I Hate You But I Love You.

I Hate You But I Love You. Chapter 5

“So you guys are on “good terms” now?” Alice asked me, as me, her and Trinity walked around our neighborhood. It was slightly windy out and my dark purple scarf billowed out behind me.

“Apparently,” I shrugged.

“I don’t like it…” Alice muttered forebodingly.

“Oh psh posh. It’s better than them being at each other’s throats,” Trinity waved her hand dismissively.

I nodded, “She has a point.”

“Whatever. I still don’t like it,” Alice continued to mutter.

“Yeah, but you don’t like anything,” I laughed, playfully nudging her arm with my elbow. She scowled at me and then the wind decided to take my side and blew my scarf in her face. “Ha Ha!”

“Shut up Scarlet!” Alice snapped, trying to fight back my scarf.

“Purple prevails!” I shouted playfully and started jumping around. And then, Trinity decided to join me and we were both jumping around, trying to embarrass Alice.

“Hey! Aren’t I the one suppose to be acting like I’m five?” she pouted.

“Not recently!” I stuck my tongue out at her.

“Yeah, you’ve been really broody lately,” Trinity pointed out.

“Teenage angst!” I fist pumped.

“Scarlet! Why are you so hyper today?” Alice crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow at me.

I stopped bounding around like a gopher on crack and put a finger on my chin thoughtfully, “Maybe ‘cause it’s Friday?”

“Yeah, whatever…” Alice muttered along with some other things, “Come on, let’s go to the playground.”

“Sure thing!” Trinity hooked all of our arms together and started skipping, singing “We’re off to see the wizard”. By the time we got to the playground that was behind an elementary school we were out of breath and red faced. We immediately sat on the swings and it wasn’t until a minute later that we noticed some druggies were standing close by.

Okay, I don’t know for sure if they are druggies, but they probably are. Here, we have high class druggies: who look like rich studious people, and then low class druggies: who are skaters and look like hooligans. And because there is nothing else to do in this town a lot of people hang out at this playground.

“Hey, Deevy is over there,” Alice pointed out, swinging slowly. She nodded to a big play set where a few people were hanging out at. And I saw Lukas talking to Mark and they were with some people I didn’t know that I’m sure are a grade or two above us.

Our little trio comes here often and there seems to be an unspoken law that the “druggies” don’t bother us and we don’t bother them. Well there was this one incident where we were acting like idiots and laughing loudly and they stared at us openly; but that didn’t bother us. But now we could notice Mark and Lukas looking at us every now and then. They were too far away for us to hear anything, but it was still awkward.

“Anyone else getting nervous?” Trinity laughed awkwardly.

“I feel like we’re gonna’ get jumped,” Alice said in her joking voice.

I shrugged and continued swinging, “They do this at school. Haven’t you gotten use to it by now?”

“HEY! YOU THREE!” Our heads shoot up and we see some dude a grade above us standing on top of the play set and waving to us.

“WHAT?” Trinity calls back.

“COME HERE!”

“WHY?”

All of the guys at the play set suddenly had a “brief meeting” and the dude called to us after a moment. “WE WANNA TALK TO YOU!”

“WE ARE TALKING!” to that we started laughing. I could see the guys snickering a little too.

“NO, THIS IS YELLING!”

“TECHINCALLITIES!”

I could see the guy get a little annoyed, “JUST COME OVER HERE!”

“NO. COME OVER HERE!” Trinity continued.

“For the love of…” I mutter. I stand up and grab both Trinity’s and Alice’s arm and start pulling them over to the guys.

“Hey, that was fun,” Trinity pouted.

“Tough shit. That was getting annoying.”

“Ooh, someone’s feisty,” Alice snickered.

I rolled my eyes, “Yeah, I caught your angst.” To that she just stuck her tongue out at me.

When we get over to the play set all the guys are watching us.

“So? What do you want?” I ask.

The dude who was calling to us steps forward, “Hello, I’m Dakota. What are you three lovely ladies names?”

Trinity scoffs besides me, “Did you just call us over here to hit on us or something? Geez, at least put some kind of effort in it.” Alice and I start snickering, knowing that she really doesn’t mean it, but the guys look confused. Dakota’s face fell from a pleasant smile to a confused scowl, but a second later he recomposed himself.

“Oh no, you misunderstand. I’m simply deciding if you guys are good company for Lukas here,” Dakota says politely, and then ruffles Lukas’ hair, which gets a few bouts of protest. It was sweet to see their older brother-little brother relationship even though they weren’t related; but what he said put me back.

“Um, what do you mean?” Alice inquired, beating me to it.

“Oh nothing, nothing,” Dakota smirked, and Lukas looked at the ground, shrugging. Oh, what the hell now?

I groaned, starting to get annoyed. I think I did catch Alice’s angst. “Alright. I’m annoyed with all this creepy/stalker bullshit. Someone better give me a straight answer before I start bashing heads.”

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A/N- Believe it or not, this story does have an actual plot. I just wanted to write something light and with a lot of random humor(as I'm sure you can tell). But knowing me, I'll probably throw in some random dark story to someone. -_- It's just how I am, haha. So even though this story is pretty random, I find it very enjoyable to write and I hope whoever reads it likes it too. ^_^

And I hope no one has a problem witht the cursing. It's just how the characters are. Scarlet is a complex character. She's light hearted and fun loving, but when get's provoked can get sort of vicious; and she really doesn't mind cursing(as most teenagers don't). Which explains the other characters like Lukas's cursing. He just really doesn't care and it's how he is. I'm still working on his character, but yeah. And Alice and Trinity are based soley off of two of my friends.

Sorry for the long note. I guess I just wanted to explain a few things and give ya' guys something extra ;D