Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:03:26 -0500 From: Tsunami Subject: Reality Slap It's my first ever story, so please be gentle. It's based on my experiences, so I changed the names and places to protect the innocent and the stupid. Reality Slap By tsunami Disclaimer: If you are not 18 (or 21 in some states,) you should not be here, unless you just accidentally tripped and landed on the left mouse button. ^^ Disclaimer 2: Sailormoon and her friends/enemies/family are not my property. They belong to Naoko Takeuchi and Kodansha Comics. Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End It was midnight on a quiet June night. Crying and convulsing with sobs, I turn on my computer and log onto AIM. Once I had logged on, I scrolled down on my buddy list until I found who I was looking for, but he hit me up first. SNS: Hi HY:(that's me) Hey.. SNS: What's up? HY: -wipes his eyes- nothing much, just a fucked up day. SNS: -gets concerned, a paternal look crosses his face- what happened? Several minutes pass without a response. SNS: Max...you there? I'm sobbing uncontrollably at the keyboard at this point. SNS: Max? HY: Yeah, I'm here... SANS: What's wrong? HE: It is too long a story. (BIG understatement.) SANS: I have time. HE: You don't mind listening? SANS: No, go ahead. Let me interrupt here. This is not where the REAL story takes place. It starts, actually 10 months earlier, August 2000, when my Sucky Sophomore year started at Helena South High School, or as me and my friends call it, Hellhole High! I guess I should also take the time to introduce myself. I'm Max Watson. I am 17, 115 lbs., 5'5 1/2'', black eyes, blue hair to the bottom of my earlobes (I dye my hair different colors constantly) and black eyes. I'm also gay, and recently came out to a few of my friends. I'm much immersed in the Japanese culture and often listen to anime music and watch anime, and read and draw manga (which is usually bishoujo senshi sailormoon). The day is August 19th, the 4th day of school. "Hi Rei!" (Rei's my best friend, and a witch, I'm her warlock in training) "Hey Max! Ogenki desu ka?" "I'm fine, what's up?" I ask as we go to the cafeteria to get a chicken biscuit for breakfast. "Nothing much," Rei replied. "Hey, you wanna go mall trolling after school, scope out a few guys?" "Seiva tou yasen nai! Sure, but I don't think there're enough guys in that mall for the both of us!" I say, laughing. "Man, this totally sucks though, it's your last year!" "I don't know what you've been sniffing, but I'm glad I'm graduating this year!" She grabs a piece of my biscuit. "Hey!" "Oh, don't be such a pussy! You need to loosen up, go get laid!" "Oh yeah, and with who?" "Beats the hell outta me! Any person'll do, Max..." She turns, as a hot guy passes by. "Ooh, baby over there's breakin my heart! Siete buchara somata so ne...sayonara." Moreover, she walks off, following the guy that had passed her as I sit there, rolling my eyes at her shameless flirting. BRRRRING! The bell signaling the students that they had 5 minutes to get to class rang so I gathered my stuff and went to my locker, barely making it to my first period computing class. Computing went by fast, as did Spanish and Algebra. We really didn't do anything but give out our schedules to teachers on index cards, review classroom rules, the shit you usually do on the first week of school. I was bored shitless, so I was glad that after Algebra, that Rei and I were able to meet up again and she was MAD. "Rei, what's wrong?" "That-that JERK gave me his PHONE number!" I was confused for a moment. "Isn't that...a good thing, to get a guy's number?" "IIE! It was BLAKE!" I just about died laughing at this. Blake is the 'player' of Helena High. He always acted like women were his little playthings, a girl looking like she came out of a (cheap) porno movie dangling from his arm like a cheap piece of jewelry. BRRING! The five minute warning bell. "Gotta go, Rei! My 4th is all the way across campus!" I said, turning and walking around. "Max!" Rei called out. I turn around. "Yeah? " See you at lunch! You do have C Lunch, right? Meet me up in C Gym!" "Right!" I had no sooner turned back around when I was knocked forward off my feet, my books, papers, Japanese CDs flying in all directions. I also felt myself falling about to hit the concrete, squeezing my eyes shut to brace for the impact--but something had broken my fall. Then, momentary silence as I opened my eyes. It took me a long moment to realize that I had fallen into someone, and another, also realizing I was still lying on him. And suddenly my thoughts were shattered by his voice. "Are you alright?" I looked down into the pair of deep brown eyes of the guy I was lying on. I had taken one look at his face and my mind SCREAMED. My head was so full of thoughts, that all I could muster was "Oh my god." What do you think? Like it, hate it? Want to burn it and send it to hell? Whatever your comment, email is sunkamen@netscape.net.