“Jean!
People can see!” Sandi shouted.
“Exactly!”
Jean said with a mischievous laugh.
“Why
iis Sannndi floaaating?” Tiffany asked in the background.
Sandi
then breathed deeply, and started producing lightning around her
fingers. “Your feeble powers are no match for mine, Sandi,” Jean
said.
“Oohf!”
Sandi exclaimed, grabbing at the emerald. “I wish that you would
let me down!” she said.
“As you
wish!” Jean said, she didn’t really want Sandi to reveal her own
powers, ‘though I am sure that most didn’t notice,’ she
thought. She granted the wish. Sandi fell down, though landing
gracefully.
“I
thought you said that Jean wasn’t a genie!” Andrea Hecuba said.
“As
what just happened shows, yes. Like, I would have admitted it without
that happening, but what are you doing here?” Sandi asked.
“I was
reading here. I usually read here. No one notices the Goth Chick!”
Andrea said.
“Indeed,
your outfit is worse than that of that girl who lives with Quinn!”
Sandi said.
“That
is certainly true,” Quinn said in the background.
“Tell
me about it!” Stacy said.
“Thaaat
jaacket aand thooose boots look soo wrooong!” Tiffany said.
“Most
of the ‘popular’ people in the school now know, Sandi!” Jean
said.
‘And
who knows who Andrea could tell, certainly most of the unpopular
students,’ Sandi thought. “You want me to make a wish?” She
asked.
“Make
one, or there will be more mischievousness,” Jean said.
‘Oh the
irony, my own trickery turned against me,’ Sandi thought. “I wish
that an extra floor would appear on the top of the Science Block!”
“As you
wish. You keep wishing big though,” Jean said. She granted the
wish. With the usual wish related sounds, and an additional sound
similar to that of Autobots (or Decepticons) changing shape, the
Lawndale High science block gained an additional floor...
One of
the other students ran off to find Torii and Brooke...
Most of
the other students began running around in a panic. Sandi facepalmed,
as Quinn, Tiffany and Andrea looked at the situation impassively and
Stacy fainted. Jean and Elias wondered if the situation was out of
control...
It was
halfway through recess, and the news was spreading through the
student population of Lawndale High, although invariably Chinese
Whispers took its toll on the accuracy of the message.
Daniela
Gray found Torii and Brooke, in a girl’s bathroom near the assembly
hall. “Here you are!” she said.
“What
is happening, Daniela?” Torii asked.
“Sandi
was lying! Jean is a genie. She made Sandi float in the air...”
Daniela said.
“Are
you sure?” Brooke asked.
“Yes!”
Daniela said.
“How do
I know that it isn’t you that is lying?” Brooke asked.
“Come
and see for yourself!” Daniela said. Brooke reluctantly followed
Daniela and Torii back to where Sandi and Jean were.
“How
did the Science Block get an extra floor?” the head Science teacher
Janet Barch asked as she exited the library.
“There
is a genie in the school. That is the source of the trouble,”
Andrea said. She wanted an adult to know, regardless of the
consequences.
“I
suppose, that is one explanation, what with the computers and all,”
Ms Barch said. Andrea had already heard about the computers.
“Yeah,”
Andrea said.
“I bet
it was a male who wished that!” Ms Barch exclaimed.
“Actually,
it was Sandi Griffin,” Andrea said.
“Maybe...”
Ms. Barch said, wondering.
Inside
the library, Ted was talking to Mrs. Danielson.
“It is
Jean, isn’t it?” Mrs. Danielson said.
“Yes,
Elias talked to her, then Sandi and Jean herself confirmed it. So
what happens now?” Ted asked.
“I
don’t know. This is completely outside our experience. I hope that
Sandi has the wisdom not to abuse the power that the genie is giving
her,” Mrs. Danielson said.
“Me
too,” Ted said.
Outside
the library, Daniela, Torii and Brooke arrived on the scene. Most of
the previously panicking students had dispersed. Quinn was helping
Stacy to calm down. Tiffany was looking around clueless. Andrea and
Ms. Barch were still conversing. Sandi and Elias were sitting near
each other with ponderous looks on their faces. Jean was standing
between them, waiting...
‘Why is
it that Sandi gets the genie?’ Brooke thought to herself.
‘She is the President of the Fashion Club. She won’t let me in
the Fashion Club. I should be in the Fashion Club!” She then
decided to grab the emerald off Sandi!
“Give
me that emerald, Sandi Griffin!” she shouted, and charged...
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