Wake up Zane, today is another day.

Waking up and getting ready for another day like any other, except for my head throbbing a little in pain. It went away pretty quickly as I went through the morning routine and got ready for school. I took one more look at the tests I'd been given, looking over them I realized something, they were either mostly gibberish or made to mess with the students. I wondered about sending a message to my only living relative, but by the time I arrived at the school the tests were being collected and the teachers had been replaced with subs. We were informed that the teachers were apparently affected by some outside phenomena and then sent to continue our normal school days. Yup... this is about par for a normal day in one of New York's more crime infested districts.

The few people trying to survive never went out after dark, sure having people like Spider-man or the Avengers around helped to keep the normal people feeling a bit safer, but that didn't mean any of us were willing to take extra risks if we could avoid it. Returning home after school was as eventful as always, thugs trying to scare the building manager into paying protection again, the manager behind the door saying they had a gun and the thugs need to leave. This stuff happens way too often I swear... I snuck around and made my way into one of the other buildings nearby, heading upstairs and then carefully onto the roof of my own building. Good thing there wasn't an alleyway between the two so all I had to do was step over. I got into my apartment without any trouble from there, would love to say I kicked back and relaxed but it sounded like the thugs were trying to go door to door again, which meant police would be here soon and the cops would run the thugs off.

Or at least... that's what I was expecting when I got back, honestly it was fairly normal really. Imagine my surprise when I see a note on my door instead, saying that the building had been bought out, that everyone was getting their deposits back and that we were all being removed so the building could be fixed up. Heading downstairs I saw the old owner of the building being asked questions by everyone about who the new owner was, why this was happening, things like that. When the older man was able to speak he explained that Stark enterprises had bought the building and a few others nearby to try and fix up the buildings, that apparently it was part of a project to fix up at least part of the district if not more. Then the news that we'd all have to find new places to stay in the meantime dropped, that we only had a little over a month to find someplace new to be at and well... most didn't take that news too well. Thankfully though there was an offer for those that didn't want to leave, offering to help put them up free of charge in new places or assist in living expenses so that people would be able to worry less. I figured accepting the deal wouldn't be so bad, maybe I'd get to go somewhere safer even.

I grabbed the stuff I needed too and headed for the new place being provided, apparently since I was a student they had a few additional offers. Such as offering a test for me to do, if I did well enough on it then I'd be transferred to a university either of my choosing or a place they thought would be the most help. A scholarship on them! This would be a way for me to get out, to get someplace safer, to not have to worry about walking around outside! Then I remembered I would still have to at least do well on the test... FUCK! I was barely passing my classes already, how was I supposed to pass a test like that? No WAY was it gonna be something easy... I tried to relax, the next day I'd get to take the test and hopefully get the sholarship. I tried to do all the studying I could before heading to bed that night, whispering out "I wish I was smarter..." In between bouts of headaches, never once noticing the little flashes of light. By the time I went to bed my head felt like it was gonna split open, but I called it a night and tried to get some sleep.