The Diary Of My Imminent Doom

Chapter 9

A/N

So. Sorry for the wait. But we find out some stuff in this chapter!

And I keep forgetting Total.

I've got nothing else to say, so...

Enjoy!

7/9/15

Dear Diary,

Today, I was annoyed. Here's why:

I was walking down the school hallway, as you do, and then I saw reason numero uno why I was annoyed. Nudge. Plus Adrian. Talking. To each other. Why, life? What have I ever done? I mean, apart from all the bombs and farting. But still! Nudge started laughing. Oh, dear. I couldn't watch this. I turned and headed into science. Nevaeh looked up from our table.

"You seen a ghost? Those voices starting up again?" She asked. I scowled and sat down. She raised an eyebrow. "No comment, huh? And y'all call me rude."

"Adrian was talking to my sister," I shuddered. She gave me a...was that sympathetic? She gave me an almost sympathetic look. Wow. Life can change, oh so fast.

"Yeesh. Your sister must have no standards." Annnnnnd she's back. I opened my mouth, but Adrian sat down before I could say anything.

"Sorry, Vae Vae. Can't do the weekend anymore. I'm going over to a friends house," he winked. I slapped my palms on the table.

"First you terrorize my friends, and now my sister-" Adrian threw up his hands.

"Woah, your sister? You look nothing alike." I remembered the cover story. Ah, crap. I hesitated.

"Well, not my actual sister, but we're staying with her and her actual brother, so it feels like she's my sister," I explained hurriedly. He have me a strange look.

"Crap, that means you'll be there? Damn," he groaned. Kaci plopped onto the seat beside me. She glared at Adrian.

"Nice hat," he smirked, looking at the bandage wrapped around her head.

"Nice eye. I'd recommend a new nose job, though," she shot back, nodding to his deformed face. Nevaeh looked up.

"Holy hell, you look like crap," she said bluntly. Kaci and I grinned.

"That's Ross for you. He's great at makeovers," Kaci put in. Nevaeh's eyebrows shot up.

"Man, TAYLOR did that? I needa give him more credit," she mused.

"I'm sure he'd love that," Kaci smirked.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Oh nothing, nothing."

Well, Diary, I just felt the need to explain that, so now onto the real reason I'm writing.

Saturday.

Most kids would be happy. Relieved.

Me? I'm currently miserable, lonely, and annoyed.

See, the whole flock decided to invite people over.

Angel...actually didn't have anyone, because she barely came out of her room anymore.

Nudge had the little i***t Adrian. And Courtney had tagged along too! Fun! But there were a bunch of other people, too, so it wasn't as bad.

Iggy, the asshole, invited David over. Plus the African guy with the weird (but cool!) hair from the concert. Turns out his name was Richard.

Fang was talking to a pretty red haired girl. She sorta scared me, though, cause she had a scar on one side of her side.

And Max was with another group of about three others. I think two of them were actually Nudge's friends.

And I had Ross, Kaci and Jason.

We were huddled around my bed.

"Yeesh, Gaz. Your rooms freaking scary," Ross observed, taking in my miniature horror movie murder room.

"I know. I never open the windows for fear of being mauled," I replied.

"Well, at least there's a reason if you spontaneously die," Jason mused. The rest of us shot him weird looks. "What? It's true." No arguing there, I guess. Unfortunately, Nudge interrupted us about half an hour later.

"Hey! Do you wanna play truth or dare?" She asked. I hesitated.

"Uh, not really-"

"It's computer generated! No inappropriate stuff," she added.

"Whose idea was it?" I asked, planning on how I could kill them.

"Oh, Adrian's." Our eyebrows shot up.

"You got Adrian to agree to a non inappropriate truth or dare?" Kaci checked. Nudge nodded. "Dear lord."

"Well, we're starting soon, so come out if you wanna play." Nudge left the room.

"So. Truth or dare. You guys in?" I asked.

"Course we are. Anything to get out of your creepy room," Jason shivered.

"Hey!" I protested. "It's not...that creepy!" They stared at me. "Okay, fine." Everyone was already seated in the living room. I took a seat beside Max.

"You agreed to this?" I whispered. She shook her head.

"I'm off chores for today and tomorrow," she replied, grinning.

"Damn! Why didn't I think of that?"

"You still have much to learn, young grasshopper," she answered mysteriously.

"My name's Gasman, not grasshopper," I huffed. Nudge stepped into the circle.

"Okay, guys! Who wants to start?" No one raised their hand. "Okay...I'll start then. Um...Iggy! Truth or dare?" Iggy groaned.

"No chores. No chores," he grumbled. My eyes popped.

"Am I the only one who didn't think of that?" I exclaimed. Nudge gave me a sour look.

"Dare," Iggy said. Nudge pressed a button on the laptop.

"Uh...peel a banana using your feet."

"I can't even see my feet!" Iggy protested.

"Well, now you can. Here's your banana." Nudge handed it to him. He placed it between his toes, and furrowed his eyebrows in concentration.

"Hey! Hey, I got this...damn it!" He shouted. He'd nearly finished peeling it when the whole thing fell out of the skin. I cracked up, along with mostly everyone else. Iggy held up the banana.

"Anyone?" He offered.

"Okay. Iggy, you next." He glanced around the circle as if he could actually see us. His eyes landed on...David. "David. Truth or dare?"

Now, Diary, my one question is: how the heck did he know where he was?

"Dare," He replied.

"Nudge, generator!" He sung. Weirdo. I do not take after him. Forget what I said about him being my idol.

"Okay. Touch your tongue to your nose, and if you can't touch your tongue to another persons nose. Go ahead." David smirked, before touching his nose to my tongue.

"How the heck did you do that?"

"I have my ways. Gasman, truth or dare?" Oh, you're kidding!

"Dare," I replied. Nudge tsked.

"Proclaim your undying devotion to the next person who walks into the room. I guess we keep playing til that happens," he announced. I shrugged.

"Sure. Um...Richard, you seem nice! Truth or dare?" I grinned at him evilly.

"Dare," he said. Nudge rolled her eyes.

"Jeez, people! Choose truth once in a while, too!" She clicked the generator. But before she could share, guess who walked in? Max tried to stifle her snickers. When everyone else noticed, they did too.

"Hi, Fang," Nudge said pointedly, looking at me. I got up, and whispered to Max. "Please say you don't want me doing this?"

"Nope. He's all yours," she smirked. I sighed, and started walking over to Fang. Then I knelt at his feet.

"Oh, Fang. I have been holding it in for a while now"-"

"What? Diarrhea?" He asked. I shook my head.

"No, Fang. That's what my love for you and diarrhea have in common. I love you, Fang! I didn't tell you since you're with Max, but its too hard to remain unnoticed! I don't care! You're my one true love!" I exclaimed, wrapping my arms around him. I heard everyone snickering in the background. And then I saw it. A dark haired, golden eyed dude, standing outside in the open doorway. I tensed. Fang pushed me away from him, and saw my expression. He raised an eyebrow. I wordlessly pointed to the kitchen. He nodded and walked off.

"Uh, everyone that lives here? Kitchen. Asap." I turned, and headed after Fang. Max, Nudge and Iggy came in.

"Uh, Gazzy? What's up?" Max asked cautiously.

"Guess who decided to crash the party?" I said jovially.

"Mr Whippy?" Iggy suggested. I glared.

"Stalker Dude." They gave me blank stares. Ugh, really?

"The evil guy who pushed me off a roof."

"Ah."

"Oh, him."

"Right." Idiots.

"So? What do we do?" I asked Max.

"Uh. Why don't we just see what he wants, and let him do whatever?" She said. Fang shrugged.

"Let's do that. Play some more truth or dare. Relax. Good? Yeah? Great." Iggy walked back into the lounge.

"Yeah. Great."

Three hours later, I was sipping hot chocolate and shoving a burger in my face. I was pretty sure everyone had cleared off, apart from David, Kaci, Lilly (the red head Fang was talking to) and Richard. Which I thought was weird, but there you go.

"Okay. So, you wanted to tell us something, right?" Max asked David. He nodded.

"Yeah. All four of us." My disturbed-ness went up when he gestured to Kaci. I raised my eyebrows at her. She simply shook her head.

"These burgers are great, by the way," Richard added to Iggy. Then he turned to the rest of us.

"Okay. So, you may know of a guy with dark hair, gold eyes, right?" We stood up, staring at him.

"How the hell do you know that?" Max demanded.

"Sit down, guys. Rick, you gotta start off way better than that," Kaci said, shaking her head. She looked up at the rest of us. "Okay. You'll probably believe us better if I get this outta the way. So:" She stood up, knocking her chair back. She shrugged off her jacket, and rolled her shoulders.

Holy crap. Just...holy crap.

Kaci has wings.

And she knows David.

Which means he probably has wings too.

There is only one thing I can say to this.

ARRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

"So you three have wings too?" I asked, gesturing to Kaci's white ones.

"Oh, no, shrimpo. See, Richard here is part rhino, gorilla, something like that-"

"Cooler than you," Richard interrupted. I grinned. I think I'm gonna like this guy.

"-bad word choice. Lilly here took after a wolf, and she' s wicked strong and fast. Kaci has wings, and me, well, you weren't kidding when you said I was like Jack Frost," David explained. Iggy's jaw dropped.

"So you can do ice stuff? And fly? Dude, you've been holding out on me!" He exclaimed.

"Great. What does this have to do with us?" I droned. Everyone's eyes snapped to me. Hey! I'm tired.

"Its like you with Itex. We want whatever he works for to be destroyed," Richard added. Hmm. Another Itex? I really do not want to have to save the world again. And then have it blow up anyway.

"So, we came to ..." David trailed off, wincing. Kaci rolled her eyes.

"We're asking for your help," she said.

"Yep. Cool. With what? Tying your shoes? Going to the bathroom?" I asked. I get it, it was snarky, but I really didn't like David, okay?

"Tracking him down. What say you?" Kaci glanced at Max.

"We'll help. But we're sticking to our lie low, watch plan. Capiche?" I liked Max for this reason. She's not just going to trust these guys. Even though Kaci's my friend and all, just because she trusts these three doesn't mean I do.

"Cool. Whatever. I'm gonna go sleep in my creepy as heck room. Later, Kaci," I said, before trudging out of the room. I was tired. And I didn't see the shape outside my door. That was dumb. As soon as I hit the bed, my door slammed shut. I jumped.

"Why the-holy hell, its you! What do you want?" I asked Stalker Guy. He keeps showing up everywhere, really. First in a bathroom, then on a roof (both places where horror movie scenes tend to happen! Like that weirdo movie Crush. That girl needs to control her jealously, man), and now in my specifically named, horror movie murder room. Oh, crap, my life is over. I'm gonna die. This is the end. Hold your breath and count to ten...okay, Gaz. This is not the time for song references.

"Only to say hi, Gasman."

"Did you come to kill me? Cause if so, could you get it over with?" I asked irritably. He raised an eyebrow.

"Save that for Bria. She'll actually bother with a comeback. I just came to tell you that you should listen to your instincts first. That's all. No killing. Though, this room would suit it," He said thoughtfully. Everyone notices the room, huh?

"Then could you kindly leave so I can get some sleep? Unless you want to watch me," I added charitably.

"No, no, that's quite fine. I'll see you in the clouds, Gasman." What the hell? See you in the clouds? That sounds like some dumb line from a cheesy romance novel where the guy leaves the girl for 'important, necessary things'. Stalker Dude didn't like me, did he? God, that would be disturbing-

Anyway. He walked out of my room. Through the door. And nobody noticed. Ahh, the perks of living with a bunch of idiots.

Right then, three things occurred to me.

One, Fang didn't say whether he loved me back or not. I mean, come on, man, you don't just leave someone hanging like that.

Two. David dared me to tell Fang I loved him. And I hugged Fang because of that. And I saw Stalker Guy because of that. So that means...David potentially saved my life. Damn it!

And third? I still didn't get Stalker Guys name.