“NICK WEAVER!” his teacher Miss Winshow yells from the front of the class. Nick jumped in his chair from miss Winshow yelling at him so suddenly. Nick took the pencils out of his nose, he has always been the class clown, he did his best work when miss Winshow was not paying attention. Which that didn’t happen much because of how much he did things so she would usually pay attention to him.

“Yes, Miss Winshow.” Nick said knowing what she was going to say.

“Office, Now.” She said, anger in her voice.

Nick got up from his seat and grabbed his backpack which he had on the back of his chair and exited the room into the hallway. As Nick walked down the hall to the detention room he heard yelling coming from a room parallel to him. After a few steps the yelling subsided into the birds chirping outside from the windows open. Soon after he heard someone walking down the halls behind him he made a few turns to get to the principal's office and he could still hear them so he slowly looked over his shoulder and grew tense at the sight. He saw something he never thought he would see heading towards the office. He saw Maya the girl he has had a crush on since he first saw her. He stopped for a moment and started up again next to her.

“So are you going to the office too?” Nick said

“Yeah, I got in trouble talking to Sophia.” Maya said. Maya was probably an inch or two shorter than Nick but Nick was tall for his age. “What about you?” Maya said with curiosity creeping into her tone.

“I got caught with pencils up my nose.” Nick said unsure of her reaction.

She brought her hand up to her mouth and giggled a bit. “That sounds like something my brother would do.” Maya said as if recalling something. The rest of the walk to the office was in silence. When they reached the principle’s office Nick opened the door letting Maya enter first, he entered soon after.

Maya sat in the uncomfortable chairs in the office while she listened to the principle yelling at Nick. She could only make out a few words of the yelling but it did not make enough sense for her to try and make out the conversation. When the yelling stopped she could not hear anything anymore, then soon after, she saw Nick leave and sit in the chair next to her while telling her that Mr. Abner wanted to see her. She got up and slowly walking into the room not sure what to prepare for after all the yelling she had just heard. She sat down in a much nicer and comfier chair then the last one she had sat in.

“So you were talking out of turn again I hear.” Mr. Abner said.

“Yes, Sir.” Maya said

“Why do I keep having you come here for the same reason so many times.” He said while raising his voice.

“Because we are friends and we never get to see each other.” Maya said raising her voice too.

“That does not give you the right to talk during class though.” Mr. Abner said in a full yell and smacking his fist against the desk which made Maya flinch a little, “Detention for three weeks.” He said.

“What that is not fair.” Maya yelled.

“Life is not fair.” Mr. Abner yelled at the top of his lungs “Detention for four weeks.”

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Maya sighed. “Ok.” When she walked out of the room she saw Nick sitting there in the seat he had sat in when he came out, he got up and followed her to the door.

After school Nick was looking around and could not find Maya in her usual spot, He went back into the building to try and find her but he could not, So he went to detention. He found Maya in the seat next to where he usually sits in detention, he found his seat and whispered to Maya, “Why are you here?”

“I got detention for four weeks because I was talking to Sophia.” She said

Whistled in a low tone. “This school stinks.” Nick said, “Do you want to run with me.”

“How would we do that, there is a teacher in here.” Maya said pointing at the teacher

“Give it a few minutes.” Nick said.

A few minutes later the teacher started to dose. “Maya come on let's go now is our chance.”

“Ok.” Maya said grabbing her bag.

They slowly tiptoed out the room and ran when they got to the hallway. They did not say anything for a while as they ran out the door of the school which looked completely abandoned if you didn’t know there were kids on the inside. They stopped outside the school property trying to catch their breath.

“How did you know he would fall asleep.” Maya asked while panting from running.

“I go to detention a lot.” Nick said also panting from the running.

“Well, where do we go now then.” Maya said

“I guess we just hang out for a bit.” Nick said hoping that Maya did not realize his face was getting hot.

“Ok.” Maya said

Nick and Maya started walking down the alley that was behind the school. Nick turned around to talk to Maya, but he didn’t see Maya, thoughts started racing through his head, did she leave him? where did she go? When had she left? Nick stopped and looked around seeing nothing that would be able to conceal her enough for him not to see her. Then he heard Maya’s voice muffled by something coming from the wall. Nick started to look around getting closer to the noise, He found a hole in the wall hidden by an illusion and heard the muffled screaming come to a stop. He entered through the illusion and saw a man walking down a staircase that seemed to go under the school, the man was carrying a suspicious looking bag down the stairs with it slung over his shoulder. Nick started down the stairs quietly behind the man not wanting to be mugged and put in the bag or out on the street where he would probably die.

Maya awoke in a weird room on a hard table, the room was occupied by a few computers hooked up to some machines and men stood and sat at the computers then the man that had kidnapped her was facing away from her, no one was paying attention to her. She started looking around trying to find the best exit but she only saw one with a shadowy figure in it, she tried to make out the face but could not then the figure came closer and she was barely able to make out the details of the figures face. It was Nick! She felt a new energy one she had never felt before she was rejoiced to see that Nick had come to help her.

He started beckoning her towards the exit where he was standing, she looked around at the people, none of them were looking. She got up and slowly approached the door but when she got about five feet away from the door the room went red and started ringing an alarm. Everyone turned to her and started running to get her back but Maya took off up the stairs following Nick. Maya was significantly slower than the people behind her but she had a good head start. When she made it out there were three men with thick builds and wearing dark sunglasses but one of the men's glasses were broken right in the middle and his nose was bruised. The men were standing there waiting for her, Nick was nowhere to be found, they grabbed her and shoved her in a bag and she could not see anything but she overheard them say something.

“We should dissect her now before she gets away again.” one of the men said.

It made her feel very uncomfortable, where is someone when you need them. Then she heard feet hitting the ground and getting closer.

“Hey its that kid again, kill him we can’t have him in the lab again.” another man said

She hit the ground hard as if dropped from their shoulders. Then she heard other footsteps going towards the other footsteps she had heard earlier. Soon it went quiet like they were just standing, looking at each other, then she heard a few people hit the ground hard. The bag started to open up and she braced herself but when a face came into view she knew exactly who it was.