Chapter 4

Suzanne entered the bus provided by the hero league. 

It was filled with people she knew...well most of them were are classmates. It was calming to see a few familiar faces. 

'Who would have thought Suzanne would make the cut?!' a loud girly voice snickered. 

Scratch that familiar-faces-thought for a second. 

Suzanne turned slowly and came face to face with her worst nightmare.

Annabelle.

Seated on the row next to hers.

'Annabelle,' she regarded coolly. Annabelle snorted. 'I thought I had gotten rid of you when it was time to submit our application forms.' 

Suzanne clenched her fists. 

Annabelle had played a nasty trick on her during the period of the submission of their application forms to the hero league schools. The representatives were already running out of patience waiting for her as she tore her locker open and turned her bag inside-out in search of hers.

Little had she known that during recess Annabelle had snuck in to rumple hers and had thrown it in the trash can. She had found it out of sheer luck when the representatives were leaving and as she hurried after them to plead with them, she had stumbled into the trash can and all the contents had spilled out, revealing her very own forms right before her unbelieving eyes! Annabelle was that callous!

'Well, luckily I found it were I'd least expected it,' Suzanne replied. 

Annabelle scoffed. 'You mean the trash? That's were people like you belong!' Somehow Suzanne had always gotten irritated whenever Annabelle was around.

'Whatever,' she murmured.

'Anyway...that's not what I wanted to discuss,' Annabelle suddenly turned serious. Suzanne couldn't resist pipping a 'What?' at that expression.

'I heard Ryan also made the cut.' Their eyes sort of glared at each other, each with an unspoken war in her head.

Suzanne cleared her throat. 'Of course he would. He's smart and talented unlike you,' she fired.

Annabelle laughed a short, angry laugh. 'My talents are nowhere near his but they sure do surpass yours.' she retorted. 

Ever since they were little Annabelle and Suzanne both had had a crush on Ryan. The typical bad boy loner with his dark blue hair with his skills and his killer mode of dressing...his being wealthy was only an icing on the cake.

Since then both girls' interests had always clashed severely.

Ryan had a mysterious aurora around him as he hardly talked nicely to anyone, rarely smiled and was always alone in one training or the other.

He also came second in class every time. The first being Andrew.

A lot of girls found Ryan irresistible but he hardly ever glanced at one. He was cold to everyone, yet the further he withdrew the more attracted and infatuated the girls became where he he was concerned.

'Are you sure of that?' Suzanne's eyes glazed with an inner annoyed fire. 'Is that a challenge?!' Annabelle retorted, her eyes dancing with the same furious fire. They were both standing now, glaring at each other.

'Mind if I sit here?' a brown haired guy clutching his bag pack pointed at the seat beside Suzanne. The two girls stopped the staring contest.

'Um....sure,' Suzanne shrugged.

'You got lucky this time Suzanne,' Annabelle snorted and left for the opposite seat. She sat down tautly and looked out of the window, still annoyed. 

Not too long after the tires or the bus turned to jet packs and flew off.

Suzanne sighed. It was going to be a very long day.

'I'm Justin,' the boy beside Suzanne smiled charmingly at her. 'Sorry about what you witnessed earlier,' Suzanne smiled back. She felt the need to apologize.

He laughed. 'Its okay, besides...,' he leaned closer to her. 'That other girl seemed scarily mean,' he whispered, stealing a wary look across at Annabelle, who still had her face plastered against the window, oblivious to the goings-on around her. Suzanne laughed. 'She is,' she confirmed, not giving Annabelle a second look.

'I'm Suzanne.' she finally said as she smiled nicely at Justin. 

Justin grinned. 'I'm from Clarins High. Only a few of us from my form were selected. You guys from Milton High sure are lucky,' he commented.

'Um...this bus contains all the people who got in right?' Suzanne asked. She scanned around, Ryan had gotten in but where was he?

Justin laughed again. 'Not all of 'em. Some are being dropped off by their parents,' he explained. 'And besides this isn't the only bus assigned from the hero league. There are others too. We'll all meet up in Superhero High anyway,' he shrugged.

Suzanne smiled. 'I'm so excited I'm attending Superhero High!' she giggled. 

Justin nodded. 

He looked out the window. 'Looks like we'll be arriving very soon,' he informed her. 

Suzanne nodded determined. She'll prove to everyone once and for all that she was hero material.

Her purpose in life was to be the greatest hero that ever lived and nothing would stand in her way.

Nothing.