(Present)
First thing you should know is that today has been worst best day of my life. And the best worst day. Ugh. My life is a fucked up mess.
"So Hazel kissed you and just walked away?!" Cael stammered.
"No. Nope. No. No" Marley shook her head "I was there. There was feeling up involved too" she stated with both disbelief and exasperation.
"She what?! And you let her?!" Robyn almost screamed.
"Yes? No-I-uh-maybe-gah!" I hit my head on the frame of the chair I was sitting on.
"Why'd she kiss you?!" Cael spoke up. All the yelling wasn't exactly helping, but I couldn't really blame them.
"I don't know! It's Hazel!"
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(At the Night School earlier that day)
"Okay. First stop. Locker rooms" Sara started walking. Marley and I exchanged a look before following after her. Hazel trailed behind silently. Zee and Sara also had a silent conversation before Zee lagged and started speaking with Hazel quietly.
"You two might need to know your way around. Having a concentrated area of connection with the N.S. tends to draw unwanted attention and the N.S.'s primary belief of that if you're going to involve yourself with it, you have to go as far as you can. You two might get into the physical combat level, but the farthest you can go is the heavy class" Sara explained "I don't really get it, but there is this cadet level system, and the level had access to different classes that have levels and for fucks sake it's impossible. You will probably get into the introductory weight class, information one, physical basics, and heavy class. The latter is basically a shooting range lesson"
"So you're telling me this is a school for guns and aliens?" Marley snorted.
"No. I'm telling you it's a school for protection. In theory anyway" Sara rolled her eyes. She lead us to the locker room, where I'd met Micha.
"Those are the locker rooms. Keep them clean or shit goes down" Sara stated with mild humor. "Zee, Hazel, where do we go next?" No reply, just a glare from Zee as Hazel stared blankly at nothing. "Nothing? Alright. We'll go to the light midrange room" Sara flicked her fingers in a gesture for us to follow.
She took us to a door at a floor lower than the one we were on first. Inside it were a bunch of people that looked a lot like Micha and Hazel. From the weird feeling I'm guessing they're all seconds. It's kinda cool. Kayla and Megan don't feel weird at all. Matter of fact, they feel really, really happy; like the Energizer bunny. Micha feels off. It's like she is always watching me and she always knows something I don't. Hazel is kinda an exception. She just feels -in a word- ugh.
"Move over, small people" Sara barged through the crowd and grabbed a set of daggers from the table in the center. She waited for the people on the range to collect before she took the next wave and stepped to a black line marked 'firing'. Zee held us at the 'spectating' line, which means we were still blocked by the people at the 'wait' line. Sara tossed her knife in her hand a few times before throwing it at the farthest target, hitting the mannequin square between the eyes. She empties her sheath of a total six arrows, now three mannequins fifty yards away had two knives impaled in them. Each had one between the eyes and one in its heart. Sara had a frown on her face when she walked back after collecting.
"That was a record high time. That sucked. These knives are not aerodynamic at all!" She growled, setting them on the table.
"Wow" Marley and I were gawking at her.
"What? Never seen a person with skill before?" She snorted "let's look at the hand to hand advanced room. That should at least give me a bit of fun" she waltzed out of the room and lead us to another on that level.
Walking in, it sounded like a bunch of grunts, gasps, thuds, and other fun noises.
"Somebody fight me" Sara walked into a mat and pulled her leather jacket off her body, revealing large muscles.
"You're going to win but if you want to show off, fine" Zee stepped in front of her sister, putting her hair up in a tight bun with an elastic from her wrist. I noticed Hazel watching enviously from beside Marley and I.
"Three second rule?" Sara put her fists up.
"If you break me, Libby is going to have a fit" Zee laughed, also raising her hands. Sara had a very offensive stance, where Zee had a very protective stance like you see Tris having in Divergent. Her forearms were blocking her chest while she watched Sara. The larger struck first, and Zee quickly dodged.
"Oh god, not this again" Sara groaned.
"I'm sorry, even if I can fix myself does not mean I enjoy you pounding me" Zee chuckled. Sara stepped forward, Zee dodged, but Sara had clearly known that would happen, she sidestepped between Zee's legs and knocked her onto the ground.
"Ouch, Kitty" Zee got back up. Sara aimed a powerful kick to Zee's side, landing with a crack. "Dammit" Zee fell back down. "Three" she stated instantly. She placed a hand on her side. "Kitty, you broke me again. I think that's four ribs this time. And possibly my stomach" she laughed lightly. She sighed out loudly as a faint blue light covered her abdomen.
"You know your healing sounds sound an awful lot like your Libby-ing sounds" Sara snickered and helped Zee up when she put her hand back to the side.
"How'd you do that?" I gasped as Zee casually put her hair back down.
"I'm a Healer, 'member?" Zee shrugged. "Let's go see the private arena so I can steal my sister's spotlight" Zee smirked and took lead.
"Woah! No! I don't like getting hurt either and I don't magically glow and bounce back" Sara whined. Zee ignored her.
"You" Sara groaned when Zee opened the door to wherever she was taking us. A black bird was flying around the ceiling and when we walked in, it squawked at Sara and landed on Zee's shoulder.
"How did you know we'd be here?" Zee asked the bird. The avian fluttered to the floor and started glowing icy blue.
"Because you're a show off. You had to get even with Fluffy after she ran around the combat and knife throwing rooms" the bird was suddenly a familiar ravenette woman, standing with her arms crossed and a smirk playing at Zee. "You and Sara only share S.u. classes. Dual me. Libby pulled Zee onto the marked area. Sara took us to sit on a bench.
"How much you want to bet they jump each other before they're done?" Sara mused. "Hey, Skinny Cow!" She screamed. "Shifters' match after Zee kicks your pretty ass!"
"You're so on, Mittens" Libby flipped her off before focusing on her opponent. Zee struck first this time, a huge glowing blue orb flashed from her hand and hit Libby's chest. While Libby hurled an ice blue dart, bright pale rainbow wings shimmered behind Zee's body, made purely of light.
"Oh no" Libby put her hands down and walked over to Zee. She put her hands around her wife's neck and drew a small black and silver necklace off her. "You are so not allowed to use this" Libby dangled the charm in front of Zee's face.
"But-you get to use yours" Zee pouted.
"Sweetie, mine is for Hathor's spells and Sekhmet's flamethrower. I'm not a prime Mage" Libby kissed Zee briefly before returning to her mark.
"Shut up, Skinny Cow" Zee chuckled and shot shards of royal blue light at her wife.
"No! Find your own nickname!" Sara protested.
"Mittens is right. Come on, Flappy Bird" Libby purred before sending a long day of icy light at Zee, who dodged promptly. In a few movements and doges, Zee's hand was pressed to Libby's neck, another to her heart. Libby laughed breathlessly.
"They're amazing, aren't they?" Marley whispered to me.
"Uh-huh" I nodded.
"Hey, Mittens, I'm tired. We can fight on the flight back" Libby jeered. She and Zee walked back, her arm around the latter's hips while the brunette put back on her necklace.
"What's that thing?" Marley pointed to it.
"My tjet and ankh necklace. It's like a magic amulet that gives me the memories and abilities of Isis. Sara has a sun disk dagger for Bastet. And she has a... My... Uh... Libby?" Zee blushed fiercely.
"I'm the goddess of love. Take a guess" as much as Libby tried she too was blushing.
"Uh..." Marley and I blurted.
"Oh my god. It's a ring, perverts. Right here! Has a fucking circle with horns on it!" Libby waved her hand around. Sure enough, there was a gold, red and Amber ring on Libby's ring finger. "I was blushing because there is this cheesy fucking ritual I had to go through to get it!" Marley and I tried to look at each other inconspicuously. "A wedding! I got married! It's kinda my wedding ring! The hell do you think happened?" Libby reattached herself to Zee.
"The same thing everyone thinks at first, Goldie" Sara snorted.
"I told you never to speak of that!" Libby shrieked and punched Sara's stomach halfheartedly. Sara grunted but didn't look hurt much.
"Ouch. Zee, your bitch is abusing me" Sara sneered.
"I know. I love her" Zee smirked. "She did tell you never to bring up the wate-" Libby squealed and put her hand over Zee's mouth.
"We should go" Hazel suddenly got up and left, fists clenched.
"She is so jelly!" Libby giggled. Sara started walking but in a moment turned to the couple.
"You did not just think that" Sara scowled. "She isn't" Sara glared at Libby. "I am so not dealing with this" Sara was smirking too much to make her argument seem legitimate.
"Yeah you are. I put up with you" Zee grinned back.
Zee took lead with her wife and we traveled up to what must've been Riley's office. It said Riley's Office on the door. The three guides stepped in, Hazel had disappeared, so Marley and I were alone.
"What ya think of them?" Marley brushed her hair back with a deep exhale.
"I would hate to be on any of their bad sides" I laughed.
"Tell me about it" Marley put her hands on her hips and sighed loudly. "Ugh. What a day. I'm up for a day off tomorrow...?" She elbowed my side lightly.
"No, Mar, we have school and we're gonna deal with it" I snorted and rolled my eyes. The office door creaked open and Hazel slipped out, looking a lot more irritable than before. She leaned against the wall and we had a mutual feeling of ignoring each other.
"Okay" Marley mouthed questioningly. "So, can we at least skip math and get ice cream or something?" She returned to her normal voice.
"No, I have a test" I chuckled.
"How about after school? After school we're going out to get ice cream" Marley nodded.
"Fine but you're buying" I snorted. Marley rolled her eyes.
"Cheap ass"
"You wanted to take me out to get ice cream, I'm not paying"
"Fine, biatch" she purred "I'm going to find a bathroom. See ya" she waved two fingers and walked off.
"I don't know the game you're playing but stop it" Hazel spoke up in a growl.
"I'm not doing anything, Hazel" I sighed. In an instant I was moved. Hazel had me up against the wall, her forearm holding my neck to the gray metal.
"Yes. You are. Stop it" she snarled. "Whatever is happening with you and Marley" she snapped "that is what you're doing. Stop it"
"I'm not doing anything with Marley. It's called friendship. Try it sometime" I rolled my eyes. What happened next was the cause of all my misery. Most of it. Nope all of it. She kissed me. I struggled for a few
moments, only until she adjusted her vice. She let go of my neck and I tried to escape, but when I felt her hands on my hips, holding me up against the wall, I gave up on trying to leave and just tried not to enjoy the moment.
"Anyone know where he bathroom is?- Holy shit!" I didn't know whether or not to be happy that Marley pried Hazel off me. For god's sake, I was so freaking confused I didn't even know my name for half a second. And by the time I came to, she was gone and Marley was freaking out.
**Happy Monday, all (ugh I hate Mondays)