PROJECT: NYNE

Chapter Three: Sky [Edited]

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Chapter Three: Sky

I walked quickly out of Spanish class and into a hallway filled with the scent of cologne and teenagers. I had bumped into Blaize, but he didn't seem to care, or notice, for that matter, so I kept walking. Besides, I didn't want to interrupt his imaginary tea party. I slipped unnoticed into my next class, Biology. I was the first one in, as usual. The teacher, Mr. J, has learned not to say 'hi' to me, since I never answered anyway. I didn't want to be rude, I just got really nervous when I had to talk to such important people. I thought I'd make a fool of myself or something. I saw Xena walk in, Blaize right on her tail.

"Sky, what's it like outside?" Blaize asked. I looked up at him. "Ah, blue skies. Again. Dammit."

 "What?" Xena said aloud.

"What, what?" Blaize asked.

"Oh... uh, never mind." She said back.

The minute bell rang and I took my seat in the back table to the left. "Xena," The teacher said, "You can sit wherever you want."

"YES!" Blaize cheered beside me. "Awesome sauce." Xena took the hint and sat in the middle of the both of us. The final bell rang, and Mr. J clapped his over sized hands. "Take your seats everyone. We have a lot of work to do today."

Blaize raised a hand. I rolled my eyes and looked away. Mr. J motioned for him to say something.

"Why?"

"Why what?" Mr. J looked confused.

"Why do we have to do work? It's so boring!" Blaize bent over the back of his chair, if he was uncomfortable he did a good job of not showing it.

"Because this is school, that's why. Believe me, if I was paid to just have fun and play games with you guys I would." Mr. J replied. "Now, you can all go start your projects. If you don't remember, we're doing...oh, Blaize, do you have your project that was due last week on the animal you chose to study?"

"Yes, actually..."

Mr. J and Blaize continued talking, but I tuned him out, since I already knew what we were doing. I turned to Blaize, who's tongue had now poked it's way between his lips. He did that when he was really concentrating.

"Blaize?"

No reply.

"Blaize." I nudged him softly, but again I received no answer. I waved my hand in front of his face. He didn't blink.

Sometimes I wondered what he thought about to make him go into such a daze, since for some reason I couldn't get in his mind. I could only send messages, but even that was rare.

I elbowed him harshly, which I immediately regretted. It was effective, though. "Huh what?" he asked, the elbowing to his forearm going unnoticed. It seemed to have given him no damage, whatsoever. He looked at Xena and made a face. She stopped staring at him.

I laughed.

 Blaize sighed and put his face in his hands, then immediately brought himself back up and flipped off the teacher, who's back was currently turned. "Fluff you too," he muttered. "Fluff you too."

"What did he do?" I asked.

"Come on, you know I have problems with authority making it harder for me to concentrate and get work done which causes random outbursts of anger and insubordination."

I nodded. Xena laughed. 

Mr. J turned around and said, "Blaize, are you ready to present your project?"

"I... I have to present?" he brought his finger down before Mr. J noticed. It seemed he had not been expecting what had come to him.

"Yes. Everyone else did."

"...Oh. Okay!" Blaize happily got up and took a flash drive out of his pocket while Mr. J got everything hooked up.

Xena looked at me. "Is it weird that I'm kind of afraid of how this will go?"

I shook my head. "Not at all. I'm kind of scared too."

"Now hold up you guys lets talk about geese!" Blaize said with a grin.

Everyone began laughing.

"I'm just happy he actually did the project." I whispered to Xena.

"Look." Blaize turned to the next slide on his PowerPoint. It showed a picture of a gosling. "Isn't it adorable? That's a gosling, which is a baby goose, and not the guy named Ryan."

A bunch of girls went, "Aww!"

The next slide showed a bunch of baby geese.

"Now see these little puffballs? Aren't they cute? Yeah..." he smiled, but it faded. "Yeah, they're really adorable up until the point when you realize they're the spawn of satan!"

I hid my face in my hands.

The following slide contained a picture of a goose with it's mouth open. "Look at it all grown up! It has teeth! Yes, teeth! On their tongue!" Blaize motioned at the picture with large gestures. "Those things will screw you up!" he pointed at the class. "There is no point in running!"

Mr. J sighed.

"There is no god do you understand? THERE IS NO GOD." His face became red and his weird vein popped out.

Blaize calmed down frighteningly fast and flipped to the next slide. It showed a picture of something that appeared to be Roman. I glanced over at Xena. She was staring intently at Blaize. I sighed.

Blaize continued. "Just for a fun fact the ancient Romans would actually use geese instead of dogs as guard animals because NOTHING GETS PAST A GOOSE. Absolutely NOTHING."

He smiled innocently and concluded, "Thanks for listening, you can go back to what you were doing." he turned to walk away, but then turned back and added, "And for all of you people that believe in God no offense to what I said 'cause I was just proving a point." and with that, he sat down at our table again. The class sat, stunned.

I sighed. "Was that really necessary?"

"Yes. Yes it was. Geese are evil and people deserve to be warned." Blaize said.

"That was ridiculous."

"And your face would look the same way if you got attacked by a goose because you didn't take my warning seriously." he said casually.

Mr. J called Xena's name. She looked up.  "Come here for a minute please." He said.  Xena got up an went over to the teacher's desk.

"So, what do you think?" Blaize said randomly.

I blinked. "Of what?" I knew he meant Xena.

"Of her." 

"Oh... I don't know... she seems nice." I replied, unsure of what else to say.

Blaize grunted for an answer. I wasn't sure what he meant by it, but I didn't question him on it. Xena came back to the table. Blaize looked at her for a long while. He had flushed cheek bones and his pupils were dilated. Shit.

Blaize snapped out of the trance, completely changing his mood. I always got freaked out when that happened.

The rest of the class was a bit dull, but we made it through. Finally the bell rang and we were excused.