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Chapter 12
Leaf's POV
I've been trying to avoid Gary since I still don't understand our 'kiss', but that doesn't mean I don't check on him to see if he's cheating on me. I may be confused, but I'm still a daughter of Athena! I need to solve this problem, though. It's really frustrating when I can't solve something. That was the worst thing about being smart. You're too curious for your own good!
I swear one day someone's going to use that against me! Well, back to my problem.' What am I supposed to do with Gary? Am I supposed to break up with him or am I supposed to ignore the feeling every time we kiss? I couldn't do that could I? Probably not.'
Someone snapped me out of my thoughts. 'Speaking of the devil.'
"Hey, Gary, what's up?" I regained my composure.
"Nothing much, you?" He said calmly
"Same here." I said quietly.
"Well, I got umm class, you know? Bye!" I said quickly and walking fast at first, but when I was out of sight I started a painful sprint in dress shoes. 'What have I gotten myself into?'
Gary's POV
I feel like Leaf's been avoiding me ever since our date. I didn't show it, but every time I tried to talk to her I feel like she's rejected me. When I saw her in the hallway I made a beeline to her. All I got was a small talk you have with people you don't talk with much. What did I do wrong?
I felt like I did something wrong. No girl has ever done this to me! Not even the ones I treated like crap! 'They even begged me to take them back! Wow, I sound like such a player right now. Okay, Gary make this promise to yourself. You will try! If you don't you will live with the burden of failure for the rest of your life!'
I made Leaf my priority for the rest of the day until I find out what's wrong with her. Didn't she say she was heading to her first class? 'Idiot, you have first period with her!' I mentally slapped myself. I ran through the hallway to my first class.
When I got in the classroom I immediately spotted Leaf. I growled. She was sitting next to another guy. It was so obvious he was flirting with her too!
"Leaf, come here" I said lowly. She looked at me curiously and walked over.
"What do you want?" She asked shyly.
"I don't want you near that guy." I said pointing my finger at him.
"Why not, he's my friend?" She said tilting her head.
"You mean your new boyfriend?" I asked angrily.
"Are you jealous?" She smirked.
"Who, me? No, not at all, just protecting my girlfriend from other guys." I said nervously.
"Ha, you are jealous!" Her smirk got even bigger. I blushed.
"Don't worry I won't cheat on you, but I'm not so sure about you…" She drifted off. I could only hear the first part.
"What?"
"Nothing." She smiled at me and kissed me on the cheek.
"Okay?" I sat down. Leaf thankfully sat down next to me. When I looked back at the guy I realized he was shooting daggers at me. If looks could kill I would've been dead a million times by now and he would still be shooting daggers at me to make sure I was dead. I didn't mind, though. I even stuck out my tongue at him. He glared at me some more. I even kissed Leaf on the cheek. If the teacher hadn't come in I bet he would march over to me and choke me or something. He looked like he wanted to kill everything right now. It took everything I had not to laugh.
Leaf's POV
Even though Gary might not realize it. I'm well aware that he's doing stupid things to that guy who was talking to me. I could even feel the daggers he was feeding Gary. I got out a piece of paper and quickly wrote something down. When the teacher was writing the something on the board I quickly passed it to Gary.
I wrote 'Stop making faces at Bryan or else you're going to get in trouble with the teacher!'
He wrote back almost immediately. He passed it to me and it said, 'so what? It's really funny watching him get redder than your friend May when Drew teases her.
I almost laughed. I wrote back, 'Still it's not nice. You're only doing this because you were jealous of him.'
'I'm not jealous of him! Why are you even defending him anyways?' I could feel the anger rising out of him when he wrote this. I wrote,
'I just don't want you to get angry over every guy I talk to okay?' Gary must've been waiting for me to write back because I almost got it back immediately.
'Okay fine, but if I see another guy flirting with you, I'll make sure they'll know you're mine.'
It was nice seeing someone fight over me, but this was a little much.
"Ms. Green, would you like to share with us what you've been telling Mr. Oak?" The teacher called out. I sank in my chair blushing.
"No sir." I said hiding my face. The teacher rolled his eyes and continued his extremely dull and boring lecture. I hid my face for the rest of class.
Gary's POV
Leaf stopped passing me notes. I figured she as too embarrassed to start passing notes again, so I just took a nap until the end of class. I woke from the bell. I groggily got up. I saw Leaf getting up. I ran up to her.
"Hey ready for our next class?"
She raised here eyebrow, "Yeah…."
"Good, c'mon!" I grabbed her arm and sprinted out the room.
"H-hey, let go!" She tried to pull her arm away. I stopped and let go.
"Okay, that's better. Why are you in such a rush?" She said making sure she still had everything.
"Oh, nothing, I just wanted to get to class early." I mentally scolded myself for my odd comment.
"Okay…" She started walking. I quickly caught up with her.
Leaf's POV
Gary was acting weird, but I didn't bother him. I got to my next class, but something was odd. No one was moving. I looked around the only people moving were Gary and I.
"Gary, do you know what's going on?"
"You can move?" He looked like he'd seen a ghost.
"Yeah, why? Is that a bad thing?" I pinched myself to see if I was dreaming. Nope.
"No, just that…" He shut his mouth.
"Just what?" I asked.
"It's nothing." He said plainly.
"If it's nothing then why won't you tell me?"
"Fine, I think you're a daughter of a god." He said.
I scoffed, "That's it, that's old news!"
His eyes widened again. "You already knew? Who's your godly parent then?"
"I'm pretty sure my mom is Athena." I said plainly. Gary whistled.
"Wow, you even got the right mythology."
"Yup!" I grinned proudly. Then I frowned.
"Why did time stop then?"
"I'm not sure, but I think we're about to find out." He got his bracelet off his wrist. I raised my eyebrow. He muttered something and it turned into a sword. My eyes widened.
"Gary, what just happened?"
"Oh, that's just my sword." He said it as if it were an everyday thing.
"Could this day get any weirder?" Apparently so because the next thing I know a one eyed monster about 5 times taller than Gary roared at us.
"Oh, great, Leaf is there any chance you could distract this guy long enough for me to call reinforcements?" Gary said hopefully.
"That depends can I borrow your sword?"
He hesitated, but gave it to me.
"Let's hope I don't break it." I muttered to myself. Gary dialed someone on his phone.
"Come and get me, you gigantic freak!" That got his attention. Gary's sword was surprisingly light, though. The Cyclops charged at me. I sidestepped. That got him even angrier. He charged at me again. This time I surprised myself. I sliced his arm off.
"Gross!" I would've definitely puked if I was Dawn. Gary looked at me with shock. He hung up.
"Help's on the way, but it looks like you don't need it." He said smirking.
"Yeah, well this thing is kind of clumsy." I said.
"Here, let me take this thing on." He took back his sword. I looked at his arm apparently he somehow put it back on. I shivered just thinking about it. I noticed a jacket around myself.
"Here, you look cold." He smiled and charged at it. I blushed.
"Gary, you idiot! Don't charge at it! Wait until it charges at you!" I screamed.
"Thanks for the advice!" He yelled back locking his eyes with the monster.
The awkward tension was gone now.
Gary's POV
I was still a little shocked that Leaf could slice off a Cyclops's arm in less than a phone call. I shook my head and got ready to face the monster. I did what Leaf said and waited for it to charge at me. My fighting instincts kicked in when he charged. I immediately sidestepped and slashed at him. I cut half his hand off. If I ever got scarred for life, right now would be that time. His hand slowly regenerated. It regenerated by the blood coming out of the wound. The blood was a sickening purple color. The blood grabbed hold of the hand and started throbbing.
"I'm going to be sick." Leaf held her mouth looking away.
"Me too." I muttered. His hand finished regenerating.
"Leaf, got any ideas how to kill this thing?"
"Try to slice a whole piece of his body off. Then try to keep it separated from his… blood." She shivered when she said blood.
"Got it!" I was really glad she was good at battle strategies.
"Someone needed us?" My best friend's voice called out.
"Yeah, some help would be appreciated, Drew." I yelled back keeping my eye on the monster.
"Sorry, but I'm not helping you. We're helping you." Even though I couldn't see him I could feel him smirking.
"Yeah, don't forget us, Gary." Ash called out. I could hear Paul grumble, but at least that gave me a hint he was hear.
"Yeah, what he said." Jimmy called back.
"Hey, why's Leaf here?" Drew called out.
"Well, our guesses were right, boys!" I felt myself smirking. The Cyclops took the advantage of our conversation and charged at them. Thankfully, Drew got his sword out in time and slashed him.
"Argh!" It yelled back. They watched it regenerate.
"This almost makes me lose my appetite." Ash said.
"Sick, I'm going to puke!" Jimmy said clutching his stomach.
"Let's get this over with." Paul grumbled not even fazed by the regenerating. We all charged at it at once. I sliced as many pieces off as possible. Once I decapitated a piece I threw it as far as possible away. The others got a hint and did the same making sure none of the pieces were close together. Soon enough we were left with bits of Cyclops everywhere. Luckily none of them could get close enough to each other to regenerate.
"I call not cleaning this up!" I yelled.
"Not it!" Ash practically screamed.
"Not it!" Drew called.
"Not a chance." Paul grumbled.
"No fair it's always me!" Jimmy complained. Then Jimmy grinned.
"Not it! Now the only one left it Leaf." Jimmy smirked. Leaf opened her eyes and raised an eyebrow.
"Excuse me? I'm not cleaning this up. I didn't make any of this!" She said pointing to everywhere.
"Fine, I guess I'll have to clean this up!" Jimmy said putting away his sword.
"Good luck!" I said patting him on the back and handing him a broom.
"How's this supposed to help?" He grumbled.
"I don't know. Find a use for it." I said.
"I'm going to need a lot of bags." He said. He started heading to the janitor's closet.
"Well, is anyone going to help me?"
Leaf spoke up, "I will."
Leaf's POV
I felt bad for Jimmy, so I started helping him. I used clamps to pick a Cyclops piece up, though. All the others left except for Gary and Jimmy, obviously. I picked up the head slowly.
"You've passed the test." It spoke. I screamed and dropped it. My mistake, it almost immediately found an arm and connected. Gary got out his sword and sliced it.
"Might not want to drop the pieces." He smirked grabbing a piece and shoving it in a bag.
"You think?" I scoffed. I picked the head up again and examined it.
"Something wrong?" Gary said.
"The head just spoke to me just barely." I said putting it in the bag.
"What did it say? Drop me, so I could reassemble?" Gary said sarcastically.
"No, it said 'You've passed the test'." I shivered.
"That's a little disturbing." He said.
"Hey, you never told me. Who's your godly parent?" I asked.
"Aeolus." He said.
"The god of wind?" I asked.
"Yeah, most people don't know that, though." He said impressed.
"Yeah, well I'm not like most people." I said putting the last of the body parts in a bag.
"If you guys are going to make out do it in another room." Jimmy called out.
Gary and I blushed.
"Hey!" We both said in unison. Jimmy raised his hands up in peace.
"I'm just saying." He said.
"Where do we put these body parts?" I said holding up a bag which happened to be the head.
"Here, I'll take that." Gary grabbed that from me. He and Jimmy were holding all the parts.
"Where are you guys going?" I asked curiously.
"We're just going to burn these parts in different bins." He said.
"Can I come?" I don't know why, but I wanted to go.
"That's something you don't hear every day, but sure." Gary said smiling.
At the dump still Leaf's POV
"You guys really have to do that here?" I said grabbing my nose.
"Yeah, this way no one will know. You want to burn a piece?" He said holding up an arm.
"Sure." I said. We were burning them in different bins in case it could regenerate its ashes. I threw it in the bin. Despite the disgusting smell, the Cyclops smelled a hundred times worse. It didn't help that the ashes smelt like Cyclops sweat either. We finished burning the pieces and headed back to school. I grabbed my perfume and dumped the rest of the bottle on me.
"That should cover that up." I hoped it did anyway.
At school Leaf's POV
It was last period. I didn't tell the girls about the Cyclops incident yet. I decided that was after school business. Dawn didn't think so because in 7th period she said she needed to talk to me about something.
"Hey, Dawn. What's this about?" I said.
"A dream I had." She said.
"A dream?" I raised my eyebrow.
"Yeah, I saw my mom, Aphrodite." She whispered. My eyes widened.
Happy Thanksgiving people! I updated early. I might even update twice this week! Oh, and review, please!
