School Grounds, Open

[valerelapena]

CHARACTERS: Italy/Felicia and ....
LOCATION/SETTING: School grounds, edging as close as one dares to the forest.
DATE & TIME 1st of June, early afternoon
WARNINGS: None so far!
SUMMARY: Felicia has been taped up in a cardboard box with the naught F word scrawled on the side and left near the forest as a sacrifice for the beast within. Anybody

Comments

[destined_to]

In Guts' experience, mysterious boxes were usually a bad thing. If it wasn't yours, you didn't touch it, because even if it didn't blow up, someone was going to see you poking around where you didn't belong. So the senior did not poke. The senior was just one year away from graduating; he didn't need a staff member catching him where he wasn't supposed to be and wreck his scholarship.

He picked up his pace again, determined to leave the thing in his dust, but nothing was that easy. It began to talk. Of course! He should have known.

He turned back around and wondered if it was bugged for someone's sick enjoyment. Stepping up to the large box, Guts squatted down and waited to see if the recording would start back up. What he hadn't expected was for it to move.

"Jesus--!" He fell back on his ass, one fist up and ready if it tried moving any closer.

[valerelapena]

"AAAAH!" she screamed. And then paused. "J-Jesus.... am I dead?" Was that God calling for his son? She gave a little sob. She was happy to be in heaven and all, maybe see Mama again, and Papa if he was here. But she also really liked being alive....

At least she hadn't died in pain. Just fear....

"Is there pasta here?" she whimpered.

[destined_to]

Oh God, it was a hysterical woman. A hysterical, Italian woman. This was not the way he had wanted to end this day, but could he really leave this creature out here? Actually, he was pretty damn tempted! The only thing that delayed his decision was the all encompassing "What if". What if someone saw him and tied him to this mysterious box? He'd come too far to let one slip up cost him his future--well, one final slip up.

Guts inched closer on his knees, looking for a way inside, but his fingers slipped across the smooth surface of the tape and found no clear opening.

"Yer not dead! Just--gimme a sec' here." Picking a corner, Guts began scraping at the layers of tape that only budged one centimeter at a time. Actually, he may have to take his last comment back. By the time he got any head way, the girl would probably die from asphyxiation. A real shame, that.

"Oh my fucking God--There!" Finally, a big enough piece was pulled off the side of the box in one clean stroke. It gave him enough leverage to put a big hand under one flap

[valerelapena]

"Are you sure?! You're speaking Italian and everyone speaks Italian in heaven because that's where baby Jesus is from!"

What if it was the monster, though? She'd have to be prepared to tickle it or punch it in the nose so she could run away. So, once she heard the tearing sound, she jumped up before Guts could have had a chance to move back.

[destined_to]

It was too late to re-tape the lid after that frightening comment because it--or she, Guts supposed--popped out like a wild animal, hellbent on escape. The young girl grabbed for him and Guts' only instinct was to catch. He held her in his big arms as one of those dainty female fists came up and clocked him in the side of the jaw. The senior stumbled back more from surprise than actual pain.

"Did you just hit me?" Punching a girl back was not going to help his reputation with the school, so he simply opened his arms and dropped her on the ground and walked off with a scoff.

What a bizarre waste of his time.

[valerelapena]

"I thought you might have been a monste- eeeeeh!"

She hit the floor with a squeak and flattened herself out. It felt kinda nice. She stretched out and giggled before jumping up and chasing after him.

"Thank you for rescuing me! You're like a knight or an Oompa Loompa or something! How can I thank you? I know I'll make you some food or do some homework, but I can only really do art homework."