Okay boy do I have some explaining to do! Summary: Life sucks, personal drama ensued, crap sucked the inspiration out of my writing, every time I wrote it sucked, NEVERSEEN, I put the story on pause, I was never-seen for nearly two month, SO SORRY, inspiration struck, happy dance, here we are.
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IMPORTANT
PLEASE READ
NO SEROISLY
IT IS IMPERITIVE THAT YOU READ THIS
MY LIFE IS AT STAKE
WELL NOT REALLY BUT STILL
R EAD
T HIS
Okay hopefully that got your attention. I took some time off from the story because personal issues yes, and upon reading back I realized how horrible putting in chapter 15 was. So I took it out. It will now be a one shot. So sorry about that. A writer should channel their emotions, not throw them up onto paper. I feel terrible for that. This also means that future is not set, thing could change. *wiggles eyebrows*
Okay that's all. Read on!
Dex POV
Dex sighed in contentment at the familiarity of Foxfire, of the hominess of the large school. He shuffled around the books in his arms so he could lick the tiny lock on his new locker, pleasantly surprised by their flavor. "Wild berries." He sighed. A smile tugged at his lips. It was nice to be back in a routine where his biggest worry was if Elwin had gotten his way with the locker flavors or what his next prank would be.
"Looks like Elwin decided to go easy on us today, thank God."
"Hey Marella, what's up?" She was the picture of nonchalance from her body lazily supported by the wall of lockers to her untamed hair to her trademark smirk, however her raised brow and stormy eyes told a different story entirely.
She nodded her head, "What's up. What is up? Hum, let me think, well we started the new year a few weeks ago, my new universe teacher has been an absolute drag, I developed an ability, oh, I think Jensi has a thing for Biana, ah yes, and I found a yeti's prattle pin too. How about you?"
He had no idea how to respond. Between her tapping foot, crossed arms, and rapid fire speech he had no idea what was safe to say. He was never the best at reading people, specifically girls, and while he knew she was mad at him, Dex could not, for the life of him, figure out why.
"Um, you got an ability?! When did that happen? Why didn't you tell me this is so amazing! What is it?" She huffed and rolled her eyes. This was obviously not the right course of action.
"Oh yeah, I'm a guster, have been for a few months which you would have known if you ever talked to me! Perhaps after you were missing for two weeks and everyone thought you were dead! Do you know how frustrating it was to find out that you were hanging out with Fitz, arguably your least favorite person, over me!? No, don't talk, you know, I miss Sophie too! I lost YOU TOO." Okay, so that was way worse than he had thought. He now officially felt like the worst friend ever.
Dex didn't know what to say. What could he say knowing what he did about Sophie? Knowing that telling her would just drag her into all this mess. He started fiddling with his cape. "Marella… I had no idea…with everything that's been happening, I just didn't think you'd want to be a part of that. I-I'm so sorry, I've been a crummy friend."
"Yeah, you have…so it's a good thing I am as awesome as I am because I totally forgive you. See you at lunch?"
"Definitely." And despite everything that had happened the past four months, his grin was genuine.
….
As per his 'regular life' Dex was running late. By running, he was literally running, as for late, well, he was about to miss lunch entirely. He wanted to catch up with Marella and Jensi, maybe even see a bit of Biana. He had to admit that in the past few months the Vackers had grown on. Not that he would ever be friends with Wonderboy, per say, but he couldn't help but smile when he thought of how much fun he and Biana had playing against Fitz and Keefe. I wonder if they feel the same way, I-
His musings were cut short when he ran into someone. All he saw was a burr of messy blonde hair as they fell down in a jumble of flailing limbs.
"UHF."
"OUCH."
"DUDE GET YOUR FOOT OUTTA MY HAIR!"
"WELL YOUR PIN IS CAUGHT ON MY SHIRT SO STOP MOVING-wait Keefe?!" The heap of boys stopped moving as they both sat up.
Detangling himself the older elf grinned at him. "Dex, just the elf I was looking for. Of course, I didn't expect you to be quite so excited to see me, but I can't really blame you. I mean, who would?"
Rolling his eyes Dex drawled, "Yeah I just couldn't stand being away from you."
"That's the spirit!"
"So why were you looking for me anyways?"
Keefe smiled deviously as he draped an arm over Dex's shoulder. "My friend have I ever told you about how I pulled off the Great Guleon incident?"
"That would be a no."
"Yeah, well I'm not gonna. But I do need your help on something better." (AN: Ha you think I will you tell you what it was? Nerp, not happening) "Walk with me."
If he was being totally honest, Dex really wanted in on…well whatever shenanigans Keefe was planning. He was done moping around. So they walked arm in arm down the empty halls as Keefe explained his plan.
"Dex, let me explain something to you. There are many different kinds of pranks, small or big, for friends or enemies, on the spur thoughts or grand scale plans. Well, this prank is the most intricate, epically mind blowing prank that it will top the Great Guleon Incident by far! Using the same substance I carefully injected all the school's food in a form that will cause serve flatulence. That mixed with the toxic scent fumes of guleon will be problematic to say the least. Then, I blocked all the exits and hid the leap master. Yes you heard me right, I literally hid the giant chandelier. Please Dex, no questions, I am busy right now.
"The fart storm should begin fairly soon, but I did not save you from the deadly toots for nothing, see, I need your experience. Fairly soon I might add."
"Help with what?" He asked, suspicion laced in his voice.
"Weeeelll, I may have locked myself in too. A miscalculation, so I need you to make us some gas masks. Cause' we are the only two people in this building who are not about to blow up with explosive diarrhea-did I forget to mention the laxatives-and I do not want to smell that. You have approximately three minutes."
"Wait-WHAT?! Are you kidding me right now?!"
"Two and a half minutes now."
With a frustrated cry Dex dragged Keefe into the nearest empty classroom and began messing with the tiny gadgets he always had in his pockets. With only half a minute to spare he had made two tiny little bubbles that temporarily shut off your sense of smell. He sighed in relief when he heard the screams but thankfully did not smell the smells.
The two boys high fived and sat down, not about to venture into the halls anytime soon. "So…since we are going to be here for quite a while since you locked everybody in and all…mind telling me what's going on with you? All jokes aside." Dex may not be the most perceptive person, but he could tell this kind of stunt was a cry for help even form Keefe.
Keefe suddenly looked a thousand years older as he laid his head on his knees. "No jokes?"
"None."
He shrugged. "I thought this would help, that doing something like this," he gestured to the air around them, "would make things feel better. Make me feel more like me. But it doesn't. Lately I don't even know what that is." He looked at Dex, so much anger and fear in his gaze, but above everything else, he looked lost. "New topic. I need answers. Dex, do you like Sophie?"
"Um, what?"
"Man, I just poured my heart out to you and it seems like with everything all us guys have been though we would do that more often. But it seems like the person who ties me, you, and Fitz together the most is what has been keeping us apart too. So spill, where are you on the Sophie Foster love scale?"
Tough question. He ran a hand through his strawberry blonde hair. Fine, he could be honest too. "Okay to tell you the truth, I did like her, before when we first met. She just dropped into my life all mysterious and changed everything. But you know when you have the 'crush at first sight'? The more I got to know her the more I fell in love with her and the more that crush disappeared. I don't know, I just-it doesn't feel like we are-she's my best friend and I don't ever want that to be anything else. I used to, but I don't anymore."
"uh hu, riddle me this then. Why are you always so jealous?"
Dex couldn't help his blush. "I-I don't get jealous! I-I-I just don't want to loose her." He shook his head. He could not believe he was admitting all of this, to Keefe none-the-less. "Sophie is my best friend, and she is always getting hurt or bullied. I have to worry about loosing her to some rebels or injuries or humans or even herself. But even in all of that she stands by me as much as I stand by her. But one day she will wake up and realized she's friends with the lamest son of a bad match and she's going to ditch me for Wonderboy and his sister…and you. I don't want to loose her." His face flamed when he realized he was crying, but Keefe just smiled and shook his head.
"Don't listen to what everybody says. That whole 'bad match' thing is a load of crap. My parents were a perfect match and one is a conceited, arrogant jerk and the other is the leader of the Neverseen. Your parents love each other and they raised you, so they cant be half bad." After a few minutes of silence Keefe spoke up again. "I found out Sophie's my half-sister. Fate went all mortal instruments on us but I doubt there is some magical solution to our situation. The worst part is that I can't stop this feeling in my gut that she's in trouble, my sister's in trouble but she's with the humans."
So Dex wasn't quite sure how to respond to that bombshell, so he chose to ignore it for the time being. There was something more important to say. "I have that same feeling. Like a sinking worry in my gut that Sophie's in trouble."
Keefe sat up. "Then why dint we go check on her? Who's going to stop up? The school that is all trapped crapping themselves or the council who broke the law to hide her in the first place?" Dex thought about arguing, but he made a good point, and he really was worried.
"Lets go."
"Great!" Keefe ran over and pulled the sheets off of the giant leap master. Are you kidding me? It was right there? "Quit dawdling Dex lets go!"
Yep a lot of heart to heart this chapter. I am hoping to finish the next chapter and have it up tonight so here's hoping. The next one is the one with all the action. Ta Ta.