The True Lives Of The Fabulous Kill Joys

Chapter 42- Wake Up

"Wake up." Gee is shaking me slowly.

Its cold outside, I obviously fell asleep whilst on the roof and-

"Come one, before the guys think we did something weird."

I groan, what counts as something weird?

He slowly sits me up with him and I rub my eyes, the sun is rising.

"Can we pretend we just got up here?" I ask with a yawn.

"Sure, I guess." He replies.

I realise today is THE day. All the killjoys will be arriving soon.

"They will be here at 8, the time that they always arrive at. They wont be late, its a tradition- the 8 o clock thing that is."

"How long do we have?" I ask.

"An hour."

I stand up immediately, "thats not enough time, come on, lets get going!"

I quickly get ready, extra perfume and extra mirror time. This is weird, meeting a hundred other killjoys...

I meet Ef by the door, MK and Ar are sitting on the floor.

"One or two have already turned up. This is weird." He laughs.

"W-wait. People have arrived?" I stutter.

Outside there are two girls, one with dark red hair, the other with long brown. Em is also there.

"Hi?" I wave shyly. "You came early?"

"We just wanted to meet you guys and stuff. You are legendary!" The red haired girl laughs.

I automatically put my hand out, "Bulletproof Heart."

The girl with the red hair laughs, her huge green doe eyes lighting up. "I know who you are already- Im Violent Explosion." She shakes my hand.

"Vintage Skies." The other one say, shaking my hand.

"Do you wanna talk to the other guys too? We have a little while before everyone arrives." I note.

Violent Explosion is short, and as they walk over to the others she bounces whilst Vintage Skies looks like she glides. The guys are posed like an album cover. I pull a face at them and they laugh.

Em comes and gives me a hug. I clench onto her, I missed her.

"This is it." She says, releasing me.

I nod with a smile.

"Loads are arriving, Ill let you talk to them."

"Go stand with the guys, Em. Youre on top team." I say.

She grins and I raise my hand for a high five. I flinch as she hits my hand, not fully used to it yet.

By the time it is 8AM, there are just over a hundred killjoys standing in front of the diener. I stand at the front with the guys.

"Hello crash queens and motor babies!" Gee yells as the crowd hushes. "Curtesy of J- I mean Bulletproof Heart here, we have our final attack. Not all of us will survive. But we will try. We attack tomorrow. Now, though, we plan- splitting into four separate groups. Nerds with Kobra Kid, thats the medicines and hacking. Drac squad with Fun Ghoul and Holler-point Smile, thats killing the dracs, all of 'em. With Jet Star is backing squad, making sure all is smooth and we get inside and to Korse. Finally, the front line, thats myself and Bulletproof Heart. Choose well, and quickly, we dont have much time rock 'n' rollers!"

I swallow hard, front line? Gee puts his hand on my back, sensing my nervousness.

But of the hundred people, only 12 people came to the front line, no wonder. Each one with a different hair colour. I stand quietly, absorbing, as Gee instructs people around.

People actually came to do this. Almost every killjoy came to see me.

"Bulletproof?" Gee is waving his hand in front of my face.

"Sorry." I mumble.

"Youve written before, right? Can you write this down?"

I nod, taking pen and paper from his hands. We all sit in a circle on the desert floor and we all talk, sorting out how we kill Korse.

"Just shoot him when you can, ambush him. Get it over with. No long dramatic waits or anything, just kill him. Then our job is done. BL wont work. Kobra is hacking the system and his team are going to wipe it. Ghouls team are killing the dracs. When we leave, Bulletproof and I are staying behind to blow the S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W unit to shreds." Gee finally summarises after a while.

I write it all down, then again in a time line, in a spider diagram, a list...

"Can we leave our symbols?" A ratty blonde hair girl asks.

"No point. Its being blown sky high." Gee replies.

***

Its dark, tomorrow we fight. Everyone is sprawled out, sleeping. Either in their vehicle or in the diner or on the sand. I had a nap, but I dont need much sleep, Im too nervous to stay asleep anyway.

I shake Gee lightly, reminding him that nobody is occupying the roof.

Looking down from the roof at the rainbow maggots on the sand and count the days I have been here. I havent counted or kept track, nobody has. But Im guessing around 9 months.

Gee is looking at me again, But I guess I have grown to expect it.

"Why are you always looking at me when I look at you?" I try and make my question seem non intrusive.

He smiles at his lap, giving me a moment to appreciate his posture.

"I like watching you, how you look when you are enjoying something, how you look when you are engrossed in something. Youre some kind kind of beautiful." He replies.

I try to hide the blush rising in my cheeks, unsuccessfully.

"Thanks." Is the measly offering I give him.

He laughs at my response. I hear shuffling behind me and I see someone mounting the roof.

I see some neon green, messy haired, extremely attractive guy mount the roof. I feel Gee tense and I almost laugh.

I try not to stare.

"Can I join? I cant sleep. It sounded like you were having fun anyway?" His voice is low and raspy, in a cute way.

"Y-yeah, um?" I look over at Gee, he looks uncomfortable.

"Cool." He smirks and takes a seat, right inbetween Gee and I.