"Humans are shameless and carelessly ignore my misfortune. They always just tell me that Im not done growing and eventually they wont look that big on me, but im almost 110 years old and I still look like some cartoon character. They will bow their heads, and then they will cast their eyes toward heaven trying to pretend that they didn't look but I know, I know.."

-Sora

CHAPTER 6: RETURN TO A CAKE FACTORY

The next day, Darian's alarm went off, indicating it was the start of another school day. Even though she didnt really want to move after all the fun she had last night, her parents angrily made her to go to school anyway. She slammed her fist on the alarm clock and forced herself out of bed. She got dressed and shoved some school books into her backpack. Knoll started to wake up, but Darian kissed him goodbye and turned towards the door.

"I'm off to school," She explained. "thanks for last night"

"When will you come home?" He asked sleepily.

"Not until three o'clock this afternoon by the way, my parents are going to be working this morning. I'll be home before them. Don't talk to them please, last night caused us enough trouble…how ever fun it was."

"I think you should tell them to get used to it" Knoll said with a chuckle.

Knoll went back to sleep as she left her room. She went into the kitchen, grabbed a Poptart, and headed out the door. She lived only a few blocks from the High school she attended and it didn't take much time to get there by foot. As she walked, she heard someone call out her name.

She turned to see her child hood friend, Soloris. He was the same age as her and in a few of her classes. The two had known each other for most of their lives and they lived close to each other as well. Unlike Darian, Soloris liked to play a lot of sports and was the best person on the baseball team. He was kind, level headed, and a little gullible. He was like a brother to her and her best friend.

"How's it going, Darian, looks like some one had fun last night?" Soloris asked. He was wide awake and cheery as usual. Almost everything Darian was not.

"you could say that I guess," She said. "And you?"

"Great," He replied as he tried to straighten his messy brown hair with his fingers. "so whatd you do to make you walk so funny anyways?"

She shrugged. "It depends whos asking"

"You mean either you slept with a imaginary boyfriend or just stayed up all night masterbating?" He asked, although he intended it as a joke, she didn't find it humorous at all, and even punched him in the face.

He laughed a little but then started rubbing the spot she hit. "That...actually smarts," He said with surprise.

"What?" She asked. "don't belive I have a REAL boyfriend ?"

"That's not it," He said quickly. "It's just, I've been hit by you before, but it never hurt that badly. That actually hurt a lot."

"I didn't hit you that hard," She said.

A bus passed by and some one threw a crumbled up piece of paper from the window that hit Darian in the head. She ate it.

"You ok?" Soloris asked.

She nodded.

"just hungry?"

Darian shrugged. "I should be used to it, I guess."

He didn't say anything in reply. The two made their way into the school and headed to their first class. They had algebra together that morning.

"Did you do your homework?" Soloris asked her.

"No, I was up all night getting plowed remember?"

"I forgot to do it too Darian no need to lie," He admitted

FUCK YOU? She thought to herself as the two of them headed to their class.

A few hours passed at Darian's house and everyone was wide awake. Darian's mother had gone to work already, but Barden hadn't left yet. Before he headed out the door, he pulled Knoll aside.

"listen about last night, I don't care what you and my daughter do when you ARENT in my home, but in my house you cant be tieing people up or strangling them or anything like that…we live in the suburbs someone might here and think shes being murdered okay….now listen if it happens again….Im going to kill darian," He threatened as he then left for work. Knoll slumped into the couch in the living room and sighed. It was obvious her parents didn't take the whole 'bondage" thing well. The others were lounging as well, glancing at each other in a sort of 'what do we do now?' manner.

"I'm bored Colm complained.

"I am too. Maybe we should go get some food from Darian's kitchen?" Neimi said. And so, the small team went on a divine mission to locate Darian's food storage. Instead of finding the kitchen, they found the bathroom, but they didn't know that. After all, none of them had a bathroom from where they came from.

"What do you think that is?" Lute asked as she pointed to the toilet. "I've never laid eyes on a contraption like this before." The group crowded around the odd device and stared at it in wonder.

Knoll poked at it and pulled the lid up. "It has fluid in it," He observed.

"Okay, but what does it do?" Neimi asked.

Colm saw the lever and began fiddling with it. He pulled on it. Then pushed up on it. Then pushed down on it, and finally got a result. The toilet flushed, causing everyone to jump back in surprised.

"They have a MONSTER in their home!" Colm shouted.

"But what would they need with a monster?" Kyle asked.

The others pondered this for some time. Then Knoll grabbed the bar of soap that was resting on the side of the sink. He dropped it into the toilet and flushed it. They watched as the bar of soap clogged the toilet.

"It's hunger is never ending," Knoll concluded.

"I think they might want us to kill it," Colm said.

Three classes had gone by and already trouble had started. Darian had gotten into a fight with a girl who tried say Darian didn't have periods because she was a walrus. Darian had pinned the girl against a locker and tore her eyes out of her head. Darian was the one to get sent to the office and had to talk to the vice principal about what had happened.

Her vice principal, to her luck, was a nice guy and was understanding of Darian's position. Besides, this wouldn't be the first time she was sent to him for killing another student. He was used to seeing her and simply let her off with a warning. But if she fought anyone else, she would get suspended for a week. Not like Darian really cared. It would give her more time to look into the dimensional rips and try to find the time for knoll and her to atleast spend some time together.

Come lunch time, Darian sat at a table with Soloris. He smiled kindly to her and began a friendly conversation with her. "You wont believe what I saw yesterday," he said.

"What your testicle finally decended?" She asked.

"I was walking home from practice yesterday and I saw a blue cat run by as it headed towards the outskirts of town."

"Blue? I've never heard of a blue cat."

"This is the weird part," He continued on. "It wasn't the regular size of a cat, it was huge. I mean HUGE!"

"How big are we talking?"

"Like, the size of a Golden Retriever."

"That's messed up. Are you sure you weren't smoking anything odd?"

"You know I don't do drugs."

Darian shrugged. "There's a first time fore everything."

"wait what is that" soloris said pointing to darians neck

A hicky the size of a silver doller was planted from the bottom of her ear to the top of her neck

"wait do you really have a boyfriend?...im so lost"

Darian covered the blimish and slapped soloris

The girl Darian had the fight with walked by the table and not eyed Soloris admiringly. Darian rolled her eyes when she saw her. The girl ignored Darian's gesture and sat down on the other side of Soloris.

"Hey there, Soloris," She said in a flirtatious manner. "Would you want to see a movie this weekend with me. Alone."

"Sorry, I have plans," Soloris replied politely. The one thing Darian loved about her friend was how he wasn't into girls.

"Ooo! Shot down!" Darian howled in triumph as she laughed.

"I wasn't talking to you, slut." She snarled.

"I know, but you decided to interrupt me and Soloris's conversation so I figured I'd just join in on this one."

"Go to hell, Darian."

"hey atleast my boobs are real"

Soloris sighed. "I don't think I'll ever understand cat fights." He said.

"Cat fight?" Darian said with a dark smirk as she glanced at the other girl. "I fight like a pit bull, isn't that right? You have no eyes left to prove it."

The girl didnt glare at her and got up from the table. Soloris chuckled a little at Darian's second victory.

"What's this box thing?" Neimi asked as she pointed to the Television. A few hours had gone by and the small team passed the time by looking through Darian's house at all her futuristic items.

"Not sure." Colm said. "But it's got a bunch of buttons on it." He began pushing all the buttons on the television, and finally hit the power button, causing the T.V. to turn on.

Everyone gasped as they watched the screen come to life. A movie was playing of a women sodamizing a man with a cucumber.

"It's a monster!" Knoll shouted. "We have to kill it!"

Some of the people in the movie started talking about doing the same thing. Lute cocked her head to the side as she watched them speak. "Why do their lips keep moving when they're not talking?" She asked.

"Who cares?" Colm said irritably. "We have to find a way to save those people and destroy that monster!" He rammed himself against the T.V., but nothing happened.

Kyle placed his hands on the screen as he investigated it. "It appears that Im alive, and that this glass is a barrier of some kind." He noted.

Knoll came in with a wooden chair from Darian's dinning room. "Maybe if we hit it with a blunt object, the glass will break." He said. "Try using this chair."

Kyle grabbed the back rest of the chair and he motioned for everyone to get behind him. They did so and took a great distance from him. He swung the chair at the television, which shattered the screen and took out half of its side. The metal frame of the chair cought the transformer inside the machine and sent over 200 volts of electricity through kyle killing him dead

"You killed the monster!" Colm shouted happily.

"And I think kyle too," Neimi noted.

School was over and it couldn't have ended sooner. Darian never really cared for school, but now at least now she could try looking into the job she had been given by Cathriana. As she was walking back to her house, Soloris caught up to her.

"Hey, wanna come by my place for a bit?" He asked.

"look soloris, I do have a boyfriend now" She said.

"I know but We haven't hung out in a long time."

She did miss spending time with him, but she was worried about her friends back home. I told them not to cause any trouble... She thought. Oh, what the heck. It'll only be for half an hour at tops. Then I'll head straight home. The two walked side by side as they headed towards Soloris's house.

Soloris leaned over

"can I hold your hand?"

"ifmy boyfriend dumps me then hangs himself I might say yes" darian said angrily