Hi. I wrote a new chapter. It's kind of slow, not much happens I don't think. But yeah I finished it! Whoo! Amy's not here to read it though...She'll read it later. :)
Blue sat in her new room across from her new roommate. She and Kendall had been sharing a room for almost a month, but nothing had really changed in their relationship. All Blue wanted was to have a fun roommate relationship, like she’d had with Alec, where she wasn’t quite sure that Alec liked her at all but he was still sometimes nice to her. Kendall pretty much just mumbled creepy statements and acted uncomfortable when Blue tried to change in front of her. For this reason, Blue decided to migrate to the closet for changing clothes, as she had in her old room. Despite Kendall’s awkward nature, Blue was determined to befriend the Justin Bieber lookalike.
“So,
Kendall,” she said as they lay in their room one Friday afternoon. Kendall
glanced toward her, tilting her head in curiosity, “what do you do for fun?”
The other teen’s eyes lit up brightly, and she stood from where she’d been
lying and watching Blue as she played games on her phone.
It didn’t
take Blue long to understand why Kendall did what she did all the time; spying
on people was fun! Their first target was Hakan, who was ranting rather loudly
in Gerda’s room about Kendrick, the door just slightly ajar.
“And he,
like…He wakes up at 5:00 every morning! Then he does all these stretches and X
can barely stand it! He always calls me…I’m taking a break, OK? He always calls
me mean names and I want to punch him so bad but I’m not supposed to apparently…You
say I’m not allowed…But, one punch could do him some good! Please let me?
Please?”
“Hakan,”
Gerda said patiently, “violence is not the answer. You must simply learn to
live with him. People will be mean to you in this business you have chosen, you
know. He will be a learning experience for you.”
“X doesn’t
want to learn! X wants to punch!” Hakan declared, returning to his regular ways
of speech. Something made a loud clanging noise in the room after he spoke, but
neither acknowledged it.
“Do not worry,
Hakan,” Gerda replied. “I will take care of it. You must continue to learn to
tolerate him.”
Hakan
grunted, but fell silent after that. When the silence continued for a couple
more minutes, Kendall motioned another open door, and she and Blue stalked off
toward it.
“No way. I
will not let you start wearing bowties,” Evan said through the door.
“But
bowties are cool. You dare defy The Doctor?” Ewan countered, probably waving
his arms around extravagantly.
“No, no,
his wisdom is the words I live by, of course. But dude, Ewan, little brother
twin, they choke your neck. I’m just thinking of your neck!” Evan insisted
loudly.
“You can’t
tell me what to do! You’re not my mom!” Ewan shouted back, in an obviously
joking tone. The twins laughed together, but their laughter tapered off into
something less recognizable that was almost laughter but sounded more sad than
happy.
“Speaking
of Mom,” Evan muttered, quiet enough Blue barely heard him, “she said something
about auditioning for something the other day…”
“Ah,” Ewan
replied, as if he had no desire whatsoever to continue the conversation. “You
told her no, right?” Evan probably nodded, because his brother quickly changed
the subject, “Did you see Jenny’s hair today? Looking nice. That’s how I’d do
my hair if I was a girl.”
“Yeah, it
was nice…Teddy, though, Teddy’s got some of the best hair around,” Evan
replied.
“But
Teddy’s hair always looks nice. I mean…He’s Teddy,” Ewan responded, probably
smiling as he thought about the blond genius. Blue snickered to herself at the
twins’ obvious twin crush on Teddy. Ewan refocused the conversation, “So
anyway. I bought a bowtie, and I’m wearing it sometime! Once I get some
suspenders…And a beautiful face…”
“Oh come
now,” Evan argued, “you already have a beautiful face. You take after your big
brother, who I hear is gorgeous.”
“Har har,”
Ewan replied, with a very definite eye rolling sort of tone. “Anyway, you
should get a bowtie too. And suspenders.”
“No, I’ll
get a suit and some converse,” Evan replied. None of this conversation was
making sense to Blue at all.
“Oh! OK, we
can do that,” Ewan said with a probable smile.
“The real
Doctor would be so jealous of our gingerness,” Evan said in a bragging tone,
and he and Ewan laughed again, this time sounding weirdly smug. Suddenly
someone tapped Blue’s shoulder, and she jumped.
“What are
you doing, Blue?” Teddy asked, and Blue shrugged and looked around for support
from Kendall. Her roommate had completely vanished.
“I was
bonding with Kendall,” she mumbled. “But Kendall is better at being sneaky than
I am, I guess…” Teddy nodded and rolled his eyes at Blue, but didn’t say
anything in response. “What are you doing, Teddy?”
“Uh,” he
replied. “Walking around…Standing now…breathing…Uh, probably digesting food…my
heart is pumping blood around my body…,” he probably would have continued, but
Blue cut him off.
“No, no,
why are you here?” she asked, standing from her crouched position as Teddy
looked around the room as if trying to find something to distract Blue with.
When he
came up empty, he finally admitted, “Well, you and Malik and everyone are busy,
but I didn’t want to stay in my room, because…Because Alec. So I’m just
wandering around.”
“You still
don’t get along with him?” Blue asked. Teddy shook his head, and Blue sighed.
“I thought he was scary at first but he’s not scary at all. Do you think he’s
scary?”
“I’m not
scared of him,” Teddy denied, “it’s just…complicated.”
“Complicated
how? Cause he’s your nemesis?” Blue asked, as she and Teddy began to walk back
toward her room naturally.
“Yeah,
something like that,” he replied. Blue stopped suddenly and grinned at him.
“I have an
idea!” she declared, dragging Teddy back in the direction of her old room. Her
best friend squeaked some form of protest, but Blue ignored him as she knocked
on the door to the room. The door swung open with only Scamps behind it to
explain how it did so, and Blue and Teddy saw Alec sitting at his computer as
always. The Brit spoke darkly as they walked in.
“I told you
to leave, Albrecht,” he growled.
“It’s Blue
and Teddy! Bleddy? Uh, Teblue…,” Blue trailed off. “Well, couple names are
hard, but the point is yay it’s both of us!”
“Oh,” Alec
mumbled, turning around in his rolling chair and staring at them. “What do you
want?”
“We’re
going to bond!” Blue declared. Alec and Teddy both shot her questioning looks
before Alec turned back to his computer and Teddy started to back out of the
room. “Wait!” Blue called, and both spun back to look at her. “You have to
listen to me!”
“What?”
Alec and Teddy asked in unison. While they glared at each other, Blue tried to
figure out what to tell them to get them to do what she wanted.
“I think
maybe we should play a game together,” she suggested. The blond geniuses glared
at her, rolled their eyes, and turned their attention away from her. Thinking
quickly, Blue moved in Teddy’s way. “Can’t leave, nope! You’re going to get
over your differences. Ready go!”
“You’re not
going to let me out?” Teddy asked, and Blue shook her head excitedly.
“Not until
you work things out with Alec!” she insisted, and Teddy frowned at her in
response.
“There’s
nothing to work out,” he argued. Blue just glared at him and pursed her lips.
“Obviously
there is! Now maybe you just need to talk it out,” Blue countered. Scamps was
getting dangerously close to her then, and Alec was glaring in her general
direction. Tossing something from her pocket toward Alec, Blue managed to
distract the rat and his owner alike. Unfortunately for her, Teddy moved toward
her at that moment and wrapped his arms around her back. Before she got the
chance to protest that they both had boyfriends and Teddy was gay, the blond
lifted her out of the way of the door and slid out of the room. Blue stood and
stared at a smirking Alec momentarily before huffing and turning to follow
Teddy.
“But
Teddy!” she whined. “I know he’s your nemesis and all, but…Where…Teddy?” Blue
squeaked in surprise when Teddy was nowhere to be found. A pair of nearly
identical cackling told her who the culprits were, but she wasn’t sure where
they were, so she just sighed and headed back to her room.
Kendall
waved at her as she walked in, and they then discussed how Blue needed to work
on being sneaky. Their conversation was surprisingly genial, so Blue suggested
they go out and try again. Kendall rejected this idea, and told Blue she would
need to go to ninja boot camp before they tried again. To Blue this sounded
totally awesome, so she eagerly asked when they could get started. Her roommate
told her Saturday would be the soonest possible time, so Blue decided to wander
around to try to find Malik. He was at a gym playing basketball with Kip and a
couple other athletically inclined students, including Estela, Kakahi, and
Pablo. Both Estela and Kakahi were strangely good at basketball and able to
keep up fairly well with the others. Despite initially wanting to play, Blue
and Teddy had gotten very bored within a few minutes and walked off, because
Blue was terrible and Teddy kept running into a large smelly guy. Blue was pretty
sure he was trying to flirt with Teddy, and so Pablo started glaring at him and
playing terribly in reaction. It was just better that Teddy quit.
Now she was
just bored, so she stopped by the Twingers’ room to see if Teddy wanted to go
see how the game was going with her. Deciding knocking was lame, Blue barged
into the room to see Teddy with two tiny pigtails in his hair. One of the twins
was sitting behind him and looked to be in the process of giving Teddy a third
pigtail.
“Um?” she
asked to the other twin, who smiled at her in that cat-like way of theirs and
stood from their futon. By his walk Blue identified him as Ewan.
“Would you like to play a game with
us?” Ewan asked. Blue shrugged and nodded, and was introduced to a very strange
game the twins had created. The twins split up the teams, with Blue and Ewan
making one team and Teddy and Evan in the other. Somehow, and Blue didn’t know
how, she and Ewan won the game. Once the game was over and Teddy and Evan vowed
revenge, Malik knocked on the door.
“Hey,” he
greeted when Blue opened the door, “Gerda said you guys were in here. We’re
going to watch a movie if you want to join us.”
“Yeah!”
Blue cheered, attaching herself to Malik’s arm. Teddy attached himself to
Malik’s other arm with a grin, and Malik rolled his eyes at both with a smile.
It wasn’t until they were all in the lounge they noticed the twins hadn’t
followed them. They shrugged it off and flopped onto the couch together in a
heap. The movie started, but Blue was bored of it and fell asleep against
Malik’s shoulder. She woke up in her bed halfway through the night, blinked a
couple times, and went back to sleep.
The next
time she woke up it was the morning and Kendall was staring at her expectantly.
“Ninja lessons?” she cheered, and then proceeded to get ready to go in record
time. Once Blue was comfortably dressed in dark wash jeans and a long sleeved
black t-shirt, Kendall led her out of their room.
“First I
need to tell you the rules,” Kendall explained in her quiet, low voice. “Rule
number one of being a ninja: move quietly. Rule number two: scout out hiding
places before people arrive, so you can, you know…wait there for them. Rule
number three: breathing doesn’t have to make sound. Rule four: you never go
wrong in black. Rule five: umm…if you’re caught act like you’ve done nothing
wrong.”
“OK let’s
goooo!” Blue shouted, pumping her fist in the air excitedly.
“Rule
number six: your voice should always be low volume so as not to attract
attention to yourself,” Kendall reprimanded, and added, “and rule number eight:
don’t ever admit to creeping on purpose…Which is sort of a subset of rule five,
I guess…”
“Ok let’s
gooooo!” Blue whisper-shouted as a compromise, as Kendall led her out of their
room. “Also you missed rule seven,” Blue added as locked the door, and turned
around to find Kendall had vanished.
“Rule seven
was so sneaky you missed it,” a quiet voice stated, making Blue jump despite
how low in volume it was. The training session then began. Blue didn’t make a
very good ninja at all, but she did make a very spirited one. Walls were hard
to avoid, and Blue made a lot of loud noises by running into them instead of
walking quietly next to them. While they were practicing sitting silently, Blue
started daydreaming. When Blue started mumbling, “No, no, Uni, koalas are
friends not food,” Kendall gave up on teaching Blue her sneaky ways.
Blue
fancied herself an expert anyway after like four hours of practice, so she got
to work on choosing someone to spy on. Kendall laughed at her and wished her
good luck before disappearing somewhere unknown. Her first target was Malik,
because he wouldn’t be mad if he caught her. After that, she figured she’d move
on to bigger game as she got more real world experience and therefore got even
better at being a ninja.
Malik was
still sleeping. Or he was napping. Kip wasn’t sure, as he explained when he let
Blue into the room. When Kip left in the morning Malik was asleep, and when he
came back four hours later Malik was also asleep. Kip granted her permission to
sit in the room and stare at Malik, graciously not asking why Blue wanted to.
It turned out watching people sleep was boring. So, so boring. Blue ended up
talking to Kip out of boredom and waking Malik up in the process because wow so
boring. Kip was sitting looking glum and bored while he clicked through
webpages. A quick inquiry later Blue wished she didn’t ask Kip what he was
doing.
“Well I’m
on a website called Reddit, and I’m looking at memes mostly right now,” he
explained. Proceeding to keep telling Blue things she found boring, Kip somehow
missed the dozen or so yawns she faked to get him to stop.
“Space
Invader!” she interrupted, and Kip blinked at her as Malik twitched. Whatever
she was going to say flew out of her brain as she focused on Malik. Diving
under Kip’s desk, she peered up at her boyfriend and watched him very
carefully.
The young
man startled awake and sat up in his bed, shooting a groggy-eyed look down at
Kip. His eyes met Blue’s and she shrieked, “Nooo!”
Malik smiled
at her in a very tired way, “Good morning Blue. Why are you in that relative
position to my roommate?”
Kip smirked
and twitched his head strangely, “Oh you know why.”
“Making a
move on my girlfriend?” Malik asked, with a glare.
“I’d says
she’s making a move on me,” Kip countered, as Blue crawled out from under the
desk and stared at the ground in shame.
“Whoa! That
sounds to me like it’s time for a battle to remind you why I’m better than you
and Blue will always choose me,” Malik challenged, climbing down off his bed
and pointing an accusatory finger at Kip. Blue quietly slipped out of the room
as the pair began to shoot at each other with Nerf guns.
Blue
decided she should try again, since Kip was obviously to blame for what
happened. After shaking her fist at the air and shouting, “Space Invader!”
because she was pretty sure she needed to, Blue tiptoed over to Teddy and
Alec’s nearby room. Pushing the door open slightly, she somehow managed not to
alert the two smart blonds to her presence, despite the loud click of the
handle turning. Blue’s best friend and her former roommate seemed to be having
a very strange conversation.
“Yes, I
know and I get that you have loyalty to them, but that doesn’t mean you have to
treat me like a piece of shit,” Teddy was saying. Blue bleeped him silently,
and got back to listening.
“Oh come
on, don’t put this on me Albrecht,” Alec argued, “you’re the one who turned
down our offer to stay with your weird state organization.”
“I turned
you down; it should not have offended you this much! It was nothing to do with
you,” Teddy retorted. Suddenly Blue noticed a little rat nose poking out from
the inside of the room.
“It was an
insult to everything I stand for and therefore you are an insult to everything
I stand for,” Alec growled. Teddy sighed so loud Blue could hear it clearly
through the barely open door, as she shook her head at Scamps when he saw her.
The rat didn’t seem to care that she didn’t want him to go report his findings
back to Alec as he turned around and scurried back into the room.
“Potts—Alec,
we’re more similar than different we should be able to find some common ground
here,” Teddy insisted. Blue guessed Alec wasn’t listening when he spoke to his
rat instead of replying to Teddy.
“What’s
over there?” he asked. Scamps reported back in rat-language which Alec somehow
understood, and Blue scampered away to avoid getting caught. Next in her mental
list of people to spy on was Grumpers. Ever since she met her, Blue had been
intrigued by how Grumpers managed to stay so grumpy all the time.
Trotting
back to the stupid “girls’ hall,” Blue parked herself outside the door to
Austin and Rashida’s room. This door was somehow much louder than Teddy and
Alec’s, and it got pushed shut by an eye-rolling ginger before Blue got the
chance to spy.
Blue heard Rashida’s voice faintly
through the door, “Blue is welcome to come in if she wants to.”
“She doesn’t,” Austin replied dully,
“she’s just weird. She’s probably eavesdropping or something. Just because
she’s weird.” Rashida opened the door anyway, but Blue was busy fleeing the
scene. Not getting caught was much harder than she was hoping. Despite her
dampened spirits, Blue trekked on to go spy on the next person on her list,
Hakan. Throwing a roll in there for good measure, Blue hit her head against the
wall. When she stood up, Teddy and Alec were standing behind her, both with
arms crossed and skeptical looks on their faces.
“Eavesdropping, Blue?” Teddy asked.
“I’m disappointed,” Alec added. Blue
gave each of them an ashamed glance as they lectured.
“You should know better than this,”
Teddy went on.
“Listening in on people’s
conversations is a violation of their privacy rights,” Alec explained, “You
want to be like your government?”
“Go to your room and think about what
you’ve done,” Teddy ordered. Blue nodded and shuffled back to her room, sitting
down on her bed and sighing. After recounting a tale that grossly overestimated
her sneaking abilities to Kendall, Blue settled in for boredom as she waited
for Malik to come hang out with her.
Blue’s boyfriend knocked on her door
a little while later, and she greeted him with a question, “Do you think Alec
and Teddy are secretly married?”
