Mako's Message: ...I am suddenly not so sure about this chapter... Well, be sure to let me know if you think this worked or not.
Anyway... this last week has been stupid. I've either had something urgent to deal with or I've been read to fall asleep on my feet, so I'm sorry I haven't updated sooner.
But this is Ch99, which means the next one(which WILL be up tomorrow) is Ch100(Three digits! Whoo...?) and the end of this set of twenty, so if you're interested in the bonus chapter now wold be a good time to see if you meet the requirements(ten reviews between Chs 81 and 100). And I should be back to the regular schedule this week.
Enjoy!
Have you ever noticed that when your sick, you feel absolutely fucking miserable and spend all your time trying to not get sicker, but then when you do finally cross the line of no return and end up puking your guts out and then you actually feel kinda good? Well, I told Angela and Jessi about why Dave and Katie broke up (and a bunch of other shit) and it kinda felt like that.
It's still the worst part of being sick though, so I don't think I'll be rushing to emotionally vomit on anyone if anything like this happens again.
If it does I'm probably just going to stab someone instead.
Now of course I didn't tell them about us being super-heroes(or how I really WAS trying to get into his pants), but I did kind of talk too much about how much he meant to me, how he'd helped me after my Daddy's death, and how it was my fault this was happening and now he wasn't talking to me and I had no idea what to do.
Like I said, it's like vomiting; once it started coming up it was hard to stop it. It was practically dumb luck that I didn't spill anything important.
Angela got really quiet about the whole thing, which was really weird. She's usually the one who gets all hyper about shit. Jessi started quiet but then she just kind of leaned in and asked, "Is it true?"
I was still in post-puke mode so I just blinked at her like an idiot and asked what she was talking about.
So she spelled it out for me, "Are you and Dave having sex?"
Then she was just STARING at me, serious as fuck, waiting for me to answer. IT WAS FUCKING WEIRD!
So of course I said, "No." Which I would have said even if we were but that's not the point.
Then, even weirder, she started getting antsy and asked if we were doing anything together.
Again I told her, "No."
Weirder still I think she wantedme to say yes. She kept fidgeting and wouldn't look me in the eye and then she asked, "Do you want to?"
And I had no idea what to say to that. I mean, she SEEMED totally okay with it, but I wasn't sure what Angela would think if she knew I was interested in him and I'd already said I was interested in Kick-Ass(No need to give them any hints), and anyone else knowing is probably going to be more of a problem than a help anyway so I just said "No" in my best, "Of course not. Duh" tone.
Then Angela finally spoke up and asked, "Are you sure that it's Katie? That started the rumor?"
I said that I was. Who else could it be? Dave and I got through a whole year without any rumors and it's just now, the first week of school, that one starts, before anyone has any chance to see us doing anything together let alone something suspicious, and this just so happens to be right after Katie breaks up with him after accusing him of fucking me?
She didn't want to believe it of course, "But Katie's so nice. She'd never do something that mean."
Personally I think Katie is nice to people and does all the volunteer and charity work because it makes her feel likes she's better than other people. Nobody is that altruistic. So of course if she's feeling all holier-than-thou she'd probably feel like turning the school against a guy who wronged her would be perfectly within her right.
She started to object and defend her, so I smacked her with a pillow and reminded her that I told them all this so they could help me figure out a way to fix it.
They said that it sounded like he he might just need some space to try and figure things out. He was calling to cancel and apologize for missing our usual weekend stuff and not just not showing up so they figured he had to care about my feelings. The thought that maybe not being so visibly close to him might help the situation, since the less we're seen together the more quickly people would forget about it. And that I should probably tell him I heard them break up.
The first I'm okay with, but I'm worried it'll affect our teamwork and our training. I really don't want to be away from him more than I absolutely have to but they might have a point... seems like that might make it look like were doing something wrong though... At least we'd still have out patrol nights, not that he's been talking much then either. The third thing... telling him... No. I can't do that. He's not saying anything, and it might just be because he doesn't want to embarrass me or something, so if I tell him I already know then he might tell me to stop doing what I've been doing and can't risk him rejecting me yet. I need to up my odds of him taking me before I call him on it, so I'm just going to keep trying to make myself the girl he thinks about until he either accepts me advances or he tells me to knock it off.
I don't want to make it worse though... I guess it couldn't hurt to back off a little...
