Shit! I cannot be late again! Kayla thought as she practically sprinted through the rain towards the school. I've already been late two days in a row, if I'm late a third time I'll get a referral! Mary'll never forgive me if I end up in detention during our free third.
She skidded into a turn next to the Dairy Queen, already panting. SHIT!
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The door to the band room opened, admitting a very tired and a very angry brunette. Her hair was a lighter brown, recently cut and layered with a black headband separating her bangs from the rest of her hair. Her eyes were a very intense brownish hazel that seemed to glow ominously as she sent off a very aggravated aura.
"You were late again… weren't you?"
"SHUT UP! I practically killed myself trying to get here on time and then had to sit through freaking 'Dances with Wolves'! AND I STILL got a tardy notice! Aaaaah!" Kayla ended her tirade with a random scream as though trying to prove her point of an injustice having been done. The other girl was not impressed.
"Whatever. You could have woken up just five minutes earlier and been perfectly fine. You brought it on yourself."
Kayla glared at the girl and moved to sit down next to her. The other girl was also a brunette though of a darker shade than Kayla's, slightly shaggy and left down without ornament. Her eyes were a calming shade of varying green with small hazel speckles that seemed altogether both calculating, and oblivious. Mary merely continued reading the book she had been reading before Kayla's minor tantrum had caused her to look up.
Kayla sighed. It was almost impossible to regain Mary's attention once it was focused on something with written words, rather than ones that were vocalized. Kayla glanced at the cover of the book, then stiffened. She didn't even try to stop herself from exploding into uncontrollable laughter.
"You're reading Naruto?!" She screamed as she snatched the manga from Mary's hands and danced just out of reach with it. "Ahahahahaha!"
"Shut up Kayla. And give it back, Justin's letting me borrow it." Mary regained the book from Kayla's slackened clasp, for she was too busy rolling on the ground and laughing hysterically to care.
"Justin?" Kayla asked, wiping a stray tear from her cheek. "Why would Justin have the first Naruto book?"
Mary shrugged, "He said he bought it when he didn't actually know anything about the series. He bought the first six books before he realized it would just be easier to watch the episodes online. He knows more about it than me anyway, I just wanted to see what people liked about it so much."
Kayla picturing their blonde, blue-eyed, egotistical friend Justin reading a Naruto manga, just shook her head in disbelief.
"What part are you at?" Kayla asked, genuinely interested.
"Here." Mary said, showing Kayla a page with a shot of Kakashi reading a book titled, 'Makeout Paradise'. "I've re-read this same page like 8 times just to look at his picture, he's cute!" Mary said with a wink.
"I know right?! He's gorgeous!" Kayla squealed, clasping her hands up by her face. "So when is Justin getting here?"
"Soon, I suppose. He's excited to find out our secret…" Mary let this last trail off as she cast a quick glance around the room to make sure none else was nearby, and ruffled through her bag, pulling out a pencil. To anyone other than Mary and Kayla, it seemed like a normal mechanical pencil, until you looked closely. It was made of carved black stone and had tiny, almost illegible words engraved into the side. Kayla had found it one fateful day many months ago, and unknowingly used it to draw a picture of a MyLittlePony for Mary. They had both ended up getting transported to a world full of pony characters and transformed into ponies themselves. The only way they managed to escape was to go on an adventure to finish the story before they were transported back out into reality again. Even though Mary had made Kayla promise that they only use the magic pencil when absolutely necessary, they both had gone on several adventure's not only to the pony land, but also to a HelloKitty world, a Candyland, and a fairy world (among many others).
"You mean we're actually gonna let him go with us? I thought you were joking!" Kayla suddenly seemed apprehensive, it had only ever been her and Mary until now.
"Of course," Mary replied, eyeing the pencil warily. "He's been wanting to know what's going on with us for weeks now, we both knew we would have to tell someone sooner or later." Kayla pouted, as Mary looked unsuccessfully for something Kayla could draw on or in.
"I'm here!" The blonde boy named Justin exclaimed as he swept into the room. "Now what's up?" He asked.
"Oh good, you're here." Mary said quickly, "Kayla and I have something to show you…" She then preceded to explain the 'magic pencil' theory to a bewildered Justin, as Kayla picked up the fallen manga and grinned.
"Haha, Lee is such a dork." Kayla giggled, as she doodled a mustache on the poor Naruto character.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing to my book?!"
"No Kayla! Not with that pencil!"
"Aw, crap…"
FLASH!
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