After class, Layla and Michelle decided to have a lunch with Miranda. Devin decided to include himself out and allow his sister and the girls to talk with each other since they were closer with the girl and not him. After Miranda was served her lunch, she looked for her best friends, then smiled as soon as she spotted them and walked to them to sit at their table.
"So, Miranda, how are you enjoying school so far?" Layla asked as she bit into her veggie burger.
"It's okay, I can't really complain," Miranda shrugged with a smile. "Just that I can't answer questions as fast because I'd only be with Mom and she'd expect me to answer, even without raising my hand."
"You get used to it," Michelle assured her. "Plus, we're in second grade now. Lot's of things are different from kindergarten."
"Really?" Miranda looked at her friends.
"Yeah, you see, in kindergarten, you could take naps, play a lot, and eat snacks all the time." Michelle explained with a relaxed smile.
"Now that we're older, we get a lot more responsibility, but Daddy says that happens when you move up a grade." Layla added.
"Easy for him to say, he became valedictorian by fourth grade." Miranda smirked at her friend, due to having Double D as a father.
"Look, that's the new girl." the blood red color haired girl with a big hair bow, known as Bernice Test, pointed out.
"Yeah, let's go see her, wonder if she knows her big family secret?" the tan girl known as Nika Burromuerto agreed.
"She must somehow, come on, let's go." Bernice walked with her colleague.
"A lot of kids are jealous of me because of my parents," Layla said to her friends. "Devin and I can't really share this with anyone besides good friends like you all, but we have the Te Xuan Ze gene because of Great Ah-Mah."
"At least your mother was able to leave Orchid Bay for those few times," Michelle shrugged while sipping her milk. "I think I can see into the future. My mom said she could do that once. One of her childhood memories included when she was in a pizza place with Uncle Dexter when they were kids and she won a stuffed Monkey."
"Monkey?" Miranda grew interested. "Like the Monkey, the Superhero?"
"Can ya keep a secret?" Michelle smirked. "Monkey is Uncle Dexter's pet monkey in his laboratory."
"How'd you find that out?" Layla asked.
"Hey, Miranda," Bernice smirked, coming to their table with Nika on her side. "What's new?"
"Oh, hi... Umm..." Miranda tried to remember her name, she was never really good with names.
"Bernice." the girl narrowed her eyes at her.
"Right, Bernice." Miranda concluded.
"You should get out of here, Miranda," Bernice put her hands on her hips. "This school's only for NORMAL people, not for freaks!"
"Freaks!?" Michelle snarled.
"Have you looked in a mirror!?" Layla glared at her.
"Stay out of this, ditz and monster believer," Bernice snorted at them. "Like I said, Miranda, this place is for normal people and not for freaks, so go back to wherever you came from."
"What are you talking about?" Miranda glared at her.
"You know exactly what we're talking about!" Nika hissed, her voice sounded fiery with her Hispanic accent thrown in. "Everybody knows your mom, aunt and uncle are the freaks of the town."
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The Miranda MacArthur Story
Fiksi PenggemarMiranda is the daughter of Brick MacArthur and Jen Masterson, she leads a normal life being home-schooled, but she then decides that she wants to go to school and learn more about her home since her parents had been trying to protect her since the d...
