Flash with yet another attempt at asking her out on a date, this time whispering nonsense about having a convertible they could cruise around in.

Flash had traded his seat with one of his buddies that sat a few seats in front of Brook's row, which had been the greatest misery of her day. Too bad Mr. Travis was absent today, the poor substitute had no clue how to get Flash to be quiet so the rest could listen to the film on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Brook had done her best to ignore him, instead focusing on the mutants on screen and the old tape from a crew member that showed a submarine being lifted clean out of the water. If it hadn't been for training with Wanda and Jon's recent reveal of being a krypotnian, Brooklyn might've been caught off guard by the display of power.

But his was normal now, people were more powerful, the world was changing, and all Brooklyn could do as a normal human was to train harder to keep up with the aliens and the mutants of the world.