Playlist Chapter 12
Sorry for the wait but i finally got a new chap out and i hope it's to all of your liking. And here's to all the people that reviewed! Especially the last 6 who i absolutely know read the 11th chap... you know it's kinda sad that i can only say at least 6 people even like my story enough to read this far or find it worthy enough to review on.
Most props go to gothiclover13 for the list of 25 song suggestions. (sorry i haven't used any yet but i assure you i intend to)
Songs: Puddle of Mudd - Psycho
It was finally the weekend and Victoria couldn't wait to spend it by herself. All week she'd been hoping to get Warren's attention but of course that was near impossible when he'd just stopped hanging out with them. They almost never saw him and when they did he was usually with that Icy bitc-… ok that was going a little far, she didn't even know the girl! But she digressed, this weekend would be spent without her friends and she'd made sure they knew not to call her for anything sort of the world exploding. What she really needed was a couple days to just relax and become reacquainted with her music. She missed it so. And while she was doing that she could rethink her approach to getting Warren to notice her, especially now that Icy was in the mix.
Lying back on her bed she picked up her mp3, put her ear-buds in, and thought back on the day before as the lyrics of her first song of the weekend began.
Maybe I'm the one, maybe I'm one
Who is the schizophrenic psycho, yeah
Maybe I'm the one, maybe I'm one
Who is the schizophrenic psycho, yeah
"So Vicky, are you coming out to party with us?"
"No thanks."
"Awww come on! It'll be fun, I swear."
"You know you shouldn't swear Layla."
"Vicky! Now isn't the time for your sarcasm."
"Really? Cuz I thought my sarcastic wit added a little spice to life."
Leaning closer to the other girl, the hippie spoke under her breath so as not to draw attention to their conversation.
"Look Vicky. I know it sounds like just another party but so far it's just gonna be me and Warren."
"What, why?" that had caught her attention. Now why where the hippie and pyro going to be alone together. She knew better then to actually suspect something was going on, the two of them would never actually do that despite their little homecoming plan that she'd been told of, it was really just her jealousy talking.
"I don't know if you've noticed or not, but Warren hasn't been himself all week."
"I don't see how I could have noticed seeing as he hasn't so much as walked up to our table all week."
"Exactly! That's part of it too… or at least I think it may be. But anyways, I actually got a chance to talk to him the other day-"
"By that do you mean you were finally able to corner him and get some answers?"
"Well… yeah, ok from an outsiders perspective I'm sure it might have looked a bit like that."
"A bit? Alright."
"Can I please just get back to what I was saying!"
"By all means."
"Ok so once I got a chance to talk to him he tried to blow me off. Can you believe that?"
"OMG No Way!"
"I know! Wait- were you just making fun of me?" the flora-kinetic was clearly annoyed by now with the interruptions and such.
"No, of course not Layla, please continue with your enchanting story."
"Hnnnn. Fine! So as soon as he tried to step away I stepped back in front of him and politely asked-"
"Hm?"
"Ok, demanded, he tell me what was up and why he was avoiding us."
At the moment of silence that consumed them in that moment Victoria felt Layla may actually have wanted her input for this one. So she gave it.
"And what did he say?"
"That he really just didn't wanna deal with me right now."
"What." It wasn't even a question, but a statement it was a little hard to believe that he had actually dismissed the green girl like that. Really he was usually kidding when he said "mean" things but this obviously wasn't him playing around.
"I know right? Well I was on the verge of just snapping and yelling at him right there when I noticed his expression and the way he said it. He seemed really depressed Vicky."
"You sure it wasn't just the usually broodiness?"
"Positive. He just kinda sounded defeated. So I decided to cheer him up!"
"Oh no."
"Oh Yes! That's why I'm taking him to this party tomorrow and I'd really appreciate it if you could come with me?"
She'd finished as a question with her hands clasped, her puppy dog pout in full swing, and her eyes begging. But Victoria was beginning to become immune! After all those forfeited weekends because of that look, she wouldn't fall for it this time! But she looked so sad and desperate… crap.
"Seriously Layla? You know I wanted to spend this weekend alone. I haven't been listening to my music all week and I have some serious catching up to do."
"Come on Vicky! I know how much your music means to you, but it'll still be there when you get back! It's not going anywhere."
Gasping in feigned horror Victoria gave her friend a look to match. "You don't know that!"
Giving the girl an annoyed semi-glare, Layla rolled her eyes. "This is important Tori."
"No, don't try using a different nickname to try and sway my decision. I told you guys yesterday about this. I'm not doing anything this weekend. Especially not a party with a depressed pyro and a hyperactive hippie who's trying to cheer him up!"
Victoria had to have been daydreaming for hours because it was already nine at night as she was drawn back to the present by her growling stomach she realized she'd listened to a good… lot of her songs all things considered. She'd slept in pretty late today so as to get the full weekend experience so she hadn't really needed to eat anything earlier. But by now she was starving!
Hauling herself off the bed she trudged out of her room but not before making sure to grab her mp3 and her cellphone. She'd have to call her mom soon since both her parents had left on some super-thing or another where that had to save someone or something and it was required of her to call at the very least twice a day so her parents could be sure that she hadn't died of starvation or something along those lines… her mom's words not hers.
Upon reaching her destination, the kitchen, she made a beeline for the fridge and then began stuffing her face with whatever quick snack she could find while deciding what she should actually cook to fill her empty stomach.
Just as she had decided on making some simple mac-n-cheese and was about to move to the cabinets to get said food item of choice, her cell rang. Guess I took too long to call mom.
"Yello!"
"Purple!"
"Heh, hi mom."
"Hay hun. How're things?"
"Good."
"Have you eaten yet?"
"I just had a snack."
"Is that all you've had all day?"
"Well yeah, but-"
"Victoria!"
"Relax mom, I've got it covered I'm about make some easy-mac right …now."
Rattling the pack of noodles for extra effect, she held the phone between her ear and shoulder so her hands were free for the trying task to come, oh however would she be able to handle cooking this ever-complicated cuisine. Oh look, a microwave.
"Oh fine. Well what have you been doing all day since you couldn't spare time to eat?"
"Well you see, what had happened was-"
"Oh those famous first words."
"Shhh, mom! I'm tryna tell a story. So anyway, what had happened was, I slept in late and then when I woke up I started listening to my music and daydreaming and I lost track of time till about…" taking a quick peek at the microwave's clock before she turned it on, "till about three and a half minutes ago."
"No wonder you weren't hungry. You haven't done anything today!"
"Nope. Nothing except listen to my music, which by the way, I have been grossly neglecting."
"Oh what, did you not listen to it while you were talking with your friends for once?" her tone was joking.
"No actually, I haven't listened to a single song all week."
"What." Her words were tinged on the edges with worry.
"Yeah."
"Victoria what's wrong?" great now she was really starting to get worried and if Victoria wasn't mistaken that was her dad in the background asking questions now too.
Her mother's voice sounded far off as she pulled away from the phone to speak to her husband, "Calm down honey, I'm trying to find that out now."
She waited until her mother was back on the line before explaining things, "Relax mom, it's no big deal."
"No big deal? It sure sounds like one! You've been going without your music for a week."
"I- don't tell dad but it's about Warren." She whispered into the phone hoping and praying she wasn't on speaker after she'd said that.
"What about him? Did he do something-" muffled sounds of semi-outrage could be heard in the background as her father tried to take the phone. He was promptly shut down and shut up as her mom kept the phone from him. Victoria was fairly sure she was using one of her patented 'mom glares'.
"He didn't do anything mom!" she needed her to understand that before she slipped up anymore and mentioned that any kind of 'he' was involved in front of her dad.
"Oh, then what is it?"
"I… I decided that I'm goin to try and… man this sounds stupid. I wanna be his girlfriend and I've been trying to get him to notice me in that way."
"Oh! Alrighty then." Her mother's voice became far away again as she soothed her husband, "My mistake dear, there was no 'he' involved, I misheard her." the muffled speech in the background stopped and then the sound of… newspaper presumably, could be heard.
"So how's everything working out for you then?" good ol' mom, now that she got it she'd be as obscure as possible.
"Not too well. He's been all out of sorts this week and hasn't been hanging out with the gang at all… plus he's been talking to his ex-girlfriend."
"Oh I'm sorry hun."
"S'ok."
"I'm sure things'll work out though!" ever the enthusiast, her mother never failed to try and 'look on the bright side'.
"Hopefully. So how are things with you at… wherever you are."
"Everything's going well… but we'll probably be here until late Sunday. You think you'll be okay by yourself till then?"
Laughing lightly at that she responded, "Yeah mom, I'll be fine I'm a big girl."
"Okay then. Just don't go forgetting to feed yourself again! I don't want to end up coming home to find you starved to death with your headphones in while you slowly mummify."
"… Mom, seriously?"
"You know I like to over exaggerate, don't act like it's anything new."
"True."
Beep beep beep
"Well that's the microwave."
"Alright then I'll let you get to your food. No point in keeping you on the phone if it's just gonna keep you from eating when that's what I strive for to begin with."
"Yeah. Bye mom."
"Bye hun."
After settling down on the living room couch to participate in the well practiced teenager pastime of eating while watching TV Victoria soon found herself bored, her interest in the flashing screen waning once her bowl was empty.
"Well, I can sincerely say I would have never expected that it'd be so hard to get back into spending time by myself. Who'da guessed that it'd be this boring by yourself after you get used to spending so much time with people."
Sighing, Victoria got up from the couch and turned off the TV before going to the kitchen to set her dishes in the sink for later. "Oh well… maybe I should have gone with Layla after all.. naw that wouldn't have been any fun! Between a brooding pyrokinetic and a peppy florakinetic I don't think I'd be able to stand it!"
Heading towards the stairs she'd pressed play and was just putting in her head phones when she heard her cell go off. Looking down at herself and effectively giving herself a pat down she turned to follow the sound of the ringtone. Stepping back into the living room she spotted the light from the cell's screen over the back of the couch.
"So that's where I left it. Guess it's a good thing it went off when it did, who knows what kind of emergency call I could have received while we were separated." Chuckling at her own sarcastic joke she went and answer the phone in her customary fashion.
"Yello?"
"Tori?"
"Yeeeeeaaa. That's generally who's to be expected to answer considering this is a cell phone, ya know individual number and all."
"Vicky! This isn't the time for your sarcastic shenanigans!"
"Please Lay, when is it not time for sarcasm?"
"Right now! Look I was wondering if you'd reconsidered about coming to the party-"
"Not Happening Lay."
"Look it's important." The hippie sounded a bit stressed but hay Warren was a broody mess even the ever-happy Layla would have to fall sometime. I mean really it was kinda like a suffocating vortex of emoness the likes of which the world has never seen as it slowly and methodically and systematically devoured the world one person at a time…
"-icky? Vicky! Are you there?"
"Huh? Yea. I'm here mind just wondered for a second."
Sighing in what sounded like relief the green-girl proceeded in her attempts on convincement. Yea it's totally a real word but that didn't matter right now.
"Come on, please." Oh now she was begging, at least she couldn't turn the puppy eyes on her over the phone. Yay for not having video chat.
"I'm hanging up now Lay."
"Vicky! Vicky? No wait! Please-" she was beginning to sound kinda desperate but that was probably just static or something from her holding the phone so far away from her ear.
"I'm not having this conversation. I'm hanging up. This will continue no further." She said as she slowly pull the phone from her ear and began to reach for the end call button.
"Please Vicky. Tori? Victoria! Come on this is serious!"
"Bye Lay." Finger just brushing the end button she froze at Layla's next words.
"It's Warren, Tori. This isn't just about just getting you to come. You know I wouldn't kid about this and I really need your help."
