Heritage

Heritage (Chapter 2)

Chapter 2 - Leon

After my chat with my father, I had a class with my mother. It’s Technology Studies, one of my favorite classes. I love taking things apart and seeing how they tick.

Only thing that makes the experience less enjoyable is Stella. She constantly insults my intelligence and makes me seem like a rodent that’s plaguing her. Sad thing is, I actually wanna date the girl. She may be the coldest person on the planet, but she’s a model of perfection, beauty and brains. I guess I take after my father for that.

I walk into the classroom and scan for my partner. During my search I see Stella conversing with my mother at the front. I scan all around looking for my partner I’m supposed to be working with on my project but he’s nowhere in sight and I just roll my eyes in annoyance.

I begin to walk up to my mother’s desk and I hear Stella saying that her partner is absent as well. I smile at myself and decide to take this chance that has been so gracefully placed in front of me.

“My partner’s not here either, Ma,” I say, approaching my mom’s desk.

“Leon, in class you are to call me Commander, you know that. Keep it up and you’ll get yet another demerit…and I‘ll tell your father,” she replies scolding me.

She always threatens to get my father on me when I’m not being formal and Cadet-like.

“So, Stells, how about we partner up today?”  I ask trying to be cool.

“My name is Stella, and I’d honestly rather work with a three-headed Sekrid mutant than to partner up with you,” she replies insulting me. That comment kind of stung I will admit, but I really wanted to be partners with her anyway.

“Actually, Stella…you’d be doing me a favor if you partnered with Leon today. I know it’s inconvenient, but I really want partners working on those Projectors,” my mom says, being respectful to Stella.

Stella looks at me with a look of despise and reluctantly says, “Fine. Let’s go,”

Stella and I work fine together for about a third of the class, and then we begin to butt heads once we get to the issue of the Holographic Processing Unit.

“Will you back off, you‘re doing it wrong, Leon. You’re going to break it permanently!” 

“I know what I’m doing Stella, you aren’t the only one who’s good at this stuff,” 

She starts to try and push me out of the way, and before we know it, we’re wrestling trying to get the tool I was using. The tool slips from its position and stabs the circuit board, punching a hole right through it.

“Oh…nice Stella, this is what happens when you try to take control of the situation all the time,”

“Well, if you weren’t being such a stubborn, testosterone-filled moron it would’ve never happened in the first place,” 

“Oh whatever, of course you’re gonna blame it on the fact that I m a guy,” 

“No, you are not a guy, you re some idiotic, de-evolution of a guy,” she says, and I give a shocked and confused look.

“Where the hell do you come up with this shit?” I ask.

“From my brain, which you seem to lack,” 

“What is going on over here?” my mother asks interjecting in to the conversation.

“Leon busted the circuit board, Commander, our projector is useless now,”

My mom picks up the projector and examines it for a moment. “This can be fixed…I’m not going to tell you how though, this is a partner project, so the partners are the ones that need to figure it out,”