Can't I Fit In Anywhere?

Chapter 82: A Small List of Reasons Why

Jacob, often going by Anti, huffed in frustration. Where the hell was that idiot!? Sure, he hasn't shown his face in a while, but he wasn't just going to get a tad burned then disappear.

He still needed to figure out how that idiot burned him with fire, considering that hey, he was a poltergeist and dead. Not that it would matter for much longer if his plan worked. He needed Ryan here though for it to work!

So that begged the question, where was he?!?!

The lights flickered above him, making some students in the Cafe look up confused. At least he didn't need to pop in each classroom with the competition going on to find him or any of his little friends. Still didn't make the task of finding him any funner though.

Anti felt like yelling. Anti watched the idiot fight to see if he would even win. Then as the idiot was dragged off, Anti gathers the supplies, and then Ryan just disappears!

He can't do a simple 'accidental' explosion if the idiot's not there. Well, he could at least for entertainment. He did manage to steal a few matches just in case they smelled the gasoline before it was time to begin the simple plan, but that wasn't the point.

The point was, where was he?

"Something's definity wrong with that light." One of the student's spoke up.

Anti left before he accidentally made the light blow. He already used more energy than what he wanted by getting the supplies; Last thing he wants is to not have enough when the plan begins.

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Ryan stretched, arms raising above his hand. He had no clue what the hell time it was in the morning, but the Sun was already shining and he was not in the mood to be up.

After the messenger left, they were quickly sent off to separate spare rooms to go to sleep until morning. Something about enough excitement for one day and they both looked dead on their feet.

Slade, Ryan could agree with that statement. Him however was wide awake, and still wide awake until the sky was slowly beginning to lighten. So in total he got at max about 30 minutes. Now that he actually was asleep and was awoken by the dim lights of the day shining in his face, he was ready to fight the Sun.

Rubbing his face, Ryan slipped on his hoodie before slipping the knife into his sleeve. Each hoodie he had has a simple pocket in the sleeve to hold weapons of any sort. Blame Tina and the rest of his life for being on edge.

At least now he actually had a weapon to put in it. He would put the lightsaber in it but he'd rather not accidentally activate it and possibly kill himself. Not the way he would like to go.

Walking to the door, he left, hoping someone else was awake at this god awful time. What looked to be the town hall was apparently something more of a headquarters since Gizzy and his friend apparently stay here unless they have to travel somewhere.

Gizzy.

That whole situation was a mess. On one hand, Ryan felt hurt that Gizzy never even tried hinting about the dimension travel he does. On the other hand, Ryan could understand it. It's not like that is a secret you want to spread around. Plus, it's not like Ryan told him about the portal underneath the school.

That was more of a time bomb then he was, that that was saying something.

"Hey Ryan!" Gizzy's voice snapped him out of his thoughts to see that Ryan managed to wander to the dining room.

Ryan felt like dying at the clearly wide awake Gizzy, who was just sitting there eating a piece of toast like it was no big deal writing on some piece of paper. "I will stab you if you don't turn down that amount of sunshine you are emitting right now." Was the first thing Ryan spoke, before his brain thought maybe not say that.

Then again, Ryan never had a good brain to mouth filter.

Gizzy ended up snorting, and Ryan swore he tried to give off more. Sitting down, Ryan just put his head down, letting out a low groan.

"Didn't sleep well?"

"Didn't sleep." Was his response. It was basically true.

"You need a better sleep schedule."

"No kidding." Ryan raised his head, propping it up with a hand. "Are you seriously working on school work now?"

"Hm?" Gizzy looked up. "Oh, ya. How do you think I've been blowing through the first year's work? A day over there is like two here."

"That's nice to know." A monotone voice spoke up. It was hard to place for either student.

"Morning Slade." They spoke in unison.

Slade, who was looking a lot more rested then Ryan at the moment, leaned against the door frame, arms crossed. "You do realize Petra and I are going to talk to you about this after it is all over, right?"

Gizzy merely folded inwards, deciding that taking a bite was easier than answering the question.

"We're not going to force you to stop coming, if that is what you are worried about. You clearly built a life here, however strange it is." He continued. "Though it would have been nice to know."

Gizzy shrugged. "How was I going to approach that conversation? Not like portals are common knowledge. Nearly choked on air when I saw you two here."

"How do you think I felt." Ryan grumbled, to which Gizzy merely snorted.

"Ya, since dimension travel is clearly new for you."

Ryan gave a leveled stare at the sentence. "I do not have enough energy to deal with your sarcasm at the moment."

Slade merely gave a look. "Now you know how I feel around you and your group of friends."

"You're like four years older than me! You should be use to it!"

Slade went to speak, before he paused, shutting his mouth, giving a soft frown as he thought. "Don't you mean three?"

It was Ryan's turn to frown. "No? I'm tired, but I'm not tired enough that I suck at math. Eighteen, which I know you are, minus fourteen, which I turned not long ago, equals four."

Slade, with little motion Ryan was able to distinguish, basically blue screen, blinking slowly with a new emotion Ryan wasn't able to figure out.

"Shouldn't you be in my grade then?" Gizzy pointed down at the work he was currently doing with a small frown.

Ryan then belatedly realized that he should have just went with three. "I skipped a year. Probably my worst and best mistake in my life."

"You didn't think of telling Petra or me that?" Slade's voice approached on what Ryan figured was slightly horrified.

"It wasn't important?" Ryan, for the life of him, couldn't figure out what exactly was wrong. Sure, he skipped a year, yay.

"There's a reason why Life and all the other schools are High schools. Any grade younger and it's nearly impossible to control!" Slade looked a tad bit horrified with a bit of shock mixed in there.

"Oh." Ryan blinked. It was too early in the morning to be figuring this out. "So twelve/thirteen is a no go then?"

"Oh my god." Slade's head merely hit the wall with a thud as he stared at the ceiling.

"So," Ryan began. "I have Fire Runes, which is the hardest Rune to control, with hidden Psychic Runes that made it worse, activated at an age that makes Runes nearly impossible to control." Ryan summarized. "Wow, last year is making more and more sense now."

"Oh my-" Slade pinched the bridge of his nose. "Great. Just- great. Ryan, we are going over any other things you decide to hide when we get back."

Ryan frowned, already planning an escape away when they arrive, unknowing of the more pressing matter to attend to when he got back. "Sure."

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So, updates are going slower, I apologize for that but on my behalf school is a killer and I should have never signed up for Anatomy and Physics at the same time.