The Miracle Clinic

Chapter 2 - Do You Believe In Miracles? (2)

"I'm sorry, say that again?!" Ronnie gasps as he grasps his mangonana with his left hand.

He along with Marcus are sitting inside a small Mexican restaurant by the name of 'Burrito Bistro', where the food is great and you don't have to wait. They were sitting on one side of a booth by the window of the restaurant, with another person sitting opposite to them. That person was a teenager the same grade as them with long messy black hair, brown eyes, thick round glasses, and half-Vietnamese half-Irish. She was also wearing an oversized green hoodie, red pants, and black high tops.

"I s-said that my name is Elizabeth Moore," the teenager replies, "And this is the normal investigations club, right? I need your help with something."

"Oh that was actually a typo, we're really the para-," Marcus begins to say but stops when he sees Ronnie looking at him.

The two teens look at each other and start whispering amongst themselves.

"What is it?" Marcus asks.

"If we tell her we're the paranormal investigations club, she's gonna go somewhere else," Ronnie whispers.

"Yeah?"

"She said she needed some help, so let's just go along until we help with whatever she needs," Ronnie suggests.

"True," Marcus whispers, "Alright let's-"

"I totally understand if you're busy & all," Elizabeth blurts out, "I just saw the poster in Amnestor's classroom and thought you could help."

Ronnie & Marcus quickly turn toward Elizabeth.

"No need to worry we were just chatting about some club stuff real quick," Ronnie explains, "We'd be happy to help you."

With that a smile appears on Elizabeth's face which she tries to hide before explaining, "There's this kid named Alex in my class who's- how do I put this- needs to be humbled."

"Humble?" Ronnie questions before taking another sip of his mangonada.

"Yeah, he's always getting into fights in class and it's really hard to focus," Elizabeth remarks.

"Can't the teacher deal with this?" Marcus questions.

"This is in math class," Elizabeth says before adding, "Jefferson is our teacher."

"Ohhh," Marcus says, "Sorry I should've thought this happened in Jefferson's class."

"No it's okay," Elizabeth apologizes.

"Though uh," Marcus asks nervously, "When you say you want to humble him... does that mean you want us to beat him up?"

Elizabeth laughs, "No no, if I wanted him beaten up, I could have done that all on my own."

Elizabeth then notices that the other two aren't laughing so she apologizes, "S-sorry, I'm uh- not really good at reading the room. I just figured you guys could talk him down."

"Oh don't worry about it Eli," Ronnie tries to calm Elizabeth down, "I'm just glad you didn't think of us as some sort of hitmen due to our reputation."

"Wh-what reputation?" Elizabeth questions

Ronnie quickly gulps down the rest of his mangonada before slamming it onto the table. Clearly just a way to change the topic of the conversation.

"Man that mangonada was good," Ronnie began saying, "Look, we can take this job but we have to first see just who this Alex guy really is. Okay?"

"O-okay," Elizabeth sighed.