Water Wings-Lapidot

Chapter One

Peridot tugged on the strap of her back pack hanging off her shoulder, her face locked into "don't you dare talk to me" mode.

Three months before graduation, and they had to move to a new town.

Not that it mattered much, Peridot didn't have any friends to leave behind, due to her asshole personality, but she had expected to graduate with the people she already knew at the school she already knew, watch the crowd of people she already knew watch them graduate, and listen to the people she already knew spout out some random inspirational nonsense as a speech.

Peridot and big changes didn't go with each other very well.

She felt people staring, certainly not thinking she was attractive or anything, because she knew she wasn't, most likely at all the green she was wearing and the fact that her hair was also dyed green. So what? She liked green.

Lost in angry thoughts, she didn't see the other teen walking her way.

They collided, both tripping and falling over, Peridot with a squeaky yelp.

"Hey, watch where you're going, you clod!" Peridot yelled accusingly, before she'd even looked up to see who she was yelling at.

"Me? You knocked into me, asshole!" Retorted the other girl, causing Peridot to make eye contact with the teen.

She had blue hair. That was the most notable thing. Her eyes were the same blue, complimented nicely with black winged eyeliner. She was skinny and tall, Peridot's height, and wore a black and white flannel with blue jean shorts and black clunky boots that went just up to her ankles.

Yeah, she was gorgeous, but Peridot was still an asshole to her anyway.

"Maybe you should get your glasses checked." The girl continued, gathering her scattered books.

Peridot "hmphed" and pushed said glasses up.

"Maybe you should put away some of those books so you can see over the tower of them." Peridot replied, standing up and dusting herself off.

"Who are you anyway? Are you new?" Asked the blue haired teen, a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"I'm Peridot. And yes, I'm new."

"Isn't it a little late in the year to transfer?"

"Tell that to my mom." Peridot grumbled, crossing her arms.

"Well, anyway, have fun at our hell hole of a school. I'm Lapis Lazuli, by the way. Most people call me Lapis."

"Lapis Lazuli. Lazuli the book worm." Peridot chuckled a little at her own awful joke.

"You're the worst." Lapis said, standing with her now much heavier back pack, due to her shoving all the books in it. She's taken Peridot's advice to put the books somewhere that wasn't in her direct line of sight.

"Oh yeah, and, I warn you out of pity, watch out for Jasper." And with that, she was gone.

"Jasper?" Peridot said, too late, because no one was there to answer. She decided not to pay it attention for now and search for her locker.

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"Does anyone have any questions?"

Peridot raised her hand.

"Yes, Peridot?"

"Could I-" bbbbppppht

The class erupted into giggles at the clearly fake farting noise that interrupted the already annoyed teen.

"Could I please-" bbbbpppht

More laughter, Peridot felt her face heating up. She searched the room for the source as the teacher told the class to calm down, it was her again. Lazuli. Peridot scowled at the giggling teen.

"Alright, alright, settle down! Let Peridot finish."

Peridot looked back to the teacher, who was somehow patiently waiting for her.

"Could I- could I use the bathroom?" She squeaked, the class laughed so loud the other classes must have been able to hear through the walls and Peridot knew her face had to have been completely red.

"Quiet down! Yes, you may." Said the teacher, looking like he almost pitied Peridot.

Peridot nodded and speed walked out of the room.

It was too late that she realized she didn't know where the bathroom was, but there was no way she was going back and asking.

She stopped for a moment to look out the window, it was pouring rain. Peridot groaned, she hated rain.

She kept walking, finally finding a bathroom and running in.

She was washing her hands as the door opened, Peridot audibly groaned. She really hated other people being in the same public bathroom as her.

"Hey."

Peridot looked up and, to her dismay, it was Lapis.

"What do you want?" Peridot groaned.

"Well, for one thing, I need to pee. But also, I kinda wanted to apologize. I was being kind of a jerk. It was kinda my fault that we ran into each other, I really should have had my books in my bag. I guess I was doing the whole fart noise thing as revenge but it ended up being way more embarrassing than I meant it to be so I'm sorry. I was kind of an asshole." Lapis said, rubbing her arm awkwardly.

Peridot looked at her and blinked, people rarely apologized to her let alone sincerely. Her face softened a bit.

"It's okay. I'm an asshole too."

Lapis laughed a little and Peridot smiled, she had made her laugh.

"But, seriously, fart noises? So immature."

Lapis responded by blowing raspberries.

"It's- it's- it's very stupid-" Peridot found herself holding back giggles as she tried to talk. "-and- and-" she snorted as Lapis continued.

"See? Even you think it's funny!" Lapis teased, and she continued.

"I- I do not!" Peridot said, clearly lying, as she was laughing almost too hard to speak.

Lapis danced around the room, blowing raspberries.

"St-st-stoppp!" Peridot yelled between laughs, bent over slightly.

Lapis did stop and Peridot's laughter died down as she tried to regain her breath.

"You're so immature." Peridot said finally, breathing hard.

"I know."

"Hey, why were you holding all those books anyway?" Peridot asked, trying to change subject.

"I like to read. I think the people here think I'm kinda a mix between nerd and prankster." Lapis said, shrugging.

"Oh." Peridot said, for lack of anything else to say.

"Anyway, I have to use the bathroom now." Lapis said, pointing to the stall.

"Right." Peridot said, her heart was doing little palpitations. Maybe it was because she'd has a lot of coffee this morning. Probably not, but Peridot really needed an excuse for it.

She left the bathroom, walking down the silent hall back to the classroom.

"Hey, you're new here, aren't you?" Asked a rough voice.

Peridot turned around, the speaker was enormous.

She was very muscular, she looked like the kind of person to smash watermelons between her thighs to show off. She also looked like the kind of person to beat up innocent kids for fun.

Too late, Peridot realized this must be the Jasper she was warned of.