Chapter Five: On a lightpost, in a parking lot

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As I walked out of the classroom, Zel followed me.

"Stop that! I feel like I'm being stalked!" I exclaimed as I continued down the hall.

"I told you, it's dangerous for you to be wandering around by yourself." He repeated, continuing to follow me.

"WOAH! What happened to the vending machine?" I exclaimed, running over to the vending machine in the hallway. The glass casing over the snacks had been smashed in, with a large hole in it. Most of the snacks had been cleared out.

"Huh." I said, examining it. "I guess someone got really mad that the machine ate their quarter."

We stood there for another moment, before I turned and walked toward a door. Zel began to follow me, but I stopped him with an outreached hand.

"No. You are most definitely not following me in here." I stated, the pointed at the sign on the door that said "WOMAN'S RESTROOM" A blush came across his nose as he itched his face in embarrassment.

"I'll wait." He moved across the hallway, so as to not look like a pervert.

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Once I was done in the bathroom, I was unsure if I really wanted to go out and face Zel following me again. Yeah, he was the greatest chimera to ever to walk the earth, but it was kind of unnerving to have someone following you all the time. Besides, it wasn't even me he was in love with.

"I really hate Amelia now." I muttered to myself, looking out the window to see if I could crawl out without plunging to my death. Regrettably, we were on the second story of the building, and the window was quite well screened; I doubted that I could even open it.

"I am resigned to my fate." I sighed, opening the bathroom door and coming out carefully. I didn't see Zel anywhere, but the moment I stepped out of the bathroom, Xellos appeared in front of me.

"My, you took such a long time in there!" He exclaimed cheerfully. I gasped in horror/shock/surprise, then exclaimed:

"XELLOS YOU ARE SUCH A FREAK!" and made a swing with my backpack, intending to clobber him, but he easily dodged it.

"A freak?" He asked, pretending to have hurt feelings. "You're calling me, the one who kept your Zelgadiss alive at this time, a freak?"

"Where did Zel go." I growled this question in to a statement.

"Now that—oof!" Xellos had begun his trademark line, but I had managed to catch him upside the head with my backpack. He opened one eye, then closed at again and snatched my backpack away. He disappeared for a moment, then came back without my backpack.

"You should go look on the lightpole near your car." He smiled. "Or you might never find your book in time for Chemistry."

"XELLOS I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!" I shrieked as he disappeared with a satisfied grin on his face. Several people looked at me as though I was the strangest creature on earth.

"I guess I'm stuck for it." I frowned, walking down the hallway.

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And I really was stuck for it.

"HELP MEEEEEE!!!!" I cried from on top of the lightpole, clutching my backpack and the pole at the same time. "I'M STUUUUUUCK!" A slight breeze blew by, causing me to panic and nearly fall off the pole.

"What are you doing up there?" Lynn, who was situated nicely on the ground asked, calling up to me.

"Lynn! I was getting my backpack, and now I'm STUUUUUUCK!" I cried out.

"How did you get up there in the first place?" She asked.

"I don't know!! I was looking up, and wondering how I would get my backpack, then I jumped, and—" I sniffled. "I'M STUUUUCK!"

"Well, I don't know what to do." She stated as a guy walked up beside her.

"You need help again?" He asked in an absurd tone.

"But I didn't ask you to help me in the first place." Lynn said in a simple, clueless tone. The guy looked up at me from the ground with an "I am so cool" expression on his face. I stuck my tongue out at him, then panicked and renewed my grip on the pole again.

"Go get Zel!" I yelled. "Or at least someone that can fly!" I paused for a moment. "Or someone else that can get me down! Safely!"

By this time, the guy had stepped up to the pole I was stranded on.

"Oh. Is that all you want?" He asked in what might have been an amused tone, then he punched the pole. Amazingly enough, the pole shook horrendously. I shrieked as it wavered, before losing my grip and plummeting towards the parking lot. In my mind, I could already see the headlines: DEATH BY PAVEMENT: was it suicide or homicide?

I wondered which it would be classed as.

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Waah! It's scary on lightposts! (._.) And I don't like falling from them! Stay tuned for the next chapter!