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Anyways, on with chapter 6, shall we?
School Twist 2 – Alternative Timeline
Chapter 6 – A bet and a gift
"Why the hell do I always meet you at the canteen?"
"Says the sissy boy that's snatched my last bowl of fried noodles!"
"Oh come on, did you ever heard of the phrase 'first come, first serve'?"
"No, I don't ever read! Now give me the plate of noodles before I kick your ass!"
"They just don't ever get tired of bickering, don't they." Green commented as he enjoyed his bowl of chicken soup. Red and Yellow both nodded in agreement.
"Say, I remembered I saw someone dating at the café Red's working at…" Gold started, only to get punched down by Blue.
"Shut up!"
"Speaking of that…" Green's eyes narrowed and glared at Red, to which Red responded by looking away suspiciously.
"Something fishy." Crystal and Gold commented in unison, with Gold making playful noises while shaking his head.." Tsk tsk tsk.."
"Shut up before I rip you into pieces along with your little girlfriend over there." Green glared at Gold, to which he laughed it off, as always.
"Why so serious?" Gold laughed.
"Get your crayon?" Red commented, to which everyone head desked.
"Can't you just say something correct at the correct time?" Blue groaned while holding her hand up to her forehead for a face palm.
"GIVE ME MY PLATE OF NOODLES BACK!" A very loud shouting filled the air, causing the group to sigh and returning to their meals.
Meanwhile at the school park…
"What the hell are you, someone with unlimited energy? We ran around the school for like three times already!" Ruby struggled to breathe while holding tight to his plate of noodles.
"Not until you give me back my noodles!" Sapphire growled, to which Ruby sighed in frustration.
"Fine, you could take it. I was getting tired of running around with you anyway." Said Ruby as he sat down on the bench at the park.
The school park is a place that students could come and enjoy the nature, with a vegetable farm for Science classes and a pond with a bridge that students could use to cross the pond or enjoy the scenery. A perfect place for a date, but not for this two…
Sapphire snatched the noodles and sat beside Ruby, grinning to him like an idiot that caused him to roll his eyes.
"Thank you!" Sapphire said as she started eating like a cookie monster. Ruby sighed once again at the hilarious sight.
"You sure are one wild girl despite that pretty face." Ruby sighed as he took out a sewing kit along with an unfinished dress, preparing to continue his sewing yesterday. Sapphire raised an eyebrow at Ruby.
"Are you…sewing?"
"You don't say?" Ruby rolled his eyes as he pierced the needle skillfully into the dress and then withdrawing it for another piercing.
"You look like an expert sewing." Sapphire stopped eating her noodles and started to watch Ruby sew in curiosity.
"You don't say." Rub smirked at the compliment while continuing to sew the dress. It is a piece of girl's dress, colored white to fit an elegant and graceful girl.
"Who are you sewing for?" Sapphire asked out of curiosity.
"Currently, I don't sew for anyone. I just sew because I like to sew."
"Sissy…" Sapphire murmured under her breath, loud enough for Ruby to hear it.
"Says the wild girl that ran like a bull around the school." Ruby retaliated calmly, irritating Sapphire to the core.
"Running is good for health and keeps your body fit! Speaking of it, I bet you can't even play soccer although you're a boy!"
"What? Soccer will dirty my clothes, and it's not fabulous at all." Ruby pouted, then turning back and continue his sewing.
"And I don't think sewing fits a boy either."
"Argh, what do you want?" Ruby groaned in frustration and turned towards the bandana girl that is sitting right beside him.
"A bet."
"What?"
"A BET!" Sapphire roared loudly in frustration, deafening Ruby in the process.
"Ouch… my ears…"
"So, are you on, sissy boy?"
"You didn't even tell me what the hell kind of bet you're planning!" Ruby scowled.
"Okay, so you join the soccer club which I am in, while I join the sewing club which you are the president!" Sapphire exclaimed with a smile.
Ruby visibly flinched. "What the hell is that for anyway?"
"And each of us will have fifty days to learn how to play the opposing rival's best ability! In our case, it's soccer and sewing!"
"And what do I get if I win?" Ruby raised an eyebrow, showing that he's interested in the bet.
"The winner gets to do anything they want to the loser, to which the loser could do nothing but obey!"
"But soccer is not fabulous at all." Ruby gave Sapphire a poker face, to which she frowned.
"Sissy…" Sapphire taunted, and Ruby fell for it easily.
"I'll show you the way of playing soccer… elegantly!"
"You're on. I'll go to your club and register after school, so be there when I reach!"
"So be it." Ruby smirked and kept his sewing kit, preparing for his music class after recess.
The park encounter ends with the duo walking away from each other, with smirking expressions.
"I am so going to win this!" The duo made a mental note to beat each other in unison.
Year 1's school block, second floor…
At the same time Ruby and Sapphire made their bet, four students enjoy the scenery outside their class, waiting for the beginning of the next session and at the same time, eating their lunchboxes.
"Diamond, I have a favor to ask."
"Yes, lady?" The boy named Diamond with a cap responded with a mouthful of food. Platinum can't help but smile at the boy.
"Well, you should finish your food before you talk, Dia." Platinum exclaimed cheerfully, making Diamond gulp down his food in his mouth, nearly choking. Pearl and his friend Topaz can't help but face palm at Diamond's hilarious and funny expression upon gulping down the food down his stomach forcefully.
"Say, Topaz, what came up in your mind when you see Diamond nearly choking himself?"
"What?" Topaz removed his earphones and responded with a question that irritates Pearl.
"Damn, never mind." Pearl face palmed at his friend, while Topaz ignores that and continues to look at the scenery while enjoying the music from his Ipod.
"Oh and by the way, what favor are you going to ask from me, Lady?' Diamond asked Platinum whom is laying towards the wall that prevent students from falling down from the second floor.
"I need you to teach me with cooking."
"Oh no, Diamond, you're in for a disaster." Pearl laughed at Platinum's question, to which she fumed at Pearl.
"Why?" Diamond doesn't seem to understand the dire situation he is in right now.
"Oh for God's sake, Platina can't cook for shit." Pearl laughed, angering Platinum even further.
"I'd take that as a compliment, Pearl."
"You're welcome. Now Diamond, I am telling you that Platina don't know how to cook. Even though you're one of the elite chefs of the school, I still reckon that you can't teach this idiot successfully about cooking. She'll destroy your kitchen before you realize it!" Pearl jokes about Platinum's cooking ability that irritates her to no end, but she had to keep her image, so she laughed it off.
Apparently, Pearl and Platinum known each other since childhood. Platinum. Or Platinum Berlitz is a very rich girl that lives in a mansion and her father is the president of a multi-billion dollar company. Pearl on the other hand, is not that poor either. He has a famous father, Palmer, whom specializes in movie making. His father is a living legend that could be the lead actor and the director of a movie at the same time. Diamond only gets to know the duo when he helped out his father in his restaurant three years ago. Pearl and Platinum was having lunch together back then.
Despite that, Diamond had become one of Pearl and Platinum's most important and close friend through time to time. The trio also gets to know Topaz on a school party, becoming best friends shortly after.
"Say, could you teach me how to cook? Pearl's teaching had been so bad back then it's not really understandable for me." Platinum asked Diamond again, to which Pearl scowled. "What the hell did you just say?"
"Oh, it's nothing you should know about."
"Arrogant idiot…" Pearl murmurs before plucking out one of Topaz's earphones and stuffing it into his own ear. Topaz ignores it because that's basically what Pearl always did anyway.
Diamond laughed. "Well, if you insist."
Platinum turned away to her bag and took out something from it. Apparently it's a notebook and a pen, and Platinum scribbled on it for awhile and then tears out the paper, giving it to Diamond whom is feasting on his snack like a hungry monster.
"This is my address, Diamond." Although being friends for almost three years, Diamond had never paid a visit to Platinum's home aka mansion. Only Pearl did.
"Okay, lady."
Speaking of lady, Diamond unknowingly started to call her this nickname long ago because he thinks Platinum as an elegant and high class lady. Pearl on the other hand calls Platinum 'Platina' because he thinks that it sounded more like a girl's name. Topaz just calls her by her real name, Platinum which she doesn't mind.
"Come after school, okay? I'll make sure Sebastian prepares a guest room for your comfort." Sebastian is Platinum's butler in her house that takes care of basically everything running in the house.
"You have my promise, lady."
"Thank you, Diamond."
After school…
Diamond stands at the school gate, calling his parents and informing that he would be sleeping over his friend's house as Platinum arrived, standing beside him and waiting for him to finish his phone call.
"All right, we can go now." said Diamond as he kept his phone in his jacket. He looked at Platinum whom has a light skirt and dress on her. This girl sure has a strange resistance towards coldness…
The duo started to walk side by side, with Diamond wondering why the hell Platinum gave him the address if she's gonna bring him to her home personally.
"If you are wondering why I gave you the address, it's because I would like you to visit my house more often." Platinum started, catching Diamond by surprise.
"But why?"
"You see, I always had a… never mind." Diamond could recognize Platinum blushing, but he didn't have the courage to ask any further. And so they just walked silently, until they saw Blue and Green on their way back home… together?
"Blue?" Both Platinum and Diamond exclaimed in surprise, with Blue looking back with a sweaty look.
"Oh no… why must we always run into someone we know when we're going home together?" Green and Blue both exclaimed in unison.
Both Diamond and Platinum could only watch in shock as their classmate and senior started running from them right in front their eyes.
"…" Diamond and Platinum was left speechless with a poker face.
Diamond's Point of View
How could a house be so large?
This is a hell of a palace, not a house!
I followed Platinum inside the house, greeted by A LOT OF maids and servants at the same time.
"Diamond, you can hand your belongings to them. They will take care of it, don't worry."
I handed my belongings to the servants as instructed. This place is just too freaking hell HUGE, I believe I could be lost in the corridors if I am not careful enough.
"Diamond, I shall take a shower before you start teaching me how to cook. In the meantime, Sebastian will guide you to your room. You can also take a shower or have dinner if you like, just let Sebastian know what you need." Platinum said as she instructed the old butler to take care of me.
I followed the old butler to my room via the long as hell corridor, and realized my guest room is as big as my own house. She sure is rich…
Nonetheless, I dumped my bag on the bed and went to the showers.
Ten minutes later…
I and Platinum are in the kitchen, or to be exact, the BIG AS HELL kitchen.
"What do you like to learn first?"
"Anything you say, Diamond."
"Well then… let's try baking a cake. Do you have some eggs, flour and…"
"I have everything, Diamond." Platinum frowned.
"I forgot that your house is as big as a palace…"
Platinum frowned even harder. "I'd take that as a compliment."
"I actually meant that as a compliment." I sweat dropped.
"Say, can we begin the lesson now?" Platinum said, frustrated as she put on her apron. I have to admit that she looks cute in an apron… Wait what the heck am I thinking? I mentally slapped myself as I explained to her on the details on how to bake a good cake.
"Okay, now you give it a try." I said as I withdrew a freshly baked vanilla cake from the oven.
"Well then, firstly we put in some eggs, flour, sugar and vinegar…"
I nodded and nodded as she put in the ingredients. WAIT, VINEGAR?
"Uhh, lady, you can't bake a cake with vinegar." I commented. Platinum doesn't seem happy being corrected like that.
"Pardon?" Platinum raised an eyebrow at me, causing me to flinch.
"No—never mind, go ahead and bake the cake!"
Oh my God. I wonder how much people in her house will die upon eating that junk.
After a short while, Platinum took out her finished product from the oven and heads straight for the dining hall, gesturing me to follow her. She can't be serious in serving that junk to her families!
"Platinum, wait a second!"
"Yes Diamond?"
"Hand me the cake, I'll decorate it so it looks better for you and your families to eat it."
"Very well, Diamond." She handed me the cake as I took it and rushed towards the kitchen, throwing it into the dumpster and gesturing for her butler Sebastian to take out the trash before she realized it. Sebastian seem to understand why – probably because he's eavesdropping on us the whole time, and rushed to the back door of the kitchen and threw out the bag of trash – or cake, to the main trash can outside the mansion. I quickly took my cake and decorated it with cream and such, then rushed back over towards the dining hall.
"Wow, Diamond. I am surprised by your decorating talent." Platinum said as she took over her cake – or to be specific, MY CAKE, over towards the dining hall to serve for her families.
"Phew." Guess I saved some lives today.
"Platinum, I'd never knew you're so talented in culinary." Mister Berlitz commented as he ate another piece of the cake.
"This cake is marvelous, my dear daughter." Madam Berlitz said as she cut another cake for herself, smiling.
I and Platinum sat on the other side of the dining table, with Platinum smiling cheerfully upon the compliments and praises she received for the cake. I sat beside her, sweat dropping as her mother gave another praise about the marvelous cake.
There's nothing special about people praising about the cake because I am an excellent cook. Even Topaz and Pearl vouches for that.
Sebastian guided me back towards my room after the event. I lay on the bed, drifting into sleep as fast as I could.
"Platinum…"
The next morning, on the way to school…
"Diamond, take this as an expression of gratitude from me." Platinum gave me a rectangular box.
"Uhh, lady, I can't accept such a –"
"Just take it or I am going to get angry." Platinum pouted, leaving me with no choice but to accept it. I opened my bag to keep it, but Platinum grabbed my hand.
"Why don't you open it and take a look?" Platinum smiled her trademark man-killer smile, leaving me with no choice but to open it before going to school.
I opened the box slowly, only to realize it's a… necklace? A necklace with half an apple. What's that supposed to mean?
"Uhh… thank you, lady."
"You're welcome." Platinum said as she skipped towards school, leaving me behind. But then again, I noticed something on her neck…
It's another necklace with half an apple.
"Platinum…" I smiled, murmuring her name under my breath, and then ran as fast as I could to catch up with the cheerful girl in front of me.
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-LeoN