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Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 10:05 pm
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 11:27 pm
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 6:25 pm
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Alex had fallen asleep while watching TV. Sometime around midnight he woke up, saw that the TV was on, turned it off, and then pulled out his bed. He never bothered to take of the sheets when he folded it up in the morning, and so it was ready for him when he unfolded it, except for his blanket and pillow, which he kept in the corner of the living room. When six o'clock in the morning arrived, his alarm clock began to beep, telling him that it was time to get up for school. As could be expected, he groggily reached out and pushed the snooze button for some extra sleep. As much as he disliked the way that Sofia nagged him to get up, she was actually a more effective alarm clock than his small electric clock. He might have gotten up then if it was a Friday, since anticipation of the next game always chased away his sleepiness, but this day was a Wednesday, and so Alex had fallen asleep once more in a very short time.
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Davey Word Hunter Captain
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 8:24 pm
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It was about the second time when Alex had pushed the snooze button (or was it the third or the fourth time?) that it occurred to him that Sofia hadn't come to nag him to get up. That was pretty unusual. He listened carefully, and when all that he heard was silence, he finally looked at the time. "D**n, I'm going to be late!" he swore out loud as he quickly got up. First he threw his blanket and pillow into the corner without bothering to fold the blanket, and then he pushed the hide-a-bed back into the sofa. Next he showered, shaved, and dressed as quickly as he could. The favorite shirt that he wanted to wear that day wasn't where it was supposed to be. Alex had to look in the laundry basket to find it, and he decided to speak with Sofia about that. At least his letterman jacket was where he had put it. When he went into the kitchen, he discovered that Sofia hadn't fixed breakfast. He was definitely going to talk to her about that. After rummaging through the refrigerator, he found a doughnut that had been sitting in the back for about a week (or maybe longer), and he scarfed it down as he grabbed his books and ran to his car. Along the way he probably bent the speed limit a bit and ran a couple 'orange' lights, as he liked to call a light that turned red just before he entered the intersection, but who really cared? As it happened, he managed to arrive at school in time for his first class. While none of the students had any reserved parking stalls, like the school faculty did, it was common knowledge that one didn't park in a certain area of the parking lot near the school unless one was a senior like Alex. Bad things 'mysteriously' happened to cars that didn't belong.
((OOC: I'm guessing that Sofia and Alex have their psychology class at the same time, since the teacher had made them partners in the pretend marriage. Is the class in the morning or afternoon?))
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Davey Word Hunter Captain
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 9:24 pm
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"Cutting it a bit close this morning, Mr. King?" the teacher asked when Alex came through the door. "I got stuck in traffic," Alex lied, but it was plausible enough that it might have been true. Alex went to the back of the classroom and sat on the last row, like always. Before he had the chance to get comfortable, though, the teacher glared at him and then pointedly glanced at the empty desk next to Sofia. Obviously Alex was still expected to sit next to Sofia during the class. All of the other 'married couples' were seated together, and so Alex couldn't expect to be the exception. Of course the big difference was that the other 'couples' were still only pretending to be married, while Alex and Sofia's marriage had turned into a real living nightmare. As he grumbled to himself, Alex grudgingly moved to the desk next to Sofia. Going by the smug expression on her face, the missing breakfast wasn't a mistake. Alex could have told her off right then and there, but the class had already started, and so he limited himself to sarcastically whispering, "Thanks for breakfast!"
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 7:14 pm
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Even though Brandy would never admit it to any of the school's faculty, the main reason for why she and her crew were lurking around that part of the school was because she knew where Alex and Sofia had their first class of the day, and so they were wandering around the area in the hopes of encountering either Sofia or Alex, preferably Sofia. As luck would have it, they were strolling by the girls' bathroom just as Sofia obligingly came around the corner. "Oh look! It's Mrs. King!" Brandy exclaimed in delight.
As Sofia had been leaving the classroom, a young man, possibly a freshman, walked in and held up a note as he told the teacher, "I was told by one of the school councilors to give this to Alexander King." The teacher took the note, examined it, decided that it was authentic, and dismissed the young man by saying, "I'll give it to him." If the teacher had followed the young man into the hall, he would have observed that the young man went straight to Greg, who was loitering about in the hall. Greg handed a $5 bill to the young man and said, "Good job, kid. Now beat it." While that happened, the teacher went to Alex and said, "Mr. King, your councilor needs to see you right now about some credits that you seem to be missing." "What?" Alex exclaimed in alarm, "I'm not missing any credits!" "Then you had better get this straightened out now," the teacher advised before returning to his desk, essentially giving Alex permission to go see his councilor.
Alex walked out of the classroom and was promptly joined by Greg, who cheerfully said, "Hi, Alex? What's up?" "Oh, hi Greg," Alex said in return, "My councilor wants to see me about some credits that I'm allegedly missing, but I know I'm not missing any. I need this hassle like I need a hole in my head... or a wife." Greg snickered and informed him, "Don't worry about your councilor. In fact she'll be surprised to see you if you go there. I was the one who sent the note. It was the only way that I could think of to get you out of class. Obviously I did a good job of forging her signature." Alex gave Greg a high-five and said in admiration, "You're the man, Greg!" "I saw your Mrs. a few seconds ago, but she blew past me like I wasn't there. I think she's making an emergency trip to the little girls' room. Oh, and I saw Brandy and Team Bimbo wandering around," Greg said next. "Which way did Brandy go?" Alex promptly asked. "That way," Greg replied while pointing in the opposite direction that Sofia had gone, not knowing that Brandy and crew had already circled around. "In that case, we're going that way," Alex stated while pointing in the direction that Sofia had taken to get to the bathroom, which happened to be around the next corner.
((OOC: FYI, Brandy and crew aren't going to let Sofia into the bathroom, but don't worry. Alex will arrive in time to provide a distraction for Sofia, and I have a fiendish plan that will allow him to get some payback for the joke that Brandy played on him the previous day. twisted ))
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 8:56 pm
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Alex and Greg rounded the corner and promptly saw that Sofia was surrounded by Brandy and Team Bimbo. Alex's first thought was to go back the way that they had come, but Brandy had already spotted him. "Oh look! The little hubby has come to save his blushing bride like a knight in shining armor!" she squealed to her airhead friends, and after letting out an exaggerated sigh, she sarcastically added, "How romantic!" Perhaps Alex was still ticked off about the joke that Brandy had played on him the previous day, or perhaps he was merely irritated by her attitude, or maybe he was annoyed by the fact that she was harassing Sofia again, which meant that she was sticking her nose into his business again. In any case, Alex felt compelled to respond, and so as he approached he replied, "You wouldn't know romance if it bit you in the butt. I bet that's something that you would enjoy, though." Just then a fiendishly clever idea crossed his mind, and so Alex continued, "By the way, didn't I see you at the mall with Oscar last night?" Now Cynthia was the name of the redhead that hung out with Brandy, and Oscar was the name of her boyfriend. Just as Alex had anticipated, as soon as he had said that, Cynthia gasped in shock while her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. She then roughly turned Brandy to face her and demanded, "You were with Oscar last night?" "No, I wasn't with Oscar last night! Alex is making that up!" Brandy replied contemptuously.
On this occasion, Brandy's reputation trumped everything else, and so Cynthia's lip began to quiver, and as her eyes filled with tears she whined, "How could you do that to me? I thought we were friends!" Brandy looked at Cynthia as if she was terminally stupid, and when Brandy realized what Alex was doing, she insistently said to Cynthia, "Of course I'm your friend! I was nowhere near Oscar last night! Alex is lying!" Instead of taking Brandy's word for it, Cynthia turned on her heels and stormed away with tears streaming down her cheeks, leaving Brandy grumbling in anger and the other girls looking at each other with confused expressions on their faces. "I'm going to get you for this!" Brandy snapped at Alex, and after flipping him off, she charged down the hall after her erstwhile friend and called out, "Come on, Cynthia! I swear to you that I've never been near Oscar! Cynthia!" Naturally enough, the rest of Team Bimbo was quick to follow Brandy. Alex and Greg burst into laughter at that point, and as Alex raised his hand to Greg, he said, "If you can't dazzle them with your dexterity..." "Baffle them with your bull s**t!" Greg completed for Alex as they exchanged another high-five, and he added, "Divide and conquer, my man. Divide and conquer!"
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