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Chapter 8: I Dub Thee, Unpunchable

I couldn't concentrate. At all.

I literally had no idea what the professor was saying. Not during Ecology nor during Calculus or any other one of my classes.

I was a disgrace to all the nerds of the world.

In my defense, I'd spent the duration of the day listening to people gushing about the our city's new "superhero" (I'm looking at you, Peter), aka, me, making feel even more pressured with expectations—as if I didn't have enough already with being a perfect student—and now, like a rotten cherry on top of an already melted sundae (now that's a disturbing analogy), I'd just found out that there was a "supervillain" in town as well, who appears to be—wait for it—Adrien.

Adrien! My best friend and... something more.

Did I also mention that I spoke Spanish during the class of English and English during Spanish?

But wait, that's not all.

To makes matters worse—because why not?—, Nick and his friend (Tommy, I believe his name is) decided to actually attend class instead of skipping various hours as they usually did, and with a pointed stare given in my direction, I knew this meant trouble.

I guess it was too much to expect that they'd just let what happened on Friday go, right?

If Nick's grudge were the only thing I had to worry about, then I'd worry about it. But it wasn't; I had much more important things to think about, like how I was going to balance school with hero work or, the one that was really making me bite my nails, how I was going to deal with Adrien being a villain!

There were too many questions popping up in my head, more than I could find answers to. What did this mean for our powers? Do I even still tell him that I have powers too? Do I tell him about my Morrigan Fay theory? What will he do if I do tell him? That I'm the shining guy—literally—in the video Peter kept shoving in his face this morning.

Will he listen to me if I ask him to stop this? To stop terrorizing bullies? Am I even sure that it's actually him and not just someone else? And, for the sake of argument, let's say I do find definitive proof that he's the one behind this, then what? Do I confront him? And how? As myself or as the guy who saved a young boy yesterday?

Maybe Flor was right; maybe I should pray more. Maybe then this wouldn't be happening. Maybe I should pray to Morrigan Fay, would that work?

Oh, Morrigan Fay, Goddess of balance and a cliff that keeps having rocks break when someone stands on them, sending people falling towards the ocean (and sometimes giving them superpowers), please, get me out of this mess.

Have mercy.

Amen.

Putting what I could or should do aside, maybe I should think about what caused all of this in the first place; what pushed Adrien to do this?

Considering what he said at the cliffs before we fell, he made it clear that if he had the power, he'd get revenge on his bullies, which is clearly what seems to be happening, but why until now? Was he biding his time before? Practicing his powers beforehand?

As far as I knew, they hadn't been bothering him since we came back from the accident. I mean, I've been walking to and from school with him and I've been eating lunch with him; I would've noticed if they were still bullying him! Not to mention, even if they were, what happened on Friday clearly proved that Adrien could handle himself; he punched Nick easily in the—

Wait.

The fight on Friday; what if that was the catalyst? What if that was the event that reignited Adrien's anger?