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Chapter XII: Food fight!
Contemplating everyday
Wondering if I'm wasting all of my time
You know I'm dedicating
Every thought on only you
My mommy used to tell me that
Patience is a virtue
Chorus:
And so I wait through the night
Cuz tomorrow you may find
That you will need me again
For some tender love and care
And so I wait hoping you,
Will discover you're in love
That you need me as much as I need you
And so I'll wait all my life
Hoping one day you will see that
Love's a lock you're the key
You will come and rescue me
And so I wait hoping you,
Will discover you're in love
That you need me as much as I need you
It gets frustrating time and again
But I am not complaining cuz in the end
If I just keep believing
no matter what I'll be with you
My mommy used to tell me that
Patience is a virtue
Chorus 2x
"So I wait" Sarina Paris
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Momo was currently sitting in one of the stalls of the restrooms. Reflecting over what she did earlier. She surprised everybody –including herself- at the outburst. Normally she was a quiet, shy person. But this time, all the fighting and events that have happened finally got to her. Momo was ashamed and wasn't sure if what she did was the right thing to do.
"Maybe I shouldn't have said anything and went to get a teacher instead." She thought aloud.
Luckily nobody heard her since she was in the bathroom all alone. Momo wished she could stay there the rest of the day and save herself from embarrassment and possibly more criticism. She never knew people could be so cruel. They were only 12 for crying out loud. However you can't be hidden from the harsh truth of the world forever.
"Well, I can't stay here forever. I might get in trouble and get detention." She shuttered at the thought. Her mother and sister would be so ashamed. "I'll just say I was sick or something."
Momo gathered her things and was about to head out the door when she heard a knocking on the door.
"Momo it's me, Albedo." A voice said from behind the door. "Are you –um- okay?"
"Albedo?" Why is he here shouldn't he be in class? Momo thought.
The door opened automatically as Momo exited and Albedo almost fell in.
"Shouldn't you be in class?" She asked.
"Well yeah…but I wanted to check on you first. You ran out on us." He said.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean—"
She was cut off when he pulled her towards him in a soft hug. "It's okay Momo. You don't need to blame yourself for everything." He stated.
Momo blushed at his open gesture. "I guess your right." She said. "But those kids they were so mean. Where did they get the idea I wanted to hurt Sakura?"
He sighed and released her. "Those were our old friends. They wanted to get back at us for ditching them especially Rubedo. They must've made that up when they saw the accident. But what you did was the right thing. Defending yourself."
"I should be saying thank you for what you did." Momo said. "So, thanks."
Albedo looked puzzled. "What?"
"For sticking up for me. Jr. and Gaignun too."
"Oh…well your welcome." It was his turn to start blushing. "We should go to class now. Before coach Matthews comes and yells at us for skipping."
As if on cue, Matthews strode down the hall. "Hey you two! Stop flirting and get back to class before I report you!"
"Oh no! What time is it now?" Momo asked frantically. Mommy and sis will kill me.
"It's 7:50. We missed 20 minutes of class." He said. "Come on." He grabbed her hand and they ran across the hall with an angry gym teacher on their trail.
xXx
When Momo came to the art room she knocked on the door meekly. I hope I don't get into too much trouble. Mr. Wilhelm halted instruction and glanced at the door.
"Momo so good of you to join us." He said. "Though you are a bit late." He motioned toward the clock.
"Oh! Um…that's because—"
"She had to go to the principal's office." Gaignun said winking towards Momo.
"Uh…yeah. About new student application forms." She lied.
"I see." Wilhelm said seemingly satisfied. "Well take your seat next to Nigredo and Mary."
When she sat down, Gaignun asked concerned, "Are you feeling better?"
Momo nodded. "Somewhat."
"What are you guys talkin' about?" Mary questioned. "Is there somethin' I should know?"
"It's nothing." He answered.
"Oh come on Gaignun. Please?" She pleaded.
"It's none of your concern, Mary. Get back to work. You're print is going nicely." He complemented mockingly. Pointing to her messy yellow block she was printmaking.
"Fine. You're so mean Gaignun-kun." Mary pouted using her nickname for him. Then she took her print block and pressed it on his uniform. "Now don't you look lovely?" She said equally sarcastic.
"MARY!" He shouted.
The rest of class was followed by Mary and Gaignun quarrelling sending them both to time out.
xXx
Next she had History with Ziggy. After Momo called Jan Sauer/Ziggurat 8 'Ziggy' everybody started mimicking (not in a bad way) her name for him. He had earned the title when they met in the subcommittee six years ago.
Anyway when he found out about the fight earlier, boy was he mad. He even got the kids who tried to assault Momo expelled much to her pleasure. Ziggy was very overprotective of her almost like father.
Finally it was lunch. The most anticipated time of the day…except for dismissal. Cafeteria food was crappy as usual. At least there was much time to socialize. Momo sat in the middle of the table with Jr. and Albedo on either side of her. Gaignun sat across from her with Shelley and Mary beside him. Tony, hammer, and chaos, the freshman, sat on the other half of the table. Since high school and middle school lunches were combined.
Gaignun has an agitated expression on his face. While Mary and Shelley kept giggling.
"What's the matter with you Gaignun? You've had that sour look all day. And what's that stain on you shirt?" Jr. questioned.
"Don't ask." He responded. Shooting a death glare at Mary who stopped snickering.
"It was your fault for being so mean." She said annoyed.
"What happened?" Albedo asked.
When neither of them replied, Momo said, "Gaignun and Mary were fighting over her artwork. Then she took hers and pressed it on his uniform. They were sent to time out afterwards."
The whole table erupted in laughter. "Honestly Gaignun. You should know better than to mess with Mary." Shelley said.
"Shut up." He growled. "It won't be my fault when Mary fails art. Who can fail that class anyway?"
"Why I ought to…" Just as she was about to spill a carton of milk on his head, Gaignun with his quick reflexes, dumped his whole tray on hers.
"Oooh," the lunch table gasped as Mary turned on him with fire in her eyes. "Nigredo Yuriev, you—" She lifted her plate of "chef's surprise" and hurled it at him.
"I'm sorry, Mary! I didn't mean oof—" The food splattered on his face.
"Mary Godwin! You're going to get it!" He grabbed a peach and flung it blindly.
"Eeeek!" Momo shrieked. It accidentally hit her.
"Watch where you're throwing, Gaignun!" Jr. threw his spaghetti towards him.
"Hey, Little Master!" It hit Hammer.
"FOOD FIGHT!" Tony declared chucking fries. Everybody started pitching food at each other. Creating mass chaos and a huge mess.
"Please stop children!" The lunch droids cried out. They ended up being pummeled by objects and malfunctioning.
"This is fun!" Albedo squealed in delight, launching popsicles.
"I wonder how long it'll take to get us in trouble?" chaos said.
"He's right you guys we should—"Momo got smacked by yogurt and toppled over.
"What the hell is going on here!" Matthews roared.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and sat down quickly.
The principal and teachers were beside him with strict looks on there faces.
"If nobody tells me who started this…" He grimaced at a meatball under his shoe. "disgusting mess, everybody in this room will have detention for a week to clean this up. Understand?"
Eyes were all on Mary and Gaignun. Who diverted their gaze way. Finally Gaignun stood up, "It was my fault."
Mary sighed and joined him. "Me too."
"Me three." Jr. said. I can't let you guys get all the blame, he said telepathically to Gaignun.
"Me four." Albedo rose. I threw things too.
"Me five." Momo said. "It was our entire fault."
Eventually the rest of the table got up. Shelley, chaos, Hammer, and Tony.
The headmaster nodded. "Although you were brave to have admitted do doing this, you all will have detention for a week to clean up this horrendous mess."
"As for the rest of you," The principal motioned to the cafeteria. "You will devote the rest of this lunch period for swabbing the floors old-fashionably." More droids came in holding hundreds of mops and rags.
"Happy cleaning." He said sarcastically before leaving with the rest of the teachers. However Matthews stayed to monitor the situation. He personally found the whole thing amusing.
xXx
After School
"Great, just great." Jr. muttered under his breath. "I was planning on attending the rose festival this Friday."
"Why can't you go?" Momo asked.
"Because of this cursed detention we got. Gaignun why did you have to go and do something stupid like that?" He asked setting down his broom.
Gaignun said nothing and continued cleaning. "I already said sorry. It was partly Mary's fault for starting it in art."
"You were making fun of my project in art. You kept on saying I would fail."
"So you were. That's no excuse for destroying my uniform."
"It'll come off…sooner or later."
"Would you guys quit it? That's what got us here in the first place." Albedo said irritated.
"Maybe if we finish early and do a really good job, the principal will let us off early." Momo suggested.
"I doubt it." Jr. said. "Margulis is a hard-ass headmaster. He'll never let us off early. If anything he'll extend it or find something else for us to do."
"Well it's worth a try." Momo said.
"I guess."
Albedo tapped Momo on the shoulder when the others weren't paying attention.
She turned to him, "Yes Albedo?"
"Are you still up for are um meeting in the park?"
"I suppose so."
"Great." He smiled at her. "I can walk you there it's not far from here."
"Okay." Momo said and continued mopping.
xXx
Ring, ring! The after school bell rung.
"Aw…man we're still not done." Jr. groaned.
"Don't worry we still have three days till the festival." Momo said.
"I hope we'll finish by then."
"I'm sure we will."
"Well we need to get back to the Institute before Yuriev starts yelling at us. You coming Albedo?" Jr. questioned.
"Um in a little while. I have to take a test I failed first." He said.
"Okay, see ya." He said parting the lunchroom with Gaignun.
"Yeah we should head home too. See you guys." Mary said before leaving with Shelley.
That left Momo and Albedo. "It's just us two now. Do you want me to wait for you until you complete your test?" Momo asked.
"Uh I don't have to take a test, Momo. I lied 'cuz I don't want Rubedo or Nigredo to know."
"Why not?" Momo inquired.
"I'll tell you when we go to the park c'mon."
A/N: That's the end of the chapter for now.The next chapter will have Albedo's date and Jr./Sakura requested by Kos-mosMomo. I thought it would be cute to have them in the same chappie.
Review Replies:
Moshi Moshi Mai: Oh so that's the name I was looking for. I couldn't remember what the Miltian Charter was. Thanks.
Lady Nightmare: Yeah the kids were a ruthless. Oo; Well even with the Miltian Charter discrimination towards realians still exist. I was thinking about getting Ziggy to save her but I thought it would be interesting if she stood up for herself. At least those kids got expelled.
Devilman666: Thanks for the review. It is hard to keep an AU story from becoming too out of character.
