I think the fact I just posted the last chapter and am already typing up this one shows how much I love this character. Anyway, here we go.
The day ended pretty well. I only have that project in Musical Production that I need to start. I started walking to my dorm when my phone vibrated. Grabbing the phone I saw that Ada texted me.
Phone conversation, A: Ada and D: Dominic.
A: Hey kid
D: Hey
A: Can you meet me at parking lot B? I'll be at the tree next to the exit
D: Yeah sure I'll be right there
After sending that last text I ran from the dormitories to the school parking lot. Looking at the sign I seen the letter D so that meant B was on the other side of the school. I ran from D to C and I was out of breath. I was never the best when it came to athletics. After taking a moment to catch my breath I started running to B.
When I saw B I couldn't see her at the tree. I guess somehow I made it here first. I went to the tree and played some music while I waited. Or so I thought. As soon as I started playing my music she jumped out of the tree! She landed a perfect flip in front of me. The suddenness of her just being there scared the living shit out of me. I don't think I jumped so high, or into a tree that hard in my life. "Ow shit," I said regaining my composure.
"That was pretty pathetic. You got scared by me just jumping in front of you." She barely said from laughing so hard. At least she wasn't mad, right?
"Heh-heh, Well I was never good when it came to anything scary" I responded, I was extremely embarrassed. She just kept on laughing. When she finally calmed down I spoke up again. "So we doing the project right?"
"Damn straight we are" she responded. "I think we need to find out what our genre will be, who will make the beat, who will make the lyrics and so on." I could definitely tell she still didn't like me, but I did appreciate that she was at least giving me a chance.
"I mean we can find out the beat after we find out the genre. Do you like singing or rapping?" I asked as we walked to the nearest bench.
"I like to sing, Mom had always said I had an amazing voice," she answered looking suddenly sad.
Listening to the wordplay I could tell something must've happened to her mother. "I won't ask you what happened since something like that must be a hard topic to bring up." I would know too, my mother just before high school graduation died of a drug overdose. I almost didn't attend it. She left me and my siblings each about ten thousand dollars. Putting that with my college fund I started since middle school I had just barely enough for my tuition added with my two jobs. I work at subway and am a manager at Family Dollar. Sadly when Mom died the wouldn't let me have custody of my brother and sister so they live with my aunt. Bad news about that is my aunt is a horrible person. I just hope they'll be alright.
"Hello? Earth to Kid can you hear me?" I suddenly heard Ada say. I just looked at her. "You're a weird child. Anyway, what about you? Rapping or singing?"
"Oh," I chuckled, "Well unlike you I have no singing talent what-so-ever so I'm a rapper. If that's okay anyway," I continued becoming extremely shy. Social Anxiety kicking in again, yay!
She seemed to be holding in a scoff. I guess she wasn't a big fan of rappers. "Who do you listen to? That will determine whether or not I'm okay with it," she responded. She looked at me waiting for my answer.
"I mostly listen to a guy named NF, although I also listen to Witt Lowry, Eminem, and B.O.B.," I explained. Would she know who most of them are? I mean they are all old rappers from back in the twenty-first century. Out of them the two most famous are Eminem and NF.
"Any mumble rap?" she asked. Mumble rap took over the rap genre about fifteen years ago.
I personally hate mumble rappers, I just feel like they have no talent. If she thought differently the whatever. "Nope," I answered, slightly shaking, scared she'd take offense to my answer.
"Alright, we're good," she said getting up. "Let's go to my dorm since I have no roommate,"
"It's the same way with my dorm room situation, I was given a room without a roommate," I informed her, "But I need to fix it up a bit."
"What do you mean?"
"Well the dorm has a few holes everywhere, the water in the bathroom isn't working, and the door isn't the best" I explained.
She nodded in response. Soon after she shook her head, "Alright so my dorm it is then," I nodded embarrassed, for some unknown reason.
She led the way to her dorm. The walk was pretty silent so the only noise was from the strong wind, in what was already extremely cold weather. When we finally made it to the dorm I was freezing cold, "Jesus Christ! I'm so cold!" I complained pacing back and forth trying to warm myself up with little to no results.
She shook her head, "That wasn't that bad, I'm in short sleeves and I'm perfectly fine. Again pathetic."
"I already know I'm pathetic," I said chuckling. "But I mean everyone who isn't apart of the evolved human race is freezing right now," I explained. "Besides I also decided to be a stupid and wear shorts with this short sleeve shirt in early December,"
"A stupid? Are you naturally retarded or was that on purpose?" She said confused and sarcastically. She sat on her couch with one leg bent and the other on the coffee table.
"Um, actually it's both!" I pointed out, self-deprecating myself for humor. I've always been like that, people mistake it for depression but it's just the way I joke. I just kept standing. She motioned her hand, although I couldn't depict the message.
"You gonna sit down?" She asked, annoyed. Her sudden annoyance made the fear I had to grow as I sat down next to her. I had my elbows on my knees and my hands tangled within each other as I was leaning forward. "What inspired you to want to rap?" she suddenly asked.
It had caught me off guard. "I-uh-um, I was constantly getting bullied between middle and high school, I also had problems at home, I hated the way I looked, my body, my face, my personality, everything. I needed a way to cope, a way to let out my emotions without breaking or hitting something. So I wouldn't hurt anyone or cry in front of people. I didn't want my brother and sister to always see me angry or sad. I started listening to NF and Eminem and thought about how personal they got. Soon I started writing lyrics and then I realized that this was what I wanted my future to be. I wanted to be like them. I also hope that one day my music would help a little girl or boy. Anyone." I answered, putting too much info in. At least in my opinion. "Oh uh sorry to much info, how about you?"
It seemed like I caught her off guard. "N-Nothing much really," she said with a slight blush. "I mainly to be a professional Valhalla Player. I just had a good voice and thought maybe I could this on the side." We sat in silence for a bit, "Well we should probably get started," she said grabbing her computer, she seemed to be back to normal. "I'll make the beat, you do the lyrics," she commanded.
I nodded grabbing my computer. "If you don't mind me asking, who had bullied you?" she asked.
I sighed, she was probably just trying to start a conversation, but I appreciated her acting as if it concerned her. "Well two of them you definitely know since you faced them in the tournament. The two in middle school were Asuri and her brother Mordex, the wolf twins. I don't know if you know Mordex but definitely Asuri since you beat her first round in the championship. The biggest bully in high school was the last person you faced, Xull. Man, he had it out for me, he even got my friends to turn against me." I said shaking my head. "What kind of song should this be?"
"Why not make it being about trapped inside your feelings? I mean I could really relate to that since I don't share my feelings at all. And before you ask I will not open up to you." She quickly answered. "Just give me a chorus too," she commanded, again. I guess we know the leader of the project.
"Okay, why don't we write down the lyrics before we make the beat?" I suggested, "It would be easier" I defended.
"Ugh whatever, hey what's your name by the way?" She asked, just now realizing she never heard my name.
"Oh, I'm Dominic," I answered, hiding the smile that she wanted to know my name.
We just finished the lyrics and are now starting the beat. Looking at the time I saw it was already 8:30 p.m. "Oh shoot! I gotta go, I've overstayed my welcome," I said panicking.
She looked at the time, she looked at me as I grabbed my bag. As I started to walk out she grabbed my bag and threw me on the couch. "Calm down Dom. You can stay here tonight, besides your dorm is shit. And we need to work on this project. Also knowing how you were earlier, you'd freeze to death before you made it to your dorm, so just stay the night, retard,"
"Um thanks, loads," I said, stunned. I wasn't expecting that in the slightest. Then I heard the wind roar pretty loudly. Thank the lord I don't have to go out in that!
So we continued to work on the beat. "What about this?" she asked, handing me one of her headphone pods. I held it next to my ear. She played the beat, it was a good high pitched beat.
I nodded not able to hide the smile that showed up on my face. "That's a great beat!" I said, excited I think.
I saw her smile from my comment. "Good answer, cuz if you said it wasn't good I would have had to change your mind with those," she said evilly, pointing to her two pistols. I chuckled nervously, I knew she was joking, but she also seemed serious. "Alright, I reckon we take a break for tonight!" she said stretching.
"Sure, what should we do?" I asked. I had no idea what we could do. It's not like this was my dorm.
"Actually we need to eat! I have some leftover pizza from yesterday if you want some," she exclaimed. Now that she had mentioned it I was hungry.
"Yeah actually, I'm starving" I answered. We chuckled at my remark. It seems like she warmed up to me, at least a little bit. She grabbed the pizza and stacked every piece on the plate. She put the timer on the microwave to 1:30 and started the microwave.
"Oh, I have a weird combination when it comes to pizza by the way, mostly when it's dominoes," she said, kind of nervously.
As a response, I chuckled and said "Can't be weirder than my combination,"
She smirked and quipped back "Banana Peppers and Black Olives," When she said that my eyes widened. Misunderstanding she continued to speak, "Told ya, I have a weird combination,"
"No, no, no. I don't think you understand my surprise, that also just so happens to be my combination when it comes to pizza!" I exclaimed, joyfully. This was absolutely amazing and hilarious. What were the chances!?
"No fucking way," she responded in disbelief. I only nodded walking to her table. I had forgotten how big her dorm was since she was a part of the Valhalla, most likely anyway. It was at least three times larger than mine! I also had grabbed the cheapest one available to save money, also since it was the only one I could afford.
As I was about to speak the microwave beeped signaling it was finished, Ada then grabbed the plate and set it on the table. Looking at the food I still couldn't believe that we had the same weird but amazing combination in toppings. We sat down and dug in. "Yo kid, uh I mean Dom, I have a request for ya," she said. I nodded signaling her to continue, "Well, uh, stupid really but, my parents are on a business trip and they were the only ones who watched me play each of my Valhalla games... in person anyway and well... you are the only person here I can really consider a friend and I would appreciate it if, uh..."
She seemed to have been struggling so I decided to finish, "You want to have someone to be there while you're playing. Someone, you can look at while you're midgame and give you just that extra boost to try your best. Someone you know other than your teammates and celebrate every win," I interrupted, helping her.
"Yeah, more or less, how'd you know? The last few parts anyway?" she asked, confused, and embarrassed. I think anyway. About asking me to be there anyway.
"Well first of all, sure. Secondly in middle school when I was athletic I was a part of the peewee football team but I fucked up my leg which made it so I couldn't play any longer, it was a hard time. I could've tried to make it in high school but I got scared and didn't show up to tryouts," I explained. I wasn't the happiest at the time.
She just looked down and ate a bit of pizza, "Anyway thanks for accepting my request D,"
"No prob Ada, whenever you need anything just ask, as long it's possible for me I'll help," I said, hoping to make sure she wasn't as awkward as this time.
She nodded with a smile as she grabbed another slice of pizza. We had eaten a few pieces of pizza and there was one left. After we had begun with five! I ate the first pizza surprisingly fast but I definitely wasn't complaining. She then grabbed the last pizza basically saying she wasn't giving me the chance to finish before her and grab the pizza. "So what do you want to do? I have an Xbox, PS4, a computer, TV. Just think of something and we can have the time of our lives!" she exclaimed, excited. She was a weird girl, but a fun one at that. First, she hates me, then she tolerates me, now she actually considers me a friend.
"What are you in the mood for?" I asked.
"Relaxing," she quickly replied.
"Why not watch a movie then?" I suggested besides I suck at video games, and I don't want to get my ass kicked today.
"If your okay with me being to close then sure, I don't know what it is with me but I'm just a big snuggler when it comes to watching movies, even with people I just met. I know it's weird but it's the way I am,"
"It's fine by me. I just feel like watching a movie, to be honest," I explained. I really didn't care as long as I was watching a movie. I just didn't have to think about it.
"Alright whatever," she said eating the last bit of her pizza. She then got up, "Just go to the couch and get on Netflix. Sign into my account and then pick a movie," she instructed as she grabbed a huge blanket. I went to the couch as she threw me the blanket and went to what I would guess was her room.
I did as she demanded and opened Netflix, after signing into her account I searched through the movies and found the new hyped movie, 'Back and Black'. It's a movie about a white guy who dies due to an experiment went wrong. He wakes up from the accident in a new body, a black one. He then goes around just messing around as a black man.
After picking the movie Ada sat down. Apparently, she had taken a shower because her short beautiful hair was wet and she had a change of clothes. She without warning grabbed a blanket and covered herself, she then snuggled up next to me. "I wanted to see this movie!" she exclaimed. Before I could respond she said, "Let the movie begin!"
I then started the movie. I had finally noticed that her leg was over mine and she was resting her head on my chest. Just pay attention to the movie Dominic, everything will be fine! I thought paying close attention to the movie.
After about an hour in I looked to Ada to see she was asleep. Chuckling I turned off the movie and took off the blanket. I picked her up careful not to wake her and carried her to her room. Going to her bed I pulled out her covers and laid her down. After doing that I put the covers over her in a soft voice said "Night Ada".
"Night D" I heard a little too loud from an asleep person. "Yeah, by the way, I'm an extremely light sleeper but thanks for not being a douchebag. You know not taking advantage of a sleeping beauty," she said chuckling.
"Oh, uh, no problem Ada, any way you have a good night," I stuttered.
"Night" she chuckled, as I left.
She scared the shit out of me! Anyway, I need to sleep. I thought as I went to the couch. After getting comfortable I fell asleep quickly.
Ada's POV
I swear that kids a dork, but he's a cute dork. He was also surprisingly funny and cool. I thought suddenly. It was the truth though. Although I can't think about that for now. I need to sleep! That didn't really take long as I fell asleep only five minutes later.
