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Laser Tag by: VampireFreak111 and AdrianStalksMyDreams
I stared at the clock while Stan droned on, lecturing the class on who knows what. Does he think anyone actually listens to what he's saying? Finally, the last bell rang, slicing through Stan's speech and cutting him off mid-sentence. The class poured out of the building, ignoring Stan's disapproving frown. I swerved through the crowd, trying to get out of that prison called Stan's classroom as fast as possible. Dimitri followed and caught up with me easily.
"What's the big rush?" he said, reaching over to carry my giant stack of books for me. I smiled.
"That was the most boring school week ever! How does Stan not fall asleep in his own class? Has he ever heard himself speak?" I whined, rolling my eyes.
When we got to my room, Lissa, Christian, Mia and Eddie were already there.
"Hey party people," I said, throwing myself on my bed. Dimitri leaned against the wall, crossing his arms. I looked at him and raised my eyebrows, patting the spot next to me. He smiled, and came over and sat with me. He draped his arm around my shoulders and I leaned into him.
"Hey Rose," the group mumbled at me. I frowned at their half-hearted responses.
Just then, Adrian sauntered into the room, wearing his signature smirk. I really needed to get a sturdy lock for that door—then again, Adrian always finds ways to get into my room.
"Hi, everyone. Hey little dhampir," he said, leaning in close to me, still smirking. I sighed, and Dimitri pulled me closer to him, defensively.
"Did ya hear about the new invention? It's called knocking. All the cool kids are doing it these days," I mused. He ignored me, and I pushed him away.
"What's the matter with you people? You guys look dead. Well, we're going out this weekend," he said.
Mia perked up. "Where are we going? The mall?"
Lissa shook her head. "I can't, I have to study this weekend," she shrugged. Adrian looked at both of them in disgust.
"Uh, no. The mall is stupid and studying is for losers. I'm disappointed in you guys. We're going laser tagging," said Adrian, holding up a fan of bright blue passes that each said Free Admission.
"Laser Tagging? Is that what the cool kids are calling it these days?" Christian said, laughing at combining my own joke and his joke. I jumped up quickly, jostling the bed and almost making Dimitri tip over. I completely ignored Christian's stupid joke, and I pumped my fist in the air.
"YES!" My friends flinched around me. "This is going to be awesome!"
Christian and Eddie were already circling each other, pointing imaginary guns in the air.
"You're goin' down, Castile! Pew! Pew!" Christian barked.
"No way! Pew! I just killed you!" Eddie yelled back. I walked between them.
"Don't sound so confident, boys. You don't know who you're dealing with, here. You should be scared." I stared them down. I would enjoy kicking their asses.
Adrian strolled over with a smirk.
"I thought a bet would make it interesting, little dhampir."
I raised a brow. "Really? You're not sick of this betting yet, Adrian? I think you have a gambling problem," I said, patting his shoulder sympathetically.
"It's not gambling if you know you're going to win," Christian chimed in. He looked at me challengingly. He was just asking for some Rose Hathaway trouble.
"You're on, Pyro. We'll all play and whoever gets the highest score-which will be me—will win a kiss," I said. I stuck my hand out, raising a brow at him expectantly. He grinned at me evilly and took my hand, shaking it firmly and closing the deal. This was going to be fun.
**
After Christian pretty much signed up for public humiliation, the group began to scatter from the room. Dimitri had guardian duty, Liss went to the library to get as much studying in as she could, Mia mumbled something about giving herself a manicure and pulled poor Eddie along with her, and God knows what Christian was doing. I stayed in my room, planning on watching the Saw movie marathon. The only person left was Adrian.
He looked around the room and a smile formed on his face.
"Oh my, it looks like we're alone," he said in mock surprise. I rolled my eyes.
"Don't try anything tonight," I warned, kicking my unread collection of textbooks off the bed, making room for my feet. They landed on the rug with a thud. I was about to reach for the remote when the bed jostled and I heard Adrian sigh loudly. I clenched my jaw and turned to see him sprawled on the bed next to me. His smirking face was inches from mine. Naturally, I would have slapped it. I felt a sneeze coming on so I just went with it. Not my fault at all.
"Ah-CHOO!"
Adrian jerked back and wiped his face with his sleeve. His forehead crinkled. "Gross…what the hell just happened?" he said. I shrugged.
"Whoops…bless me!" I flicked the TV on, expecting him to leave. Being Adrian, of course he didn't. He didn't get back on the bed; instead he started wandering around the room like an idiot. His hand crept to his pocket and patted the fabric, then froze. I heard him grumble in frustration. He must have forgotten a spare pack of smokes. Ha-ha. Sucks for him.
The movie was just starting, and Adrian grunted, knowing he wasn't getting any cigarettes anytime soon. He plopped himself back onto the bed and yawned dramatically, stretching his arm out and around my shoulders. How original. I glared at him from the corner of my eye. He smiled and turned his attention to the movie. Oh, he wasn't gonna get away with that. I hadn't moved his arm, and I was about to rip it out of his socket head if he didn't move it in the next five seconds. I glanced up at him, making sure he wasn't paying attention, and I pushed him completely off the bed, face-first. I smiled in satisfaction, grabbed my emergency bag of sour cream and onion potato chips from my bedside drawer, and began stuffing my face with them.
"Hey, what time are we leaving tomorrow?" Christian said, walking into the room. He looked down at Adrian, who was still laying face flat on the floor. He rolled his eyes and sat down next to me. "Yes! Is this a Saw Marathon!"
"Yup. I love Adam! He's awesome!" I said.
"Wait, which guy was the one that cut his leg off at the end?" Christian asked.
"That was the doctor guy. I hate him. He annoys the shit outta me," I said, stuffing some more chips in my mouth.
"Oh, okay," Christian said.
"Uh, guys? Little help here?" Adrian said from the floor.
"Oh. Adrian. I completely forgot about you. Yeah, sure. Here yah go," I said, setting a makeshift dog bowl with chips in it down next to him. Christian snorted a laugh, and Adrian grumbled something under his breath. Adrian stood up, set the dog bowl on the table, and sat down quietly for the rest of the movie.
The second movie was just starting, and I was having trouble keeping my eyes open. I could feel my head bobbing, and I finally just gave in and went to sleep. I needed sleep, anyway, so I could accomplish major ass-kicking with full concentration.
"Oh. Ew! Turn it off. I cannot watch this."
I jerked my eyes open to see Lissa and Mia standing by the door with disapproving frowns.
"That phrase sounds familiar, I'm pretty sure I use that one when Lissa and Christian are studying anatomy in the church attic." I grinned at Lissa.
"No! Don't let her turn it off, Liss! The third movie's the best one! No! Mia! Don't-!" Mia flicked the TV off. The screen turned black the room got dim and silent without the flashes and screams from the movies. Christian sighed in utter defeat.
"Come on, Christian. We're leaving now. You can watch your gore fest later," Lissa said, dragging him out of the room.
"Oh, Lord. Adrian's asleep," Mia said. I glanced over at Adrian, who was sprawled out on the bed, unconscious.
"Ugh. Just leave his fat-ass there. I'll deal with him." I told Mia
"Okay," Mia yawned.
"See ya tomorrow, bright and early!" Eddie said, practically jumping up and down.
"Hm, Eddie is abnormally hyper, it's the day before a competition and he's freaking me out. Oh, god. Red Bull? Again?" I said.
"It's so good!" Eddie said.
"That's what she said." No hesitation. It's not my fault it's a reflex now.
"Yeah…we're trying to get him to cut down…he's already had six," Mia said, worried.
"I'm fine, Mia! But can I please have one more? Please!" Eddie pleaded. He was on his knees with his hands clasped together tightly. He looked like he needed professional help.
"No! You're going to bed now! Bye!" Mia said. Eddie and Mia departed my room, and I rolled my eyes when Adrian began to snore. I got down on the ground and poked Adrian's cheek, his face twitched but not much else happened. I pushed his body slightly still testing how deep in his sleep he was. He didn't wake up; in fact he might have even snored a little louder.
I grabbed under his arms and dragged him out of my room and outside. Grinning widely I chuckled and brought him over to a nice looking tree, got out my rope and my lip stick.
***
The next morning I had a certain badass Russian pounding on my door.
"Rose! I know your awake, you better open this door right now or I'll break it!" Dimitri threatened. I grinned.
"Is that some sort of foreplay?" I teased. I heard a curse in Russian, then it went quiet. Uh oh.
"No! Don't break down my door!" I yelled and dashed to open it. But since Dimitri always knew what he was doing I found him in the middle of the hall way with his arms crossed over his chest.
"I can't belive you fell for that one Roza. I belive you are the one who taught me that." He grinned. I scoffed.
"Well aren't you so high and mighty." He rolled his eyes.
"Get dressed, and do not let me catch you again." He warned and he walked off down the hall way. I leaned against the door frame.
"Love you too Comrade!"
**
"Sorry. I'm here! I just finished getting yelled at by Mr. Belikov." I grinned at Dimitri.
Eddie laughed. "Yea for writing 'Rose's Dog' on Adrian's chest." I winked at Adrian and he snorted.
"It's about time!" Christian said, throwing his arms up in the air.
"Calm your panties and get in the car fire boy," I said, patting his shoulder. His nostrils flared and I stuck my tongue out at him.
"Rose…" Lissa warned. I rolled my eyes and got in the car. The ride wasn't that bad. It was a short drive, and Stan was out sick for the day so he didn't have to trail along with us, and we didn't have to listen to his whining. When we got there, Adrian passed out the blue tickets to everyone.
"Okay, we don't have enough people to play by ourselves, so we're going to have to split up and play with other people," Adrian said. "There are three teams—blue, yellow, and red. When they call our group, "The Demolishers"—no, I did not pick the name," Adrian said looking at me. I snickered. He ignored me and continued, "then we can go in. Until they call us, just hang in the arcade for a few minutes." Everyone shuffled into the arcade, which was filled with sweaty little kids. Ew.
"Oh, hell yes! They have the House of Dead 2 here! Does anyone have 50 cents?" Eddie said.
"Here," Dimitri said, handing Eddie two quarters.
"Thanks, man," Eddie said, inserting the coins in the machine. "Rose! Pick up a gun!" He yelled.
"Okay, okay!" I said, picking up a gun.
"Just shoot the zombies," Eddie said.
"I think I know what I'm doing, Eddie," I said, rolling my eyes. The game started in a dark alley somewhere. The screen turned, and about six zombies were trying to break open a gate to get to us.
"Behind you, Eddie!" Christian screamed. "Shoot it!"
"Shit! Back me up, Rose!" Eddie yelped.
"I'm trying! Don't shoot the girl they took. You get extra points if you save her," I urged. "Damn it, Eddie! You shot her!"
"She should have ran for it when she had the chance! She was in the way!" Eddie said.
"Rose, Rose, Rose! Close the gate!" Christian yelled.
"You guys are way too into this game…" Lissa said, glancing at the screen over my shoulder. We completed the level and the scenery began to change to some kind of mansion. Zombies started coming out from every corner.
"Reload, Reload!" Eddie yelled. I started shooting all the zombies, in complete concentration. This was a life or death situation, here.
"All right!" A man in the loud speaker said. "Time for another round…all players on the um…The Demolishers? Okay…everyone on The Demolishers' team please get ready for your game…"
"Come on guys. You can play when we finish the game," Adrian said.
"Fine," We grumbled. We all showed the guy our tickets, and split up into three teams. Adrian, Dimitri, a few strangers, and me were on the red team; Mia, Eddie, Lissa, and a few others were on the Blue team; and Christian and a bunch of little kids were on the yellow team. We sat in a dark room until some dull lady mechanically went over safety instructions and rules of the game that I didn't listen to.
When she finished, I jumped up and practically ran into the next room in excitement. This was going to be epic!
"Remember everyone, the winner of laser tag—" Adrian began. We all cut him off.
"wins a kiss," we all finished for him.
"Yep. You got the idea," Adrian said. We all put on our game vests, and I developed a game plan.
"Okay, team!" I clapped my hands together. "Dimitri, and you two," I said pointing to two random people, "go upstairs and shoot down when yellow is coming out of their door. Me, Adrian and you three are staying downstairs, and shooting blue when they come out. Hide behind any walls you can find. When you get as many blue/yellow as you can, a few of you at a time start shooting bases. Make sure you back up the people that are shooting the base, and then you can switch. Got it?" Everyone nodded their heads in unison. The siren went off. "Go!"
"I like how you picked me to go with you," Adrian whispered in my ear.
"I picked you to go with me because Dimitri and I are the best at this and he needs to lead the other half upstairs. You would screw everything up," I said.
"Ouch," Adrian said, clutching his heart and fake-wincing. I rolled my eyes, but scanned the field around me just in time to see a sneaky little tween aim her gun at me.
"Look out!" I shouted, ducking out of the laser's reach.
"Ah! It burns!" I heard Adrian wail. I spun around to see him stumbling blindly around in a circle. "Am I dead? Those lasers can blind you, you know!" I smacked him on the head.
"How did I get stuck with you? Stop whining like a baby and focus! Now you see them over there?" I said, pointing to two kids on Christian's team that looked about 9 years old. Adrian nodded. "They're your target. You think you can handle it?"
"Ma'am, yes, ma'am!" he chanted. I stomped my foot.
"Good! Now go make me proud, young grasshopper!" he saluted me before trotting off towards his certain death.
Now that Adrian was out of my hair, I was ready for action. I brought my gun close to my chest and began swerving behind walls like I was some kind of top-secret spy agent. It was pretty sweet to be able to use my training for something other than the plastic dummies in St. Vladimir's old gym. I spotted Lissa a few yards away shooting at a wall, and zapped her without much effort. She spun around, shocked. "This isn't fair! My gun is defective, it won't shoot anything!" she pouted, waving it in the air. I chuckled.
"That's probably because you keep getting shot, Liss…gotta go bye!" I couldn't help it and zapped her once more before flying around the next corner and slamming into someone. I raised my gun and jumped back.
"Who goes there-oh why hello there, Dimitri," I said, cornering him. He eyed me nervously and held his hands up in surrender. I grinned.
"Roza, you know we're on the same team," he said.
"Oh. Sorry," I replied, all business again. I lowered my voice. "How's it going upstairs? I haven't seen Christian yet, how does he look?" I said intensely. Dimitri frowned.
"He's got some skill, Roza. He should learn to fight hand-on-hand," he said in his instructor voice. That wasn't the answer I wanted to hear.
"Let's just see how good he really is. Back me up. Let's give this bastard a taste of how we kick **, guardian-style," I growled. We slithered up quietly. I could hear that familiar taunting voice of Christian's right away.
"Aha! Don't come any closer, Eddie! I've got you surrounded! Tyler! Melissa! Finish him off!" he commanded. His two little elementary minions launched themselves at Eddie, knocking him to the ground.
"NOOOOO!" Eddie cried as they shot him with their lasers. My jaw dropped. Christian was being pretty hardcore. I nudged Dimitri behind a wall to go over the plan. I opened my mouth to speak when some little eight-year old came up behind me and shot me.
"Oh. Hell, no!" I said. My vest turned back on ten seconds later and the little ** shot me again. "Oh this is war," I waited ten more seconds, and spun the corner. The ten year old was standing in front of me holding her gun up. "Okay, listen good you little shit. Shoot me one more time and I swear to god—" The little girl ran away, not giving me a chance to finish my threat. I shrugged and shot her as she ran down to Yellow base. I laughed evilly and turned to Dimitri.
"This is it, Comrade. You take care of the kids blocking the base. I got Christian," I told him sternly. This was all gonna end in one epic battle. Christian was going down. Dimitri nodded to my instructions. We bumped fists and then went separate ways for the element of surprise. I locked my gaze on Christian, and did a somersault into the open area. Yeah, that's right. I was entering the field in style.
"Ozera," I said. He looked up and grinned mischievously.
"Hathaway. We meet again."
"Ready to get your ass whooped?" I cocked my head. Our scores were now tied, and the next shot would determine the champion **-kicker at laser tag. Christian took a step closer and lifted his gun.
"I could ask you the same question." And before I knew it, he pulled the trigger. At the same time, I heard a childish battle-cry and saw Adrian running towards me from out of nowhere. He leaped in front of me in an attempt to be heroic… and failed. Christian's laser hit my chest way before Adrian reached me. Adrian kept on going though like the idiot he is, and threw himself in front of me. He landed on the floor hard, and it didn't even look cool.
Christian jumped in the air. "Yes! Ha! I win! Nice Try, Rose. You almost won. Except that you DIDN'T!" He picked up a random little girl from his team and ran around victoriously. The kid started crying until he put her down. She kicked his leg hard before running away.
"Dammit, Adrian!" I fumed. Christian pranced over with Lissa at his arm. He smiled at me angelically.
"Good game, Rose. You did really great out there…for a beginner, that is," he patted my shoulder. "I'd just like to claim my prize now if that's okay." He leaned over and gave Lissa a sloppy kiss on the lips.
"Um, ew!" I muttered under my breath.
"Daddy! There she is! That's the scary girl!" The little ten year old I almost threatened said, pointing to me.
"Ooh. Time to go!" I said, dragging Dimitri the hell out of that place.
"Hey, better luck next time, little dhampir," Adrian said, running after me.
"Ugh," I sighed.
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