Saint Joseph School

There is only the light and heat emanating from Zia ... Kali pleads with her, "Zia stop it.... what are you doing..."

Jubilation's voice echoes from the bright cloud, "...what comes natural..."

Kali falls to her knees. Detective tries to approach, but the field surrounding them makes his movements ...

... and is greeted with some hits from Kali.

Her shades go flying, unleashing the full glow from her eyes. Another hit, but she doesn't even flinch. She looks to the distance at her shades, then back to Kali.... and starts lifting from the ground like a marionette on strings, arms outstretched ...

...and the instance Detective enters within 10 feet of them, his body starts to feel sluggish and every move requires so much effort and strength that by the time he reaches the two girls... his tug and toss fail to barely move Zia.

Zia doesn't bother expressing her annoyance with words, instead ...

"Am I scaring you, Kali?" she taunts, grabbing Kali by the shoulders... there's something hot to her touch... burning hot...

"Isn't this what you wanted to see? What all of you wanted?! The real Zia, the honest Zia, the Zia who shows her true self behind the 'wall of defense'???"

She pulls back ...

"My problem, Jade... is people like you."

There's no hiding the yellow glow that suddenly shines from behind her shades. The air tastes metallic, and there's an unmistakable warmth surrounding the two of them.

"You're just like the rest of them... lemmings falling off a cliff."

She moves her face ...

She laughs at the shove.

"Jade... is that the best you have? I mean.... really... at least I put some heart into my shove."

She moves directly in front of Kali, face to face.

"You're weak, just like everyone else here."

"You little shits had better learn 'take it' because it's the only thing that keeps me from..."

Her eyes squint at Kali. She reaches out... again with amazing speed... and runs her fingers through Kali's dark hair.

"Such long, healthy hair... Jade. We wouldn't want to ruin it for you, now would we ...

"Girl..."

Her hands leave her hips, they're clenching and unclenching beside her.

"Did it ever once occur to you that the reason I run my mouth is to keep me from doing things..."

She moves so fast, there's barely time for a reaction... and shoves Kali hard with both open hands.

"...like this?"

She takes a step towards Kali, never taking her eyes from the other girl's. Her hands go to her hips.

"Or I could just get permanent knee pads sown into my uniform like you and EVERYONE would just love me. Especially Jaygo, right?"

She makes an exaggerated look of disbelief, not even looking in Detective's direction as he walks away. She clenches her fists before crossing her arms in front of her body.

"Silly girl, that's not swamp you smell... it's the little bit of the football team that missed on your upper lip."

She ...

She turns sharply at Kali.

“Say Jub don’t you have anything better to do?” she hears from Detective, but instead of replying she dismisses him with half a wave.

She looks Kali up and down slowly with a "No she didn't" look on her face. She shakes her head, and with a sharp tone says, "I think you ...

She shook her head as she walked behind him.

"You know, Dee-Dee... this whole not having a soul thing is really getting played."

She catches up.

"It really doesn't bother you that you ... like... almost killed a kid? That would make you a monster, wouldn't it?"

She bats her eyelashes with a ...

Although the music blasted through the headphones around her ears, Zia wasn't listening. It wasn't enough... the music. Wasn't enough to keep her occupied, to distract her from the world outside of the music. Behind her dark shades, her eyes were slits. She was staring across her room at her ...

Suggestion:


It's a high school, make it look like a yearbook... or something equally cheesy.

David Conrads stared across his desk at Zia, who had been there a full minute without uttering a word. Her eyes were fixed on the window behind him. She huffed quietly as she shifted position, and he started tapping the eraser of his pencil atop the desk. The noise drew her attention and she started ...