monkey brain

ch. 1

hey guys i hope y'all like this i kind of just shit it out..this is rated teen just so y'all know!! im sorry if its not good but thank u sm if u read it ! ❤️❤️❤️ constructive criticism is welcome but i might cry 😞
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This was just really fucking weird, Nikki thought and looked down at her hands, and wrong on so many levels. The rusty gears in her head began turning, and her thoughts mushed together. What her two best friends were saying, although absolutely improbable, were actually starting to make sense in her small monkey brain. She clenched and unclenched her fingers, bitten down fingernails just barely digging into her skin. She looked at her friends and almost laughed, their solemn faces at complete odds with what they just said.

"So...what you two, my closest friends , are saying...is that instead of burning hatred for that blonde headed bimbo...I actually have an intense attraction and obsession for her borne from years of impulsive hetersexuality, tension, and jealousy..." She trailed off and leaned forward, putting her head in her hands to avoid facing the truth written across her friend's faces.

She could hear Chloe giggling and then grunt, no doubt as a result of an elbow in the ribs from Zoey, who cleared her throat and tutted. "Well.....Nikki, that is definitely in the-uh-realm of what we were trying to say," She said demurely and crossed her legs. Chloe choked out a laugh and then immediately apologized. Nikki really couldn't find it in herself to care, not when she felt like her brain had been run over by a pack of elephants.

"I mean come on Nik, you literally talk about how her hair looks like it was spun from gold and how every time you walk by her you get a whiff of clean linen" Chloe snorted and flapped her hand, "that's-I mean, that's pretty gay man."

Nikki's eyes bugged and she opened her mouth to protest, that no, she did not say those things...until she realized that she had, indeed said that just yesterday. She had tried to convince herself that the clean laundry smell was more like soggy socks, but it appeared it hadn't came across like that..

"I don't.." She trailed off, "I don't know.." She could practically feel her third eye force itself open as the revelation forced itself onto her. Oh god, oh my god.

"Nope, no no no no, NO" she said, but in truth she could feel her heart begin puttering faster, "You guys are completely wrong and are probably on like, acid or something because that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard come out of your mouths" She said sternly, blatantly ignoring the way her mind was racing, mentally screaming as she reevaluated every interaction she'd ever had with Mckenzie.

"Oh come on Nik, I tried it ONCE do you have to bring it up everyti-" Chloe cut herself off at Zoey's glare and huffed, crossing her arms petulantly. Nikki could still hear her grumbling but, like the mature 16 year old she was, chose to ignore her.

"Look Nikki," Zoey began, and oh boy Nikki could tell she wasn't going to like this, "we only told you this because we genuinely cannot listen to you wax poetic about her and try to disguise it as hatred anymore" She sighed and picked up her book from where she'd set it down to have this (awful) conversation. "It just gets to be too gay, even for me, and that's saying something."

Nikki's face paled and the corners of her mouth dropped.  She ignored Chloe's chortling and subconsciously labeled her as background noise. Zoey was the gayest person she knew, and if even she thought it was too much...oh Jesus. This had to be a dream, or a prank, or maybe Mckenzie set them up and- oh

Yeah, she thought, this is definitely happening.

"I'm not saying you're right," Nikki said, because there was no way she was going to deal with Chloe's smug face for the rest of the sleepover, "but I'm not saying your wrong, and if you value your life, no more is to be said on the subject." She said and set her face in a scowl.

"There there," Chloe cooed and flipped on the tv, "will a movie make you less grumpy? I'll even let you pick." She said and grinned. Nikki was fuming, mostly with herself, but nodded anyway and picked up the remote and began flipping towards the rom com section.

It was going to be a long night
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School the next morning was weird, and awkward. Partly because, after she slept on it (aka stayed up all night and worried about it), she had come to the realization that yes, she was weirdly obsessed with...her. It was made even more awkward when she stumbled groggily to her locker and bumped right into the direct cause of her frustation, who was in the process of applying her signature ravishing red lip gloss (Nikki saw that damned color in her dreams). Hands flying up, everything in her arms (notebook, sketchbook, science book.....just a shit ton of books) tumbled out of her arms into the floor. "Aw shit." She whined and got down on her knees, scrambling to pick everything up before the bell rang and she was trampled like an ant. She almost choked and died when, as she reached for one of her books, a perfectly pristine, manicured hand grabbed it first.  She blinked slowly, because surely God wouldn't be that cruel? But as she looked up, it was indeed Mckenzie Hollister herself, helping her pick her shit up. She gaped like a fish, and was sure her eyes were bulging like one.

Mckenzie glanced at her and sneered, rolling her eyes in disgust, "What? Are you brain dead or something?" She scowled, and the mild disgust turned into a full on glare. "You're gonna catch flies." Mckenzie kept yapping about something, but Nikki's eyes were drawn to her mouth as she spoke. She couldn't not notice the smear of red gloss across Mckenzie's chin.  Huh, she thought dumbly, must've happened when she bumped into her. Without thinking (like always), Nikki raised her hand and gently wiped away, rubbing her thumb from Mckenzie's bottom lip to the bottom of her chin. Abruptly, Mckenzie stopped talking and instead stared directly at her. Wow, now Nikki felt like she could definitely see the resemblance between a fish and someone absolutely fucking stumped by what someone else had done.
"I-uh.." Nikki stood up and shoved her stuff in her locker, suddenly feeling like she had to be somewhere else, right this minute, or she would do something very stupid, "You had some..lip gloss..right there.." She pointed to her own chin and watched as Mckenzie's face turned a pretty cherry red. God, she's even pretty when she's angry, Nikki thought and shut her locker loudly. She needed to go, she definitely needed to go. Chloe would have a field day with this.

And with a nervous wave, she fled the scene.
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hi this was fun im still getting a feel for the characters it's been a while since ive written anything :( chapter 2 coming soon!!