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[ Chapter Two: Flirting Overload! FLIRTING OVERLOAD! ]
[ Presented to you by Rapid Savvy ]
Olivia looked up at the trapdoor with an annoyed expression. "He's been up there for a while now! How much longer is he going to take?" She complained to the broad-shouldered man standing idly beside her.
He chuckled at her sheer impatience. Ever since they were kids, she's always been one to absolutely hate waiting. "Who knows? It's Jesse, for crying out loud; he takes hour long showers." He jokes.
Her dark eyes darted to him, and twinkled in delight. "True." She snickered. "Say, would you rather have a chest full of enderpearls or a chest full of food?" She asked.
He pretend to think for a moment, although he already knew what he was going to say. "Gotta go with a chest full of food." Axel answered, grinning when she made a face at him.
"Enderpearls would be nice," A voice above them spoke, interrupting whatever the pig-tailed girl might have said. "it would save me a lot of time getting around."
Okay, did they really even have to look up to know who was talking to them? It was everyone's- Well, maybe not everyone's- favorite badass mercenary friend, Petra. Currently, the redhead was hanging upside down from a tree, with only her legs holding her onto the branch.
Petra was a total tomboy, from her bandanna-covered-head to her booted feet.
Olivia was really quite jealous, actually, because seriously! How athletic is this woman? Hanging from a tree like a freaking monkey?! With only her legs supporting her?! Preposterous! "Petra, why-"
"You don't wanna know." The mercenary's devilish smirk didn't waver, even as she changes the subject smoothly. "Have I ever said how much of a dork Jesse is?"
They stifled their giggles, because yes; she had, in fact, told them many, many, many times how dorky their short friend was. Whether Jesse freaked out over the smallest detail, fanboyed over his favorite hero, talked and/or argued with himself, tried to make himself seem taller, or came up with the most out-of-the-box ideas ever heard of, Petra would always dub him a dork and then maybe proceed to tease him about it if she stayed for long enough.
Those were the times that they found Jesse fuming for hours on end and mourning over his bruised pride.
Petra grinned upon noticing their bemused expressions, thinking that meant they agreed with her. "Welp, I better be off. See ya on the flip side!" The mercenary winked and swung herself to another tree, and so on.
There a few beats of bewildered silence between the two friends, before they burst out with a giggle fit. "She is thy mystery no one shall puzzle out!" Axel stated dramatically, to which Olivia just laughs even harder at.
"What are you guys laughing at?"
They turned around and noticed that Jesse had come out while they were distracted. How did he get down the ladder so quickly, anyway?
"Nothing." Axel waves the question off with a funny expression, and Olivia was no different.
Jesse squinted at them in suspicion, his nose scrunching up as if he could detect the lie he was being fed. He accepted it, though, and let it go. "Okie dokie lokie..."
"NO MORE PUNS!"
Petra's concentration snapped when she heard the voice shout from below, and she ended up miscalculating her jump, just barely managing to catch the branch she was aiming for. A few leaves scattered as the branch wobbled dangerously with her weight.
She clung to the branch tightly once she was fully on it, and glared down past the leaves toward the source of the shout. Her glare softened when she realized just who it was she was looking down at. It was her friends, and they were probably heading to the Building Competition about this time. She automatically smiled upon spotting her favorite of the trio- excuse me, quartet.
So cute~! She snickered as she watched the brunette stomp toward the tree she was in. The other three were trailing after him, laughing.
"Sorry dude!"
"Save it!"
The redhead decided that she had enough time to drop in and just say a quick hello to the dork. Maybe annoy him and tease him a bit-
She then had a devious idea.
Petra swung from the branch and dropped down on the ground in a crouch right in front of the boy who she was currently targeting, and Jesse stumbled back at her sudden arrival, violet-blue eyes wide in shock. Such pretty eyes... She mused to herself. Maybe even prettier than the sky at night. I don't know, I'll have to see for myself later.
"P-Petra?!" Jesse squawks once he gains his composure.
She jumped out of her daze and fixed him with a cheeky grin. "Heya, Jesse!" She greeted him, and took a moment to appreciate the size difference between herself and Jesse. "You know, Jesse, you're always doing these goofy, adorable things, but this just takes the cake!"
Her poor, innocent victim's face was already flushed pink. "W-what?!"
"Yeah." Petra chuckled, and backed him up against a tree, placing her hands on either side of his head. "You really ought to stop being so damn cute- you might make me malfunction and do something naughty~"
Yes, he's cherry-faced! SCORE!
"HHHH-"
What an odd noise... She loved it!
She mimicked his voice near perfectly as she quoted him, deciding to hit the final nail in the coffin. "'Give me a dragon roar, Reuben!'"
Reuben, who had been snuffling nearby, lifted his costumed head when he heard her. "ROOOOIIIIIINNNK!" The pig squeals out, enacting the same roar-oink she had heard while eavesdropping. Yes, she was eavesdropping. NOT STALKING. Don't get the wrong idea there. "'That'll do, Reuben, that'll do.'"
"P-Petra!"
"J-Jesse!"
A fire entered those pretty violet-blue eyes- vlue, as she liked to call them- and Jesse ducked under her arm. "Screw off, copperhead!" He was just so nice, wasn't he? He even gave her a little nickname! So cute~
She leaned against the tree she had trapped him against and winked back at the fuming boy. "No thanks, cottontail." She retorted. She knew calling him this would be the final straw for the boy, and she was right; Jesse's face flushed even darker, and he began to storm away with his clenched fists to his sides.
Just like an angry little rabbit.
"I don't even have a freaking tail!"
"You did last year~"
"And I regret wearing that stupid costume!"
"But you were so cute with your wittle fuzzy tail and big floppy ears!"
"SCREW OFF!"
Petra decided that now was a good time to stop and leave him be. He had a competition to go win, and she had a deal to go fulfill. She couldn't keep stalling like this, as much as she wanted to.
So the redhead barked out a laugh and said a brisk "see ya" to the group, climbed up the tree she was once in, and continued on her merry way.
She wasn't done teasing him, though. Just for now.
Jesse could not believe that Petra actually brought up that horrifying memory. Oh yeah, he had apparently decided that wearing a rabbit costume was the greatest freaking idea ever.
Well, he regretted that decision quite quickly, and he still does today.
Stupid freaking redhead... flirting like that... trying to fluster him...
...And succeeding every single time...
Oh, wonderful...