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"You have 60 minutes to complete the test. Begin," Mr. Perez stated, leaving his class at the mercy of the ominous final exam. He wasn't too worried about most of his students, they had been in school to past two weeks for all the reviewing, and prior to that, the completion of the physiology and anatomy unit of their senior year. If they failed, it would be because they had not tried, not because they could not do it. Zenon Kar, however, was a different case. She had missed the past four weeks of school, and he could only hope that she would do well, she always did. After all, she had completed all the work correctly, and seemingly understood it all.
Zenon had once been afraid to take this final exam, but in the third week of his visit, Proto Zoa had forced her to do all of her work and homework, and to study. He quizzed her endlessly over her Spanish, her choice for foreign language, physiology and anatomy, her science, and her grammatical writing, which was a bloody stupid subject in his mind. To her, Proto Zoa appeared as though he was the dominating boss, and she was the weak little intern, who had to meet deadlines and all the work that was left incomplete by her colleagues, but of course, she had no colleagues, and any work left incomplete was simply her fault. Before she began her test, she thought back to all the pathetic attempts to avoid the work that she had ineffectively tried on Proto Zoa.
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"But why??" Zenon whined to him, trying to put off the impending work.
"Because, Love," He'd said, tapping her nose, "You have to graduate to come and see me on Earth," he explained.
"But I don't have to graduate to come and see you! I don't need education," She argued, a pout finding its way to her bottom lip.
"Let me put it this way, Pet. You can't come and visit me if you don't graduate, I won't let you!" Proto Zoa said, dead serious. Zenon's pout developed into a frowning pout and she lowered her eyes to focus on her protruding lip, hoping to gain some sympathy.
"It doesn't work on me Darling," He answered her unspoken question. She looked up at him from a down tilted head. Within her sight, the only thing she saw was him, looking at her through furrowed brows, a smile threatening to break through on his still serious face. Zenon mumbled some inaudible words under her breath, no doubt quite profane.
"Fine, but I am gonna ignore you the whole time," she taunted, encouraging him to say something back.
"Good," He began with a laugh, "Maybe I can finally find someone that I can have a decent conversation with."
"POOP HEAD!" Zenon yelled, sticking her tongue out. The singer laughed and closed her door.
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Zee flashed back to the present moment and the impending monstrous test. She studied, and she knew all of this material. Zoa had made her study, and she was actually thankful to him for it. She shook her head back to reality and again and silently cursed herself for thinking of him again. She was bound and determined to forget him. No matter how much she was attracted to him, he wouldn't hurt her again. The computer's screen was overtaken by the screen saver, which popped up after six minutes of being idle. When the swimming fish covered her exam, her hand automatically reached for the mouse and shook the computer out of its restful state. She refocused on the screen, glancing down at the clock, which said they only had another 54 minutes. Zenon took a deep breath and began the first section of the test, Writing.
Zenon could hardly keep her excitement to herself, as she breezed through her first section. Pronouns and antecedents? She did that in her 9th year. She went ahead to the Spanish section, where she knew every single question there. By the time she got to the Anatomy and Physiology section, Zenon could only bite her tongue to keep herself from laughing. It was so easy! Click Click Click. she was done! At the end, Zenon looked back on it as if it was a quiz over her ABC's. As she pressed the submit button, her smile broke loose, and all the tension floated away. She rested her head on her desk and let her thoughts drift to Proto Zoa. she liked him so much, maybe, she thought sheepishly, loved him? Quickly, she dismissed the idea and banished all thoughts of him period.
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Proto Zoa spend the past day pacing. There was clearly a spot where the carpet had been worn down, and a hole was developing. Every time Nebula looked up and saw him, she had to hide her smirk. It was sad, but it was funny at the same time. Finally, she couldn't bring herself to hide it any longer and let out a long and glorious laugh. Proto Zoa stopped mid pace and looked up at her with a glare.
"And what, may I ask, is so funny?" He asked coolly and slowly, sauntering up to Nebula.
"Nothing, nothing at all," Neb fibbed, straining to withhold a laugh. "Nothing at all."
"How can you think this is funny?" He asked, exasperated.
"Its not the situation that's funny," Neb explained, "Its you." ProtoZoa walked up to her, and sat down on the bed across from her chair.
"May I remind you, Nebula darling, that I rented these two rooms for us, just so we can get this thing with Zenon over with. I want to know what is happening because I want to be with her, and I wanna know why she is so upset and make her not so upset anymore," He said, running his hands over his unkempt looking hair. Nebula gave him a sympathetic smile and patted his knee.
"Don't worry PZ, she will forgive you!" Nebula reassured.
"I hope so.." He said, doubtingly.
"I have an idea," She offered. "Lets call her. She doesn't have to know that you are here, and you can go over in that corner, so she doesn't know that you are here. And you can just come through the door," Nebula winked, "And be here."
" Ok! Ok!" Proto Zoa was more than eager to get Zenon straightened out, and to talk to her!
"All right, go over and crouch by the bed." Neb said, removing her Zap Pad from its cushioned pouch. She turned it on, and tapped in Zee's contact number. The connection screen came up, and then it put her through. Within two minutes, Zenon's face appeared on the screen.
"Neb!" She greeted, glad to see her best friend.
"Hey Z! What's up?" Neb returned.
"Not much here, how about you? Are you back in school?" Zenon questioned.
"Not much is happening here, no, not yet. I'm in a hotel room, Proto Zoa was kind enough to rent me a room so I could avoid school another day," Nebula said with a slight frown. Zenon's face crumpled into a look of disgust for a brief moment, and then she dropped it, hoping Nebula didn't notice, but she did.
"What's going on between you two?" Nebula slyly questioned.
"Nothing. Nothing at ALL!" Zenon nearly screamed.
"Well if it's nothing, then what are you so puffed up over," Nebula pressed.
"The whole point is nothing IS happening Neb! He kissed my cheek.. In the loading bay.. And then he didn't say anything, and well, you know.." Zenon finished, with a frown.
"So your saying you want something to happen?" Neb asked, putting extra emphasis on want. Proto Zoa peeked his head up from behind the bed and looked at Neb. He knew she was hinting to him, to finally make a move.
"Yeah, I do," Zenon replied, a pout making its way to her face.
Nebula nodded in response, and then made a knocking gesture towards Proto Zoa, who was still crouched down next to the bed. She pointed to the door, all without taking her eyes of Zenon's face. Proto Zoa got the hint and crawled over to the door, and doing a quick series of knocks, pressed the open button and let himself in, which really meant standing his full 6 feet height.
"Nebula!" He greeted, as if it were the first time he had seen her in the day.
"Nebula!" Zenon fairly shouted, "Is he there?" She asked, crisply accenting 'he'.
"Hey PZ," Neb answered first, "Yes, he is here Zenon."
"Then I am going to go," Zee said in response.
"No you most certainly will not!" Nebula commanded. Zee dropped her hand from its position near the off button and looked at Neb, stunned.
"You two need to talk," Nebula said, eyeing them both, "And you, missy, need to get over yourself and unblock his contact number." Nebula was firm and strict hoping the two would behave. She thrust her Zap Pad out in Po's direction and he took it. She walked past him daintily and pressed the open button for the door and slipped right through, closing it behind her. After he watched her go, Proto Zoa dropped his gaze down to Zenon's picture.
He began to say something, but Zenon interrupted.
"I don't want to talk to you, I don't have to talk to you, and I don't want to hear it," Zenon stated, trying her hardest to believe herself.
"Zenon, Please talk to me. I know you, and I know you really do want to listen to me, but you and your stubbornness won't allow it, but please Zenon!" He begged, glad Nebula wasn't there to hear him plead. Zenon didn't answer, but she didn't hang up.
"Please Zee, please?" He asked again, his voice getting smaller. He only wanted to hear her forgive him for whatever misery it was he imposed. He wanted her to move on, hopefully now. She only kept her lips in a tight line.
"Please, Zee." He asked again, like a broken disc. A tear began to form in the corner of his eye.
"Zee, you're killing me." He uttered. The rock star exterior was deteriorating quickly, revealing the very vulnerable man beneath. Zenon's expression softened upon seeing the change in his demeanor. She let out a frustrated sigh and began to speak.
"Zoa.. I, I am not.. Mad at you, I'm just, upset." She admitted reluctantly.
"But why exactly are you upset, Love," He asked tenderly, using the name he so fondly called her by.
"Because.. You kissed me," She said quietly. Silence lasted for a moment after she had finished and he began to say something else.
"Was that a bad thing," He asked, shamefacedly.
She sighed. "It wasn't bad.. I just.. I wish you had said something to me about it, instead of going the opposite direction." She finished slowly. He took a moment to gather his thoughts and then began to speak again.
"Zee.. I wanted to turn back," He said, voice minute.
"What?" She asked, looking up.
"I wanted to come back," He reiterated.
"You did?" She asked, voice incredulous.
"Yea, I did Zee," He said, a smile beginning to play at the corners of his lips.
"But why didn't you?" she inquired, determined to find out why.
"Because they wouldn't let me," He said, speaking of the tingles as if they were a person.
"Who?" She asked, wondering if it was the same thing that hindered her running after him.
"The.. This. Don't worry about it," He said, stammering.
"No, please tell me?" She said, putting a slight pout on her bottom lip.
"This feeling I got.. When I. kissed you." he finished slowly.
"The tingling feeling?" She asked as if she had felt it too.
"Yeah," He answered, looking up at her again.
" I got the same feeling," she replied quietly. He only smiled in response, knowing he'd found the one girl who didn't love him because he was Proto Zoa, but because he was himself.
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Nebula watched from the shadows of the dividing door the sweet making up. Deep down, Nebula knew that these two would be together forever, if they could keep from having so many misunderstandings.
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WhooHoo.... my muse is so happy that I am done with another chapter... Shes really helped me alot! Yeah... um not much more to say other than hope ya enjoyed! Nother chappie soon!
=Nat=
Questions? Comment? Suggestions? Email me! Bedtyme_bear@hotmail.com
"One small step for microbe, one GIANT LEAP FOR ROCK AND ROLL!"
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"You have 60 minutes to complete the test. Begin," Mr. Perez stated, leaving his class at the mercy of the ominous final exam. He wasn't too worried about most of his students, they had been in school to past two weeks for all the reviewing, and prior to that, the completion of the physiology and anatomy unit of their senior year. If they failed, it would be because they had not tried, not because they could not do it. Zenon Kar, however, was a different case. She had missed the past four weeks of school, and he could only hope that she would do well, she always did. After all, she had completed all the work correctly, and seemingly understood it all.
Zenon had once been afraid to take this final exam, but in the third week of his visit, Proto Zoa had forced her to do all of her work and homework, and to study. He quizzed her endlessly over her Spanish, her choice for foreign language, physiology and anatomy, her science, and her grammatical writing, which was a bloody stupid subject in his mind. To her, Proto Zoa appeared as though he was the dominating boss, and she was the weak little intern, who had to meet deadlines and all the work that was left incomplete by her colleagues, but of course, she had no colleagues, and any work left incomplete was simply her fault. Before she began her test, she thought back to all the pathetic attempts to avoid the work that she had ineffectively tried on Proto Zoa.
* * *
"But why??" Zenon whined to him, trying to put off the impending work.
"Because, Love," He'd said, tapping her nose, "You have to graduate to come and see me on Earth," he explained.
"But I don't have to graduate to come and see you! I don't need education," She argued, a pout finding its way to her bottom lip.
"Let me put it this way, Pet. You can't come and visit me if you don't graduate, I won't let you!" Proto Zoa said, dead serious. Zenon's pout developed into a frowning pout and she lowered her eyes to focus on her protruding lip, hoping to gain some sympathy.
"It doesn't work on me Darling," He answered her unspoken question. She looked up at him from a down tilted head. Within her sight, the only thing she saw was him, looking at her through furrowed brows, a smile threatening to break through on his still serious face. Zenon mumbled some inaudible words under her breath, no doubt quite profane.
"Fine, but I am gonna ignore you the whole time," she taunted, encouraging him to say something back.
"Good," He began with a laugh, "Maybe I can finally find someone that I can have a decent conversation with."
"POOP HEAD!" Zenon yelled, sticking her tongue out. The singer laughed and closed her door.
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Zee flashed back to the present moment and the impending monstrous test. She studied, and she knew all of this material. Zoa had made her study, and she was actually thankful to him for it. She shook her head back to reality and again and silently cursed herself for thinking of him again. She was bound and determined to forget him. No matter how much she was attracted to him, he wouldn't hurt her again. The computer's screen was overtaken by the screen saver, which popped up after six minutes of being idle. When the swimming fish covered her exam, her hand automatically reached for the mouse and shook the computer out of its restful state. She refocused on the screen, glancing down at the clock, which said they only had another 54 minutes. Zenon took a deep breath and began the first section of the test, Writing.
Zenon could hardly keep her excitement to herself, as she breezed through her first section. Pronouns and antecedents? She did that in her 9th year. She went ahead to the Spanish section, where she knew every single question there. By the time she got to the Anatomy and Physiology section, Zenon could only bite her tongue to keep herself from laughing. It was so easy! Click Click Click. she was done! At the end, Zenon looked back on it as if it was a quiz over her ABC's. As she pressed the submit button, her smile broke loose, and all the tension floated away. She rested her head on her desk and let her thoughts drift to Proto Zoa. she liked him so much, maybe, she thought sheepishly, loved him? Quickly, she dismissed the idea and banished all thoughts of him period.
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Proto Zoa spend the past day pacing. There was clearly a spot where the carpet had been worn down, and a hole was developing. Every time Nebula looked up and saw him, she had to hide her smirk. It was sad, but it was funny at the same time. Finally, she couldn't bring herself to hide it any longer and let out a long and glorious laugh. Proto Zoa stopped mid pace and looked up at her with a glare.
"And what, may I ask, is so funny?" He asked coolly and slowly, sauntering up to Nebula.
"Nothing, nothing at all," Neb fibbed, straining to withhold a laugh. "Nothing at all."
"How can you think this is funny?" He asked, exasperated.
"Its not the situation that's funny," Neb explained, "Its you." ProtoZoa walked up to her, and sat down on the bed across from her chair.
"May I remind you, Nebula darling, that I rented these two rooms for us, just so we can get this thing with Zenon over with. I want to know what is happening because I want to be with her, and I wanna know why she is so upset and make her not so upset anymore," He said, running his hands over his unkempt looking hair. Nebula gave him a sympathetic smile and patted his knee.
"Don't worry PZ, she will forgive you!" Nebula reassured.
"I hope so.." He said, doubtingly.
"I have an idea," She offered. "Lets call her. She doesn't have to know that you are here, and you can go over in that corner, so she doesn't know that you are here. And you can just come through the door," Nebula winked, "And be here."
" Ok! Ok!" Proto Zoa was more than eager to get Zenon straightened out, and to talk to her!
"All right, go over and crouch by the bed." Neb said, removing her Zap Pad from its cushioned pouch. She turned it on, and tapped in Zee's contact number. The connection screen came up, and then it put her through. Within two minutes, Zenon's face appeared on the screen.
"Neb!" She greeted, glad to see her best friend.
"Hey Z! What's up?" Neb returned.
"Not much here, how about you? Are you back in school?" Zenon questioned.
"Not much is happening here, no, not yet. I'm in a hotel room, Proto Zoa was kind enough to rent me a room so I could avoid school another day," Nebula said with a slight frown. Zenon's face crumpled into a look of disgust for a brief moment, and then she dropped it, hoping Nebula didn't notice, but she did.
"What's going on between you two?" Nebula slyly questioned.
"Nothing. Nothing at ALL!" Zenon nearly screamed.
"Well if it's nothing, then what are you so puffed up over," Nebula pressed.
"The whole point is nothing IS happening Neb! He kissed my cheek.. In the loading bay.. And then he didn't say anything, and well, you know.." Zenon finished, with a frown.
"So your saying you want something to happen?" Neb asked, putting extra emphasis on want. Proto Zoa peeked his head up from behind the bed and looked at Neb. He knew she was hinting to him, to finally make a move.
"Yeah, I do," Zenon replied, a pout making its way to her face.
Nebula nodded in response, and then made a knocking gesture towards Proto Zoa, who was still crouched down next to the bed. She pointed to the door, all without taking her eyes of Zenon's face. Proto Zoa got the hint and crawled over to the door, and doing a quick series of knocks, pressed the open button and let himself in, which really meant standing his full 6 feet height.
"Nebula!" He greeted, as if it were the first time he had seen her in the day.
"Nebula!" Zenon fairly shouted, "Is he there?" She asked, crisply accenting 'he'.
"Hey PZ," Neb answered first, "Yes, he is here Zenon."
"Then I am going to go," Zee said in response.
"No you most certainly will not!" Nebula commanded. Zee dropped her hand from its position near the off button and looked at Neb, stunned.
"You two need to talk," Nebula said, eyeing them both, "And you, missy, need to get over yourself and unblock his contact number." Nebula was firm and strict hoping the two would behave. She thrust her Zap Pad out in Po's direction and he took it. She walked past him daintily and pressed the open button for the door and slipped right through, closing it behind her. After he watched her go, Proto Zoa dropped his gaze down to Zenon's picture.
He began to say something, but Zenon interrupted.
"I don't want to talk to you, I don't have to talk to you, and I don't want to hear it," Zenon stated, trying her hardest to believe herself.
"Zenon, Please talk to me. I know you, and I know you really do want to listen to me, but you and your stubbornness won't allow it, but please Zenon!" He begged, glad Nebula wasn't there to hear him plead. Zenon didn't answer, but she didn't hang up.
"Please Zee, please?" He asked again, his voice getting smaller. He only wanted to hear her forgive him for whatever misery it was he imposed. He wanted her to move on, hopefully now. She only kept her lips in a tight line.
"Please, Zee." He asked again, like a broken disc. A tear began to form in the corner of his eye.
"Zee, you're killing me." He uttered. The rock star exterior was deteriorating quickly, revealing the very vulnerable man beneath. Zenon's expression softened upon seeing the change in his demeanor. She let out a frustrated sigh and began to speak.
"Zoa.. I, I am not.. Mad at you, I'm just, upset." She admitted reluctantly.
"But why exactly are you upset, Love," He asked tenderly, using the name he so fondly called her by.
"Because.. You kissed me," She said quietly. Silence lasted for a moment after she had finished and he began to say something else.
"Was that a bad thing," He asked, shamefacedly.
She sighed. "It wasn't bad.. I just.. I wish you had said something to me about it, instead of going the opposite direction." She finished slowly. He took a moment to gather his thoughts and then began to speak again.
"Zee.. I wanted to turn back," He said, voice minute.
"What?" She asked, looking up.
"I wanted to come back," He reiterated.
"You did?" She asked, voice incredulous.
"Yea, I did Zee," He said, a smile beginning to play at the corners of his lips.
"But why didn't you?" she inquired, determined to find out why.
"Because they wouldn't let me," He said, speaking of the tingles as if they were a person.
"Who?" She asked, wondering if it was the same thing that hindered her running after him.
"The.. This. Don't worry about it," He said, stammering.
"No, please tell me?" She said, putting a slight pout on her bottom lip.
"This feeling I got.. When I. kissed you." he finished slowly.
"The tingling feeling?" She asked as if she had felt it too.
"Yeah," He answered, looking up at her again.
" I got the same feeling," she replied quietly. He only smiled in response, knowing he'd found the one girl who didn't love him because he was Proto Zoa, but because he was himself.
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Nebula watched from the shadows of the dividing door the sweet making up. Deep down, Nebula knew that these two would be together forever, if they could keep from having so many misunderstandings.
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WhooHoo.... my muse is so happy that I am done with another chapter... Shes really helped me alot! Yeah... um not much more to say other than hope ya enjoyed! Nother chappie soon!
=Nat=
Questions? Comment? Suggestions? Email me! Bedtyme_bear@hotmail.com
"One small step for microbe, one GIANT LEAP FOR ROCK AND ROLL!"