Slayers High
By: Sarah-chan
Chapter 5
It's a Saturday, and teenagers live at the mall.
Phibrizo's head quickly snapped up at the sound of his name. What he saw surprised him. Lina? He soon found himself being pulled back on to the roadside of the railing. Phibrizo was still in shock as he looked up from his trance to see Lina standing in front of him, tears spilling down the sides of her cheeks. Huh, what just happened here? Phibrizo thought, as he was about to protest to Lina for not letting him jump. "W..what...why did you." Phibrizo didn't have time to finish. "Are you CRAZY!?!" Lina screamed. Phibrizo just stood there in shock. "What the HELL are you doing jumping off a BRIDGE!" Lina shouted again as tears continued to run down her face.
A few moments past, but still with no answer. "well?" Lina asked impatiently. Phibrizo turned his eyes to the ground as rain started to fall. "I..I..guess my life just isn't worth living." Phibrizo said painfully. Lina narrowed her eyes at his comment and without hesitation she slapped him, much to Phibrizo's surprise. He just looked at her shocked with his hand covering his cheek. "How can you even say that?" Lina said in a sad whisper that Phibrizo could still hear. He was taken aback by this comment. "How do you know?!? You don't know what my life is like, what I have to go through when no one cares!" Phibrizo almost yelled with anger in his voice.
By this point they both were almost soaking wet from the rain. "Lots of people care about you Phibrizo." Lina argued. "Like who? My family?" Phibrizo laughed mockingly. "Your friends." Lina said in another attempt to convince Phibrizo without embarrassing herself. "What FRIENDS? Sure I have a gang, but there not my friends there only interested because of the popularity, they have no interest in being very chummy. Oh, and my family. Well, that's another royally fucked up story I would rather not go into right now. Besides it's a good day to die!" Phibrizo said bitterly as he turned his head to the side not wanting to be slapped again. They stood there another few moments feeling the tension that was produced.
"What about me?" Lina asked in a final attempt to change his mind. "Huh, W..what?" Phibrizo asked sounding confused. "What about me? You didn't even think about taking my feelings into consideration." Lina repeated as she began to cry again. Phibrizo wasn't totally sure if they were tears or the rain, but the sorrow and pained look on her face said it all. "What do you care? I was only doing what you told me to do. Remember 'disappear off the face of the planet'." Phibrizo said mocking what she had said the day before. Lina's face cringed as she heard the words she had said. "That's no reason to kill yourself." Lina whispered.
"Well, when your whole family is screwed up, you parents are never home, you live in a crack house, you have no real friends, you lonely and the only one you ever cared about tells you to disappear off the face of the planet, what would you do?" Phibrizo asked venomously as he turned his head as to not have to look at her. He was not embarrassed anymore, he was sure she already knew everything after going through his room earlier. Lina's face twisted into something shocked and angry. "Ok Mr. 'Know it all'. How would you feel if you met a little kid in grade 1 that was really nice and he was your friend? But when grade 2 came along and all that person could do was torment, and for the next nine years as well. And then one day you find the same guy walking alone at night, so you follow him only to find that one of the very few people you hold dear to you heart was going to kill himself. I think the question is what would you do Phibrizo, cause I'm all out of ideas." Lina said softly as she looked out at the harbor.
For the first time in his life Phibrizo was at a loss for words. Lina turned to look at him, there was only silence as they stood there. "Please don't kill yourself Phibrizo, not because of me. I'm sorry for what I said; the last thing I would ever want is for you to disappear of the face of the earth. ...I don't know what I would do." Lina said once again crying. Phibrizo had a pained look now on his face, "...Lina" Was all Phibrizo could say, he sound so guilty for what he had done. But before Phibrizo could say anything else Lina had him in an embrace crying into his shoulder. Phibrizo protectively wrapped his arms around her waiting for her crying to die down. But now Phibrizo almost found himself in tears.
After a while standing in the rain Lina's crying had almost stopped, there was silence, just waiting for someone to break it. "I hate you." Lina said lightly muffled by Phibrizo's shirt. "I hate you too." Phibrizo said softly with a smile still hugging Lina. "We should really get inside somewhere." Phibrizo said looking to the side, Lina's head still burred in hi shoulder. "Why?" She asked. "Cause it has been raining for a long time now, and were both soaking wet." Phibrizo said softly. "No shirt Sherlock." Lina said half heatedly still muffled by Phibrizo's shirt. Phibrizo only chuckled lightly gently peeling Lina off of him, grabbing his jacket and leading her back to civilization and off that damn bridge.
Phibrizo, now being lead by Lina soon found himself in front of her house. "Come on, you can get dry in here." Lina said pulling out the key and quietly trying to unlock the door. "Are you sure it's alright?" Phibrizo asked quietly as she looked around after they entered the house. Lina could hear noises from the kitchen. Crap, oh well. Lina thought as she dragged Phibrizo to the kitchen, but not before grabbing two dry towels. She handed one to Phibrizo as they entered. There was Luna making some tea with her back turned. Lina and Phibrizo both made squishy noises as they walked on the tile. Luna quickly turned around kind of shocked to see not only Lina soaking wet with a towel around her, but Phibrizo too.
Luna stood there with two cups of tea looking amused. "It appears your guys' midnight getaway backfired." Luna said with a snicker making both Lina and Phibrizo blush. "LUNA!" Lina shouted angrily at her sister. "Ok, I won't ask." Luna said placing the two cups on the table and motioning for both of them to sit down and drink. For a long time neither of them said a word, they only drank their tea and looked at each other every so often. Luna had long gone up to bed, she had offered to let Phibrizo stay the night and sleep on the couch. Phibrizo greatly accepted. The last place he wanted to be right now was his house. "Well, I'm gonna go to bed now. Don't try anything." Lina finished as a warning. "Ok, ok. What do you think, I'm going to try and jump of you house?" Phibrizo said putting his hands up in defense. Lina shot him a warning glare before she walked up the stars. Phibrizo then proceeded to the couch. "I guess it wasn't a good day to die." Phibrizo smiled happily as he drifted into a deep sleep.
The next morning Phibrizo found himself being shook by someone. "Get UP! God you're sleeping as if you haven't for days." Lina said sounding annoyed as Phibrizo slowly opened his eyes. "I haven't" Phibrizo said back as he sat up. Lina just looked at him weird, but didn't push the issue. "Do have anything to do today?" Lina asked as she folded up the blanket Phibrizo was using. She soon found that he was only wearing his boxers, she turned her head blushing tremendously. "Me have plans, ya right!" Phibrizo said mockingly. "Good, cause you do now." Lina said still not looking at him. Phibrizo raised an eyebrow. Just then Luna walked by the two of them, she looked at them and saw the reason for Lina blushing. "Now you two behave." Luna said with a smile as she walked on. They both blushed at the comment.
After Phibrizo was fully clothed and they had both had breakfast. "So what did you have in mind?" Phibrizo asked referring to the plan Lina had. "Look at yourself! Cause of YOU, that's your last pair of cloths idiot. Don't you think you should get some more? Were going to go to the mall." Lina said tapping her foot impatiently. Phibrizo looked down at himself. "I guess...but the mall?" Phibrizo wined. "Yes the mall!" Lina said as she dragged him out the door. They walk to the mall was in silence, both of them still unsure about spending the day together, especially after what happened yesterday. Soon they arrived at the very large mall, Phibrizo opened the door for Lina as they entered. They both looked around in amazement at all the people. "Why the hell are there so many people? Don't they have lives?" Phibrizo grumbled as they walked down a stretch of stores.
"Phibrizo, it's a Saturday. On weekends teenagers live at the mall." Lina said as she pulled Phibrizo into a near by clothing store. Phibrizo's only protest was rolling his eyes. Once in the store Phibrizo silently followed Lina around as she looked at cloths. "Done this before?" Phibrizo asked amusingly. "Shut up" Lina said turning around looking Phibrizo up and down. After about a minute Phibrizo got annoyed. "What?" He asked defensively. "What size are you?" Lina asked. "I don't know" Was his only response. "What?!? You don't even know your own cloths size? Don't you buy cloths for yourself?" Lina said throwing her hands up in exasperation. "No, I get hand-me-downs." Phibrizo said crossing his arms. "Fine" Lina said as she reached for his shirt to look at the tag, much to Phibrizo's protest but she finally found what she was looking for. She then tuned to a near by rack and pulled a few items off and handed them to Phibrizo. "Go try these on." Lina said with a smile. Phibrizo groaned as she made his way slowly to the change rooms.
The whole time Lina had made Phibrizo try on cloths and show them to her. Phibrizo walked out wearing kaky pants and a nice shirt. From the look on Phibrizo's face he didn't like what was wearing. "I feel like an idiot." He said crossing his arms. Lina giggled, "So when you actually look normal, you feel stupid." Lina said with a grin. Phibrizo responded with a not so nice hand gesture before turning around to go back to the change room. "Oh, can you try those pants on with another shirt...please." Lina asked sweetly. "Damn it!" Phibrizo cursed as he went to change his shirt.
After about an hour and a half in the store they finally left walking down another stretch of stores. "Hey Phibrizo, how did you get a credit card?" Lina asked referring to his use of payment for the cloths. "Oh, well it's not my card, it's my parents. They gave us all credit cards so we could fend for our selves. They just don't want to have to take care of us or be around. So what ever we want, we charge it and they pay for it." Phibrizo said shoving the card in his pocket. "Spoiled brats!" Lina said as they walked towards the food court to garb a bite to eat. They were almost there when Phibrizo stopped, Lina turned around and looked at him. "What?" She asked. "I thought I heard Xellos' voice." He said looking around, finally eyeing a photo booth to the side. He motioned for Lina to follow quietly.
They both put their ears to the booth. "Are you crazy? Were gonna get in trouble! Xellos get off of me. Hey did you hear that? One of the voices said from inside the booth. Phibrizo and Lina both looked at each other trying to contain their laughter. The voice was recognized as Zelgadis'. Phibrizo soon got an idea, he pulled some money out of his pocket pointing at the machine. Lina got the idea and nodded in agreement. Phibrizo put the money into the slot, and they both jumped into the booth behind Xellos and Zelgadis in mid make-out as they made funny faces at the camera. *FLASH* Zelgadis pushed Xellos away from him, startled by the flash, he looked behind and saw Lina and Phibrizo. Phibrizo simply waved while Xellos and Lina laughed. "Why you little." Zelgadis cursed as he reached up and grabbed Phibrizo by the shirt and pulled him down. Phibrizo fell onto Xellos' lap while Zelgadis tried to choke him, Lina was pulling Zelgadis off of Phibrizo as Xellos winked at the camera. *FLASH* Another picture was taken.
They all cursed as they tried to get untangled in the small booth. "Get you foot out of my eye" Zelgadis yelled at Phibrizo. "That's not MY foot." Phibrizo yelled back trying to get away from Xellos. "Sorry," Lina said trying to remove her foot. This all got them more tangled up than before. *FLASH* The camera took another picture. Finally they got untangled and Xellos and Zelgadis got an idea for revenge, right before the last picture they both pushed Lina and Phibrizo together. Both fell forward with a yelp as their lips met lightly in a small kiss. *FLASH* The last picture was taken. Both jumped back blushing furiously as they glared at Xel and Zel. They all jumped out of the booth, almost immediately Phibrizo and Lina both began to yell and Xellos and his boyfriend. They couldn't understand a word the other was saying, they just stood there, amused with there situation.
"What are you guys doing here?" Zelgadis asked interrupting their yell-fest. "And together." Xellos added with a wink. "That's non of your business!" Lina yelled back as she began to turn in the opposite direction dragging Phibrizo as she stomped away. Xellos quickly grabbed the forgotten pictures from the booth and slipped them into one of Lina's bags with out her noticing. Xellos and Zelgadis both laughed as they watched Lina and Phibrizo disappear into the crowd of people.
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Hey, that's the end of chapter 5, any feedback? Please review. I always like to know if I should continue a story or not. Thanx!
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