Freak

Concert in a Can

At school, Marcus, a new kid at school was playing an electric guitar while Adam and Chase watched in awe.

"Oh, sweet! Look at your fingers go! It's like each one has a little brain of it's own." Adam beamed.

"Thanks. You know, you guys are the only people who have talked to me at this school. I hate being the new kid." Marcus explained.

"Yeah, we used to be the new kids that no one talked to. Now we're just the vaguely familiar kids that no one talks to." Chase said.

"Hey, peeps. What's the deal-io?" Leo said as he and Jodie walked up to the three boys.

"Please never say that again." Jodie said.

"Hi. I'm Marcus." Marcus said, extending his hand out to the duo.

Leo fist bumped Marcus. "I know. We have gym together. And study hall. And also chemistry." Leo said as Marcus looked at him confused. "We're lab partners."

"Oh. I... did not know that." Marcus said, then moved onto Jodie.

"Jo." Jodie answered, shaking his hand. She didn't know what it was, but she got a bad feeling from Marcus, so she quickly let go of his hand and moved over to stand next to Chase.

"Chase, you ever play guitar?" Marcus asked, turning to face the bionic boy.

"No, but I've always wanted to." Chase said.

"Well, I'm a jammer as well. My rocking is only eclipsed by my rolling." Leo said.

"Lee, you played the clarinet for three weeks and stopped when you swallowed the reed." Jodie teased, slightly laughing.

"I passed it." Leo said in a deffensive tone.

"Here, Chase. You wanna give it a go?" Marcus asked, holding the guitar out to the bionic boy.

"W- yeah- yeah. Sure. Why not?" Chase said. He took the guitar and used his bionic eye to scan the guitar. Then he started playing it at an expert level, shocking everyone. He jumped from the bench and landed on the floor, continuing to play the guitar. He stopped after a bit and quickly stood back up, embarrassed, and handed the guitar back to Marcus. "Uh... What do you know? Beginner's luck." Chase said.

***
"I don't know, B. I just got a weird feeling from this guy." Jodie said as her and Bree teleported to the house, seeing as it was lunch time at school.

"Okay, but what kind of feeling. Like the kind of feeling you have for Chase or..." Bree trailed off as the two girls sat down on the bed.

"No. Defenitely not those kinds of feelings. But- I don't know how to explain it. It's kind of like a bad feeling. I don't know, it's really weird." Jodie explained, laying down and looking at the ceiling.

"And you got that just from shaking his hand?" Bree asked.

"Yeah. Like I said, it's weird." Jodie said.

"I think it's cause he's a new person. You're probably overthinking it, Jo. You shouldn't worry about it. I'm sure it's nothing." Bree said.

"I guess you're right. But it doesn't stop the gut feeling that I have." Jodie said, sitting back up.

"And what would that gut feeling be? Oh, wait. You trying to get over my brother but can't cause you love him." Bree joked.

"No! I think we should stay away from him." Jodie said.

"Jo, I really think you're overthin-"

"I know I'm probably overthinking things, but I just can't shake this feeling off. And this isn't normal, cause I never get like this around new people." Jodie said.