"And in other news, another murder has taken place in Meteor as another teenaged boy was found with his throat slit, which copies a killing of William Dumas last week, another 17 year old male who also had a slit throat when officials found him, another found in an alleyway." I don't know why I listen to the news on the way to school every morning. Just my way of staying informed I guess. But then again, Mom does keep getting pissed about me going over my data plan because of it. "Speculation that this is the same madman at work is all but confirmed. Some also seem to believe this echoes the works of the Hang-" Okay that's enough news for today. I turned off my phone and continued to walk to school. I walked through the doors of school and they were completely empty. Oh yeah, I'm late. Great. I walked upstairs and Winter turned around the corner and started walking with me. I stopped and looked at her.

"So do you just wait for me to get to school everyday now?" I asked her.

"Uh huh." She nodded.

"You realize this makes you late to class too now, right?"

"Uh huh. So why were you late?" She asked me. I started walking again and didn't answer the question. "Keep ignoring me if you slept in."

"..."

"Keep ignoring me if you slept in cuz you stayed up all night studying to one up me."

"..."

"Ha! I knew you cared!"

"I don't care, I ignored you because I don't like you." I said.

"Keep tellin' yourself that." Winter said. "Hey, you wanna do something fun after school?"

"If you mean 'become your best crime buddy and blow stuff up', no." I said.

"Why not!? Tell me what doesn't sound appealing about blowing up a bunch of buildings just cuz and causing chaos for the hell of it?" She asked.

"Besides, the fact that I'd have to spend my whole day with you?" I said before we walked into class. I stopped at the door and began to look around before the teacher yelled at me to get in. I could've swore someone was watching us. "Hey have you ever noticed the teacher's grade the tests at this school in an ungodly amount of time?"

"I don't think you're using ungodly correctly and they do it because they have robots to grade them now." I said as we sat down.

"And now with those two in class we only have one troublemaker absent and Ms. Owens uncharacteristically absent." The teacher said.

"Didn't you hear? Brayden got jumped in his house last night." Someone said.

"No one knows who and why." Someone else added. After they did Marie Owens ran into the class with a late pass.

"Sorry, I'm late! The traffic from my house to school was hectic." Marie said catching her breath. "That alley they found that dead body in was on the way." She added.

"That's understandable Ms. Owens." The teacher said. "Now if you could please pass out the field trip admission test, that would be lovely." He said. Marie started passing the tests around.

"Wait we're taking these in homeroom? Isn't this the class we just dick around in before first period?" I asked.

"Nervous?" Winter asked me.

"Shut up." I said glaring at her. As Marie passed me my test she whispered "Good Luck, (Y,N)." And flashed me a smile. Then when she handed Winter her test she gave her a stink eye. Winter scoffed after Marie walked away.

"Are you cheating on me?" Winter whisper yelled at me.

"In what reality are we dating?" I said before beginning to work on my test.

"Look if it's because of that dweeb from the other da-"

"McLaren! One more word out of you and that's a zero!" The teacher shouted. I snickered as Winter glared at me.

. . .

The final bell rang and I stretched, waking up from my nap.

"Alright so I'll see you tonight, then?" Winter asked me.

"No." I said without hesitation.

"Wha- you were serious!?"

"Yes. I was also serious about blowing your head off the next time I was there when you started going Grim Reaper." I said.

"Hey, (Y,N)?" Someone said. I looked around and saw everyone else had left the room except Me, Winter, and Marie.

"Yeah, what's up?" I asked her. Winter groaned while looking away.

"I don't mean to be rude and interrupt but are you guys in the middle of something?" She asked me.

"Actually yes we-"

"No we're not." I said interrupting Winter.

"Well, if you wouldn't mind, again not trying to be rude, but could you maybe excuse us and wait in front of the school for Winter? I need to speak with her privately." Marie asked.

"Don't worry. Go nuts. Spend as long as you need, actually." I said beginning to walk out to the front.

"What!? Don't leave me alone with her!" Winter shouted.

"Make a new friend. I'll unfortunately see you tomorrow." I said closing the door to the class behind me. I walked out to the front and pulled out my phone. I texted Mom saying I'd finally be home on time today. Then a huge explosion went off in the school. A bunch of loud noises also came from inside. "God dammit, Winter." I muttered before running back in. I followed the sounds of explosions and the burn marks up stairs to the roof. That's where I saw Marie actually beating the shit out of Winter. After a series of punches, Marie hit one especially hard punch that knocked Winter into the floor. Marie's hand started glowing and a ball of white energy appeared in it.

"You're going away before you can hurt anyone else, Chaos!" Marie shouted at Winter.

"Not if my bestie's got anything to say about it!" Winter said looking over to me. Marie looked over at me and her energy ball disappeared. Before she could say anything, a force pushed her all the way to the other side of the roof and into the gate. Winter swung her scythe down and opened up a purple portal that a huge purple demonic looking beast ran out of. It ran towards Marie but her fist became engulfed in a blue flame and she punched it so hard it exploded. Alright time to make a choice here.

I do the right thing and help Marie. Winter's a psychopath. She was planning on blowing up some building later today just for shits and giggles. If I stop her now, she won't kill anyone in the long run.

Or I do the right thing and help Winter. I barely know Marie and for all I know she could be one of the False Justice "heroes" that really just want the fame and attention and not the responsibility like Amazo. Plus as much as I hate to admit it, I will... miss Winter if she goes to jail.