Some Other Life

By: Gaaraluff146 + Friends

Chapter 8

A/N: IMPORTANT: Sorry it's been awhile, guys. I was going to post it awhile ago...but then we had out DC trip..and then tests...you should be happy I got it out now. This is week is show week for the Drama Club and my school, and we are rehearsing like mad. But yeah.

Oh, and we'll be doing a Q&A Session. It will be formatted as a chapter, and when I get 15+ questions I'll answer and post them.

So, who can we ask? You can ask anyone-me, my friends, the characters (OC & Cannon). Anyone, really. Thanks :D

That night was no different than the previous, deeming it fit to sleep at around 10 PM. The events that occurred before that though, not so much.

After leaving the pool area all dried off and re-dressed, our forms of entertainment had resorted to singing. Almost randomly.

And by that I'm sure we all know that it was Jaxmine and Ketsueki who had started it.

~Flashback, Ketsueki's POV~

Jumping up, I watched as Jaxmine once again fled the scene she deemed 'boring'. Makes you wonder how she'd be as a police officer, no? ' "Sorry, guys. This case is boring now. Serial killer still on the loose, nothing we can do about it...blah,blah,blah. Let's wrap it up, boys! Nothing else to see here!" Taking one last glance at the bloodied bodies in front of her, she skipped joyfully away from the 'boring' case.' Heh, heh.

Following her I could just guess where she was going, and what she was going to do. Because, you see, she has these patterns. They all have at least one thing to do with each other, and are easily cracked if you know her well enough. If not...well your screwed.

Entering the large predictable auditorium one of my favorite songs was starting to blast out of the speakers, 'Get Away With Murder' by Jefree Star. Laughing, I ran up to the stage where my crazy friend now stood, two wireless microphone's in her hands. Tossing me one I barely managed to not flinch, and caught it in my right hand.

As the lyrics started up we sang, jumping up and down and all around, dancing in beat with the upbeat and fun song. "I'm gonna break your heart, and get away with murder!"

~End Flashback, Narrator POV~

And after that little...show, they had retired to their rooms, after Ketsueki 'magically' brought the solvent to the tree sap out from thin air, with a sheepish smile.

Now...as for the next morning? I'll put it this way. There was a very interesting start to it.

The girls blonde chaperone -who's name was revealed as 'Kaire'- had opened the door, then closed it not even a second later. She sighed and rubbed her temples, she wasn't paid enough for this.

Texting the other chaperone, she told him to get the boys over here, she wasn't going to put herself through the problems that were more than likely to ensue when there were perfectly capable younger people that could -and would- do it for her.

Not even ten minutes later they had arrived, only the twins looking actually happy to be here. Mori as usual didn't show any sort of emotion, and Kyoya just looked like he was angry with the world for getting him up this early for god knows what.

When the door was opened for them, the room looked normal for awhile, until the girls were actually noticed. Now, you see, the girls had gone to sleep as they usual would in a situation like this, in their sleeping bags (because they're all for that 'sleepover' feeling, when they can have one every night seeing as how they live together...) peacefully at rest. But the scene that is looked upon now was anything but normal. Hezerai had made her way to a chair, sleeping at an angle on it that probably wasn't good for her back, wearing long pajama pants and a purple t-shirt. Nusuki was propped up against one of the windows, most of her body leaning on the actual window instead of the window seat, wearing similar clothing to Hezerai, just a dark blue. Ketsueki lay further into the room on a table, belly down, only half on the table. Her hair hung freely over the side, her face just barely still elevated by the table, her legs hanging off too. So to the boys she was on her stomach near the edge of the table, her hair and legs over the side. She wore knee-length cargo shorts with an orange camisole.

As for Jaxmine? At this point in time she was nowhere to be found. Strange.

Ketsueki was the first to get up, falling off of the table at the sound of the door opening the second time. She let out a small squeak as her face met the floor with a not-so-pleasant 'Good Morning!'. Lifting herself up by her arms she noticed someone was laughing. Or rather, two someones. Glancing over at the door she noticed that Kaire had given up on waking them up, and in the few seconds she was up, Ketsueki could guess pretty well on why.

After lifting herself onto her feet and rubbing the sleep from her eyes she sent a glare towards the twins that would kill, had it been armed with something, even a pencil. Still glaring she made her way to the closest bookshelf, grabbed an easily replaceable large book, and chucked it with expert aim at the two red-headed freaks.

Clipping the both of them in the shoulder it landed with a thud on the ground, and the twins returned their attention to the brown-and-white haired girl, who seemed to not like being woken up much. Her eyes clearly weren't focused, open for the sake of seeing the perpetrators. Must be hard being a conditionally light sleeper in such arrangements, no?

Letting out a breath of air her bangs flew up out of her face, for all of four seconds, before re-instating themselves in front of her eyes. Sighing she ran a hand through her unruly morning hair, and blinked her eyes a couple times. "Oh, hey guys. Sorry 'bout that. I would advise never doing that again, though. Be happy this time I got more than a few hours of sleep." She apologized, mumbling the last part of her statement.

Stretching, she made her way to a chair that was placed around the table she had been previously situated on, and sat down. "At any rate, I'm sure you guys were sent in here for a reason, and I'm going to assume -because I love making an ass out of you and me*- that you were brought to wake us up. So...get to it!" She exclaimed, clapping her hands in mock joy, pushing her chair back onto two legs.

Kyoya took this opportunity to sit down, moderately near her, seeing as she was already up and the others had assumed he'd be the one to wake her up.

As for Ketsueki she watched Kaoru move towards Hezerai, whom was situated in a chair. Poking her in the face timidly he attempted to wake her, but when that didn't work to turned to a tactic that was more like him. Taking a hold of a few strands of her hair (with a slight blush on his face, no less) he tugged, hoping to get a reaction this time.

Now, as for Hikaru? His endeavor was going much more smoothly. That is, until the latch on the window gave, and the window opened. Consequently also leaving poor little Nusuki without something to lean on, resulting in her shrieking as she was abruptly pulled from her sleep, greeted with wind and the ground rushing up to greet her face. Thankfully Hikaru had enough sense to grab her arm before she could get far down, and hauled her back up. She clung to him like there was no tomorrow, her face buried in his chest from the shock of nearly falling to her over exaggerated death. Hikaru of course was blushing, not being used to having someone other than his brother so close.

And as a result to that hilarious fiasco Hezerai bolted awake, effectively hitting Kaoru in the forehead with hers. Clutching it, she groaned. "Augh, what the hell. I knew it was too good to be true when Ketsu-chan was up in the morning, happily making breakfast like the little housewife she's supposed to be." She mumbled, and instead of clutching her head she reverted to rubbing it. Ketsueki gave her a strange look.

"What in the name of hell gave you the idea that I would ever even consider, being a housewife? That would be too boring." She screeched, a 'WTF?' look clear on her features. Hezerai just shook her head.

Ketsueki returned her chair to all four legs when she noticed Mori was looking around, still looking for Jaxmine. "Wait a minute...where the hell did Jj get to?" Nusuki looked at her, still in Kaoru's arms. But she chose not to dwell on that, as she didn't need to pass out from all the blood that was bound to rush to her face.

"Jj?"

"Don't ask."

Mori blinked, before scanning the room once more. 'She's got to be in here somewhere...doesn't she?' It was a few more minutes until he found her, in a very odd spot. There, on top of a bookcase in the corner, she lay, her hair splayed out in every way possible.

When Ketsueki saw where Mori was looking, she could just imagine the dotted line, connecting her to where Jaxmine was perched, dead to the world.

Hezerai blinked. "Well, now we have a clue as to where she goes when she disappears in the night..." She said, a 'WTF' look spread out on her face now, too.

And Mori, being the tall beastly beast he is, walked over and standing on a chair (and ducking, as he wasn't tall enough without it, but was too tall with it) he gently picked her up, and brought her down from the bookshelf, managing to wake her up in the process.

A slight groan was all that could be heard from the blob (as her hair was completely obscuring her face from view) as she was set down on a chair. Bringing a hand up to her face, she ran it through her bangs, effectively bring them up and over her head, leaving her nearly-perfect face open once again.

Nearly-perfect because of the piercings that littered the side of her face that was usually covered by her long side bangs. A lip ring, eyebrow ring, and nose stud adorned her tired face, as she shook her head, in a fail attempt to wake herself up more.

"Well. That sure explains a lot." Jaxmine gave the speaker, Ketsueki, a dirty look.

"Hey! It's not as if you don't have any skeletons in your closet!" She exclaimed, not really noticing the other Hosts were in the room.

She slammed her hands onto the table and stood abruptly. "The skeletons in my closet are meant to stay there. You know what they are, and you know why they are." She said, venom dripping from her words ever so slightly.

Jaxmine held her hands up in defense. "Hey, 's not my fault. Plus, there's a few there that I know your damn well proud of." She explained, giggling slightly.

Ketsueki sighed heavily and slammed her body down into the seat again, noticing the looks she and her companion were getting from the four hosts. "What?" She asked, getting defensive. "Every girl has a skeleton in her closet, it just so happens that due to family issues I have like..twelve. Which one day I just might deeply regret." She shrugged. "Oh well."

The twins just blinked a few times. They had heard the expression 'Skeletons in the closet' before, but coming from these two it just sounded cryptic.

Stretching once more, Ketsu stood up from her chair and yawned. "Well, that was one way to start the day. And because of that, I declare this a lazy day!" She yelled, earning skeptical looks from her companions. "And so, I am going get changed. Peace!" Was her final words, before grabbing her bag and walking towards the door, probably heading towards a bathroom, as the girls seemed to be fond of changing in them (With a bag of clothes, of course. Who goes to get changed without clothes to get changed into?)

~Later~

The girls quickly changed, and were now sitting in a common room of sorts, with two large couches facing each other, a large flat screen TV to the left, and a fireplace to the right. Cozy.

Curled up in the corner of one of the couches Ketsueki sat reading a thick book, by the title of 'Gone', a book she happened to find by chance, like most book she read.

Our other forms of entertainment idled themselves with random meaningless banter, the conversation not going anywhere.

"Alright, you know what? Screw this. What the fuck kind of 'fun' is this?" Jaxmine all but exploded, frustrated with the conversation she wouldn't bother to remember. "I'm going to get some form of entertainment, so I'll be back soon. Hopefully." She said, and for Ketsueki it went in one ear and out the other, as she wasn't paying attention, too focused on the book in front of her face.

Jaxmine returned soon after (much to Hezerai and Nusuki's pleasure) with a duffel bag slung over one shoulder. On it was a while, large 'T'. The T in trouble.

Nusuki sighed in relief; it was one of the more mellow ones. Plopping herself on the ground in front of the large TV, she proceeded to pull out a mass of wires and a console- a Wii console to be exact. Grinning, she set it up quickly and called first player. The twins took it upon themselves to take up second and third, and the fourth controller was chucked at Ketsueki, which hit her in the head.

Blinking, she looked up from her book. "Oh. OH!" She then burst out laughing. "I have really got to stop doing that." She said, referring to nothing in particular. Hoisting herself up from her position on the couch she grunted, stiff from sitting there so long. Straightening herself out, she heard a nice 'crack' come from her vertebrae.

Looking up the screen she groaned. "Why the hell'd you have to pick this game, Jaxmine. I frigging suck the first forty or so times!" She pouted at the screen that showed they were bound to play Baseball on Wii Sports.

"Because you just love to hate me." She said, quoting the song, "Situations" by Escape the Fate. Ketsueki only replied with a glare.

Smiling, Jaxmine started up the game...

~Two Hours and Seventy-Two Games Later~

Ketsueki pumped a fist in the air, yelling out in triumph. While she had lost the first thirty games horribly, she had begun to regain her skill and won the other forty-two games. How someone could play that long, we may never know.

Hezerai, watching the strange girl dance around in triumph, suddenly got an idea. Sneaking over the the duffel bag she shuffled through the organize chaos, until she found the pressurized cans she was looking for.

Shaking it with force she pried off the seal, and removed the cap. Her mouth curved into a smirk she tossed a can to Nusuki and Jaxmine, both of whom had noticed her endeavor. Well, the guys had too, but they weren't special enough to be included in the fun.

Nodding her head ever so slightly, Hezerai pressed down on the nozzle and the colored,gooey string sprayed out, decorating Ketsueki like a really bad Christmas tree.

Ketsueki froze, not realizing what was going on. Looking down she noticed the unknown substance that hung from her body in no uniform way.

If you guessed she was covered in Silly String, you win...

Nothing!

Removing what she could from her hair slowly, she pursed her lips and looked towards Hezerai.

"Oh it is so awn, bitch." Were the words the spilled from her mouth as she caught the can that was hurtling towards her head. Removing the seal and shaking it quickly she attacked the girl, and so the silly string war started.