Riptide Academy

The Weekend

Howards POV:

Alex and Charli tagged along as I headed for the building. We were walking down the halls chatting; our voices echoing off the walls.

"That was amazing!" Alex cried, "My high school never played any of those songs. I always have wanted to!"

"Demi! Did you see the crowd after Test Drive and He's a pirate! I have never seen a crowd so amped up from classical music!" Charli squealed excitedly.

"That's what happens when you pick and play songs that people will like. It also maters that you guys played them to perfection." I told her, ruffling her hair.

"Heyyyyaaa!" She whined.

Alex laughed as Rose flattened her hair. They were both wearing the concert performance outfits. Black dress pants and plain black T-shirts with the schools logo on the back. Although, Alex had changed into a light blue button up shirt now.

We made it up to my office and Charli rushed into my room to change out of her performance blacks. Alex wasted time by familiarising herself with every part of my office.

"What's that."

Alexandra's tone was deadpan and serious.

"Huh." I looked up from my phone.

Alex was pointing to a necklace with a sword pendant attached to it and a bracelet that had a silver circle with air waves stamped into it.

The metal circle was combined into the bracelet by black and silver threads of something. Maybe synthetic leather.

"Oh! I found them while I was walking around the grounds last Sunday. Some kid must have left them on the oval." I lied.

"Hm. Their probably freaking out." She laughed," Having no idea that their Principal has them!" She seemed to buy it.

When, in reality, I had not found them at all. They had just kind of appeared in front of me after I had saved students during the last attack. They had wandered close to the forest to see what was going on. Probably to get a glimpse of those- superheroes.

One kid had gone missing in the forest, separated from their group of friends as they went deeper into the bush instead of turning around.

I found them. Close to the actual battle site. As I guided them away something came flying; it was heading straight for us. So I pushed the kid out of the way and dived behind a tree trunk.

I had opened my eyes after a few seconds, breathing in an elated breath. A phenomenon had unfolded in front of my eyes. A burst of letterpress silver light radiated right at my chest- about an arms length away. The emitted light had died down to a subdued light.

Slowly I had produced my right hand,  it up to the faintly glowing ball of light. My left hand following suit in a heartbeat. As both of my hands cupped around the beacon of light it had diminished. The sword key object and the bracelet plummeted into my hands.

The student came over and I pocketed the peculiar items before escorting the student back to safety. We had made it out of the forest just an ultrasonic boom resonated through out the valley.

I placed the items on my desk as I went to change and never thought about them again. Until, Alex had spotted them on my desk.

"Howards?" I head a faint voice announce.

"Demi? HOWIE!" I jumped in my seat as my Niece's ear splitting voice shouted.

"What?" I asked innocently.

"You kind of- I don't know- zoned out? after telling me about the jewelry." Alexandra pointed out.

"Demi. Are you okay? I know today was a big day. But tomorrow is going to be bigger, being the start of the weekend and all the parties." Char asked concerned.

"I'm fine. I might just be a bit exhausted from today. I'll have a rest soon, don't worry Charli. I won't lie to you." I said, trying to calm down the fretting Niece in front of me. "As long as you too take a break from today. You've set everything up and also played some major, technical songs." I countered.

"Yes Demi, I will." Charli groaned, "Go rest or whatever. Alex and I will go so you don't have to worry about us snooping around in your office."

"You better not while I'm asleep." I joked, raising an eyebrow.

I could have sworn I saw Alex tense at the mention of Char and her poking around in my office.

The two left me alone and I went straight to having a nap. Turns out I was exhausted because I almost missed Dinner! Char had to come and wake me up.

The weekend had arrived. A momentous amount of happiness was in the air and celebrations were seen all around. I past by each university students dorms.

I had to make sure they had no alcohol; even though most students were far older than eighteen, it was still school grounds, that they lived on and Kyia could report me for it.

I ran into Alex's group on the beach. They were having some sort of- well I wouldn't say picnic- but the majority of the idea was there- party as they enjoyed the sand and surf. A whole picnic blanket hosted a banquet of lollies, softdrinks, cake and other sorts of goodies. I had to scram rather quickly after Charli and Alex alerted the rest of their friends to my thievery. I raced away as fast as I could after pulling off mission impossible: Stealing a slice of cake.

I finished my rounds and returned to my office, contemplating on what to do next. Have some alone time by myself- probably the only time I will get alone within the next few days- or head out into town. I decided on the latter; anyways I needed some new supplies I was running out of.

Especially tissues. They had seemed to disappear quite quickly. All two boxes, mysteriously. Maybe I might just investigate Charli's' room and I'd find the extra box.

And the meeting with Kyia as well was a looming factor, closing in by the hour.

I waved to Kyia as she passed, she looked like to be heading for the beach. She was in plain clothes instead of her normal Police attire with that heavy bullet proof vest, boots and belt. Not to mention the heavy duty equipment strapped to her waist.