It's so nice to be back at Psyhigh. I love Chicago, with the gusty winds blowing in from the lake and the gentle rise of the buildings into the vast expanse of Midwestern sky... *sigh* I just wish people wouldn't freak out so much when they realize I'm a cyborg. Or when they see @*Atlantica*'s hair. *Atlantica runs through the room* ("WHEEEEEEEEE! MY HAIR IS LIKE A RAINBOW THAT CHASES ME!!!!!!") Yeah, Mom and Dad freaked when they saw that. But they can never stay mad at her, so she's off the hook as long as she washes out that dye eyesore by next week. Meanwhile they're still on my back about "being friendlier" and "less serious" and "refraining from physical violence when you receive a hug or get asked for money by a street beggar". *angry grumbles* Even our parents like Attie better. ("WHEEEEE! You know that's a lie Paci! They love everybody! LIKE MEEEEEE!")

Back on topic, I am super happy to be back at school. Which is funny, because when we first got here I despised the place. I guess this place grows on you... like toe fungus. ("Ewwww! Why do pick the worst analogies?!?" Sorry, I'm still a bit grumpy about the family reunion....) I wish the school wasn't slowly melting into the ground though. Hopefully it doesn't sink too far and collapse the catacombs, @Nobody is down there.... ("Stop being so negative!" I will when you stop being positive! "Point taken, sis!") The school provided me with some special insolation suit to try and keep my metal body from melting. I feel like a living thermos. And just as fashionable.

Speaking of fashionable, Atti- er, Atlantica and I saw @Matching by Mattie by the GAZEBO we returned to school in. She was... planting strawberry bushes. And was going to donate the produce to... charity. An ACTUAL CHARITY. I'm scared guys.

("OMG PACI! It is SNOWING OUTSIDE! Let's make snowmen!")

Guys, I'm really scared.

Yesterday we went to that shindig @Scilph threw. The party/parade was very exciting. Lots of rainbows. And, um, people. And loud music. Okay, okay, I admit it, I left a bit early. But can you blame me? There was a rather large crowd and those make me uneasy. We all know what happens when I get uneasy. *looks guiltily at a broken mirror*

I did have an alright time during the set up. Scilph and @*Atlantica* stuffed their faces with croissants and crepes and other weird European desserts. Morris and I just focused on working and tried not to laugh when they went crazy on a sugar high. Atlantica picked up Blackie (or as she calls him, Boxie) and did a waltz with him across the floor. I wish I spoke his language, I'm sure he was saying some funny things as Attie swung him around. Can animate boxes swear?

Anyways, when the party/parade/thing started things got hectic. I wasn't expecting so many people. Or maybe my threshold for crowds is super low. Either way, the music started and people were dancing -- and they gave Atlantica a wiiiiiide berth on the dance floor -- and I stood with @Nobody in a corner. We chatted a while, and I complimented her on her new hairstyle, then she went to go find Walls or sprinkles or something. My suspicion is that she saw @Matching by Mattie coming and was fleeing. I wish I had been as observant. Because Mattie was bringing over that guy she and Atlantica have been trying to set me up with.

He was alright. His name is Justin. He was kind of cute I guess. He likes playing basketball, dancing, fashion magazines, and One Direction. I also discovered that he is gay. ("Im sorry Paci! I told you, we didn't know!" I told you, it's fine! I don't even care! Just... next time remember that people at LBGT meetings are have a high chance of being gay. And you probably should stop sneaking into their meetings to find me dates. "Oookaaaaay....") Before Justin left, he asked me if I could introduce him to Morris. Don't worry my undead friend, I told him you were taken. And straight. Justin just shrugged and excused himself to the dance floor. I found @Gretel and talked to her for a while ("And she convinced you to dance!" Shush Attie, we don't speak of that!), and I then went home. Luckily for me, Mattie didn't see me leave. Unluckily for me, every mirror I passed on the way home broke. I now have 63 years of bad luck if the legends are true. Yay.

Anywhoo, thanks for letting us crash your party Scilph, I had some fun. And I learned that my robot suit has a program called [break_dance_awesomeness]. So that was cool.

Oh man.... Last night we went in that secret tunnel and... wow. It was gorgeous. It was pitch black for the longest time, and all you knew was that the tunnel was going downward. Then all of the sudden it opened up to this huge cavern! The walls were plain rock, but there were pools of water all over that glowed a color I don't even know how to describe! And little bubbles of water about the size of my two hands kept floating UP OUT OF THE POOLS! I was freaked out and stood frozen at the entrance with these other two kids who tagged along for a while, but @Morris went right up to one of the reverse-gravity bubbles and poked it. Instead of popping, it showed us another version of the world. An alternate reality! In that one, @Matching by Mattie was a goth. Scary, right?

After we figured out that the cavern was relatively safe, all four of us went around poking bubbles. I saw realities where Psyhigh was called Asylum for Psychics, Morris was a girl, my Aunt Nettie never divorced her husband, the students from the Unified Horse Empire were half cat instead of half horse, Nobody had never eaten a sprinkle in her life, the Titanic had rocket blasters and never sank, the Roman Empire still ruled today, and a whole bunch of others. There were some rather frightening ones too, but I won't talk about those. No need to scare you all.

Then one of the other kids (a nice girl named Lucy I met in my Intermediate Luck Lacing class) called me over to these two bubbles she had corraled next to each other. In one of them... instead of me getting a new robotic body and splitting away from Atlantica... she succeeded in fusing our souls. It was a horrific reality. Her -- er, our mind completely snapped. At least, in that universe we snapped. Maybe it could've worked in this reality but... seeing us fused together in that bubble made me so happy I found LITEE. In the other bubble Lucy had, it was a reality where Atlantica and I had ANOTHER SISTER. Yeah. We were triplets. *shivers* Let me tell you, our sister Oceania was not nice at all. She went out of her way to hurt people, and her luck influence... I don't even know how to describe it. I'm so glad she's confined to that little bubble, she reminds me too much of that crazy Fortuna.

After a while we got sick of reality browsing and headed back up to the surface. Morris tried to bring one of the bubbles up to the surface to show Scilph, but it burst as soon as we got to S-AL. S-AL was not pleased. We were bombarded with books until we finally left the library, so that was exciting. Then all I had to do was roll into bed and shut down for the night.

Except Atlantica had drank about a gallon of Lovesick Soda while I was gone. Not even Mom's tranquilizers would calm her down. *sigh* I don't get much sleep anymore.

Okay, so @Morris and I were chilling back here (I wasn't crying!) in the Self-Aware Library (S-AL) when we actually found a secret passage by pulling out one of the books from the bookshelf! Totally cheesy, but totally Psyhigh. It's pretty dark in there, and I can't tell if this is a student safe zone... but I'm too depressed to care right now. If anybody is up for dungeon crawling, come over to the S-AL by 8:10 pm. I'm getting some food, securing Atlantica at home, and going on an adventure. That's the cure for love sickness, right?

~Found you.~

Ah! An anthropomorphic cat! Oh... it's just you Eralonia. Um. I'm going over here now... *unplugs from wall and trys to scoot away*

~Oh no you don't I want the gossip!~

No. See, robots don't have feelings. So we don't talk about them! Byeeeeee!

~*gives Pacifica a look*~

*Sigh* Fine. I'll tell you dramatic parts, will that satisfy you? So... I liked this guy... and I was reading Mattie's book to try and figure out what to do (okay, yeah, I admit I read it. It was complete phooy though.) and at the ice cream parlor... I tried to impress him by rotating my head 360 degrees and make my eyes flash red, ok? I panicked! I wanted to impress him! I hoped he would likely ve robots or something! He... he called me a freak... yeah. So that's over before it started. Happy now Eralonia?

~Oh, I'm sorry Paci! I didn't mean to upset you... don't cry....~

I'm not crying! And don't call me Paci! Just... just let me be a lone for a bit, okay? You're not going to tell anybody about this, right?

~I can honestly say that I'm telling everyone with ears about this.~

Oh! *buries head in arms* Can I die of embarrassment now?

~No, as you said, robots don't have feelings!~ *Eralonia waddles back to Morris*

...How is it she's better at walking than I am?

Hour Four of Hiding:

Leave it to Atlantica to tell the WHOLE ENTIRE SCHOOL-- ugh. It's not even worth it. I'm sure this will all blow over soon. Mattie has another club meeting tomorrow, and that'll distract even the most determined psychic students. I hope.

I've been hiding in plain sight, and it seems to be working. This is actually pretty easy. It's a pretty big place so even when somebody wanders through they don't notice me. Not that anybody comes through here, it's too beautiful outside to be stuck in this dusty & dim building. Unless you're me. I love dim and dusty! It reflects my personality, no? *chuckle* *sound of person tripping and cussing* Darn! Somebody's near, I've got to delve deeper and hide better. What good luck I heard them... wonder if I caused that... oops. Sorry random person.

Whoever that was, they aren't the first to almost find me. @Walls was tttthhhhiiiisssss close to seeing me. Thank the heavens he got distracted by a book on Explosive Scrabble and Extreme Monopoly. @Nobody actually found me, but she was kind of dazed from lack of sprinkles and an excess of Lovesick Soda. Poor girl. She promised not to rat me out though, which is good. If I can stay hidden for about two more hours, I think all this sudden intrest in my personal life will blow over. Only two problems; my robot body's battery is low and I can't find an outlet, and I'm afraid @Morris is close to finding me. Makes sense, he knows me too well. And he's here so often, he could probably find me in a snap. *sigh* This waiting is killing me. I think I'll read a book on... I don't know. Moss or something. Anything to take my mind off of this stupid gossip hunt. *is given @Matching by Mattie's book* SHUT UP!

(Oops, didn't mean to yell. Hopefully nobody I know heard that.... Either way, I need to find an outlet before the body goes into power-saving shutdown mode. Wish me luck I guess....)

@Nobody, thanks for being there to help me read to the kids today. And my sincerest apologies about them screaming and chasing you whenever you disappeared/reappeared quickly. As you predicted, they love extreme peekaboo. Sadly, these little monsters chase, bite, and use their powers on things they love. Poor S-AL has lost about seventeen books to their destructive personalities. I really hope we all weren't like that when we were little. Our parents would've HATED us.

Last night's ice cream was pretty fun. Atlantica got a sugar rush and wouldn't stop hopping up and down when we got home, but I expected that. Mom gave me some tranquilizer darts just in case this sort of thing happened. Good old Mom, she always knows how to properly restrain Attie. The really surprising thing about last night though was how easily convinced the locals were that I was 100% carbon based life form. I guess LITEE did a great job making this metal suit realistic, because nobody gave me a second glance. Except for that one nerdy looking kid. I'm really sorry about that guys. Him standing up and yelling about us "Psyhigh freaks" was totally my fault. At least they let us finish our ice cream before we were kicked out. *sigh* That was just my luck (literally)

@Lena, hey. Welcome to Psyhigh. It's hard to get the hang of the school at first (unless you are @Walls. Then you ARE the school.) but once you do it's pretty fun. It's helped my sister @*Atlantica* and I immensely, and is a nice calm environment for us to--
*Mattie bursts through the door with a crazed look in her eye*
"ATLANTICA! Help me interrogate Pacifica! My Whisperfly reported she HAS A CRUSH!"
"OMG Paci you have a crush?!?!"
*Pacifica swears softly under her breath* If anybody needs me... I'm hiding. Forever. @Morris, I suggest you and Scilph do the same until Mattie is sober again.
*Pacifica opens a nearby window and jumps out as Mattie and Atlantica open the bedroom door*

Note to self:

The normals can't easily detect cyborgs, but are very freaked out when they discover one.

This picnic has been fun I guess. I can't stop thinking about the big mess at S-AL I still need to pick up, but Atlantica is doing a good job trying to distract me. We used to take tumbling classes when we were little (and still mentally attached) and she's been trying to do the routines we learned. She's horrible at it, but it makes us all chuckle to see her try. @trash lord seems pretty nice, and @Walls cracks me up. They'll fit in nicely at Psyhigh once the security drones stop harassing them. I wonder where @slug master is... maybe they found Mattie. Goodness knows we can't. (Not that Scilph and Morris seem to mind. They're dreading seeing her.)

Eralonia has been strutting around and acting like a queen. Her little dress is just adorable, but I'm still not used to her wearing clothes. Or walking. Or talking. Or being omniscient. @Morris, you're cat really is one in a million, isn't she? Next thing you know she'll be enrolling here as a student!

I've been practicing my powers with @Nobody, when she isn't playing games with Psyhigh's Walls. She's really good at disappearing on command now! Well... she's better than before. We're all pretty proud of her. My luck influence powers haven't been as easy to tame. Both good and bad luck just happens spontaneously it seems. Eating sprinkles kind of helped though. Maybe I'll raid Atlantica's ingrediant cabinet next time I practice. It's not like she needs them. She refuses to practice... and honestly she's just naturally better than me. *sigh* Why did the fates give the psycho twin all the power?

Oh, and before I forget, I should probably tell Morris check with S-AL for a part time job. They're so desperate for employees there, they offered Atlantica a job! Maybe he could restock shelves or be the offical Shusher when students are loud. If not, I'm sure he could find something to do down in the town. He's disguised himself as a living person before, hasn't he? I'll go talk to him now, I've been pouting by myself for long enough now.

It's pretty funny looking around school. The walls are all standing (and spotless, thanks to @Walls and the cleaning androids), all the fires have been put out, and most the students are content. Today is Tuesday. Psyhigh should be turned into rubble. But instead, we're discussing who spiked the punch and the best mediums for customer growing. *sigh* I always underestimate how weird this school is.

I returned to my part-time job today. The little psychic kids were once again monsters, as I feared. But once you get to know them, they're kind of cute I guess. Except the one who likes to create illusions. His favorite currently is making himself apper to be a human-sized star-nosed mole. Those things look really ugly when blown up to the size of a preschooler.

At least the kids were willing to sit still for story-time today. I read them this story the Self-Aware Library (a.k.a. S-AL) picked out called "The Teleporter and His Familiar". They all loved it, I got nervous near the end of the story. I was terrified that one of the characters would die and all the children would freak out and destroy the library again. And as usual when I get nervous, my bad luck influence kicked in. The last five pages of the story were missing; I had picked up one of the rare copies that were printed that way by mistake. For the remaining half hour the Children's Circle group attacked the shelves of poor S-AL in anger, determinded to find out the ending to the story. S-AL and I kept throwing books (only thin paperbacked ones of course) at them, but they wouldn't stop until their teacher mentally paralyzed them and carried them back into the preschool's van one by one. She said it wasn't my fault, but I still feel guilty. S-AL keeps floating over to me books on childcare and such. I can't tell if it's because it's trying to help me or it's trying to insult me and express it's anger. Either way, I'll be cleaning up the library for the next hour or so. Fun.

@Nobody, if you ever want me to show you where the library is, I'd be happy to. I know @Matching by Mattie's book can be tough to get through... n-not that I've read it! Cause I-I haven't! Nope! I... I only bought it for Atlantica! *nervously fiddles with polyester hair*

*S-AL hits Pacifica with a book titled "Twelve Tips for Staying Focused"*
OW! Oh, yeah. Guess that's my cue to get back to work. I hope I don't miss my class on Reality Bending because of those preschoolers.....