Dark... light... dark...

Now that Danica was away from all the amazingly annoying giggling studnets, she could do what she wanted. And what she wanted was to calm down. When she was mad, she just kept thinking and thinking and getting confused and dizzy until she was about to faint. Now was one of those times.

In the quiet wilderness, she lay down on her back in the middle of a clearing, her arms and legs stretched out. It was perfectly still, and Danica could feel the earth's heart beating. Bump. Bump. Bump. A soft smile played across her face. When she was fully connected, she felt the earth's energy inside of her. She let it tickle her insides for awhile and when she was ready, she released it as darkness, darkness that stretched and stretched and stretched. The whole world was dark, instead of the little patches of space Danica usually make dark.

One, two, three. The darkness evaporated as quickly as it had apeared, back into Danica, and then back into the earth. Another deap breath. Bump. Bump. Bump. Darkness. This time only the space around her was dark. Inside her silent bubble of black, she released millions of tiny pin pricks of light. They swirled around and around her, in circles above her, all over until it made Danica dizzy. Breathing deeply, she let them drift to the ground where they outlined her body, making her glow.

Danica jumped and sat up abruptly, her calm disappearing as quickly as the bubble of black and the tiny lights. Her feeling of her and the earth as one evaporated, and the angry buzz in her head returned. Vaguely remember? Danica thought angrily. "I've been in the same class as you and you hate me and you only 'vaguely remember' me?" She snorted.

"And thanks a lot. I was finally calm, away from all those annoying students at the school, and here you come, bothering me when that was exactly why i tried to get away." She sighed and rolled her eyes, glaring at Judas.

Danica glared. My dear? If he ever called her that again, she was going to get up and kick him. "Right, genius. Danica Martinez, not that such a genius like you should care..."

Danica took a deep breath. She hated when people made her feel less important than them, made her feel dumb. She was important! She wanted attention! And all Judas could do was use big words, burn paper, and get everyone mad at her. She glared, deciding then and there that she was going to hate him. She thought briefly about ignoring him when he talked, but figured he'd say she was being "childish."

How do I annoy someone so dense? Danica thought, not caring that dense really wasn't the right word for that sentance. Unless Judas could read her mind, she had no reason to. Nothing makes him mad! Nothing! It's like people are little tiny flies, and he just swats them out of the way... Danica glared at the ground more, as if it was the ground's fault. Maybe one of those tiny flies just has to bite him... hard....

"Yeah, the ground and I are planning our wedding," she said sarcasticly. But now she was curious. He hated himself? He mattered? Didn't everyone? Danica had always been taught that. Everyone mattered... everyone was put on earth for a reason... She had to ask, even though she hated seeming interested in anything. "Why do you hate yourself?" she asked slowly, looking up from the ground. This was the first realy conversation she'd had with anyone so far, one where she wasn't the enemy.