The Miracle Clinic

Starlight City is a town separated into five key boroughs; the northern district, the southern district, the western district, the eastern district, and the central district.

Of those five boroughs, the two with the rockiest of relationships are without a doubt the north side and the east side. From trying to have the best pizza places in the city to the east side making their tallest building just an inch taller than the north side’s tallest building, to even having several fights break out. Safe to say if there were two people you never wanted to see interact, it would be someone from the east and someone from the north.

Which is why it came as a complete shock when the north side’s Starlight High would be having their 2014 Homecoming dance alongside their rival school, the east side’s Seastar High. Several of the students of Starlight High would discuss it in the hall next to a poster breaking the news.

“We have to dance with those east side losers?” Trisha groans.

“This is gonna be so weird,” Victor sighs.

“Who thought this was okay?!” Randy shouts.

“Take a chill pill,” Bernard nudges Randy, “Freshmen like you are going to lose your voice if you screech like that all the tim-”

Though before Bernard can finish his complaint, fellow senior and ex-student council president Evan Dixon shoves his way past him and towards the sitting X Locke, the new student council president.

“Hah! What a complete mess you made having us share a homecoming with Seastar!” Evan laughs as he elbows X, “Take a look at this complete buffoon! This is why I should’ve stayed as student council president.”

“Y’know there actually weren’t any plans to even have a homecoming this year. The school didn’t have any funding left to give after how costly those renovations last year were. Oh and all the ‘business meetings’ you did all the time,” X Locke explains, “If I didn’t reach out to Seastar High, then you all wouldn’t even have a dance to get mad about. Something Dixon here was more than fine with happening.”

People start to get quiet before X remarks, “Y’know, if this joint homecoming really is as terrible as you all claim, I’ll just let Seastar know that they can go ahead and have their own while we’ll be stuck with none.”

The entire angry mob falls silent, some beginning to walk away in embarrassment.

“Thought so,” X remarks as he leaves sipping on a carton of apple juice.

“Huh, didn’t expect that from him,” Ronnie remarks as he makes his way to the club meeting.

THE MIRACLE CLINIC: SEASON 2

During study hall, members of the miracle clinic are gathered in Amnestor’s classroom chatting about the recent announcement. Randy still seems upset about the whole thing but nobody’s really giving him the time of day. Elizabeth is silently getting some homework done while Amnestor is at his desk sipping some coffee.

“I know most are upset about this, but I’m glad we’re having a joint homecoming,” Sammy says as she sits atop a desk, “It’s been hard trying to reconnect with some of my friends from Seastar.”

“Yeah I feel you,” Alex remarks, “I don’t think any of us got to see Vanessa or Blanko over break.”

“But still, I just hope most people don’t make the whole rivalry thing so extreme,” Marcus sighs.

“Yeah imagine how annoying everyone’s gonna be at the dance,” Selina groans before looking at Randy.

“What?” Randy questions, “Is it wrong to not want to show off how better we are?”

“Yeah okay Randy,” Selina sighs.

As they all sit there contemplating, Amnestor finishes his cup of coffee and interjects, “Y’know, I heard Miss Champion works part-time at a nearby dance studio. I’m sure she’d love to see some of the students show up.”

“The culinary teacher?” Alex questions, “Huh didn’t know that.”

That’s when Marcus connects all the dots in his head and comes up with an idea, “Hey I got it! Since we’re going to be dancing with our rival school, can’t we just one-up them with how good our dance moves are?”

Amnestor tries to hide his proud smile while the other kids in the room look at Marcus.

“That’s actually a pretty good idea!” Selina states.

“I’ll text up some of the other sophomores and see if they’d like to come with,” Ronnie states with Alex doing the same, “You’re coming too right Elizabeth?”

“Huh? Uh yeah,” Elizabeth states without lifting her head to look at them.

Seeing something’s off but not wanting to make things awkward, Ronnie remarks, “All right let’s dance our hearts out! Because I got a feeling this is gonna be one helluva homecoming!”

“Does that include us our-” Randy tries to whisper to Selina before getting cut off by a scene transition.

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Inside the newly opened Dawnbreak Dance Studio, a spinoff of the Dawnbreak Health & Fitness Center, the main instructor for the studio, Zesti Champion, waves goodbye to the several elderly women who just got done with the yoga session. Zesti’s wearing a white unzipped workout jacket over a black crop top and black yoga pants.

“Thank you and have a nice day, make sure to do some practice outside of the weekly sessions,” Zesti encourages the elderly women as they leave.

Once they do, she sighs as she looks at the now empty dance studio. She has to leave as soon as she can from school just to get here, teach some elderly women some yoga, and then do nothing but wait for somebody to eventually enter the doors of the place. However, it’s already been a few months and the only regular who comes in is-

“Wow this place looks as lively as the folks who just left,” the newly entered Casey Burns remarks.

Casey Burns is an old friend of hers who runs a record store a few blocks away, he tends to stop by whenever he gets off his shift just to poke fun at the place. Casey has pale white skin, slightly wavy goldish blonde hair which he’s tied up in a man bun, green eyes, sapphire earrings, multiple gold bracelets on his forearms, two piercings by his left eyebrow, and a split tongue. Burns is also wearing a white turtleneck tank top, gray baggy sweatpants, a gold chain around his neck, and black flip-flops.

“Nice to see you’re still the Champion of Failing,” Casey teases as he hands Zesti a water bottle.

Out of pride, Zesti doesn’t take it as she remarks, “Yeah yeah, well one day, I’m certain there will be a flood of people coming in through those very doors.”

Zesti motions towards the front entrance, and the two just stare at it for a few seconds.

“Y’know just because you said that doesn’t mean it’s going to happen-” Casey remarks before being immediately proven wrong as a flood of people come into the dance studio through those very front doors.

Except it’s people Zesti actually knows.

It’s a group of the students she teaches at Starlight High; Ronnie Everst, Marcus Veridan, Alex Smith, Elizabeth Moore, Selina Gulvonac, Sammy Becken, Randy Buzz, Rebecca Jenksin, Christopher Wrinkle, Harry ‘Hamster’ Martin, Bennet the hamster, and Carli Kim.

“Wow this place is huge,” Christopher says as he looks at the seemingly endless dance studio.

“Christopher you’re looking at your reflection,” Rebecca sighs as Christopher is looking into the all glass walls.

“Oh I knew that,” Christopher lies to hide his embarrassment.

Carli is looking around as she remarks, “I’ve never actually been to one of these before.”

“Yeah me neither,” Hamster adds while Bennet nods in agreement.

As the rest of the high schoolers are chatting, both Casey & Zesti can’t believe what they’re seeing before Zesti shoots Casey a sly smirk before walking forward and announcing, “Well it’s quite a shock to see my students here today. How can I help you guys today?”

Ronnie answers by saying, “We want to get better at dancing, so we went to the best place in town where you can do just that.”

Flattered, Zesti remarks, “Okay then, for now just show me what you guys can do and we can get into the actual training tomorrow!”

As she looks around at the students getting ready to dance, she can’t help but feel like a miracle has been granted to her business. One that she will forever be thankful for getting.

At least that’s what she thought before the kids started to dance.

Noticing their dance moves Casey Burns whispers to Zesti, “Well you sure got your work cut out for ya’, these kids fuckin’ suck at dancing.”

All across the room are high schoolers who can’t dance trying to dance; Rebecca and Christopher have very stiff robotic-movement, Alex is just doing clapping push-ups, Selina is dancing like one of those inflatable tube men blowing in the wind, Elizabeth is trying to pass off taekwondo kicks as dance moves, Ronnie has started up a conga line that nobody has joined, Carli is just lightly swaying back and forth, and Hamster is trying to do the funky chicken.

“Hey they aren’t all that bad,” Zesti whispers back, “In fact, there’s four who are pretty good compared to the rest.”

Zesti points to Marcus who’s swinging his legs with a frenetic energy most in the room don’t have.

“If he tried using his arms more then he’d be very good,” Zesti states before pointing to Sammy, “As for her, she isn’t too afraid to do whatever dance move comes to mind, so she’s much freer with her movements.”

“And for the other two?” Casey questions.

“Well, have you seen what they’re doing?” Zesti asks, “It’s something that you can only see once in a lifetime.”

The thing she is talking about is Randy Buzz having a dance-off with somebody. Randy does several backflips before doing the splits and twirling his legs around as he goes into breakdancing.

“Someone give me a fire beat!” Randy yells as he begins to spin on his head, “Because I’m going all out!”

However as he spins on his head, he can’t keep his balance up perfectly so he falls down on the ground. Leaving his opponent the victor of the match. And that opponent, who is doing the macarena in front of Randy’s eyes, is Bennet the Hamster.

“...Why did I have a dance-off with a rat….and lose?!” Randy groans as the adrenaline of being in a dance-off finally wears off.

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The sun begins to set as the Dawnbreak Dance Studio closes up for the day, Zesti waves all of her students and now patrons a good night as she walks off. The others also begin to go their separate ways; Sammy has some hockey practice, Rebecca needs to attend her tutoring, Selina has work at the bookstore, Randy vanishes out of embarrassment, Christopher also has work at Hand-&-Hand Movers, and Hamster has to go take a tired Bennet back home. Meaning that the only people walking together are Ronnie, Elizabeth, Alex, & Marcus.

“Been a while since it’s been just the 4 of us huh?” Ronnie questions.

“Definitely feels like it,” Marcus states, “We’re still in the first month of school but so much has happened.”

“A bit too much if you ask me,” Alex groans

“Uh huh,” Elizabeth says as the words she tries to say remain stuck in her throat.

As the group keeps on walking, Elizabeth looks at the street and after seeing the name of it, she freezes. The group stops to turn and look at her.

“Hey, everything okay Elizabeth?” Marcus questions.

“Y-yeah,” Elizabeth lies, “Though do you mind if we just take a different street?”

“Uh sure,” Ronnie, not really seeing the issue, responds.

So the group of four friends take a right at the next intersection they spot instead of going down that road once more. However, as they walk down this road, the group spot an old yet familiar site.

“My god, how come we almost forgot about this place?” Ronnie questions.

“I can’t even remember the last time we went here,” Marcus adds.

“I can,” Elizabeth murmurs so none of them hear.

Alex playfully slaps her on the back before saying, “The last one in has to pay for the food!”

The group of four all quickly try to rush into the restaurant, the one where they’ve shared countless memories the year prior. The one where they’ve helped a certain staff member in a way that could only be described as a miracle, before he too returned the favor.

That restaurant, of course, is Burrito Bistro. And today, they’d be in for one eventful feast there.

See You Next Chapter!~