Chapter 6: Electrical Short and Unauthorizations
The Lights went out in the Gygolous hall. Who did it?
"Who or what cut off the lights?" Fiona asks, still clinging to Van's side.
"I don't know what and I honestly don't want to think about it." Van says, still holding Fiona. "I don't really want to even know if I'm right or wrong about who I have in mind."
Reese's Room
"What the hell happened and why can't I hear any sound?" Reese fusses, playing with the volume dial on the radio.
"Well if you haven't noticed yet, the lights are out." Raven speaks up. "I think this boom box did it."
"That's crazy." Reese fusses back. "I had this thing at home in my room and it caused no problems."
"Well that's because you weren't sharing a voltage limit with anyone, but the house." Raven comments. "So in a bigger place like this, the voltage limit is limited and everyone has to share." (Raven is being reasonable, I'm very scared now).
Reese let's out a forced sigh and pulls the dial to the right, turning the volume off, even though the short has turned the entire thing off anyway.
"Why didn't they tell us that there was a voltage limit?" Reese asks, still in rage, a bit.
"That I can't answer, but at this point, I'm going to chill until the lights come on." Raven says leaning against the wall on the bed and closing his eyes. "Why don't you do the same?"
Reese sighs one last time and joins Raven. Upon reaching the bed, strange sounds can be heard from behind her. Turning around, Reese notices sparks coming from the back of the Boom box.
"Um Raven..." Reese begins.
Raven opens his eyes to see the radio sparking. Jumping up, he grabs Reese's comforter and begins fanning the flames away and trying to smother the flaming radio.
"Raven, NOT MY COMFORTER!!!!" Reese yells as Raven continues fanning the flames.
"Got a better idea?" Raven suggests to her while continuing to put the flaming radio out, but is failing miserably. "This is all that is in the room."
Reese stands there, watching Raven put out the flaming radio, with her comforter, and developing tears in her eyes.
"I know my mom will never forgive me for this." Reese says to herself.
Raven has finally put the flames out and gives Reese back Her comforter.
"Ok, now all we have to do it hide this thing so we won't be fined." Raven suggests turning to Reese.
"Where are we going to hide a fried radio?" Reese asks in frustration. "My favorite comforter has just been ruined and all you care about is that DAMN radio?"
"Well which do you care about most? That comforter or that 1,000 dollar fine we are going to get stuck with if this thing is found in this room?" Raven suggests to Reese who looks between the comforter and the radio.
"Sometime today will be nice Reese." Raven tries to hurry her answer.
"The fine." Reese finally answers.
"Finally, for once you agree with something." Raven says throwing his arms in the air. "Now help me find a place so we aren't suspect."
Reese pouts and agrees to help Raven.
Outside the Gygolous Hall
"Damn kids and their damn parties." The electrician complains while fixing the wires outside. "I don't know why I even agreed to take this job."
Inside the Gygolous Hall
The lights are finally restored, giving everyone inside a sense of relief.
"Great, the lights are back on." Fiona says, loosing her grip on Van.
"Good, it's not what I was thinking." Van sighs in relief. Fiona turns to him.
"What were you thinking?" Fiona inquires.
"Oh nothing." Van smiles to her. "Let's continue out journey to the Video store."
Fiona smiles, taking a hold of Van's right hand.
"Let's." Fiona agrees.
(They were going there right?)
The Little Shoppe
Irvine and Moonbay are still....browsing.
Moonbay picks up a video and looks it over.
"Not my cup of tea or my flavor of cake." Moonbay says dropping the tape back in the stack. Irvine has found something and brings it over to Moonbay.
"What do you think?" Irvine asks showing the outfit to her. Moonbay gains a disgusted look.
"I don't." Moonbay speaks in disapproval.
"You don't what?" Irvine asks confused.
"I don't think anything about it, because I don't like it." Moonbay spits to Irvine, in a loud tone.
"Come on Moon, you have to like something in here." Irvine urges. "It's not all bad."
"I don't, well not everything, but if something comes to mind, I'll let you know." Moonbay say turning from Irvine's gaze.
"So what do you think?" Irvine asks again, holding the outfit to her again.
Moonbay gives him a disgusted look and walks away to another part of the Shoppe.
"What?" Irvine calls after her. "I think it's your size."
Campus Library
Sitting on the stairs of the Campus Library, sits one loner, who seems to not be all together. (I had to put this, sorry)
"Everything, EVERYTHING, I worked so hard to built, is all gone because of him, because of Fligheit." Thomas fusses to himself, with tension building inside him. "Everything I ever had, was taken away because of his existence." (why does he blame Van for him being a loser?)
Thomas continues to complain about his problems, not noticing Van and Fiona walking pass the library, but hearing their voices makes him look up.
"Is the video store this way or that way?" Fiona's distant voice asks.
"I'm sure it's this way." Van's distant voice answers her.
Thomas keeps his eyes locked on them.
"The only way to get back everything I had, is to eliminate the F factor." Thomas hisses continuing to watch them.
Gygolous Hall
The vice chancellor and her assistant has come to the Gygolous hall, in search of the source of the outage and lay down a few rules. All the girls are lined up outside of their rooms so the assistant can check the rooms for any high voltage appliances.
"It has been brought to my attention that a power outage has occurred in this hall earlier today." The chancellor begins talking. "Need I remind all of you that you are no longer at home and you will be living under one roof."
Reese sighs and rolls her eyes.
"For you first timers, the only thing you need to know is, you will be sharing every resource of this campus with others and no longer will be having everything to yourselves." The chancellor continues talking. "Now for you returning students and students who are about to graduate, you already know this, so disregard this message."
The assistant goes into Reese's room to investigate any possible faulty wiring. While investigating the faulty wiring, the smell of smoke hovers by the closet, catching the nose of the assistant. The assistant is reared to the closet and opens it and upon looking in, the assistant spots the fried radio and pulls it out of the closet.
"I found something." The assistant calls out from the room. The chancellor steps inside the room, from out in the hall.
"What did you discover?" The chancellor asks looking to where the assistant is pulling out of the closet.
"It appears to be a radio." The assistant speaks up, looking it over. "And it looks like it blew a fuse."
The chancellor steps back inside the hall and looks Reese's direction.
"Is this your room?" The chancellor asks in a calm tone.
Reese nods with a nervous smile.
"What is a fried radio doing in your room?" The chancellor inquires.
"Well I was listening to it and I didn't think it was going to blow the lights out." Reese begins explaining. "Please don't fine me."
The chancellor sighs and writes something down on her clipboard.
"I will let you off with a warning this time, but next time, you will be fined." The chancellor says to Reese. "Everyone go back to your rooms."
"Thanks Ma'am." Reese says with a smile and happy tears. (Reese is happy, whoa....)
The assistant hauls the fried radio out of the room and down the hall for it to be disposed of. Reese runs in her room and to the closet. Opening the left side door, she looks in.
"Raven?" Reese asks. "You still in here?"
"Where else am I going to be?" Raven asks stepping out of the closet. "I had to spend 15 minutes in here with that radio and it stinks."
"Well they know it was us, but we weren't fined." Reese says happily. "If my parents found out I got a 1,000 dollar fine, they would make me pay it off."
"Well be thankful for that." Raven says to her, going over to the bed.
"So now what?" Reese inquires.
"Don't know, whatever you wan to do I guess." Rave answers her.
Reese sighs.
Campus Video store
Van and Fiona are still searching the video archives for a movie they both like, but unbenoticed to them, they are not alone in there. Someone has a movie of their own they want to watch and that is, watching the demise of another.
A/N: Ok chapter 6 done and sorry it took so long to do. No ideas until now. Got a little help with this one. I am full time now at the University so these updates will be slow, but they will be posted. No flames and sorry this chapter was so boring and focused around Raven and Reese mainly. I know they were a bit OOC, but come on, someone has to be. Well without further a due, please review.
Thanks.
