"And so I was like no f*cking way!" the girls giggled at the
head cheerleaders joke. Kitty gave a weak but sufficient smile.
"I've got one." she put in. "Me and the gang was at K-Mart
and Shini faked a heart attack while Trin pretended to be going through med
school. She started making up all this crap while Sim Mika and I went to get
Jake from the K-Mart security." Kitty started laughing. "Anyway.
Luke..." she stopped when she realized none of them was finding this
at all amusing. She sank into her seat a little and her eyes turned into a
light brown.
A commotion started on the other side of the cafeteria. Kit looked over
and Saw Luke and Sim being pulled apart and drug into the office.
"F*CKING BASTARD! I'LL RIP YOUR HEAD OFF! BOTH OF 'EM!" the saiya-jin
half-breed broke free and tackled the vampire. They were pulled apart again
and drug the rest of the way.
"I'll be right back." Kitty excused herself and walked to her old
lunch table.
"What happened?"
"Well, there was this ...thing...and Luke looked down Sim's shirt and
when she walked by to say something to Jake at another table he picked up
her skirt." Andrea explained.
"Lucas better not have enjoyed that."
"Katie!" one of the blonde girls called her back.
"Katie?" Trin raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah...I told them my real name was Katherin and thy thought Katie was
a better name than Kitty. Too old west they said."
"But you hate that name."
"Yeah, well..."
"Katie!"
"Gotta go." Kitty went back to the table like a beat puppy with
it's tail between its legs and leaving a yellow trail.
"And I thought Lucas was whipped..." Hirro muttered.
"Well. This is interesting." The guidance counselor
shook her head "I'm sure you two have some underlying attraction to each
other."
"Like hell! I hate that bitch!" Luke protested.
"The feeling is mutual." Sim pouted, crossing her arms.
"And you are fashion impaired."
"Oh, please. Your underwear has little pink bunnies on it."
"Simbunny!" Hatch came in, arranging a pair of glasses on his nose.
"Hatch? What are you doing here?"
"I'm the new vice principle."
"Is there a new principle?" Luke raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, yes." Madison smirked, joining the group in a well-tailored
suit.
"Well, isn't this a twist?" Sim gawked.
"Fire cracker FIRE CRACKER RAH RAH RAH!" the cheerleaders
exclaimed. Kitty was the one on the end smiling...a fake smile, yes, but smiling.
"You know we got it! UH! We know we're BAD!"
The gang just watched in gawking amazement.
"Oh my god...I think she's...enjoying herself..." Jake swallowed.
"HA! I WAS RIGHT! YOU CAN ALL KISS MY ASS!" Sim yelled proudly.
"No. We have to save her!" Trin declared. "But how?!"
"I know!" Lucas jumped up ad grabbed Sim. Making sure Kitty was
looking he kissed her. Before this action could earn him a kick in the groin
by Sim and an equally hurtful reaction by Shini. He pushed her away and looked
to see if Kit had watched. Her eyes were red. "IT WORKED!" he exclaimed.
"Oh shit."
"Bail!" D shouted and the entire school body except for Lucas and
a pissed Sim and Shini fled from the gymnasium. The entire cheerleading squad
didn't seem to notice and continued to cheer-even pausing for an answer.
"Give me a S!"
Kit stood still glaring. Shini was making noises like a feral dog and Sim
was trying to calm him. Without any warning Kitty jumped, clearing the bleachers
and knocking Lucas from his perch at the top. Shinigami broke free of Sim
and jumped down to join in the beat-the-hell-out-of-the-sex-offender party.
"Give me a H!"
"That's it!" Simoriah clinched her teeth and stared firing small
ki into the line of bleach blond targets.
"GOD D@MN MUTHA F*CKING COD S*CKING..." Kitty had Lucas by the throat
and was slamming his head into the wood floor. Shini who had originally planned
to kill him stopped in his tracks. He even backed off when he saw Kitty had
her knee in Lucas' crotch.
"F*ck." He then watched Sim chasing the cheer squad around the gym
and laughing like a maniac.
"DIE! DIE! THIS IS FOR EATING MY PASTE IN THE THIRD GRADE YOU BIMBO!"
She nailed one in the back.
"MOTHER F*CKING..." Kitty continued her assault.
"What is this? National PMS day?" Shini shrugged
"GIMMIE A D!" BAM "GIMMIE AN I" SHMACK "GIMMIE
AN E!" WHAP "WHAT DOES THAT SPELL? DIE YOU CHEATING MUTHA
F*CKING BASTARD!" Kitty continued to slam his head into the floor.
Sim had calmed down after she had taken out over half the squad; Kit however
was continuing to smack the unconscious Lucas' head onto the wood slabs
"What kind of crack head doctor gives you placebo birth control pills?!"
Shini's voice rang out "I can see it now, 'If you think you can't get
knocked up you won't' HELL-O!"
"Chill out, Shinigami. I'm not in the mood to fight at the moment."
Simoriah patted his shoulder.
"Not in the mood to fight? Not in the mood?! Hold on, I'll go
put on the theme from Rocky Three!"
"Give me a F!" WHACK
"Nuthhin' happened." Sim clapped a hand over Shini's mouth. "I
just said it'd be a kick in the head if a doctar did that. Christ."
"AHHHHHH!" Five over buff football players was now peeling Kitty
off of Lucas. "YOU LIMEY SONS A BITCHES! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!"
"I got it!" Sim called out stepping over Lucas' body. Shini walked
all over it as he fallowed her. She waved her hand in front of Kit's face
making her eyes fallow it then...WHAP a red mark was on Kit's forehead and
she was out cold.
"Damn, you're good."
"Don't you know it." Sim grinned wildly as they dragged Kit away.
"Ugh..." Lucas was holding a bag of ice on his
head he had gotten from the school nurse. Kitty was lying on the cot disguised
as a bed. The rest of the guys were sitting in chair while they're significant
others were sitting in their laps. Kit's eyes opened, they were brown.
"Does this mean I don't get to be on the quad anymore?" was the
first thing to come out of her mouth as she sat up.
"What squad?" Sim snickered.
"The cheerleading squad." Kit didn't pick up on the joke.
"They're in the ambulances outside, dear." the nurse answered patiently.
"Hey, this may mean a promotion." Trin shrugged.
"Yeah, Capitan and only member." Kit frowned.
"What do you care, anyway?" Sim was getting pissed "I did everyone
a favor."
There was a short silence.
"Yeah. You're right." Kitty shrugged and slid off. Even more silence.
"So what now?" Andrea wondered.
"Let's go to the mall." Jake suggested.
"Huh?" the rest replied in unison.
"We can go maim Barney." he grinned.
"Cool!" Kit exclaimed.
"I'm game." Shini replied.
"Let's go!" Sim jumped down. Everyone filed out of the nurses office
Vampire Troubles
The blonde grinned at her as he peered down Kit's red shirt while she sat
down for lunch.
"Lucas!" Kitty shouted at her boyfriend. "Stop it! What's
gotten into you?"
"Me." Luke grinned at her.
"Bastard." Kitty snubbed back and turned away from him with her
arms crossed.
"What's with the hat?" Trin questioned, Kit blushed as he eyes
turned light brown.
"Well..." she cleared her throat and took off the hat revealing
shirt brown spike erupting from her head.
"Gah!" Luke jumped. Sim just pointed a laughed.
"Very funny guys. I only wanted a trim, but nooo, SHE thought this
would look cute." She did finger quotations around the word "cute".
"Who?" Andrea asked.
"My mom."
"I thought your mom was an ice sculptor." Sim took a drink of
her water.
"Yeah, last week. Now she's a hairdresser."
"And you got to be victim number one."
"Number two, actually
poor Trieste."
"Which one's Trieste?" Trin asked. She was referring to the small
zoo Kit's mom had collected after the general left two months ago on official
business.
"The Sheepdog
well more like a giant Chihuahua now
where
did Luke go?" Kitty asked realizing he wasn't sitting next to her anymore.
"Over there." Hirro pointed at the mess line. The blonde was smoothing
over another blond in a really short skirt.
"Well isn't he a regular Don Juan?" Kit said through clenched
teeth snapping her spork in half with one hand. She stood up when the bell
rang. He walked out with his arm around her shoulder.
"Is it just me? Or does Kitty get jealous quicker when it's Sim?"
Mika asked Andrea.
"It's just you," Kit snarled, her eyes on the verge of turning
red. She stormed off.
"Are you sure?" asked the girl with the short
skirt. As Luke lead her into the empty football field.
"Yes," he said softly. "Kitty broke my heart
but when
I saw your smile you mended it." He took a seat on the bleachers and
had her join him. He ran his fingers though he long straight blonde hair
with a kind and gentle smile. "But I need to be honest. It wasn't your
flaxen hair, your beautiful smile, or your luscious cream skin that attracted
me to you. It was your eyes. Two sacred pools of crystalline waters that
if I look into them deep enough I can see the reflection of my own soul
holding hands with yours for eternity."
"That's so sweet."
"It comes second nature when I look at you." He grew closer to
her face and
Lucas came to class with a pale appearance and took his
seat at the chem. Table with Hirro and D.
"Where've you been?" Hirro whispered urgently. "Mr. Hunter
just started rattling off the equation and
what's wrong with you?"
"I
Luke
girl
I think
ah God
" he didn't
even bother to lower his voice as he smacked his head on the table.
"Say what?"
"Oh man oh man oh man
"
"He's having a breakdown." D realized. He and Hirro looked up
at Mr. Hunter who didn't seem to even notice one of his students banging
his head repeatedly onto the black plastic surface of their workstation.
"Lucas, you'll give yourself a concussion." Hirro yanked him up
by the back of his shirt.
"I think she's dead." Lucas told him. Hirro let go and he hi the
table again.
"Who?"
"I don't know." He groaned.
"Shit."
"Deep shit." Said a voice similar to Kit's only more sinister.
"Go away Lex." D glared.
"Where's the hospitality? I just wanted to help."
"The only way you could help would be if you killed yourself, and even
then the worms that fed on your corpse would choke and die." Lucas
muffled.
"Speaking of die. I can help you with that little problem of yours."
Lucas looked up at her.
"Don't listen to her man. She's screwing with your brain." Hirro
warned.
"My father's a hypnotist. I could have him get rid of Luke for you
once and for all. Meet me after school." The bell rang and she walked
off.
"You're not gonna go are you?" Hirro asked as he packed his things
to leave.
"No way man."
Desperate Lucas waited for Lex to show. He felt a little
bad about lying to Hirro like that, but he had to get this other guy out
of his head. Lex's shadow emerged from a corner and she fallowed.
"Just relax Lucas." She said waving her hand in front of him.
"Will this work?" Lucas asked her feeling his body loosen.
"I promise." She reassured him
then he saw her wearing a
short skirt that looked identical to the dead chicks
but it was
too late now
"What do you think would happen if all of the sudden
all the caffeine, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, everything addictive were
taken away? Huh? What would you do then?" Lucas whined as he was being
dragged out of the school by his collar.
"First of all," Shini looked him in the eyes. "That wont
happen. Second, if it did the world would become a giant asshole. And three,
you need it."
"I do not." Lucas glared at him and Jake who was dragging him.
"Lucas, you're seventeen! This should be the farthest thing from your
mind!" Jake continued to drag even thought they were now off school
property.
"But we love each other! If I want to enter the sanctity of holy matrimony
with her, I should get to ask!" Jake let go making Luca hit the pavement.
"That's why were getting you plastered, then laid, then a CAT SCAN!"
Shini shouted.
"Yeah, it's one thing if you were going to ask Kitty, but Lex?"
Jake folded his arms.
"I don't understand it? Why? Is the bitch threatening you? Is she holding
your entire family hostage? What?" Lucas looked up at him from dusting
his shirt.
"No. I just love her. At first I thought she was a total bitch, but
I realized I was just harboring feelings for her."
"What about Kitty? You know, your girlfriend?" Jake questioned.
"Redirection." Came the quick answer.
"Look as your
Luke's good friend. This woman will tear your soul
to shreds; she'll take every speck of pride, dignity, and sanity you have.
I should know. I still have scars."
"Just because she broke your heart, doesn't mean she'll break mine."
"No seriously. I still have scars, this chick is violent in the sack."
"Dude, you slept with her? Does Sim know this?" Jake asked Shini.
"I don't care what you say. I'm going to do it." Shinigami went
up to Lucas and placed one hand on his shoulder, his head hanging he sighed.
"I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this but
" Shini's fist
shot up about to punch Lucas in the nose, but Lucas dodged out of the way
and retaliated by grabbing the wrist of the hand on his shoulder and flipped
him into the black tar road behind them. Shini staggeringly picked himself
up. It was silent. Shinigami and Lucas stared at each other, Lucas with
his guard up and his chest heaving, Shini with his menacing eyes and fists
clenched until his knuckles were white. Even time didn't want to get in
the way of this chilling heat, it seemed as if everything but them froze.
Shini stepped back onto the walkway and stood across from Lucas. In response
he took a basic martial arts defensive stance.
"Nice throw," Shini smiled and Lucas relaxed with a breath of
relief. Then a fist shot into his jaw knocking him out. "You bastard."
"He WHAT?" Trin exclaimed after Mika gave her
the news.
"He broke up with Kitty." She replied slower and louder than before
as if Trin were deaf.
"NO!"
"That's what Kit said when it happened."
"It can't be! No wonder she's not here today! She must be crushed!"
"Yeah, Sim's comforting her."
"Oh no
"
"He WHAT?" Trin exclaimed after Mika gave her
the news.
"He broke up with Kitty." She replied slower and louder than before
as if Trin were deaf.
"NO!"
"That's what Kit said when it happened."
"It can't be! No wonder she's not here today! She must be crushed!"
"Yeah, Sim's comforting her."
"Oh no
"
"Oh no
" Sim swallowed as Kitty turned on the water works
again. "Please
don't
I don't know what to do
"
"I
.can't
.believe
.he
.did
.this
."
She choked out. Her eyes were deep brown and her face was blotched red.
Slowly her eyes began to match her cheeks. "Who is it?! WHO IS THE
BTICH? SHE DIES!" Kitty stopped crying.
"Who do you think?" Sim scoffed. Kit grew a look of shock.
"YOU BITCH!" Kit lunged.
"F*ck
"
"Kitty will kill her." Trin finished.
"But Sim didn't do it." Mika proclaimed.
"Then who
"
"Hey." Hirro walked up to them. "You seen Lucas?"
"No why?"
"He asked me to get this for him." He pulled a small black ring
box from his backpack. He opened it to reveal a yellow frost stone band
housing a large blood red gem.
"Wow."
"That was my reaction when he gave me the money to buy it for him."
"It's pretty."
"Yeah. Kitty should like it."
"I don't think it's for Kitty
" Trin started to tell him.
"Oh great!" Lucas rushed up. His face was bruised and blood looked
like it had been wiped from his nostril several times. He took the ring
box and with his own goofy grin bolted off.
"Lucas!" Shinigami shouted bursting through the school entrance.
He ran through the hallway then stopped briefly at Trin, Mika, and Hirro.
Jake stepped in casually after.
"Where's he going?" Trin asked Shini.
"No time to explain. We have to stop him!" he ran off again this
time with the rest at his heels. Jake continued to walk casually along behind.
When they got to Lucas he was on his knee and Lex had a wicked grin on her
face as she fingered the ring. Andrea and D were already there.
"Lex! Let him go!" Shini fumed.
"Getting a bit jealous are we? Well forget it! You had your chance!"
"I don't want another chance you self centered bitch. I want you to
let my friend's human half go!"
"Lucas!" Kitty came in with Sim. "Lex?"
"See. I TOLD you it wasn't me." Sim scoffed. Kit's eyes were hazel
with confusion. They flashed red once, but went back quickly. Trinity noticed
that when Kit's eyes turned red Lex's own blood coloured ones turned brown.
"Sim! Piss her off!" Trin announced as Shinigami argued with Lex.
"What?!" Sim gave her a 'you're nuts' gaze. "I just calmed
her down!" Lex grabbed Shini by the neck and proceeded to squeeze the
air out of him. Everyone was trying to stop her, but they were being thwarted
left and right.
"Just DO IT!" Trin exclaimed. Sim ran up to the still kneeling
Lucas and pulled him up by the shirt. Making sure Kit could see she kissed
him.
"Augh God!" Lucas shouted when he pushed her off. Kitty and Lex's
eyes swapped colours, She let go of Shini in slight apology.
"I'm so sorry. Are you ok?" Lex helped him up. Hirro and D held
Kitty back while Shinigami got in his much needed air.
"Well whaddya know. It worked." Trin grinned.
"It's true. You have a softer side, and it has been revealed! This
only deepens my love for you." Lucas sounded like something from a
bad soap opera spin off.
"Crap."
"You know. I haven't seen Luke lately." D realized aloud.
"That's it! Piss Lucas off!" Trin once again declared.
"Oh no! I am NOT kissing Kitty!" Sim argued.
"Not you." Trin glared then faced Shini.
"Me? No way!" he argued as she pushed him.
"Uh
" he swallowed. Lucas pulled Lex to him and they began
to make out.
"EW!" the crowd exclaimed.
"Shini! For god's sake do it NOW!"
"Fine!" he grabbed Kitty and kissed her earning him a kick in
the shin and a slap from Sim. "Hey! I didn't hit you when you kissed
him!"
"Yeah, because that would be abuse." Sim folded her arms.
"Get off me BITCH!" Luke shouted and knocked Lex away. "You
tricked me!"
"Yes!" Lex cackled. "And now I HAVE THE RING!"
"You mean this ring?" Jake asked. No one had seen him come in,
but he was holding the ring in his hand.
"I don't get it!" Kitty calmed down as Lex went insane again.
"You did all this for a ring? Why didn't you just get a job and buy
it yourself?"
"Because I'm evil you indigent maggot!" Well no one argued with
that.
"Well your plans have been thwarted." D beamed along with the
rest. Luke just glared at Lex.
"Maybe this time! But next time I WONT BE STOPPED! AH HA HA HA HA HA
HA HAAAAAAAAAAA!" Lex cackled and ran off.
"That has to be the most annoying laugh in the world." Luke proclaimed.
"For once
I'm glad to see you." Kitty said reluctantly.
"You bought this?" Jake was surprised. "This thing had to
cost about five thousand dollars.
"Actually it cost fifteen thousand." Hirro added.
"Eh, he just stole some dough outta the old man's wallet."
"You mean your
"
"Richer than a bastard. You didn't know?"
"Well if I had you're stereo system would have mysteriously disappeared
by now." Jake replied. Luke took the ring from him and tossed it to
Kitty.
"He would have wanted you to have it anyway
" he grumbled.
"Gee. Thanks." Kitty pocketed it.
"So do you think the trance is off of Lucas?" Trin wondered.
"Lord only knows. Let's hope so
I'd hate to see the children that
a genius and a homicidal egotistical maniac produce." Andrea put in.
"I RESENT THAT!" Sim declared.
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