Wisdom Is The Power #Wattys2016

Things Get Weird

    Spanish is fairly easy. Of course, I learned more during the summer. There is homework. A whole packet of homework. But I expected it. My next hour is Science. I have all curriculum classes. I walk to my class, quiet. I notice people talking about the weather. It's only cold and cloudy, what's to get so worked up about? I look out the window anyways. There are weird looking clouds circling the sky. They were grey and the skies behind them looked black, like a black hole even.

    "What the heck is going on?!" A guy from the crowd yells out. Like anyone would answer. Like anyone would know.

    "I want to go home! I'm going to call my parents!" A girl yells out. As if somebody cares. I stop looking at the window. I continue to walk to Science. If this is going to get serious, the school would have let us out already. Or at least announce it on the speakers. But they didn't so I keep going. My boots clunks each time they reach tile. I like that.

    I reach the door to my class. The tardy bell isn't ringing. Yet. I check my phone, the bell should have rang minutes ago. Weirdly enough. I knock. No answer. I turn the knob, it opens. Looking inside, I notice that the teacher is waiting. For something.

    "Hello?" My voice shocks her.

    "Oh hello there. The late bell hasn't rung. And not even the first one." I furrow my eyebrows. I didn't notice that the first bell hasn't rung either.

     "So is there still class?" I ask, wondering. She shakes her head.

    "No kids are coming. Who's there to teach? I suppose you can go ahead and go home, dear. Today's going to be a long day."

     "Uh, okay." I walk out the wooden door. It is only the first day of school, how can it go wrong so fast? I wouldn't know. The weather, I look outside again. I remember Kane and how scared he was about it. I have to have a talk with him. Could he predict the weather? No, that's impossible. No human would ever be able to do that. Unless he wasn't human. Stupid. These stupid thoughts I'm having. I shake my head in disapproval of myself. My head bumps into something hard when I shook it.

    "Jessi? Oh hey, I was looking for you and boom! Here you are." I look up at him. He's inches taller than me.

    "Hi. I have a question."

    "Ask away." His eyes focus on me.

    "This sound ridiculous but do you somehow know why this is going on?"

    "What's this?"

    "The weather. The unusual behavior of the school."

    "Of course not!" He laughs a little, though it feels fake. The laugh dies. "What made you think that?"

    "What? Think what?"

    "That I would know something."

    "Well, you did act weird about the weather. But that's all." He seems relieved but calm or I don't know, how a teenage boy acts I guess.

    "So, want do you want to do? Take a walk? Talk? Something?"

    "Well I don't know. It's not like weird weather and weird behavior from the school happen often. Otherwise, I would have moved from here." I roll my eyes. Really though, there wasn't much to do. Except the first-day-of-school homework for Spanish. The teacher, Mr. Caven, isn't really mean. He just gives a lot of work that lazy kids just don't want to do. Otherwise, it's easy as cake.

    "Maybe you the kind of person who just doesn't move when there's weird weather. Anyways, I'm bored." He complains.  He better get used to being bored then.