Hello again! Thank you for the reviews, I appreciate them a ton. Especially 'TheBewildered' who introduced this chapters idea :) This is once again an ElliexRiley because people seemed to really like them together. Thanks again, happy reading!
Ellie sat in chemistry class, staring blankly at a wall, just as she had been for the past ten minutes. She had one arm propping her head up and the other picking at a hangnail on her unpainted fingertips while the teacher droned on as he would any standard, insignificant day. But, the usual lectures were cut short due to the experiment that had given the class slight excitement for the end of the week.
"Find your partners!" The hefty voice barked as a loud clap emitted from the front of the room, snapping Ellie out of her trance just as students began standing and cruising around the classroom in search of their friends. Ellie sat kicked back in her seat knowing her friend/partner would come to greet her on her own.
Just as she had expected the dark skinned girl shuffled between groups of students, occasionally pushing a few particular douche bags out of the way, and grabbed a seat next to Ellie.
"You ready for this?" The older girl asked with enthusiasm.
Ellie, having very little clue as to what was happening replied, "Ready for what?"
"The experiment." Riley said simply, "You know the one 'professor dickhead' has been explaining for the last ten minutes..."
Ellie shook her head, "No clue what your talking about."
Letting out a sigh and placing a hand on her forehead she gave Ellie the rap.
"So then you put the mint things into the Coke bottle all at once and-" Riley was interrupted by a deep voice bellowing a command from the front of the room, "Come get the supplies!" It yelled and repeated three goddamn times.
Riley got up, "Come on, let's go get the shit." She grabbed Ellie's hand and heaved her out of the chair. While following her friend, Ellie chuckled and attempted to whisper, "Riley we're in school! Don't fucking swear!"
"Williams!" A loud voice boomed from the girls left.
Apparently it hadn't been said as quietly as she thought.
Glancing up they were greeted by a large, overweight man with thinning hair and a nose so red it looked like a cherry. Known by his well-fitting nickname of 'Professor Dickhead', he continued to scold, "Is that anyway to speak in this school!?"
The girls along with the whole classroom had froze.
Ellie glanced at the ground, "No sir." She replied flatly. Having been in this situation multiple times, she knew how to coolly handle these kind of things.
"I hear it again you'll have yourself a detention." The red-faced man shoved a big fat finger in Ellie's face, before turning back to the group he was originally talking to. The rest of the class slowly cranked back into gear, as Riley stood attempting to stifle her laughter.
Ellie looked towards her friend and failed to hold back a grin, "Yeah, whatever just go get the experiment stuff." She tried to point towards the table holding the supplies, but was instead hit with the realization that her hand was still being held by Riley's.
Riley noticing this too, released the younger girls hand with a sheepish grin, "Uh, sorry."
"Yeah, let's just go get the supplies." Ellie said while redness began to brighten her cheeks. She'd always thought of Riley as a friend, but lately something more seemed to be creeping up into her mind... Whatever, she dismissed the thought, just like she always did, as they approached the table at the front of the room that held the supplies in neat rows and piles.
Gathering the stock, which consisted of a piece of paper, a 2 liter bottle of Coke, and a roll of Mentos, the girls headed back to Ellie's desk.
Ellie set down the roll of mentos and picked up the plain white sheet of paper, "So... what? Do we like make a tube with this?" she asked Riley while rolling and unrolling the paper.
Riley rolled her eyes, "Were you even listening to a word I said?"
Ellie just replied with a shrug and an apologetic look on her face.
Riley sighed and let out a halfhearted, "Mhm, we need tape though."
"Yeah no dip," Ellie replied, "go get it."
"Whatever... bossy." Riley left with a small smirk, but before she got less than five feet away she spun around on her heel and eyed Ellie keenly, "Do not touch anything."
The younger girl scoffed, "Pfft, yeah whatever."
Riley eventually left, after badgering Ellie a little bit more, and went off to scrounge up the needed tape.
Ellie turned back to the supplies and tried to replay what Riley had said about performing the experiment.
She pondered for a moment while chewing her bottom lip, "Hm..." She picked up the roll of mentos and eyed them, "Didn't she say something about putting these in the soda?" She paused,"Yeah... yeah she did. I definitely remember her saying that these go in here." Ellie ripped off the top of the mentos roll with her teeth while untwisting the cap from the soda bottle.
Riley returned with tape just as the last mento plopped into the bubbling drink.
"Ellie no!" She lunged forward, attempting to some how reverse Ellie's senseless actions. The tape tumbled to the floor as the volcano erupted.
A spectacular soda geyser was thrown almost five feet up in the air, just enough to lick the ceiling, before falling back down and splattering the majority of the classroom with sugary fizz, "Oh shit..." Ellie muttered, regret lodging snugly into her brain. The girls both threw their hands over the top of the spout, attempting to stop the soda from creating an even larger mess, but their efforts were futile as the soda spewed from in between their fingers, spraying them and surrounding classmates.
The pupils closest to the spout skidded away from the tables they were leaning on to escape being soaked any further. Professor Dickhead stood watching in shock, his face getting redder by the second. And the girls both cursed under their breath as the soda continued to flow onto the table and to the floor.
After what felt like an eternity, the flow of soda emitting from the bottle slowed and the girls stood motionless with their hands still clasped to the top of the bottle, their breathing heavy.
Ellie hung her head low, "Nice one Ellie... Real fucking nice..." She whispered to herself.
The classroom was dead silent. Not a muscle was moved. Not a single word was spoken. The only sound was droplets of soda falling from the edge of the desk to plop into the half inch deep puddle formed on the ground.
Both girls faces glowed almost as red as Professor Dickheads as he turned towards them, probably ready to tear their fucking heads off. Literally.
With his breath shaking from anger he spoke only a few sentences through his gritted teeth, "Go clean yourselves up. You''ll both be serving a Saturday detention."
The duo slowly removed their hands from the bottle and glanced up to the professor.
"Go." He growled while raising a finger towards the classroom door.
Whilst scrambling to catch their footing on the soda covered tiles, the girls hurried out of the classroom just as their pupils began muttering opinions and comments.
Out in the hallway the duo had time to catch their breath, "Holy shit..." Riley breathed as they slowly walked to the restroom, their shoes squeaking simultaneously.
"Dude, I'm so fucking sorry." Ellie immediately began pleading, "I swear I had no idea that was going to happen. Seriously I just thought-" She was cut off by Riley's... laughter?
Ellie was beyond confused, "Wait... what?" She questioned Riley.
But the later continued to laugh for the next few seconds of walking to the bathroom, and still chuckled as they entered the lavatory.
Ellie stood there with her arms crossed, and a confused expression dressing her face, "So... you're not pissed at me?"
Riley calmed down enough to get a few sentences out, "N-no," She chuckled again. "that was fucking golden." She doubled over in laughter, "Did you see Dickheads face?! Holy shit I didn't think it could get any redder, but boy was I wrong!" She held her cramping stomach.
Ellie joined Riley in laughter, "Heh, I'm pretty sure got Tino soaked!"
Riley put on an exaggerated terrified expression, "Oh no! What if we ruined his 'oh so cool' nikes?!"
"Hopefully we did, maybe he won't fucking brag about them 24/7 anymore." Ellie replied, laughter spilling out of her and Riley's mouths.
Both girls laughed until tears formed at the corners of their eyes. Catching their breathes, they moved to the sinks and attempted to wash out the soda staining their t shirts and jeans.
"Ah, fuck." Ellie hissed as she scrubbed at her shirt, "I don't think this is gonna come out..." She trailed off, going back to scrubbing with the cheapest paper towels on the planet.
Riley was at the sink scrubbing the stickiness from in between her fingers, "Here, maybe this will help." She collected a small handful of water and then flung her hands to the left, splashing the liquid onto the red head next to her.
"Gah! What the fuck!?" The victim yelped, throwing a glare at her attacker.
The later laughed and pointed a finger as small droplets rolled down Ellie's forehead.
"Oh, you think that's funny?" Ellie smirked before running towards her own faucet, turning it on full blast, and then splashing scoops from the running water onto her friend.
Riley jumped back to avoid being completely soaked. She grinned and gathered yet another hand full of water and threw it at Ellie. The two were in full out war when the janitor walked in.
"Agh!" A few droplets landed on her as she stepped onto the battlefield, "What the- What are you two doing?!" She yelled, her short blonde hair bouncing as she ran to turn of the faucets.
Riley and Ellie glanced at each other, attempting to hide their growing smiles.
The blonde eyed them, she recognized them. Being in charge of running after-school detentions, she had seen them multiple times. After taking in there soda stained clothes and drenched appearance she sighed, "You know what... By the looks of you two, you probably already have a detention."
The girls failed to stifle their laughter at this.
The janitor smirked, "I'll take that as a yes."
The girls nodded slightly while reaching over to grab paper towels for themselves. They swiped the drops of water from their skin and clenched there clothes to soak out the water.
"I guess I can let this one slide then..." The janitor smiled and stood leaning against the wall, arms folded across her chest, waiting for them to finish.
Throwing the last crumpled paper towel into the trashcan the girls walked out of the bathroom, with Riley glancing back and calling, "See ya Saturday, Sara!"
Ellie chuckled as they walked back to chemistry, "How much you wanna bet Dickhead's face is still redder than a tomato."
Riley laughed, grabbing the handle to the classroom door, "I'd bet my life on it."
They were disappointed, though, as they walked in to find a pale-faced man, and a few helpful students beginning to sop up the soda that still coated the majority of the floor and multiple desks.
Ellie bumped Riley's shoulder, "Looks like I'm gonna have to kill you." She joked as they walked back to the disaster.
Riley hadn't heard her, being too busy glaring at the handful of classmates that threw her their disapproving looks.
They tip-toed around the puddles and scrubbing students.
Dickhead spotted the girls as they walked in, but just stood with arms crossed, "You three," He addressed the students cleaning, "leave the mess, we're going outside to do the experiment."
Riley and Ellie both shrugged, they had expected to be dogged on the second they walked in. Because of this lack of nagging they turned to join the line of students holding pop bottles and paper tubes, waiting to go outside.
"Stop right there." Dickheads stern voice resonated from behind, "You two will be staying to clean this catastrophic mess up."
Both girls sighed as they returned back to the soda covered desks. Dickhead turned towards the rest of the students, "Let's go" He said simply as he walked towards the classroom door.
The duo were left alone to clean up. Grabbing the paper towels, Ellie sighed and tossed the roll to Riley, "Okay, here ya go, have fun." She said taking a seat in a soda free chair, and kicking her feet up. A grin stretched across her face as she laced her fingers together behind her head.
Riley scoffed, "Yeah right." She chucked the paper towel roll at Ellie, who rose from the chair with a groan, "You're the dipshit who made the mess." She stated while retrieving another roll of towels. The two began working on returning the desks back to their soda free state.
They cleaned in comfortable silence for the first few minutes, occasionally breaking the silence with some small talk. Almost ten minutes had gone by when the girls finished up on the last desk. Standing next to her, Riley suddenly collected Ellie into hug. Ellie was taken aback by Riley's sudden actions. The questions in her brain began speaking as her nervousness grew.
What had she even done to get a hug from Riley? Was Riley about to pull something? Wait, why was she even thinking about this so much?! This shouldn't make you so fucking nervous, calm down!
Ellie stood frozen, too surprised to return the hug.
After only a short few seconds, which felt like eternity to Ellie, Riley obliterated all of the younger girl's thoughts by shouting, "Teamwork!" while simultaneously sticking a drenched paper towel between Ellie's shoulder blades, and darting away to prevent getting a knuckle sandwich from the flustered redhead.
Riley ran to the end of the row they were standing in, and turned with a smirk that continued to spread as she watched Ellie struggle to peel off the annoying paper glued onto her t shirt. After a few desperate seconds, Ellie achieved in removing the towel from her back, her next mission was to make Riley pay. She ran towards her friend, who stood unusually calm at the end of the row. She paid very little attention to Ellie, seemingly consumed with the action of admiring her nails.
Ellie darted towards Riley, attempting to catch her off guard, but was sent into a slippery collision with her instead. With the soda still being on the floor, Ellie's shoes lost friction, causing her to tumble into Riley, both of them landing in a heap on the floor, just barely out of reach of one of the many puddles on the floor.
After blurting out a few cuss words, Ellie groaned as she lifted her body up, only to realize that she was now straddling Riley. Her face immediately lit up with crimson colors, she was certain that it could burst into flames any moment now.
Riley was just beginning to laugh as she pulled her upper body off the floor, but was stopped by the acknowledgement Ellie's position. Her face also felt hot, but her dark, coffee colored skin disguised it.
Both of them seemed too embarrassed and stuck in the uncomfortable silence to move or speak. Ellie cursed in her mind, positive that Riley could see her embarrassment, showing through her blushes.
Ellie began stuttering, almost at a whisper, "Uh-um..."
She was interrupted, although saved may be a more fitting word, by the pounding of countless shoes approaching the room.
After scrambling away from Riley, Ellie went to stand up, but slipped once again on the puddles scattered on the floor. "Shit!" She hissed, about to latch onto a desk to support herself, but having steady hands grab her shoulders first.
"Whoa," Riley laughed still holding onto Ellie's shoulders, "Careful."
Ellie laughed nervously, "Heh, yeah. Thanks."
The class barged into the room holding their now empty paper tubes and soda bottles, many engrossed in conversations not related to the experiment.
Riley removed her hands from Ellie's shoulders quickly and turned to grab the paper towel roll, tearing off a towel and handing it to Ellie, who was already on the floor, ready to sop up puddles. The girls worked as if nothing had happened.
Class ended with the girls still scrubbing, but with it being their last class they unfortunately were available to stay and finish the job. The two left the classroom about half an hour later, tossing a now bare paper towel role into the trashcan.
With the duo shouldering on their backpacks as they exited the building, the said their goodbyes
"I'll see ya tomorrow I guess." Ellie said preparing to leave and take her separate path back to her aunts house.
"Yeah," Riley replied, "Tomorrow. A Saturday, spent in this hell-hole." She groaned.
Ellie sighed, "Yeah, sorry again for my slip up today..." She chuckled uneasily.
Riley waved a hand, as if dismissing her apology, "Nah, it's fine. Even though I'll be spending my Saturday here, I'll be spending it with you." The dark skinned girl beamed a smile that Ellie considered to be perfect, and turned, beginning her walk home.
I'll be spending it with you. For some reason that brought a smile to Ellie's face that was seemingly impossible to get rid of as she walked home, with the excitement for tomorrow already beginning to creep into her mind.
So there ya go, hope you liked it as much as the first one, of course there's no kiss this time, but I tried to make sure it was still mildly cute. Please follow, fav, and REVIEW! :) (Still taking requests!)