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SSBB High School
Episode 2: Out on the Town
In Soren's Eyes
After school I met Link outside by the parking lot where he led me to an old red car.
"Hop in!" he said cheerfully as he swung himself into the driver's seat.
"How old is this car?" I asked him.
"I'm not too sure, it was my dad's so it means a lot to me."
"I see…So what do your parents do for a living?"
"Well nothing really since they aren't living…" he told me, slightly glumly.
"What?" I was shocked by what he just told me. He seemed so cheerful, how would that be possible if both his parents are dead?
"They died in a car crash…about five or six years ago," he told me.
To imagine, I lied about my mother's job to keep myself safe and he just blurts out something like that to me even though we just met.
Then again; he could be lying. He could just be saying that to get on my good side or to try getting closer than he needs to be.
"I'm so sorry…I-"
"Don't worry about it," he said with a smile, "They're in a safer place now where I know they can't be harmed…and it's not like I'm all on my own. My little brother, Toony, lives with me."
"You have a little brother?" I asked softly.
"Yeah, he's ten years old. Every girl I ever brought over he stole from me since they all thought he was SO much cuter than me."
I started to laugh a little at that but I still felt slightly bad for him. I went the first fifth teen years of my life alone and then mother took me back. At least he had loving parents when he was younger; but they can't come back for him.
"So where should we head off to first?" he asked me, "I bet you're really hungry. How about we go to your place, drop off your stuff and then we can go out for dinner. After that we could go to the library and do a little bit of shopping. You're going to need more colorful clothing if you're going to hang around me and my friends."
He smiled at me while waiting for a reply. Of course I had to look myself over; realizing I was wearing complete blackness. Black knee-high boots, black jeans and of course a black sweater top.
"That sounds like a good plan to me," I told him as I thought about all my other cloths that I packed. Maybe if I wore some more colorful things, Ike would like that. He did comment, saying that long-sleeved green shirt brought out my eyes and complimented my hair.
"Awesome! So what's your address?" he asked with a big smile.
In Link's Eyes
When we got to her apartment she took out her IPhone and started to call somebody.
"Wow, that's a pretty sweet phone you got." I told her.
"Yeah, my father makes a lot of money so for my birthday he got me this. It's really cool but I have to put it in my bag a certain way so that I don't 'butt dial'. Hi mother," she said to her mom on the phone, "I just got back from school and I'm going out with a friend, do you mind? ...Awesome! Thank you, but I'd like it if you don't act so surprised that I made a friend…no I didn't get to talk to Ike a lot today. I only have him in a few classes and lunch…no I didn't because I wasn't feeling good so I went to the nurse…yeah I'm fine now… yeah… I will, I love you too bye."
She ended the call and sat her stuff down in the empty apartment.
"When do you think your mom will be home?" I asked, thinking about her sense of respect for her parents; never using mom or dad and not just saying 'thanks'. And she did just say her dad was pretty much loaded. She must be some kind of rich kid.
"Oh…um… I'm not sure…" she stuttered.
"So how long has your mom been taking pics for magazines?" I asked curiously.
"Oh for a while… like maybe a year or two," she seemed to stumble.
"So it was a lie!" I shouted.
"What?" she asked shocked, turning around and giving me a look as if I had just hit her.
"Ike said that your mom wasn't a photographer, she works at a bank!"
She slammed her face on her hand and sighed.
"I'm sorry Link…I just didn't want to tell a bunch of strangers the truth," she confessed as she sat on her floor, next to a wall, "But I guess if Ike can trust you enough to tell you such things, you don't truly belong in the stranger category."
"You have stranger issues don't you?" I asked as I sat down beside her, "But since I'm no longer one, would you mind telling me the truth?"
"I moved here on my own so that I could find Ike but it's obvious now that he moved away to start over…I just ruined his plan…"
It scared me to ask my next question but by the look in her eyes and the face she was making, I knew I had to; even if it crushed me.
"You love him…don't you?" I asked quietly.
"More than anything in the world…but you can't tell him that! You can't tell anybody! He'd hate me…" she sounded so worried about being rejected by him.
My heart sunk to my stomach since my 'crush at first sight' was in love with somebody else and only showed up in my life to be with that somebody else.
"He probably won't hate you…if anything he might be surprised or something…" I tried to say even though every second was like a steak knife pushing further into my chest.
"Well maybe not for liking him; but I'm sure he wouldn't even want to be friends with me if he wanted to start over and then I followed him."
"He didn't come here to start over and get away from you…he came here because it had more opportunities for him then back where you two came from. Believe me; he's always talking about you and his other friends," I told her as I remembered how he was always going on about how the classes seemed so much harder without this girl that would tutor him for everything and then remembering that that girl was Soren.
"Really?" she asked, with slight hope in her voice.
"Yeah, he was really concerned about you when you didn't come eat lunch, Pit seemed worried two."
"Who? The girl from band?" she asked.
"Ike's girlfriend, she's like an angel," I described and then she seemed to recall the chibi like girl.
"Yeah and I'm like a demon, I know…I saw her…she's gorgeous and there's no reason why any guy wouldn't love her," she said scornfully.
"Well demons can be pretty two…and they're a lot stronger than angels…" I smiled.
"Thanks…I feel SO much better," she groaned.
"Well it's true…you moved out on your own to get the guy you love and she probably would just be crying on her couch and just find a new guy," I told her as I sat down beside her.
"Well it'd be easy enough for her…like you said, she's an angel…she'd just have to point at any guy she wanted and he'd be hers. It's not that easy for me… Ike was the only chance I had at love and now he's gone," she exhaled heavily as my mind jolted to me to say something.
Say it! Tell her that you like her! Now's the perfect time! I could be super romantic and be like 'yeah but I can be your boyfriend!' or maybe I can be super sexy and be like 'yeah but why would you want that when you can have all of this!'
"What are you doing?" she asked me as I was doing some kind of sexy-want-to-be move.
"Being sexy?"
She sighed and then looked away.
Shot! Why did I say that? I'm such an idiot! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
"Why are you hitting your head?" she asked me while she raised an eyebrow.
"I um…had a fly…on my head…and I kept missing… really badly…" I blushed, "So why don't we go out now, maybe we can get you all dressed up and make Ike super jealous and want you back!"
"Jealous? Of who?"
"Um, of whoever spots you first?"
She chuckled and then got up and went out to my car.
Yes! I still have a chance!
"Would you mind if we stopped by my house and took my little brother along with us?" I asked her as we got into my older red car.
"Not at all," she answered quickly.
"Awesome, so do you have any furniture? Your place seemed pretty empty."
"Not yet, I was going to try to find something cheap to sleep on till I can get a job and buy something better."
"What were you planning on getting?"
"Probably a dinky little blow up mattress."
"Well why settle for a dinky one? I think I have a pretty good quality blow up mattress at my house…if I'm remembering correctly then it's never been taken out of its box so it's like brand new."
"How much do you want for it?"
"Hmm…a hug and a big kiss?" I suggested jokingly while winking at her.
"You can have a hug…"
"Alrighty then. How about a hug and some lipstick?" I asked.
"Lipstick? Why would you want or need that?"
"Revenge…"
"On who?"
"My little brother, he got perfume from somewhere and as I was leaving the house to go to school he sprayed me."
"Why would he do that?"
"I might have eaten his Halloween candy…"
"Wow…"
"Well we're here."
We got out of the car and went up to my apartment.
"Hey Toony, I'm home!" I shouted into the house as I opened the door.
"Link!" he shouted back at me as he ran into the living room from the kitchen, "Who's that?"
"This is Soren, she's new to town so I'm going to show her around town. You want to come?"
"No…I think I'm going to give you a chance to have this one…I want to be an uncle someday so I have to stop stealing all your girlfriends."
That little brat! Rubbing it in my face that she's not my girlfriend and now she's probably his!
"Aw, he is cute," She chuckled.
"Well cute or not you need to come with. I can't leave you home alone and I don't know when I'll be back."
"Do I have to? I can take care of myself."
"Fine but don't come crying to me when somebody brakes in and steals all your candy and video games."
"They'd probably steal your posters of the swim suit models first."
"You have posters of swim suit models?" Soren asked distastefully.
"Well I used to but they're all boxed up and I've been meaning to give them away."
Oh great, now she thinks I'm a big pervert! At least on the bright side, if I don't get her, he won't either since she's seen what a big-mouth he is! But if she sees my room then she'll know I'm lying.
"Well I don't plan on making you an uncle so you don't have to worry about stealing me from him," she told him as she blew off the poster thing.
My heart is crushed…shattered…pounded…crumbled up, shot and then danced on…
"Oh, well then how about I give you the grand tour of the town? I could show you the most romantic places and then we could make arrangements for our marriage," he told her while putting his arm around her but because of his height, his hand didn't reach her shoulder so he just had his hand on her upper back.
She giggled at him and patted him on his head.
"Sorry but I don't think you're quite my type."
"Darn…well I'll go with you two and maybe then you'll see how irresistible I am."
In Soren's Eyes
Toony was sitting in the back of the car talking away about his video games while Link was nodding and pretending to care.
"So do you play any video games, Soren?" Toony asked me.
"Well I played this strategy game called 'Fire Emblem' which was based on the same war that my old school was named after."
"Your old school was named after a war?!" Toony asked.
"Yeah, it was a very racist war and some of the students are still kind of racist."
"What were the races? Like skin color?" Link asked.
"It wasn't skin color…there are Laguz, Beorc and Branded."
"What are those?" Toony asked.
"Laguz are half- human, half-animal, Beorc are human and Brandeds are half-Laguz, half-Beorc."
"So I'm guessing that since it was a racist war that Brandeds were or are hated?" Link asked.
"Yeah…it's not really fair," I said as unemotionally as possible.
"So what are you?" Toony asked.
"Toony! It's rude to ask things like that!" Link lectured, "But honestly…if you don't mind telling us then I'd like to know."
"Well I'd prefer not to say."
"Ok then…" Toony said.
"We're here!" Link sang.
"Yay! Griel's Grille and sandwich shack!" Toony cheered.
We got out and ate wonderful grilled sandwiches and some tomato soup, still chatting away about the town and my old school.
"Can we get ice cream now?" Toony asked.
"Sure, do you want ice cream Soren?" Link asked me sweetly.
"No thank you, I'm not really into sweets," or him.
"No way! I guess you were right, you're not my type," Toony said before finishing his soda.
After we got ice cream we headed to the library where we talked to the librarian and I signed up for a library card. Then we went to a hat store where Link insisted on getting me a red Herringbone fisherman cap, which was actually really cute.
"I found it!" Link shouted from his room after ten minutes of searching his room.
Toony and I were sitting on their couch while Link brought out the blow up mattress.
"I can't do this, it's wrong." Link sighed, "Will you stay here for the night? That way you can have a real bed to sleep on and we can find you some furniture and other things tomorrow."
"I can't do that."
"Why not?" Toony asked.
"Because I don't know either of you very well, you're both boys and I don't think my mother would approve of it."
"We won't do anything to you, you could stay in the guest room and you'll have your own bathroom. Just stay here for the week and on Friday night we'll go shopping and get you a few things like a bed, couch and table." Toony suggested.
"I'll be fine roughing it for a few days."
"Here, take this and stab it with a steak knife," Link told Toony as he handed the box with the blow up bed in it to him.
"Fine!" I sighed, "I'll stay."
"Yay!" the two of them cheered.
