Chapter 15: Marvett: A Book Not About a Rose by huskynator

F1 - West Hallway

Marvett sighed after the classes. "It's not the end of the world, Lagnus." She said as she was about to take leave from her childhood friends. "It should wear off in an hour." She, Rabbie, and Sig were a bit exasperated about it.

"NOO~OOO~OOO! ARLE CAN'T SEE ME LIKE THIS! I WANNA GET THAT POTION NOOOOOOW!" Lagnus has been like this for a while now. He unwittingly ate a weird gross tasting sandwich, and now he's in his bratty 7-year-old form and with the temper and attitude to match.

Lagnus, again
Oops, Age Regression Curse

Lagnus usually regresses in age when overwhelmed, and sometimes; for no reason at all. Though Lagnus himself suspects it's due to supernatural influences, he's not too sure about that since his best friends are fairly supernatural themselves for being humans like himself.

Regardless he won't tell his suspicions to anyone lest he gives them ideas. Ghosts must've done something to that sandwich, and telling their dad on them is on his to-do list.

Sig had agreed to escort his dear friend to make sure he doesn't do anything he's gonna regret and to keep their local dubious potion sellers, either Witch or Fufufu, accountable while Lagnus gambles on a potion to cure his curse. "If all else fails I'll drop you off at Silv." The cyan headed kid, with his strength, gently held Lagnus' shoulder so he would stop angrily flailing about.

"Okay." He mumbled.

"Good luck, you two." Marvett sincerely wished. Rabbie nodded with his usual stern look. "Rabbie and I will be waiting in the Rec Room for you two. If it doesn't take you guys the rest of the break."

"Gotcha." Sig nodded. "C'mon, Lagnus."

F1 - Rec Room

Marvett made herself comfortable on the table in the otherwise empty room. She pulled out her steel-encased tablet, a drink, and a wireless keyboard. She yawned, stretched and Rabbie scratched her back. Now she was ready.

She woke up her device and opened up her folders.

Folders - Writing:
(ReferenceMaterial) [46 MB]
MarvRabbStory1 [1 MB]
MarvRabbStory2 [2 MB]
MarvRabbStory3 [2 MB]
MarvStory1 [3 KB]
MarvStory2 [2 KB]
MarvStory3 [2 KB]
MarvStory4 [1 KB]
MarvStory5 [2 KB]
MarvStory6 [1 KB]
MarvStory7 [1 KB]
MarvStory8 [1 KB]
MarvStory9 [1 KB]
MarvStory10 [2 KB]
MarvStory11 [1 KB]
MarvStory12 [1 KB]
MarvStory13 [2 KB]
MarvStory14 [1 KB]
MarcStory15 [3 KB]
MarvStory16 [1 KB]
MarvStory17 [1 KB]
MarvStory18 [2 KB]
MarvStory19 [1 KB]
Novel Ideas [2 KB]
Random Poetry [1 KB]
StagePlayScript [3 KB]

Most of these were unfinished. All of the ones with the word Story in them certainly are.

Marvett turned to her rabbit-like companion. "Did we agree on a clean slate yesterday?" Rabbie nodded with his arms folded. "Gotcha. Now I remember." She started typing. In the hopes that this is finally the one.

New Folder: MarvRabbStory4|

Then she activated the split-screen function to open up the (ReferenceMaterial) folder.

Marvett placed her chin in her palms as her elbows were leaning on the table. She turned to the side Rabbie was floating at. The aspiring novelist remembered their last conversation, she tries to follow up on it.

"We agreed that romance overtook the story." That's the thing she was certain she remembered last night because that revelation stung both of them. They've gotten really far. Too far to salvage it. "So what do we do now? Should we tone down the romance? Cut it?"

Rabbie folded his arms and thumped his foot (if he had one) thinking about it. He spoke words only his host could hear. He suggested a new idea.

"Just lean into the romance?" She isn't sure she heard him right.

Rabbie nodded, he babbles some more.

Marvett shook her head. "No, I've never tried a full-on romance… We could model them off Lagnus & Arle."

Rabbie had a snarky comment and both of them chuckled.

"Heheh~ Let's give it a shot, Rabbie."

F1 - West Hallway

Meanwhile, Incubus was walking the hallways looking for the next girl to flirt. Having coming hot off the heels of a quick "no" from a girl. With an optimistic smile, he moves onto the next one. Whoever that might be. The skirt chaser never lets that kinda thing let him down.

Hark! Who's that he's seeing down the hallway through the Rec Room window?

F1 - Rec Room

The door went open swiftly and smoothly. "Bonjour~" The long, lavender-haired boy said, posing extravagantly, hand on heart, and red rose pointing in Marvett's direction.

This may seem elegant on paper, but Incubus is out of breath. He ran through most of the hallway as fast as he could.

The girl and her rabbit did jump from the suddenness of it. It lead her to make a few typos. "Um… Hi…" She's trying to remember his name. "Yyyou…?" She knows who he is, every girl who's at least a sophomore does, unfortunately.

Incubus is sniffing his 'fleur rouge.' "Ah, so you recognize, moi? Hoh hohn." The boy laughed. "Of course, you do." He looks over Marvett's shoulder at her tablet. "Oh, you're the writer of your petit trio, no?"

Marvett looks at her companion with a content look on her face, vaguely ignoring Incubus. "Eh. At least we're known for that?" She said. Not sure if that's a good thing.

"So, what is it, how do you say, about?"

Marvett got a little excited. Someone has an interest in what she's doing. That is rare outside her friend group, even within her friend group, not everyone can be as passionate about it as she is. And this flirt behind her is too poor an actor to feign interest in a girl's interests. This is a well-documented fact.

"Our latest story fell apart so we've just started anew." Marvett lets out a disheartened sigh and Rabbie does a shrug. "We got so far too…"

"Oh, that's sounds such a shame." Incubus winched a little. "I know I'd hate to do a do-over on an essay. Was it much?"

She went back to her keyboard. "I don't wanna say." She's typing the title: UntitledRomance|

"Oolala~ Writing a romance, are we?" Marvett wishes for Incubus to just go away. Her and Rabbie's patience are thinning.

"Yeah." She mumbled.

"Well, well, joli petit lapin." There he goes, no girl likes it when Incubus gets like this, Marvett is no different. He got insufferable. "You happen to be in the presence of a romance novel expert." He stinks of cologne too.

Marvett tuned out his boasting, in a moment he'll find an excuse to date her. And while she has no problem turning him down, she was too polite to cut off this long-windedness. Rabbie has no such qualms but Incubus' eyes are closed to pay him any mind.

"We can discuss more at my lovely abode, yes?"

"Hey, Marv," A new voice said at the door. It was Silvana. And she is looking annoyed at Incubus. "I just had a random hunch Incubus was bothering ya at the moment." Marvett's classmate placed her horizontal flat hand on her eyebrows and looked around the room.

Marvett, Rabbie, and Incubus are a bit confused as to why though. They did the same but at most they saw board games, magazines, paintings. They turned their heads back to Silvana when they heard her snicker.

"Have you seen Incubus?" She asked, playing dumb.

"Oh, you're looking for moi?" The boy blushed. "You're always so delightfully playful, Miss Zilvana." Incubus chuckles along.

"If that's what you wanna call it." She shrugged. "Rulue's about to jog around the school." Silv pointed her thumb to the hallways.

"Oooo~" The big flirt got away from Marvett, past Silvana, and into the halls.

"You can catch her if you run counterclockwise on school terrain!" Silvana yelled through the halls.

"Merci~" Incubus turned around and genuinely thanked Silvana.

Silvana waved as she slowly closed the Rec Room's door.

Marvett and Rabbie let out a sigh of relief. "Thank you so much, we thought he'd never let us focus on our work."

"It's nothing, Marv." Sil said with a scrunched up face before she let out a cackle.

That caught Marvett a bit off-guard. Silvana, while she dyed her hair a dark red and wore these cool red-eye contacts, still shared her twin's face. And Arle's laugh was either a loud hahaha or a cute one, not that.

The Nadja twin circled her finger around in the air. "Incubus' gonna be running for nothing. Rulue's running on the outside of the school's terrain. "

Rabbie gave her a hardy thumbs up. Marvett though: "Isn't that a bit more than he deserves?"

Silvana has a simple retort and delivers it calmly. "He's outta your hair, isn't he?"

"Fair point." The aspiring novelist forgot about that crucial detail. "Thank you, Sil."

"Silv." Silv corrected without missing a beat.

"S-Sorry." Marvett sheepishly apologized. She's not used to it. Marvett went back to the drawing board. But through Rabbie's eyes Marvett still saw Silvana.

Through some word association with her classmate's face, she found that she has a favor to ask of her. "Wait, Sil...v."

Silv turns around mid-leave. "Hm?"

"Can you help Lagnus too?"

Silvana sighs. "Oh... Kid again?" She got two nodding heads in response. "Breakup or just a kid again? I swear if she makes him go through anymore while he's still- aaagh! She's lucky she's popular and he isn't…" She both visually and vocally got angrier as that sentence went on.

"B. He just ate some ghost gunk and got very upset over it. Thankfully."

Sil leaned her back over backwards in relief. "Thank goodness, how much more can that guy take? He's such a fool sticking with her… Anyways, Auntie Silvie's on it, so don't worry, he'll be calm in no time." She said with a smile. Though not without some contempt for her sister. "See ya around, Marv."

"Bye." Marvett and friend waved. Having been left alone with their screen.

Untitled Romance|

Marvett bit her lip. "Maybe we shouldn't do romance… Should we just bite the bullet and rewrite MarvRabbStory3?" She regrettably offered.

Rabbie shrugged, suggesting they may need to try and write a comedy based on what Silv did.

Authors' Notes:

HUSK: Cutting a story in now. Ware was supposed to have four in a row. Not doing that again. This story was made up on the spot as a result. This chapter was done faster than 14, he has his reasons and no offense to him.