The next day at school, Charlotte appears a little down hearted… not physically visible, but her heart’s waves are obvious to Chad, David and even Nyarai.
Her acting is way too good for anybody else to notice anything wrong, but she can’t hide her heart and feelings from these strange creatures around her.
Realizing that she has things to do and ask people she walks over to Chad and David, Nyarai is not here as she is over at Selina’s desk and giggling about something.
(Charlotte:)”David, wanna come with me to the science convention over at Gudbron tomorrow?” She asks perfectly normal, but her heart hurts a little.
She was told to spend some time out of Farlong and ignore the news, letting Charles take care of everything; AKA she is running away from the fallout.
(David:)”Sure, how many days do you want to be there?” He instantly agrees, as he feels that he needs to show support for Charlotte to soothe her feelings.
Charlotte smiles, but her heart is not. (Chad:)”What about me?” (Charlotte:)”Die.” Chad appears shocked and David can’t stop a laugh from escaping his lips.
David smiles smugly at Chad who appears super depressed, Charlotte woke up today and chose violence; BTW she is joking, she meant “no” with the “die”.
(David:)”See this is true love, don’t get in the way of me and Charlotte’s date.” Chad goes brain dead looking into the distance… David just actually said that.
Even Charlotte is shocked by it, David normally does not joke this hard; of course he sometimes messes with her about love and dating and such together with Chad.
But to call their outing a date, that is Chad level stuff; this guy is getting corrupted by Chad! Charlotte stares reproachfully at David who smiles apologetically.
Not too aware that David just wanted to make her a little happier as he knows what she is feeling and is worried about her.
Also inviting the “MAGE” with them to the science convention feels wrong, not like Chad did not do this with them before, but Charlotte now knows of David’s grief with said “MAGE”.
After school David and Charlotte leaves Farlong on the private plane of Leon corporation together with Charlotte’s uncle Edward.
The three of them are going to the Gudbron science, tech and materials convention held every three years.
Attracting scientists to present their theories and experimental data to the world, even investors show up trying to find anything of value to patent and sell.
This is one of the biggest science conventions in the USA and the world, there is only some comparable, like: Farlong’s Eternal tech convention and others…
Edward is here to learn and maybe find something of interest and invest in for himself, Charles and Leon corp.
While Charlotte is obviously here to avoid the storm that will inevitably start back home, David is just here to enjoy the convention and please Charlotte.
Later after arriving in Gudbron, Charlotte informs David of the problem that Leon corporation and her father is facing and why she has been sent to Gudbron to avoid said storm.
(David:)”That is troublesome… but also nothing.” Charlotte stare confusedly at David who seems different somehow, David having imitated Alexander’s way of speaking right now.
(David:)”Will this make you stop loving science?” Charlotte shakes her head. (David:)”Then will this ruin Charles’s love for science?”
Charlotte apears confused. (Charlotte:)”Probably not?” David laughs confusing her even further, is David making fun of her? He would normally never joke around when things are serious.
(David:)”Sorry. If you both will still pursue science, then what is the issue? Is the building that important? Is the name Leon corporation that important?
If not, then laugh. You can make a better Leon corp than your dad and he can help build it together with you.
You are the most important friend of NIGHTKNIGHT and BRIGHTMAN. If you have any problems, then there is something wrong with this world and we will fix that.
If your father stops wanting to work, if he loses everything; we can wait a couple thousand years and hope he gets better.
Keeping your father alive for that long should be easy enough, we can take him to many strange places and inspire him to pursue his dreams again.”
This is one of those moments she realizes how awesome David is, he can also be extremely attractive sometimes; it should be obvious why Charlotte is romantically challenged.
David smiles reassuringly and Charlotte feels very happy, what she has been worrying about sounds so… mortal. Compared to what her friends do she is too normal.
(Charlotte:)”Thanks, I am too used to thinking like a normal person.” She smiles having completely no idea she is WRONG, like really wrong.
Her brain has always been at a superhuman level, she just gained a little extra power through her transformation; she has always been a superhuman mutant.
The science convention was quite… boring… for everybody except for all the nerds attending it. Charlotte and David had a blast.
They also found the panel for the recent hot hypothesis that Chad said was “useless” and would at best be used as a new perspective to create better more useful theories.
Charlotte and David spent the entire time through the panel frowning thinking about what is wrong and that Chad is a witch and should be burned.
Not that Selina should be burned… but fuck Chad. While Charlotte and David are bonding over science and hating on Chad.
Chad is alone at school… or he would be if he is not a social chameleon who fits in anywhere and just does stuff with anybody.
Who would have thought that Chad has other friends at Forlong private high school?