AN: New chapter. Wie! Err, nothing much to say about this, though it is a bit slow in the beginning. Bear with me.
Warnings: Cursing. Nothing new there.
Kati left our room a couple of minutes later to do some of her homework. Turns out, she doesn't have the same schedule as Matt and I. Well, we don't have the same schedule either, but almost.
The second she closed the door I turned to face him.
"I need your help." He looked a bit off.
"Eh... With what?" I rolled my eyes.
"To get back at Kati." He still looked confused. "Well, she did tickle me for way too long, and I'm kinda pissed."
He snorted at me. My eyes narrowed, and he reached out for his GameBoy.
"Well, that depends" he said, turning the thing on, "What you want me to do."
"I dunno." I shrugged. He seemed surprisingly focused for someone playing a videogame. "Go into her room and do something. You're the one that knows her, what do you think is a good payback?"
He chuckled. "Well, more like 'what kind of payback doesn't get us killed'." He frowned slightly. "I'm not really sure that's doable, though. We can't touch any of her stuff - surely, you understand that - besides, whatever we do can't be too bad. I mean, tickling's not that much of a crime."
I raised an eyebrow.
"So there's nothing to do?"
Mat shrugged lightly, still playing on his GameBoy. How the fuck can he be so focused on our conversation while doing that?
"I dunno, we could paint on her face or something. Wait, no, bad idea. Scrap that." He frowned again, sitting down on his bed. "It's kind of hard to come up with something that's payback worthy of the 'crime'" I rolled my eyes, "But doesn't get her so pissed we end up in trouble. Kati is really protective over her stuff."
I sat down on my own bed, putting my head in my hands and resting my elbows on my knees. Suckily, I was almost out of chocolate. Fuck. I needed to get some more soon.
I wrapped open my last bar and viciously snapped a piece of it, furrowing my eyebrows in focus. But no matter how much I thought about it, nothing good popped into my head and I sighed in frustration.
Then someone knocked on the door. After Matt opened, Kati stuck her head in the room and looked at us.
"Hey, dinner time. Just thought you nerds would like to know." She winked at Matt, who rolled his eyes.
She left and we followed her down to the huge dining hall that seemed to take up the whole building by itself. Man, I'm still not used to the size of this place!
Though it looked classy, with long tables and wodden stools, the system was built up pretty much like school. You go in a line, get a plate, stack food on it, get water or milk etc.
But the food was way better than any school I've ever been to (and I've been to a lot). Oven-baked chicken with rice and vegetables. Another thing I wasn't used to; I hadn't eaten chicken a lot before.
I didn't really care what kind of food it was, really, I was starving and it smelled great.
Me, Matt and Kati sat together, and they had some lame conversation about something (I was too busy eating to pay any attention) when this small girl sits down next to Kati, who immediatley looked like she wanted to leave.
The girl looked about seven, and she stared ad me with big, blue eyes behind glasses. Then she smiled.
"Hello, I'm Hannah." I was going to reply, really, but she interrupted me. "You're new here, aren't you? I should know, I never forget a face. Are you friends with Matt and Katie? Awesome! I don't really know Matt, to be honest, but Katie is my best friend. I hope we can be friends too, 'cause I love friends, don't you? Friends are awesome. We could make a friend fanclub!"
I blinked. I swear to God, that took her about three seconds to say. And she said it loud. The mask of suffering plastered onto Kati's face told me this girl really was annoying.
And judging by all of that 'me and Katie (Katie? Fuck, she couldn't even get her name right!) are BFF's' talk, she probably was some wierd definition of a stalker.
Kati stood up.
"Uh, Hannah, I'm sorry but I have some homework." She said quicly, got her plate and left.
Hannah didn't seeme to care at all, instead turned to me.
"By the way, are you a boy ore a girl? I mean, you look like a boy but you have kind of a girly haicut. No offense at all, you look good in it, but it's kind of hard to tell. I once had a friend..." I looked at Matt with horror plastered all over my face.
Please, the look said, get her to stop talking!
Matt, on the other hand, looked like he just got a brilliant idea.
"Hannah" He said, leaning a bit over the table to her, "Would you dome a favour?"
"A favour?" she looked at him.
"Well, you can think of it like a game." He smiled and I realized what he was thinking. A grin slowly spead over my face.
"And there's a reward too." I added, looking at her.
The freak (new nickname) looked estatic, and when we told her the 'plan', she seemed thrilled.
As we made our way back to our room, we made a silent high-five. Revenge was on the way. And it was sweet.
I woke up by Matt poking me - seen that before?
"Seriously" I growled, "Why do you allways poke me when I'm sleeping?"
"Shaking doesn't work. Now, get up. We have a revenge plan to enjoy."
My eyes flew open. I had totally forgotten about that, but now I was up and ready to go. Or, well, I had to get dressed, but then I was ready to go.
We quickly pulled on some clothes - me all black, Matt had jeans and stripes (he fucking loved those stripes) - and quietly got out of our room, hiding behind a corner, to await the first part of the plan.
At exactly 7Am Hannah showed up, and she smiled at us before knocking on Kati's door.
Since it was a Saturday, Matt had explained Kati's usual time of waking up would be around 11Am; he knew most of her daily habits.
Anyway. Hannah knocked on the door. At first, no response. Then she knocked harder. The third time she banged on the door, and we finally got some results.
"What the fuck do you want?" a very sleep-drugged Kati called from inside the room.
"Come on, Katie, wake up!" Hanna said enthuisiasticly, "You'll miss the best part of the day! Come on, we have tons of stuff to do!"
The door violently got ripped open and Matt and I hid behind the wall to make sure we weren't seen.
"Hannah? The fuck?" Kati's voice said. "Leave me alone, I want to sleep."
I could almost hear the freak tugging on her arm, and I laughed on the inside. After about fifteen minutes of nagging, Hannah eventually got Kati to get dreesed and come out.
We followed them at a distance, hiding behind corners and walking quietly. Kati still seemed half asleep, though, so it was probably uneccesary, but still. It was fun.
Hannah dragged her outside to 'watch the sunrise hit the trees'. Man, that girl did a good job; after about thirty minutes, her voice got really annoying. Apparently, Kati thought so too.
We almost felt sorry for her, in between our laugh hysterics, but we couldn't call it off now. It was way too much fun.
And it went on for a couple of hours; at breakfast, Hannah sat beside her and Kati didn't eat a thing; the time before lunch the freak made her draw crayon paintings, explaining everything she drew with way too many details. Some girl named Linda joined them - she was the girl that loved drawing - and I could almost feel Kati's wordless pleads to get her out of there, though Linda didn't even seem to notice. Either that, or she found it as entertaining as we did.
By lunchtime, Kati looked like she was gonna have a nervous breakdown. By now, she had tried everything from braibing to threathening to get Hanna to leave her alone, but none of it worked. Not only because of the 'reward' we had promised the freak, but she seemed to find it entertaining too.
Me and Matt sat down next to the duo with our plates and enjoyed the show. Eventually, Hannah got up to get some more milk, leaving Kati alone for the first time that day. She immediatly flew herself over the table and clinged onto Matt. Seriously, I thought she was going to cry.
"Please, get her off me!" she wailed, "Please! I swear, that girl's gonna drive me fucking insane!" Now, she let go of Matt and laid her head on the table. "She just keeps on talking! Why won't she ever shut up? Why?"
She turned her head to look at us, and I had some serious trouble with holding back my laughter. Hannah returned to the table and Kati started hyperventilating. I looked at Matt as the freak started talking about wether Snow White or The Little Mermaid were prettiest, and with a silent look we decided it was enough. I mean, as funny as it was, we didn't want to inflict too much trauma upon her.
"Hannnah" I interrupted her, "I think that's enough. Thank you."
She smiled widly at us. "Did I do good? I think today was really fun!"
"Yeas, you did great," Matt quickly said, before she could talk any more, "But I think we'll stop it now. Wich means, you'll be getting your award."
She squealed and I opened a pocket in my pants to pull up two bars of hidh-quality dark chocolate. (Me and Matt sneaked into the kitchen the night before to get the stuff. We really became best friends over a night. Huh.)
She took them with a smile and jumped away with her empty plate. It was first now that I turned my gaze to Kati. She was staring at us.
"What... The fuck... Was that?" She sounded really infuriated and I shrugged with a grin.
"Well, she had done a favour for us and we wanted to pay her back. We had a deal, y'now."
"Did you two plan this?" Okay, now it was getting a bit scary. Kati seriously looked like she was giong to punch us.
"Well, actually it was me, not Matt. He just kinda went with it."
"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!"
I was prepared at this though, so when she got up I bolted to the door. This lead to a long chase through the corridors where Kati threathened to kill me in a lot of ways.
Eventually she caught up with me. So what? I'm not used to running like hell for thirty minutes! That I could go on for so long is actually impressing, so shut up.
Kati pushed me up against a wall, still panting. Her eyes were furious and I really was expecting her to punch me.
"Why.. The fuck did you do that?" She hissed at me.
"Payback." I panted back.
She looked a bit confused, and I continued. "For tickling me yester day? That was not okay!"
"You mean.. I went through hell today for tickling you?"
Okay, so now I was almost scared. Almost.
"Well, for me it's the same thing. You didn't stop when I told you too."
"That's so childish!" She let go of me and I got prepared to run again. "You are like a three-year-old. Okay, how about this. I'm not gonna kill you, but you owe me. Big time."
I nodded. Right now, death didn't seem all that appealing.
"Wich means that I have a favour I can cash in from here to eternity. Ok?"
I nodded again, and she smiled. "Oh, and if you ever do anything like that again, I'm going to give you a new face. Just so you know."
"Sounds good to me. And then I'll make Hannah stick to you forever."
She laughed. Also, Matt showed up. He came running towards us with a bewildered look on his face.
"Hey..."
He couldn't continue. I don't know how fast the kid runned, but he was actually fucking unable to speak.
"What, Matt?" Kati asked. She frowned a bit while looking at him as he was working to get the words out.
"Roger.. Is looking for you. He... He is kinda pissed." Matt eventually spit out.
I was totally confused, but Kati looked freaked out.
"Who the fuck is Roger?"
She turned at me, grabbing my arm.
"We have to get out. I have a hiding place, I'll explain there." She dragged me with her as she started running towards the front door. "Thank you Matt!" she called out behind us.
Fifteen minutes later, we were sitting inside a tree in the garden. Kati had showed me how to get up; at first I was suspicious, but once up I realized there was almost like a room inside the crown of the tree. We sat there for a while, panting, before I turned to her.
"Now. Seriously, who the fuck is Roger?"
AN: So... Roger is up the next chapter!
Ok, and about Hannah. Mello isn't the type to describe people, but Hannah is a readhead with freckles, blue eyes, glasses and big front-teeth. She's kind of cute in my head, and she loves pink (read: allways wearing). That's pretty much all you need to know about her... Oh, and her 'addiction' is her nails. Not so much in this chapter, but she's allways picking on them.
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