Ch. 4 The Pain of Love
"Okay Cunningham, you can do this you can so do this!" Randy repeated as he pressed his back against the corner of the hallway and slowly peeped over the edge to see the gothic boy at his locker. The ninja's heartbeat excelled, sweat forming in his palms.
"Are you gonna stand there all day or what?"
A squeak shrieked out of Randy's mouth as he jumped, bracing himself more against the wall, "Howard! What the juice was that for?!"
"You've been stalking Goth boy since the first bell and it's already lunch, I need to ear! Also people will start to notice your spying," Howards stated, "You know; if people actually noticed us."
"Whatever Howard, right now I'm just going to talk to Julian."
"You're hiding behind the wall."
"I'm going to!" Randy said with a burst with courage. The freshman took a deep breath and marched towards the Gothic boy.
Until a stanked student came out of another hallway, smashing the rows of lockers, destroying the walls, and chasing away screaming students. Amongst the crowd, Julian dashed pass Randy before he could utter a word to his crush.
With Julian out of his sight, Randy fell to his knees, gripping his hair with both hands, crying out in frustration, "Oh come on!"
Howard awkwardly patted his shoulder, "There, there Cunningham."
Mere minutes before the monster was stanked, Debbie shut her locker to see her best friend behind it, "Hi Theresa."
"Hi Theresa? That's all you got to say?" The baton twirler asked rhetorically, "Debbie, you were nearly eaten by that robot yesterday!"
"Robot and monster attacks happen nearly every day," The shorter one said deadpan as she began walking away until a hand grabbed her shoulder, spinning her to face Theresa.
"I know that, but I was really worried about you," The purple haired student said, her eyes watering, "I wasn't even close to you when that robot attacked, I was helpless and was about to watch you die; it felt like my heart almost stopped."
"Theresa," Debbie whispered then quickly embraced the other, "You don't know how much you mean to me. I don't want to leave you!" She began sobbing quietly in the empty hallway. Arms wrapped around her small frame, kissing her head in attempt to soothe the small girl.
At the entrance of the band room, Flute Girl saw Stevens leave the band's safe heaven with his trombone but also a bouquet of roses.
With no logically thought in her head she chased after him, leaving Bucky behind in sadness right when he was about to say a zing. Catching up to the trombonist, Lily called out, "Stevens!" the brunette stopped and looked at the flutist. "You didn't play a single mocking trombone note all day, are you okay?" Lily glanced at the bouquet and asked, "What's with the roses?" Despite the question, in her heart, she already knew the answer.
Stevens tucked his instrument under his armpit and pulled out the card from the red string tying the roses together. On the card read, 'To Debbie, From Stevens.'
"Oh," Lily replied, her heavy heart weighting more with pain, "Well I bet she'll love them."
Seeing her misery, Stevens pulled out a rose from the twelve flowers and handed it to Lily. She froze from the act of kindness as her crush walked down the empty corridor, staring at the rose, she began to smile. That is until a broken voice spoken.
"Lily," she turned around and became face to face with Bucky, his eyes empty of his usually joy and filled with sadness, "You'll probably hate me when I say this but he doesn't love you."
Gripping on the rose, Lily glared at her friend, "Don't you think I already know that! Who in their right mind will honest to god like me?"
"That's not the point," Bucky said, glaring as well, "You keep on pinning over him when you know you have no chance! You'll just break your heart if you get too close to him."
"I don't need you to tell me that my heart will break or not, you of all people should know when to quit! You follow me around, give me obnoxious presents, yet you still try to get me to like you!"
"Stop being a wonking hypocrite! Just look at yourself, no guy in the school gives you the attention like I do!"
The two band mates continued their arguing; completely unaware of the green stank around them, swirling into a tornado only to be absorbed into the two monsters that stood in the students' place.
"Yes, yes, yes!" The Sorcery gleefully yelled as his voice echoed in his cave prison. "Such a delicious anger! Oh a fight between two friends, how wonderful this is!" He spun in circle, high from the stank, "It's so much fun for me when love shatters hearts into a million pieces. Love brings rejection, pain, anger," The Sorcery listed then his white eyes glowed brighter as his lips formed a cruel smile, "And my personal favorite, death!"
I am so sorry for the long update! I've been working on homework and Tomorrow People stories so please take this chapter as my Valentines gift to you! Even thought this chapter isn't the most romantic one I made.
Anyway, thank you for reading!
