Short Stories

The Stalking Game

Lukas

        They were still out there. When were they going to leave?

I was in the bathroom, had been for more than ten minutes. I just wanted to go back into the room.

I peeked out again, seeing them walk back in the direction of the leadership class room. Finally.

"Can I leave now?" I asked one of the guys quietly.

"Is it safe?" Brenden chimed in. I nodded hesitantly.

"Oh shit." Christian cursed as the girls rounded the corner with their backpacks, making their way to the round table.

"Guys, I'm gonna make a break for it." Ryan mumbled, walking out of the door. He made eye contact with the ginger and glanced at Megan. Strange. You'd think he'd had a thing for one of them or something. The girl's paid almost no attention to him, glancing up for a second and returning to what they were doing.

What were they doing?

"God Casey! Stop being a perv!" Megan cried out loud. Casey snickered.

"I'm sorry, but his ass looks perfect!" The guys looked at me.

"It can't be perfect! It's not Perfect!"

"Not perfect." Christian mocked.

"Shut up."

"Shut up!" Megan yelled from outside. Her head was laying on the table, her earbuds plugged in. Casey was laying on the bench and laughing.

Girls were strange...

Suddenly the bell rang and we made our way to the wall.

Well, Ryan, Christian, and I made a stop by the girls.

I smirked, "So Casey, you think my butt is perfect?" She turned to face me and Megan looked up with 'innocent' eyes.

"I never said that." She announced, annoyed.

"Yeah you did, you just said that his butt was perfect." Christian added.

"So what, are you stalking us now?" Megan murmured, burying her face in her arms.

"Get real."

"You stalk us!"

"You think we would want to stalk you?" Casey laughed bitterly.

"Ouch Wallen, that hurt." I pouted, placing my hand over my chest.

She chuckled, "Almost as much as you getting dropped on your head."

"That's nice." Christian voiced.

"Screw off." Megan stood up and began walking away with her bag on her back.

Well that just happened...
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"That looks like a cloud!" Megan laughed, laying on the grass. Why she was doing that and what she was doing, I couldn't tell you... "That one looks like an apple!! And that one looks li- Oh no! Don't look at the cloud, don't look at the cloud, don't look at th-"

"What are you freaking out about, Workman?" I walked over to her and looked up. Wait a minute, "Hey look Ryan, it's you." Ryan walked over and looked up.

Indeed, there was a cloud shaped like his head.

"Ha. That's weird."

'Why are you looking at clouds?" I asked Megan who had returned to watching the clouds.

"Why aren't you?" She replied, not even looking at me.

"Because I don't want to."

"Shame. Might get that stick out of your ass." She stood up, brushing herself off and nodding at me, "Bye Luka." I rolled my eyes, watching her walk away.

Weirdo.

I walked back over to my group, shoving the incident in the back of my mind.
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"Is it out?" Megan asked me as I walked to first block, alone for once.

"Is what out?"

"The stick in your ass. Did you get it out?" 

"If you're asking if I laid on the grass, staring at meaningless clouds. Then the answer's no." 

"Hmm. Pity. You should really try it. If not to get it out, then to loosen it." She sniffed and began walking away. I growled. She was really starting to bug me.

The bell rang and I walked to class... after Wolfe. Great!

"Good morning!" He yelled. Jesus Wolfe! 

The class half heartedly replied. "So today I am going to be adding people into different commissions so that they get a taste of the different choices. Who knows, OC's, they might be useful." Uh-huh... "Questions?"

"What if someone get's put into a commission that they can't stand?" Someone in the back asked. I couldn't tell who it was though...

"Force those bad thoughts to go away and stay positive. You're all leaders. You need to act like it, got it?" There were nods and he pulled out a piece of paper from his back pocket, "Okay. So there is Rally. Josh and Hailey will be joining. Tech. Megan, Casey, and Sofia will be joining. After school. Jacob, Tyler, and Julie will be joining. Promo. Tera, Ronnie, and Jamie will be joining. And finally Community Outreach. Kyra and Merdith will be joining. Get to it." I wrinkled my nose and looked over at Megan and Casey.

Megan's face was screwed into a painful looking scowl and Casey looked like she was trying to ease Megan into actually getting up and moving away from her 'sanctuary'. Sofia wasn't here today, so it was just going to be US vs THEM.

We got up, grabbed out backpacks, and walked over to the door. As expected, they followed silently.

"So what are we suppose to be doing?" Casey asked. Megan stood behind her silently. The way she was being was almost depressing.

"Just clean up or something. That's what we're doing?" Brenden shrugged.

Megan pulled out her iPod and a big bag of carrots, grabbing a hand full and putting her earbuds in. Matt walked over to her and pulled one of them out, "What are you listening to, Megatron?" He asked, looking at the iPod's tiny screen. She glared at him, grabbing her earbud back and sticking them into her pocket.

"I told you not to call me Megatron. So stop." She demanded, munching on a carrot. Christian walked over behind Matt, looking for a fight.

"Oh yeah? How are you gonna make me, Megatron?"

In one quick motion, Megan chucked a carrot at his nose and glared, backing away.

"Ow!" Hey yelled, covering his nose.

"Calling me Megatron is considered bullying. Therefore you received a carrot in the face, Matty." She turned around just as a carrot was flung back at her. "You dare?"

"Bring it, Workman!" And so the carrot fight had begun. In truth, it was US vs THEM.

"What is going on in here?" Wolfe's voice boomed, ducking from the carrot that was launched at his head. 

Megan fell at Ryan's feet. He quickly helped her up and moved away from her.

"She started it!" We yelled. pointing at Megan.

"It was his fault!" They yelled, pointing at Matt.

"Well," Casey began, "Matt called Megan Megatron and took out her earbud when she wasn't doing anything wrong, so Megan threw a carrot at him, Matt threw one back, they started a fight, and I totally kicked Shelley's butt."

"No you didn't!" Christian fired, glaring at her.

"I made a freaking carrot go in your mouth. Your butt was kicked epically." Before an argument could start again, Wolfe stopped them.

"I'm taking these. Now all of you clean up and get to work."

"Fine." We all answered as he left.

Never. Again.