Chapter 6: Yearly Jog
A week later, it was Yearly Jog. It was a jogging event for all school in the state. Alice decided she'd pretend not to acknowledge her middle school ,she didn't want them to see her with breakouts and being a bit chubby! No, just no.
Alice whimpered after she put on her sweatpants and hoodie jacket which was so big and long, covering her knees. She preferred oversized clothes to cover her body, but she was worrying if it'd be too hot to run in those clothes.
"Don't forget to put on your Day Cream before going," Julius warned from outside.
"I'm using the lotion right now..." Alice replied and winced as she softly wiped her face with Lotion; it was also a disinfectant, so it irritated her face very much. After done using the Lotion, she put on the Day Cream and finally her glasses.
Pressing her hands to her waists, Alice huffed and started to warm up. This Yearly Jog could be a refreshing start for her daily workout...maybe. Alice said goodbye to Julius before finally leaving the house.
For her school, the Jog would be done at a public park near her house, so Alice walked to the park today. Although, she quickly jumped into the bushes as Blood's Jeep coming through.
Alice twitched and banged her head to a nearby tree. "Why the fuck do I have to hide!?" she groaned to herself.
"Do you like him?"
"Fuck no. Hey, Ace." Alice deadpanned to Ace, who was right behind her, smiling. "Stop smiling, idiot. I mean it. And I don't think karma will happen to me because I hate the fucking guy. " she growled, glancing at the group of guys angrily.
Ace chuckled. "You're supposed to be surprised, though."
"No, I saw you following me." Alice stuck her tongue to him. She then had a great idea in mind. "Let's jog together, Ace! It's kind of awkward to jog alone..." she nervously asked.
Ace raised his eyebrows. He then smiled. "Heh, I only came this year because I was hoping to see you, actually."
Alice grinned. "Well, well, well, flirty aren'tcha?"
"Oh, you..." Ace chuckled and they left the bushes.
Other students were gathering to start together, but Alice and Ace waited until everyone was gone from the park; they were sitting on swings. Ace got a bit nervous since Alice was swinging so high.
"Aren't you afraid of falling?"
"Nooo, why would I...?" Alice heaved as she pushed again, her feet almost reaching a tree. "Wheeew...!"
Ace burst out laughing.
"What's so funny...?" Alice asked, still swinging vigorously.
"You look like a little kid." Ace chuckled, clutching his stomach. "Ahahaha...aow...ow...haha I can't take this anymore, I'm hurting...hahaha..."
Alice abruptly jumped from her swing and puffed her cheeks. "Was I really that funny?" she panted a bit.
Ace was crying from mirth.
"Yes, you really looked like a little kid...heh..." Ace wiped his tears. "I didn't expect you can swing that high with such a chubby body."
"Oh, hush!" Alice huffed, waving her hand. "Being chubby doesn't let one being un-athletic. Though it'd be easier to run with such skinny body..."
Ace scoffed. "I hate sports."
Alice snickered. "Ha, loser."
As Alice went to sit back on her swing, Blood and his friends, one of them being Elliot, came their way. Ace and Alice frowned, pondering whether to escape or not.
"Are they coming this way? Shit." Alice sighed.
"Should we just leave?" Ace asked. He then shook his head. "Ignoring mode."
"Yes, commencing ignoring mode." Alice nodded in full agreement.
"Hey, Ace! Whoah, whoah, this is a scandal!" Elliot said, grinning in excitement as his eyes were on Alice. "Ace is hanging out with a girl!"
Not saying anything, Alice just pushed her glasses. She's glad for those glasses, since no once could see where she's looking. Blood crossed his arms.
"Huh, perfect match. Ugly and ugly." Blood nodded the 'ugly' word to each of the two. He chuckled. "Man, Alice, you're that desperate? You coud have asked me if you want to experience dating..."
Elliot elbowed him. "Dude, that's too mean."
"Gay!" Alice and Ace quickly accused.
"Argh, what the fuck are we doing, watching these gays, Ace?" Alice stood up waving her hands frantically. Ace got off his swing too.
"Let's ditch 'em. Ugh, I feel sluggish now." Ace shivered, and led their way.
The two glanced at the boys over their shoulder. Elliot was gaping, and Blood was shivering, probably going to chase them if they kept on walking, so Alice loudly said;
"Hey, let's jog around now!"
~.X.~
Ace hated sports with a burning passion. A few meters of running, he felt like he've been running for miles, already out-of-breath. That girl, Alice, just casually jogged in place as she waited for him to catch up.
Wearing sweatpants and hoodie jacet, she didn't look so chubby...
But Ace's eyes slightly widen and was glad of his glasses.
Look at those bouncing breasts...He gulped as he watched her kept jogging in place and finally caught up with her.
"Come on, you're wasting your light-body!" Alice impatiently called. Ace sighed and skipped to her.
She frowned at him as the brunet was panting on his knees. "Are you really that bad at sport? I wasn't even going too fast..."
"Shut...up..." Ace sighed and wiped his forehead. "I don't need...to workout as a...high school student..."
Alice snickered. "Of course you need to. But who am I to say? I'm as lazy as you are...but I love sports. Fine, why don't we power-walk around, then?" she offered a hand, and Ace gripped onto it tightly.
"It'd be fabulous if you'd give me a piggyback ride..." Ace was being serious that his glasses were glimmering under the sun.
"I'm weird, but that's way over the top, dude." Alice pushed her glasses and started to drag Ace to power-walk around. "Alright, one-two, one-two...!"
Sometimes she had to slow down whenever she noticed he was starting to breath deeply. Alice might be chubby, but she was in an estate's swimming club, so sport was easy for her. Though she envied those with skinny body that supposed to be lighter for sport...she was utterly confused that the skinny brunet, Ace, was heaving for air as if he was dying just from power-walk.
"I don't think you're in a good shape, Ace." Alice commented after a while, walking normally.
Ace huffed. "I don't have time for sports."
"That's not good, you know? Don't procastinate your chances to work out during high school...ugh...! What am I saying!? I'm such a hypocrite!" Alice yelled to herself as she stopped walking. Ace was still heaving, turning to look at her in confuse.
"I'm lazy on doing workouts too...but I know I'm not as bad as you are..." Alice slowly started and turned to Ace in concern. "Though looking at you, I'm super-worried that I want you to workout properly!"
Ace frowned in confuse. "Why would you worry about me? We're not close friends or anything..."
Alice shook her head furiously. "God, I wonder why, myself. Now shut it, Ace! Starting from today, I've decided to change, okay? I want to get slim and beautiful." She suddenly said to Ace fiercely.
Ace glanced around the street, noticing that the area was crowdless; it'd be awkward if anyone else was listening to the blonde.
"Why would you want to be slim and beautiful? I thought you don't give a fuck." Ace snickered.
Alice scoffed. "I'm going to get back at Blood Dupre." She simply answered. "But aside of that, I want to drag you along while I'm at it."
Ace's face fell. "Wha...? You're dragging me for workouts!?"
"Not just workouts...but..."
Alice narrowed her eyes on him. "Did you pop those?" he flinched when she held his face, poking at certain spots.
"Can't resist..." Ace chuckled, rubbing his head.
"I know how it feels...but that's not good, dumbass!" Alice shook her head, crossing her arms. "I've promised myself not to touch my face again. My uncle bought me a treatment pack from a Dermatologyst. Wanna try it out?"
The brunet raised his eyebrows. "Treatment pack...? Huh..." he observed her face for a while. "You sure it'll work? Have you been using it too?"
"Just started yesterday. Oh, crap, I forgot..." She took out a crunch and tied all her hair up in a ponytail, and pushed her glasses. "I know this style doesn't suit my face, but I gotta do it, or else, my hair's gonna make my face dirty. So what's your answer?"
Ace snickered at her face. She looked very round; he couldn't resist but to poke on her cheek.
"Hey! Don't touch my face with your dirty hand!" Alice flinched away.
"Aww, your cheeks are so squishy, though...Just once more!" Ace pleaded.
"Ace, listen to your senior!"
"Heheh, I'm smarter than you are, I ain't listening to you!"
"Oh, so haughty, aren'tcha?"
Ace smirked. "I think I'll try that treatment pack..."
He wasn't expecting her to lit up and took his hand. "Cool. Let's go to my house and start it up!"
"W-We're going to your house?"
She stopped her pace and frowned at Ace. "If you don't want to...then where? Your house?"
Actually, he was thinking that she'd give the doctor's address so he could buy the treatment pack for himself...
"Uhm...my house is..." Ace started out; then he had a thought. What if he started up a lie? What if he...test her...Would she stop hanging around him if she thinks of him as a poor guy? "I live in a rundown house, it's not even mine...It's really embarassing."
She just blinked. "So? Are we going to your house or mine, then? Though we have to get the treatment pack from my house. We can walk from here."
Interesting, he thought. Since he had always lived in an expensive area, his house was far from public park; he always had to go anywhere by car. Walking...
"Let's go to your place, then." Ace smirked.
"Great; but you have to mean it, okay?" Alice asked determinedly. "We're going to workout together. If you're going to do this treatment, I'll split mine for you; you have to do exactly what I told you. Because we're going to be...fabulous~!" the blonde mimicked PewDiePie's 'Fabulous' pose, making Ace laugh.
"Alright, we're going to be fabulous."
Sorry, I'm still too busy. I've written lotsa chapters for this fanfic so that's why it's easy for me to update this story. I don't know when I'll finally settle down with everything...plus the fact that there are so many events for me this year (new college students, moving out, breaking up, etc...) So...I'm sorry. I'm doing my best.