SPOV
I woke up that morning, expecting to be in my own room. So I stood up, got out of bed…
And walked right into a wall. I guess I wasn't home after all.
The day started out much like yesterday's, up to our snack break. The seven of us stood around in a circle in a room I had never been in before.
"So, what are you going to do right now?" Nicole asked, a devious smile on her face.
"Do I want to know what you're planning?" I asked, backing away a little bit, beginning to play with the edge of my blue T-shirt dress and staring at my Uggs.
She laughed. "I just wanted to see if you could go with me to the Chocolates of the World exhibit in the McGorhan room with me! The others don't want to go. They feel they're going to eat too much."
Francine shook her head and flicked a carrot in my direction. "I never said that. I just don't want to go!"
"So you'll come with me?" She asked, smiling in my direction.
I nodded. "Sure, why not? I love chocolate!"
"Me too!" Rose yelled, pulling off a cartwheel and dragging the two of us down the hall.
Not too much later, I found myself in a large room with various chocolates in tables. Rose pulled us back to the Bolivian section. Popping a piece in my mouth and beginning to read the board, I heard a noise from a back room. My friends didn't notice it, though.
"You've got to be kidding me! You like her?" A voice whisper-yelled. "She's crazy, she's a wacko, she's… not your type! Why would you ever tell me this?"
I could imagine whoever it was awkwardly looking away and putting their hands in their pockets. "I never told you." He muttered, and I knew that was Joey's voice. "I was sleep talking!" He defended.
"You like her, you like her, you like El…"
"Shut up!" he commanded. "What if she hears?" Was he going to say… Ella? Did they like each other? Awww… so cute! But I couldn't confront him, Ella would need to. I would never deny her of this moment. So, I pulled them over to another stand.
"You guys, let's take all the Swiss chocolate and get out of here!" I said before stuffing a handful of Lindt chocolates in my pockets and running. My friends followed suit and scrammed with me.
It was this point in time I knew I needed to get out of this body.
Later that day, I sat in the gyms in my gym uniform, holding a paddle and wearing a life vest. The uniforms weren't all that bad, with me wearing an orange T-shirt with the school logo in black, and black sweatpants with the logo in orange. I regretted not having a sweatshirt, so I used my good school one. I'd rather not freeze, thanks. Thank goodness Ella had sneakers and socks in her locker.
The group was split up into three groups of 20, and I was the group that had, yes, boating. I didn't really know who any of these people were quite yet, except for my "friend" Beth, Joey, and a few other people who were in my other classes who's names I vaguely remembered. Andrew, Kyle, and Sophia, were they?
The gym teacher blew the whistle and I jumped. Sure wasn't expecting that! "Alright now, I'll be splitting you guys into groups! You better all work." I listened intently to the man.
I didn't get put with Beth, but she did get put with Kyle. I think they'd make such a cute couple… wait. Focus, Sonny!
"In boat four, Ella." Okay, this was me. "Andrew, Jennah," Andrew's good, I think I heard Jennah was pretty nice too. "And Joey." Of course I get stuck with him! What do I do? Oh I know now, act like he's Chad.
It's really freaky how similar the two of us are.
Anyways, after taking a two or three minute walk, we reached the clearing of a lake. I thought it was quite pretty. What a nice place to live! And no, I was not being sarcastic. Instructing all of my classmates into the boats, I chose a seat towards the front. I'm not half bad at boating.
But guess who was in the back! Yup, it was Joey. "Your challenge today will be to go around the lake together. You must work together, and it's not as easy as it sounds." The gym teacher told us. It sounded like a bad dialogue for a children's show, but oh well.
"Oh, and are we going to sing songs?" The boy in the back muttered, and evil glint in his eye. "We did it, we did it, we did it, yeah we did it!" He began to sing. At first it was kind of… funny. But then it just got… rude.
I decided I had had enough. "Do you have to be so mean about everything?" I asked, still not looking at him.
"Do you have to be so nice about everything?" He retorted, smirking at the back of my head. This is when I turned around. He stuck his tongue out, and I returned the favour. "Meh!" he yelled at me.
"Meh!" I yelled back. We then turned back to where we were originally facing to go back to work.
Around this time, we decided that the more we worked together, the faster we could stop. However, this wasn't possible without some more arguing.
"You've got to paddle faster!" I found him yelling at me.
"You've got to paddle harder!" I responded, splashing him. And you can probably figure out how that all ended. Well, we almost ended up in the water, and I think we got a little wetter than we might have liked.
Later, I found myself yelling, "Turn better so we don't crash!"
He yelled back, "Paddle faster! The only reason I'm dealing with you is because I want to win." However, this didn't sound completely sincere. No, it sounded more like teasing. Yet I don't think I would have figured this out if I hadn't been trying to understand him so badly.
We ended up finishing in second, close behind Kyle and Beth's group. Joey wasn't the happiest camper, but he left me alone to go talk with his friend.
Now that it was the end of the day, I began wondering how much longer this would go on…
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EPOV
I watched Chad open the paint can. I didn't think he knew what he was doing, but that was okay with me. We were all wearing old clothing, and Chad didn't seem too happy about it. I wasn't too upset because I had done this before, but Chad was rich. He had never painted a room, had he?
"So, are you ready to paint a room?" I asked, tapping him on the head with a brush. He twitched his head and pointed a finger at me.
"No, I've painted a room once, and I hated it." Maybe he was a bit more down to earth than I thought. Or at least at one point he was. "Let's just get this over. You start over there somewhere." He told me, pointing at the kitchenette. "I'll get the walls." I found this fair and began to do as was said.
We painted quietly for a little while, but I decided to talk not too much later. "So… you don't like the colour yellow?" I asked casually.
"You should know that." He answered rudely. What was wrong with him! I never did anything to him. Well, maybe Sonny did, but Ella didn't!
"Please tell me again. Maybe we can stop being such enemies." I responded. Darn it, why did I do that?
He painted silently for a minute. I decided this meant he wouldn't answer my question, so I went back to making the cabinets a black colour. "It reminds me of my sister. We haven't talked in a while." He responded sadly. "That and I think it's an ugly colour."
I looked at my yellow 'Little Miss Sunshine' tee and overalls. "Hey! Are you saying my shirt is ugly?" I commented, glaring at him.
"Maybe I am!" He told me, smirking.
I walked over to him, leaving my paintbrush in the can. "Fine." I responded.
"Fine." He told me, moving back towards me. "And you might just look good in that shirt."
I gave him a smile. "Is that a compliment or sarcasm?" I questioned.
He quickly turned away and began painting. "I don't know." He said, and I returned to my own work. As much as he was changing, I didn't want to spend a long time in a room with him. But what was with him? He reminded me of Joey. But Joey was smarter, funnier, and better looking… ignore my creepy mind. As I might have told Sonny, I could possible like him.
Ugh. It makes me want to scream just thinking about it. So I did scream. At Chad. About an hour later. "Can't you paint any quicker?" I asked, finishing up the kitchenette and moving onto the foosball table.
"Stop snapping at me." He said calmly. "You're acting like a child."
While I wanted to say that I was, I knew that would be suspicious. So I said, "You act like a child more than me! You have to get everything you want or you throw a temper-tantrum!"
He turned around at this, looking like he would say something. But Mr. Condor walked in holding an orange stuffed pig. Why an orange stuffed pig? "You've done enough for today." The man said gruffly. "Go to rehearsal." I nodded at him, then Chad, then began picking up my stuff to go to practice.
An hour later I was sitting at a table eating a bowl of strawberries and watching as the group performed a 'Coolest Kid in School' sketch. Zora sat next to me, telling me about how butter socks made good weapons. "Hey Zora," I said, playing with the hem of the shirt I had changed into. "Heard anything suspicious from Chad lately?"
She laughed. "Of course I have! The last time, he was discussing the girl he liked. Sounded a bit like you, but I knew that couldn't be true. You two hate each other, right?" This was followed up by a rather menacing glare.
"No, of course not!" I said! It was the truth. Sonny liked Chad, not me. I liked… Ew… Joey. I'll never get used to that. Well, maybe I would, but not soon.
"Sonny, get up, it's time for your sketch!" I heard Marshall (or at least I think that's his name) tell me. It's a good thing I'm not that bad at acting. This was the Zombie Man sketch, one about where Zombie Man has a crush on a girl. The girl's boyfriend cheats on her, so Zombie Man goes and eats him. Then the girl kisses him. I played the girl.
So I stood off-stage, playing with my hair until I heard, "But she would never fall for you!"
My character walked on, a sad look on her face. "Oh no! My boyfriend was cheating on me! Can anyone help?" Nico and Zombie Man grinned at each other. I looked at them, clueless. "What?"
"And now go to your desks, we'll show that it's the next day… action!" Marshall commanded.
I got back into character quickly, running over my lines in my head. "Alright class," Grady, out 'teacher' said, "We have some saddening news. Our friend George was eaten alive yesterday night." A chorus of boos erupted over our 'classroom', and I turned to the desk behind me.
"Thanks Zombie Man! You're the best!" I said, and then kissed him on the cheek. He made a face and put his hand to his cheek.
"And… cut!" Marshall yells, smiling. "That's good for today, everyone! You should all have school next, go attend that." I rushed to go follow up with Zora.
"Do you really think Chad would like me?" I pretended to shutter at the thought.
The girl shrugged. "It's possible, but I hope not." Ah, the lovely rivalry. "Why are you so curious about this whole thing?"
"No reason…" I said, and then ran off. If Chad really did like Sonny, I think I'd need to get out of this body sooner than I thought…
I feel like I'm accidentally parodying my own story in some parts… oh well! It makes it funny! The final chapter of Two Worlds Collide will be out next week. Now, I must go back to texting my friend and listening to sad violin music. Please review!
Disclaimer: Just because you like something doesn't mean you can own it. This is true for me. I do not own Lindt chocolate or SWAC.