Author Note: I will try to update as fast as possible, not easy and sorry if it takes forever sometimes, I work on it everyday. And I AM Sorry if it's taking forever, I understand how annoying it is when a story doesn't update for a while. I get that a lot. Pisses me off to. And yes I realize this was faster than the others. Thats just cuz its a friday and I felt like it. And yes I'm also ruled by my impulses. I also wanted to rejoice that I finished this REALLY big deal of coursework. So this became my way of celebrating!!
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In the Previous Chapter:
Someone pushed my face into the cake.
Silence.
Slowly I raised my head up, blinking away the chocolate from my eyes, smelling frosting on my nose, and tasting sugar on my lip.
Everyone silently looked at one another. No one daring to talk. Waiting for me to respond in some way.
But that was the thing! I didn't know HOW to respond. So I chose the first thing that came in my mind.
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Ironic Scenario Chapter 6
Blinking slowly, I lift my hand up and use one finger to wipe a bit of the cake and stuck the finger into my mouth. Grinning. Why should we make such a big deal out of nothing? Still smiling I turned around all of them and said, "The cake is DELICIOUS!!"
I think they were beyond shocked at my decision. It was a sudden bang into the cake, and I don't think they've ever experienced doing something like this to ... ANYONE.
Looking at them, I wait for another reaction, "Honestly, what's wrong guys? It's not a big deal, the cake is still delicious. And if you don't want to eat it there's still the cookies or the soda's." I drifted off. This was awkward. There was still silence.
Okay.
How do I break this?
Looking at the cake, my face was imprinted in the center of the cake. Destroying the entire thing if you want to be specific. What do I do!? Once more looking behind me, THEY WERE STILL STARING! And this time it was getting on my nerves, "GUYS!!! TALK!!! WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?!"
THEY WERE STILL BLINKING!! THEY WERE JUST STARING WIDE-EYED AT ME!! AND IT WAS REALLY really GETTING ON MY NERVSE!!
Looking at the cake again, I grabbed a chunk full and threw it at the nearest person to me. It landed on Garnet. Oops. I think?
All eyes were not on Garnet, shifting back every few seconds to me, then Melanie. Me, then Garnet.
"U-Um... sorry?"
Melanie looked at me, and for the first time in a LLOONNGG time. I was scared. Not adrenaline scared were you pee in your pants from fear. But scared where you started gulping hard or start sweating a whole lot more. In my head, I started thinking of any reaction that she could be giving me. She could kick me off the team. She could cry. She could burst out laughing. She could start grinning like an idiot, just like I did. Or she can do the worst thing possible: Nothing. And if she does the last option, I am near 100% sure that I will loose it.
Her reaction though, thank god. Was the same as mine.
Grinning like an idiot, she pealed most of the cake off her face and threw it at someone else.
This time it was my time to start blinking. Everyone was now laughing. At first they were all blinking, shocked, wide eyed, opened mouth and all of that stuff. But now they were laughing their heads off, throwing cakes at each other, rolling on the floor. Throwing each other in front of them, smiling and DANCING!! I was BEYOND confused. I never learned how to react to this kind of thing. NEVER. I was mostly with Vincent, Yuna, Olette and Selphie. And they NEVER had this kind of dramatic swing to things!! If they changed moods like this, it was more pronounced and it took time, so anyone could read the signs that it was coming.
Closing my eyes to take a deep breathe. Something hit me. Slowly opening my eyes, I could see brown. And white. In fact. I couldn't see anything but brown and white. More brown though. Someone threw a chocolate cake at me. This time they didn't bash my head into it accidently, but they purposely threw it at my face. There was also one more difference: They were still talking and laughing. No one noticed my beyond stunned reaction. The other difference was: I was pissed. SOMEONE THREW A CAKE AT MY FACE!!!
Grabbing yet another huge chunk of cake, I threw it straight onto Rikku's face, the side-impact bashed her head into someone else's head. Grabbing yet another chunk, I threw it at someone else, I don't even know who I hit it to. I only know I hit someone. I was to angry to look.
BANG
Gritting my teeth, I once again felt the chocolate cake slide down my face. Opening my eyes into thin slits, I failed to notice exactly WHO threw it at me. But everyone, once more, still failed to notice my reaction. They were busy starting a cake fight, and I had a strongly sure hunch that it was going to turn into a Cake/Cookie fight. The food is going to go to waste now!!
Out of a pure impulse, I grabbed a chunk of cake and a couple of cookies and once more threw it at the nearest person, thanking God that i was next to the food table.
Pretty soon. The entire room was filled with laughter and shrieking, all of us having fun. For once in my life I was praying for something. A new team member coming into the group so we can do this all over again. Certainly I only have this much fun in one out of ten times. We could only have been having that food fight for 5 minutes, but it turned out that we've been messing around for at least 3 hours. The only time we noticed a change in time, was when the sun was setting. We were beyond shocked at that, I think my thoughts were mutual in this.
"Come on team!! We have a room to finish!! Look at this mess now. I don't deny it was fun. And I do pray to god we get to do it again. But we need to clean up!! Come on everyone!!" Melanie announced. I hate not knowing her name. Melanie or Garnet? SERIOUSLY?! Must find out.
Along with everyone else in the room. I started picking out crumbs that was scattered across the floor. One of the other team members went to get a plastic bag so we can dump all of the crumbs into it. Unconsciously, Rikku started humming a tone under her breathe, it caught onto us all, it was a reasonably well known song: Stay In Love by Mariah Carey. Going through the humming phase, before we knew it we started singing along to it:
Oh baby
Baby, I stay in love with you
Dying inside 'cause I can't stand it
Make or break up
Can't take this madness
We don't even really know why
All I know is baby
I try and try so hard
To keep our love alive
If you don't know me at this point
Then I highly doubt you ever will
I really need you to give me
That unconditional love I used to feel
It's a mistake if we just erase it
From our hearts and minds and I know
[Chorus:]
We said let go
But I kept on hanging on
Inside I know it's over
You're really gone
It's killing me
'cause there ain't nothing
That I can do
Baby, I stay in love with you
And I keep on telling myself
That you'll come back around
And I try to front like "Oh well"
Each time you let me down
See I can't get over you now
No matter what I do
But baby, baby
I stay in love with you
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Baby, I stay in love with you
It cuts so deep
It hurts down to my soul
My friends tell me
I ain't the same no more
We still need each other
When we stumble and fall
How we gonna act
Like what we had
Ain't nothin' at all now
Hey, what I wanna do is
Ride shotgun next to you
With the top down like we used to
Hit the block
Proud in the SUV
We both know our heart is breaking
Can we learn from our mistakes
I can't last one moment alone
Now go I know
[Chorus x2]
I stay in love
Love
Oh, I stay in love.
After that, we drifted to Carrie Underwoods song: I Told You So:
Suppose I called you up tonight
And told you that I love you
And suppose I said I wanna come back home
And suppose I cried and said I think finally learned my lesson
And I'm tired of spending all my time alone
If I told you that I realize you're all I ever wanted
And it's killing me to be so far away
Would you tell me that you love me too
And when we cry together
Would you simply laugh at me and say
I told you so
Oh, I told you so
I told you someday you'd come crawling back
And asking me to take you in
I told you so
But you had to go
Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again
If I got down on my knees and told you I was yours forever
Would you get down on yours too and take my hand
Would we get that old time feeling
Would we laugh and talk for hours
The way we did when our love first began
Would you tell me that you miss me too
And that you've been so lonely
And that you've waited for the day that I returned
And we live and love forever
And that I'm your one and only
Would you say the tables finally turn
Would you say I told you so
Oh, I told you so
I told you someday you'd come crawling back
And asking me to take you in
I told you so
But you had to go
Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again
Now I found someone new and you will never break my heart in two again
They may be corny songs, but they most certainly helped us pass time by, before we knew it we were done collecting both the crumbs and the scattered confetti.
"Okay team!! Good work everyone!! We can leave the mopping to the janitor, we did a good job to make it look like what it did earlier on today now didn't we?!"
A chorus of agreement spurred from the cluster of people, most certainly we were proud of ourselves that we could get this much done, and in about 8 minutes to!! Not that long... Not that long at all I should think. Grinning at each other, we got the piles of plastic bag together and knotted the top so the crumbs wouldn't get away, otherwise we'd have to do that all over again. Huddling together before we went out the door, one out of five people carrying a plastic bag for throwing, exiting it all together. We were still smiling and joking with one another, bursting into a fit of hysteria every few seconds.
After a while, everyone started to disperse their own way, until eventually they were a black dot on the surface of a distant sunset, and then you couldn't see any of them at all. After all of them left, it was just me, and the girl whose name I couldn't even remember walking back home. What is really getting on my nerves, is that I can't figure out if her name is Melanie, or Garnet. I'm SURE its one of them. Near 100% sure.
"Hey." I said to her awkwardly. I'm not exactly an expert in starting a conversation with a near total stranger.
"Hey." She repeated, although it was more of a calm reply I guess.
"Can I ask you a question? That might partly sound offensive?"
"Sure." She cooly replied, obviously curious since she was now fully looking at me. Having turned around so she was walking backwards in front of me.
Stopping altogether, I closed my eyes and took a DEEP gush of air into my lungs, loudly exhaling it back out, "What's your name?" I ended up bursting it out.
Squinting my eyes open, I saw her reaction. What shocked me most, I think, was that it hadn't changed at all. She was still smiling at me. We were both not walking and staying in that one same position, and comparing this time to what we had in the changing rooms, it was a HUGE difference. It felt like each seconds were days, while in there an hour felt like five seconds. Feeling a gush of wind play with my hair, I waited for her response, reminding myself every now and then to inhale and exhale.
"I figured you'd ask me that eventually." She EVENTUALLY said.
"Y-You did?!"
"Course, you never called me by my name this entire day did you?! Please refresh my memory if you had." She said again, still smiling, clearly she wasn't angry at me, which I THOUGHT she would be, so thats definitely ONE big relief.
"Um, I never called you by your name. I think." I muttered the last part to myself. HAVE I ever called her by her name?
Laughing at me response once more, she turns around to look at the horizon, "What do you THINK my name is?"
"Garnet?"
She shook her head.
"Melanie?"
"How did you even come up with those two names?!"
"They're both wrong?!"
"Obviously," She stated, rolling her eyes at my shock, "Got anymore guesses?"
"Nope," I stated, with a slight pop sound, "Not a clue."
Chuckling at my response, she responded, "It's Sara."
"Sara?!"
"Yup." She said, once more with a pop sound.
"How come I never knew this?!" I demanded. That was a really nice name!! It was simple enough that near ANYONE could memorize it with little trouble.
Shrugging, she replied, "Don't ask me. Ask yourself that. So shall we go Yuffie?"
Dazed, something somehow got pulled out of the back of my head, "You know what. Go ahead, I forgot something so I might take a while. See you tomorrow morning."
If we were in a cartoon, I am 100%, more sure than I am about her name, that there would be question marks appearing around her head. But then again her face said it all, "O-Okay, see you tomorrow. Don't forget!! It's at 9 in the morning!!"
"N-NINE!?!? I CAN'T WAKE UP THAT EARLY!! ESPECIALLY ON A SATURDAY!!" I screeched. She was REALLY asking the impossible off of me.
Grinning like an idiot again she said, "Come on, you'll get used to it. And besides, were guna have LOADS of fun with you in the team now!! There most certainly won't be another boring practice!!"
Slumping my shoulders, I headed away from her. Not even bothering to wave back.
Entering the gym doors, the only light coming was from the sunset through the window. Sighing I headed over to the lighting area that was beside the storage room. Flickering the lights on. I inhale deep gust of breathes as I let my mind wander, as well as my feet. Unconsciously I felt my feet drag me inside the Storage room as my hands aimlessly searched for the lights. Only to realize that once I found it, everything suddenly went dark. Snapping into my senses, I look around me, and see nothing, except the silhouette of the door. Why was it off?! I just turned it on!!
Furrowing my eyebrows in thought, I flick the switch again, just to see if the bulb hadn't blown a fuse.
The lights went on.
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A.N: Sorry again if I don't update often, In any of my stories. And this only LOOKS longer because there is a song added. Trust me. And for both songs, I only copied and pasted because if I did it all manually I would be a lot shorter than you see it.
