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The walk to the library was a technically short one, only three blocks left, but by the time they passed the first block, Cooper had a very disturbed look on her face. Aya noticed too.
"Hey, Coop. What's wrong?" She raised an eyebrow looking at her companion from the side on her eye.
"Huh? Oh nothing really...it's just...why the hell do all the houses and lawns look -exactly- the same? I mean, is it just me or something, but this is seriously started to freak me out. It's just...creepy." She gave an exaggerated shudder to prove her point and Aya smirked.
"For the same reason I'm pretty much hated by the school faculty. They think anyone who ever acts even a little different and original is a mental case. That's just the way thing work here." She shrugged.
"So -that's- why our homeroom teacher, Ms. What's her name, acted so paranoid of me when she saw what I was wearing." She slapped her forehead as if it had been completely obvious and she had just gotten it.
"Well whatever, personally I think she judged right when she called me a trouble-maker!" Cooper grinned mischievously and Aya cracked a grin of her own.
"Yeah yeah, save you school vows for later, we're here." Aya started climbing the stone steps of an enormous building.
"Holy shit! I sure hope they have the card catalogue system in this place. Dude how does anyone ever find...-anything- in this place! I'm having a hard time remembering where the exit is." She started massaging her temples and frowned "This is gunna take a while, isn't it?"
Before Aya could answer, a furious old lady, obviously the librarian, rushed in front of them a shushed them.
"This is a library! Hooligans! Absolutely no yelling!" She gave them a look over and sneered before walking away.
"Okay, what the fuck is this town's problem? Honestly, they're almost as shallow and superficial as their teenaged girls." She whispered harshly to Aya.
Aya nodded, "I found myself thinking the exact same things sometimes."
They split up, both going to separate corridors to try and find books about their subjects, Cooper had Medieval Witch Burnings and had to go through no less than fourteen corridors before finding her -first- book.
She sighed as she fruitlessly went through another corridor, and headed towards the computer catalogue section to make sure she's going thro the right halls.
As she typed in the topic, she by chance looked past her computer and saw a familiar head of red hair abstracting her view.
She glowered for a second before Tala turned around and met her glaring eyes.
Smirking smugly, he made his to her, acting as if he was so much better than all of the other insolent little peasants whom enter the library.
"Hey, you're stalking me now huh? What was it? My dashing good looks, or my perfect personality?" Tala asked her, slicking his hair back with his left hand and leaning on the table with his right.
Cooper scoffed audibly, not bothering to keep quiet.
"As if. Boy I don't know how your body can handle having such a big fat inflated head on its shoulders." She retorted calmly, not removing her eyes from the computer screen that now came up with the results for her search.
She groaned. " Row 48 column B? What the fuck! There are columns now?"
Tala chuckled a bit before looking over her shoulder to the computer screen.
"Follow me." Before she could even reject his offer, she was being trailed through the library by hand. Seems as though the red head was stronger than he looked, because he was able to drag a struggling Cooper and maneuver with relative ease.
He brang her to row 48 before letting go of her hand, then handed the book he had just taken off of the shelf to her.
"Err...thanks." She muttered lightly. Averting her eyes to the cover, she pretended to be busy reading through something very important before Tala spoke.
"You're welcome." Tala spoke, shrugging the thank you off before he walked away. Cooper stared incredulously at him.
One minute he was the pervert of the fuckin' year, and the next he was in line for the best citizen award.
She shook her blond hair, choosing not to linger on the topic any longer, and stalked back to the computer, now that she had an idea of what too look for, it wouldn't be so hard...would it?
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Aya narrowed her eyes suspiciously at Tala's immensely weird behavior. Not that he was an ass or anything. But the guy usually couldn't care less how his classmates were faring if it had nothing to do with him, in or out of school.
'Something's not right about this.' She decided when she saw Tala smugly walk out of the row of books. 'Definitely not right.'
Her eyes followed the red head until he left the building, and was able to trace him no more.
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Cooper and Aya soon had the necessary books to complete the difficult task of the one toughest projects to date. They split their ways and headed to each of their respective homes in hope to begin and possibly finish the project all in one go.
As hoped, Cooper was able to start writing the strenuous report, but then was called down to dinner by her mother.
Currently Cooper was looking at disgust and bewilderment at the dish placed in front of her. It kind of resembled a mix of mashed potatoes and meat loaf. Obviously Cooper had asked her mother what exactly the dish was, but she blatantly ignored the subject, and even though Cooper persisted, she gave up when her mother threatened to force-feed the so-called delicacy to her.
Cooper picked up her fork and cautiously prodded the concoction, as if to see if it would respond. She took to doing that for five more minutes completely unanimated, before clunking the eating utensil on the table stubbornly and crossing her arms, having made up that there was no way in bloody hell that...that thing would ever find it's way inside her mouth. Nope, never, not going to happen, well at least not if she could help it.
"Mum, I refuse to eat this." She said untactful. Her mother looked at her in surprise.
"Why not dear?" Cooper glanced over at the brown substance on the plate.
"Because it looks like something Aya's dog had thrown up!" Mrs. Enders frowned, but decided now with Cooper's defiant stage, nothing she would say would help.
Oh yeah! There's still the subject of Lightning's puppies that she'll have to deal with! Well that's a conversation for another dinner, right now she just wants to find edible food that doesn't look like dog shit.
"Well Ma', I'm going into town to see if I can find like a Burger King or something like that." She stood making her way to the kitchen door, grabbing her keys from the pin before exiting.
Mrs. Enders watched the door slam shut before sighing. Well at least Cooper had stopped refusing to talk to her.
'Honestly, that girl!' she shook her head, 'If I said half of the things she says to me to my mother, I'd have so many spankings that my body would be covered in scars!'
Mrs. Enders picked up Cooper's full plate and began her motherly task of tidying up the kitchen.
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Cooper accelerating her frantic pedaling.
Deciding she was too hungry to walk around town in search of a fast food restaurant, she had taken her bike as the most appealing alternative.
Closing her eyes for a bit, she smirked. The warm spring air ran freely through her untied hair, and boy was it refreshing. Being an adrenaline junkie was very bad for her health. At least that's what the doctor that treated her two broken arms had said.
Heh, but since when did Ashley Cooper Enders listen to anyone? Especially adults who told her how to run her own goddamned life.
"Hey! Watch where you're going!" Cooper's eyes sprang open in horror, too face the looming tree that awaited for her to hit it.
Reacting almost as fast as her eyesight, she twisted the handlebars fiercely, forcing the bike out of its path of doom. She missed having a head on crash with the tree by merely inches, if she had waited a second longer, she probably would've crashed.
She whirled her head back to look at the tree. Damn, that would've hurt so damn much! It seems that Cooper's a little thick when it comes to learning lessons.
'BAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!' Cooper lay sprawled all over the floor, a good distance from where her bicycle lay in conditions worse than its owner.
Groaning, Cooper sat up holding her head weakly. "Holy fuck! Who in their right mind would place a tree in the middle of a sidewalk!?"
She heard some jogging in the near distance, too tired and traumatized to really care though, so she laid back down on the floor.
"Hey are you okay?" An unfamiliar masculine voice asked. Oh how she longed to roll her eyes and yell 'What do you think Sherlock!?!' but that requires movement. And movement requires strength. And she had none as of now. So instead she just managed to mumble something that resembled 'mhhmmm'.
She felt her head being lifted from the cold cement sidewalk and managed to crack open an eye too look tiredly at a handsome boy, with Asian looking features.
He had dark black hair that in the light seemed to have a dark purple glow, his golden eyes were strong and determined, captivating. Although presently it was flooded with concern.
Blinking slightly, she sat up, out of the Asians hands. She winced as she fingered the deep gash on her cheek, and began observing any other crash results. She found nothing other than scratches and a few light cuts. Nothing serious...this time.
"You were lucky. You nearly skidded across the street!" He told her.
"Ahh yeah.....fuck.....I'm wearing a helmet from now on..." she said more to herself then to the stranger. He laughed slightly.
"I'm Ray. And you're an A junkie I take it." Amusement danced in his beautiful golden eyes.
"Yap, that obvious huh? I'm Cooper by the way." She accepted his helping hand up and went to look at her bike.
"Aurgh...it was pretty new too...oh well, it looks like I can still ride it." She picked it off the ground.
"Hey you new here or something. I've never seen you around town." Ray asked. She nodded as a reply.
"My family just moved here, and now I was looking for some fast food so I don't end up dying of starvation." She explained.
"I could show you the best pizza joint in town, if ya want."
"Yeah sure, it'll be better than riding half starving on a beaten up bike in a new town that shuns you for having your own bloody brain."
Ray nodded sympathetically and began to walk forward. "Actually your pretty lucky, you crashed right next to the store."
She laughed, "Then I'm glad I had a near death experience, I got to meet you and learn about the coolest hangout, two birds with one stone!" She chained her bike to the nearest street sign, and followed Ray into the store.
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