Changing The Future

CHAPTER XXVI

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Miss. Birdie had been cleared from the hospital and was able to go to school again. The students were happy that their favorite teacher returned and was okay. Their substitute teacher wasn't bad but they still preferred Miss. Birdie over them. "Okay class before you leave I will have to remind you that you still have to present your group project tomorrow. Class dismissed." Miss. Birdie says and leaves the classroom. After making sure Miss. Birdie really left, Erika walked to the front of the classroom and began to speak. "Okay everyone got their stuff?" "Yeah." "We got it." "I forgot something, but it isn't important." "My father is also going to help us." The students answer. The class sneaks into the gymnasium. They got permission from the Principle but they couldn't risk that their favorite teacher was still around and see them. Mr. Primson and A are standing in the middle of the gymnasium. "Hello I'm Alice's father and this is A my oldest daughter and Alice her sister. We are here to help you." Mr. Primson says walking up to the students. "Well...thank you for coming. The more the merrier." Erika says, shaking Mr. Primson's hand. After a while, everyone is busy with their given tasks. Rose is leading the decoration team. One group in the decoration team is making the decorations and another group is placing the decorations. Joshua, Mr. Primson, and a few other students are lifting and moving stuff. Asher and Alice are helping a group with writing the presentation. Amber also came and is helping a group with how they are going to present the project. Another group is doing other stuff that needs to be done. Everyone worked hard, wanting everything to be perfect. In between, they ordered delivery food and took a break. One of the students baked a cake for dessert. They also had music so that it wouldn't be boring. From time to time a few people were dancing and singing. They all had fun.

Mr. Primson was in his office staring into space when Alice entered the office. "Alice. What are you doing here? Is there anything I can do for you?" He asks knowing Alice only comes in here if it's really important. "Father. I have been trying to tell you something but you never gave me the time to tell you and I can't let this continue any longer." Mr. Primson does remember Alice trying to tell him something but he always got distracted by A who also wanted his attention. "It's about A. She's mentally insane and has been turning Asher against me. She's nothing like me. At first, I did try to get along with her but she hated me from the start. I don't think she even came here to change my future for the better. She doesn't care about me. She doesn't care about anyone but herself and she needs to be stopped." "Alice, are you sure?" "Of course I'm sure! She needs to be gone before she does anything else! Sometimes I think you love her more than me! I'm your real daughter, not her!" Mr. Primson stands up and goes to Alice to comfort her. "Alice, calm down. I believe you." Alice sobs in her father's embrace. "Sylvia also saw right through A but she left before she could tell you anything." Mr. Primson stilts at that. "Sylvia..." He whispers. "I'll talk to Asher for you okay. Don't worry it's going to be okay." Alice nods still in her father's embrace not wanting this moment to end. She doesn't remember the last time her father held and comforted her like this.

The next day. It's the last classbefore school will end. The children are supposed to present their project butwhen Miss. Birdie entered the classroom, it was empty. None of the students arethere except for Alice and Asher. "Where is everyone?" Miss. Birdie asks,confused. "We decided we wanted to do the projects somewhere else since thereisn't enough space in the classroom." Asher says. "I will teleport us there butyou have to close your eyes." Alice says while walking up to Miss. Birdie.Miss. Birdie does what Alice says and closes her eyes. Alice stops time. Aliceand Asher carry their teacher to the gymnasium. They put her on a stage. Aliceunfreezes time. "You can open your eyes now, Miss. Birdie." Erika says. Miss.Birdie opens her eyes and is surprised by what she sees. She looks around.She's standing on a stage in the gymnasium. The whole gymnasium is decorated.She can see tables with drinks and snacks. And in front of the stage, there arethe family members of her students. "Welcome back Miss. Birdie!" The wholeclass shouts at the same time and confetti and balloons fall from above on thestage. "What's happening?" Miss. Birdie asks, confused and overwhelmed. Erikaleads Miss. Birdie to a chair in front of the stage. "You can just sit back andwatch." Erika says while walking back to the center of the stage. The rest ofthe students are standing behind her in a horizontal line. Everyone is dressedin proper clothes. Miss. Birdie is still confused but decides to wait to seewhat's going on, seeing that everyone is acting as if this was part of the planall along. "Ladies and gentlemen. We are here gathered to celebrate Miss.Birdie's return. Today we were supposed to do our group project about ourfavorite hero or another hero we look up to. The whole class gathered and satdown together and decided that we are all going to form one group and do aproject about one hero we all agree on as our favorite. Miss. Birdie." Erikasays while pointing at Miss. Birdie. Miss. Birdie is surprised. She isn't evenan official hero. The crowd also starts to whisper about that. "We know thatMiss. Birdie isn't an official hero but she is a hero to us. So can everyoneplease be quiet so that the presentation can begin?" Erika asks. She walks overto one of the students and hands him the microphone. He and the rest of thestudents walk to the center of the stage still standing in a horizontal line."Hello everyone. Today we are presenting a presentation about our favorite heroMiss. Birdie. Miss. Birdie her real name is Lulu Birdie. She's the daughter offormer top heroes and the sister of one of our current heroes, Cliff." Thestudent says and passes the mic to the next person. "Although her family ismade of top heroes she never was one. So why do I and the rest of this classthink she's a hero?" The Mic gets passed again. "Miss. Birdie isn't an officialhero but our teacher. She's gentle and patient with us and we love her. She'sour favorite teacher. But that still isn't the whole reason she's our hero.""When one of her students was injected with something and started attacking afew other students, no hero came to help them. They were all busy. The studentshad to defend themselves." "Miss. Birdie saw that none of the heroes could helpthem. She couldn't just sit and do nothing while her students were in danger.She had to help them." "She knew she would be setting herself in danger butthat didn't stop her. Sadly she got captured. The villain wasn't expectingsomeone to come and when she did he captured her not wanting her to ruin hisplans." "Luckily the students manage to defeat the other student. The studentswere harmed but luckily nobody was killed. Sometime after the students defeatedthe other students the heroes came." "The injured students were staying in theschool's nurse's office to recover but Miss. Birdie was nowhere to be found.And after a few weeks Miss. Birdie was found." "Someone found her and theantidote for the infected student. Sadly when they found her one of her wingswas cut off and she will never be able to fly anymore." "But that doesn't meanshe can't be our teacher anymore or train us. We know she will search for somekind of way to train us without using her abilities." "We choose Miss. Birdieas our favorite hero not because she's already our favorite teacher but becausewe can rely on her whenever we need her. She will always come to rescue us whenwe are in need. Whatever it is, she will be there for us." "We wanted to thankour teacher again for trying to save us. It showed me another side of what it'smeant to be a hero." Asher says. "Yesterday the whole class worked hard withthe help of another student Amber who was also there during the attack and myfather and my sister." Alice says. "To organize everything for today we usedthe money that we were going to use to go out and get to know each other. Butwe thought why waste the money on that when we can use it for something that isso much more important." Rose says. "I hope you enjoyed our presentation. Youcan all enjoy the party after this big announcement. Miss. Birdie, can youplease come here?" Joshua asks. Miss. Birdie is in tears because of the presentation.She never expected this. She's so proud of her students. She stands up andwalks over to the center of the stage. Cliff walks over to his sister. Miss.Birdie is surprised because she didn't see him before. "Everyone. Today we willname a new official hero." Cliff says while grabbing a medal that is only givento official heroes. "I don't deserve it." Miss. Birdie whispers. "You deserveit more than anyone." Cliff says while handing the medal to his sister. "Ipresent to you our new official hero...Miss. Birdie." Cliff says proudly.Everyone claps and cheers. The students are happy for their teacher. Thestudents embrace their teacher in a group hug.