Reno's words still disturbed me, yet they were still unimaginably sweet. I dozed off in school more than I usually do.
"Maybe his laziness rubbed off on me.." I trailed off, looking at the pure white clouds.
"What?" The voice startled me, causing me to whirl my head around to see who the person was. Oh. Kairi.
"I knew that it was some stupid ringing I heard," I muttered to myself. I wondered if she could hear me say it. I slowly tried to turn my head the other way again when she cleared her throat, causing me to look back and say, "What!?" She seemed offended by the way she looked at me with disgust.
"You can't talk to Kairi like that! Can you?" Selphie declared. She's an idiot. No wonder she and Kairi were best friends.
"Shut up. Anyways, who was your guy friend that you were chatting with during lunch?" Kairi demanded. She sounded like her life depended on knowing it.
"Oh, he was cute!" I heard Selphie blurt out. Kairi gave her a death glare.
"Come on, Kairi! None of the girls could take their eyes off of him!" she pouted to herself.
"Why do you need to know who he is?" I asked. She was obviously out to take him away from me.
"Well, when he finally dumps the trash he's going out with, he can come to someone with more class," she talked back. She smirked, trying to get out my anger.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Kairi," I lied.
"Do I look like an idiot, Olette?" she placed her hands on her hips, glaring at me. She made it so easy to attack her.
"Actually Kairi, when I see you and Selphie, I feel better about myself," I answered.
"And why is that!?" She was taken back, surprised at my answer.
"Well because when I look at you, I see you as Captain Barbie, someone who seems popular and awesome, but in reality, you're fake and empty inside. To me, you're just some plastic whore who will spend her days as some fat, ugly prostitute," I said casually. She looked like she was about to cry, but she wanted to kick my ass, too. Selphie had the same expression. I stood up, staring at her face to face.
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(Reno's POV)
"Dammit, Olette!" I dashed up the steps, occasionally skipping one or two at a time. I hoped it was worth getting out of a free drink, or drinks- I made a bet with Rude: guess what? I actually won, but now I can't get it because of this! I slowed down a bit in the halls, trying to not make a scene. Every girl in the hall started staring at me, none of them the green-eyed brunette I desperately wanted to see. 256! I slammed open the door, hoping I was in time. "Umm.." I gulped. All eyes were laid on me.
"May I help you?" the lady asked calmly. She cocked her head to the side, smiling at me weirdly.
"Where's the office at?" I asked stupidly. Damn, it was wrong.
"That's 265. This is 256," she said calmly. I slammed the door shut again, cussing to myself as I ran again. Finally, 265. I opened the door, this time slowly and less violent. Olette was sitting in a black chair, slumping very unladylike. I walked up to her, kissed her on the forehead, still worried. She gave me a death glare.
"Olette? What happened? Are you okay?" I asked her over and over again, but she barely moved an inch. A tiny lady walked out the door, looking at me and quietly gasping. She smiled at me. The whole schoolgirl obsession was really getting old, especially when a teacher's doing it.
"He-hello. Um.. ar-are you here to see Olette?" Her smile widened, which scared me half to death.
"Yes." I simply said. I wondered what kind of trouble she got into. "Can you please tell me what happened? She's not telling me." Still silence as the woman still stared at me with open eyes. She finally blushed, then said," Oh, nothing bad. Olette just got into a little conflict is all. She's free to go." Olette stood up, grabbed my hand, and dragged me out the door.
"Olette? What's up?" I asked. Her strange behavior made me too concerned. She stared at me.
"Do you really wanna know?" Her face was hard and serious.
"Of course I do." I sat her down on the bench outside. "Now, tell me." She hesitated.
"Well, there's this girl, Kairi. She's really stuck up and shit. Anyways, she obviously likes you, and she confronted me about it. So I called her a fake, plastic whore who has no future. She kinda pushed me, so I punched her in the nose and made her bleed. The teacher sent us both to the office, and the lady just let me go, and that's it." She had the same expression on her face, hard and serious. I thought about it, then laughed.
"I didn't know you were so violent," I said. The silence snuck back up on me. Olette was so mysterious. She made me wonder about her all the time.
"Don't you need to get back to class?" I finally said.
"I can't. They have to clean up all the blood, first. Teach said she don't wanna see me right now. I don't wanna see her or Kairi right now." Her voice was so distant, she was distant, I don't know why. It felt like something changed, but I couldn't figure out. We both sat there, looking up at the ceiling, no words exchanged, not even a glance. I occasionally stared down the halls, staring back at a couple of girls who were looking at me, giggling and running off.
"What does Kairi look like?" I tried to break the silence. She sat up.
"She's about my height, a little taller, though. Um, redish hair, blue eyes, kinda like you. She hangs out with this other girl, Selphie."
"Is that her?" I pointed to a girl who fit the description. They started to skip over here.
"Shit."