Chapter 1

Hi, I'm Musa. I have dark blue hair up in pigtails and dark blue eyes too. I am a sporty, tomboy, who gets the best grades out of my five friends and me. There are these boys, football players to be precise, and you can guess what's going on. Techna, a computer freak and my best friend, likes the football player, Timmy. Stella, a drama queen that buys all the latest fashions, likes the football player, Brandon. Layla, a sporty, tomboy like me, likes the football player, Nabu. Flora, a nature and economy lover, likes the football player, Helia. Bloom, whose favorite animal is a dragon, likes the football player, Sky. I, on the other hand, don't fancy with football players. Even though there is a very hot guy named Riven but that's beside the point. My friends think I'm crazy because every girl has a crush on at least one football player. That's why all the guys want to be football players, to get girls. Well, it's not going to happen to me! That's for sure!

I start walking to school when Stella meets me at the park which is half way between my house and the River School. I know, the name sucks but that's what we get for having a party pooper as a principal. Stella and I walk together to school to meet up with the others. We always go to school early so we can watch the football players in their early practice which they drag me along. We sit on the bleachers at a spot that the boys couldn't see us. They were all awing at how muscular they were and how they acted.

"Brandon just took down Timmy like I do when I buy clothes! We have so much in common!" Stella says. Techna stands up and disagrees.

"Timmy let him do that! Didn't you see Timmy was distracted?" Techna stands up for Timmy.

"Oh sure. Nice excuse for the boy, Tech." She says. Techna gets angry by now.

"Well, look at Brandon! He is so lame with that, 'it's all about me.', thing." Techna replies. Stella stands up too.

"Well, Miss. Goody Goody, Timmy doesn't even know you exist! Brandon knows I exist. I bet Timmy doesn't even bother with you." She tells Techna. I could see Techna hurt. She walks down the bleacher steps and runs towards the school.

"Way to go Stella." I say sarcastically as I run after Techna. Stella sits back down and they continue watching the boys. I find Techna in one of the bathroom stalls and knock on it.

"Go away." Techna cries as she mopes and mopes.

"Techna please come out. Don't make be force this door open! You know I will." I say. Then, the stall door opens and out comes Techna.

"Techna, I know you're hurt. Stella can say some really mean stuff but you know what," I pause and she looks at me and then continue, "Stella is just jealous because you and Timmy have much more in common then Stella and Brandon."

"You really think so, Musa? Or are you just saying that to cheer me up?" She asks.

"I know so." I say. We walk out of the bathroom and to our lockers. Mine and Techna's lockers are right across from each other. I gather my books and tell Techna see her next period. The bell rang and in moments the halls were crowded with students. I made my way through to English Class and sat down where I usually sit, in the far back, right hand corner. I have had that seat ever since I was accepted into High School. Some of the football players came in and a crowd of girls right after them giving awes. Everyone found a seat and Kylee, a girl who really isn't worth mentioning, comes and sits by me since she was late and there were no more chairs.

"Musa." She says. That is her way of saying 'hi' to me. Of course I do the same back but I don't want to today. She's just going to have to tough it. She gets on my nerves so bad with that football player I told you about, Riven. She says Riven and her did this and Riven is great and all that mumble jumble. I don't usually pay attention but she really annoys me. I think she thinks I like Riven which I don't, you know, I just think he's hot. The teacher asks questions and I know most of them I just don't want to be the geeky girl so I keep my hand down. We are learning about the holocaust. We are reading 'The Diary of Anne Frank'. I dazed off and that soon changed when the teacher called on me.

"Musa, what do you think." He asks me. I was puzzled. I didn't know what he was talking about. I could feel everyone's eyes staring at me. I felt so embarrassed.

"I think… I think… I wouldn't know what to say in that matter."I lie which was a good excuse and my teacher bought it. I still felt like an idiot. I probably would have told my opinion if I knew what he was talking about. I guess I should pay attention more. I scan through the class because I was bored and already knew what was going on, well, sort of. I spotted Riven, he was wearing a white T-shirt and blue pants, and his hair was spiked like it normally was. Then I look away cautious that if Kylee saw me she would go back to her blabbering. Then I all of a sudden had a weird feeling all around my body. I look around but they were all occupied by the teacher. Then it got worse and I needed to do something before I did something wrong.

"Mr. Iverson! I need to see the school nurse I don't feel good." I say as I wrap my arms around my stomach.

"Better hurry." He says. That's strange; usually teachers don't just excuse you. They always think you're lying. I get up, grab my books, and rush out of there. I put my books in my locker quickly and go outside. I sit down at the bleachers, where we were this morning, tried to figure out what was going on. I put my hands on top of my head then back down. Something hit the ground next to me. But when I looked there was nothing or no one around. I do the same thing but was more aware. A pink, reddish ball formed at my hands and launched to the ground.

"Holy shit, what was that?" I freak. I put my hands in front of me and scanned them. Normal. They were normal hands. What was that thing? I concentrated on a mind picture of the ball of light. I look at my hands again and see them glowing.

"I'm glowing! Wait; is this what I think it is," I pause and my eyes grew wide and smile appeared, "Do I have Super Powers?" I asked myself. I don't believe it. I knew if I told anyone they would think I was crazy. But then again I don't really believe this myself. I mean super powers. Come on, that is the sort of thing that are in comic books or T.V. Not in real life. I didn't know what to do so I just went back to class.

"Musa, the principal wants to see you." He says. All the students go ooh, Musa has to go to the principals! I had just come back and now I have to leave again. I wonder why the principal wants to see me. I wonder this because I have never been called to the principal's office since junior high but I don't really have to get all worked up and shocked. I walk through the halls, it was weird, and the halls seemed dead like a curse has been casts upon it. I get to the principal's door and enter.

"You wanted to see me, Mr. Saladin." I say as I enter. He looks up and smiles.

"Yes Musa, have a seat, please." He offers me. I take a seat with my hands folded on my lap.

"Musa, everyone says that you should be the one to instruct it." He tells me. I look at him confused.

"Instruct what?" I ask.

"This year there will be a talent show. There will also be dancing too and you are going to instruct the music and ask for however many people you want to help you, just don't go over eleven." He says.

"Yeah, I could do that. Thanks." I say and I walk out. I get to the classroom door and open it. Then a second later the bell rings.

"Ugh! Twice already!" I say as I walk toward my locker. I look for my next period class books when something tickled me. I jump back and see Techna smiling.

"What?" I ask. She grabs my hands and looks at me with that smile still planted on her face.

"Timmy asked me out!" She cheers. I smile and say congrats but inside I'm jealous that Techna got her crush to ask her out yet I don't have a crush and no one has asked me out. My hands start glowing again and Techna jumps back.

"Why are your hands glowing?" She asks confused and a little scared. I quickly cover them so no one else would see.

"Don't tell anyone Techna! Here I'll explain it all at lunch. Don't tell the girls and especially don't tell Timmy." I tell her. She nods her head and I find a random pair of gloves in my locker and put them on. I get my books and make it to my next class right as the bell rings.

"Musa, why are you wearing gloves?" Nova, a random girl, asks. I look at my gloves that are over my glowing hands.

"I'm just cold is all." I lie. She also seems to believe it, another person who believes in my lies. All the periods go pretty fast and when the bell rang to go to lunch I got a chance to talk to the floor for someone ran into me and I face planted it. I looked up to see who I ran into. In front of me was, just my luck – not, Riven.

"Watch where you're going, shorty." He rudely says.

"You watch where you're going, you ignorant jerk!" I retorted.

"What did you just call me?" He asks as he stands up. I stand up and gather my books.

"You heard me." I say.

"Wait, usually the girls here say they're sorry." He remembers.

"Well, I'm not like those girls who fancy over you jerks." I say as I walk to my locker. He follows. I am not in the mood to talk to him. I can't believe I actually called him hot! He is such a jerk.

"Hey we are not jerks. If anything I should be calling you a jerk and a weirdo. I mean what's up with those gloves?" He tells me. I forgot I had the gloves on. I look carefully to see if my hands were glowing. They weren't so I took them off.

"My hands were cold that's all." I say.

"Riiight. Whatever, I have to go meet the guys." He says.

"Like I care." I say. He glares at me and walks on. I put my books in my, locker and searched for Techna. I found her sitting down at a lunch table. I sat next to her and she immediately turns to me with a dozen questions. I explained everything to her and she had a confused look and I could see she didn't really completely believe it.

"I thought I was going crazy but I guess I was wrong since you saw it too." I say. Techna understood and says she will help.

"This is way off subject but I saw you talking to Riven. What were you guys talking about?" Techna asks. My eyes widen. I didn't want to tell her but she would understand.

"Riven is such a jerk. He knocked me over and called me shorty, weirdo, and a jerk. Ugh! I don't want anything to do with him! I absolutely hate him!" Techna just smiles.

"You know people say that all the time and you know what happens? They get married and live happily ever after." I glare at her and she laughs.

"Come on, we're suppose to meet Bloom in the gym." Techna says.

"Isn't the gym where we are going to have the talent show and dance?" I ask.

"Yeah, we are setting it up." She informs me.

"Mr. Saladin told me I was going to instruct the music." I say.

"Yep! Now come on, let's get working. We get two periods off by doing this! Does that rock or what?" Techna says as she grabs my hand and pulls me to the gym. We laugh and tell jokes but when we entered the gym my smile disappeared when I saw my friends with Riven's "group" and Riven too.

"Yeah, I forgot to tell you about that." Techna says. Flora spots me and calls for me.

"Musa! Come on!" She says. I back up a few steps but Techna drags me over there. I see the music things and head straight for it, not paying attention or even saying hello to the football players. I see wires scattered all over. Great. I fixed up the stereo and all the music things. I stood up on the stage, fixing the curtains.

"Hey Musa! Sing us a song while you're up there!" Layla yells. Everyone looks at me and only my friends encourage me because they are the only ones that have heard me sing. I finally surrender and play some music.

"Alright, this one is called 'Perfectly'" I say and then started to sing.

Verse 1:

I like who I am, but I guess you don't

I think that I can, but you think I won't

amount to anything at all

if you love me you sure show it strange

is there anything that you wouldn't change?

I can't be your paper doll

Chorus:

I wanna be perfect, but I'm me

I wanna be flawless, but you see

every little crack, every chip, every dent, every little mistake, yeah

I wanna be perfect, just like you

but there's only so much that a girl can do

when I look in the mirror what I see

makes sense to me, yeah

perfectly

perfectly

Verse 2:

I like tennis shoes, you like high heels

and fantasies, but I'm what's real

I guess you could say the shoe don't fit

maybe I'm from Venus, you're from Mars

my imperfections are what they are

I guess one of us must deal with it

Chorus:

I wanna be perfect, but I'm me

I wanna be flawless, but you see

every little crack, every chip, every dent, every little mistake, yeah

I wanna be perfect, just like you

but there's only so much that a girl can do

when I look in the mirror what I see

makes sense to me, yeah

perfectly

oh perfectly

Verse 3 and Chorus:

I try to fit in the mold that you made

but I'm tired of playing this little charade

oh I wanna be perfect, but I'm me

I wanna be flawless, but you see

every little crack, every chip, every dent, every little mistake

baby, I wanna be perfect, just like you

but there's only so much that a girl can do

when I look in the mirror what I see

makes sense to me, yeah

perfectly

oh perfectly

oh oh

perfectly

oh perfectly

I finished singing and everyone started to cheer, even Riven. I walked off the stage and back to my work. As I walk back to the wires that are now not scattered on the floor, I saw Riven.

"What do you want?" I harshly asked.

"I was only going to compliment you have a nice voice but forget it now." He says.

"Whatever, I probably wouldn't have taken it from you anyway." I say. I walk pass him and he grabs my arm.

"What's got you in a knot?" He asks.

"You wouldn't believe me." I tell him. And it was true he wouldn't believe me. I just knew he was going to say try me so I quickly forced him to let go of my arm and I quickly walked off.