I am a little upset with myself right now. As the time I am typing this, my internet connection has been out, so it has given me some time to actually work on writing more of this. And I was looking back at my file for chapter 2, and it was horrendous. I must have made at least 5 typos. While I was writing chapter 2, I was using a document program that doesn't have spellcheck. I'm usually really good with proofreading this stuff out, but this time I really slipped up. I've revised that chapter, and as soon as my internet connection is restored I will be fixing those typos as well as uploading this chapter. I'm really sorry.
The sound of a ringing bell sounded from the ceiling of Kurt's body, signifying that it was time for breakfast. The bell was only able to be heard in the rooms where the patients lived in. So Jen, Eric, and the guard wouldn't be able to hear it. Kurt was asleep at the time, and the sound of the bell as well as the voices and sounds coming from the kids in the hall. He normally wouldn't have slept in this late, and would normally wake up an hour or two earlier. But since he had spent most of the night wandering the halls, it was no wonder he was asleep for so long. He looked over to the bed next to him, expecting to see Jennifer. But she wasn't in her bed, and he didn't hear her get up anytime before that. Normally this would have bothered Kurt, but his drowsiness made him shrug it off.
Kurt got up out of bed and headed out towards the cafeteria. When he got out into the hallway, there were only a few teenagers still lingering in the hallway. There was always a huge rush to the cafeteria, not because food ran out quickly, but because a lot of the kids just want to get in and out of the cafeteria as soon as possible. In fact, he was normally one of those kids as well. This was because fights often broke out in the cafeteria, and you could easily get your food stolen. But today he would probably have a harder time escaping the madness.
Kurt quickly made his way into the cafeteria and got a tray full of food. As he tried to escape the crowded room somebody grabbed his shoulder. When he turned around he saw a girl that looked like she could be no younger than 17. Her hair was a ginger color, and the most noticeable thing about her was her tired, heavy eyes. In her hands she held a tray full of food and she reached and grabbed an orange off her tray.
"I'm not a citrus fan, but I don't really want to waste food. Do you want it?" The girl said to him.
"S-sure…" Replied Kurt, a little surprised by the situation.
"Here ya go." She said, placing her orange next to the orange that had been placed on Kurt's tray.
Not wanting anymore encounters, Kurt focused on ignoring any other possible distraction and exited the cafeteria. When he finally got to his room he sat the tray on his bed and began to eat. For breakfast that day they served scrambled eggs, a side of bacon, an orange, and a carton of apple juice. He first started by eating his two oranges. Oranges were actually his favorite fruit of all time, so he was happy that the girl had given him her orange. The first orange that he ate was the orange that had come with his meal. Then he peeled the skin off his orange, and then took a bite into it.
Suddenly a weird feeling overcame Kurt. It was as if he hadn't eaten a thing in days. He quickly devoured the rest of the orange. But his stomach was still unsatisfied at that point. He grabbed the plastic fork that came with his meal and began stuffing his mouth with the scrambled eggs. Instead of satisfying his hunger, the eggs only seemed to make him even hungrier. He grabbed all of the bacon and shoved all of them in his mouth at the same time. He couldn't stop himself, he ripped open his apple juice and downed the whole carton in just a few seconds. And without realizing what he was doing, he started tearing off pieces of the carton with his teeth and began to chew them.
This was very strange to Kurt, as the meals that they supply in the cafeteria usually fills him up. But he still felt like he could eat an entire buffet. And that is when it hit him, his hunger seemed to spike when he ate the orange. That strange girl must have done something to the orange to make him so unbelievably hungry. He had to go and find that girl to find out what she had done to the orange, and what he could do to stop the hunger. But breakfast would be over in fifteen minutes.
He sprung out of his room and down the hallway to the cafeteria. When he got there, he frantically looked for the girl who had given him the orange. He spotted her sitting down at the very end of the cafeteria and made his way over to her. Sitting next to her at the table was a boy with greasy, brown hair that strangely reminded him of the movie Grease. The boy had an arm draped over the girl's back, so he assumed that they were in a relationship of some sort.
"Umm… Hey." Mumbled Kurt.
"What do you want?" Barked the boy.
"Oh hey, aren't you the boy who I gave that orange too?" Asked the girl.
"Yeah, about that. Ever since I ate that orange I-" Kurt started to say.
"Haven't been able to stop eating." Said the girl, finishing his sentence for him, and chuckling all the while "This is so informal, my name is Stephanie Burrows, and this is my boyfriend, Jesse Johnson. What is your name?"
"Kurt. Kurt Green." He mumbled.
"Well Kurt, I'll admit it, I did do something to that orange." Stated Stephanie.
"How can I undo it?" Kurt asked.
"It's simple." Said Jesse "From now on, you'll give us your helpings of food and we'll make it stop."
"Wh-what…?"
"It'd be smart if you'd follow our demanding!" Shouted Jesse.
"If you don't, my stand will cause you to eat yourself alive!" Shouted Stephanie.
"Wait! You're a stand user too?" Asked Kurt.
"What do you mean too? You also have a stand?" Asked Jesse.
"Well, I was told that I'll be getting a stand sometime soon." Replied Kurt.
"By who?" Asked Stephanie.
"Some kid named Eric."
"That damn Bloom!" Shouted Jesse.
"You know him too?" Asked Kurt.
"He is such a pain in the ass." Moaned Jesse.
"Eric Bloom is basically the police of stand users. Him and Jesse have gotten in several fights." Explained Stephanie.
"You see, my stand is easily noticed by Eric since it is more fighting based. But ever since Stephanie got her stand I've been excited to finally find a way to get people to bow down to us without Eric getting involved." Explained Jesse.
"How about this, if you don't stop whatever your stand did to me, I'll just tell Eric about it!" Threatened Kurt, hoping to get out of this awful situation.
Jesse glared at Kurt and his stand rose up from behind him. His stand had a humanoid body, with gray, armor-like scales. Its head was that of a knight's armor, with beady yellow eyes visibly from inside the armor. On its right arm, a segmented whip was attached to the wrist. The stand flicked its wrist and the whip wrapped around Kurt's neck and squeezed tightly.
"Are you sure you really want to do that?" Threatened Jesse "If you even so much as mention the fact that Stephanie has a stand to Eric, my Scorpion will strangle you to death!"
Kurt struggled to breath with Jesse's stand strangling him. He reached up and gripped the whip that had wrapped itself around his neck. And in a struggle, he subconsciously activated his own stand. Jesse shot straight up into the air as if he had fallen upwards. His stand, Scorpion, started to fall up into the air as well, dragging Kurt with it about a foot into the air. But Jesse's stand had gotten too far out of range and the whip was torn off of Kurt's neck in order for it to catch up to its owner. And finally, Jesse slammed into the ceiling of the cafeteria and his stand returned to his body. There were several dozens of shouts and gasps at what had just happened. A lot of them had seen strange things happen, but not anything like seeing someone fall upwards.
Stephanie stared at Kurt in horror. Although he himself had frightened himself with his own ability, he put on an intimidating face for Stephanie. The physical form of Kurt's stand rose up from behind him. It too had a humanoid body, but as opposed to being grey and scaly, it was bright red and fleshy. On its head it had bright orange, flame-like hair. Around its two eyes there were two star shapes around them, the left one green, the right one blue. Along its body there were various arrow patterns that formed columns, with either a column full of arrows pointing upwards or columns filled with arrows pointing downwards. The upward pointing arrows were colored green, and the downward pointing arrows were colored blue.
"Now, could you please remove whatever effect your stand has on me?" Asked Kurt, commandingly.
"A-alright." Said Stephanie "Can you please just… Just let him down!"
"Whatever you say." Said Kurt, casually. He snapped his fingers, to add a more dramatic effect to the situation. And with that, Jesse fell from the ceiling of the cafeteria as the way gravity affected him switched once again. This caused him to slam into the table in front of Stephanie. And then Kurt felt his hungers slip away from him. Feeling accomplished, he left the cafeteria and made it back to his room before the doors closed on him.
Actually, stand's like Kurt's are the reason why I wanted to make this story in an enclosed space. Otherwise Kurt could just let somebody fly up into the air until the person flew up out of his stand's range. So expect a lot of stands that will take advantage of being inside of a building 24/7.