Probability vs. Fate

"So her room was covered in…pencil shavings?" Kai asked, glancing at Raul from the side wearily. Raul nodded his head, "Yeah, it was weird. I mean, how the heck can you cover a room with pencil shavings? It's impossible!" He exclaimed, turning to Kai in hopes that he would have the answer. Kai shrugged his shoulder, "It's Linear; anything is possible with that girl."

Raul nodded his head reluctantly, "I guess. But man, you should have seen her. Do you remember that bear you gave her a long time ago?"

Kai raised a brow, "Mr. Grizzle?" he asked.

"Yeah, that one. She managed to detach one of his arms. She was crying as if someone close to her died. It was crazy!"

Kai shook his head, "I can't believe she still has that. I gave that to her when…on her tenth birthday? That was way long ago."

Raul nodded his head, "Yeah, but Lin's like a little kid you know? She loves that bear a lot. She was pacing and everything! I felt like I was in the waiting room of a hospital."

Kai chuckled, "Well what can I say? She's your sister."

Raul sighed, "Yeah, but…sometimes I wonder about her."

"Well hold that thought cause here she comes now."

The pair stopped in the middle of the hall, watching as Linear skipped her way towards the pair, a big grin on her face.

"Hello brother dear! Hello Kai!" She waved, halting in front of them. Raul smirked, "Not sad anymore about Mr. Grizzle?" Linear shook her head, "Nope! Julia made him good as new! Did you hear about Mr. Grizzle's accident Kai?" Linear asked turning towards him. Kai smirked, "Yeah, Raul said you tore his arm off."

Linear gaped at the pair, horrified that they would think such a horrible thought. She loved Mr. Grizzle more than anything in world—besides Kai, but they don't know that. And they will never know that.

"What?! Nuh-uh! I did no such thing!"

"Then what happened Lin?" Raul asked, folding his arms across his chest. Linear stared up at them, her eyes widening. "It was horrible! He was in harms range when the sock exploded!"

"Huh?" Both boys asked simultaneously. Linear nodded her head, "Yeah! The sock that was supposed to be a pencil! It exploded and Mr. Grizzle got in the way! His arm flew up in the air and came down with a silent 'plop'! It was the most horrifying thing I had ever witnessed!" She exclaimed. Both males exchanged confused glances. Kai turned back towards Linear, "Lin, are you playing with your chemical set again?"

"Nope! I was turning socks into pencils!"

"Right" Both males responded slowly and unsurely. Sometimes it was best to agree with Linear rather than to argue with her. It saves time from getting even more confused than you already are. The three teens stood in the middle of the hallway awkwardly, waiting for the other to make a move.

Linear blinked up that boys, "Well…umm…I'm gonna go now! Mattie's waiting for me on the rooftop with Tyson! Bye-bye!"

The boys watched as Linear began skipping away, making sharp turn at the corner and vanishing from sight. The males looked at each other before continuing their walk towards the back of the school, starting a conversation about the stack of history homework they had received.

--

Linear poked her head out of the door and glanced around, furrowing her brows when she didn't spot her targets.

"BOO!" Whispered Tyson; causing Linear to scream. Tyson, hanging upside down, laughed at Linear before sitting upright. Linear glared up at him, "That wasn't very nice Tyson! And where's Mattie?"

"Right here Lin." Linear glanced to Tyson's side to see Matilda sitting above the building as well. Linear grinned and walked towards the staircase next to the entrance to the school.

"What are you guys doing up here?" She asked. Tyson shrugged, shoving his sandwich in his mouth, "We wanted a change of view. So we said to ourselves, let's sit up here instead!"

Linear shook her head and took her bunny covered lunchbox out of her school bag. Tyson looked over her shoulder, "What cha got this time Lin? Wanna trade lunches with me?"

Linear huddled her lunchbox close to her chest, "Back off Tyson, I wanna see the goods before I make the trade."

Matilda stared at the pair, rolling her eyes as she took a bite into her apple.

"Can we trade now?"

"Not yet! I didn't even get to peek!"

"How 'bout now?"

"No! Hold on!"

"Now?"

"Tyson!" Yelled both Matilda and Linear; glaring slightly at the teen. Tyson smiled sheepishly, "Okay, okay, I get it. I'll wait."

Just then the door opened, the three teens looked down to see Kenny's brown head. Tyson placed a finger on his lips the same time Matilda and Linear did.

Kenny, a short guy with tousseled brown hair, fixed the glasses on his head, "Hmmm…where could they have gone off to? This is our usual lunch spot. Gah! Did they change lunch spots without telling me?!" Kenny clutched his laptop and turned only to freeze before screaming aloud.

Matilda, Tyson, and Linear were hanging upside down, pulling on their eyes and lips, making weird faces at Kenny.

"Hahaha! You—haha—shoulda—hahaha—seen yourself—haha—Chief! Your face was—haha—PRICELESS!" Exclaimed Tyson, clutching his sides and his kicking his feet in the air as he continued laughing. Matilda and Linear clung onto each other as the tears of laughter continued to roll off their faces. Kenny clenched his fist, "Oh! That wasn't funny you guys! And what are you doing up there anyways?"

"Trying out our new lunch spot! Wanna try with us Chief Kenny! Haha!" Linear laughed patting a spot next to her. Kenny let out a sigh and began climbing the ladder, taking the seat Linear offered.

"You know you guys; this spot won't fit all of us."

Linear looked up from her juice box, "What'd ya mean? There's me, Mattie, Tyson, you, and Daichi…hey where is Daichi anyway?" Linear asked looking around her as if the short messy red head would pop out of nowhere.

Kenny placed his laptop down, "He's at his freshmen class meeting. Remember? He said he wanted to get more involved with the school so he became an active member for his freshmen class."

The other teens replied 'oh' simultaneously. Tyson stuffed a chocolate cupcake into his mouth, "I highly doubt he's gonna last a week in that club. He hates things like that."

Kenny nodded his head, typing rapidly on his computer, "I have to agree. I did an analysis run and came up with the percentage of the likelihood that Daichi would stay."

Matilda tilted her head, "And what's that?"

Kenny sighed, "A less than two percent. One-point-three to be exact." The rest of the group looked at each other in exasperation. And to emphasize Kenny's point the door slammed opened and a fuming Daichi appeared.

"Man! That was stupid! They wanted to—huh?" He asked himself as he noticed his usual lunch mates weren't present. "What the—where'd they go?"

"Look guys! Daichi's so short he can't even see us!" Mocked Tyson; grinning down at Daichi who tilted his head back towards the sound of Tyson's voice. Daichi glared at Tyson, "How am I supposed to know that you guys are up there huh?!"

"Maybe if you grew an inch or two you would've noticed." Tyson responded back. Daichi clenched his fist, a vein throbbing on the side of his head, "Come down here and say it to my face fatso!"

Tyson grew a vein as well, "What'd you say shrimp?"

"Why I outta—"

The other three began to ignore the bickering teens. Linear turned towards Kenny, ignoring the 'crash' in the background. "So Chief, can you analyze anything else with that?" Linear asked, looking at the laptop. Kenny shrugged his shoulders, "Yeah, why? Do you want me to analyze something?"

Linear turned scarlet as she held her hand up in front of her, "What?! No! Of course not! Now why would you say that? I don't have a face that says that I want you to do something like that! Ha-ha. So don't worry about it because I don't want you to analyze anything! Heh-heh" She responded, grinning sheepishly. Matilda rolled her eyes, muttering a 'yeah right' under her breath.

Kenny shook his head, "If you wanted me to analyze the likelihood of you and Kai getting together all you had to do was ask."

Linear looked as if an alien landed in her front of her, the sounds of clanging fences and the boys yells could be heard in the background, "Wha-wha-WHAT?! Wha-wha-what'd ya m-mean?! I-I-I don't like Kai like th-th-that! Don't be silly!" She tried to deny, her reddening face clashing with the neon orange on her head.

The two boys below stopped fighting. They were tangled against one another. Daichi, who was clutching Tyson's mouth and spreading it wide open responded, "Yeah you do! It's so obvious!" Tyson nodded in agreement. Linear paled, "I-i-it is?" She squeaked. Kenny fixed his glasses, "Well, not really. But we hang around you almost all the time so it's more obvious to us." Matilda nodded her head in agreement. Linear looked as if she was going to faint.

"Here. Let me run a quick analysis."

Linear's eyes widened, "No! Don't do that Chief! I already know my chances with Kai are slim to none! Don't tell me the percentage!"

But it was too late; the computer had already begun the analysis. Linear hung her head in shame.

"Well, I have the percentage. Do you wanna hear it?" Chief asked. Linear let out a sigh, "I guess…might as well." Tyson and Daichi had joined the rest of the teens by now, all waiting to hear.

"Well, according to the analysis, the chances of you and Kai ever getting together is five-point-five percent. Six if you round up."

"Ouch" Came the response from everyone excluding Linear and Kenny. Linear let out a sigh, "Typical…but" She raised her head up, her fist clenched. Matilda rolled her eyes muttering a 'here we go again'. "That's how Fate works! Kai and I have to work against the odds in order to be together and live happily ever after!" She punched the air, pretending that fireworks were exploding in the background.

"Hey, can I have your cheese stick?" Daichi asked, bringing Linear back down to earth. She looked at her cheese stick in Daichi's hand and nodded, "Sure go ahead" And sat back down as if nothing happened.

Chief shook his head, "Linear, you're so strange. There is no such thing as Fate. The only reason why you have such a low chance is all in the stats. I'll tell you how I did it."

"You don't—" Started Linear, but Kenny ignored her.

"First I took each of your status, Kai's being a high popular one and yours being a…well I wouldn't say low but I wouldn't say middle either, so mid-lowish. Then I took a look at your likes; you liking to make things explode—"

"I do not!"

"—and doing rather fun childish things. Kai's likes are relaxing around and looking cool, calm, and collected. You know, almost on the verge of what adults like to do. And then I took the fact of how long you two have known each other: it being a total of eight years. That's way too long to even think about making something more of it. And then I took into consideration how you two interact with each other—"

"I think we get it Chief, they don't—" But Chief out spoke Tyson.

"—and the way you two interact is like brother and sister…in a weird kind of friend way, so there you have it. The reasons for the low percentage."

Linear blinked, looking as if she had not taken in a single word Kenny had said. She shook her head, "But that's what Fate wants us to think! I'll overcome every obstacle to be with my future husband!"

Kenny shook his head, "The likelihood of you and Kai marrying are even lower than you two getting together, you do know that, right Lin?" But Linear was no longer paying attention; she was already zapped into her dream world.

--

"Alright, alright! Next one…" Ray looked around from the table he was sitting at, "What about that one?" He asked pointing at Emily, who had the tennis schedule in her hand. Brooklyn, an orange haired male with aqua eyes and a piercing on his right ear nodded his head, "Emily?" Ray nodded. Brooklyn shook his head, "Not my type. She's all about technology and things scientific. I'm a more natural kind of guy. Max?" Max, a blonde haired male with blue eyes and freckles adorning his face shrugged, "She's okay. She's interested in sports other than tennis and she is pretty smart…so maybe for me. Tala?"

Tala raised a brow, "Really Max? You still have to ask? Well, fine, but no she's not my type. I want a girl who's more…I don't know…adventurous? Who isn't really all about her but is down to earth, you know? I mean the smart girls are cute but I wouldn't be able to keep up in their language of genius. Raul?"

Raul shook his head, "Nope. Not for me. She's got to be more suave and cool. She's got to be able to catch my eye the instant we meet. I wanna feel the chemistry you know? What about you Kai?"

Kai grunted, "No" And that was it. The rest of the males waited for an elaboration but received none. Ray shook his head, "Come on Kai, you've got to go deeper than that. Tell us why not. What's your type anyway?"

Kai shifted a bit, "I'm not interested in dating."

"We didn't ask you if you were interested we asked you what your type was!" Max exclaimed. Kai grunted, "That's none of your business."

"Come on Kai, we said ours." Tala punched his friend lightly in the arm. Kai glared back, "No one told you, you guys just volunteered."

"Why are you so defensive? You're not…you know…" Raul whispered, leaning his head low. Kai felt a brow twitch, "No, I'm not."

"Then tell us."

"Hn. Fine, if it'll get you off my back."

The males at the table leaned closer towards Kai, eager to hear what he had to say. Kai grunted, "I don't know."

It went deathly silent, except for the chatter from the other students on the other side.

"What?" Came the simultaneous blunt response from the males.

"What do you mean you don't know?" Asked Brooklyn.

"Yeah, how can you not know? That's like…weird" Responded Raul. Kai shrugged, "I just don't okay? I'll tell you when I meet the girl."

"Oooohhhh, so Kai's the 'love-at-first-sight' kinda guy" Tala teased, nudging Kai with his elbow. Kai felt tempted to punch him but controlled himself.

"No, I'm not, I just don't know. Okay?" He responded, pushing Tala a bit back.

"Fine, fine. Let's play a new game: Find Kai a girl."

Kai glared at Tala who smirked, "Okay Kai, here's how we play. We point at a girl and you tell us if you're interested okay?"

Max furrowed his brow, "Hey, weren't we playing that game just now?"

Tala rolled his eyes, "That was for all of us. This is just for Kai, okay?"

Kai grunted, "I'm not playing—"

"That one?" Nodded Brooklyn towards a junior with long brown hair that had red highlights in them.

Raul squinted his eyes, "Hey, isn't that one Evan? The guy who calls himself a drag queen or something?

The rest of the guys turned towards the 'girl' that Brooklyn pointed out, squinting before reclining back in disgust.

Ray nodded his head, "Yeah, that's him. Nice going Brooklyn. I'm gonna tell him the next time I see him that you were hitting on him."

Brooklyn sneered, "I was not hitting on him. He looks like a girl from behind!"

"Enough!" Exclaimed Tala, "Let's just move on…how about…"

"Her?" Max pointed at the bubbly freshman girl who went by the name: Ming-Ming. She had bluish colored hair and bubblegum pink eyes. She was tan and very short.

Kai rolled his eyes, "I'm not playing this stupid game."

Tala grinned, "If you don't respond then we'll all assume you like her and one of us will go up to her and tell her that."

Kai growled, "You bastard…" before replying, "Pass"

Soon Kai found himself playing their stupid game the entire lunch period.

--

At the end of the day Linear and Matilda could be found in the swimming pool building, stretching. Linear examined her black practice swimsuit that had the school's wreath-like logo in the front, "When do you think Coach is gonna let us see our new uniforms?"

Matilda rolled her eyes; her position was sitting on the ground stretching. "I swear Lin, you and uniforms…"

Linear bended down and touched her toes, "But uniforms are so pretty."

"And boring"

"They can have all sorts of patterns and colors on them—"

"They make everyone look the same, no individuality—"

"And they come in different sizes—"

"They're so hideous looking—"

"Sometimes they can make people look ugly, or pretty, or drop dead gorgeous—"

"Who's drop dead gorgeous?"

The girls turned to find Tala walking towards them. Matilda cringed; the males definitely needed different uniforms.

Linear smiled, "You are" She teased. Tala smirked, pretending to flex his muscles, "Oh, I know Lin. You don't need to tell me that." Linear laughed. "Hey Tala! You wanna make a bet on how long Kai's gonna come?"

Tala narrowed his eyes, "No way! Last time I bet, I lost my chocolate bar!"

"I know! That's why I asked."

Matilda went into a fit of giggles as Tala looked at Linear in annoyance.

"That's not cool Lin." He responded.

"It's not my fault you always lose" She responded back. Tala felt a vein throb. "Linear"

"Tala" She imitated his tone, looking at him in a playful manner. Tala let out a sigh, "Lin…never mind. I can't bet cause I have nothing to bet on."

"No chocolate bars?" She asked, tilting her head to the side. Tala shook his own, "No chocolate bars."

Óh…Kai's coming!" She exclaimed looking behind Tala. Tala turned and found himself shaking his head. How does she do that? It's like she has some built-in-radar or something… He had no idea how right he was.

"Hi Kai!"

Kai nodded in response, feeling awkward walking in a Speedo. He stood next to Tala, aware of the female eyes watching him and his friends. He let out a sigh.

"Are you ready to swim?" Linear asked, bouncing on the balls of her feet. Kai smirked, Lin and Matilda were the only ones he felt comfortable around during swimming. At least he knew they wouldn't have their eyes wondering around.

"Hn. Ready as I'll ever be"

Linear smiled, "Me too! I'm gonna swim really fast!"

Tala chuckled, "Don't swim too fast or else you're gonna hit your head again."

Matilda chipped in, "Yeah, and you might have to get saved again" She teased, grinning knowingly at Linear who had to fight her blush down. The last time she hit her head, Kai had jumped in to save her. Not only was it a dream come true but an embarrassing moment.

Kai rolled his eyes, "Quit walking down memory lane people; that was last year. Move on."

Tala smirked and nudged Kai, "How about those girls? Do like any of them?" Kai turned his head to see a whole bunch of female heads swing to the other side. He shook his own, "No. Can we stop now? I'm getting annoyed."

Tala frowned, "No way! There has to be one girl in this whole school that you might even consider."

Kai glared at Tala, "Have you ever thought that maybe there isn't any?" He hissed. Tala snorted and glanced at Matilda and Linear.

"What about Matilda? Would you date her?"

Kai stared at Tala to see if he was serious, and when he saw that he was he glanced at Matilda and glanced back, "I don't know. I barely even talk to her."

"But you didn't say no"

"I didn't say yes either."

"But you didn't say no."

"I thought we just got through that."

"So you might?"

"I never said I would."

Tala glared, "What about Lin?"

"What?" Kai asked flabbergasted. "It's not like that with Lin and me."

"So no?"

"Can we just stop? Please?"

Tala sighed, "Fine, so a maybe for Lin too"

Kai let out a growl.

"Okay class! Let's get started" Bradford's voice echoed through the building as he and Julia made their way towards the team.

Linear ignored Bradford, already knowing his little speech. Instead, she turned towards Matilda, "Hey Mattie" she whispered, Matilda leaned her ear towards Linear, "What?" She whispered back.

"Would it be cool if I made little waves in the pool?"

Matilda slowly turned her head towards Linear, a look that read 'oh-no-you-don't'. Linear sighed, "Come on Mattie, what could go wrong?"

Matilda stared a Linear, "I can come up with a million things. Twenty in like five seconds." Linear puffed her cheeks, "It's just water, what could I possibly do wrong?"

"Drown us" Came the simple and pointed response from Matilda. Linear rolled her eyes, "I won't drown you, don't be silly. Only a crazy person would do that."

Matilda's eyebrows rose. Wasn't she staring at a crazy person right now?

"Okay, here I go"

"Lin! No! You'll kill us!"

"No I won't, just little ones!"

Matilda pursed her lips, shaking her head but Linear kept nodding hers.

"Water, calm and still, with a touch of magic I'll make you jiggle in little hills" Linear muttered, watching as the water lighted up a bit, but became even more unmoving. Linear furrowed her brows and turned to Matilda who had her eyes tightly shut, waiting for impact.

"Mattie! It didn't work." She muttered. Matilda opened her eyes and let out a sigh of relief. "Good—I mean, next time Lin"

Linear nodded her head and turned back to Bradford.

"Alright class, I need five people to line up. How about the newcomers, it'll give me a chance to time you."

Five out of the seven newcomers stepped up and took their place.

"Alright! On your marks, get set…go!"

The five teens jumped into the pool, but there was no splash, instead there were echoes of 'ew' or 'what the hell'.

All the students, including Bradford stepped forward, their eyes popping out of their sockets.

One of the new swimmers looked at Bradford, "The pool's turned to jell-o!"

Linear and Matilda looked at each other; their mouth's gaping before slowly stepping away from the scene.

"Jell-o? How can that be? Salima and I tried it just a while ago. It was perfectly water." A dark haired girl named Tracy spoke up. The red head named Salima nodded her head in agreement.

Bradford pursed his lips, "Get out of the pool! I'm gonna have the administrations look into this."

The teens in the pool tried to get out of the pool but to no avail. "Sir" One of them spoke up. Bradford turned, "Yeah?"

The short browned haired male looked at Bradford nervously, "Umm…I'm stuck."

"What?" Asked Bradford.

"So am I!" Squealed one of the females.

"Me too!" Another male exclaimed trying to get out.

Linear's jaw dropped to the floor, "Uh-oh…" She whispered. Matilda nodded her head, "Maybe you could…um…try…undoing it?"

Linear nodded her head, "Water that is now jell-o, with my powers I return you to being…mellow?" She whispered. There was a light glow, causing some of the students to scream and then all of a sudden tiny splashes and plops could be heard followed by screeches and coughing.

Linear covered her mouth just as Matilda shook her head, "I said change it back, not drown the new swimmers…now I bet they're traumatized. Great, we just lost some new members…" Muttered Matilda

"Heh…well, it's not jell-o anymore."

Bradford and the students just stared at the semi-drowning students, surprised that the pool had returned to normal. Some even began to rub their eyes and pinch themselves to see if they were dreaming.

Tala and Kai stood a bit away, shocked as well. Tala licked his lips, "You did see that right? The jell-o and then…this?" He asked, never taking his eyes off the pool. Kai grunted. Tala watched as some of the kids began to get out of the pool, coughing up water, "You don't think our pool is haunted do you?"

"Not possible." Stated Kai. He turned his gaze towards Linear and Matilda who still had stunned looks on their faces. He narrowed his eyes and pursed his lips. But then he shook his head, "It couldn't be…" He muttered.

"What couldn't be?" Tala asked, a bit dazed.

Kai pursed his lips and folded his arms, "If I tell you something you better not laugh or call me crazy."

Tala glanced at Kai, his focus all on him, "O…kay…" He mumbled. Kai lowered his head, glancing at Linear, "It's just…I have this weird feeling…"

"Do you need to use the restroom?"

"Tala I'm serious!" Kai growled.

"I'm serious too" Tala replied giving Kai a serious look. Kai shook his head glancing back at Linear, "It's just…I don't know…I have a feeling that maybe Lin is behind all this…weird stuff…"

Tala snorted, "You know Kai, I expected more from you. Just cause Lin is a bit of an…oddball…it doesn't mean you can just start blaming freakishly weird things on her. That's harsh man. I thought you were her friend—"

"No!"

"You're not her friend? Man, now that's even worst—"

"No! Listen to me! It's just…" Kai grabbed Tala's head and brought lower and closer to his. Tala flinched, "Just so you know Kai, you're my best friend and I like you and all…but I don't swing that way"

"Idiot" Growled Kai, "Shut up and listen to me. A couple of days ago, I brought Linear to the infirmary cause she got a stomach ache and…you know that chocolate bar you gave her?"

Tala nodded his head, Kai pursed his lips and lowered his voice even more, "It's just…it turned into a…blob monster…"

Tala snorted, biting his bottom lip to hold down his laughter. Kai could feel the blush rising. "It's not funny Tala, I'm serious."

Tala began chortling, "Seriously? A…chocolate…blob monster? Pfft—"

Kai looked about ready to kill. Tala patted his shoulder, "Look man, I know I said I wouldn't laugh and call you crazy…but if you heard what you just said, I think you'd understand" Tala said, a grin on his face. Kai shrugged him off, a smirk on his lips, "Yeah, it does sound a bit…farfetched huh?"

"Hell yeah it does!"

"But with the pool and stuff…don't you think…"

Tala rolled his eyes, "I'm still not all that sure if that really happened. But for sure there is no such thing as chocolate blob monsters."

Kai shook his head, and took another glance at Linear, the nagging feeling that she was somehow connected to all this was still bothering him. Maybe he had been spending way too much time with her. That had to be it. There was no such thing as chocolate blob monsters and…other weird things…right?


TK: Hello! Been awhile huh? I would have had this up but I was gone for the weekend! But now I'm back! (cheers) So anyway, hope you like it. Linear is going to have some more run-ins with close call since now Kai's suspicious. And as far as pairings go...seriously...I have no clue. I don't know if I even want to do pairings. Tell me what you think, it could help me out!

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