*Amerson's POV*
Despite the idiotic decision on Karma's part to get Asshat Booker to fall in love with her, the rest of the homecoming celebrations were pretty much smooth sailing. Unfortunately Hester High usually doesn't remain peaceful for very long, for the moment though I'm enjoying a brief moment of peace.
When I say peace I really mean I'm in a slouching position and pestering Karma, yep, this is the life. Despite my offensive technique of small M&M projectiles Karma refuses to enlighten me on the content of the song she is writing, so until she does I plan on continuing my assault.
"Stop it, buttface," Karma whines with a smile on her face.
"Not until you sing it for me," I respond without missing a beat and she sighs.
"it's not ready," Karma replies and I shrug at her.
"Since when have you ever performed songs when they are ready?" I ask and she tilts her head and sighs in exasperation.
"This one is different, I'm baring my soul. But I promise when it's finished you'll be the first one to hear it," Karma reassures me as she crawls towards me in a way that's entirely too seductive for an open courtyard before pressing her lips on mine. To be completely honest I couldn't give a damn about the song right now and if I had the option I'd never want to hear another song again if it meant that Karma would keep kissing me. When Karma pulls away it takes me a little bit to open my eyes but when I do I see Karma fiddling on her phone with the mention of Instagram, "This whole relationship of ours has really been getting me a lot of new followers, included one Liam Booker,"
"Because I'm sure he just loves seeing pictures of you macking on me," I respond dryly and Karma deflates for a second, a brief second at that.
"Well no, but the more popular I get the more he will want to be with me. I'll get him fall in love with me in no time" Karma reasons and I scoff a little.
"You don't get someone fall in love with you; they fall in love with you for who you are,"
"Well I've been me for 15 years and no one's fallen in love with me, except you," Karma points out and I give a brief, somewhat forced laugh, "Very funny."
"I'm just having fun Ams," Karma says in an apologetic tone and I turn back to look at her but my gaze catches a group of kids waving signs around. Karma must see something similar because she calls out to someone in the group as they walk by, "Hey Josh, where's the fire?"
"It's inside us, that's why we're protesting," Josh responds in excitement before squeezing an air horn.
"Not another fucking protest," I groan but Karma is eager to follow the crowd.
It's not at all surprising that when we do follow said crowd Liam Booker is at the front, directing the whole thing. For whatever reason all the students are in the midst of some ridiculous chant; that is until Penelope walks out blowing on a whistle and producing a god awful noise. In the following minutes a lady from Skwerkel informs us of donation plan that really doesn't sound all that bad, Asshat gives an inspirational speech about how they are just trying to buy us, and much to my surprise Karma delivers her own little speech which, surprise surprise, is intended to win Liam over.
After explaining as much Karma runs off to do God knows what and leaves me to my own devices, which happens to be roaming around the quad and watching all the strange happening in support of this stupid protest. One display that catches my eye in particular is Josh Hoyt playing some strange little twanging instrument and dancing around with a few other kids is an attempt at an odd sort of musical number. It's safe to say that holds my interest for just long enough to whip out a few choice facial expressions before turning on my heel with the intention of finding something more interesting to do.
At least that was the original plan, though things rarely go as planned. Instead of heading off anywhere else but here I end up running into someone, it just so happens that this someone is a familiar someone. I reach out to steady the girl that just ran into me, thankful that I'm not holding any beverages at the moment.
"We really need to stop running into each other like this," I say as the girl looks up at me.
"I'm so-hey, I know you. You're that donut shirt guy from the party," the girl responds after a moment of recognition.
"And you're the girl that was responsible for several strange looks from people believing that I had made a mess of myself," I respond and I see her lips twitch into a small smirk.
"I do believe I apologized for that," the girl points out but I continue,
"But you also tried to feel me up at one point too so that makes it a little bit better,"
The girl laughs at this and I take the opportunity to introduce myself, "I'm Amerson,"
"Allie," the girl responds and little alarms go off in the back of my mind.
"Wait, Allie as in Oliver's twin sister Allie?" I ask and when she nods I feel like kicking myself as I notice all the similarities between the two. Her lean physique, the thick brown hair, the puppy dog eyes and the most significant, and obvious factor; the black framed glasses.
"Holy crap, how did I not realize that you are basically Ollie in a wig,"
"You know Oliver? I mean, clearly you do but I have to ask," Allie asks and I find myself nodding.
"Yeah, Ollie's a pretty good friend of mine, some stubborn individuals even refer to him as my boyfriend," I respond and Allie smiles and yep, there's Ollie's smile.
"How is it I haven't met you before, properly I mean ?" I ask and Allie shrugs.
"I just enrolled at Hester, I used to go to boarding school but my parents pulled me out because apparently Ollie's not being as socially acceptable as my parent would like. So they signed me up here in hopes that I can work my twin magic and get Oliver to be a little more friendly and a little less 'on the verge of therapy'," Allie explains and I nod in understanding.
"Speaking of, what the hell is with this place anyway?" Allie asks, gesturing around us and waving her hand at Josh and his buddies.
"The workings of Hester high is much too difficult to explain in a single sitting, just know that protests are practically in the Hester curriculum," I respond.
"I take it you aren't really into this whole movement?" Allie deduces with a tilt of her head.
"Yeah no, this is more my girlfriend's kind of thing, she gets involved with school activities, I stand back and silently hate them," I reply and Allie nods.
"I don't blame you, but these people really get into it. I mean, look at that girl over there chaining herself to that door," Allie points and in the brief seconds before I turn around I pray that it isn't Karma she's talking about but unsurprisingly it is.
"That is actually my girlfriend, and I should probably go find out what is happening there," I say and gesture in that general direction.
"By all means," Allie responds and I hurry off towards what is sure to be a headache waiting to happen.
After reaching Karma and enquiring the reasoning behind the current events Karma rambles about sex volcanoes and Asshat Booker and apparently speak of the douchebag and he shall appear. After a few more tiresome minutes of Karma doting over Asshat while he is trying to get into some other girl's pants, drastic measures are taken and Karma convinces a quad full of students to participate in a hunger strike. Before I have even fully comprehended what just happened Allie appears at my side and offers me a means of escape which I happily accept.
Allie and I somehow end up in a small room full of monitors displaying the happenings of Hester High and as weirdly invasive as the whole set up is, it's actually kind of cool.
"It was easy enough to steal the keys from Ollie, and apparently after finding a few serial codes for the locks it was pretty easy for him to get them in the first place," Allie explains but she must realize how creepy all of this is because she starts mumbling that she shouldn't have brought me here, it doesn't take much to reassure her though so that's a good thing. Conversation is surprisingly easy with this girl and we continue to converse for quite some time until suddenly it's not talking anymore, it's the both of us leaning in. To be completely honest I was down for it until she pulled away and began apologizing profusely, once again I was back to reassuring her that things were indeed fine. At least until I looked at the monitor and see that Karma is centre stage with a guitar.
"Karma's singing? In front of people?" I mumble quickly that I need to leave and Allie doesn't try to stop me.
After hurrying back towards where I saw Karma performing I push my way through until I can see her and when I catch her gaze I give her a wave and smile of encouragement before I begin to enjoy the song. It's actually really sweet and the way she is looking at me I'm pretty sure who the song is about, until she looks away and I'm not so sure anymore. It takes me all of ten seconds to catch sight of who this song is really for and it takes about half that much time to turn on my heel and try to walk as far away from Asshat and from Karma as possible.
This plan works pretty well as i wind up at my locker, at least until Karma appears damn near giddy with excitement, "Oh my God that was amazing, did I sound okay? Did I look okay is a better question cause I felt like I was going to pee my pants," Karma rambles out in a single breath.
"It's a shame you didn't, I hear Booker finds that a real turn on," I bite out and Karma looks taken back.
"I thought you'd be proud of me, you know getting up there and facing my fears in front of all of those people," Karma says, her face displaying a look of confusion.
"As if all of those people matter to you, all you wanted to do was impress Liam," I respond angrily and understanding dawns on Karma's face.
"That's what this is about, you're getting jealous of Liam again,"
"I have a right to be, you'd worked so hard to get this whole school to believe that you are my girlfriend, yet you were just out there parading around like a little show pony to impress some other guy," I shouldn't be yelling at Karma right now but I'm so fucking sick of this Liam Booker bullshit that I can't stop myself.
"That's not what I was doing," Karma responds and her tone is calm but I can tell she is getting angry as well.
"How do you think that made me look Karma? It made me look like some idiot that can't keep his own fucking girlfriend happy enough in their relationship, I look like the useless sod that has to sit back and watch you flirt with someone else," I'm so ridiculously frustrated at this point that there could be a camera crew around us and I wouldn't give a damn.
"You know what Amerson, you need to remember that you aren't my boyfriend and so what if I'm trying to impress someone else. If you are going to get upset every time things don't go your way you are going to have a very hard time keeping a girlfriend at all, real or fake. So what if I'm trying to impress the hottest guy at school and so what if it isn't you, I'm a fucking teenage girl," Karma responds angrily before pushing past me.
I realize that I can't stop her and I run my hand through my hair in frustration before slamming my locker door shut.
"Hey, I snagged some pizza, how do you feel about Hawaiian?" Allie asks as she walks up behind me and before I really even think about it I take her face in my hands and kiss the crap out of her. When I come to my senses I pull back and look down at the dazed girl in front of me before muttering, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that," I brush past her and head anywhere but here, leaving the poor girl probably horribly confused.
Hey guys, it's been a while again, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for this chapter to be so long but all the stuff that happened sort of had to be from Amerson's perspective. Ah well, hopefully you guys with enjoy the chapter anyway, also I hope you guys like Allie. In my mind she's an adorable little munchkin of cuteness and I maybe kind of have a thing for Elise Bauman at the moment and maybe I wanted to picture her with Oliver's glasses because come on. If you don't know who Elise Bauman is you need to find out and you need to watch Carmilla and/or Young Badlands on YouTube to see her in action. Okay, now I've probably rambled enough with this. Anywho, enjoy. -Zahli