Can, and Will! (Milo Murphy's Law Fanfic)

Sunny Side Up

Milo, Melissa, Zack and I are walking into Science.

Milo is talking about another situation, "So I opened the door to the arboreum and there they were! And I have no idea where the orangutan came from."

Zack chuckles, "Yeah. I mean how far is the nearest zoo?"

"And why was he so set on getting my pistachios?" Milo asks.

"Pistachios are the best, man." I say.

Melissa shrugs, "It's the mysteries that make life worth living. At least that's what it says in my expensive book of mysteries says."

I laugh with one of my best friends.

The bell rings loudly.

Mrs Murawski walks into the room, "Alright class, today we are starting on a new Physics project. This will test everything you've learnt about gravity, inertia and weight distribution. All things I utilised in making this... beautiful desk... Solid oak. Took me the better part of 21 weeks... weeks of solitude. Just... me and... the wood."

The weirdo teacher starts caressing her desk.

I cringe as I think of all of her creepy wood fetus kinks.

The teacher eventually clears her throat, "uh, if you, if uh, if you work hard, some day you too may own a special desk. Not this one though, this one's mine. So, over the weekend you will be building a container, inside of which you will put an egg. Your grade will be based on only one criteria: When dropped from the roof of the school, will the egg break? An unbroken egg guarantees the team an A. All the others will be judged on how well they have applied the concepts we've been talking about in class. Now you'll all be breaking into teams of three."

Once she says this, everyone ducks behind their desk except for Milo, Zack, Melissa and I.

"So I guess you four will be a team then?"

"Uh, Mrs Murawski, there's four of us." I say aloud.

"Oh yes, there will be one team of four."

The four of us look back at the empty class.

Melissa leans forward and barks, "Cowards!" At them.

Zack raises his hand, "Any limit on the number of eggs we break while we're building it?"

Ms Murawski shakes her head, "No"

"Ok then." Zack is satisfied with his answer.

Bradley chuckles as he ducks up again, "You're sure you don't wanna join our team, Melissa? I named it Team Melissa. Not after you, different Melissa."

Melissa declines, "No, I'm good."

Bradley is really surprised by this answer, "Really. You're going to jeopardize those straight A's? You know eggs can be rather fra-gile."

Melissa scoffs, "Bring it on. I eat eggs for breakfast."

Bradley turns away, "Yeah. So do all of us."

I look weirdly at the 'kid genius', "Dude. I don't. Sorry for being the minority."

Bradley turns towards me, "You're just salty because nobody cares what you do or think."

I raise an eyebrow, "At least I have more friends than you. Plus, I'm not a snark."

Bradley waves me off, and turns away.