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[hr][color=BA55D3][i]High school is like a game of Chinese Checkers. There all of these little cliques with many trying to rule the school. Corrigan is little different in this respect. Throw out the superpowers and the lineages and it's just another high school. You have the popular kids, be they the beautiful and/or the athletic such as Kieran, Mari and Molly. You have your brains such as Julian and Freddie. You have the clowns like Rick Allen, Casey (that lil' green-haired troll), and Andy. Of course, there are the loners such as S'tann and Rita.[/i][/color][hr][hr]
Halloween was not Nora's favorite holiday. She chose not to celebrate it. After all, when know that monsters are real dressing up as as monsters seems to lose it's appeal. Silly decorations. Stupid costumes. Annoying pranks. Nora was long over it.

This morning the girl wore no costume like so many of her classmates. Instead she opted for normalcy. Lavender Chuck Taylors worn over little white ankle socks stepped softly along the cement as she made her way towards the cafeteria. Faded blue demin covered her long legs, curves of her hips and cute derriere. A purple and black long-sleeved flannel with the bottom few buttons fastened to hide the last couple of words of her [url=https://custommaterials.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/blog/life%20is%20short.jpg]black graphic tee[/url] so she wouldn't get reprimanded by teachers for wearing something offense on campus completed the bulk of her outfit. Nora wore little jewelry. This morning simple gold studs pierced her tiny ears hidden under long red tresses of hair.

All the students were backed up against the walls and doors of the mess hall when Nora entered the building. From their shouting hollering there was obviously a fight taking place somewhere in the center of the crowd. The slender teen did her best to push her way through the crowd to see what was going. There was a radiant light, a golden orange emitting in the center. And then, she saw the fire. And the sheer heat! It didn't have an effect on her, but Nora could see the other student wincing, pulling back while futilely shielding their faces with their arms.

[hr][color=BA55D3][i]Each group vies for a place in the hierarchy. Even the loners and rejects. Whether it be for our knowledge. Our talents and skills. Our looks or our heart. We need to know that we have something to give. We need to know that we matter.[/i][/color][hr][hr]
And, then she heard his voice above all the others. "[color=BA55D3]S'tann[/color]!" Of course Nora recognized the boy's voice. She'd been crushing on the martian since she first saw him. Still having trouble getting through the wall of bodies Nora scrambled to the right, pushing and pulling her way around classmates. She didn't know what was going on. She couldn't see over the people. But, if there was fire involved Nora was sure that S'tann was in serious distress.

Fearing for the martian, flames began to rise from Nora's body, engulfing her figure in a violet aura. The flames flickered and wavered as she frantically tried to get to the center of the lunch room. Of course, once she was generating fire the students eagerly moved away from the girl as they did not wish to be burned. The sea of teenagers parted just as S'tann smashed the floor with Mari's face. The green-skinned alien was besserk. His words made no sense. A little more than an arm's distance away from Nora stood Andrew Hughes. Golden flames covered the lower half of his form as he stood there staring down the martian. The fire-starter also seemed to be rather naked.

"[color=BA55D3][b]What are you doing[/b][/color]?" Nora yelled at Andy. "[color=BA55D3][b]What did you do[/b][/color]?!" It was his fault. Of course, it was Andy's fault! The purple blaze roared around the girl. Lanoleum bubbled and melted beneath her feet as the did the rubber soles of her shoes. Her fear for the alien morphing into hatred towards the Australian.

S'tann exploded from the opposite wall. It happened so fast. Too fast for Nora to see, too fast for her to react....

[hr][color=BA55D3][i]Because if we can't survive high school, how can we hope to make it in the real world?[/i][/color][hr][hr]