Nikki- Guess what time it is?

Random Person named Bob- What?

Nikki- Time for another chapter of Fate: To Write Love On Her Arms!

Everyone- YAAAAAYYY!

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Nikki- HERE WE GO!

I'm in Tipan again. Like that headvoice of Elly's said. I hope to god he didn't lie to me.

He said I met Elly when I was here before but-

It hit me. That girl in the store. It was Elly. The little liar. Okay, she's not really little. I mean, she's still sixteen, she'll always be sixteen. But she's really my age. I thought about how old I was getting and shuddered. Elly was lucky.

I started walking, not paying attention. I was thinking about Trinity. She what, fifteen? Sixteen now? I wonder if she has any friends. I wonder what she looks like. I wonder-

CRASH!

I crashed into a man texting and drinking coffee at the same time. A real hazard to girls like me who space out a lot. I didn't bother to apologize. I was going to ignore all the names he was calling me and walk away, but my attention went to something that flew out of my pocket.

My cell phone.

I picked up the old thing and opened it. 69 voice mails, 33 text messages, and 98 missed calls, all from the same person. Todd.

I flipped through the messages. Crap like "I miss you", "Come home", "You're such an ass"- wait, that one was from Pepito.

I looked through the texts and listened to only some parts of the voice messages.

Until one caught my attention.

I dropped the phone and the top part flew off. My eyes were wide with shock, and I started running. Running to catch a train or something. I would murder anyone who stood in the way of me getting home.

My husband was fucking dying.

I glanced at the math homework, but instead of math I saw gibberish. I hated it that teachers stopped teaching lessons and just made us do homework. I slapped a calculator on the desk in front of me and pressed the "on" button. Nothing. I remembered I used the batteries for the TV remote.

I grabbed the calculator and walked out into the living room.

"Hey Dad," I said. "Do we have any triple A-"

I was cut off when I looked up to see a man with black hair that reached his shoulders and a baseball cap. He had a white shirt with the words "Nevermore" written across it. I looked to my dad. But he didn't say anything.

"Using a calculator for your math?" he said, smirking. "Bad little Trinity. When I was a kid, our teachers would nail us to a wall if we so much as tried to touch one. But hey; this is 2025. Things've changed." He stood up to stretch."I'm gonna raid your fridge 'n go rent a movie." He stuck out his bottom lip. "After all, another night all by my lonesome because my best drinking buddy has ditched me to play house. Tata, Squeegee!"

And with that, he left.

I didn't even bother to ask with that last time.

"So about the batteries…"

I put down the phone. Miyuki canceled on me. I needed and alternative.

I ran downstairs and grabbed my keys.

"I'm going out," I yelled to my dad.

"M'kay."

I stepped outside and started walking to Naomi's house.

Naomi opened the door before I could even knock.

"I had a feeling you'd be coming," she said.

"How did you-"

"I'm a psychic."

"More like a psycho," I mumbled to myself. We started walking.

"Okay," she started. "The candy store, or the mall."

I checked my watch. "Mall closes in thirty minutes."

"Candy store it is!"

I know, most teenagers don't think that the "candy store" is the place of the year to hang out. But it was Sunday night and we were bored to tears

"So…" she started.

"So?"

"What going on with you and Xavier?"

"Nothing." I laughed.

"Sure…"

"I'm serious!"

"Then why did you sit with him on Friday?"

"He invited me to."

She stopped in front of me and turned to face me. "Trinity, I refuse to let my best friend date Xavier."

"Okay," I replied. "Then don't let Andre date Xavier."

She gave a laugh. "Funny," she said sarcastically. "I'm serious, though. He's only trouble."

"Oh, he's not-"

And as if on cue, there he was. Leaning against the brick wall of Candy Mandy's. Smoking.

"You're smoking…" was all I could say.

"So I am."

I was awestruck. Xavier never striked me as a smoker. More like an emo, kind of Lolita boy. Or at least, that's how it seemed in the theatre of Trinity's Imagination.

I managed to force my words out. "You shouldn't be doing that you know."

"I don't care."

"And your what…fifteen?" Naomi asked.

"Sixteen," he said matter-of-factly.

"You still should be smoking."

I thought about Xavier and how quiet he was in the beginning, and now, here he his, taking drags like there's no tomorrow.

He smirked. "I think lung cancer would be a fun way to die," he said. Naomi glared like she was going to eat his face or something. Xavier looked at me. "Aren't you supposed to be at a friend's or something?"

"She called and canceled," I said, keeping my head down. I stuffed my hands in my red coat pockets and stared at my Bearpaws.

We were all silent, watching as the snow fell. Every flake different from the other. Then there was the one flake I thought was the most special. Until I found out it smoked. Naomi broke the silence with the world's dumbest question.

"Are you gay?" she asked. Her question blew both Xavier and me out of proportion.

He nearly choked on his cigarette.

"No," he finally said. "I. Am. Not. Gay."

"Denial!" she said in a singsong voice.

I stared at her with anger across my face. Was she setting something up? What was she doing?

"I'm not in fucking denial, bitch!" he spit out with more venom in his words than ever before. He took his cigarette and ground it against the brick wall. He straightened up and sized her up. Even I felt forty times smaller. Xavier looked like he was going to chop her head off and feed it to hungry tigers. And I didn't blame him. Naomi was being kind of a bitch. But if you knew Naomi, you'd know she didn't get scared that easy, even if it was someone like Xavier. She stood her ground.

"Look, bitch," she said, trying to live up to his venom. "Just because you're fucking up my relationship with my best friend does so not mean you can treat me like- like- like-"

"Like the whore you are?" he replied with a snarl.

Naomi's eyes turned to fire. I didn't think people's faces could get like her's was outside of anime, but I was damn wrong. And why wasn't I doing anything? Probably because I didn't know which one to defend, Naomi or Xavier.

But before I could even so much as move, Naomi stepped forward and bitch-slapped him!

He fumed, his face kind of like what Naomi's was before. It was slightly less red than the mark she left on his cheek. Not only was it a mark, but it started leaking blood. You think she was done? No way. She went for a kick to the shin, and shot a follow-up with a direct hit in the genital area. He fell to his knees, which is something I thought I'd never see him do. I yanked her back before she could do anymore damage. She practically foamed at the mouth as if diagnosed with hydrophobia.

She tried to break free, until I whispered something in her ear. "Stop it or I'll tell the whole school you're still a virgin." She ceased her thrashing. I knew that would work.

Xavier stood up, beaten from the fight. He bared his teeth and took deep breaths. "I'm not gay," he said finally.

"Then prove it," Naomi replied with a stupid grin on her face.

Xavier stopped his deep breathing and stood up straight. "Gladly," he said, not glaring anymore.

Then he did something I'd never expect out of him. He grabbed me. Grabbed me. But that wasn't it. He pulled me forward and crushed his lips on mine.

At first I resisted, but there was something about that kiss, something about him that made me feel safe. Like nothing could touch me. And Naomi wasn't there anymore, nobody was. It was just me and him.

And he barely tasted like an ashtray.

Xavier pulled back and we were back to reality again. Naomi behind us, mouth wide open, slightly bigger than her eyes.

But Xavier, he looked as if he just made out with his mom. Me? My expression sort of resembled shock and stupidity, for I was dumbstruck and ecstatic at the same time. I was about to say something, but he ran off.

"Xavier," I said under my breath, but got louder. "Xavier!" I called after him. He didn't so much as turn around, just kept on running.

My heart pounded louder than ever before. I couldn't say anything. But Naomi did that for me.

"Well," she said once the shock was gone. "Trinity Casil just had her first kiss."

And I was dumbstruck again.

AHHHH! :dies then comes back to life: They kissed!

Anyway, I'm hungry, so I'll make it quick.

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