AN: New chappy! :)
(Yeh, chappy. You got me right xP)
This is almost dedicated to the 'Horizontal Ruler'button... I ended up using a lot of those.
The second I got out from Roger's office, I pulled out a chocolate bar from my pocket and viciously smapped a chunk of it. I almost crushed the thing in my hands when I thought back on his last comments; however, as the cocoa sweetness worked its way into my system I started to cool off.
I was still pissed, but not furious, and when I was out of chocolate it was more annoying. Of course, I still hated him, but I wasn't feeling like punching something.
When I got back to our room, noone was there. I raised my eyebrows. If they're not here, where the fuck are they?
I mean, we practically never hung out at another place than me and Matt's room, so if bot of them ar suddenly gone, something's up. I considered the places they could've gone as I walked over to my bedside table, opened the drawer and pulled out three new bars of chocolate.
Evidentially, there was only one place they could have gone to (assuming I knew them as well as I thought I did) and that was Kati's room. So, I left our room - nomming chocolate, of course - and knocked on her door.
"Come in." As i guessed, Matt answered and I entered the room.
He was sitting on her bed, GameBoy in hand, and Kati was placed at her piano. I couldn't see her face, but judging from the sweet music that left it, and the fact that Matt invited me into the room, she was deeply focused on the keys.
I would probably never stop to be surprised by her musicaltiy. As I walked over the room to sit next to Matt, I ended up looking at her fingers as they softly moved over the keys, with a coordination that would have made daVinci jealous. (Or, well, not literally... What the fuck, you get the point!) Her face was completely relaxed, but I could sense she was deeply concentrated.
I eventually turned my head to Matt, who was back to his GameBoy.
"So, why did Mozart over there decide to brag the shit out of us?" I said, unwrapping my third chocolate bar.
"She suddenly realised she had her musical homework to do, and you were out getting perved up by Roger, so..." He answered without even looking up from the game. "By the way, how did you schedule turn out?"
"Um..." I didn't know. So far, I hadn't even looked at the wrinkly piece of paper. I had totally mashed it when I got out from Rogers office, so some parts were kind of hard to read in the dim light. "Seemed I got all the things I wished for." Yup, English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Latin and German. And Computer Knowldge.
I glanced over at Matt, who was still playing on his GameBoy. (Kati hadn't even turned her head during our conversation. Deep focused kid, or what?) "What are you playing anyway?" Seriously, it had to be fucking awesome if he spend so much time on it.
"It's called Super Mario." He somewhat turned the thing so I could see what he was doing. "You're this fat, Italian plummer who is on an epic quest to save Princess Peach."
I scowled. "Peach? Isn't that like, a fruit or some shit like that?"
"Yeah, it's kinda wierd, but whatever." The tiny little red thing on the screen jumped over som pools of lava. "Peach, anyway, is trapped by King Bowser, a big dragun-turtle type of thing with spikes on his shell."
"This game makes no sense at all." I shook my head in amusement. "Seriously, what the fuck? Is that mushrooms?"
"Yeah, they're evil. But not all mushrooms; some give you more life or make you increase in size."
"Okey, it definitely makes no sense at all. How can you enjoy a game like that?"
He placed his GameBoy back on his legs, then started furiously pushing buttons. I supposed he met a boss or something, but I really didn't care all that much.
"Well, it's easy" he said (Still bashing the thing with his thumb; it was incredible how he could stay focused on two things at the same time!) "In the end, Good allways win; Mario saves Peach and the bad guy gets his punishment. In a game, you know it'll end happily."
I was kind of struck by that. Of course, it made sense; who wouldn't want to wish the world was like videogames? Only problem, the key item was wish. The world was cruel, and games merely a way for people to tryand recreate the perfect reality.
I decided, though, to not say this. If Matt enjoyed his games, who cared wether they were rational or not?
Instead, I sucked on my neglected chocolate, leaning back to the wall. I closed my eyes and let my mind drift away to the sweet music that flowed from Kati's piano. She really was talented... I had to tell her that later. Not now. I didn't feel like opening my eyes or to move.
My mind slowly faded into nothing, and without noticing it I fell asleep.
When I opened my eyes again, I was still in Katis room, but now the dim light had gone into as good as complete darkness. I blinked a couple of times, quickly getting used to the absence of light.
It was silent, except from the soft breathing of... Woever it was that lay next to me in Kati's bed. Their head was at the other end of it, so I had to sit up in order to recognise Matt. He was stretched out on the bed, fast asleep. His GameBoy lay on the floor next to the bed.
I quickly scanned the room to see if Kati was there, and quickly located her on the floor. She was laying curled up in a ball on a pile of what seemed to be a mixture of clothes, blankets and pillows in the middle of the room. Though I could only see her back, she too seemed asleep.
I yawned silently, blinking a few times. I considered going back to sleep, but felt something gnawing inside me. I quickly located it as chocolate withdrawal, and you can't ignore chocolate withdrawal. At least not if you're me.
Ok, so I had to get my hands on some sweet cocoa. Now, how to do that?
I judgeg I could just carefully leave the room, get chocolate, and go back. Shouldn't be that hard, since my eyes had gotten used to the darkness. Very well, better get started then.
I swung my legs to the floor, avoiding hitting Matt, and slowly stood up before moving to the door. Kati was easy to avoid, she wasn't really taking up any space, and I quickly found myself in the lit corridor.
The light stung my eyes, and I squinted hard as I stappled to me and Matt's room. It was dark in there as well, wich was kind of a relief for my vision. I raised my eyebrows as I realised Kati had been in there; our pillows and blankets were missing, and I highly suspected she was curretly sleeping on them.
It took me about a minute - when I was already biting into my chocolate - to realise she had taken my pillows. Both of them.
My eyes shot wide open and I actually dropped what I was holding.
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
One of my pillows contained my mother's Bible.
Panic swelled over me and I threw myself over my chocolate. It took me about three seconds to prop the whole thing into my mouth, and while I was chewing on it - the fact that I had to chew kinda indicates the amount, I must've looked like a hamster - I could feel it spread in my veins like waves of calmness.
By the time I had swallowed it all, my panik had dissolved somewhat and I had actually come up with a plan.
The pillowcase on the pillow my mother's Bible lay hidden in was black with white dots, and it was the only one any of the three of us had. Wich meant, I could easily recognise it if I saw it. So the plan was to get back in Kati's room, get the pillow, take the Bible out, hide it in my room, put the pillow back and then fall asleep in her bed again.
Why it was so important none of them knew that I had the Bible I had no idea, but anyway I didn't want them to know.
So, putting my plan into action, I got back into Kati's room. Scanning my eyes over the mountain of stuff she was curled up on, I spotted my pillow. Thankfully, it wasn't one she was laying on, so it should be easy to take it. My heat beat as crazy when I crouched beside the pile on the floor, reaching my hand out to get the pillow. Though she wasn't laying on it, Kati was still close to it and I tried my best not to wake her.
When I slowly grasped the pillow and pulled it towards me, she made a small shifting motion and I froze. Luckily, she just took a deep breath, mumbled something in her sleep and then got still. My heart started beating again and I sighed.
I quickly removed the Bible, made a quick check and saw - to my big relief - that it wasn't harmed in any way. Then I put the pillow back before quickly giong back to my own room, where I quickly hid it amongst my underwear. If anyone looked there, something was definitely up.
Then I devoured my last chocolate bar - Note to Self: Get more chocolate - to calm my nerves before returning to her room. No-one woke up as I climbed back into Kati's bed, and I took a deep breath out of relief. Evertything had worked out, and the Bible was safe.
Just as I allowed myself to relax, Matt turned. I felt like a deer caught in the headlights, but then realised he was still asleep, just flipping over. However, my space was drastically decreased as he had rolled towards me; we were currrently somewhat pressed up against eachother. Luckily, since he was a bit shorter than me I didn't have his feet in my face, but it was still annoying. I sat up again and tried to push him to the other side of the bed.
And, of course, this was when he woke up. However, I didn't notice, just kept on with my work to make some space.
"Mello?" He mumbled sleepily. "What are you doing?"
I looked down at him. He had fallen asleep with his goggles on, and their orange plastic met my eyes.
"I'm trying to get som space" I whispered back. "Would you mind scooting 'couple of inches?"
"Sure." He sidled a bit, dividing the area of the bed equally between us. I smiled.
"Thanks." I lay down again, but his voice interrupted my thoughts.
"Mels..." Mels? Since when does he call me Mels? "Why were you awake anyway?"
"Had to get some chocolate."
"Oh... Okey." He curled up into a ball - much like Kati - a movement that ended up placing him at my hip. I looked down at him. He was laying with his face towards me. "G'night Mels." He mumbled and then relaxed.
I felt like telling him it wasn't really night - I had noticed his digital clock said it was acually 4.56PM - but I decided it didn't really matter.
"Sleep tight, Matty." Matty? So now I was giving him nicknames? Might as well start to call Kati Kate, just to complete the triangle. I thought.
Whatever. Why was I thinking stuff like this? It made about as much sense as Matt's videogame, and for the second time in four hours I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.
I woke up because someone was poking me. I groaned and slapped their hand away.
"Huh" I heard someone say. "You were right."
"What the fuck is up with you people and poking?" I snarled at them. "Seriously?"
Kati raised her eyebrows. "I've been shaking you for about five minutes. Stop sleeping so hard and we'll stop poking you."
"Whatever." I sat up on her bed and quickly scanned the room. Kati was standing in front of the bed, and Matt lay on the pile of soft stuff she'd previously been sleeping on. "Why'd you wake me up?"
"Dinner time." I yawned and swung my legs over the bed.
"What time is it?"
"About half seven." Kati didn't seeme to realise how odd that had sound, and I scowled slightly when she turned to walk over to the door.
"Half seven?" I said.
Kati turned. "What?" Confused expression. "Oh, sorry. Half past six. I sometimes get stuck in Swedish way of talking when I've just woke up. Half seven is the way you say half past six in Sweden, simply." She shrugged. "After all, it is my native language. Can't help myself from slipping sometimes."
I nodded. Walking over to her, I ruffled his hair. "Come on, you dork. We'll need some energy if we're gonna stay awake all night."
He snorted. "Yeah, I bet you need more of that." He said ironically, standing up. "After all, sleeping sixteen hours in a day and eating tons of chocolate don't give an ounce of energy."
My eyes narrowed. "So what? I like chocolate."
"Yeah, but it gets kinda ridiculous when you have to wake up every fourth hour to refill on it."
"Oh shut up. If anything's ridicolous, it's your games!"
Kati just shook her head and left to go and eat. Not that I blame her, we were a bit annoying, and we kept fighting about whose addiction were the lamest.
Once we got down to the dining hall, Kati was already seater at a corner of the room. She sat alone and had put her feet on the table to clearly state that she didn't want any company.
Not that me and Matt cared. We just walked over to her and sat down on the other side of the table with our plates. If I had the choice, I would have just skipped the dinner itself and jump straight to dessert. After all, it was chocolate pudding. But I had tried that practically every time they served dessert and knew it was a waste of time and effort, since Kati and Matt allways forced me to eat what they called 'real food'.
So instead I just tried to finish the paste salad as soon as possible, while all the time thinking of chocolate. Ok, so that's a bit wierd (even I admit it) but come on. We didn't call it 'addiction' without reason.
Anyway. I get of the subject way too often, aren't I?
When we sat down, Kati was currently glaring at her shoes. At first I thought she was merely pissed at us for acting like we were still in Kindergarten. But as it turned out, she wasn't. Or, well, she just thought of something else.
"I gotta get new shoes." I lifted my gaze to her. She was scowling and still glaring at her worn-out pair of Converse. "Or else winter's gonna be a bitch."
She really had a point in that. Truthfully, I have never seen a more abused pair of shoes. They had most likely been black once, but now resembled more of a brownish green tone. The soles practically didn't exist anymore, there were big holes at her heels, the pad in front and the white rubber had big cracks in it. It had gone so far that the whole inner page of her right foot was showing. Literally, she was walking on it.
"I told you that" Matt said, "About three months ago."
She rolled her eyes and took her feet off the table.
"Yeah, but it wasn't bad then. I love my Converse."
"Well, give'em a nice funeral."
"I'm not gonna stop wearing then completely, just in the winter."
He stared at her. I was actually kinda surprised that he looked up from his GameBoy, since that basicly never happened. "You're telling me you'll keep wearing the most worn-out pair of Converse humanity has ever seen?"
Kati snorted and threw a slice of bread at him. He dodged it with ease. "Stop overdoing it."
"'m not overdoing it" he said, chucking a breadslice back at her.
"Yeah, you are." Kati was out of bread, so she just tossed an apple. He dodged again, giving the result that it hit another guy in the head.
He swung around and glared our direction. "Who threw that?" Nobody confessed, so he just threw it back at some random chick wo sat a few chairs away.
Of course, it soon escalated into a total food war. We were really amused by it, since the only people that didn't seemed to get food al over them were the three of us. Wich was hilarous since Matt and Kati were the ones that started it all.
And then we saw Roger.
He was trying to clear it up, but his attemps of getting himself heard over the turmoil were futile and he was furious by the time he spotted us. Kati was the first to notice him, and her smile was immediately obliterated.
"Holy fuck, Roger's coming." Me and Matt swung around in time to see him start to fuel away towards us.
Kati quickly jumped over the table and the tree of us fled to the door wich, fortunately, lay close. I even managed to snatch my chocolate pudding with me and quickly stuffed it down my pocket. If I was to sit in a tree or broom closet for hours, I would at least have chocolate with me!
We ran along the corridors, well aware that Roger most likely was scamming the mansion for us.
Suddenly, Kati turned left. Neither me nor Matt reacted in time to go after her, so we just kept on our old track forward while she got to one of the safe zones.
"Shit" Matt gasped as the corridor turned right and then stopped.
"What?" I back-pedaled myself. We were both panting; we had probably burned more energy in that run alone than we did in a month.
"There's only one hidingplace close, and it's not big enough to hold both of us."
"You sure?" He met my eyes, and I probably looked as desperate as he did.
"Well, we can try, but it'll be tight."
"Worth a try." He gave a nod and we took up our race.
After a few more turns, we got to a completely deserted corridor. Matt stopped in front of a door, wich he opened to reveal what looked like an empty broom closet. We knew Roger had sent people after us (their footsteps echoed between the walls) so I didn't even think before we had pressed ourselves into the tiny space. After I shut the door, I realised what he had meant by tight.
Seriously, I don't have claustrophobia, but if I did I would have killed myself. There was barely room for us to breathe, and then I was pressed up against the door and Matt to the wall. Thankfully, though, it wasn't so narrow that our faces were squeezed against eachother, but there was only about an inch between our chests.
If I thought the time I hid in the tree with Kati was awkward, it was nothing compared to now. Seriously, it felt like my face had the same colour as Matt's hair. But at least I didn't have to say anything, since we were still in danger of getting caught.
Just as the thought passed my mind, we heard the people that had been following us run past our hidingplace. My heart skipped a beat when they passed, but noone seemed to have stopped or suspect anything, so it soon restarted and I quietly sighed in relief.
Now came the question: How long will we have to stay?
Kati had run off to God knows where, and she was most likely in a hidingplace. If she was, that would mean that none of us would know when Roger had cooled off. That left us with two options. 1. Stick it out for so long it was obvious he had calmed down, or 2. Take the risk of feeling his wrath and leave.
I'd go with option one, clearly. The only problem was that that would leave me pressed up against Matt for hours, possibly. I was glad the lights were out.
AN: So, yeah, chappy 7 ends in a slight cliffhanger. Live with it. ^^
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