Chapter 50: Wheels Of Confusion

At Chris's house...

Ever since arriving back home, what Maria has decided to do was bring Chris back to his room, and have him rest. She waited for around 10 minutes to see if he would wake up, but alas, no luck. Maria did not like how she seemingly couldn't much, other than leave him to rest for a while. But, she accepts that right now, the best thing would be to leave him to rest.

Maria decided to take care of some papers she was planning on doing, but then the incident occurred. Either way, she begins. Although, a certain thought came to her mind, which was how determined Skylar was to helping him.

"El ha encontrado una buena persona..." (He has found a good person...) Maria thinks to herself.

Although Maria doesn't exactly know much about Skylar, or has even known her for much time, that is irrelevant to her, as anyone willing to support her son, especially through something like that, she appreciates deeply. Plus, she sees a lot of things in a common with her son and his friend.

At around 12 PM...

Maria is still busy with her task, as the papers she is working involve things related to the house, and delaying work on them is anything but good.

Meanwhile, in Chris's room, it's still dead silent. Although, Chris's phone rings VERY loudly, as he didn't remember to mute it before classes started, and it blasts out "Into The Void", specifically the beginning of it.

"Ugh... what? Why is that playing?"

Chris checks it, and notices that it's just a call from someone he has 0 clue of. So he hangs up.

"Wait a minute... why am I here?! Wasn't I just in school?" said Chris, a bit loud.

He checks his phone again, and he notices that it says 12:02 PM. To you and me, it's obvious why he is home, but Chris has literally 0 recollection of the past events. Feeling suspicious, he decides to look outside his window to see if any of the other kids are home, and he doesn't see a single one.

"What in the name of... is this a nightmare? In all seriousness, I need to figure out what is going on..." said Chris, to himself in his mind.

He goes downstairs and checks to see if anyone is there. Well, his mom would be downstairs, but she went to the restroom upstairs. So he sees no one, only adding to the confusion. He DOES however notice a large pile of papers on the table.

"So, someone IS here. Mom most likely, no? But the thing is-"

Chris is interrupted by his mom, who left the restroom, and sees him, and gasps. She quickly comes down the stairs and hugs him, throwing him off guard, but he gives it back, after all, it is his mom. He let's go around 10 seconds after, and asks her...

"Que esta pasando?!" (What is going on?!) said Chris, extremely confused.

"You passed out during classes." his mom bluntly responds.

"Aside from the sudden English, no... no no no no!" exclaimed Chris in his mind, but out loud he said, "How?!"

"I don't know. Your friend helped me out however. You have great friends." said Maria.

"Wait, who exactly is she talking about?" wondered Chris. "Umm, mom? Who exactly are you talking about?"

"That girl, Skylar. She helped me out, carrying your stuff, and you."

Maria laughs a little bit at that statement, but Chris is on a another different emotion. He can barely believe what he is hearing. The fact that he passed out during class already doesn't make things very comforting per se, but knowing that Skylar went and helped both him and his mom through it all... makes him just lost. At this point, all of this seems more like a dream or hallucination to him, as everything seems very ridiculous and over the top. Although he has very little clue what to think at this moment, one thing is for sure that he knows. He owes Skylar a LOT.

"I'll be sure to tell her thanks. Is it okay if I rest for a bit? I'm okay, just wanna take a break to calm down, as this is ridiculous."

"Yes. But what about that party? You can't just leave your friends. Or the girl." mentions Maria.

"Mom, please don't. Look, I'll figure it out, but I'm positive that I won't have to drop it. I'm going back upstairs, okay?"

Chris gives a gives thumbs up, and his mom smiles back. Although before he leaves, he tells her, "Seems like your English is getting better. That's good."

"I try my best. Not to worry." said Maria while laughing a bit.

With that, she goes back to working on the papers, and Chris goes back upstairs to his room.. He didn't show it much, but he is just flabbergasted beyond recognition.

"What the heck man... okay, let's see. I passed out during the literal first class it seems, as I can't recall anything but getting there. But what in god's name made me pass out?"

Chris sits on his chair, deciding to try to wake himself up with some games and music, specifically "Hellraiser" by Ozzy Osbourne. As he is playing and listening, his thoughts continue to flow.

"I did sleep, so no way is that the reason. Wait... oh my god. It was that stupid potion from Double D wasn't it?! Well, it isn't even his fault, because I drank it like a moron. Why did I have to drink it ALL!? How impatient can I be... but forget it! At least I wasn't affected for that long, but I know mom is not happy about losing a day of school. Thank goodness it was JUST a day, because I'm pretty sure she would've gone crazy. To be fair, I would've too, I mean, seriously, being knocked out cold like that, all so suddenly?"

Chris facepalms, before pausing his game, but leaving on his music to think of a certain someone.

"Narrator, you don't have to be cryptic about it when it's plain obvious who it is."

...right!

"Anyways, Skylar, you've gotta be kidding me. Why do I sound like I'm not appreciating her? I mean, how long did she help me for? I can only hope it was not a stupidly long time like twenty-five plus minutes, because I'm going to be forced to pay her back somehow. Then again... I have to repay her someway. But how?At least I'm sure of one thing, she is definitely someone I can trust."

Chris recalls his and Skylar's conversation about the upcoming party, in which he chuckles a bit at the memory.

"Still can't believe she just, knew. I think THAT'S how I'm going to repay her, because if I ditch her and the others, not only is that going to seem so just, moronic on my end, but I get the feeling it's only going to amplify their worry. Wouldn't be surprised if they think I'm a ghost now. Or, maybe just Ed. Either way, I need to just be sure that I'm not exhausted or any of that kind of stuff, especially near her, because something tells me that she was right nearby. Then again, so would the entire class, no?"

The whole "objective" of not being exhausted gives Chris an idea. He goes over and gets his phone, and starts picking out songs that he knows gets him in a chair tossing mood. The good kind, not the bad kind. After around a couple minutes, he sets it up, and he is positive that in the event of low energy, he can go to these songs.

"I honestly probably won't even need these songs, because I'm very sure that the party is going to be ridiculously loud. As is the standard with parties, so that's not a surprise to me. Good thing I already got the music for the party itself ready. Hopefully Eddy has aswell. I really hope that he didn't pick some insanely stupid song about 'picking up the ladies'. If he did, please tell me he has a trick in back up."

Chris recalls what he picked for his attire for this party, and he is still confident in his decision. After all, it's not like he has 502 different outfits to choose from, as going to a party is something that rarely occurs, especially to this scale.

"I'm sure Skylar will be fine with it. Though, that should be the last thing I'm concerned about. I'm actually nervous as to her reaction when she finds me. Yeah, she'll probably be happy, but golly, hopefully it's not an overreaction. Then again, I've never recalled her even doing anything like that before, as she is mostly calm in every situation, so I think I'll be fine. That would be the last thing I would want to happen."

Afterwards, Chris realizes that he has to explain EVERYTHING to his friends, which is much easier to say than do.

"I expect them to visit me once school is over... which won't be for like, three or four hours. The only thing I hope is that they don't overreact upon seeing me up and all."

Chris's thoughts come to a halt, when his mom calls him down for help with the papers. How he is supposed to help out with papers relating to house, that is a mystery to him.

45 minutes later...

"God, that was painful." said Chris, annoyed, as the work he had to help his mom with was a lot of translations, and explaining words. He doesn't hate helping her, don't get him wrong, but when it comes for extended periods of time, he gets exhausted.

This does, however, give an idea. He goes and gets his phone, and pulls up Skylar's number. Calling her is beyond out of the question, because if he interrupts her during class, she is going to most likely going to get angry with him. So, instead, he decides to leave her a text, basically letting her know that he is okay.

"Hey, it's Chris. I know, I know. I'll explain everything once you're out of school, but I'm okay."

"Watch her STILL freak out. Never change Skylar... haha." said Chris in his mind.

Although, Chris does wonder what's going on at the school, since he is now absent. Then again, he doesn't expect there to be some random lunchroom rumble, as Eddy once told him occurred on Valentine's Day. Or anything large as a whole. In fact, he only recalls that there were supposed to be a lot of practice for tests tomorrow... which isn't very promising, but even then, he can schedule another time to do the tests, as he has been told by the teachers before.

Either way, Chris decides to lay down for a bit, and just fidget around with some nunchucks, his standard all black ones that he has used in literally every encounter that involved him having to fight.

"Ahhh... the memories. Not all good though, for the record. Such as the fights with Lee. Poor judgement at its finest there."

Chris adopts a neutral expression, as while sure, at the time, it might've seemed like the "necessary" thing or whatever, but it's not really brought about anything good, only conflict. He can only hope he doesn't have any encounters like that with her. Though, as before, easier than done sometimes, especially when it becomes unpredictable.

Speaking of which, what are the fellows at the school doing at this moment?

Currently, it's now almost 1 PM, and everyone is simply enjoying their last minutes of lunch, as there's only around less than 10 minutes left of it. Nearly a whole half of a cafeteria table was taken by the crew of over 10 people. Naturally, almost everyone had split into being a specific someone, such as Lee with Eddy, Marie with Double D, Ed with May, and Kevin with Nazz. Rolf, Jonny and Skylar took some of the other space, with Skylar sitting on a spot in-between May and Marie. By this point, all of them where simply having conversations about anything, some hilarious, some about the upcoming event, and some a bit more on the serious side.

Talking about serious conversations, Lee gets reminded, seemingly out of the blue, about what she planned to tell Eddy... however, in this VERY crowded area, she hardly considers it a good idea to talk about the specific topic at this moment.

"Hey." she whispers into Eddy's ear.

"What's up?" Eddy whispered back.

"Remember the thing I was gonna tell you? Let's make time during the party to talk. Alright?" responded Lee. "We can't talk about it right now, understood?"

Eddy nods his head, saying yes, and the two of them have settled on it. They both agree to it, as it's easier to find a spot that's private, and adding onto to that, there is no worry about classes starting, restricting time.

Oh, won't we have a large scale event! Ha!

Author's Note: Thank you, dear website, for bugging the chapter when it originally was published, wow. Okay, aside from that, I honestly can't believe this. 50. 50! I won't go into much detail here, but I didn't even plan that to happen. Am I complaining? Nope! I enjoy writing for this story. Anyways, enough of that, I wanted to try something a bit different for this chapter, and I'm overall satisfied with it! Either way, I shall catch you guys in Chapter 51. Cheers!