"Pillow Buddy" ✔

Gremlin

Chapter seventy-one: "Gremlin"

I think it took an hour before anyone could pass my locker, luckily it was Peter who was memorizing more historical facts that he was mumbling to himself

"Peter!" I called out to him loudly enough and he turned around to look from his behind

"Peter! It's Penelope, I'm stuck in my locker" I told to him and he went to search for my locker

"Keep talking girl where the heck are you?!" He peeks at every locker and I kept talking to him until he finally found me

"Woah, Price I know you are labeled as a dumb girl and all but I know that you are not that dumb to mistake your locker as your classroom" he chuckled lightly

"Geez Peter, I might have learned something during my one-hour duration of being stuck in here standing up. My legs hurt like hell" I cried from my numb legs because I haven't moved in this standing position and I don't think I can feel my legs anymore

Peter asked me for my password
"It's 0694" I Whispered to him

"Penelope I have bad news for you dudette, the lock is broken" Peter was left scratching his head

I sighed, my phone battery is dead because I forgot to charge it last night, and on my way to school the battery percentage is only 20% when I charged it in Cloud's car "Isn't there a crowbar in the janitor's closet?" I asked him

Peter looked at me dead in the eyes and go "The moment I can find a crowbar in a janitors closet is the moment that murder will occur in this school or it increases my chances of seeing 2 people make a baby"

"Then how are you gonna get me out of here?"

He shrugged "Call the janitor I guess, hold on I'll message one of your friends to keep you company" he texted one of my friends and shoved his phone back into his pocket

"So who did you message?"

"It's Will"

"Thanks, Peter"

He grinned "No problem, be back in a minute" he gave me a small wave before he ran quickly to find the janitor

18 minutes later, Will came and peeked the inside of my locker to see me inside of it "I see that you have taken your reputation to the next level sleepy, cause damn, you know the lockers in this school have the lock sometimes not work right?"

I rolled my eyes "Yes I know" he slipped a thin cereal bar through the peek hole of my locker and I got to eat something as I wait

"Hey, Will have you seen Penelope?" I heard Cloud's voice asking Will in front of my locker

Will pointed to my locker "Why don't you ask the gremlin inside" Cloud was puzzled at first but he looked and saw me "What the fuck Penelope?!"

I waved at him and said an awkward "Hi"

"Angel you are a new level of stupid" his eyes were my view because he was peeking from the outside

I crossed my arms "You don't think I know that? Now where the heck is Peter?" I asked Will and Cloud

"Peter should be here by n- There he is!" Will pointed to the left side of the hallway

All I see now is Old Lady Barbara holding a crowbar and was breaking my locker door to get out, she was making a loud sound as she was breaking open the door which garnered a lot of people around my locker
So I was right, there is a crowbar in the janitors closet

There was now a huge crowd and the old lady managed to open the door and the crowd gasped when they saw me inside, many of them gossiped, whispered, or even snickered at me. As soon as I try to walk when I stepped out of the locker, my numb legs didn't work so I fell and Cloud managed to catch me in his strong arms in time

"That's quite the entrance for you" he whispers in my ear as he used his strength to help me stand up until I can feel my legs again little by little

Old Lady Barbara was scratching her head that is full of white hair that is covered with a hairnet "Now I better get going, the last stall in the lady's room toilet is not flushing properly" she walked away right after

"Thank you" I politely said to her and she returned it to me with a smile that made the corner of her eyes wrinkle because of age

I turned to Peter, Will, and Cloud and asked "So what did I miss?"

"Nothing much the teacher forgot about the homework and thought that the deadline is tomorrow, nobody in that room said a word about it" Will explained to me

"Can you explain to us Angel, why are you hiding in your locker?" Cloud was looking inside my now no door locker since Old Lady Barbara was strong that she ripped the locker door

Peter looked at my locker door that is now on the ground "Are you sure she is 76 years old?" He knocked at the broken door "Yup, it's metal. We've got the grandma of hulk in school"

The strength that came back to my legs only helped me to stand up so when I tried to walk my legs felt like twigs and I fell on the floor that I have to look at the ceiling because of my disappointment, I can hear footsteps coming closer and it turned out to be Yara who is with Jane that has a worried look on her face

"We've heard about the locker, you ok Sleepy?" Jane asked me as both she and Yara ran to help me

I laughed a little bit to show that it's not that big of a deal "I just can't feel my legs right now" my hands went to rub both of my legs like a massage hoping that I could feel the sensation at the bottom half of my body

They all waited on me to recover my legs' sensation which took most of their time to switch classes, Cloud groaned loudly "Everyone get to your classes quick" he kneeled next to me "If this is gonna embarrass you, just to let you know, I don't fucking care right now alright? Ok" his arms went under me and flopped my body on one of his shoulders like a sack of potatoes

There is this panicked look on my face as I glanced at my friends, I gave them the 'help me' look and they all gave me a sheepish smile except for Jane who was looking at us with a sad look
Oh no

I kept hitting Cloud's back many times but he wouldn't put me down "Peter grab her bag let's run to the next homeroom, class is about to start in 10 minutes" Cloud ordered Peter and he followed him

We waved at each other before running as fast as Cloud's legs could go to the next homeroom just like this morning, his legs helped him get to class 7 minutes earlier before the bell starts. When Peter opened the door for us, Cloud entered and thanked him

Of course, since we are humans and our primal instinct is when someone made a noise in a quiet area, we have to look at what it is that's making the noise. So when I entered the room while being flopped at one of Cloud's shoulders everyone has a surprised look on their faces

Some of the boys teased me while the girls asked Cloud or Peter why Cloud was carrying me in his shoulder, Cloud being Cloud ignored them as he puts me down gently to a seat next to him