Chapter 4:
(the picture has nothing really to do with the current chapter)
(Just where we left off last chapter)
Mandy stood alone in the cold once again. She leaned on the rail and rested her head on her crossed arms. A moment ago, she was thinking of James and how weird he'd acted. At first, he was speechless, like she was a movie 星, 星级 或者 something. Then, he was completely sure that she was able to change and just drop her popularity and hang out with her real 老友记 without consequeces. But how could he have so much confidence in her after what happened that day?And how could she just tell James what was on her mind? She was never able to tell anyone what she really felt about something important. Was this normal? It had to be, what else could be causing her so much stress?
Now she was thinking about the suspension slip burning a hole in her pocket. It was her fifth one this year.
Before she could think any further, she heard her parent's voices coming from the secret entrance.
"It's about time." she 说 to herself.
To her surprise, there was no running to her 或者 yelling at her; no sign that she was in trouble. She was used to being a troublemaker. Sleeping in class, being a little too creative in chemisry class, impulsivly disecting the 火, 消防 alarm just for the heck of it, she got in all sorts of trouble. She wasn't mean, she was just bored and lonely. But today was different, today was a mistake.
Her parents came from behind and were quiet for a while. Roxanne took her daughter's shoulders and broke the silence.
"So, anything bothering you?" she asked. "Anything at school?"
"Besides that principal who can't take a joke." Megamind 说 under his breath.
"Megamind!" Roxanne warned.
"It's alright mom, he's totally right." Mandy said. She caught her mom's eye. "Well...I think...oh, I don't know anymore!" Mandy dropped her head down on her crossed arms and let her hair hang down over her face.
"I feel like I'm being watched all the time! I have no freedom!" Mansy confessed.
Megamind looked behind them and found people watching them as they briskly walked past.
"Tell me about it." He said. Roxanne slapped his arm in disapproval.
"I don't know what to do! I'm not bad, I'm just bored."
Megamind had an "I told 你 so" face on, Roxanne made a "really?" right back at him.
"Wait, sweety, no one 说 你 were bad." Roxanne said.
Mandy reached into her 涂层, 外套 pocket and pulled out her suspension slip. She held it in the air between two fingers waiting for one of them to take it. Roxanne did.
"I wanna be 首页 schooled again. I don't like...people I guess." She 说 this to Roxanne, knowing it was her mother she had to convince. "No one gets me, I don't want to have to deal with them."
Roxanne didn't want to dissapoint Mandy, but she still didn't like the idea of homeschooling. She would reconcider, however, if Mandy would finally tell her the whole truth about life at school. She was always leaving something out; she never told her parents the true hardships she faced. Megamind knew he had to say something, knowing Mandy would have the same reaction to Roxanne's reasoning as he did at first. Since they were one family, they had to work together.
"Mandy, trust me," He began. "I know everything seems...pointless and boring even, but things will only get better."
Mandy hesitated, knowing that if she wanted her parents to fully understand her, she would have to start telling them the truth. "You know why I got suspended? There are these football players who think they're my bodyguards 或者 something, and they caught me talking to someone who actually earns his grades without being on a sports team. One of them stuffed the kid in his locker thinking he was bothering me, then I called him out on it. We didn't throw fists 或者 anything--just, just words."
"What did they call you?" Megamind asked. He was always called names in school, but Mandy had never told them if she was being made fun of.
Mandy wanted to tell them, she wanted nothing 更多 but to tell them the truth, but something stopped her. The same something that always stopped her. "Can we go home? I don't want to talk about it.
James entered his own house with caution, knowing that he would get an evaluation on his monitered "performance" the 秒 he walked in. He opened the door and stepped into what would fool anyone as a regular house. There were family 照片 on the wall, video games lying around the living room, and the dog was sleeping 由 the door.
"Hey, dad,"
James looked up to see Isaac at the 最佳, 返回页首 of the stairwell. He lied to Mandy when he 说 they were friends, if anything, they were rivals. Isaac was his cousin, and ever since he was little, they told him that his uncle took him in after his parents died in a fire. But it wasn't just any fire, it was a 火, 消防 that he started.
"Dad, the freak's home!" Isaac yelled.
"I have a name, 你 know." James defended himself.
"And I've never used it before, so why start now!"
James tried to think of a come back, but he knew there was no use for it.
"Heh. Hey, why don't 你 be like Mandy and keep you're real thoughts in your head! 你 can do that, right? 或者 can 你 only somebody else's communication with your telepathy?"
"Shut it, you--"
James was silenced 由 the sound of his uncle's heavy footsteps approaching the 最佳, 返回页首 of the stairwell.
"James, my boy! My talanted, genius boy!"
"I'm no genius, I'm a fraud." James 说 under his breath.
Just his uncle walked down stairs, Isaac remained standing; watching them like a hawk. Isaac was the spitting image of his father, only shorter and skinnier.James looked nothing like the rest of his family, just 由 looking at them together, anyone would think he was adopted.
"What an incredible performance today! 你 really know how to mess with a girl's emotions!" He leaned closer to James' ear and whispered, "Much better than Isaac could ever do, and he's been undercover for years!"
Isaac wasn't really listening, but he heard his name.
"Son!" James' uncle said, turning to his son who was now running down the stairs. "Now that subject D is begining to step out from her boundries, we can finally execute Plan B! Because subject A hasn't responded to any of my requests, we'll just have to stop negotiating nicely."
James rolled his eyes. "We can call them 由 name, we know exactly who you're talking about." james said, annoyed.
His uncle turned to him. He almost snapped and yelled at him for defience, but he restrained himself. He needed James on his side, at least until tomorrow. Just for one 更多 mission.
"An act of habit, my boy. Megamind will do as we say. And if he doesn't, which I doubt, we'll have another brain to pick."
Mandy was walking to school with Millie that morning. She needed someone to talk to.
"I know Mom's right, and so is Dad. Maybe I'm making school sound worse than it really is. Am I really just overreating?"
She wanted to change, she wanted to go back 首页 and tell her parents the whole truth, but she also wanted to go to school and try to be herself.
"What should I do, Millie?" she said, looking down at her dog. When she looked back up, she saw James standing at the corner waiting for the bus. He waved, so she decided to walk over.
"Hey Mandy. Your up early. Not another 小时 until school starts."
"So I guess we have something in common then, huh?"
"Yeah..." James said. He had to get to the point, he had to use a mind trick. He didn't want to, he only wanted both of them to be free. He felt sorry for Mandy, she knew that she had little freedom at school, but she had no clue why. It was all his fault. He wished he didn't have telepathy.
"I'm sorry Mandy..." He whispered.
Mandy didn't quite catch what he said, but suddenly felt close to passinf out. "James, what's happening?" she 说 faintly as she 迷失 her balance. He caught her before she fell, but he could bare to do this to her. He let go of his phycic grip.
"I'm sorry Mandy! I'm a fake! Isaac's a fake! You've got to get out of here fast before--"
James felt a shock of electricity pulse through his body befor ehe completely black out. Isaac stood behind him with a taser.
Mandy regained her strength, but was completely lost. "Isaac, what's going on?"
Isaac snickered. "You'll know pretty soon."
(the picture has nothing really to do with the current chapter)
(Just where we left off last chapter)
Mandy stood alone in the cold once again. She leaned on the rail and rested her head on her crossed arms. A moment ago, she was thinking of James and how weird he'd acted. At first, he was speechless, like she was a movie 星, 星级 或者 something. Then, he was completely sure that she was able to change and just drop her popularity and hang out with her real 老友记 without consequeces. But how could he have so much confidence in her after what happened that day?And how could she just tell James what was on her mind? She was never able to tell anyone what she really felt about something important. Was this normal? It had to be, what else could be causing her so much stress?
Now she was thinking about the suspension slip burning a hole in her pocket. It was her fifth one this year.
Before she could think any further, she heard her parent's voices coming from the secret entrance.
"It's about time." she 说 to herself.
To her surprise, there was no running to her 或者 yelling at her; no sign that she was in trouble. She was used to being a troublemaker. Sleeping in class, being a little too creative in chemisry class, impulsivly disecting the 火, 消防 alarm just for the heck of it, she got in all sorts of trouble. She wasn't mean, she was just bored and lonely. But today was different, today was a mistake.
Her parents came from behind and were quiet for a while. Roxanne took her daughter's shoulders and broke the silence.
"So, anything bothering you?" she asked. "Anything at school?"
"Besides that principal who can't take a joke." Megamind 说 under his breath.
"Megamind!" Roxanne warned.
"It's alright mom, he's totally right." Mandy said. She caught her mom's eye. "Well...I think...oh, I don't know anymore!" Mandy dropped her head down on her crossed arms and let her hair hang down over her face.
"I feel like I'm being watched all the time! I have no freedom!" Mansy confessed.
Megamind looked behind them and found people watching them as they briskly walked past.
"Tell me about it." He said. Roxanne slapped his arm in disapproval.
"I don't know what to do! I'm not bad, I'm just bored."
Megamind had an "I told 你 so" face on, Roxanne made a "really?" right back at him.
"Wait, sweety, no one 说 你 were bad." Roxanne said.
Mandy reached into her 涂层, 外套 pocket and pulled out her suspension slip. She held it in the air between two fingers waiting for one of them to take it. Roxanne did.
"I wanna be 首页 schooled again. I don't like...people I guess." She 说 this to Roxanne, knowing it was her mother she had to convince. "No one gets me, I don't want to have to deal with them."
Roxanne didn't want to dissapoint Mandy, but she still didn't like the idea of homeschooling. She would reconcider, however, if Mandy would finally tell her the whole truth about life at school. She was always leaving something out; she never told her parents the true hardships she faced. Megamind knew he had to say something, knowing Mandy would have the same reaction to Roxanne's reasoning as he did at first. Since they were one family, they had to work together.
"Mandy, trust me," He began. "I know everything seems...pointless and boring even, but things will only get better."
Mandy hesitated, knowing that if she wanted her parents to fully understand her, she would have to start telling them the truth. "You know why I got suspended? There are these football players who think they're my bodyguards 或者 something, and they caught me talking to someone who actually earns his grades without being on a sports team. One of them stuffed the kid in his locker thinking he was bothering me, then I called him out on it. We didn't throw fists 或者 anything--just, just words."
"What did they call you?" Megamind asked. He was always called names in school, but Mandy had never told them if she was being made fun of.
Mandy wanted to tell them, she wanted nothing 更多 but to tell them the truth, but something stopped her. The same something that always stopped her. "Can we go home? I don't want to talk about it.
James entered his own house with caution, knowing that he would get an evaluation on his monitered "performance" the 秒 he walked in. He opened the door and stepped into what would fool anyone as a regular house. There were family 照片 on the wall, video games lying around the living room, and the dog was sleeping 由 the door.
"Hey, dad,"
James looked up to see Isaac at the 最佳, 返回页首 of the stairwell. He lied to Mandy when he 说 they were friends, if anything, they were rivals. Isaac was his cousin, and ever since he was little, they told him that his uncle took him in after his parents died in a fire. But it wasn't just any fire, it was a 火, 消防 that he started.
"Dad, the freak's home!" Isaac yelled.
"I have a name, 你 know." James defended himself.
"And I've never used it before, so why start now!"
James tried to think of a come back, but he knew there was no use for it.
"Heh. Hey, why don't 你 be like Mandy and keep you're real thoughts in your head! 你 can do that, right? 或者 can 你 only somebody else's communication with your telepathy?"
"Shut it, you--"
James was silenced 由 the sound of his uncle's heavy footsteps approaching the 最佳, 返回页首 of the stairwell.
"James, my boy! My talanted, genius boy!"
"I'm no genius, I'm a fraud." James 说 under his breath.
Just his uncle walked down stairs, Isaac remained standing; watching them like a hawk. Isaac was the spitting image of his father, only shorter and skinnier.James looked nothing like the rest of his family, just 由 looking at them together, anyone would think he was adopted.
"What an incredible performance today! 你 really know how to mess with a girl's emotions!" He leaned closer to James' ear and whispered, "Much better than Isaac could ever do, and he's been undercover for years!"
Isaac wasn't really listening, but he heard his name.
"Son!" James' uncle said, turning to his son who was now running down the stairs. "Now that subject D is begining to step out from her boundries, we can finally execute Plan B! Because subject A hasn't responded to any of my requests, we'll just have to stop negotiating nicely."
James rolled his eyes. "We can call them 由 name, we know exactly who you're talking about." james said, annoyed.
His uncle turned to him. He almost snapped and yelled at him for defience, but he restrained himself. He needed James on his side, at least until tomorrow. Just for one 更多 mission.
"An act of habit, my boy. Megamind will do as we say. And if he doesn't, which I doubt, we'll have another brain to pick."
Mandy was walking to school with Millie that morning. She needed someone to talk to.
"I know Mom's right, and so is Dad. Maybe I'm making school sound worse than it really is. Am I really just overreating?"
She wanted to change, she wanted to go back 首页 and tell her parents the whole truth, but she also wanted to go to school and try to be herself.
"What should I do, Millie?" she said, looking down at her dog. When she looked back up, she saw James standing at the corner waiting for the bus. He waved, so she decided to walk over.
"Hey Mandy. Your up early. Not another 小时 until school starts."
"So I guess we have something in common then, huh?"
"Yeah..." James said. He had to get to the point, he had to use a mind trick. He didn't want to, he only wanted both of them to be free. He felt sorry for Mandy, she knew that she had little freedom at school, but she had no clue why. It was all his fault. He wished he didn't have telepathy.
"I'm sorry Mandy..." He whispered.
Mandy didn't quite catch what he said, but suddenly felt close to passinf out. "James, what's happening?" she 说 faintly as she 迷失 her balance. He caught her before she fell, but he could bare to do this to her. He let go of his phycic grip.
"I'm sorry Mandy! I'm a fake! Isaac's a fake! You've got to get out of here fast before--"
James felt a shock of electricity pulse through his body befor ehe completely black out. Isaac stood behind him with a taser.
Mandy regained her strength, but was completely lost. "Isaac, what's going on?"
Isaac snickered. "You'll know pretty soon."