If you had one shot…would you capture it…or let it slip?
Dirty Little Secret
Chapter Two
The weekend rolled by quicker than it should have or at least that's how it felt like. Tala, as promised, eventually assisted his twin sister with calculus. Ironically enough, Evian knew her stuff and Tala ended up 'encouraging' her to do the best of her ability instead of actually 'tutoring' her.
"We're going to be late for school, Ev," The redhead seventeen year old rolled his eyes as he watched his sister apply mascara.
"Hold on a second, god," She stared at herself in the mirror with her mouth open, putting on the mascara, which to Tala really didn't make a modification in his sister's appearance. He sighed.
"You have a test first thing in the morning, remember? You studied for a reason." He spoke logically, but of course logic didn't really float Evian's boat. Then again, logic didn't float any blonde's boat – that was Tala's premise.
Luckily enough, with Tala's nagging and crazy driving, the MaCaffery twins made it to school even before the bell rang. The two shared a locker, which was half-filled with Tala's two-week old lunches. The other half was overflowing with Evian's things, which even included some extra clothes for some strange reason…
"What do you have first period?" Evian asked as she squat down to pick out her textbooks on the bottom shelf.
"Chem," He answered, "Hurry up, woman!"
"I have a name, moron," She made a face. "Just go to class, I'm going the other way anyway; I have calculus on second floor."
"Fine; meet me here after school, k?" He disappeared into the crowded hallway. As soon as the bell rung through the school, the students scurried to their classes. The hallways emptied out soon. Evian entered her calculus class, prepared more than ever. This time she had actually studied and even managed to get some help from her smarter half, Tala. He wasn't a super genius, but he carried good enough marks to make the parents proud of their child.
Evian walked in between the desks and headed towards her desk, which was situated smack dab in the middle of the classroom. The room filled up quickly as the students rushed into class, hoping Mr. Earl wouldn't mark them late and send them to the office to obtain a late slip.
Evian took out her pencil and calculator from her backpack and set them on her desk. She, along with everyone else, waited for the teacher to hand out the test papers.
"Grade twelve's," Mr. Earl spoke, his hands full with a stack of stapled papers. "Remember, as soon as you get your test, write your name. If I see a test with no name on it, you will automatically get a zero. Don't cheat; if I even think you are cheating, I will take your test away and again, you'll receive a zero. Relax, and take your time. This test is fairly straight forward. You can begin when you get your test." The teacher started handing out the test papers from the far left side of the class. Eventually, every student in the class got their test papers.
Evian sat in her chair and bit her nails. She flipped through the test; there were three pages in total. She looked at the very first question: A spherical balloon is to be deflated so that its radius decreases at a constant rate of fifteen centimeters per minute. Determine the rate per minute the air is removed when the radius of the balloon is nine centimeters. She didn't have a clue what the question wanted her to do. She skipped the question and moved on to the next…and the next…and the next.
She panicked; she blanked out completely. She had no idea what she was supposed to do. At this point, she only had twenty minutes to finish up the test. She had only answered two or so questions, and even then, she wasn't too sure if her answers were even close to correct. Frustrated, she exhaled out loudly and looked towards the chalkboard, deep in thought. She knew this stupid math knowledge was somewhere in the back of her brain. Unintentionally, she looked to her right, and there he was, the 'Brain'. She watched as Kai whipped through the test as if it was nothing.
She felt envious, to a certain extent. He probably didn't even study as much as she did, yet, he was going to get a mark in the nineties while she would receive a failing grade. She had the sudden urge to just kill him. What irked her more was the fact that she considered he was cheating; how else could a 'half-loser' be so smart?
She felt bad calling him names; she was stupider, what did that make her? She didn't want to know.
About a minute before the class ended, Mr. Earl had come around and collected the tests from each student. As everyone was leaving, the teacher called the blonde back.
"I need to speak with you after school, Evian, concerning something more important than lip gloss and cell phones, I'm sure," He looked at the seventeen year old sternly.
"Okay, Mr. Earl." She agreed, not smiling, knowing she might probably in some sort of trouble. "Can I go to class now?"
"Yes, go on, but remember, after school." He reminded. The blonde nodded and walked out of her math class, wondering what her calculus teacher had to tell her. It seemed pretty important. She headed off to her English class, which she suspected would be as boring as any other day. They were currently reading Hamlet, probably the most boring of any English reading requirements.
x x x
Tala shoved a few books into his locker and got out the paper bag that sat on the top shelf, containing his lunch his mother had made him before she left for work. He scanned the hallways to spot his twin. Convincing himself that his twin sister probably went to buy lunch with her friends, he strolled off to the cafeteria.
He grabbed a seat next to Marshal who only had a can of pop for lunch. "Have you seen Ev?" The redhead asked his friend. He shook his head.
"Yo, man, did you hear?" The brunette looked excited about thing Tala did not know of.
"Hear about what?" Tala unrolled the paper bad and dumped the contents on the cafeteria table. An apple rolled out, a juice box fell out, and a sandwich, with the crust cut off, landed closely by the other two items.
"Some new blade tournament," The brunette's eyes went wide, "And they're applying some hype new rules, man!"
"Like…?"
"Like you aren't officially on the BBA tournament before you do this thing they're asking all the teams to do. If your team succeeds, then you can actually register to be on the tournament."
"What thing?"
"They didn't say. They're keeping it a secret so everyone can get a fair shot at it. But everyone's makin' teams, all over the world. And this time, they don't want the students to go around the world and miss school, right? So you know what the BBA are doing? They're hooking up with all the school boards internationally; they're going to make us do our school work online, and send our assignments to our school through e-mail."
"But that's not exactly a good idea. There are a lot of people, and if so many people are sending shit over the net at the same time, aren't the computers going to crash or something?"
"Who gives a fuck, man?" Marshal grinned, finishing the remainder of his pop. "All I know is, we gotta get a fucking team together real soon."
"Alright…but we need six people. The rules changed last year, remember? Six people, three pairs. There's only two of us." Tala reminded.
"That's where the Beyblade club comes in…"
"Are you insane? Half the people in there suck monkey balls. I mean, my sister is probably better than them, and she's like never even touched a beyblade before, in her entire life." Tala made a face.
"Well Kai and that pink-haired chick are pretty good, you know."
"I guess…"
"And they went to the tournament last year too. Too bad they got disqualified before the semi-finals."
"Disqualified? As in…kicked out? Why?" Tala questioned. He knew the Kai guy and his sister had a team last year – not a really good one though – but he thought they had lost; he never even considered them to be disqualified.
"Something happened with the team," The brunette shrugged, "There's a lot of stories' flying around about the thing but the one I've heard was that the team broke apart because of a dispute."
"What kind of dispute?"
"Some guy named Bryan was the team captain right? So he made up this whole battle plan, and some of the team members didn't like it, so they went against it. Apparently there was a fight one night, and they got disqualified." Marshal then grinned, "That's an advantage for us; we need team members, and they might just be the people."
"I don't know…we don't really know them." The redhead told his friend. "I'll pick up the Career Blade magazine after school today, and check out the rules and stuff and when the deadlines for registering are. I don't think we can join this year, though. We don't know enough people."
x x x
"Mr. Francis, can I go to the washroom, please?" Evian asked, breaking the silence in the class.
"This is an important lesson, Evian,"
"I'll be real quick." She reasoned. The teacher nodded, and the blonde left the classroom and darted towards the washroom. She pushed the red door and entered the pink-tiled washroom. She immediately went where the mirrors were and examined her hair. "I knew I should have put more hair mousse…" She sighed, combing the straight, corn blonde strands with her fingers.
Thud.
She ignored the noise assuming someone was probably in one of the stalls.
Thud…thud…thud!
Nervous, the blonde bent down and looked under the stalls. She didn't see anyone's feet; this frightened her even more. The sound was just like the sound she had heard on Friday at home.
Thud.
There it was again. "Um…hello?" She called out. "Anyone in here?"
Thud…
The noise seemed to be coming from the last stall in the corner. How safe was it to actually go check out the situation? She was wearing a pair of runners today, so if anyone – or anything – was hiding in there, she could make a run for it. Forcing the terrified feeling down in the pit of her stomach, she slowly walked in the direction of the last stall. "Hello?"
She took small steps, one at a time at a snail's pace. She reached her destination. She paused for some time to see if she could hear the sound again. She placed both hands on the door. "I'm…coming in…" As soon as she spoke, she realized it was stupid. What if it was a sexual predator hiding in there, just waiting for her? Or any other girl for that matter? Gradually, she began to push the door. Funny enough, it was unlocked.
"What are you doing?"
Evian turned around to face a girl, who was probably in a lower grade than her, standing by the entrance of the washroom.
"N-nothing…I dropped my earring somewhere. I can't find it." She lied, hiding her hands behind herself, which made it even more obvious she was doing something.
"But you have both earrings on your ears…" The younger girl looked at the blonde suspiciously. Evian felt irritated by the vast amount of questions she was being asked by the nosey girl who she didn't even know.
"It's my friend's earring; she's going to kill me." Evian sighed, "So uh…see ya." She quickly exited the washroom, not wanting to be asked anymore time consuming questions, which she found rather silly. She headed back to her accounting class.
She sat quietly for the rest of the period, in the back of the class, this time actually a bit curious about the noise. It was an unusual kind of noise. It was like there were two noises at once: one sounded as if there was a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, and very faintly, she could hear a purr, or something of the like. She couldn't describe it, but whatever it was, this time it really did scare her.
What was strange was…she had heard it at home…and now at school…at two different places, but the same noise. Maybe it was someone trying to scare her, but that didn't make any sense. Who would sneak into her house, that late at night, just to try to scare her? Plus, how did the person know she was going to the washroom? Unless…she was being stalked. But she doubted that.
x x x
The hallways started to empty out as students exited the school. Tala leaned against the locker with his hands shoved into the pockets of his DAKINE hoodie. He rolled his eyes; not only was his sister late in the morning for school, but she was even late after school. It was getting ridiculous. Maybe he should just leave, that should teach her a lesson.
Yes, but then she'd murder me…and I can't hit her back because she just HAD to be a giiiiiirrrrllll… The best thing to do was wait.
"Hey! Tala!"
Upon hearing his name, he turned to face his left. He watched a recognizable pink-haired girl from his chemistry class walk in his direction with her step brother strolling along behind her.
"Hey…" He moved away from the lockers. "You're still at school? Is there practice or something today?" He asked, wondering if he had misheard the school announcements in the morning.
"No…hey, so where's your sister?" Mariah asked.
"I don't know; Evian's fucked in the head. I told the girl to meet me here after school. She probably fucking left with Evelyn or something. What a bitch." He fumed.
"Actually, I think she had to stick around for a while; Mr. Earl had to talk to her or something…" Kai professed.
"Oh…" Tala went as red as his hair. "Well…she must not know I called her a bitch…you guys heard nothing…" He grinned.
"Sure," The pink-haired girl chuckled. "So we'll wait with you, k?"
"Really? She might take a while. We might be pretty late. Plus I have to head to the corner store and pick something up." He told them.
"Its fine," Kai shrugged. "Our house is like a block away from yours anyway."
"It is?" Tala was more clueless than his sister. He felt a bit egotistical; it seemed as if Mariah and Kai knew about him while he only knew their names. After standing around for another fifteen minutes, Tala was the first to decide that he was going to go the calculus room upstairs and see what was really going on. Maybe she had gotten herself a detention for being a retard.
"How's your sister doing in calculus?" Kai asked.
"She's doing alright,"
"Really? Because Mr. Earl only asks students to stay in when they're doing really bad." The slate-haired teen defied. Tala chose to ignore the elaboration; Evian had told him she was doing okay in calculus whenever he asked, and he asked pretty frequently. She didn't tell him she was having any difficulties in the course. And if what Kai said was correct and if she really was doing badly in calculus, mom and dad wouldn't be too happy to hear about it.
Approaching the calculus room, the three teens stood outside the closed door.
"Maybe she's just getting some extra help," Mariah assumed. After another five minutes, the blonde came out of the classroom looking a bit upset, but that feeling was quickly concealed when she realized she had some company.
"…uh…hi?" She wasn't expecting people, especially not these people.
"What the fuck was that about?" Tala asked and started walking. He seemed pissed; too bad he wasn't aware of the fact that his sister was even more pissed.
"What?" Evian asked, hitching her backpack a bit higher.
"You had to talk to Mr. Earl?" Mariah asked.
"Oh, that," Evian smiled, "No, he was just…asking me how I was doing in calculus."
"So how are you doing?" Tala asked, "Honestly?"
"I'm doing good," She turned to Mariah and Kai, "You guys were waiting with Tala?"
"Yeah; we live really close you know." Mariah said. Her hair was let down; it reached a few inches past her shoulders.
"I know; I've seen you guys walk home before." The blonde said. She looked at the slate-haired teen, "How'd you do on today's test?" She asked even though she knew the answer.
"Wicked awesome," He grinned, "It was really easy." He was dressed in a pair of nice denim jeans with an un-tucked white shirt, along with a pair of navy Converse-Weapon's. He scored quite a lot of points in the fashion department, for a guy.
"I found it really easy too." Evian lied. Smart ass… She wasn't exactly in the mood to talk to people other than her brother. Tala was literally her diary. She told him everything. Except for super big things a brother should never know.
"You guys want a ride or something? I've got my car here today," Tala offered.
"Anything's better than walking." Mariah sighed in relief. They walked up to a rusty, green Toyota.
"I know what you're thinking…" Tala rolled his eyes and unlocked the door, "It's my parents' old car actually. It's a piece of crap, but at least it gets me everywhere. Besides, I'm broke. But don't worry; I recently picked up an application from Burger King." He shrugged. Evian got in the back. Mariah got into the back as well. Kai took a seat in the front by Tala. The drive to the Hiwatari-Wong's house took less than ten minutes.
"So we'll see you two tomorrow after school for practice?" Kai asked, hoping out of the car.
"After school? Me?" Evian asked. She shook her head, "No…I don't blade."
"Really?" He asked, shocked more than ever. "I guess I just thought you did since Tala does." He shrugged. "I'll see you tomorrow in calculus anyway, though." He grinned.
"Yeah…"
"Alright, see ya guys! Bye!" Mariah waved. The green Toyota drove off. The car fell silent. Tala looked at the blonde through his rearview mirror. Her arms were crossed and her head rested on the window. She held a gloomy expression.
"Did you lose your favourite lip gloss or something?" He asked, partially in a joking way.
"No…"
"Something I should know about?" He watched as she sat up. She shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know…"
"Let me guess: you're…failing calculus?"
"Well, not really. Maybe. Mr. Earl said if I bombed today's test, then totally. If I at least passed today's test, I'll still be passing the course, but not by a lot. I know I did really badly on today's test. And I studied really hard this time, and that's what disturbs me even more." She heaved a sigh, "Tala, am I dumb?"
"You're not dumb, you just don't try."
"But I did try!" She moved her side bangs away from her sea green eyes. "And I even got you to help me this time. I even did my homework. When it comes to tests and quizzes, I just freeze. I don't remember anything I studied. I'm like, a total moron."
"Don't discourage yourself," He parked the car near the local corner store. "I'll help you with calculus once we get home, k? And I wont tell mom and dad…unless you don't try and piss me off completely," He unlocked the door. "I'll be right back."
"Get me some candy!" She managed to shout before he got out of the car. She sighed and leaned her head against the window again. But I do try…
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ParadoxodaraP – THAT WAS THE BEST REVIEW I'VE EVER RECEIVED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE! Do YOU realize what it means to me? Your review actually encourages ME to go do MY calculus homework and feel a bit better about myself! Thank you so much! That was just…the most amazing review I have EVER gotten! At first I thought it was going to be a flame, and that would've totally discouraged me…but noooo!
I'm trying to make this story as realistic as possible…I'm in grade 12 myself, and I KNOW what goes on, and I know that there aren't very many perverted guys (to be honest, there aren't any), and there really isn't such thing as popular guys in high school – not in mine anyway. Everyone's too busy worrying about universities and colleges.
I totally agree with you. Most of the stories with OCs just suck major ass. You can't get away without either reading a story about Kai being some player or whatever and falling for the new, ugliest loner girl in school (come on...we all know that's not true...guys aren't like that)...or the OC is some kind of punk with black hair and black eyes and black everything. It's super annoying. Or, the OC is like some serious loner, who always sits in the back of the class...and that is so not true. And these days, I've been reading stories (I've tried avoiding them actually) where the OC mouths off to the teacher...and they don't get in trouble for it. I know if I did that too a teacher, I'd get my ass kicked. I'd get suspended or expelled.
Anyways, you just totally made my day. I don't know, I might even think twice about myself from now on just because of your review! I really needed the encouragement especially since my parents were giving me bull for so long. I feel so much better! I loooooove you! You totally rock! Long reply…lol. I'm going to totally print out your review, and frame it. And I'm actually going to do that (it's printing right now, by the way…).
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AnimeGirl329 – Ha ha! Yeah, I think I'm pretty good at math, it's just that I don't try and I wait till the last minute to actually do my homework, or study for a test. It sucks, really. Don't procrastinate! I honestly think I have like A.D.D or something.
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