At school, in a room full of kids that I  didn’t know, I observed my surroundings. Students, a room full of students, and a teacher wearing high-heeled, dark boots and style that looked country like. The teacher would type in her computer and after a few moments she would look and observe the students. Some girls in the class would talk to each other and giggle. Some boys would look at each other and talk about sports and video games. I didn’t know anyone. This made me feel, well, different. Someone who doesn’t fit. Someone who doesn’t belong.

     Not knowing anybody is practically the worst part, besides having a interesting teacher. The worst part about this short, country-dressed teacher, is when she talked in a loud, hoarse voice. She told a bunch of weird, and different stories, about her chickens, dogs, cats (yes, she owned chickens) and about her big house on the side of a mountain. I wondered, Is this Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, or Science class? She talked on and on and on. Then, I soon wondered if any of that was true.

     I plopped on my bed, too lazy to do anything, and started thinking things that weren’t thought before. Like, Ever wondered that what if everybody else, even the people who meant so dear to you, weren’t there. Some people wonder the impossible, and the possible. Some wonder beyond imagination, like me, for example. I wonder a lot. What I wonder is a mixture of both of them. It varies. Or there is no explanation to it. Some are different, but I’m talking about me. Just me. No one else.

     What keeps you alive? Besides food, water, and shelter? What makes you the way you are? What makes you the person that you want to be? What makes you the person that you are now? Feelings. How you feel, the way you act. That’s what make you, you. It makes a person, it makes a human human. A person who is human, has feelings and thoughts. Just like you and me. We all have thoughts and feelings, everyone does in this world. Unless, you’re not human.

     And have you ever wondered, what if the people around you weren’t human. What if they have some sort of weird ability to do something normal people couldn’t do? Like my weird country-dressed teacher has the ability to talk people’s ears off or something. After all that thinking, I fell asleep.

     “Soooo… You wanna hang out with me and Coral, Jazzy?” Sage bounced around in front of me. I ignored her, and kept on walking.

     “Come on Jasmine, it’ll be fun.” Coral smiled. Even though her smile was beautiful, I wasn’t going to fall for the faker’s trick. I just knew they weren’t human. Nobody around her was. They were either realistic robots/automatons, or people with strange powers, also known as inhumans (You’ll know what that is, if you watch Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D).

     “Jaz?” Sage tried. But instead, I had sped off away from them.  

     All of these thoughts whirled around my head when it was time to read silently. Sage  and Coral must be robotic spies or something. Their creators or whatever, knew that I knew about everyone being a robot/inhuman. So then, they sent spies out to hypnotize me or something so I either forget or … or…

     “Hey Jaz.” Sage whispered across from me, there’s a group pop quiz on Friday. And we can choose groups of three, and I’m wondering if you could…  uh, you know… join us?” That’s when I planned to play cool and follow along,

     “Sure, I’ll think about it.” I smirked then turned my head away. Suddenly, the bell rang and I  shot out of my seat and left hurriedly out of  the classroom, out the door.

     I broke off into a run, not knowing why I ran. Then, I slowed to walk to the lunch line, got my lunch, and sat at a quiet spot nobody sat around but me. I ate my sandwich quickly and quietly, like a mouse. When I finished, more thoughts swirled around my head as I saw Sage and Coral come over, What’s wrong with them? Why won’t they leave me alone. I already tried everything, from faking/playing along with them to running away. Why won’t they just leave me alone? Once they were 17 feet away, I decided to take off running towards the playground a natural spot where everyone goes, using a new tactic, a combined one of the running tactic and the following-along tactic, and raced over there as if I was excited to go off to play.

     Sage ran behind me calling out my name, “Jaz! Jasmine! Wait up!” I whipped my head around to see Sage running towards me and Coral is right at her heels.

     “Come on, don’t you want to you want to be study partners with me and Coral here?” I snapped out of my daze as Sage’s cold hand touched her shoulder. Flesh. Human flesh. Not what I had thought before. Not what I believed about robots and inhumans. 

     “Jaz?”
     I looked at her. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry for ignoring you all this time. Now let’s go and study for the group pop quiz.” I smiled.