Hey there peoples! How are you all? I hope you're having an excellent day! If there's something that's bothering you, though, I'm extremely sorry. I hope that thing goes away, and if it can't then we're all here for you. Well, it seems that Frostbite is going to be staying for at least the rest of this season, and that's awesome! If there are any requests for future chapters or stories, let me know! Enjoy this chapter, and guess what, there's another challenge! Woo hoo!
I gave you a poem, isn't that enough to show you I don't own the series?
Point of view this chapter is...AshEmber! Requested by me! :P
Oh calamari jalapeño cheddar, this was bad. The school was filled with so many people...and they were loud. He head hurt, and not from the math. The bell rang, finally, and he shot out of the school, before he could be caught in a crowd.
Ugh, school was supposed to be fun, and new, not painful.
Ash just slumped onto the bed in his dorm, the only dorm that had only one occupant, but two beds.
Ash grabbed his phone and dialed his old friend, Moon, he just wanted to talk.
"Ash? Why'd you bolt out of class so fast?" Moon asked.
"Is that Ash?" He heard someone, presumably Qibli, ask in the background.
"Sorry, I just...need to talk to you...preferably with no one else around."
There was no response, she seemed hesitant, and then said,
"Sure, meet me tonight in the library."
"Alright, thanks, but off of that note, where are you?"
"We just got out of the building, and we're heading over to this coffee shop we like, wanna come with us? There's room."
"Uhh...sure."
Ash ran out of his dorm, making sure to grab his new wallet, and went to the school entrance. It was raining out, for about the first time in weeks. It made the ground pretty slick, but Ash didn't trip until he saw his friends. They were waiting at the parking lot, as promised. He called out, and then felt his feet fall out from under him, landing on his back, luckily softened by his hoodie. The world still spun for a bit as he hit his head, though.
"Oh my gosh."
"Is he okay?"
"Tough fall."
"He's still moving…"
"Ugh…" Ash groaned as his friends rushed over, leaning over him, "Ta da, I tried to stick the landing."
Qibli and Winter both looked at each other, grinning,
"Well, good to see you've got a thick skull." Winter joked, pulling Ash up off the ground.
"I don't think I could crack yours with a mallet." Ash retorted.
Putting that behind them, Ash hopped into Qibli's car, which for some reason had a large dent in the back...he'd have to ask about that.
The coffee shop was really nice, he asked for a fountain drink, with everyone else getting something from the menu. Ash got a combination of all the different sodas at the machine, and took a seat at the large, slightly chipped table, noting that the chair was pretty rickety.
"So, the people who run this place are called Mangrove and Orchid, and they're really nice." Turtle commented, pointing to the two behind the counter.
"And they barely have the money to run this place." he thought.
"Well, I'm sure they'll get more customers." Ash said, then realizing what he'd just done, added, "This place seems kind of empty, and this is a good time for people to be here."
Moon stared at him for a second, but shrugged it off and kept drinking her steamer.
"Alright, important question, who else is hungry? I barely had any lunch." Carnelian asked.
"I could go for something."
"Eh...not really."
"Not hungry, but I'll eat."
"Alright, what do you all want? It's on me." Carnelian said.
Ash asked for a cake pop, making a mental note to offer her something the next time they went here. Moon said she was fine. Umber got a chocolate cookie. Winter got a vanilla one. Qibli a slice of banana bread. Kinkajou got a parfait, Turtle a salmon bagel, and Carnelian got a bacon cheese sandwich.
Ash was trying his best not to read anyone's mind,
He was failing pretty miserably.
"Well, there goes the rest of my tips, but Ash might think I'm nicer than I think I am."
"I wonder if Carnelian did that for any particular reason?"
"La la la la la, I love this song."
Ugh, even in a small group, it was giving him a small headache, or maybe that was the after effects of the entirety of the school.
"Oh...my...god." Qibli said, "This is AWESOME!"
Almost the whole table jumped at his last word, and a few were wondering whether he was talking about the banana bread or something else.
"Winter! You have to look at this!"
Winter grumbled a bit, but looked at what Qibli had on his phone, then his jaw dropped.
"Seriously? He can stay?"
"Yeah! Looks like we have room for one more person! Do you think that he would room with Ash? No, wait, he's only thirteen, would you want him to stay?"
Winter and Qibli both looked at Ash, grinning.
"Uh...who exactly are we talking about?"
"Oh! Right, you haven't met him yet, he's Winter's old friend, named Frostbite. I just got word from Tsunami that we can have another student in our group. He's fifteen, though, sixteen in a month. Would you be okay sharing a room with him?"
"Uh...oh what the heck, if he says yes, then I'm in."
"Nice! I'll give him a call, thank you so much Qibli, you have no idea how much this means to me."
Winter walked out so that he could talk without interrupting them.
"So, anyone think he'll finish his cookie?" Umber asked.
"Umber, you haven't even started yours." Carnelian pointed out.
"But, who's Frostbite? I haven't met him." Kinkajou said.
"Oh, so, the other day, during good things, remember when I said I had a surprise?"
"Yeah."
"That was the surprise, I invited his friend over to cheer him up, because he was feeling down about...you know."
Everyone glanced at Moon, knowing that she and Winter were in a relationship.
"No! I meant down about being color blind."
"Oh…"
"Oops, I look dumb now."
"Well, I guess he'll be our classmate, but don't worry, he's really nice." Qibli finished.
They drove home, Winter said that Frostbite should arrive in a few hours, about twenty minutes before he scheduled his talk with Moon. He could introduce himself and then he had to talk, he didn't know if Moon could read minds, but he knew that she was the only one he could trust to reveal this secret to.
Wow, this laptop was really fast, even faster than his computer at home,that wasn't really saying much, though. His computer ran at .33 frames per second. Stupid Gateway 2005 edition.
On it was a picture of his favorite animal from a video game, a black fox like creature with blue rings all over it. He liked that someone had suggested that...probably Moon.
Knock, knock, knock
"Uh...hello? Is anyone home?" Ash heard a voice through the door.
"Yeah, I'm AshEmber, I'll get the door."
Ash went to get the door. He opened it to see who he thought was Frostbite.
"Oh wow, he looks a lot younger than I thought…"
Frostbite looked at him a little uncertainty, then asked.
"How old are you? Are you advanced? You look a lot younger than I thought you would."
"Well...I'm thirteen-"
"Wait, what? They put me in a room with a kid?"
"No! Wait, I'm supposed to be in freshman year right now, but I skipped a year and my birthday's in November, so I'm not that young."
"Oh…so you are advanced, I can get past that."
Frostbite walked over to his bed, and opened his drawer to find his school supplies.
"So, why didn't you come here earlier?"
"Eh, the other school at home was closer, and I wasn't sure I was ready for boarding school yet, but now I am."
"Oh...alright, I heard my friend Moon saying that this school was awesome, and when I said I was advanced, she recommended this one. So that we could be in the same class."
"Wait, Moon as in Moonwatcher? Winter's girlfriend?"
"Yeah."
"Funny that the people who recommended the school to us are in a relationship."
"I never thought of it that way…"
"Well," Frostbite said, stretching, "I had a long car ride, I'm gonna go to bed, night."
And with that he was out cold.
Wait, what time was it?
Oh great, hopefully Moon wasn't waiting for him for too long.
He dashed outside and to the library, finding Moon just walking in.
"Oh, hey Ash."
"Hey, so, I need to talk to you."
"About what?"
"I hope this isn't too bad."
"Have you ever noticed that I tend to uh...know what everyone's talking about completely?"
"Yeah, have you noticed that about me?"
"Uh…"
He'd been paying more attention to her thoughts.
"Well, maybe we both should reveal our secrets." Moon said.
"Okay...I'll go first." Ash sighed reluctantly. Knowing this could be the end of all his friendships was hard.
"Moon, I can read minds…"
She looked at him for a second, then laughed.
"How funny, I can too."
Wow, okay, I have been putting this off...forever. I'm not dead yet, just busy with my own school. Well, challenge time! By the way, I should mention that if you've had your character in a chapter already, then you can still win the challenge, but not include your character, that way it's fair. Anyway, the challenge is to guess the character that Ash had on his laptop, it's from Pokemon by the way, happy searching!
