Homo Horrors: Education and Trauma

Part 3: A Glitch Revealed

TV Zoe POV:

I stared at her as she went silent. "You aren't the Zoe from this timeline.. are you?" She glared at me. "Pfft! I have technologies you wouldn't understand." I grinned. "Yeah. I know your stupid wife was smart. Too bad they're dead now, eh?" She chuckled as I felt my soul sink.

She seriously would bring this up?! "What the hell is wrong with you?! Why are you even here?" I started to yell more as she grinned. "I'm on special business from an old friend.. Now. I have some stuff to do. Bye!" She shoved past me and started running away.

"HEY!! GET BACK HERE BITCH!" I screamed as I sprinted after her. I realized how much of a scene I was causing but I didn't care. I saw Annabel and Sofia glaring at me but whatever. As I ran, Oliver ran after me. "Hey!! Wait!"

I chased Mattea throughout the courtyard as she ran to the hallway and down a sharp left. Seriously?! What the hell was happening?? I felt myself trip over my own shoelaces and continued running. Why the hell was she even here?!

I ran faster and faster finally catching up to Mattea. Finally.. I grabbed her by her suit collar and shoved her down. I watched her fall as her face hit the floor. Stupid bitch deserves it.

She stayed still for a couple seconds before slowly getting up and turning to me. She had blood draining from her nose. She looked down and wiped her face slightly. "You asshole.." Mattea muttered.

She fuddled with her pocket before grabbing something. I watched as she pressed a button and her eyes began to glow. What the hell..

I watched as a portal formed behind her. It was the exact same one I've been through..

She waved as she fell backwards into the portal. I lunched forward to grab her legs, but the portal already closed. I fell face forward onto the concrete.

I quickly scrambled up as I felt my nose burn. Ow.. that sucked. I checked my nose. No blood. My knee felt bruised, but there's not much I could do about that. I heard loud footsteps behind me and I turned around. Oliver had ran over and bent over me.

"Oh jesus.. you look really hurt! Are you okay?" They looked at my knee. "What happened with you and Mattea? You just started yelling and this whole chase happened.. what's going on?"

I couldn't say anything. "Nothing's going on. I.. uh.. need to go home now.." I stood up and brushed myself off. "But school's still in session? You can't just skip! This isn't like you at all.."

Shit. I need to talk to high school me. What kind of excuse do I have?! "Uhm.. Have to go home early. Mom is uhm.. sick. With bronchitis."

Oliver looked worried. "Bronchitis? That's terrible. Want me to bring her some soup?" They smiled. "NO! I mean- no. I can hangout more tomorrow." I began to walk away but Oliver grabbed my arm. "Wait! Weren't you free tonight? That's what you told me.." They trailed off. I glared, getting annoyed. "I lied."

I brushed them off and walked away, turning around my shoulder. They had already left too. God, Oliver was always so clingy. It was always annoying in highschool.

Never mind. I'm not gonna waste my brainpower on this. I walked over to the janitor's closet and pushed the door open, then walked in. I waited till it shut then turned the lights on.

There the TV was. Just sitting there. Finally. I walked over and bent down, then found the button on the side. I pressed it down and watched the screen flash. There I was.

The status displayed "bored". I watched as old me yawned. "What took you so damn long..?" She asked. "Long story. Someone from my timeline is here trying to fuck everything up. All she said was she was doing it for an 'Old Friend'. What the hell does that even mean?!" I trailed off.

"That shit doesn't matter! You came here and told me you needed to do something, then never explained much. Just tell me what you need to do." She started yelling at me. "Okay.. jesus.. what I need you to do is to get together with Oliver. I know their dad studied a lot on technology and other timelines, right?" I asked. She nodded. "Yeah."

"Okay. You need to gain some of that info then come back here. I'll be waiting. We switch bodies, I go follow them and calibrate a portal for myself, and boom," I grinned. "Genius, right?"

She shook her head. "Didn't you say there was a problem in your timeline? If you just got rid of someone who somehow got here, wouldn't that be changing pretty much nothing?" Well now I felt stupid.

"Shit. Maybe you're right. Okay.. how about we do this. Uhm.." I thought for a moment. "Okay fuck you. Just scratch the idea I had okay? Just grow close to Oliver and figure out if they can do portal shit. Then report to me."

"Okay. So what do I do now?" She asked me. "We'll just transfer bodies then you go be gay. Okay?" I said. She nodded. "Great. Now let's switch bodies again."

Mattea (The Scoot) POV:

Tsk. What an asshole...

I sat inside the teacher's lounge. Why is the my timeline Zoe here?! I thought Grey said she would be distracted in some other world!

Great. I'm gonna get my ass kicked if I fail my job. I grabbed my "phone". It was a device that could communicate through different timelines. Whenever Oliver died, Grey took over everything and learned science himself. He invented some shit mainly for us to communicate.

I started texting him.

Mattea: Other timeline Zoe is here. What the fuck do I do now?

Grey: Ugh, seriously? That fag? Great. Always ruining the shit I wanna do.

Mattea: I'm only trying to do the job you wanted me to. Make it so Oliver, Zoe, you, and Fred all don't get together to make it so your plan works out faster and you can get even richer. I know.

Grey: Good. How's that going?

Mattea: I stopped Oliver from confessing. Your coffee date should be coming up. I'll stop that too. You still know what you owe me, right?

Grey: Of course. 120 million. I know this will be more than enough for when you get back and you can marry Samantha.

Mattea: No need to comment on that. I'll get everything done. Don't worry.

Grey: Thanks. Good luck

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Great. At least I have this written out for me now. Stop the confession between Fred and Grey, set Grey and Oliver up, leave and collect payment. Simple.

I grabbed my tracker. Grey also invented some stupid tracker to help track where all highschoolers here were. They just implemented everyone's school ID into some machine and then got it. Looking at the labels, Oliver was back in the courtyard and Zoe was in the.. janitor's closet?

Whatever. According to Grey, they should meet out in the courtyard and Oliver will ask Zoe to go to the café. Then I'll go there and stop Grey confessing to Fred. After that I get Grey and Oliver to meet up with love letters. If this doesn't work I'm a dead man..

..Now all we need to do is make sure I'm the winner here.