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I Give, You Take: Maria
I breath in and out as I numerously hit the punching bag with my gloves in the school gym. It's amazing what public school lockers have stashed. You know, besides drugs and alcohol.
"Oh, my God." I hear Pete as I keep hitting the punching bag with a clenched jaw. "Alright, Bri! That's what I'm talking about!"
"You hear about Lana?" Miles asks.
"Teaching her how to shoot later." I hit the punching bag even harder and feel my muscles flex.
"Looks like you got yourself a pinch hitter in the hero arena." Pete sits on the bleachers with the others from the corner of my eye.
"I don't know if I'd call him a hero, Pete. I'm just glad Lana's okay." Clark tells him.
"Yeah, I know. Have you seen her?"
"I'm not exactly the person Lana wants to be around right now."
"Keep it moving!" I hear Adams say from the outside and I clench my jaw, then hitting the punching bag in rage.
"They're opening Jake's locker." Miles informs.
"I still can't believe Jake turned Swim Fan on Lana." Pete inquires.
"Yeah, I didn't peg him as the poolside slasher type either. But I don't think Jake Pollen was exactly like your average teenager." Chloe adds.
"Why would you say that?" Clark wonders.
"Other than the meteor rock labeled freak laid next to his body? You remember that field trip we took down to Crater Lake, the one where I, uh, dropped so gracefully my keys off of the pier?"
"Yeah." Pete laughs. "I thought you were gonna call the Navy SEALs."
"Jake fished them out for you." Miles realizes.
"Right, and he was under water for six minutes. Now unless you're David Blaine or a Himalayan yoga master, that's impossible." Chloe asserts.
"Hey, what's with the list?" Clark asks.
"Oh, just my hunches, you know, sort of anything that's off the charts. It's kind of a purgatory before you graduate to the Wall of Weird."
"You have a full file of Jake?"
"Well, I started suspecting a while ago that he had amphibious abilities due to the meteor rock exposure for a while."
"You don't think you might be stretching with this one, Chloe?" Pete suggests.
"I don't think Jake is the mysterious one. I mean, don't you think it's a little strange? Rifle-wielding commando shows up right when Lana's getting attacked?" Clark agrees.
