Chapter Eight
Dante TigerWolf- Yes, I agree fully, CHEERLEADERS SHOULD DIE. You didn't come off like a cynical brat, I LOVE critique, really. We need more people like you. How am I suppose to get better if no one tells me what to get better at? Yes action, oh I LOVE ACTION, almost as much as fluff. Thanks for the compliment. AND FOR ALERT. First person to alert statusness
Mirthos: Wow, for all said and done, you didn't give me an address . There was another error that I found, the third word actually. Well, yes it was so damn cute, like my girlfriend. Man, some people are just TOO cute. I can't say no to her when she smiles, it's just so DAMN CUTE. Well, if you didn't receive an email, then I guess I have wrong address. I'll post if you don't respond after a while. Thanks so much.
Now for the action
Consciousness returned to Ann, slowly at first, but she gained movement after a minute or two. Memory started to return to her, and a sudden shocked came to her. She had not only pretended to fall asleep on me, but she actually did. She opened one eye, to prevent further embarrassment, she noticed that Lauren and herself were covered in two blankets, and were leaning on a very red me. The clock on the wall said that they were leaving for the bus in two hours, but luckily both girls were packed. She was tempted to get up, but was afraid to; she had no idea what I would do. She glanced over at me, and I was staring at Lauren, my eyes never blinking. Her hair was dangling across my back, and she had one arm around my neck. I was very ridged, and very awake. I refused myself to sleep, my back ached, and numerous rings had made themselves apparent around my eyes.
"You like her a lot, don't you?" Ann whispered into my ears, so not to wake Lauren. I thought that it was my own mind asking me it, which is rather stupid considering I'd answered that question earlier tonight. I answered with a nodded of my head, and as if Lauren heard, she moved closer to my neck. I felt her hot breath tingle, and it was very hard not to shiver and wake her up. "I wish you luck."
Suddenly I was aware that Ann had woken up. "Holy" I tried to say, but choked on my words and made more of a gurgling sound. "When did you… what did you…. Oh crud."
"Yeah, so umm we weren't actually supposed to sleep on you. I'm really sorry." Ann seemed truly sorry, maybe because now her back killed from sleeping sitting up. "It just was a joke. Although, from the looks of things when I woke up, you didn't really mind."
"Yeah, it was nice to see her relaxed. Don't worry I didn't do anything to either one of you. Although my back kills right now. Geez, couldn't let me get into a comfortable position could you? So, what should we do with Lauren?" I looked at the sleeping figure whose body entangled with mine.
"I don't know, think you can carry her? Set her down on her bed. Then, by the looks of it, you need to get packed." She gestured to my room, which was in complete disordered. Clothes were thrown around, a few bags and books littered the floor.
"Yeah, that'd be a good idea." I smiled, and then lifted Lauren, with some strain, bridal style; her arm was still around my neck. The other one hung lose to her side. Luckily, our rooms were close, and there were no prying eyes to explain why I was caring Lauren. Ann kindly opened the door, and showed me which bed was Lauren's. I laid her down gently, and reluctantly pried her hand from my neck. I smiled down at her, and then left to pack for the trip. I was done rather quickly, just picking some odds and ends from my drawers and stuffing them into a small suitcase. When I was done, I found Ann watching me through the doorway.
"I won't tell her. Don't worry about it." She smiled. "I think it's cute." She smiled, no doubt having some mental picture.
"Thanks, although I'm not too sure anything will actually happen. Well, we've got an hour before we need to be at the bus, whatcha going to do?"
"SLEEP." And with that, Ann turned to leave.
"Might I recommend that you wear some more umm loser clothing, if we are going to hike".
She said "meep" and then nodded in conformation that she understood then left
After a while of trying to go to sleep, which ended up in being more awake than before, I left for the dangeroom, I felt like doing something after sitting there for god knows how long. Stretching out before entering, I was very glad to hear my bones cracking. I put on black fingerless gloves with metal knuckles, and had changed into the standard uniform. I pondered what I should do for a moment, and decided to let the computer do the thinking.
"Easy, random." I shouted at the computer, and the echo rang in my ears from the silence that had occurred for the majority of the night. Before my very eyes, the room changed into an obstacle course, with a few things. This seemed good for the morning, and with that I lifted off the ground a few feet. The first set of guns shot a wave of energy bullets at me, which I dodged easily by flying up and rotating my body then suddenly dropping, leaving me floating horizontally barely an inch above the ground. I flew past one gun, and laughed as one the bullets hit the gun and blow up. Bits of metal flew everywhere, but that wasn't the problem. The problem was I was about to get a free haircut, from a giant saw. It was too late to stop, so I decided to try my new gloves out. Making a fist, and calling up all the strength I could, I punched the saw. I only caused a small dent but it was enough to cause the saw to stop spinning and start to retreat back into the floor. This didn't stop me though, and I crashed into the floor barely bracing myself over the blade.
"Ouch." I was all I managed to say before a long spike shot through my t-shirt and hooked me to a wall. As the sweat steamed down my hair, more of the guns took aim, and started to fire at me. I kicked off of the wall, and went zooming off, although one of the bullets managed to graze my healing back, although there was no serious damage, it still stung and burned. I stopped myself to collect and think of my next move, when one of the walls started closing on me from behind. I tried to fly away, but another wall was growing out of the ground in front of me. I merely soared out of the walls reach before pondering my next move a few feet above the ceiling. I was rudely interrupted by a hologram of a menacing man appearing. He wielded an energy weapon and was looking pretty threatening. Decided that this was the last challenge that the computer set for me, I landed a good 8 feet away from the man and fell into a classic karate stance.
The man charged at me suddenly, his sword ready to be trusted into my stomach at the first chance it got. I switched into a defensive stance, as the man thrust his sword right at me, when I suddenly remember, thanks to star wars, that energy couldn't be blocked my normal means. I sidestepped, and aimed a punch at the man's stomach. He counted with a twist of his wrist, causing the blade to slice at my hand. I did a quick dive out of the way, and watched as the blade harmlessly flew over my head. I rolled back, this time head butting the man, who groaned in pain, but quickly recovered and grabbed me, and kneed me in the stomach. I fell to the floor, and convulsed in agony on the floor. The sword slashes down on top of me and as pointless as it was, attempt to throw up some defense, kicking wildly at the man's feet. As the blade swung down on my face, the hologram shut-down, and I stood in an empty room. Sweat streamed freely done my face, the back was of my t-shirt was completely damp. I looked around for the exit, only to see Kitty looking at me.
"Wow, that's pretty amazing." She said, and then left carrying her suitcase. I stood there stunned for a few seconds, before realizing that I needed to take a shower. Hmm, when is the last time I did take a shower….. I thought to myself. Smelling myself, I was almost overwhelmed. Yep, definitely need a shower.
The bus ride was rather uneventful, well for me at least, considering I slept most of the way. While I was conscious, I managed to hear a few scattered conversations, and I heard my name once. Kitty said something about me in passing, but that's all I heard. I was surprised when people were poking at me to wake me up. We were at a cabin, a fairly big cabin at that. It had a stove to the side, and its own private driveway. It was on a hill, and thankful, unlike some of the other cabins, it didn't have its own private big mud hole. It was rather late; I was guessing around 10 or 11 o'clock at night. It appears that rooms had already been decided, of course, while I was sleeping. Kitty and Jean shared the top most room, Scott had his own room in the middle, Lauren and Ann shared the bottom room. I was on the couch in the basement, with a pool table. There was a stereo, and while everyone was eating dinner, I started a game of pool with myself, listening to this song that grew on me. It was End of All Hope by Nightwish. I was breaking as I heard someone coming rushing down the stairs, and it turned out to be Lauren. She had a piece of pizza hanging from her mouth.
"Oh, they wanted me to tell you that the pizza is done. Whatcha doing?" She looked at the pool, and then heard the music. "Hm, what song is this?"
"End of all Hope by Nightwish and thanks. I'll be up eventually, hopefully there is some left. Want to play a game?" I was praying she said yes, and my prayers were answered. She smiled and pick up a cue. I reset the balls into the triangle. "You want to break?"
"Nah, you can." I hit the ball and did a fair amount of damage to the triangle. As the game progressed further, I was surprised to see she was better at pool than me. I went upstairs to get pizza, and when I came back done Lauren was waiting for me.
"Took you long enough." Lauren said, and then returned to hitting the blackball. She landed it in the right pocket, so she won. She jumped up and down with a huge grin on her face, before some urge came over me and I tackled her and we landed on the couch that was going to be my bed. "Well, that was random." She said, and tried in vain to get lose of my grip around her stomach. I managed to get a decent hug before letting her go, much to my sadness. She turned around confused, and I tried in vain to come up with an excuse.
"I umm you know …. In the moment idea ……." I blushed heavily. "Sorry, I know that you don't like being touched… by boys at least." I pushed off of her, and I was looking at the floor so hard that it might have been one of the most important things in my life. I heard some noise from behind me, and I assumed that it was Lauren getting up, but I was amazed when I felt a warm hand put on mine. I turned around and she was looking into my eyes, they were shining in the light.
"Ann told you didn't she?" I said, and sighed, looking down at our hands, which were intertwining, hers on top of mine.
"Told me what?" We both moved in unison, our mouths getting closer to each other, each being tickled by the others breathe. As we closed our eyes, our lips almost touching, someone came running down the stairs. As if we both had be hit with cold water, we snapped back into reality and looked away from each other, blushing as never had been done before. It turned out to be Ann that had come down the stairs. Lauren hastily made some remark about how she needed to go to bed, I agreed with her too quickly. Ann looked completely confused at Lauren, as if hoping some explanation would write itself on her face. It did not. I worked on my bed, and Lauren left for her room. Ann stood bewitched for a few moments, but decided to go and sleep on it. Tomorrow was a big day.
End, if there are any spelling mistakes, YOU CAN'T BLAME ME you can blame Mirthos. And to Mirthos, thanks for being a beta for me. You can do rewrites, you are doing me a huge favor so you should get something in return. Also, you can give me ideas if you want, I might be able to put them into THE PLAN. I'm going to go through the rewrites though, and make sure nothing drastic changed, still flows you know. Now you can review