Story of a Squid Boy

Chapter 4: Kaila

I walked into the room hesitantly. There was a girl on one of the two beds, I was a little scared of saying the wrong thing. She stood up quickly, shooting a confused glance at the scientist but stopped after a few short seconds. "I'll leave you to get to know each other a bit." The scientist says with an incredibly emotionless monotone. He begins to walk away, but while he is walking away he gives a look of daggers as if saying:

I'm watching you kid!

A GIRL, I AM BUNKING WITH A GIRL! I scream in my mind hysterically although I try to act natural and hope for something to happen.

I examined her a bit more, she had dark black hair, pale blue skin similar to mine, and a necklace that had a purple jewel in the middle with a gold rim just like mine.

"Uh... Hi" she says nervously

"Hi" I say a little hesitant. HI?! IS THAT THE BEST YOU GOT JOHN? I stand there scared I might make the wrong move and destroy any friendship we might have. After a little bit of time Kaila starts to speak, or rather tries to start a conversation.

"Uh... So are you my new roommate?"

"I guess." I answer looking down at my feet. This is going surprisingly bad. I think in amazement as to how awkward this got.

After a few seconds that felt like an hour, I tried to start a conversation. I mean, if we are going to live with each other then I guess we should get familiar. "Got any hobbies?" I desperately blurt out trying not to suck. "I like to sing and dance. Apparently I'm famous for it. Kaila Squills, famous rock star, or something like that. What about you?" she responded.

"I like to invent stuff, machinery and technology fascinates me, Apparently I'm famous for it too..." I say, a little curious to our similarities in the past.

"Cool"

"So, where am I supposed to sleep?" I ask looking at the beds "I'm assuming the one you're siting on is yours?"

"Yeah. Sorry for the mess by the way..." As she went over to a table and took all the crumpled trash into the rubbish bin but keeping one and putting it in the drawer.

"I'm pretty sure this table is for you, for inventing and whatnot. I was just using it to write a song, but you can have it now."

"Thanks" I say. THANKS?! THANKS?!?!?! YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT YOU UNGRATEFUL SON OF A PIG!

"You mind if I take a look at your song?" I manage to blurt out.

"Oh, you don't what to see it. It sucks. It's not even a real song, it's a parody of one someone else wrote."

"So?" My mind face palms

"So you don't need to see it." She grins "Really. You don't wanna." I chuckled a little because she really didn't want me to see it maybe something embarrassing but I felt a little rude.

"Crap, I'm gonna be late for karaoke night!" She yells

"Karaoke night?" I ask in confusion

"Yeah, I gotta go. See you later!" Then she rushes out the door, I sigh as she leaves. She was a little pretty but I snapped out of it and closed the door and went to the desk thinking what I could do all I could think was her intil I wanted to thank her for giving me the desk I went to the workshop down the hall and asked for some wood and iron and the seemed so delighted I came I got it for free oddly and came back and started working.

*40 mutinies later*

At last I finished a crude desk, I put it to the side of the room next to mine and I was still bored then I remembered karaoke night and I went down the hallway with a map to get to the auditorium that was most likely where it would be so I went down the hall and came to the door I peeked in and heard the most wonderful sound in my life.