Hey guys, I've been busy this past week, so apologies for taking some time, but here it is.
Chapter Three - Taken.
By the time we got back to South Park, it was already 3:35 PM. We arrived at the front of the school where the last of the few children remaining in the school had begun to leave from the front door. The parking lot on the side was mostly empty by now save for a few straggling cars. The road next to us was also rather deserted. The air was somewhat thick and cold, but most of the clouds in the sky have parted ways, leaving the afternoon sun to shine brightly down on the town.
My right pants pocket began to vibrate, and my phone began to ring. Reaching into my pocket, I took out my cell phone. It was a Facetime request from none other than Wendy Testaburger herself. I swiped the screen, and Wendy's face appeared unto my phone.
"The rest of the council suggested other girls to be your guide, but I denied them - I believe I could be of much better use to you, and trust me: you will want my advice on your future missions."
Melissa moved over to me to stare down at the screen of my phone. "Let me ask you this: why do you want to be our guide?" I had the same question in my mind that Melissa did. Why was Wendy suddenly so interested in us now when before she never really paid any mind to me nor my friends? "You never really cared about us, so why now?"
"Let's put it to you this way: the other girls who offered aren't even on the council, let alone its leadership. If you ask me, they probably just want to kiss your asses in hopes they could have a spot with us popular girls." Yeah, this was Wendy bragging about her popularity alright. Wendy looked over to her side before staring back into the screen at us. "Sorry, multitasking a bit since I'm also developing some alchemy formulas. But anyways, our goals are more similar than you might think."
"No kidding." I have a sneaking suspicion that she and Stan are up to something. Wendy did want to resist when we initially sent out breakup letters at school during the trolling days.
"Anyways keep me posted." The phone then turned off.
"Come on," Melissa said. "Let's get going."
"Where do you think we should start?" Hannah asked. "Karen could be anywhere." That was true. The other girls never gave us any definitive answer on where our lead could possibly be.
From here, we went east. In front of the community center, there were two more girls that were wielding swords, dressed as if they were on our side. These two girls seemed to be younger than us, most likely in the third grade.
"Hey, I know you, you four are in the council!" the brunette girl exclaimed.
"Hey, no time to chit-chat. Do you both know who Karen Anderson is?" The two third grade girls nodded at Melissa's question. "Okay good, do you have any clue where she might be right now?"
"She's currently at the park," the blonde third grader replied.
"Thank you so very much." Kathy waved back at the two third graders. "You two have a good day now."
"Later."
After the girls left Kathy turned back to us. "Seemed like there's only one way to go now."
"Yeah," Melissa replied. From the community center, we headed up north one block, then we went east again straight towards the park.
This street was rather busy, with adults walking around on the sidewalk minding their own business. Despite this, the street oddly seemed to be devoid of cars, and I'm not exactly sure why. When we reached Tom's Rhinoplasty however, this is where things began to get a bit interesting.
It started as we watched four boys converse with each other in front of the shop. Now this wouldn't be much of a problem usually, except this time they were dressed in fantasy-esque uniforms, as if they too were roleplaying, and therefore, this immediately marked them as potential threats. However, two of the boys were wearing red, and two of them were wearing green with elf-like plastic ears.
Melissa pointed at the boys. "They're dressed differently, yet they act like friends."
"Let's get out of sight." Hannah dragged us over to behind a bush next to us. The four of us knelt down.
"Maybe we should see what Wendy has to say," Kathy suggested.
I did as told. I brought out my phone, and immediately sent for a facetime request to Wendy. Almost immediately, Wendy responded. "Hey, what's up?"
"Yeah, we got some interesting developments over here." Kathy glanced over the bush before looking back at the phone. "So there's four boys chatting with each other - but get this: two of them are wearing red and two of them are wearing green, and they all look like they roleplay."
Through the screen, Wendy visibly cringed and grimaced. "Oh no."
"What's the matter?" Melissa asked.
"The people in green are the Elves...well actually the Drow Kingdom, who are on Kyle's team, and the people in red are the KKK, who are on Cartman's team." KKK? Of course Cartman would name his group that. "No, it's not the KKK you're thinking of, it actually stands for 'Kingdom of Kupa Keep', and they're mostly Humans, but some Dwarves. And believe it or not, there are a few Humans among the Drow Kingdom. But anyways, yeah, they're supposed to be fighting each other."
I looked over the bush. They were doing anything but fighting, in fact, they were all laughing. "Yeah...that's exactly what they ain't doing."
"What?! Lift up the phone, let me see!" I did as Wendy commanded, facing the screen outwards and letting her see the interaction between the four boys. "What the fuck is this?!"
"I don't know," Hannah replied.
The boys began to take notice at us however. They pointed at us, raised their weapons, and began to head our way. Looks like I'm in for some trouble. "They're coming. I'll contact you later." The screen then blacked out as I put my phone away.
Both of our groups went out onto the street as nearby adults on the sidewalk began to take attention on us. Some of them began to bring their phones us to videotape us. But nosy adults weren't our most immediate concern, it was the threat right in front of us.
"HALT, YOU WENCHES!" The boys were now fully armed and ready. They seemed to be in this third grade. The KKK took the front; one of them holding a metal sword with a wooden plank shield while another was with a wooden club with sharp nails sticking out of it. One Drow elf had a bow while another was wielding a staff, likely a spellcaster.
"So it seems you guys are good friends after all," I spoke softly as I brought out my shotgun. My ravager next to me hissed.
"We boys must all stand united against you wanton temptresses!" one of the KKK yelled. "Do not try to seduce us, you whores! We will not fall for it!"
"Unfortunately, we have something else on the menu for you idiots today." Melissa brought out both her axes.
It was a four versus four. For a few moments, we stood face to face, weapons out, waiting for someone to make the first move. But then Melissa charged forward, charging her left axe with lava before swiping it at the KKK soldier with the spiked club. The strike seemed to not only expel lava, but also frost, as the soldier was met with frost and flame. The soldier was struck down. As a result, the one with the shield charged at Melissa to bash her with his shield. Hannah then charged in at the one with the shield with her battle axe. Meanwhile, I noticed the Drow spellcaster channel emerald lightning in his hands, seemingly about to cast an offensive spell. I didn't let him, as I pointed at the spellcaster to send in my ravager Dan to bite him in the arm.
"Augh, get it off me!" The spellcaster yelled. The Drow bowman as a result, let loose an arrow, striking Dan in the torso, forcing him to let go of the spellcaster. I raised my gun and aimed for the spellcaster. The spellcaster began to take notice of me, but it was already too late for him as I pulled the trigger, sending out a round into him, cutting into him and knocking him down.
All of a sudden, I felt an arrow embed itself into my stomach. "Shit!" I knelt down, noticing blood coming out from where the arrow stuck in. I looked up. The bowman drew another arrow, ready to fire, but a frostbolt came in from Kathy, blasting into the bowman's body, brilliant shards of ice cutting through his clothes into his skin as he staggered back.
Melissa seemed to also be bleeding, a gash in her right arm doing the trick, but Hannah for the most part seemed fine. She chopped at the KKK soldier with the shield onto his back, knocking him down on the ground. I looked around now, and all of the boys weren't dead, but they were injured and could no longer fight.
"You...you sluts," one of the Drow yelled.
Looking over at my ravager, I held out my right hand, and an aura of natural energies glowed on my hand and on the ravager as it was mending its wounds. I stood up, slung my shotgun on my back, grabbed the arrow embedded into my stomach, and began to pull it out. "Ah!" I yelled, feeling skin being pulled. As the arrow slowly came out, some blood gushed, and I tossed it onto the road. "Damnit."
Melissa was healing herself in the meantime. "Damn, you alright?"
"Just need a bit of healing, 'tis all," I replied. Melissa did just that, placing her hands onto my stomach wounds as I could feel water magic begin to mend my wound. I looked at Melissa's arm, and the gash seemed closed now.
Meanwhile, Kathy moved over to the KKK member that had the spiked club. She grabbed the boy by his collar and lifted him up so he would stand. "Alright, explain yourself."
The boy only spat at Kathy however, the saliva landing on her right cheek and causing her to let go of the boy. As a result, Hannah immediately moved to deliver a swift punch with her right fist, the punch landing on the boy's left eye, blackening it and causing it to swell as he staggered onto the ground. "Wrong move, asshole."
"Ow, what the fuck, you stupid bitch!" The boy yelled.
My stomach wound closed. After that, Melissa moved to pick up the spiked club off the ground and held it in both hands. "Alright, kiddo, you're gonna tell us right fucking now why the KKK and the Drow are working together."
"I'm not telling you sluts nothing!" The boy retorted.
Melissa did not mess around; she immediately raised the club before slamming it down onto the road between the boy's legs and beneath the crotch, just barely missing the nether regions. "TELL US!"
The boy initially screaming, anticipating the groin attack, though a second later, realized that Melissa narrowly missed, perhaps on purpose. Nevertheless, it set the boy on edge. "Fuck man! Holy sh-shit! It's some stupid politics with the Drow leaders. Some b-blackmail or some shit. I - I d-d-don't know anymore, honest!"
"Blackmail with the leaders?" Hannah glanced at Melissa, who had her eyebrows raised, just as dumbfounded. Hannah then glared back at the boy. "The hell does this mean?"
"It's a secret that involved one of the boys with a girl, I don't know anymore, honest!" The boy started to cry. The other soldiers only groaned while on the floor.
Kathy laughed. "Ha ha ha ha, everyone's getting blackmailed nowadays it seems."
"Blackmail? Drow leaders?" I have an eerie feeling that this might involve someone that I know, but I didn't say it out loud, as I could be wrong, and I'm not sure what this could be. "I think I've heard enough."
"Yeah, it's obvious that this guy is an idiot." I'm not exactly on the same boat as to what Melissa just said, but I didn't have the energy to argue against her right now. "Let's just go."
"Wait, you're not gonna leave us here...are you?" The Drow spellcaster asked.
"Stop being such a pussy," Hannah snarked.
We didn't meet any other resistance on our way to the park. When we got there, there were a few high school boys playing basketball on the basketball court. Further on was indeed Karen Anderson sitting on the bench, playing on the phone. She had brown hair and wore an yellow jacket, blue pants, and green gloves.
"Oh she's not even armed. I doubt she has any powers, so this is gonna be really easy." Kathy glanced over at me. "You got the stuff?"
I took off my backpack and opened it up, pulling out the potato sack that Bebe threw to me earlier. "Yep." I put it back in before closing my backpack and tossing it on. "I'm more concerned with the High Schoolers though."
"They won't do shit," Melissa said. "Alright, ready?"
"Yeah," Hannah replied.
"Okay. Let's do this."
The four of us went past the basketball court, leaving the high schoolers alone, although they eyed us, taking note of our equipment. Nonetheless, we made our approach to Karen, and about ten seconds later, we found ourselves right in front of the girl.
Karen looked up. Her expression was initially neutral, but as soon as she took notice upon us, her mouth formed a deep scowl as she narrowed her eyebrows. "Oh what a surprise, Wendy and Bebe must have sent more of her hoes to do their work."
"Look, we just need you to come with us," Kathy replied.
"I told you, no means no!" Karen shook her head. "And no amount of attempted blackmail is gonna convince me."
Hannah also shook her head. "Oh, I'm afraid we're not here to blackmail you."
"Oh, what's this then?" Karen eyed the four of us. "You're gonna beat me up with those weapons?"
"That's right you stupid cunt, so how about you come with us quietly before we beat you down and drag your ass with us?" Melissa cracked her knuckles.
"If violence is what Wendy and Bebe are now resorting to, then I promise you it's not gonna to be that easy." Karen clapped her hands twice.
This time, a girl a few years older than us came from the playground behind. She had long, yet messy brown hair, pastel pink jacket, darker pink pants, and silver orthodontic headgear. Needless to say, she was quite the direct opposite of attractive. "Good to see you...turds."
"Oh shit, that's...you're uh...you're that one guy's sister...the ugly bitch with the headgear..." Kathy rubbed her chin, unsure of who the older girl is.
"I think that's Stan's sister," I replied. I'm pretty sure she is, I've heard Stan complain about whine about her all the time.
"Whoever she thinks she is, she's not getting in our way." Melissa drew out her axes and clutched them tight.
"You know what I paid you to do, Shelly. Kick their asses!" Karen pointed straight at us, but she just sat on the bench, not bothering to run. A smart person would run if they were in Karen's position.
Shelly looked over at Karen. "Shouldn't you be running?"
"Oh, yeah, good point." Karen got off the bench and began to make a break for it.
"Oh no you don't!" Kathy began to channel arcane energies in both her hands. A second later, she released the spell. Karen could only make it to the park restrooms before suddenly polymorphing into a sheep. All she could do now is helplessly wander around the park premises. "That will take care of her for a while."
"Rah!" Shelly made her charge, but Hannah raised her battle axe, and she parred Shelly's right fist. However, Shelly's force was so strong, Hannah was pushed back a few feet.
"I'm not fucking around." Melissa held out both axes as suddenly two spirit wolves appeared beside her. Kathy also summoned forth a water elemental, a blob of water with two arms. Then Melissa let out a roar. "HEROISM!" With Melissa's roar, I felt hastened and invigorated. I felt much faster than normal. But I wasn't the only one feeling this way - in reality, all of my friends, my ravager, Kathy's water elemental, and Melissa's spirit wolves were also feeling the power of the heroism effect.
Melissa charged in at Shelly to swing at her with both axes. Hannah gripped her battle axe tightly before spinning swiftly in a bladestorm to cut down Shelly. Kathy and her water elemental repeatedly pelted Shelly with ice and water, while I kept firing bullets at Shelly while my ravager was biting her. But now I realize what Stan meant when he said his sister was tougher than titanium; yeah, we were doing some damage, causing a few scrapes, but that's all we could really do. She was really fucking tough.
In nearly the speed of light, Shelly let out a ear-deafening roar. "RAH!" She quickly dashed to Kathy's water elemental and with her right fist delivered a swift right hook, causing it to instantly explode, water splashing everywhere on the ground. The fact that Shelly managed to instantly kill Kathy's water elemental is a testament to how hard she hits, and it made my jaw drop open.
My ravager bit into Shelly's left shoulder. She let out a scream, before grabbing its head and tossing it onto the basketball hoop pole, causing a clang as well as sending the entire basketball board into several vibrations. Melissa's spirit wolves charged in, but Shelly grabbed the head of one and slammed that wolf onto the other wolf, causing them to slide and land next to the polymorphed Karen.
"Holy fuck she's tough!" Hannah shouted as she stopped spinning in a bladestorm. Hannah wasn't wrong, since the fact that Shelly managed to soak all our damage so far only showed her supernatural stamina.
I raised my shotgun once more at Shelly, aimed down, and fired a poisoned bullet, piercing snake venom into her veins using a Serpent Sting. Shelly turned to me, and I could see the fire in her eyes as she clenched her fists and quickly made way towards me. I casted Disengage, jumping back and narrowly avoiding a left hook from Shelly. Melissa was empowered by winds as she was swinging her axes several times at Shelly, but Shelly pushed her away. While doing so, Shelly was blasted apart by frigid winds from Kathy's Cone of Cold, so Shelly ran towards Kathy, but Kathy had instantly teleported, appearing past Shelly and next to me.
Hannah charged into Shelly at the speed of light while also putting away her battle axe and bringing out her shield and hand axe. Shelly began to punch viciously at Hannah, but Hannah had her shield raised like a Shield Wall, and was able to take the hits. I was about to aim down at Shelly again, but out of the corner of my left eye, I could see Karen turning from a sheep back into her normal human form. She tried to make a break for it, running past the high schoolers that were watching us fight Shelly.
"Oh no you don't!" I aimed at Karen as she prepared to turn and run. I pulled the trigger, firing a round that split into several pellets, the Scatter Shot, that hit Karen in the face.
"Augh!" Karen grabbed her face, merely blinded for a few moments as she stumbled around. But a few moments was just enough as I now aimed up into the air and shot a freezing arrow. The arrow fell and landed next to Karen. Karen, still blinded, stepped on the arrow, causing the arrow to explode and freezing Karen in place, covering almost her entire body, except for her head, in ice. "Fuck you Ellen, this hurts!"
I turned around to see Melissa continue to swing her axes at Shelly while periodically shooting lighting from her fingertips, while Kathy continually pelting Shelly with magical spikes of ice. Hannah jumped back, put away her shield and axe to bring out her battle axe, and charged back in to deliver an Execute maneuver, swiping downward onto Shelly. She staggered back. My ravager Dan recovered from the blow and raised its front left leg to impale Shelly in the stomach with it before pulling out. I raised my gun to aim down at Shelly. But before I could pull the trigger, I heard a certain male voice yell from the playground, one I was hoping I wouldn't hear.
"What the fuck is this?! What are you guys doing to my sister?!" At that moment, we all lowered our weapons. We looked over to see Stan Marsh with his sword on his back. He was also accompanied by Kyle Broflovski, with his two rolling pins for maces, although they were outnumbered, so I'm ready for another fight. However, I felt the adrenaline drain away from me, although that could also be because our Heroism buff just ended.
"Hm...this is awkward." Kathy gritted her teeth as she cringed.
Shelly fell onto her knees. She was cut in multitude of places, as well as some burn marks from Melissa's lightning bolts. Some of her blood veins blackened, and it was evidently showing on her skin, thanks to me shooting her with a poisoned bullet. "Ugh, Stan...get these turds away from me!"
"How could you guys do this to my sister, what has she ever done to you?!" Stan cried.
Hannah stepped forward. "Listen Stan, Shelly wasn't even our main target, we wanted to...er...get to Karen, but she tipped your sister off. And now this happened."
I looked over to Karen again, and the ice was already nearly thawed out, the last of it still clinging to her feet, but even that is deteriorating quickly. "She's thawed out."
"Oh no you don't!" Melissa immediately sprinted to Karen, grabbing her hair, and pulling her down onto the ground. Karen let out a scream. "Ellen, get me the bag." I reached into my backpack, opened it up, and tossed the potato sack over to Melissa.
Stan was watching stunned as he slowly moved to grab his sister. "W...w...what is happening?"
The high schoolers nearby murmured to each other for a few moments until one of them spoke up. "Yeah after what we just saw...we're not about this life. Fuck this shit, we're out." The high schoolers then left the park.
"It's business, Stan, not personal..." Kathy rubbed her chin. "Well, I hope this isn't personal."
"Business for what? Did the girls pay you to beat up my sister?" Stan asked.
"And now you're - you're kidnapping Karen?" Kyle shook his head. "Why?"
"What's it to you?" Kathy retorted. "Aren't you two too busy with...with hating on girls with your alliance with that fatass Cartman?"
Karen wriggled free, kicking Melissa's left shin and stood up. Hannah grabbed Karen's jacket, causing Karen to be pulled, and slammed Karen onto the wall of the bathroom, causing her to scream some more. "Augh!"
"You stupid bitch!" Melissa, still hurting on her left foot, hopped over to Karen and swiftly punched Karen in the face with her right hand, resulting in Karen's left eye swelling. "Dumbass cunt!" Melissa then unrolled the rope, put Karen's hands together behind her back, and began to loop the rope tightly around her hands.
"We didn't even want to ally ourselves with the fatass anyways!" Kyle yelled at Kathy and me. "And stop torturing Karen, what the fuck is wrong with you and the rest girls?!"
"If you didn't want to align yourselves with Cartman, then why are you guys all suddenly butt buddies?" I asked.
Kyle glanced over at Stan. Both whispered a few words to each other, and I wasn't able to hear. Then they both looked over at each other. "I think you should let Karen go." They drew their weapons.
I raised my gun to aim at Stan. My ravager at my side hissed menacingly. Kathy began to channel frost in her hands. "And I think you should get lost," Kathy spat. "And take your sister with you."
"Why do you need Karen with you?" Kyle asked.
"It's what they wanted," I replied. "Wendy and Bebe and Nelly."
I could hear Karen continue to cry. "S-s-stop! It's - it's too tight! You're hurting me!"
"Can someone shut her up?!" Melissa continued to tighten the rope around Karen's wrists, completely disregarding her pleas.
"I got it, hold on." Hannah grabbed the potato sack itself and bagged it over Karen's head.
"I find it somewhat hard to believe that Wendy would-" But then Stan paused. I'm not sure why. A moment later, he let out a gasp. "Wait, did you say that Nelly commanded this?"
"Well, it was technically some other girls, but yeah, Nelly wanted this to happen too," Kathy replied.
"Are you sure we should be telling Stan and Kyle this?" Hannah asked as she elbowed Karen's back to pin her to the wall again.
"Who the fuck cares?" Melissa scoffed as she tightened the rope around Karen's wrists once more. "It's not like we want to be here right now, remember?"
"Wait..." Kyle looked at all of us. "...you girls got blackmailed into this whole gender war too?"
I sighed and closed my eyes. I lowered my shotgun while Kathy stopped channeling frost. "Not like it matters anymore at this point," I replied softly.
Kyle and Stan exchanged glances before looking back over at us. "Do what you will, just don't touch my sister again, you got that?!" Stan put away his sword as he helped lift his sister up with both hands.
"That's fine with us." Melissa jerked back Karen's hands, pulling her off the wall. "Come on, we're going."
"Why do you keep hurting me?!" I could still hear Karen cry.
I glanced back at Kyle, Stan, and Shelly, who were now leaving the park. I then looked back over to Melissa. "Hey, maybe we shouldn't be so rough on Karen. Not like she wants to be with the other girls any more than we do."
"I wouldn't be so rough if this stupid bitch didn't try to tip off Stan's sister to kick our asses." Melissa briefly let go of Karen only to grab her by the collar. "Let's go!"
"I wanna go home!" Karen cried.
Hannah stood behind Karen, pushing her along with both hands. "Jesus Christ, no wonder why you made top three on the most hated girls list."
"Hey, if you walk faster, it will be over sooner," Kathy suggested.
Just then my phone vibrated. I reached into my pocket and picked up the phone line, and it turned out to be another facetime request from Wendy as her face appeared on my screen. "Hey, I heard about what happened from Stan."
"Yeah, it's a bit of a..." Wait, did Wendy say she heard what happened from Stan? "Stan? Why...how...why are you talking to him? I thought you two broke up or something."
My other friends suddenly halted in their place as they slowly turned their attention towards me, then eyed my phone. "Yeah, what the hell is this all about?" Melissa quickly made her way to my phone to glare at Wendy.
"It - it doesn't matter, just - just tell me how it went."
"Well," Kathy started, "Karen summoned up Stan's sister to kick our asses, but we kicked her ass, and now I think Stan is pissed at us. He didn't kick our asses, just...probably hates us."
Wendy sighed. "Well, at least it didn't get worse from there."
"You're with Stan still, aren't you?" Hannah asked.
"Shh! Keep it down!" Wendy looked around. "Look, things had to happen this way, okay?"
But I'm not having it. I for one am sick of being manipulated by girls who pretend to be friends, causing the war while my relationship with Tyler ends up suffering. "Is this what this blackmail is for? Just to cover up your secret love with Stan?"
Wendy sighed. "I'll tell you tomorrow. Just bring Karen back here and I'll tell you tomorrow. Promise?"
"Fine," the rest of us said.
We arrived back at the activity center where everything for a council meeting was still set up. All of the girls from the council were in their places. As we entered the building with Karen in tow, still bagged and tagged, we all noticed the girls staring at us, waiting in anticipation for what's to come. Melissa, holding Karen by the collar, swung her right arm forward, pulling Karen forward, before letting her go, causing her to trip and fall onto her kneed. Hannah then moved over to Karen to remove the potato sack from her head. What we saw from Karen were tear stains on the collar of her jacket as her eyes had reddened.
Bebe had her laptop out on her desk. She was initially chuckling before shaking her head and gritting her teeth. Wendy was watching us intently, though her expression was neutral. Nelly was also watching us, though she was glaring at us, frowning rather. "Yeah uh...I've done research on Karen's characters...she isn't even level eighty yet. Not even max level." What the fuck? Is Bebe really trying to tell me that all of the work we've done was for naught.
"What a retard!" The rest of the girls laughed alongside Red's insult.
Bebe gave a sheepish grin. "Um...yeah, it appears I have severely overestimated Karen's usefulness among our fighting force..." Fuck you too, Bebe. This was a massive waste of time. "...but it's not all for naught, we could use her as a sanitation expert."
"Sanitation expert?" Karen asked. "That doesn't sound too bad."
"You're gonna be a janitor cleaning out the showers," Melissa clarified.
"What?!" Karen tried to wriggle free from the rope around her wrist, but of to no avail.
"Nevertheless, you girls did a fantastic job, and we'll be rewarding you handsomely." Wendy glanced over to Annie. "Annie, if you will." Annie got up from her desk and walked up to us, handing us each twenty dollars. Well I suppose this was better than nothing.
Then Karen let out her outburst. "You're all bitches! You're all stupid fucking bitches! I hate you all!"
Wendy sighed. "Annie, get Karen untied and outta here. The rest of you, dismissed. Sparkle, sparkle."
"Sunshine!"
After we all left, I looked over at my phone. It was now almost 5 PM. The Summer Camp was emptying out steadily now, with girls leaving to go home. "I'm so glad today is over with," I sighed.
"Hey, did anyone else notice Nelly scowling at us?" Kathy asked.
"She always has some stick up her ass when it's concerning us," Melissa scoffed, "so why should we care what that cunt thinks now? Especially given she's spearheading this whole war - she's turning even more cunty."
"Because that cunt is who's leading us right now," Hannah pointed out. "Because she's our payroll."
"Well I don't like it, and neither should you." Melissa folded her arms.
"I'm still surprised she managed to get into her position." Kathy shook her head. "I never voted for her, and I know plenty who kinda despise her."
"I didn't either, and I don't like what's happening to leadership. Not one bit. And speaking of that, we're gonna have a little chat with Wendy tomorrow." Melissa clenched her knuckles. "And she better explain to us what's going on."
"She'll have to, I'm sure of it," I replied.
The rest of my day was rather uneventful. I went home, took a shower, then had dinner. Afterwards, I went upstairs to work on some of my homework. Then at 10 PM, I changed into my light blue pajamas, brushed my teeth, turned out all the lights, and was prepared to go to sleep when a certain boy called my phone. I picked it up. "Hey Tyler." Usually, I was enthusiastic to talk to him, but now, I could feel it in my dead tone that I was too tired.
"Long day huh? I can tell by your voice."
"Tell me out it." I sighed again. "Tyler, they were fucking spying on us. Wendy and Bebe. And they made me join them in the roleplay."
"I'm in the roleplay too, a human among the Drow, but that doesn't matter." Tyler paused. "What does matter is that yeah, it's gonna be boys versus girls."
"So it's true," I replied.
There was a moment of silence. Then Tyler's next words were so soft I swear he was crying on the other line. "Ellen, I - I don't want to fight you. I don't know what to do. It's not fair, I - I like you a lot, but everyone else in school - everyone else is being retarded, and now we're paying for it."
I frowned. "I...I know." I can feel what Tyler is feeling right now, and after all, he is one hundred percent correct. It's the leaders of the popular kids who are causing trouble and I'm the one who has to pay for it in the end. And yeah I'm in the popular girls group, given my position, but I'm fairly low on the totem pole compared to someone like Bebe.
"I wish the stupid gender war didn't exist." I could hear Tyler sigh on the other line.
"Hang in there alright hon? We can talk it out tomorrow, but we can't meet in the same spot ever again, they're watching us."
There was a sniffle and some silence before Tyler replied, "Yeah. Alright. Guess I'll talk to you tomorrow, huh?"
"Yeah. Love you Tyler. Goodnight."
"Goodnight."
I plopped down straight on my back. My arm hung from the bed, and I felt my right hand slowly let go of my phone, hearing it drop onto the floor. I wanted to cry after everything I've been through today, from being threatened about my relationship into being blackmailed into a roleplay I didn't want to do, then having to beat up Stan's sister so we could kidnap Karen to force her into the roleplay similar to how we were forced into the roleplay. I felt dirty, sick to my stomach, and there was nothing I could do.
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