Cheaters: Chapter 8
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NOTES: I've decided just to up everything here so I can dedicate my time to getting the Realm fully functional. After Lent is over, anyway, I'll be able to work on it full time over spring break.
Ellen must be incredibly pissed at me now. Anyway, enjoy this story. If you can't get to the site or would like to flame me for not being here anymore, send me an email or review. Toodles.
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Chapter 8: Running Away
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Suchan: Okay, so the scene cuts in to show a dark car interior, two deathly pale hands on the wheel… And then! We pan around and show Manfred's worried face as he's trying desperately to back down a hill onto the main road! And then, Zach, you come in with this killer face-melting guitar solo, like DENENENENENUHNUH!—
Silver: …you do realize this is written, not a film? And in Children of the Red King, not School of Rock.
Suchan: o.o; Oh. Of course.
Silver: To prevent this from happening again…
Suchan: …oh, God… (waits, sweating, horrified, for her sentence)
Silver: No more School of Rock for you.
Suchan: (wails) NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (throws a tantrum)
Silver: o.oU …uh… I was …kidding?
(The tantrum rages!)
Marik: (stows Silver away in a closet where the rest of the muses are hiding from Suchan's rage with the stolen SoR DVD) o.O; You really shouldn't have done that.
Suchan-how can you kick me out, of what is MIIIIIIIINE! (goes into a crazy air guitar solo)
Muses: (quiver in fear)
Manfred: (kicks the DVD out from under the closet door) -.x;;
Suchan: SOR! (huggles it fondly)
(Everyone breathes a sigh of relief.)
Silver: So, after that crazy mishap, we now bring you…
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The real start of Chapter Eight.
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Kids of all sizes rushed out of the classrooms after sixth bell, hurrying to their lockers so they could hurry back to the classroom and wait out the rest of the day. As it was Monday, and school let out for the summer on Wednesday, everyone was eager for the half-week to come to a close.
Asa Pike threw his geometry notes in his backpack and began to slam the locker door. He stopped. Through the milling students, he saw clearly through the door a sleek, black car pull up.
And the person who stepped out of it was the one human being he never had wanted to see again.
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Manfred strolled up the sidewalk to the main entrance of Wilmington High School, trying to plan out his lines. The secretary asked him if he could wait until school was over, in fifteen minutes.
"Fifteen minutes?" He was about to chew her out, but thought it might be best to be on their good side if he ever wanted to see Asa again in his pitiful life. "Okay."
He sat in the office and looked around at all the notices tacked up on the bulletin board, some school band having a concert, someone had lost a pre-cal book that had to be returned before he could graduate, etc… The final bell barrelled its way into Manfred's thoughts.
"Please remember, you need to clean out your lockers before Wednesday. Would Evan Brown, Halie Moon, and Asa Pike please come to the office. Have a good night." The PA clicked off and a roar in the halls grew like a flood rushing towards them.
The secretary was unfazed. She smiled at him. "Are you a relative?"
"Nuh…just a …friend." Technically, incredibly distantly related. Like, two-hundredth cousins five times removed and crap like so. So far distant we're not even really related anymore. Evan and Halie walked in, collected what they were there for, and left, with a satisfied once-over from the girl.
Ew.
Manfred waited for a few more minutes. "Maybe he didn't hear the announcement." He shrugged. "I guess I'll go call his cell." He heard…knows I'm here, doesn't want to talk to me.
Well, fine. Then I will talk to you. I'm just worried…if you're still blinded by anger, how will you see that I'm so sorry for what I've done?
Manfred pushed the unfriendly doubts from his mind as he stared down into the blue hallway, where one sophomore was still cleaning out his locker.
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Asa cringed as he heard the footsteps in the empty hall. He slammed the door shut and nudged it into place with his hip, and prepared to flee. "Asa!"
He ran.
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Manfred watched him go for a second and ran after him. "Asa, wait!"
No, no, no…I can't talk to him. I can't dig up what I've been trying so hard to bury…
'I understand he doesn't want to talk to me, but I need to tell him…'
I don't want to hear what he has to say, he'll lie again, I'll only end up getting hurt again…
'We have to clear this up, I don't want him to hurt anymore…'
Asa whirled around as a strong hand grabbed onto his forearm.
'No.'
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End Chapter.
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