Hello boffins! I'm so sorry it took so long to update, I've been busy outside the computer room… and I've just been really, really lazy.
Thanks a million to all the people who reviewed. You guys just about made me cream my pants haha. I hope you're still with me for this next installment.
Here's the chapter…
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Kai watched as Kenny attached his pen to his lip. "Who am I?" he murmured to himself, looking up at the ceiling and trying to gnaw on his pen at the same time. Kai just stared at the boy. No wonder that kid was geek. Who sits in detention fellating their pen? Kenny looked over at him and Kai just continued to stare, removing his scarf. He knew he exactly how intimidating he was being, and he loved it. The only thing he really intended to do today was to just annoy everyone in the room in some way or another. Kenny took the pen out of his mouth and gave Kai a small, nervous smile. Kai stayed stoic. Kai went to slide his jacket off his shoulders, and then noticed Kenny doing the same thing. Kai gave the boy a glare. Kenny stopped, then blew nervously into his hands like he was cold, and slid the jacket back around his shoulder. Kai felt the urge to grin wolfishly in victory, but refrained. This kid was such an easy target! They were going to have fun today.
"So, this kinda of sucks, huh?" Kenny said, as Kai leaned forward, watching him. He didn't reply, he just turned back towards the front. He knew the princess; he'd seen her around. Her name was Hilary. Good looking girl, but way uptight. One of those activities people. But still, he couldn't help but wonder about her. She glanced at him over her shoulder but quickly turned away as soon as she realized Kai had met her eyes. Kai repressed a smirk. He balled up the paper that was supposed to be for his essay and threw it forward, going between Hilary and Ray. They both turned slightly to look at him. So, he had their attention. Good. That's exactly what he wanted.
Ray stared at his paper, the way he had when it had been handed to him. The question was enough to make him chortle. Who was he? He almost laughed out loud as he began to formulate an answer, realising he didn't really have one. He was whoever his father told him to be. He wasn't 'Ray Kon' at all. He felt stupid even writing that name on his paper. He wasn't fit to answer the question. Maybe he should just tell Vernon to shove it up his ass? But that might cost him another meet. He sighed, and messed up his hair. Kai, that delinquent kid, was fucking around behind him, throwing paper balls and pissing that nerdy kid off. He thoroughly gave Ray the shits, but deep down, Ray respected him. It was almost an awed respect, in truth. He just walked around doing whatever the fuck he wanted. He couldn't work out how he had the balls to just disregard everything and everyone. But then again, he might hate doing it. He might feel like he HAS to do it. Ray sighed. People were too complicated. That's why he did wrestling and not debating- why argue with words when you can just sit on someone? Kai was playing air guitar and humming the tune to himself as he did so. Ray felt his eye twitch. Hilary look at him, "I can't believe this is really happening to me," She said, seemingly disgusted. Ray shrugged at her. Hilary was a nice girl, but she was a right pain in the ass sometimes. Such a pris.
"Oh, shit!" Kai exclaimed to no one in particular, "What happens if I need to take a piss?" They all stared at him, and he stared right back. No one answered him. Kai shrugged, "Well, if you've gotta go, you've gotta go."
"Hey!" Said Ray, "You're not urinating in here man,"
"Shh, don't talk." Said Kai, "It makes it crawl back up!"
"You whip it out, and you'll be dead before the first drop hits the floor," Ray threatened, seething. What the hell was this guy's problem? Couldn't he just sit still and not be a pain in the ass for one day?
"Ooooh." Said Kai, "You know, you're pretty sexy when you get angry."
Ray gave him a dirty look and turned back towards the front.
"Hey, homeboy." Said Kai to Kenny, "How about you close that door and we'll get the prom queen impregnated."
Hilary glared at him. "Hey!" Snapped Ray,
"What?" Kai snapped back
"If I lose my temper, you're totalled man."
"Totally?" Said Kai sneered
"Totally," Ray answered firmly.
"Why don't you just shut up," Said Hilary, "No body here's interested."
"Buttface," Muttered Ray, turning to face the front
"Hey sporto," Said Kai, "What'd you do to get in here? Forget to wash your jock?"
"Excuse me fellas, I think we should just write our papers," Said Kenny, interrupting the impending argument. Both boys ignored him.
"Just because we're stuck in here doesn't give you right to be a pain in the ass, so knock it off," Ray snapped, his temper slipping out of his grasp faster and faster.
Kai sighed, "Well… It's a free country,"
Ray just rolled his eyes and turned back around
"Just ignore him!" Hilary said, "Can't you see he's just doing it to get a rise out of you?"
"Hey, sweets," Kai said to her. She spun around and glared at him, "You couldn't ignore me if you tried."
She rolled her eyes and turned back to the front.
"So…" Said Kai quietly, "So," He said again, conversationally this time,
"Are you guys like, boyfriend girlfriend? Steady dates?"
Ray and Hilary both shifted uncomfortably, "Looooooooooovers?" He said, drawing out the 'o'. "C'mon sporto," He pleaded to Ray "Level with me. Do you slip her the hot beef injection?"
"GO TO HELL!"
"ENOUGH!"
Hilary and Ray spun and yelled at him simultaneously
"HEY!" Vernon yelled from his office, "What's going on in there?!"
Kai mouthed "ooooooh" to Hilary, and she grimaced at turned back towards the front, gripping the desk.
Kai got up from his desk, waving his pen in his hand, "What do you say we close that door? We can't have any fun with Vernon checking up on us every two seconds," He pulled himself up onto the railing of the stairs and looked down at Hilary and Ray
"But the door's supposed to stay open," Said Kenny meekly,
"So what?" Kai said
"So why don't you just shut up? There's four other people in here, you know" Snapped Ray
"Ah, so you can count. See, I always knew you had to be smart be a-" Kai paused for emphasis, "A wrestler"
Ray scoffed, "Who the hell are you to judge anybody anyways?"
"Exactly," Said Hilary quietly
"You know Hiwatari, you don't even count," Continued Ray, "You could disappear from this school forever and it wouldn't make any difference. You may as well not even exist."
Kai swallowed, "Well," He said "Maybe I'll just run right out and join the wrestling team," Ray and Hilary looked at one another and laughed, "The prep squad, the student council too."
Ray shook his head, "Nah. They wouldn't take you."
"I'm hurt," Said Kai, melodramatically
"You know why guys like you knock everything?" Said Hilary
"Oh, this should be stunning," Said Kai, every word dripping with sarcasm
"Because you're scared."
"Oh, that's exactly right,' Said Kai mockingly, "You riches are so smart, that's exactly why I'm not heavy in activities,"
"I'm in the math club," Said Kenny from behind
Hilary ignored his interruption and just looked at Kai, her eyes bordering on intense, "You're a big coward. You're afraid they won't take you, you don't belong, so you just have to dump all over it."
"Well," Said Kai thoughtfully, "It wouldn't have anything to do with you activities people being assholes now would it?"
"How do you know that?" Said Hilary, "You don't even know any of us,"
"Well, I don't know any lepers either but I'm not going to run out and join one of their fucking clubs, am I?"
"And the physics club," Said Kenny
"Wait, hold up a second," Said Kai, holding his hand up to Hilary and rounding on Kenny "What are you babbling about?"
"I said I'm in the maths club, the physics club and the Latin club."
"Hey, Cherry," Said Kai to Hilary, "Are you in the physics club?"
Hilary sighed, frustrated, "That's an academic club!"
"So?"
"Academic clubs are not the same as other clubs!"
"Ah," Said Kai, "But to dorks like him, they are." He turned back to Kenny, "What do you guys do in your clubs?"
"In math, we talk about math. In physics we talk about physics-"
"See!" Said Kai, cutting in, "It's social! Demented and sad, but still social."
Hilary rolled her eyes and turned away. Kenny decided to speak up, but Kai was only looking at Hilary "I suppose you could say it's a social situation. And, uh, at the end of the year we go to the Hilton for a banquet"
Kai spoke up on these words, "You load up? You party?"
"Well, we don't get high, but we get dressed up." Kai looked slightly crestfallen at Kenny's response, and Hilary cut in with, "Only bums like you get high," but the boy took no notice of it and continued, "I didn't have any shoes, so I had to borrow my dad's. It was kinda weird coz my mum doesn't like me wearing other people shoes. My cousin Ken- Kendal, from Indiana, he got high once and started eating really weird foods and then felt like he didn't belong anywhere, kinda like, twilight zone," Kenny said this all without taking a breath, and Mariah mimed shooting him with her finger.
Hilary chuckled at Kenny's words, "Sounds like you." She said to Kai.
Kai considered the weight of these words, but was interrupted by Ray before he could speak, "Look, you guys keep talking like this, Vernon's gonna come marching in here, and I've got a meet on Saturday and I don't wanna miss it on account of you boneheads."
Kai pretended be all worked up, "Oh a whole wrestling meet! Wouldn't wanna miss it!"
"What would you know about it faggot?" Snarled Ray, "You've never competed in your whole life!"
Kai made his voice waver, "Oh I know, and I feel all empty inside because of it. I had such admiration for guys who roll around on the floor with other guys!"
"Ah, you'd never understand it. You don't have any goals." Ray said, turning away
"But I do!" Exclaimed Kai
"Yeah?"
"I wanna be just like you! I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights!" He said, waving his finger at Ray, seemingly feverish with excitement.
"You wear tights?" Asked Kenny, a little shocked,
"No, I don't wear tights!" Ray snapped indignantly, "I wear the required uniform!"
Kenny nodded, "Tights!"
Ray glared at him, "Shut up!"
Mariah smirked at them and turned back to her artwork, glad to be out of the conversation and not wanting any personal jibes aimed at her. It's not like she hadn't given people a lot of material over the years. There were noises from Vernon's office and they all jumped. Kai quickly moved from the railing and sat in the desk between Ray and Hilary. They watched as Vernon left his office and Kai stood up and made his way towards the door, grinning.
"There's, ah, not supposed to be any more monkey business," Said Kenny, watching Kai with a sinking feeling in his stomach
Kai seemed nonplussed; he called to Kenny in a voice that was an uncannily good imitation of Vernon's, "Young man, have you finished your paper?" He had a good look outside the door, making sure no one was around before reaching up to the mechanism that held the door in place.
"C'mon Hiwatari, don't screw around!" Called Ray.
"What are you gonna do?" Asked Hilary
"Drop dead, I hope," muttered Ray.
"Kai, uh, Kai, that's school property, it doesn't belong to us. We're not, uh, supposed to touch it." Said Kenny.
Kai quickly took the screw out of it, causing it shut, and ran back to his desk.
"Put that back! Fix it!" Snapped Ray
"What am I, a genius?" Asked Kai, throwing himself into his seat
"No you're an asshole!" yelled Ray
"What a funny guy!" Kai snapped back, and the indicated for them to be silent with his arms, "Look, I've been hear before, I know what I'm doing,"
Then they all began to yell over each other, "Fix the door Kai,"
"We really shouldn't do that,"
"What's your problem?"
"SHUT UP!" Kai yelled over the top of all of them. They momentarily fell silent, only to hear Vernons' footsteps echoing down the hall.
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Sorry it took so long! Omg, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry!
I'll try to write faster next time!