I-Dentification Series Chapter 1

[I-Dentification]

[The Mysterious USB]

 

By Nalin Lee 2020-06-08

 

 

Characters:

Thomas Dale: gender: male, age: 15, has sandy brown hair, serious and smart.

Lena Lorene: gender: female, age: 15, has strawberry blond hair likes to talk and is a little selfish and likes to get her way, hates Miranda (see below) and likes Thomas.

Miranda Bronx: gender fluid, age: 15, has dark choppy chocolate brown hair, doesn’t stick around crowds a lot, is a bit fierce and shy, and likes Thomas (see top).

Jack Bronx: gender; male, age: 15 has black hair, is serious but good humored and is protective of his sister (it’s the only time he gets serious).

The Dale family, the Lorene family, the Bronx family   

Other characters: Mr. Nash (homeroom teacher) gender: male, age: 35, has black hair, and likes Teacher Mary. (See below).

Ms. Mary (all subjects teacher): gender: female, age: 26, has blond hair is Lena’s Aunt, likes Teacher Nash.

TJ: gender: male, African American, age: 15, has dark brown curly hair, has a sense of humor.

Helen Toshiro: gender: female, is a Japanese American, age: 14, is shy and usually quiet, gets along with Miranda just fine. (See top 3^rd).

 

 

 

Introduction: Look, it wasn’t us who wanted to get in this mess and I hope you won’t fall in the same trap either. But if you wanna know… Come on in to the team! So get ready cause here! We! Go! -Thomas Dale

 

 

Chapter One the narrator: Thomas Dale

It was Monday and our class was loud and noisy we were given today’s schedule and right on the top was “Special Surprise”. What was the special surprise? We were about to find out! “So” Miranda said a bit quieter than I could hear from the noise my classmates were making. “Do you know what the special surprise is?” I shook my head no. “Neither do I.” She said Sometimes Miranda could be a combination of stubborn and shy that even I couldn’t get a word out of her. Then I felt eyes boring in to my scalp and a sweet voice said “Oh Tommy!” I groaned “Stop bothering me Lena! Like I said before I don’t, love you!” just then one of the boys in the back said “Ooh! Lena’s got the hots for Thomas Dale!” Of course it was TJ. Lena screeched back, *“Shut your mouth TJ or I’ll shut it for you!” And about then Mr. Nash came in. He sighed “Lena to the principal’s office please” he sighed again, then rubbed his temples obviously he had not had a good night’s sleep or he’d woken up late in the morning. Lena tried to make up a good excuse “He made me do it!” she cried pointing at TJ “He insulted me!” but Mr. Nash rubbed his forehead “Lena” he said calmly, “To the principal’s office now!” Lena stayed put, then she pulled out her phone, it was a move we knew all too well, she was going to call her dad. Mr. Nash coughed in his fist, “I thought phones weren’t allowed in school Lena.”He said. You see Lena’s father is the mayor, and though we kept on telling her it was the people who had put him in that spot and they could pull him down at anytime but there wasn’t much we could do about it. She stayed put in her little world were mayors were kings. Well, any way ~

After that business was sorted it was time for the special surprise’ since we had spent 30 minutes on ‘the drama queen’ we needed to do this in a hurry! “Class, we must do this in a hurry so I’ll not bore you, the special surprise is: a USB!” He cried with delight! We were excited too. I heard TJ say “Finally a place to store my songs! Oh yeah! This is rockin’ cool!” Personally I was excited too! But I don’t think Miranda was as happy as we were she kept staring at the USB’s I meant to ask her why she was staring at the USB’s (mine, hers, Jack’s and TJ’s)  and the other classmates USB’s so weirdly, to be honest it scared me. But I didn’t get a chance as Mr. Nash was calling the class to order “Yes TJ you guessed it these USB’s are connected to mine and are for your work in and out of school. I hope you use them well!” he said, just then the bell rang. Lunch time! We all scrambled for the door even Miranda! Which was unusual Miranda almost never scrambled for the door. It didn’t take long for me to realize she was trying her best to keep up with me she seemed to want to tell me something. At the cafeteria I mouthed to her “Later” she nodded then disappeared in to the sea of people you would have never known she’d been there. I saw Helen Toshiro move through the crowd of people heading toward the café to the spot I assumed Miranda was and waved at her she seemed surprised at least she was pleased and waved a bit back to me. I saw a head that peek from behind somebody’s shoulders and I assumed it was Miranda so I waved the head disappeared and I began to discourage when I saw Miranda running toward me I reached out and grabbed her hand and pulled her toward me and she smiled gratefully. At the cafeteria I asked her why she had stared at the USB’s so weirdly. But she said that she couldn’t tell it to anyone if we weren’t all together. When we were all together Miranda waved for Helen then she said “take out your USB’s I’ll show you the difference between Helen’s and ours.” As we compared USB’s I could see that ours were different from Helen’s even TJ’s and TJ wasn’t even part of our desk group (the desk group Miranda and me, Jack and Lena TJ was a row back) this is why it looked different: it seemed ours had been chipped at a certain angle so it was notice able it looked sort of awkward and weird compared to Helen’s which was neat and square. After school (without Lena (she had to go to the principles office) we meet at my house to discuss strategy and after a delicious batch of my mom’s chocolate chip cookies and milk we headed toward my mom’s garden shed she had two garden sheds she had a small one for tools and a larger one for a big desk a few chairs and a shelf of ledgers 20 or more (they’re all about plants and seeds and how to grow them and fertilize them, yeah, boring stuff right?) but we managed to find an almost empty one (Miranda found it) it had cream colored pages and had only a few diagrams of flowers and most of the pages empty anyway. “Perfect!” I said, Miranda found some bit of scrap cloth that was cut in a square and was a bit tough and hard we found some past that was still enact (Miranda found it and I’m telling you she’s a wonder she located everything) and used it to past the bit of cloth on then I wrote in black permanent marker (Miranda found that too) ‘Clues and Ideas’ “How do you guys like that?” I asked they all agreed the name was perfect. We took turns writing ideas and things we thought were clues but none of us could come up with a clear answer our ideas seem to always have loose ends and tails. TJ thought it was a kind of team we had joined “Like the Marvels Avengers!”  He said excitedly I wrote that down and the others thought other things and I personally had other thoughts too, the meeting adjourned with another scheduled one the next week. Everyone left thinking the same thing ‘what’s wrong with the USB’s?’

 

To be continued...