The Stark Twins

CHAPTER NINE

Rylan didn't like the idea of school. It made him feel much less intelligent than he would like to feel. After all, he was a Stark, a genius. He didn't understand how Iola and Peter could deal with the endless and meaningless tasks given by teachers that didn't even know most of the information they were teaching. Rylan knew that if he sat down with one of the engineering teachers with a box of random things Rylan would be able to build something more innovative and complex than the teacher.

"I can't believe my children want to go to school," sighed Tony driving them to school. When he heard that Rylan out of all people wanted to go to school, he knew something was up. This led to him driving them to school.

"He lost a bet dad," said Iola for the twentieth time that morning. She knew that her dad wasn't all that convinced.

"Well, enjoy your boring school day," said Tony as they got out of the car. Peter was waiting for them at the school entrance. A month after Schmidt shot her the attention died down and Peter had gone back to being a nobody. The sudden appearance of Rylan Stark however, got everyone's attention.

"Oh my god. You're Rylan Stark!" a girl exclaimed running over. Many other people did the same and swarmed the Stark siblings. Rylan scowled and grabbed Iola's arm, dragging them through the crowd.

"Iola!" Peter shouted making his way through and wrapping an arm around her waist. Peter pulled her out of the crowd, dragging Rylan out along.

"Run!" Iola exclaimed running to the main office. Rylan and Peter quickly followed her, trying to escape the large mob of high schoolers. Once they reached the main office Peter and Iola quickly shut the door, leaning against it so no one could get in.

"I'm Rylan Stark. I'm new here," said Rylan after catching his breath.

"Ah, I see you've already met some type of welcoming committee," laughed one of the main office workers eyeing the people gathered outside the office. "If you go to the counseling office your counselor will give you your schedule."

"Alright. Thanks," said Rylan with a nod before looking at Iola and Peter. "Lead the way."

Once Rylan finally got their schedule they showed him around the school the best they could. People kept trying to talk to Rylan and find out if they had any classes with him. After they realized Iola wouldn't be friends with them they immediately turned to the second Stark twin. Rylan knew what they were trying to do however and stuck with Iola and Peter, much to his displeasure.

"So what do you think so far?" Iola asked during lunch. They had to sit under the stairs of the stairwell to avoid getting caught by people.

"What's the point of coming to school? We know all of this already," said Rylan unhappily. "They're teaching such basic stuff."

"The Starks really are geniuses," gasped Ned with wide eyes. Iola laughed and stole some of Peter's food.

"It's nice to be around normal people. After a while they're going to realize you don't want to be friends with them and that you're a loser," she said munching on a french fry.

"You're only a loser because you hang around me," said Peter, "normally when someone popular starts hanging out with a loser the loser becomes popular."

"Obviously that didn't happen. You're such a loser that it cancelled out my popularity," replied Iola with a snort.

"I hate you," said Peter pouting. Iola laughed and hugged him. Rylan narrowed his eyes at the both of them.

"No PDA in front of me," he said making the couple separate. Iola threw a handful of fries at him in annoyance.

"You should join the Decathlon," suggested Ned, "you're really smart."