Zap!
Recap of Last Chapter: It was made obvious that Namine had doubts about Kairi's plan, and her mom was catching on about it. Roxas lives next to Namine, and they walk to school together. Nothing much else happened, except for Axel and Demyx waved to Namine in the hall. The girls are going through with the plan, and are officially in the game until the end of 6th period.
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Chapter 3: Notes Want to Eat My Soul
Olette's POV
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I wonder if it's obvious that I'm not completely comfortable right now.
I'm pretty sure no one notices, but I notice clearly. I feel like I'm walking awkwardly, and the danger of some random person calling my name was wafting in the air. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't scared. Please, it would take a lot more than a silly little game to scare me. It's just that I didn't want this to potentially ruin my reputation.
"Why does it feel so weird walking…?" Kairi whispered next to me, as we were heading to first period. We had History together first, as Namine said her good-byes to us earlier, as she headed towards her first period. I'm pretty sure it was band, as she talked about something with instruments and first period before now.
"I don't know. Maybe it's our little secret." I said, grinning. I was purposely trying to make Kairi laugh, so I would in-turn feel more comfortable in this situation. And I succeeded. Kairi emitted her laugh that I was hoping for, as I grinned even wider. It worked, I felt better. And another positive I didn't anticipate was that now Kairi looked as if she felt better now, too.
"You're such a people flirt, Olette." She said, laughing. I adopted a confused look, as I studied her closely. What in the world was a people flirt? It was probably another thing Kairi made up in her mind, but this term intrigued me. It had a certain ring to it… should I say it in my mind again, to see if the meaning will click?
…People flirt.
Nope, that didn't help at all.
"What in this heavenly world is a people flirt?" I finally asked, as Kairi looked back at me. We had just turned a corner, and our classroom was only half-way down the hall. That was good though, because the one minute bell rung, meaning that first period was starting soon.
"It's a person who is a natural people charming." She said, smiling at me, and I nodded. Well, I guess there was some truth to what Kairi said, then. I won't deny that I'm a people person. There would be no other way I'd be so popular, unless I was a cheerleader, or part of the drama club.
Then, we entered the classroom, the class chatting vigorously. It was obvious our history teacher, Sephiroth, didn't care though. He was writing on the chalk board. This made me groan in my mind. That meant that we had to take notes in class today. O' joy to the holy flipping world. I guess this also upset Kairi, who visibly slouched next to me, her previous smile turning in to a frown, and her eyes seemed to adopt a glare.
But, I shook my head, and stopped examining Kairi. I grabbed her wrist, and dragged her along with me, to our seats back by Hayner and Roxas. Yes, we had history with the two blondes. Sora currently had a study hall, which I was sure he was in right now complaining about how bored he is. And as I said before, Namine most likely had band right now.
"Hey." I said, when we finally got back to our seats. Roxas and Hayner looked to us, and said, 'Hey' back, chorusing together perfectly. But shaking it off, I sat down in my seat, behind Roxas, as Kairi sat to my right, behind Hayner. Kairi sighed, putting her head down on her desk, and groaning.
"More notes! The hell! It's like Mr. Sephiroth is trying to make us hate him!" Kairi exclaimed, as I chuckled. Hayner laughed at what Kairi said, as Roxas just smiled. I'm pretty sure we all inwardly knew that we felt the same way as our friend; we just didn't speak it like she did.
Then, the first period bell rang.
"Okay kids, shut up, and write down the notes." Mr. Sephiroth said, and my eyes about popped out at how much writing he fit on the chalk-board. Plus, he had some typed up on his computer, and it was showing on the t.v. screen. The class all groaned, but we got to work. I started writing it down in my curly-q cursive, resting my head in my left hand as I wrote with my right. I always hated writing, but taking notes on World War 2?
Very, VERY boring.
Then, a note hit my desk, as I looked up. No one was looking at me, not even a twitch from anyone who could of possibly put said paper on my desk. Kairi had her head laying on the desk as she wrote, meaning she was in a half daze. So Kairi wasn't the one who wrote it, that's for sure. And Hayner didn't believe in passing notes, and thought of it as a ridiculous thing only girls do.
So, I opened it, seeing the messy print of the handwriting. On the whole piece of lined paper, only three words were written. But I looked it over once, twice, to see if he had wrote anything else. He normally didn't pass notes for no simple reason, the only time I got notes from him was when he wanted to borrow a pencil, or wanted to see my notes to compare what he wrote down to what I wrote down.
I'm bored. –Roxas
I looked at the back of the blonde-haired boy, looking at him hard. Why did he write me a note? And was I really so out of it while writing my notes that I didn't notice him turn around and drop the piece of paper on my desk? Wow… maybe I should pay more attention. But, shaking my head, I readied my pen that wrote in purple, and drew it over the paper, writing only two words in reply. He obviously knew it was me writing back, so he didn't need me to write my name.
Me too.
I then thought of a witty way to pass the note to him without having him turn around to give it to him. I WAS famous for my witty and technical ways of passing notes, haven't I told you? …I haven't? Oh, well, you know now. Then, an idea hit me. I reached on to my wrist, where I kept different colored rubber bands handy for when I should have to tie up my hair. Taking a plain tan one off my wrist, I put it around the thumb and index finger of my left hand, using it like a sling shot.
I aimed carefully, and shot. I could tell it got over his head. Score one for me! But I couldn't tell where it landed. I put the rubber band back around my wrist, and yawned, going back to writing. I looked up at the clock every couple of minutes, and inwardly groaned when it only said 7:50. That meant there was still 30 minutes left in the class.
And then, the note ended up back on my desk. I looked around to make sure no one noticed mine and Roxas's note passing, and everyone was either passing notes of their own, sleeping, or lazily taking the notes. Mr. Sephiroth was reading a book, too in to whatever that book was about to care what we did, as long as we stayed quiet. So, I opened the note, and looked below my last reply.
Since we're both bored, entertain me, Olette.
I inwardly cringed when I read my name. This sucks. So, loathing this turn of events, I looked over to Kairi, who was already done with the pile high notes, and resting her head on her desk. She would kill me if I didn't stay by the rules of the game and tell him what I was supposed to tell him at this point in time. Damn that one rule saying the writing your name is the same as saying it!
So, I wrote down a sentence that I was sure I'd regret later in my life, and looked it over. My nervousness made my cursive close to illegible, but it was still readable. I inwardly laughed to myself. Wow, the way it's all squiggled and crap, you'd think I was a common school girl telling the boy of my dreams that I adore him.
Roxas… I love you.
Was written on the paper, as small and tiny as I could make it. I folded up the piece of paper, and shot it yet again over his head. And then I waited. I stopped taking my notes, nervously drumming my finger tips on the desk as I squirmed in my seat. Kairi looked over to me in concern, as I'm sure she knew I never acted like this, ever. I looked up at the classroom clock. 7:56. Why is time going so slowly in this class?
And finally the white piece of paper hit my desk again.
In order to calm myself down before I read said note, I looked around the room frantically, noticing the many maps that littered the walls. 's room was a mind numbing white, and the floor tile a tan-ish color that had white little stripes all scattered in the color. I always hate the stupid floor tiling in most of the rooms. It was always such a drab color that made me wanna shoot myself in the head.
The clock yet again got my attention. 8:07. I better read and reply to that note, shouldn't I?
I gulped, picking up the piece of paper from my desk, and looking at the blue lines that striped it way down the white. Now was the moment of truth, the one time in my life I would ever truly wonder what words were written in a not. Since I'm so popular, I could almost usually tell what the person was going to write next. I'm manipulative. I won't even lie.
So, my fingers parted the corner of the note, and then all of a sudden a loud annoying ringing filled the room. Everyone got up in boredom, as I sat, stunned. I could feel Kairi grab my arm and pull me up, not having to use much effort to do so. Kairi was an avid volleyball player, so she was athletic, to say the least.
With note gripped in my hand, I was dragged out of the room by my red-haired friend, as we followed the mad crowd of kids on their mission to get out of the school.
The fire alarm, the flipping FIRE ALARM, had just rung.
"Olette...? OLETTE!" I blinked, snapping out of my inner rage I realized that Kairi was waving her hands in front of my face. "Earth to Olette, we need you back at the home-planet! Earth to Olette." I glared at her, and she laughed. She looked around the kids who were chatting, and the teachers who were trying to keep said kids quiet. I wondered what she was looking for, and then I realized what it was. Roxas and Hayner were no where to be found. And normally they stuck close to us whenever we had a fire drill in first period.
"I wonder where Hayner and Roxas ran off to...?" Kairi said, and I lifted me hand in front of my, opening it to reveal the crumpled up note in my hand. Kairi looked a the paper with curiosity, as I then went to open it, skimming over all the writing the paper. I started from the very beginning, as to delay reading Roxas's reply to my declaraton of love... why did it feel weird thinking of it that way?
"What were you and Roxas even talking about?" Kairi asked, and I was pretty sure she didn't want me to answer. She walked around me, leaning on my shoulder and reading over it. She was a bit taller than me, so she could do the in ease. I heard her snicker, and I shot her a questioning look. Then, her jaw fell open. She looked at me in disbelief, and I was sure my face looked the the epitome of confusion right now.
"What is it?" I asked, slightly annoyed, as I skimmed faster, finally getting to the last line of the note. I was so shocked, my brain shut down, rebooted, shut down, then rebooted again. Kairi took a step away from me, looking at me gravely. This... this wasn't supposed to happen!
"So... how are you going to reply?" Kairi asked, and I cringed. We were playing the game, right? It's not like I have much choice in the matter right now...
"I'm going to have to say yes, it says so in the rules I can't deny that I love him... yet." I sighed, then looking down at the single sentence of doom that was still on the piece of paper.
Really? Then, go out with me?
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Yes! Finally done! This took like… forever and a half, for it being shorter than the other two chapters, sadly. One reason most likely being that I… uh… tried to watch my sentence structure here. I REALLY need to work on that. Haha.
And the second reason being it that I wanted Olette to not be the stereotypical most-popular-girl-in-school. I gave her some of the points of the stereotype to… at least try to make her persona interesting from a different way then Namine and Kairi's. But then, I also tried to give her some different, normally weird points to her personality, like how I… tried to make her more observant of people then Kairi and Namine were. You'll see why later. But I noticed that the thing they have in common is that they're all sarcastic in some way, at least when they think. Haha.
But, oh well. I noticed a lot of you asked about the rules of the 'game that ruins teenagers' lives.' I originally wanted to keep this a secret, until the end, but… the story would make more sense if you knew the game they were playing, right?
It's a game called Zap. A lot of people where I live play it, and maybe where you live, if you're in school I'm assuming, you do too. But here are the rules that we use around here, for references throughout the story.
Basically, in order to start playing, you need at least two people to play. Using a sharpie, somewhere on your body you write the word 'Zap.' That's how you're officially in the game.
The time you play varies, though. If you write a specific time under Zap, you play until then. But if no time's given, the person must play until the original players' Zap disappears from their skin.
When Zap's written on you, you're stuck playing until the game's up, no ifs, ands, or buts. While playing the game, the rules are simple. Whenever someone says your name, you have to say 'I love you' to them. This also includes writing your name, typing your name, or any other way of saying/writing your name. And while the game's going, you can't deny the fact that you love them. They must believe that you in fact have some form of romantic feelings until the end of the game. That's when you go around and tell everyone it was just a game/a joke, whatever your excuse at the time would happen to be. And you can't tell anyone that you're playing Zap, the only way they can find out is if they see Zap written on you.
But anyways, some other rules that's we use, but I don't use in this story, is that you have to keep tally of how many people you say 'I love you' to. At the end of the game, whoever has the most tallies… wins? xD
And another one is that, while you're playing zap, you can 'zap' anyone else. As long as you somehow write 'zap' on their skin, their stuck playing for as long as you are. Basically, Zap is a cruel game made up to embarrass people. Yes, that must be it.
Well, those are the rules of the game they are playing. If you got any questions, ask me through a review/whatever and I'll try to answer to the best of my ability. Oh, and see the green writing below this? Click it.
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