Slayers High
By: Sarah-chan
Chapter 4
Life is so overrated, so why play the game?
The next morning Lina woke up to the sound of her alarm in her ear again. She quietly shut it off and got up. "YES! It's Friday!" Lina said jumping up and down as she looked at the calendar. But she soon remembered the events of the day before, her face softened. I think I should apologize to Phibrizo today, then maybe I won't feel so guilty for what I said. She thought reassuring her self. For some reason she was in a wonderful mood today, and it was FRIDAY! Lina quickly got dressed and went down stars for some breakfast. "Good morning dear sister." Lina said as she walked down the stairs whistling.
"Well aren't we in a good mood this morning, considering the events of yesterday." Luna said suspiciously as she handed Lina her breakfast. "Oh don't worry. I have that all under control." Lina said before she started to stuff her face. After breakfast Lina looked at the clock. "Shit, I'm late." Lina cursed as she handed Luna her plate. "I could give you a ride." Luna asked. "That's ok, I'll just walk" Lina yelled as she put on her shoes, gave Luna a hug and ran out the door. Luna just stood there. "....teenagers...." She mumbled as she got ready herself.
Lina ran to Zel's house, their she saw Amelia, Gourry and Zelgadis waiting. "Hey guys, sorry I'm late!" Lina said as she hunched over in exhaustion. All three of them looked at her weird as she began to walk. "Aren't you people coming to school today?" Lina asked sarcastically as she turned. "Oh, ya sure." They all said as the run to keep up with Lina. Zel turned to Amelia. "Hey, whatever you said to her yesterday must have really worked." He said before running ahead.
"Lina its ok" Amelia said reassuringly "No it's not! He's never going to talk to me again now." Lina said as she cried into Amelia's shoulder. "But why did you say that, if you obviously did not mean it." Amelia asked quietly. Lina sat up for a minute, wiped her eyes and thought about what her best friend had said. "I guess I said it because he's always around me." Lina said looking at the ground. "And why do you think he does that?" Amelia asked with a smile. "To torture me with something I can never have!" Lina said bitterly once again looking at the ground as she blushed. "You mean someone." Amelia corrected. "ya, but it's always been the same, since I can remember. Why should anything change now?" Lina pouted. "Cause you have both grown up and feel the same way. So maybe if one of you tells the other that will break childish competition." Amelia said with a wink. "You want ME to tell HIM?!?" Lina asked pointing to herself. Amelia giggled with amusement as she shook her head up and down at her over dramatic friend.
I guess our little talk did help Lina. Amelia thought with a smile as she ran to catch up with the others.
When they all reached the school they were a little late. So they ran to their classes in hopes to get in. Lina and Amelia neared their first class, Amelia knew Phibrizo was in this one. She just smiled at Lina as she opened the door. Lina and Amelia both looked to Phibrizo's chair but no one was sitting in it. So the both took their seats and started class. GREAT! I wanted to apologize and he decides to skip first period...probably cause of me. Lina thought as she drummed her fingers on her table. Amelia noticed her uneasiness and kindly put her hand over hers to stop the drumming. She looked up at her forced smile.
It was the same thing all the way to lunch. Lina would go to her classes and Phibrizo wouldn't be there. Ok what the hell! Either he's sick or he skipped the whole firkin day! Lina mentally shouted as she left her class to go to the cafeteria. She saw the usual group of Darklords at their table and walked over to them. The all looked in her direction.
"Do you know where Phibrizo is?" Lina asked in a monotone voice. "Why, did you come to finish him off?" Dynast asked sarcastically. "No, I'm just looking for him. Where is he." Lina asked again. "Why should we tell you?" Valgaav said poking his head out from underneath the table, where Gaav obviously was as well, but was quickly pulled back down. Lina only rolled her eyes. "You either know where he is or you don't." Lina said now loosing her patients. "Come to think of it, did any of you see Phibby this morning?" Zellas asked the others. They all shook their heads. "Sorry honey, the last time I saw him was last night when he went out for a walk, I don't know if he came back or not." Zellas said.
Lina's face saddened, and this was not unseen by Dolphin. "You know what, here why don't you go check up on him." She said passing Lina a pair of keys. Lina looked at the house keys with suspicion. Who in their right mind would give someone else their house keys? Then she remembered this was Dolphin she was talking to. "I feel Phibrizo's sadness, he looks for you but you hide." Dolphin said with a smile. No one else noticed Lina take the keys, only Dolphin who was the only one now paying attention to Lina.
She looked at her strangely cause of what he said. It's didn't make any sense, she was the one looking for Phibrizo not him. But then again this WAS Dolphin, so she took the keys and smiled. "I'll return them later." Lina said as she turned and walked away. She walked out of the school and started to the Rubyeye household. She didn't care if she missed the last class of the day, no biggy. Lina knew she was almost there, Phibrizo and his family lived very close to the school. She could now see it about 50 meters away. Soon she found herself stopped in front of the door, she looked at it uneasily. Maybe I should knock first... Lina thought as she knocked and then rang the doorbell.
After about a minute of waiting she put the key into the door and turned it until she heard the lock click. She opened the door and peeked inside. The house was disserted and very messy as well. She found herself stepping over dirty cloths, food, garbage even a strange substance that she knew to be some kind of drug. What a hellhole. Lina thought as she searched the whole first floor with no sign of Phibrizo. So she decided to check in his room. When she walked up the stars she was greeted to a row of doors, one for each teenager. She walked by them all, and noticed they all had very profound saying on them. That is until she got to the last one that simply said. DO NOT ENTER! TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT, Have a nice day. Lina rolled her eyes, yup this was Phibrizo's room.
First she knocked, but with no answer she walked in. She was surprised to see that the room was very neat and clean. On his walls he had many posters of bands that Lina had never even heard of. The whole room was tidy. Hell his beds even made, now we know who the messy people are. Lina thought as she started to search the room. In his closet he had all his cloths hanging neatly on their hangers, most of them were his usual outfits but at the back he had a few NORMAL cloths too. She found nothing there so she went and sat on his bed. Is there nothing interesting here? Lina asked as she looked around.
Soon her eyes wandered to the table that sat beside Phibrizo's bed, in it there was a single drawer. Lina went and sat beside it and opened it, inside there was very little stuff, a few old comics' things like that. But at the back of the drawer was a shoe box that Lina took out, it was labeled "Phibrizo's shit". Always the charmer Lina thought to herself sarcastically as she opened the box. On the top was a little plain black book, she opened it to see writing. I didn't know he kept a journal. Lina thought as she turned to the last page he wrote in. She looked it over for a minute and soon closed it quickly as she blushed. Ok, so maybe I misjudged Phibrizo's feelings for me a bit. Lina thought still blushing.
She went to put the book back but noticed two more items. First she took out what appeared to be a stack of pictures tied together with elastic. Lina removed the elastic and looked through the pictures. Each one was of Lina, and they were all school pictures from grade 1 to 10. I thought he took one of my pictures each year to burn or something, I didn't think he would keep them. After she put the pictures away she picked up the last item in the box; it was a few pieces of paper folded up. She carefully unfolded the paper, to see what was written on them. Each sheet was split down the middle one side said Phibrizo the other side Lina. Under each name were small tallies in-groups of 5. Well, what do ya know? He was keeping count of all the points after all. Lina looked at the last page. And it looks like I'm winning so far too. Lina laughed as she looked at her watch.
I should get home now; he's obviously not here. Lina thought as she put every thing back to where it was found. She went down stares and out the front door before locking it again. She hung the key on a hook by the door, since school was out now Dolphin should be able to find it. Lina started to walk in the direction of her house still troubled at where Phibrizo could be.
What's Lina doing here? Phibrizo thought as he walked towards his house, Lina walking in the opposite direction. He waited until she was out of sight, he was gonna call out to her but thought it would be a bad idea if she was still mad at him. When he got to his door he saw the key Lina had hung up and it was still swinging. How did she get a key to the house? Phibrizo thought as he used it to open the door. He cursed as her opened the door only to trip over some dirty cloths. Why do they have to leave all there shit lying around? Phibrizo was curious as to why Lina was in his house, so he went up to his room praying that she wasn't in there. He opened the door and was welcomed by the smell of Lina perfume. Shit! She was in here. Phibrizo thought as he checked his shoebox.
He noticed that the bottom picture was now on the top of the pile. Ok, so she now knows I'm an obsessive freak. Hasn't this turned out to be a wonderful day? Phibrizo said sarcastically as he through the pictures back into the drawer and shut it. Well, I should probably get what I came here for in the first place. He ran down the stares in to the kitchen to get a garbage bag. All the while stepping over various drugs alcohol. When he finally got the bag he ran back up to his room and started to empty all of his cloths into it. When he was done, he tied it shut and put a label on it saying. "Size: Teenagers". The last thing he did was pull a note out of his pocket and placed it on his bed before he left his room. He through the bag over his shoulder as he locked the door to his house, he wasn't surprised that his brothers or sisters weren't home yet. But it wouldn't have madder anyway. He put the key back on the hook before he left in the direction of the park still holding the bag over his shoulder.
"Are you alright Lina? You look distressed." Luna asked as they sat at the dinner table. "I'm ok." Lina said lying. She was really worried about Phibrizo for some reason, she even phoned his house a couple times. The first time she got no answer and the other time he wasn't there, although she wasn't sure to trust Gaav while he sounded so drunk. "Can I go for a walk?" Lina suddenly asked out of the blue. "But it's getting dark." Luna said sounding concerned. "I won't walk alone." Lina begged. "Fine, as long as you're back by 10:00. Understand?" Luna said pointing a finger at her. "Yes, yes! Thank you." Lina said as she grabbed her coat and ran out the door.
Lina walked for a long time it seemed not caring where she went. She tried to look for someone she knew so she wouldn't have had to lie to her sister. But in retrospect she was really looking for Phibrizo. Why am I so worried, Phibrizo can take care of himself? And what do I care! Lina said to herself once again drowning in a sea of denial. She suddenly looked up and found herself in the park, so she started to walk around. After about 15 minutes she saw someone sitting on a bench, but the closer she got the sooner she came to the realization that it was Phibrizo. Resisting all temptation to run over to him and apologize, she hid in a bush and breathed a sigh of relief. Lina watched Phibrizo just sit they're thinking for about 10 minutes before he stood up and started to walk away with his bag in hand. I wonder what he's doing? Lina thought as she followed him.
After about another 10 minutes of walking Phibrizo stopped in front of a building and dropped the bag he was carrying into a box, before he continued. Lina walked over to the box and opened the bag to find a bunch of Phibrizo's cloths, she looked up to see a sign saying "Salvation army". Why would Phibrizo give all his cloths to charity? She thought as she ran to keep up with Phibrizo, all the while trying to not be herd or seen by him. She now noticed he was walking out of the city a bit towards the highway. What is he DOING!?! Lina mentally screamed as she followed in silence. Soon he walked to the riverbank and just stared out at the water before looking up at the bridge above him. Lina knees went weak as she started to piece things together. She watched as Phibrizo started to climb the side of the bank that lead to the bridge. Lina quietly followed as close as she could without being seen.
Lina watched scared hoping her assumption wasn't correct. There's no way that he would actually JUMP off the bridge...is there? She thought as Phibrizo walked almost to the middle of the bridge and took off his leather jacket placing it on the railing beside him. He then stepped over the railing siting on it as he looked down at the giant drop. Yup, it will defiantly kill me. Phibrizo thought as he just sat there looking down at the rushing water. Lina, now crouched in a nearby bush didn't know what to do. I can't let him just kill himself. She thought as she eyes began to water. But her thoughts were interrupted as she saw Phibrizo close his eyes and stand up leaning over the side of the bridge, with his hands still holding on to the railing as he looked down at the water below. Lina could see as he started to count down from ten. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2,.... Lina suddenly jumped up out of the bush "PHIBRIZO DON'T!"
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Sorry, it was kinda dark at the end. Should I continue? Please review.^^ Thanx!
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