Volume One: Origin
A bedroom, a rather messy bedroom to note, in the bed is a sleeping boy with dark brown hair long enough to cover his eyes if not controlled, from the other room his brother yells.
???: Keith! Keith! Wake up already! You'll be late for school and didn't You say there's a field trip today!?
Suddenly the boy in the bed springs up and out hitting the floor with a nasty thud.
Keith: AUGH!...okay.. okay I'm up Chris, thank you..
Chris: anytime little brother.
Keith rises to his feet while scratching his back with curved posture, he steps out to the hallway and ducks under one of his brothers pranks attempts having tapped plastic wrap to the walls perfectly at his head level hoping to clothesline him but he didn't rush out of his room like Chris expected.
Keith: haha.. I'm not actually late am I Chris?..
Chris: not entirely but that's the best way to get you up and aware without frigid water.
Keith: that's actually pretty fair.
Keith steps into the bathroom to begin his morning routine while thinking about this daily life he has.
He lives in this city apartment alone with his big brother Chris the two being orphans, Keith too young to remember his parents and Chris being just old enough to know the details.. causing the two to take to practical jokes and distractions to keep their minds off of the empty space in their home.
Chris: want me to drop you off at school today? I've got the time.
Keith brushing his teeth: dath bee gray.. -spits- that'd be great!
Chris: *chuckles* get your routine done already space cadet, breakfasts almost ready.
Keith springs out of the bathroom with his shirt half on and his hair still a wild mess as he tries to comb it with his fingers but this ends in him getting clotheslined by the still hanging plastic, he freezes in place with his eyes closed registering it all.
Chris steps over and pulls his shirt down, hands him a hair brush, and takes the plastic off his face.
Chris: how do you survive when I'm at work??
Keith: you hired a babysitter sometimes.
Chris: yeah then all the babysitters became got your age.
Keith: that's not true! Theirs babysitters in their twenties.
Chris: oh yeah? Ill hire a twenty year old babysitter when I need an excuse to hit on someone.
Keith laughs and gives his brother a playful punch in the arm.
Keith: *sniff sniff* your two and a half star breakfast is burning space commander.
Chris: aw man! -rushes to the kitchen-
-cut to Chris and Keith exiting the apartment as smoke billows out of it the two coughing-
Chris: last time I'm helping you put a shirt on.
Keith: your the one who laid the trap that cause all thi-... my backpacks still in there. It has the slip I need to go on the field trip!
Chris: and your other school supplies.
Keith: and my other school supplies!
Chris: actually yeah focus on the slip your an above average student a day or two ahead or whatever.
Keith rushing back into the apartment: five days!
Chris: a genius some places..
Keith returns with his backpack in hand profusely coughing.
Chris: a fearless idiot other places.
Keith: yeah yeah whatever can you drive me to school now? If we keep idling in front of our apartment I'll really be late.
Chris: yeah yeah space cadet.. I'm just letting the smoke filter out before I close the door..
Keith does an idle jog in place as his brother watching an endless cloud of smoke pour from their apartment.
Chris: actually yeah you should get running. I'll drive you next time I swear.
Keith: aw come on!
Keith full sprints it down the steps and out to the sidewalk out of Chris' sight.
Chris: run as far as your legs can take you space Cadet, you have to carry yourself out there.
Returning to Keith he spots a group of tall boys on the same path, boys he recognizes too well.. the school bullies..
Keith: aw not the cliches.. just my luck.
Keith focuses his eyes and picks up the speed but seeing his thin twig like frame he isn't going that fast but just how fast he has to go.
Keith slips through the crack of the large boys and keeps running.
Bully 1: hey it's smithy!
Bully 2: perfect timing! I need a 'tutor'
The bullies then pick up the pace after him but he manages to stay at a safe range. If he can make it to the high schools commons area where they are supposed to gather for the field trip then he's golden. But his stamina isn't endless.. his legs are beginning to burn and his arms start to tingle for the short breaths he's taking.
Keith: think think.. what would Chris do..
He scans his surroundings and sees a large truck coming up on the road next to them, just big enough to not notice if it has a stowaway.
Keith: Cant wait for the friction burn I'm about to give myself..
As the truck grows near Keith hood up on the thin stone guardrail between the sidewalk and the road.
Keith: here goes nothing..
Just as the bullies near grabbing range Keith dives and latches onto one of the trucks handles meant for climbing up it but he just uses it to stand on the foot step and get a nice ride to school while he catches his breath.
Keith: see you later, bullies who I never bothered in learning the names of!
Keith turns to face where the school will be coming up after giving the boys a sincere farewell.
Keith: haha! That worked, it actually worked. -winces- ow-ow-ow-ow.. my palms..
Keith opens his eyes to see one of his friends standing at the school gates.. why isn't she inside with the others?..
Keith: Lucy!
After getting her attention Keith hops off the truck nearly falling over but he manages to keep his balances and fixes his posture whenever he's right in front of her so they're face to face.
Lucy: mournin Keith.
Keith: why aren't you inside with the others Lucy?
Lucy: someone had to make sure the bullies didn't throw you in a trash can after emptying your backpack.
Keith: how helpless do you think I am?
Lucy: oh your know I don't meant it like that. Someone has to watch over you.
Keith walking inside: oh yeah yeah that's what my brothers for lulu.
Lucy: unless your brother becomes a substitute teacher I don't think so! He can't help you here so I've taken it as my duty.
Keith: hah. The bullies just don't mess with you because your a girl.
Lucy: yeah, and I'm the toughest around!
Lucy makes a joke serious expression as she does a boxer stance walking next to Keith taking an occasional jab at the air causing Keith to laugh.
Keith: oh spare them please. Take pity on them and withhold your wrath.
Lucy: sense you begged so respectfully.
Keith chuckles rolling his eyes.
Keith: so we arrive to the commons hand over our slips and head out the back door to where the busses are waiting?
Lucy: it's what the slips say on the back isn't it?
Keith laughing: that's where I'm reading it from.
Lucy: then if we get jumped by the bullies out there then it's their fault.
Keith: haha.. yeah..
Keith zips his backpack closed and puts it on properly again as they reach the back doors seeing a crowd of kids and a few workers from the museum stationed at the exits leading out to the bus.
Lucy: I think we could sit around out here for a few a little or just get on the bus now and not have to worry about missing it.
Keith: I don't know about you, but I'm getting on now just to be safe rather than being sorry.
Keith walks to a worker and hands over his slip and hops onto the bus waiting outside.
Lucy: now then..
She turns to the bullies from earlier as they crowd around something in one of their hands. It's Keith's phone, luckily Keith put a complicated puzzle on it for when someone other than Keith, his brother, and Keith's friends try to open it.
Lucy: time to deal with these wastes..
Lucy steps over but as she nears the ones with Keith's phone two more crowd around looking over his shoulder, Lucy sighs and crouch's they are so distracted they won't notice her messing with their shoelaces.
She stands back up and manages to push to apart and swipe Keith's phone.
Lucy: this doesn't belong to you!
Bully 1: the idiot was dumb enough to drop it while running away from us.
Lucy: and who's fault was it that he was running in the first place?
Bully 3: the chicks got you their man.
Lucy: and plus, Keith smith is a genius but you probably can't understand, too complex for you.
Bully 1: your pass for being a girl is so gone!
Lucy: id like to see you knuckle heads try!
Lucy does a backwards jog waving before spinning and rushing out to the bus Keith got on giving the worker her slip as she runs past.
-Lucy's P.O.V-
I get onto the bus scanning the faces of all of the ones I pass until I spot Keith, oh and lucky me the seat in front of his is open.
I dive onto the seat hoping to get his attention but when I peek over I see he has his headphones on listening to that music player he made out of parts from his brothers broken boom box somehow.
Lucy: *clears throat*
Keith: *faintly humming along to his music*
Lucy: delivery to one Keith Smith.
That's it.
I reach out and swipe the music player from his side and crank it to full volume getting a reaction out of him
Keith: AH! What the!? Lucy!
Lucy: be more aware of your surroundings!
Keith: well you have my attention now.. what is it?
Lucy: you were getting chased by bullies and your response to that is jump on a semi truck? Why didn't you tell me.
Keith: didn't seem important. It was my problem not yours.
Lucy: why do you talk like that?
Keith: like what?
Lucy: like you have to live your life by yourself. Bad things won't happen if you let people help you. Especially with how much you help others.
Keith: eh.. I guess it's just how I was raised.
I.. I don't know how to respond to that. He sounds so sad yet he forces a small smile on his face.
Lucy:...here's your phone..
Keith: -brightens up- woah! Where'd you find it? Didn't even know I dropped it.
Lucy: keep your phone in your pants pocket not your jacket pocket.
Keith: heh, my mistake.
Lucy: yeah..
I sit down on the seat and look forward as one of the workers climbs on and takes an empty seat in the front, after a few minutes more kids flow in either taking an empty seat or sitting with a friend. Feels like someone's missing.. must've got on another bus. Oh well.
-time skip brought to you by whatever funny thing GrimmReaper002 has to say in the comments-
-third POV-
Keith stretches his arms on the verge of pins and needles, they were heading to the other side of the city so by the time they get back to the school it'll be time to go home, maybe he should stay an hour or two after.. there's a couple things to be done off the top of his head.. whatever.
Lucy's been quiet for a while.. is she okay? Keith peeks his head over the seat and looks down to see she fell asleep, oh right long car rides make her sick. Keith sits back and looks out the window at the passing buildings, the deeper they got into the city the taller they got. He's always loved the city he lives in.
Keith: *gasp* it's the museum!
Lucy groggy: you might be the only one on the bus that excited for the museum..
Keith: didn't you read pamphlets they handed out?
Lucy: no.
Keith deadpan: of course..
Lucy: why would I?
Keith: if you did you'd have seen they have all sorts of electronic activities set with the themes of the different sections of museum.
Lucy: oh, that sounds neat actually.
As the conversation comes to an end the bus slows down and stops in front of the museum.
Keith hops to his feet waiting for the kids in the front to file.
Finally off the bus Keith steps in front of the steps leading up to the entrance of the museum, he's excited but he has this over hanging feeling in the air..
Keith: Lucy does the air feel right to you?
Lucy: well right now I'm breathing in bus fumes if that's what you mean.
Keith: no like there's an odd feel in the air.
Lucy: probably just city pollution, I hear you can't even see most of the stars it's so bad in some places.
Keith: yeah.. your probably right.
Lucy: the pollution or the star thing?
Keith: what?
Lucy: forget it, how long are you gonna stand in front of the museum and actually go into it?
Keith: I'm going in before you! -runs up the stairs-
Lucy: hey no fair! Keith! -runs after-
Arriving inside Keith slides to a stop and looks up and around at the very open museum.
Keith: wow!
Lucy our of breath: you.. jerk!.. that wasn't fair.. why are there so
many
Keith walks off without listening to Lucy causing her to run after him.
Lucy: what's your deal? Did the city air get to your brain or something?
Keith: -snaps out of it- huh? Oh Lucy. Sorry, I didn't have breakfast this morning so I might just be a little out of it.
Lucy: a little?.. whatever.. you should go find a vending machine and get a bag of chips, and get me a bag of chips too.
Keith: you just want a bag of chips.. don't you.
Lucy: and a soda!
Keith: it's coming out of your pocket.
Lucy: haha, no. You still owe me five bucks so that should pay off your debt.
Keith: fine..
Lucy: you can find me where the dinosaur bones are when your done.
Keith: you sound like a npc in a rpg..
Lucy: if you were any nerdier you'd have to wear glasses.
Keith rolls his eyes with a smile and walks off to find a vending machine, probably by the bathroom. And arriving to the back he sees a vending machine next to a employees only door, Keith puts a few dollars in the vending machine and hits the buttons but it doesn't dispense anything.
Keith: what gives?? Is it busted?
Keith gives it a kick but not even a pack of gummy bears come loose, he turns to the employees only door and starts knocking.
Keith: hello? The vending machines broken and it ate my money.. hello??
Keith knocks a little more and the door slowly swings open, he slowly peeks in and sees a lab looking room.. devoid of all people. He steps in hesitantly looking around, all sorts of bottles of mystery liquids and chemicals.. there's a light coming from a door in the back..
Nearing the door Keith stands on his tiptoes to see through the window on it and sees a man in a lab coat struggling to keep control of a awfully large mouse on his hand..
Keith whispering: what's going on here..
Suddenly the mouse spots Keith and starts thrashing and fighting even more cussing it to escape the mans grip and runs out the crack in the door Keith's standing behind, Keith drops from his tiptoes and steps out of the way of the mouse lifting a foot and rolling his weight back into his heel, then the man in the lab coat rushes out the door throwing it open as he leaves hitting Keith right in the face and throws him off balance.
Keith: w-woah!
Keith stumbles back into a tray of vials most are empty so when they break against him all he gets are cuts but when one full of a blue chemical falls onto him it seeps into his wounds giving a horrible burning sensation, the man in the lab coat ran out in such a rush he didn't hear Keith and nobody will be hearing the yells of pain Keith is releasing now.
Keith momentarily blacks out and when he opens his eyes he looks at where his cuts were to see: there are no cuts.. and any pain he was feeling was non existent.. just a memory now..
Keith: how hard did that guy hit me..
Keith then hops to his feet with such speed and strength he nearly falls back down.
Keith: AH! Must've been a rejuvenating five second nap..
Keith exits the lab gives the vending machine a kick before heading to the dinosaur exhibit where Lucy said she'll be.
Little does Keith know the vending machine now has a large dent from his kick, the lights in the vending machine then flicker and burn out.
Keith arrives to Lucy who spots him immediately.
Lucy: Keith!.. where's the snacks?
Keith: vending machines broken.
Lucy: is that all? You look like you just fought a train.
Keith: I went into a employees only area and my punishment was getting socked in the face with the door by a dude in a lab coat chasing a huge mouse.
Lucy: hah, you've officially lost it.
Keith: it's the truth lulu.
Lucy: yeah yeah do go lu-ing on me just cause your hallucinating giant mice.
Keith: *chuckles* whatever.
Lucy stares up at the complete skeleton of a tyrannosaur
Lucy: pretty nuts how these used to be at the top huh?
Keith: probably for the best they're gone.
Lucy: I guess.
Lucy continues to talk about dinosaurs but suddenly Keith's senses are dulled to the point he can only see a blur and he can hear muffles.. he's going to be sick..
He shakes his head profusely and when he opens his eyes again he can see and his hearings returned.
Lucy: did you shake the fleas out or something?
Keith: where's the bathroom.. I'm going to be sick..
Lucy: oh man! Uh the sign says over there-
Lucy hardly finishes her sentence as Keith sprints to the bathroom with speed Lucy's never seen before blowing her hair into her face.
Keith bursts into the bathroom and practically kicks a stalls door off and falls to his knees in front of the toilet.. but he doesn't vomit.. Keith closes his eyes running a hand through his hair trying to steady his breathing and slow his heart.. but then he feels something against his back.
He opens his eyes to see he's on the ceiling..
Keith can only scream as he tries to reach for the top of the stall trying to pull himself down.
-to be continued-
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