My name is Emmylee Jonquil Carson. If I’m not careful, I could quite possibly freeze a whole damn pool in less than a minute. If I am careful? Then people live to see another day and they don’t have to worry about getting frostbite just by passing me in a hallway. Honest to god, teenagers shouldn’t have to come to school worrying about getting frostbite, or third degree burns, or even temporary blindness from random bursts of Photokinetic flashes!

But this isn’t your high school, is it? This is my high school and yeah, we worry about that kind of stuff and worse. Why, you ask?

“WHY?! Because we’re the S-C-R-E-A-M-I-N-G EAGLES! Goooooo EAGLES! Yeah yeah! Liberty Heights!”

That’s Jenny Scott. She’s crazy as hell and ‘like totally’ talented in all forms of bouncing around and being generally enthusiastic. She’s also able to absorb kinetic energy from nearly any source so that when it builds up enough she can cause a huge explosion from her own invulnerable body. Mostly it seems like she uses electric energy, which is good for the rest of us because we (being the entire student body, faculty and staff) can get a little running head start when we hear her crackling with electricity. Hence the common nickname for her: Whizbang.

And if you don’t know what that is...

“Well you totally don’t have any culture! I mean come on, it’s like, duh!”

Yeah. Duh. But, she made a good point earlier. We worry because we have to; because we are the students of the first official, private, government approved metahuman high school, commonly called Liberty Heights. What this means is that we have a few things that we have to learn to deal with that most kids our age don’t even need to spend a second thinking about. Like dealing with the daily rise and fall of hormones which then affect the control students have over their own abilities.

That is not the only thing we must learn to deal with though. I’m really not surprised by the variety of life forms that is within this school and, dear reader, neither should you. Yes, I mean that in the way that you are probably assuming; there are seriously way too many strange creatures in this school, like I suspect there is in any high school. Cliché? Of course it is. Were you seriously expecting this school to be THAT different from yours? Sure there is the fact that we have kids that can run faster than sound, cheerleaders that explode, and jocks that can pick up cars, but that is where the differences end. We do have your basic teenage social circles, it’s just how things are and we all have to suffer it. Geeks hang out in the science labs and the jocks still pick on them. Art kids try terribly hard to look like they don’t care what people think even though it’s terribly obvious that they do care and we do have popular girls whose main goal in life is to make every girl they believe to be beneath them feel like dirt.

Then there’s me, Emmylee.

“Hey EMMY. That rhymed, that was toootally awesome!”

Yeah. Totally, thanks Jenny Scott. So, there’s me, and I’d like to think I’m the one person who isn’t part of that whole world of clichés… but I’m sure people got me tagged to some group. Like, the group of kids who could give a flying flip where they stand socially. Geez, and now that I think about it… there really is that group. Me, and Phillida and Jenny Scott. Hell.

Well, anyways, this is our school and it’s just like your school except it’s not and I think it’s about time somebody got around to making it more accessible to the public. I’m getting the distinct feelings that while this is a place approved by the government, it’s not understood by the general public and it’s possible that this place could start looking quite scary when all people know is that we’re a bunch of kids with the ability to blow things up and we get to learn how to control that ability. Frightening! But, you know what they say; people fear what they don’t know.

So, you, whoever you may be, I’m going to introduce you to Liberty Heights, don’t be scared! I promise most of us don’t bite! Except for some of us do, but not like… never mind, just don’t be scared.

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Author's Note: Yeah, I'm hoping this will be the first good story on this account. Sure my others are okay, but this might be my best if it goes according to plan.

The idea is simply to introduce the universe of LH to new readers. I'm going to make it seven chapters, seven days, a week at the school. It'll be either Emmylee narrorating or a new character each time. We'll see. Hope this does well in capturing your interest so far.