Scorpion: A New Member

Chapter 22: First day jitters.

PAIGES POV
I wake up at 6:30 and wake up Ralph.
"Time for school bud." I say messing up his hair. I call the garage and tell Meghan she should be getting ready now. Ralph picks out his outfit today. He picks a dress shirt and dress pants. Then we head over to the garage. I send Ralph to say good morning to Walter. Then I go and get Meghan. She says morning then goes to get her backpack. Then I walk over to Walter and Ralph, there is a car in the middle of the garage.
"What's this?" I ask Walter.
"It's just a typical gift you get when you save a young girl from bio hackers." Toby says sarcastically.
"Ralph looks nice." Meghan says walking into the room.
"He picked out his outfit today." I respond.
"Don't you see what's going on her?" Toby asks. I look at them with a confused look.
"Ralph take off your jacket so you don't get oil on it." Toby says taking his jacket and placing it on the table.
"And roll up your sleeves just in case." Happy says.
"Congratulations your raising Walter." Toby says. I look over at the two.
"Oh my god." Is all I can manage to say.
"Well time to go. Can't be late." I tell Ralph. Walter hands Ralph his jacket and says have a good day.
Are you ready Meghan?" I ask Meghan.
"Um... Yeah." She says obviously a little nervous.
"Don't be nervous it will be fine." I assure her.
"I'm not nervous." She says picking up her back pack and walking to the car.
"Wish me luck." I tell the team.
"No such thing." The whole team says in unison. Then continue with their own individual projects. I drive them to school. Meghan doesn't say a word the whole ride.
"Be determined to have a good day and you will." I shout to Meghan and Ralph from the car. They walked off to their separate class rooms. Walter talked to the principal and got Meghan a schedule. I drive back to the garage after dropping them off. I walk in and see Walter working on his car, Happy hitting metal with a hammer, Sly doing math equations and Toby analyzing Happy. There's no cases today. I walk over to Happy.
"Hi Happy, how ya feelin'?" I ask her.
"I'm fine, thanks." She says not liking up from her project.
"Are you feeling well enough for a hug?" I ask her. She nods and I give her a gentle hug. It takes her a minute to hug back she's not used to being hugged. Then I go talk to Walter while he works on his car and Toby goes to flirt with Happy probably to later get a hammer thrown at his head. After about 3-4 hours the garage gets a phone call Walter picks it up. I hear a lot of 'Oh, ok, yeah, uh huh, be there soon'. Then Walter turns to me and says.
"Paige, can you pick Meghan up? She had an anxiety attack at school." Walter informs me.
"Oh my god. Yeah I'm gonna go get her." I say grabbing a water bottle and walking out of the garage. I drive down to the school when I pull up Meghan is sitting on the sidewalk with the nurse. She looks pale. The nurse is trying to talk to her but Meghan doesn't even pay attention. When she sees me she opens the door and sits down. I hand her the water bottle and she take it and takes a sip of it. I don't talk to her quite yet. After a little while of driving I ask her
"What happened Meghan?"
"I don't know." She responds looking at her water bottle.
"Well how did it happen."
"I don't know." she says looking out the window. By this time we are about a minute or two from the garage.
"Can you just tell me why it happened?" I ask her pulling into the garage. She pauses then says.
"I was scared of this new place, I've never gone to school before. It wasn't what I expected, the classes were extremely easy, nobody understands me, and I'm constantly getting in trouble with the teachers because I'm too smart and they think I'm being a trouble maker when I'm not.... and well the kids aren't exactly the nicest..." She says opening the door and walking into the garage. I follow her, she doesn't even look at the rest of the team she just goes up to her room, to embarrassed to look in their direction. I walk over to Walter
"I found out what happened." I tell him.
"What happened?" He asks me.
"Well it was a mix of things which I will talk to you about later, but I think somebody's bullying her. I don't know if it was something that induced the anxiety attack or if it was somebody making fun of her after."
"Well right now she needs time to cool down. We can try to talk about it to her later but I think it would be best if we don't send her to school tomorrow." He tells me. I like how he says 'we' as if Meghan is 'our' child.

AUTHORS NOTE:
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