A Dazzling New Life: High School Edition

by Joshua the Dragonslayer


8. Science Experimentation

Yet again it was another day of school for the Dazzlings and they were currently in third period. Sonata was happily in English learning all about... English time things that she had no clue what they were. When she had heard about English she had thought she was actually going to learn English! Not the types of ways to make a sentence better or how to write a paragraph! She could only sigh and continue taking notes hoping that she would somehow be able to understand.

As for Aria and Adagio, they were in Science and they were working on some sort of experimentation. The experiment was easy, nothing that the class shouldn't be able to handle. They were given five chemicals and a piece of paper that the kids were supposed to read to learn about the chemical and figure out which two chemical mix together and create the chemical that they were supposed to make. Their teacher had allowed people to pair up with one another and being the two sisters that they were, Adagio and Aria paired up with one another.

So now, here they were looking at the five chemicals before them. Of the five in front of them, only two of them were the actual chemicals that were to be used for the experiment. Aria was currently putting on her safety gloves and goggles, something that their science teacher had taught them, safety first when doing an experimentation. Adagio, on the other hand, was reading the piece of paper reading all about the chemicals.

Aria looked over at Adagio and sighed. "Adagio, why are you reading that? We have five chemicals and two of them are the correct ones, we have a two of out five chance of getting the chemicals correct, that's a forty percent chance of getting the chemicals right! Let's just choose two that we think are the correct ones." Aria then reached to grab a chemical but she was stopped by a hand.

That hand happened to belong to Adagio. Aria looked up at Adagio who was glaring at Aria. "That's not how things are going to work here. Even though we may have a forty percent chance or a two out of five of getting the chemicals correct, that also means we have a three out of five or a sixty percent chance of getting the chemicals wrong! So the best thing to do is read the instructions and figure out what the correct chemicals are. You also have to think that this is for a grade, if we want to have a good grade we have to get this correct! So let's read the instructions together." Adagio then looked back down at the piece of paper and started reading it.

Aria sighed and waited for Adagio, Aria wasn't one for reading so she wasn't exactly looking forward to reading with Adagio. So here she was just looking at how everyone else's experiments were going while she waited for Adagio to finish reading. She waited and waited... and waited... and now she was getting annoyed with the amount of time it was taking for Adagio to read. It was one page, not a whole book, what was taking so long?

Grunting, Aria turned her head to face Adagio. "Adagio, what's taking so long? Can we get started on this experiment or what? Everyone else has started on their experiments and we've yet to even start."

Adagio sighed looking away from the piece of paper and to her sister. "Ari, I know you want to get started on the experiment but just listen to me. So what if everyone else has started, it's best that we take our time and make sure we don't make a mistake. I'm almost done reading, just give me a few more minutes and then we can begin the experiment." Adagio smiled, hoping that it would make Aria feel better, but it didn't.

If anything, it made her even angrier. For her whole life, Aria had always followed and listened to what Adagio would say. Since she was the oldest she felt as though she had the power to tell her sisters what to do. Sonata didn't mind because she was the youngest, but she also had her chance at telling them what to do during the Team Tournament. And even now Aria was proclaimed by Rainbow to be the team captain of the soccer team so Aria still had to listen to her! But she was done with listening, she was going to do things how she pleased.

So, Aria first picked up a red liquid chemical and a blue liquid chemical. She smiled as she then started to get to work. Adagio who had just finished reading smiled to herself, it took a while but she now knew the answer, it was the purple and green chemicals that were supposed to mix. Adagio put the piece of paper down on the desk and turned around to let Aria know what she had found. When she turned around she gasped when she saw Aria about to mix the wrong chemical with one another and from what she read about those two chemicals if they mixed... "ARIA!! DON'T MIX THOS-" It was too late as once those chemicals made contact an explosion went off.

People went down to the ground as smoke filled the air. Thankfully, no one was hurt, only the sounds of coughs could be heard throughout the room with a few classmates fanning away the smoke. Once the smoke cleared Aria looked to see her and Adagio's lab area destroyed from the explosion. Aria gasped, she couldn't that this had happened as she then put her head down. 'I should've listened... this is all my fault.'

"Aria..." Aria flinched, she knew that voice all too well. Turning around she gulped, right in front of her was a very angry-looking Adagio in front of her. Adagio's face was red hot as she had her fist shaking and her teeth gritted against each other.

Aria took a step back. "A-Adagio, I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean for this to happen! You were right I should've listened to you, cmon please I really am sorry!" Adagio looked at Aria, she was shaking in fear. Adagio felt her anger leave her, she was scaring her sister, and she didn't want that. Aria knew she was wrong and she learned what she had done.

Adagio sighed. "It's okay, Aria. But now do you see why I asked you to listen to me?" Aria shook her head, making Adagio smile. "Well, that's good, now come on, we better clean up our mess." Adagio then started to pick up some of the equipment with her gloves. As she was making her way to the trash to dump them she walked past a mirror, she saw herself and smiled and walked away. She then stopped and quickly raced back to the mirror, what she saw scared her. Her hair, her perfectly made hair she worked so hard on earlier... was ruined, because of the explosion. Aria, who was helping clean the mess turned and saw Adagio looking at herself in the mirror, her face dropped into complete horror. "MY HAIR!!!!!!!"

The yell echoed through the whole school and Sonata who was in English could hear the yell as clear as day. "Looks like something happened to Adagio." Sonata could only sigh, the rest of the day was going to be a long one.