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Ben's Note of Sheer Awesome: You know, today is not my day. I just haven't been doing well all day. Knowing me, this is going up a day after I write this, so it was yesterday, but I don't care. I'm tired, my life is cheese, and all this stress is not good for my health. This fic may or may not go on hiatus until this cheesing tri ends… dear cheese I hate my life right now…
EAH Geek: I'm not really sure how Maddie ate all that poison ivy… I'm not sure if I want to know.
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Rainbow Swirl: I'm guessing Maddie eating poison ivy wasn't the happiest moment of the last chapter, huh?
Prompt 72: Alone
(Neb)
"Can someone please explain where there are two of me?" Neb asked.
"Sure," Neb said, shrugging. "But we need to label it so the audience can distinguish who's who."
"Smart idea," Neb said. "How about you're Nebecca and I'll be Nebzie?"
"Ship names. I like it," Nebecca smirked.
"Will someone please explain what's going on?" Robecca said, rubbing her head. "This is giving me a splitting headache."
"It's quite simple actually," Nebecca explained. "The Neb you thought was me is actually just a copy. Every universe has a different Neb. Like that Total Drama universe Neb. He's not me, nor this Neb, but he is me."
Nebzie snapped his fingers. "So your saying we're the same person, but we have different memories," he said.
"Precisely," Nebecca responded.
"I'm still lost…" Robecca said, shaking her head. "Can I just… have my Neb and pretend this never happened?"
"I think a lot of my readers are asking that," Nebzie nodded. "Mind staying out of my way until these arcs are done?"
"Don't ask me things. It makes me look like a nice guy," Nebecca muttered.
"Trust me, I would never want us looking nice," Nebzie muttered and quickly ran off to find his missing girlfriend. (Lizzie, in case you guys are completely lost.)
(Kitty)
"Why would I be on his family tree?" Kitty asked as she and Alistair walked down the hallway. They had wrapped up in Mr. Rotter's room and decided to just take a stroll while Kitty thought. "That project was done before I was born… so why would I be on it?"
"Beats me," Alistair shrugged. "He did disappear for a long time."
"No… he wouldn't have come back home," Kitty said, shaking her head. "He didn't want to leave me. The fact he did… why would he come home and just leave me behind?"
"Point," Alistair conceded. "Maybe… no. I doubt it."
"What?" Kitty asked.
Alistair was silent a moment. "Maybe he…" however, Alistair was soon cut off by Neb running quickly toward them. "I'll tell you later," he said. "Neb, what's up?"
"Lizzie ran off because she thought I was cheating on her, and I technically was, but I wasn't, because this alternate version of me was dating this one girl but Lizzie didn't know that, so now I have to find her and tell her that I wasn't dating anyone other than her," Neb said in one breath.
Kitty and Alistair both blinked at this. "I'm not sure what to comment on," Kitty said. "The fact that you cheated on Lizzie or the fact that there's more than one of you."
Alistair groaned. "One Neb is enough, but two?"
"Oh come on! I'm not that bad!" Neb complained. "But, forget about me for a moment because I'm not as important as Lizzie. Have you guys seen her?"
"No, but I can go look for her," Kitty answered. "I'm a girl. I can track people like that."
"Great," Neb nodded. "Alistair, go check the cafeteria. Lizzie probably isn't there, but go make sure Maddie and Sven aren't going to end up dead. Seriously, I leave them alone for a few hours…" Neb shook his head and took off. Kitty gave Alistair a parting kiss and went off to find Lizzie, leaving Alistair to head to the cafeteria.
(Lizzie)
"He didn't… love you. He didn't… love you," Lizzie kept saying over and over. She was sitting underneath a flight of stairs, huddled in a corner, taking shaky breaths. "He didn't… love you. He didn't… love you."
"Lizzie?"
"Go away!" Lizzie called, her voice cracking. "I… don't want to talk about it…"
Kitty slid underneath the stares, looking at Lizzie. She had obviously been crying, but Lizzie managed to still look like a future queen. Lizzie looked at Kitty hopelessly. "I heard about Neb," Kitty said cautiously.
"He didn't… love me. I always had that… suspicion in the back of my mind… all those insults were real, all our teasing more than teasing… I thought maybe I'd go to far and push him away… I guess I did… he found someone else and it's my fault…" Lizzie sniffled, more tears exiting her eyes. "And to think I… I loved… him."
Kitty bit her lip. "Lizzie… remember back when Alistair and I first got together?" Kitty asked. "I was totally under the assumption he was cheating on me with Bunny. They've been friends forever after and I thought he was dating her behind my back. Thing was… he wasn't. It was a misunderstanding. Alistair loved only me and it was always going to be that way."
Lizzie sniffled again. "Thanks Kitty but… this isn't the same situation…" Lizzie said sadly.
"What if it was?" someone asked. Kitty turned her head to see Neb standing where the gap was. Lizzie froze, staring at Neb in fear… and agony. "Kitty… mind giving me some time with my… maybe ex-girlfriend? I need to talk to her."
Kitty nodded and promptly left. Lizzie and Neb stared at each other for several long seconds. Neb sighed, shaking his head. "Sorry to have to do this… but I have to end the scene here," he said to her.
Lizzie continued to stare and Neb… before weakly smiling. "You always were one for suspense…" she said weakly.
(Alistair)
"So… what are these again?" Alistair asked hesitantly. He had made his way to the cafeteria, and before he knew it, he was sitting at a table with, according to Maddie, Rocky Mountain Oysters sitting in front of him.
"Our ticket to supreme victory!" Maddie said with a mad grin. "All you have to do is eat ten of them in five minutes! You got this!"
Alistair sighed, but didn't see anything wrong with them. Alistair reached down, grabbed one, and popped it into his mouth. He chewed it for a moment…
…only to spit it back out. "Ugh!" he muttered.
"There goes our three in a row streak," Maddie pouted.
BN: I question these food eating challenges, I do. For those of you who don't know, Rocky Mountain Oysters are bull testicles. Yeah, you heard me right. Anyway, this chapter was basically the start of Lizzie and Neb's rekindling. If you didn't understand the Nebception, let me explain. I believe that Neb is split into a million different people. Each Neb has a different path set and different memories to go along with him. Like the Neb in my Total Drama universes. He has different jobs and experiences there than he does in the EAH universe. The fact Monster High and Ever After High is a crossover universe, there are two Nebs, one for Lizzie and one for Robecca. They're the same person, but they have different paths. I'm not planning on doing a Monster High story, I was just establishing why there were two Nebs.
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