Blazing: Ninjago Oneshots

Identity, Part I (TJC Coliel)

Cole's POV

"You should sing something. Aren't you super talented?"

"Ha, you wish." What did she want me to do, treat her like a princess? Just because half the guys in my grade worshipped her didn't mean I did.

Seliel huffed and flopped onto the grass. The wet grass. I flinched.

"What?" she snapped, sitting up and glaring at me, her pants probably soaking up the water.

"Do you not care that your clothes are... you know what never mind," I muttered, staring at the wooden board on the stone table that was supposed to be the base of our diorama. It had literally just rained only a little more than an hour ago, and as soon as it stopped my dad told me to invite her over for the history project. It had already been about half an hour and we'd gotten nothing accomplished. We didn't even have a rough sketch.

Why did the teacher just have to choose partners for the biggest assignment of the year and give me Seliel of all people? I didn't think I'd ever talked to her in my life. We didn't really hang out in the same crowd, since her dad was the mayor and she always stuck with the popular kids.

I guess I could've hung out with them if I wanted to since my dad and his group could be considered pretty famous, but a lot of the so-called "cool kids" were such stuck-up snobs that I'd rather not. Besides, my friends were amazing. Even though they were weird. And annoying as hell half the time.

As mean as it sounded, I felt like Seliel's hair dye had probably somehow seeped through her scalp and killed all her brain cells. From what I knew of her, she was obsessed with the latest fads and trends and talked about boys way too much. Except she never dated anybody.

Not that guys didn't try to get with her. Once Kai got bored and attempted to do just that. He failed, of course. It was funny, though, and we all got a good laugh out of it.

Seliel shrugged and went to sit on the stool opposite the table from me. It was hard to not try to get a glimpse of her back and see how ridiculous it looked. Luckily my dad was off with his group doing whatever he was doing, so he wouldn't suddenly come out and think I threw her onto the ground or anything. Ever since I was little he'd always taught me to not lose face and doing something like that to the mayor's daughter was literally the definition of losing face.

"Well hurry up and come up with some ideas," Seliel said, running a hand through her bright pink hair, which only made it messier in my opinion, "We've gotten nothing done."

"Wow you noticed," I muttered sarcastically, "I wonder why that could be."

"That's 'cause you're not offering any ideas, dumdum," she replied matter-of-factly, and before I could call her out for her audacity, Seliel continued, "So hurry up and come up with some."

"Excuse me?" I asked, wondering just how much nerve she had, "I've been trying for the past half hour, and you're the one laughing at all of them. Try coming up with some yourself."

She raised an eyebrow. "I thought you were joking. So I laughed. They were funny."

I kind of wanted to punch her, even though it looked like Seliel was serious. I didn't think she was smart enough to lie, and she said it with a pretty straight face. "Okay, you come up with one," I said, trying my best to keep my tone civil.

"Well, what would look epic?" Seliel asked.

"I don't know, aren't you supposed to know?" It was extremely hard to not be shouting at this point. At first I had merely been annoyed that I had to do this with someone I barely knew, but after realizing how frustrating it was to work with her, things just got ten times worse.