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Aeteanilise
Cultural Fair: And the World Turns Black, Her Fire Rages on (Pt.3)
December 19th, 2045
AEC North Hallways
Outside the Computer room
12:57 p.m.
I leaned against the wall trying to regain the lost breath because of Leitun. I ran my fingers through my curly hair. Of course, today I had to be "authentic" and wear my hair down. I should have brought a band to pull my jungle mess back. I thought it was hot in the auditorium, Nebulas no. Being with Leitun for five minutes made my heart race more than anything. I felt faint.
I sighed. I peered into the window of the computer class and sure enough, I saw Leitun cleaning up the mess.
I pursed my lips. I couldn't tell if he was a good guy or bad guy. He had no expression until it came to me. Then, evil shone through like a star on a moonless night. I began to walk back to my duties in the auditorium. As I did, I passed some windows that had a clear view of the back of the school and I spied some people climbing over the wall. I rolled my eyes ready to lecture the intruders when I realized that they weren't some stupid kids from another school. They were adults.
My eyes narrowed and I squatted down. I peeked over the edge of the window, trying not to be conspicuous. I watched as they dared to enter my school and then I saw it. Guns.
Oh hellz no.
There is gonna be some supernova radiation of Pissed-offness emitting from me VERY soon. Okay, granted I was a little scared, but I didn't even know why they were there. I stood up in my Fit O' Fury and I could feel the intensity blazing from my face.
My fist curled and I glared down at my intruders. One of them, couldn't have been older than myself by much, probably only 19 years-old looked up and saw me. I poured my gaze into him and I know he got scared. Little punk. I narrowed my eyes and gave him my "you-are-so-BEYOND- dead- that-hell-will send-you-back-because-you-were-punished-too-much-on-Earth" look.
I couldn't help but smile when I saw him tap his buddy and begin to point at me, which slightly freaked him out more. I don't know if his stupid buddy saw me or not but I didn't really care. I was officially on a mission and someone was gonna get hurt.
I began to storm down the hall back to the computer room since I knew it was already opened. I opened the door to find myself walking directly into Leitun. He looked at me and just smirked.
"Oh, shut up," I growled. I walked past him and began moving desks. He raised an eyebrow.
"Oh come on, Sweetie-" "DON'T CALL ME THAT!" "-why the 'tude?"
I turned around and grabbed him by his, "ECLAIS" (Aetean rock band) shirt and dragged him to the window. I pointed.
"THAT is why I'm pissed." Leitun's expression went to his normal, unreadable, slightly annoying face.
He looked at me. "Lilly, do you know who those guys are?"
I turned back around and lifted a chair onto a cleared table. "No," I said matter-a-factly. "But I really don't care."
I looked at him. "Bad guys go to jail," I stepped onto the table. "I'll be the one smiling as they head off to get sentenced."
I stepped onto the chair and reached up. Drats. Even with my 5'9" height, a table, and a chair, I just narrowly was too short. I stood on my tiptoes and reached. My fingers just barely was able to push the ceiling board over. Once I managed to do that, I braced myself to jump.
I was just about to jump when I felt hands on my waist. I whipped my head around.
"Who exactly do you think you are putting your hands on?" I demanded to know. Leitun just looked at me.
"I might as well help you. Can't have the reason I breathe hurting herself." I rolled my eyes. "Whatever." I mumbled. I wasn't in a position to avoid a lift. Besides, he was taller and stronger than me. An advantage most Aeteanilise have over humans let alone the fact that he was a guy.
Leitun lifted me up past the new ceiling opening I created and I pulled myself to safety. I began to crawl through and was turning around to cover it back up when I saw Leitun following me. I watched as he climbed up.
My eyes narrowed. "WHAT. Are. You. DOING?"
He looked at me incredulously. "Sitting in place?" I could feel my nostrils flare and he just chuckled.
"Of course I'm coming with you."
I just rolled my eyes. I didn't have time to argue with the idiot. I had to go save my peoples. So long as he was there, being a stupid idiot, I figured, might as well use him to my advantage.
December 19th, 2045
AEC North Hallways
1st floor
1:00 p.m.
The men stood at attention waiting for orders. HOME was at the school to get rid of the alien-freaks allowed in. One had been with HOME for the past 4 years. He was dedicated to HOME completely and fully. His name was Joe and he was 22. The other was a newbie. He was 19 and fresh out of high school. His name was Bobby. Bobby's dad had been arrested after HOME had an invasion of the Washington Intergalactic Headquarters. Bobby was only 6 years old. Since then, it was decided that Bobby would join HOME after his father.
Bobby was worried though. When they had come into the school, he thought he had seen a girl in the top floor. She just glared at him. No sign of fear or waver. She just glared. Bobby had to wonder if it was his conscious telling him that he shouldn't be there. Bobby just didn't know. he tried to tell Joe about the girl but Joe didn't see her. Bobby was slightly confused but decided that it was just a small hallucination from stress. It was only his third invasion anyway.
Bobby gripped his gun. Bobby was a normal guy. Well, normal HUMAN guy. He was 5'10" with normal brown hair and brown eyes. He was lanky with not much muscle but he was strong enough to hold his own. Bobby was raised in a small community- all human- that was full of Conservatists who believed in a good "Christian" world. His mom raised him in the Church of Jehovah's Life House run by HOME.
Bobby looked at Joe. Joe was getting bored and Bobby could tell. Joe didn't care. They were on guard duty. The security was already out and the invasion had already begun to take place. No one else was in the school and no one would be able to call the police because they cut off satellite to the school with a magnetic barrier.
Then Bobby heard a buzzing noise. Joe noticed it too. They looked around searching for the source of the sound. They turned around to find an old toy on the floor. Bobby raised an eyebrow. It was a wind-up toy from back-in-the-day. They didn’t even make them anymore. It was a small toy that Bobby imagined would have been sold in McDonalds’s Kid’s Meals. It was the Disney character WALL-E. Bobby had never actually seen the movie but WALL-E was infamous at HOME. They considered all movies about “good” aliens to be science fiction. The extraterrestrials were evil and NOT cute and cuddly.
Joe scoffed at the toy and aimed his gun. He fired. The first bullet knocked the small toy over. The next blew a hole through it. The next knocked off its head and the head tumbled across the floor. Joe smiled and continued firing, laughing as he did. He stopped when the toy was nothing more than fine powder and tiny broken pieces. The floor beneath crumbled and was now in need of repair. Joe didn’t care though; the alien was dead, just like the intruders of his mother planet would be.
Joe continued to chuckle but Bobby began to hear something else now that the bullets weren’t firing anymore. He looked at Joe and was going to say something but Joe held up his hand to shush Bobby. They turned around towards the sound and saw it. It was a person gliding down the floor and coming at them FAST. The sound they had heard was wheels rolling across the gray tile of the school. The person rolled faster still and Joe aimed his gun and began to fire. But he only fired three shots all of which missed and then he realized his gun was out of ammo. By the time Bobby realized, and before Joe could hit the blue “re-load” button, the person was already at them. The person timed it perfectly. Half a second before they reached Joe and Bobby, they whipped out their arms and held firmly some type of metal rod in each hand. The speed increased the impact of their swing and they used the rods to hit both of Joe’s knees and one of Bobby’s.
Joe and Bobby both cried out as they dropped to the floor. Joe’s knees were pushed the opposite way and had shattered. Bobby’s knee was popped out of its socket and fractured. Joe wreathed in pain and didn’t move. Bobby curled into a ball and coddled his knee. He had never felt so much pain in his life.
The person continued to roll and very abruptly stopped and the momentum made them accelerate further and helped them stand up. Their hands never dropped the metal rods. They stood tall and Bobby could see them grip the metal firmer.
Bobby heard a thump! and he turned to see what else could happen. He looked up and he felt his heart stop. It was one of THEM. The Aeteanilse. Bobby gritted his teeth ready to yell in fury but he fell silent as he watched the Aeteanilise filth hit the back of Joe’s neck causing Joe to go unconscious. Bobby’s nose flared.
“You intruding COCKROACH!!!” he screamed. Bobby forgot all about the pain in his leg and sat up and kneeled down about to get up. The Aetean just turned to him and raised an eyebrow. His dark hair fell past his eyes and even though Bobby couldn’t see the eyes, he could feel the Aetean’s mocking stare.
Bobby gripped his gun firmly and aimed it only to hear a loud clang against the floor. Bobby turned his head. The person who knocked out his knee had banged the metal rod against the crumpled floor. Bobby watched as they slowly turned around. Bobby gasped. It was that girl he had seen in the window. Her wild, curly hair traveled long down her back and her copper-red skin gleamed even though there wasn’t much light. Bobby could tell she was younger than him. He didn’t know by how much, but she was definitely younger. Bobby noticed her pink lips were tight and her thick eyebrows were narrowed and mad. Bobby held his breath, though, when he looked into her eyes. They weren’t any extraordinary color. They were a simple dark brown. But the emotion… the anger, the ferocious displeasure, the raging infuriation and fire of wrath burned. It actually HURT to look into her eyes and Bobby was scared.
The girl pursed her lips and walked towards Bobby. She squatted a mere foot from him and leaned in. She held up on of her metal rods.
“You know,” she began. Bobby was surprised that her voice was smooth and calm. “These used to be used a lot when my grandma was a kid,” she continued. “They’re called ‘baseball bats.’” She showed Bobby. Bobby read the letters on the bat and on it was “Boston Red Sox.” Bobby had heard of them from his grandfather. Baseball died as a professional sport in 2028 after the American Second Great Depression so it was understandable that most people of Bobby’s generation didn’t know about them.
The girl took the bat back and looked at it. “It’s so weird, ya know?” She looked at Bobby. “Such primitive technology and yet, it is so incredibly useful. Like the toy your friend messed up.” She motioned to Joe who lay unconscious still. The Aetean stood near him and that bothered Bobby but Bobby knew better than to have another outburst. He looked back to the girl. She smiled. “That toy was older than the both of you, ya know?” She shook her head in disappointment. “Such a shame.”
She scooted closer to Bobby and Bobby could feel his heart race. “That thing over there,” she motioned behind her and Bobby’s eyes followed to a board with wheels. It was the thing she had rolled in on. He gave his gaze back to the girl. “That thing,” she continued, “is called a ‘skateboard.’ They were popular before everyone got hovercrafts and hoverboards. But it’s like, the original hoverboard.” She smiled. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed but, I happen to like things that are old. It makes me think of simpler times. You know, before guns got like,” she put her hand on his gun, “THIS.” She hit the gun in multiple places and Bobby couldn’t help but express his shock all over his face as he watched helplessly and his gun fell apart.
The girl looked at him. “Don’t play with the big toys yet, kid,” she said. “Maybe when you’re a grown-up.”
Bobby fell back. And he winced at the pain in his leg. The girl leaned in closer to him. The further Bobby leaned back, the more she leaned in until Bobby was flat on the floor and she now straddled him. She sat on his thighs and grabbed the collar of his shirt. She pulled him up so that He had to look into her eyes.
“Listen to me you dimwitted, ignorant, idiotic, mindless, little PRICK,” her voice was low and barely above a whisper but Bobby knew the Aetean could hear because he laughed.
“I want to know who you are,” the girl continued. “NOW.”
Bobby gulped. “My name- my name-, my-my-“
“Uhn. My-my-my name.- SPIT IT OUT.”
“My name is Bobby!” Bobby was surprised at how loud he became. The girl raised her eyebrows. “Bobby?” she repeated.
“Bobby.”
The girl looked to the Aetean. “What is it he yelled at you?” she asked. “Oh yeah.” She turned back to Bobby. “You called him an intruding cockroach. Big words or an injure man don’t you think?” bobby didn’t answer.
The girl pursed her lips. “Hmm. Say, Bobby, where ya- from?”
“Home.”
The girl chuckled. “No duh, but obviously not MY home so where exactly is your home?”
Bobby stared at her. Could this girl actually not know about HOME? She never heard of them? Bobby couldn’t believe it. Every fiber of his being told him she was being completely honest yet, he couldn’t, wouldn’t and didn’t WANT to believe it.
She girl shrugged. She smiled and her grip on his collar became tighter. “I don’t like it,” she began, “when I have stupid kids intrude my school let alone with the intent to hurt one of MY students.” She reached into her pocket and put something on her shirt. “See this, Bobby?”
Bobby looked.
“What does it say, Bobby?”
Bobby looked. “Vice President,” he read aloud.
“That’s right. See? You aren’t completely hopeless, Bobby. Now, I happen to be Vice President of this ENTIRE school. With the President in Amsterdam at the present moment, it means I am the person with the responsibility to take care of each and every one of these kids. ALL eight-HUNDRED of them.” She smiled. “And so when little brats barely learning to stand,” she used her foot to tap his injured leg and Bobby winced. “-come here with guns with the intention to hurt my students, I get pissed.” She shoved Bobby down to the floor. “EVERYTHING in this school is MY responsibility. The students, the floors which I now have to replace, and even the little cockroaches are under MY care.”
The girl moved the bat to his knee. “Now, Bobby,” she said, “When you go back ‘home,’” the last word lingered in the air heavily. “You tell your mom why you have a court date. You will tell her about how you tried to hurt my friends, family, classmates, and responsibility.” She pressed the bat firmer against Bobby’s leg. “But you Bobby will have the pleasure of not facing my fiery wrath.” The Aetean laughed and by instinct Bobby turned to him.
“Shut up you FILTH!!!” Bobby snapped. He regretted it the instant he said it because he could feel the cold glare coming from the girl. He turned back to her and the weight on his lap increased drastically. He cried out as she hit his knee with her bat. Tears began to burn in his eyes. She frowned and grabbed Bobby by the back of his head.
“That piece of FILTH as you so delicately called my friend,” she continued, “is the reason you aren’t going to beat up more once I do THIS.” Bobby felt a sudden pain on the back of his neck then…
Nothing.
AEC North Hallways
Outside the Computer room
12:57 p.m.
I leaned against the wall trying to regain the lost breath because of Leitun. I ran my fingers through my curly hair. Of course, today I had to be "authentic" and wear my hair down. I should have brought a band to pull my jungle mess back. I thought it was hot in the auditorium, Nebulas no. Being with Leitun for five minutes made my heart race more than anything. I felt faint.
I sighed. I peered into the window of the computer class and sure enough, I saw Leitun cleaning up the mess.
I pursed my lips. I couldn't tell if he was a good guy or bad guy. He had no expression until it came to me. Then, evil shone through like a star on a moonless night. I began to walk back to my duties in the auditorium. As I did, I passed some windows that had a clear view of the back of the school and I spied some people climbing over the wall. I rolled my eyes ready to lecture the intruders when I realized that they weren't some stupid kids from another school. They were adults.
My eyes narrowed and I squatted down. I peeked over the edge of the window, trying not to be conspicuous. I watched as they dared to enter my school and then I saw it. Guns.
Oh hellz no.
There is gonna be some supernova radiation of Pissed-offness emitting from me VERY soon. Okay, granted I was a little scared, but I didn't even know why they were there. I stood up in my Fit O' Fury and I could feel the intensity blazing from my face.
My fist curled and I glared down at my intruders. One of them, couldn't have been older than myself by much, probably only 19 years-old looked up and saw me. I poured my gaze into him and I know he got scared. Little punk. I narrowed my eyes and gave him my "you-are-so-BEYOND- dead- that-hell-will send-you-back-because-you-were-punished-too-much-on-Earth" look.
I couldn't help but smile when I saw him tap his buddy and begin to point at me, which slightly freaked him out more. I don't know if his stupid buddy saw me or not but I didn't really care. I was officially on a mission and someone was gonna get hurt.
I began to storm down the hall back to the computer room since I knew it was already opened. I opened the door to find myself walking directly into Leitun. He looked at me and just smirked.
"Oh, shut up," I growled. I walked past him and began moving desks. He raised an eyebrow.
"Oh come on, Sweetie-" "DON'T CALL ME THAT!" "-why the 'tude?"
I turned around and grabbed him by his, "ECLAIS" (Aetean rock band) shirt and dragged him to the window. I pointed.
"THAT is why I'm pissed." Leitun's expression went to his normal, unreadable, slightly annoying face.
He looked at me. "Lilly, do you know who those guys are?"
I turned back around and lifted a chair onto a cleared table. "No," I said matter-a-factly. "But I really don't care."
I looked at him. "Bad guys go to jail," I stepped onto the table. "I'll be the one smiling as they head off to get sentenced."
I stepped onto the chair and reached up. Drats. Even with my 5'9" height, a table, and a chair, I just narrowly was too short. I stood on my tiptoes and reached. My fingers just barely was able to push the ceiling board over. Once I managed to do that, I braced myself to jump.
I was just about to jump when I felt hands on my waist. I whipped my head around.
"Who exactly do you think you are putting your hands on?" I demanded to know. Leitun just looked at me.
"I might as well help you. Can't have the reason I breathe hurting herself." I rolled my eyes. "Whatever." I mumbled. I wasn't in a position to avoid a lift. Besides, he was taller and stronger than me. An advantage most Aeteanilise have over humans let alone the fact that he was a guy.
Leitun lifted me up past the new ceiling opening I created and I pulled myself to safety. I began to crawl through and was turning around to cover it back up when I saw Leitun following me. I watched as he climbed up.
My eyes narrowed. "WHAT. Are. You. DOING?"
He looked at me incredulously. "Sitting in place?" I could feel my nostrils flare and he just chuckled.
"Of course I'm coming with you."
I just rolled my eyes. I didn't have time to argue with the idiot. I had to go save my peoples. So long as he was there, being a stupid idiot, I figured, might as well use him to my advantage.
December 19th, 2045
AEC North Hallways
1st floor
1:00 p.m.
The men stood at attention waiting for orders. HOME was at the school to get rid of the alien-freaks allowed in. One had been with HOME for the past 4 years. He was dedicated to HOME completely and fully. His name was Joe and he was 22. The other was a newbie. He was 19 and fresh out of high school. His name was Bobby. Bobby's dad had been arrested after HOME had an invasion of the Washington Intergalactic Headquarters. Bobby was only 6 years old. Since then, it was decided that Bobby would join HOME after his father.
Bobby was worried though. When they had come into the school, he thought he had seen a girl in the top floor. She just glared at him. No sign of fear or waver. She just glared. Bobby had to wonder if it was his conscious telling him that he shouldn't be there. Bobby just didn't know. he tried to tell Joe about the girl but Joe didn't see her. Bobby was slightly confused but decided that it was just a small hallucination from stress. It was only his third invasion anyway.
Bobby gripped his gun. Bobby was a normal guy. Well, normal HUMAN guy. He was 5'10" with normal brown hair and brown eyes. He was lanky with not much muscle but he was strong enough to hold his own. Bobby was raised in a small community- all human- that was full of Conservatists who believed in a good "Christian" world. His mom raised him in the Church of Jehovah's Life House run by HOME.
Bobby looked at Joe. Joe was getting bored and Bobby could tell. Joe didn't care. They were on guard duty. The security was already out and the invasion had already begun to take place. No one else was in the school and no one would be able to call the police because they cut off satellite to the school with a magnetic barrier.
Then Bobby heard a buzzing noise. Joe noticed it too. They looked around searching for the source of the sound. They turned around to find an old toy on the floor. Bobby raised an eyebrow. It was a wind-up toy from back-in-the-day. They didn’t even make them anymore. It was a small toy that Bobby imagined would have been sold in McDonalds’s Kid’s Meals. It was the Disney character WALL-E. Bobby had never actually seen the movie but WALL-E was infamous at HOME. They considered all movies about “good” aliens to be science fiction. The extraterrestrials were evil and NOT cute and cuddly.
Joe scoffed at the toy and aimed his gun. He fired. The first bullet knocked the small toy over. The next blew a hole through it. The next knocked off its head and the head tumbled across the floor. Joe smiled and continued firing, laughing as he did. He stopped when the toy was nothing more than fine powder and tiny broken pieces. The floor beneath crumbled and was now in need of repair. Joe didn’t care though; the alien was dead, just like the intruders of his mother planet would be.
Joe continued to chuckle but Bobby began to hear something else now that the bullets weren’t firing anymore. He looked at Joe and was going to say something but Joe held up his hand to shush Bobby. They turned around towards the sound and saw it. It was a person gliding down the floor and coming at them FAST. The sound they had heard was wheels rolling across the gray tile of the school. The person rolled faster still and Joe aimed his gun and began to fire. But he only fired three shots all of which missed and then he realized his gun was out of ammo. By the time Bobby realized, and before Joe could hit the blue “re-load” button, the person was already at them. The person timed it perfectly. Half a second before they reached Joe and Bobby, they whipped out their arms and held firmly some type of metal rod in each hand. The speed increased the impact of their swing and they used the rods to hit both of Joe’s knees and one of Bobby’s.
Joe and Bobby both cried out as they dropped to the floor. Joe’s knees were pushed the opposite way and had shattered. Bobby’s knee was popped out of its socket and fractured. Joe wreathed in pain and didn’t move. Bobby curled into a ball and coddled his knee. He had never felt so much pain in his life.
The person continued to roll and very abruptly stopped and the momentum made them accelerate further and helped them stand up. Their hands never dropped the metal rods. They stood tall and Bobby could see them grip the metal firmer.
Bobby heard a thump! and he turned to see what else could happen. He looked up and he felt his heart stop. It was one of THEM. The Aeteanilse. Bobby gritted his teeth ready to yell in fury but he fell silent as he watched the Aeteanilise filth hit the back of Joe’s neck causing Joe to go unconscious. Bobby’s nose flared.
“You intruding COCKROACH!!!” he screamed. Bobby forgot all about the pain in his leg and sat up and kneeled down about to get up. The Aetean just turned to him and raised an eyebrow. His dark hair fell past his eyes and even though Bobby couldn’t see the eyes, he could feel the Aetean’s mocking stare.
Bobby gripped his gun firmly and aimed it only to hear a loud clang against the floor. Bobby turned his head. The person who knocked out his knee had banged the metal rod against the crumpled floor. Bobby watched as they slowly turned around. Bobby gasped. It was that girl he had seen in the window. Her wild, curly hair traveled long down her back and her copper-red skin gleamed even though there wasn’t much light. Bobby could tell she was younger than him. He didn’t know by how much, but she was definitely younger. Bobby noticed her pink lips were tight and her thick eyebrows were narrowed and mad. Bobby held his breath, though, when he looked into her eyes. They weren’t any extraordinary color. They were a simple dark brown. But the emotion… the anger, the ferocious displeasure, the raging infuriation and fire of wrath burned. It actually HURT to look into her eyes and Bobby was scared.
The girl pursed her lips and walked towards Bobby. She squatted a mere foot from him and leaned in. She held up on of her metal rods.
“You know,” she began. Bobby was surprised that her voice was smooth and calm. “These used to be used a lot when my grandma was a kid,” she continued. “They’re called ‘baseball bats.’” She showed Bobby. Bobby read the letters on the bat and on it was “Boston Red Sox.” Bobby had heard of them from his grandfather. Baseball died as a professional sport in 2028 after the American Second Great Depression so it was understandable that most people of Bobby’s generation didn’t know about them.
The girl took the bat back and looked at it. “It’s so weird, ya know?” She looked at Bobby. “Such primitive technology and yet, it is so incredibly useful. Like the toy your friend messed up.” She motioned to Joe who lay unconscious still. The Aetean stood near him and that bothered Bobby but Bobby knew better than to have another outburst. He looked back to the girl. She smiled. “That toy was older than the both of you, ya know?” She shook her head in disappointment. “Such a shame.”
She scooted closer to Bobby and Bobby could feel his heart race. “That thing over there,” she motioned behind her and Bobby’s eyes followed to a board with wheels. It was the thing she had rolled in on. He gave his gaze back to the girl. “That thing,” she continued, “is called a ‘skateboard.’ They were popular before everyone got hovercrafts and hoverboards. But it’s like, the original hoverboard.” She smiled. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed but, I happen to like things that are old. It makes me think of simpler times. You know, before guns got like,” she put her hand on his gun, “THIS.” She hit the gun in multiple places and Bobby couldn’t help but express his shock all over his face as he watched helplessly and his gun fell apart.
The girl looked at him. “Don’t play with the big toys yet, kid,” she said. “Maybe when you’re a grown-up.”
Bobby fell back. And he winced at the pain in his leg. The girl leaned in closer to him. The further Bobby leaned back, the more she leaned in until Bobby was flat on the floor and she now straddled him. She sat on his thighs and grabbed the collar of his shirt. She pulled him up so that He had to look into her eyes.
“Listen to me you dimwitted, ignorant, idiotic, mindless, little PRICK,” her voice was low and barely above a whisper but Bobby knew the Aetean could hear because he laughed.
“I want to know who you are,” the girl continued. “NOW.”
Bobby gulped. “My name- my name-, my-my-“
“Uhn. My-my-my name.- SPIT IT OUT.”
“My name is Bobby!” Bobby was surprised at how loud he became. The girl raised her eyebrows. “Bobby?” she repeated.
“Bobby.”
The girl looked to the Aetean. “What is it he yelled at you?” she asked. “Oh yeah.” She turned back to Bobby. “You called him an intruding cockroach. Big words or an injure man don’t you think?” bobby didn’t answer.
The girl pursed her lips. “Hmm. Say, Bobby, where ya- from?”
“Home.”
The girl chuckled. “No duh, but obviously not MY home so where exactly is your home?”
Bobby stared at her. Could this girl actually not know about HOME? She never heard of them? Bobby couldn’t believe it. Every fiber of his being told him she was being completely honest yet, he couldn’t, wouldn’t and didn’t WANT to believe it.
She girl shrugged. She smiled and her grip on his collar became tighter. “I don’t like it,” she began, “when I have stupid kids intrude my school let alone with the intent to hurt one of MY students.” She reached into her pocket and put something on her shirt. “See this, Bobby?”
Bobby looked.
“What does it say, Bobby?”
Bobby looked. “Vice President,” he read aloud.
“That’s right. See? You aren’t completely hopeless, Bobby. Now, I happen to be Vice President of this ENTIRE school. With the President in Amsterdam at the present moment, it means I am the person with the responsibility to take care of each and every one of these kids. ALL eight-HUNDRED of them.” She smiled. “And so when little brats barely learning to stand,” she used her foot to tap his injured leg and Bobby winced. “-come here with guns with the intention to hurt my students, I get pissed.” She shoved Bobby down to the floor. “EVERYTHING in this school is MY responsibility. The students, the floors which I now have to replace, and even the little cockroaches are under MY care.”
The girl moved the bat to his knee. “Now, Bobby,” she said, “When you go back ‘home,’” the last word lingered in the air heavily. “You tell your mom why you have a court date. You will tell her about how you tried to hurt my friends, family, classmates, and responsibility.” She pressed the bat firmer against Bobby’s leg. “But you Bobby will have the pleasure of not facing my fiery wrath.” The Aetean laughed and by instinct Bobby turned to him.
“Shut up you FILTH!!!” Bobby snapped. He regretted it the instant he said it because he could feel the cold glare coming from the girl. He turned back to her and the weight on his lap increased drastically. He cried out as she hit his knee with her bat. Tears began to burn in his eyes. She frowned and grabbed Bobby by the back of his head.
“That piece of FILTH as you so delicately called my friend,” she continued, “is the reason you aren’t going to beat up more once I do THIS.” Bobby felt a sudden pain on the back of his neck then…
Nothing.
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