No Fear

Chapter Thirty-Nine

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Tom, Edd, and Matt walk around in the park as they talk about arcade games and their outrageous ticket prices, they have no idea of Tord's next plan to scare Tom.

"They're absolutely insane! The ticket counts just keep rising and it's getting ridiculous, I know it's summer but it doesn't mean they have to keep making it higher!" Edd exclaims to his friends.

"It could be worse, they could start making you pay extra to play the basketball machine," Tom says to Edd which makes Edd seem even more mad.

"If they did that then I'd complain to the manager! I don't know who they think they are, but they CANNOT raise the price on the basketball machine! That's the only one I'm good at!" Edd replies to Tom as they walk under a short tree.

"Yeah I just hope they don't raise the-"

Suddenly Tord swings upside down from a branch and shouts, "BOO!-" but then Tom accidentally walks into him and they share a unexpected kiss. A accidental Spiderman kiss, impressive.

There's a small silence before Tom's face turns a bright red and his eyes widen, his instinct is to then punch Tord's stomach and knock him off the tree. Tord screams as he falls, "WOAH!" and Tom runs away in a frenzy as he continuously squeals. Tord sits up from the ground and mischievously smiles as he calls to Tom, "See! I told you I could scare you!!" Tord turns to the guys, he doesn't give a absolute crap if he kissed him as long as it spooked Tom. "Did you see that?! I told you I'm scary!"

"Well you didn't really scare him, more like made him madly flustered," Edd says to Tord and Tord's face drops in annoyance. "But you tried, that's for sure."

Matt giggles as Tord screams, "FUCK!!"
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Third Person Pov:

Tom hears a knock at his office door, so he quickly wipes his tears and says, "Come in!" the door then opens and Luka appears with a stack of paperwork in his hand, this surprises Tom since he only gave him that stack of work this morning. "Jesus christ..."

"I finished the work you gave me Blue Leader," Luka says with a large smile. "Now where should I put all this?"

"Uhh.. just put it all on my desk," Tom says with still some bewilderment in his face as Luka places the papers down on Tom's desk. "Thank you."

"Don't even mention it! I love doing this stuff!" Luka says, just like how Tom likes to suck di-

"Seriously Author? When are you going to stop breaking the forth wall?" Tom says, like a idiot. "Hey! Shut it asshole!" Like I'd take orders from my slave. "It's not my fault you control our lives-"

I made you Thomas, I made you what you are. There's no escape from god and that GOD is me, so shut your sugar coated lips and continue on with the script before I write something terrible in your future.

"Jesus you didn't have to go so dark on me, just relax.." Tom says and clears his throat. "Anyway," Tom turns to Luka and says, "You really seem to like your job a whole lot, all I've been doing is giving you paperwork. So why?"

"I like to help," Luka replies with a smile. "and you obviously need it if you have this much work to give me."

"I guess.." Tom picks up a paper from the stack and looks down at it. "Let's see how you did," Tom looks closely at the written report on the Red Army's food system that Luka wrote, he's already very astonished by the use of sophisticated words and clever writing style. "I'm impressed, you're a good writer."

"I was a writer before I was drafted, I've been writing since I was a kid and it's my dream to publish a book. I'm hoping I can finish what I have by the time I retire,"

"You have a work in progress?"

"Yes I do, would you like to see it?"

"Uh sure,"

Luka pulls out a little notebook from his pants's pockets and holds it out to Tom, "Here, take a look," Tom looks at the book for a moment before taking it into his hands. "Tell me what you think."

Tom opens up the pocket sized notebook and begins to read, he learns the story is based off of his life and it starts from when he was drafted into the American Army. Tom is a very fast reader so he makes it very far into the book in only five minutes, he decides to stop at the part he leaves for the Rebellion.

Tom closes the book and says, "That's good Luka, I really like it." with a smile. Tom hands Luka the closed book and Luka smiles to the praise of his favorite person.

"You really like it?" Luka asks with a very happy smile.

"Yeah, I wouldn't lie about that," Tom rests his forearms on his desk. "What're you going to call it?"

"The life of Luka-" Luka then looks down in embarrassment. "and yeah I know it's a pretty stupid name, but I like it-"

"It's not stupid, it's a good eye grabbing title actually. It makes people want to read the story," Luka flinches and looks back up in surprise.

His eyes sparkle as he asks, "You really think so?!" with a bright smile.

"Indeed I do," Tom gives a thumbs up with a calm smile. "Keep up the good work."

Luka covers his smile with his hands as his eyes twinkle with stars from such kind words from his superior, he then solutes and says, "Yes Sir!"

"Good," Tom says with a soft smile, it makes him feel good to know he's making someone's day better.