Chapter 2

Luna
My mom was angry with me. Even though, I had cleaned up the place all night with Connor and there was not a speck of dust in the whole house, apparently, my neighbors complained to my mom about it. I was grounded for life. She wouldn't speak to me this morning after she found out. She came home at 7 in the morning and that's when usually the paper comes to our street and Mr. Guy apparently saw my mom coming and spoke to her. After she scolded me, she just went up to her room and wouldn't speak to me. Mr. Guy- what a dumb name anyway.
I was walking to school, blaming Connor for even bringing up the damn idea, and how I was gonna show him a piece of my mind, when someone ran straight past me, almost knocking me to the ground.
"Hey, watch it, jerk!!!" I screamed, and the guy stopped to look back. And to my surprise it was Jamie.
"Forgive me," he said with a bow, "Hi,"
"Oh, no, it's okay, I'm fine really, so what's up, why are you running to school? You like it that much?" I teased.
"Dude. It's 20 past 8." and I gasped. I was late. School started at 7:50. Then he grabbed my hand and we ran to school. I was never really fast. In fact, I was so slow, I didn't even make the track team in 8th grade, when I tried out. Came in last, I believe. How horrifying, I thought. But as I was thinking about how slow I was, I suddenly sprinted ahead, like I was being pushed by some invisible force. Like someone really pushed me forward but instead of falling, I was running faster. I mean really fast.
"Whoa!" cried out Jamie and he was barely able to keep up with me. Before he was leading me, but now I was running in front of him.
What had triggered this sudden change in me? But I didn't care, because I was ecstatic about this new change. I mean, I hadn't tried to run ever since that track failure, which was bout a year ago. I laughed out loud, because it felt so good to be running fast. I was positive, I could've run faster, if I hadn't been dragging Jamie along. My legs felt powerful, like they would never get tired. Even if I ran from here all the way to Europe, or something.
We finally got to school and I said bye really fast and entered my class. Ms. Lockovic gave me detention and that was another thing that I was really looking forward to telling my mom.
I wasn't paying attention to what my teachers were saying, but then again I never did, but it seemed like the more I spaced out, the higher my grades were on tests and stuff. I already had a near perfect GPA. Gosh, I know that, that's impossible, but what can I say? There was still about 2 months of school till summer vacation and I was looking forward to it. I had already applied for a summer swim camp and I was still waiting to hear from it. 20 more minutes till lunch, where I get to meet up with Connor. Even though he was a sophomore luckily we had the same lunch period. Just wait till I give him a punch in the face for that stupid party. I didn't even have a good time anyway. It's not like I was that fond of parties anyway. Then suddenly a small slip of paper landed on my desk from behind me.
Hey, thanx for the other nite, ur party was fun, but I didnt c u around. anyway, me and a couple of friends r going to the mall after skool, u wanna come? - jo
Joanna and her friends? I looked back and there she was smiling at me. I mean, they've never even tried to talk to me before. All because of a party? Well, I suppose it was good change. I mean, talk about weird. I wasn't that fond of the mall, but I certainly wouldn't pass up this chance. I told her yes.
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"I told you so!!!" said Connor when I told him about Joanna.
I gave him a look. I really hated it when people said I told you so.
"So you're going, right?" he said while chewing on a hotdog.
"Uh-huh"
Then I remembered about my being able to run like the wind.
"Hey, I have something to show you," I lead him outside. Even though we weren't supposed to go outside, we sneaked out. And there in the back side of the school, were the juniors and seniors eating lunch and just goofing around.
"Lun, what's this about? You said you wanted to show me something?"
"Ok, stand right there and just watch me," he of course knew about me being a slowpoke, and I was sure going to take him by surprise. Connor on the other hand was on the track team. He was a sprinter.
Right then I sprinted forward with all my might and seriously ran like the wind. I knew I was fast. I just felt it. I went around the school in a record time. I wasn't even out of breath and believe me when I say our school is huge.
I came back to the spot where Connor was standing with his mouth hanging open.
"Tell me I'm hallucinating." he said seriously
"I'm fast,"
"Yea, I noticed, but how?" there was amazement in his voice
"I honestly have no idea, I just woke up today and..." I shrugged
"You sure, you haven't been training for the Olympics?"
After that, he challenged me to a race and of course I won. By a lot. He was the best runner in the whole school and I just beat him. In that race, I knew I was way faster that when I had run around the school.
"I'll be damned if I know," he was out of breath, but smiling.

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