The Windmill

7: Chr-onnie-cles

Farine's day 5. 

"Y'all be helping me put up the thingamajigs on the windmill. Connie! Helewn!" yelled at us. I scuffled under the blankets on the grass. I felt soft fur on my left foot, maybe. Helewn's unnamed cat. Helewn was already up. I bet my Top Wizard post she was holding a her flask right at the moment.

I woke up and fixed myself on a sitting position. I rubbed my eyes and saw Farine in front of my nose. He was holding my flux capacitor bulk. In case you guys were wondering if the only thing I did was the design, yeah wrong.

"Help me with your part, we're gonna test this in a few hours, c'mon." Farine pulled me up. 

Before he took me the almost-finished disaster machine, I managed to grab my research file. 

"So yeah, we have the wind-collector, and Helewn's toaster blaster. And now we are going to insert this new flux capacitor thingy." Farine said to me. I picked up the glass contraption and connected it to the power core of the windmill tower. Farine took his snail slime bucket and shoved it at me. I dipped my hands into it and splashed it at the hole. Farine dipped his too and splashed the slime at me. I pushed him off the platform. He stood up and called Helewn. Apparently I saw Helewn coming towards us. She was carrying the body cover and held it at the slimed hole while Farine welded it in place. Boom. We got the finished wind collector part of the machine. 

"The toaster blaster engine is finished, let me just get it from shelter." Helewn murmured as she walked away to the stone shelter.

"You wanna fetch lunch?" Farine said. I thought for a while and gave a nod. What's wrong? Farine turned around.

"Yo Hel, we're going to grab lunch. I'll fetch you cafeteria's mac and cheese. Bee are bee!" Farine's yell echoed. I think I heard Hel's reply. I walked with him and on the way he managed to break the silence. 

"Connie." 

"Yo." 

"Am I too enthusiastic?" 

I thought for a while. Meh sorta.

"Yeah, you seem like you've seen the storm and it's that bad. But it's noble to be committed in building such live saving stuff we're working on I guess?" I said. Farine braced himself.

"No I haven't, I just wanted to save lives. I don't want to be seeing my friends die in front of my eyes." he sighed. I couldn't do anything other than keeping myself quiet, guilt it is. Suddenly, I felt something hard hit me. I looked behind. Tyler, running away.

Tyler! I felt really bad for leaving him on his own. Plus I also needed the resources on how the storm would behave. The last piece. Our plan won't work then. He was my friend. Who would sit with me at the library after all of this ends?

I left Farine and ran to Tyler. Thanks to slimmer build I managed to chase him that fast. I grabbed his shirt. He finally stopped on his tracks.

"Tyler, I am sorry! You don't have to be mad for some little project! Let's be friends again and don't leave this awkward." I said. I held his hands up. He sorted of caressed it which made me sort of tingled. I broke free and punched him.

"But I know you only wanted to use me for the project right. I know that you sneaked on my journal. My flux capacitor idea!" Tyler huffed. Farine suddenly came to us and gripped my arm.

"You remember Madam Priscilla's words, Connie. It's confidential." Farine tried pulling me away but I resisted. 

"Tyler! It was for the best. I don't even want to be picked for this!" I managed to scream at him and he walked away.

"Have fun without me." Tyler's faint words echoed in my mind. All I could think of right now is the multiple guilts I'm having and Farine. Well, exactly right now I was too weak to walk on my own and Farine seemed to be dragging me across the tiled hallways to cafeteria. He pushed the creaking door and let me sit on a chair. He sat in front of me.

"Heh, don't feel bad." 

How was he able to read my mind?

"Huh no. I'm fine." 

Biggest lie in history.

"Well I mean, Tyler's actually not much of a nice guy. Nice to you, courteous. But you know evil like lunatic kind." Farine said. I don't know but in between us was 3 paper bags, greasy ones. I shifted on my seat a bit.

"How do you even know him to be like that, Farine? Liking non-syllabus stuffs and Movement science doesn't mean you're lunatic." I said. 

Farine looked a little bit skeptical.

"Okay let's not talk about Tyler now, what I can just say that is he's not worth apologizing and you shouldn't be sticking with him that much. Up to you to believe me." He said. I smashed my head on the table. Farine opened a juice box for me and dragged it across the table.

"Cloudberry." 

I slowly pulled it away from him. Suddenly, I just found a thought.

"Tyler's my friend! I knew him since freshman year. I couldn't just be leaving him like that, Farine!" I said.

"Can you just shut up on stuffs you don't know?" 

"What do you even know! You just knew me for a week and now you're like controlling my life like my old toxic ex!" I said.

 Farine looked at me, the look when you are already tired of stuff.

"Let's go?" Farine stood up and took the paper bags along. I can't do anything heh. Being with Farine just made me powerless. 

We went back to the court.

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At the court, I saw Helewn testing the machine. Helewn popped off her goggles and looked at us.

"Where's my mac and cheese?"