Chapter 27

The luck I obtained on the first day of High School is still following me for some reason. It would appear Martin and I share the same first period.

In the beginning it started with eight new friends. One of those friends has become more than a friend. Now someone else has come to cause chaos in my life. Funny part is, I don't mind more drama.

Call me crazy, but I'm having a lot more fun getting the shaft than I was when I was alone. I'll take a little more chaos if it means more good times.

"Hey Jack, you look spaced out. Is everything alright?"

Nepgear speaks to me in her friendly worried tone. She really cares for me eh. I guess I should be thankful for such a lovely girlfriend.

"I'm alright Nepgear. Just getting lost in my thoughts."

I give her a smile to reassure her that I'm fine. And it is complete truth. Never before have I been more well off than I am now.

The reaction I was hoping for came true. Nepgear gives off the warm smile that I love to see no matter how many times I look at it.

To be honest, I don't know what it is that makes me like her so much. Throughout history love has been the topic of many philosophical debates. Even a man I knew way back when couldn't quite describe it to me.

I still can't remember his name. All I know for certain is that it began with a J. Whatever, I can't be thinking about the past, I have current issues to deal with.

"Jack and Nepgear sitting in a tree. G!"

"Icky…"

Just when I thought things couldn't get more complicated today. I have my two youngest friends pulling an elementary school rhyme on me. Can't say I blame them, they know less about love than I do… and that's not saying much.

Nepgear blushes at Ram's rhythmic assault. With my lack of social cue knowledge, I can't tell if she's happy or embarrassed.

Before I could think any further on the subject it caught me that Nepgear and I are holding hands. In the middle of class none the less.

My own cheeks are flushed with red at my realization. Ok, so this whole relationship thing will take some getting used to.

In the surrounding desks my friends are giving some rather peculiar gestures. Both Noire and Uni look away and start to laugh like little girls. Blanc closes her eyes and begins to shake her head. Vert tilts her head to the side with her eyes closed giving a happy sigh. What she's imagining is anyone's guess.

As for Neptune… she's taking it in her own little way.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!

I take it she hasn't found out that me and her sister are dating yet. Which is strange considering we told her together. And yet somehow she managed to miss out completely. That's our Neptune for you I guess.

The final nail in the coffin has been placed. Neptune might kill me now for 'defiling' her precious little sister. At least that's what I'd think she'd do to me. It's sort of a habit for me to get the shaft in these situations.

Truth be told, I haven't once done anything that could be categorized as defiling. All Nepgear and I have done is kissed once and held hands a couple times.

"How dare you go behind my back and do whatever your sick teenage mind wants to with my precious Nep Jr.!"

Neptune jumped over a desk just to choke me with every bit of might she has. And don't let her small figure fool you, she's a lot stronger than she looks. It's confirmed that I'm going to die this time.

Sure it may have taken a few dozen times of close calls but now is the big one.

"Stop it Neptune, you're going to kill him." Noire speaks up from the background. It's hard to hear though since there's no blood going to my head.

"Get the hell off of him!" Blanc yells as well. Her loud voice can be easily heard during even this crucial moment.

Blanc raises her left arm for her signature punch that could smash the heavens. Surely Neptune isn't dumb enough to stay where she is and take the full force of the punch. Then again, it is Neptune here.

"Hya!" Blanc throws her fist at Neptune.

"I'm a kangaroo!"

Neptune does a back flip off of me and lands in a completely different area than the punches trajectory. Wait… that means… son of a bitch…

*Thud!* *Crash!*

Blanc's punch accidentally hit me full force. One of her punches straight to the temple hurts like hell. To put more gasoline on the fire, the overall force caused me to fly out of my desk and hit another one.

It's ok though… I don't think anything is broken. Then again… I can't feel much of anything either.

So here I lie on the floor like a rug. The only good part about it though is my friends including Martin are around me with very concerned expressions.

"Jack?" Uni speaks to me first. I know me and her aren't exactly the closest in our friends group, but it's nice to see her care about me.

"waa… Mister Jack's… in so much pain… waa…" Rom… don't cry, I'm going to be fine.

I've got such wonderful friends around me. And up to this point I thought some of them were my eternal punishment. Good lord I'm stupid.

I swear if I make it out of this alive, which we all know I will considering my luck, I'm going to thank the hell out of all of them. Also, I can't let my relationship end as soon as it began.

"It's best if we take him to the school nurse for now. Afterwards further medical procedures may be preformed if necessary." Martin speaks up after a while. And he's right, that is the best thing that can happen.

But one question still comes to mind, why is no one else in the class doing anything to help me. Hell, I don't think they've even acknowledged me yet. God the people I'm around are idiots.

"Martin is right, we must get him to the school nurse." Vert is in agreement as well.

They better do it soon because I am seriously about to black out here. This is the second time that Blanc has done this to me. However she did save me from a Neptune choking.

"Don't worry… I'll get you better as soon as possible." My loving new girlfriend speaks to me in my time of fading away. I wish she wouldn't look so sad though, it's kind of making the pain worse.

Finally the time has come for me to faint. Ram is the last to speak to me. Well, at least the last I can hear.

"Jack… it's time to let go."

The area I face now is the same as before. Nothing but the darkness. Yet somehow I can still see myself. None of this makes sense, nothing ever makes sense around here.

In the distance I can see a faint glimmer of light. As I said it's very faint. The last time I saw this light was when I was first knocked out. Hopefully it isn't an evil glimmer of light.

Suddenly the light appears before me and begins to speak.

"Thank you for taking care of them. I'm sure they mean a lot to you."

"…" All I can do is stand, or float in my case in silence.

"I know you must have a million questions to ask right about now, but all will be revealed in time. For now don't panic."

The otherworldly voice is somewhat calming… motherly if you would say. I'm more calm as a result, it just knows how to speak to the heart I guess.

"Who are you? You seem to know who I am, it only seems fair."

Way to go Jack, make demands from the voice that could probably kill you in an instant.

"I suppose that's fair. I am the world's everything, and the world in my everything."

Be more cryptic why don't you? How do I know this isn't some hallucination?

"I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you're saying. What do you me 'the world's everything'?"

This whole voice while I'm knocked out thing is getting to be pretty annoying. I don't like it when I don't have answers. Even if it is just to a voice in my head.

"It figures you would not know. Very well, I will tell you everything Jack."

"How do you know my name?"

"As I said, I am the world essentially. I know everything. Now if we may get back on topic, the whole SQZZ!"

I didn't know static could happen when I'm listening to voices. The same thing happened last time, the voice was talking and then it went to static. After words… oh god I'm waking up.

"AH!"

The first thing I do when I come to is yell? It makes sense though, that was a pretty trippy dream I had there.

It's so blurry around me, these are the effects of not seeing sunlight for a little bit.

"Ugh… how long have I been out?" I say to myself.

"It's nearing the end of school hours as we speak."

"Ah!"

I didn't know someone else was in here, wherever here is. People need to stop scarring me so much these days.

Wait… my vision's coming back now, from what I can tell… Martin is at the bed side. Why would he be here?

"Martin? What are you doing here?"

"Since I am an honor's student, I was allowed to skip class for the day to stay by my friends' side."

He considers me a friend of his? We haven't even gotten to know each other all that well yet. He's a mystery encased by an enigma.

"Why? We hardly even know each other."

"I'm aware of that, it's just… most people see me as too weird to be friends with. You and your group are the only people who haven't turned me down."

I kind of feel bad for the guy. He's like me in a way, not having friends for a long period of time. We may have more in common than I thought we had originally.

"Are things… always that chaotic?"

"You have no idea."

Martin gives of a slight smile at my remark. Now I know me and him are going to get along just fine. All I hope is that he doesn't kill me in the end. Too many close calls from my end.

"I'm going to enjoy our times together then."

"…"

"…"

The both of us sit in silence after Martin spoke. Only the sound of the clock ticking can be heard in the background. Time to pull out the small talk guns.

"So Martin, what brings you here? Normally people don't just move here out of the blue."

"It's an… interesting tale. If you want to hear it we have time."

Well, I guess I could kill some time waiting for the others to get here. Now I'm feeling more like I can trust him.

All I do is give him a nod, and he starts to speak.

"Well, it all started…"

A/N: I am so sorry for the wait for this update. I've been busy with many tedious little tasks and haven't found much time to write recently.

More than likely, this will be the last chapter of the year. Considering Christmas is just around the corner. I'll be sure to give you all one hell of a new year's gift though.

Until then, see you in the next update and merry Christmas.