Fan Fiction ❯ Meet The Friends ❯ Epesode 3: Messy Room ( Chapter 3 )

Imagine this... A cake. Cakes have layers right? The first layer consisting of dirty laundry, the second layer being the once clean laundry, and topped with every snack eaten since the month before.

"Dracos..." Torrik sighed. "My room isn't even this bad..."

"Are you my mother now.?" Dracos asked as he looked up from the TV.

"Dude, you need to get yourself a woman or something..." Torrik said. "Maybe hire a maid... My mom?"

Dracos looked around.

"Is it really that bad?" Dracos asked.

Torrik nodded. He then stared at the TV.

"Hey, is that DBZ?"

"Duh..." Dracos said.

Torrik sat down and watched it with him. Then there was a knock at the door.

"I suppose I'll get that..." Torrik sighed as he stood back up. "And I was just starting to get used to the smell..."

He walked up to the door and opened it. There stood Esthenia with a cup in her hand. Her cheeks flushed.

"I'm sorry..." she said. "But I was just wondering if you had any butter... I'm all out and every one else is gone today."

"Butter?" Torrik asked with a raised eyebrow. "Are you sure that isn't a cup of sugar?"

"No." Esthenia said. "Most horror movies start out with someone knocking at the door asking for a cup of sugar. I plan on avoiding that."

"Yeah, but there are pornos that start out like that too." Torrik shrugged.

"I plan on avoiding that too."

"Who is it?" Dracos called from his room.

"It's just a bagger... No lady, we have no money."

"Charming..." Esthenia said. "So, do you have any or not?"

"Is she a hooker?" Dracos asked as he appeared in the doorway.

"I wish..." Torrik sighed.

"Hey there." Dracos said when he saw who it was. "Is this ass-wipe giving you trouble?"

"You two live together?" Esthenia asked.

"Well... yeah sort of." Dracos said. "We don't have the money for separate rooms, and anyway, I enjoy the company."

"I bet you do." Torrik sighed.

"You say everyone is gone? Where's Pagasis?" Dracos asked.

"Oh, he's out looking for a job." Esthenia replied. "Everyone else is at work. I'm the only looser so far. Well... maybe not the only one..."

"We work nights." Dracos said.

"Oh, well, good thing. I was going to watch a movie but I didn't have any butter for my popcorn. That just drives me crazy. Hey, maybe you two could join me!"

"Um..." Dracos flushed. "I wish we could but... I've got to…"

"His room looks like shit..." Torrik said.

Dracos looked at Torrik for a moment, then he grinned and looked at Esthenia.

"Hmm... How bad do you want that butter?"

"All this for bloody butter!!" Esthenia exclaimed as she looked around Dracos' room.

"Please!" Dracos begged. "It's not as bad as it looks!"

"Something just jiggled over there." Esthenia pointed out.

"Hey, there's that jello..." said Dracos.

"You were saying..." Torrik sighed.

"Okay, fine, it looks like Satan's ass crack." Dracos shrugged.

"So you think I'm capable of doing this?" Esthenia asked. "I even have trouble keeping my room straitened up."

"You don't have to do it by yourself." Dracos said.

"Duh!" Esthenia hissed.

"I just need a woman's... hand." he said.

"Well... I see what you mean. But I swear... if I break a nail... I'll brake one in your ass." Esthenia said.

"So... What do you and Torrik do anyway?" Esthenia asked while picking up a dirty sock. She wanted to puke when she saw something green sticking to it.

"Well... We work at the mall." Dracos said. "We run the night shift at the arcade."

"The arcade is open at night?" Esthenia asked.

"Yeah." Dracos grinned. "It's the only one in the city that is open at night. We make a lot off it. There are a lot of people who don't sleep... at night anyway. We see a lot of freaky ass people."

"I bet it's really hard to stay awake during the daytime." Esthenia sighed.

"Sometimes. We have lot's of Mountain Dew in the refrigerator." Dracos said. "It keeps us awake."

"I bet it does..." Esthenia said. "So, you and Pagasis were friends in high school?"

"Well..." Dracos chuckled. "Um... I guess. We liked to annoy the hell out of each other more than anything else. It was kind of funny."

"It is." Eshtnia said. She lifted up a tee shirt and threw it in the laundry hamper. She looked back down at the floor and saw a photograph lying there. She studied it and picked it up. It was of a group of people. Four of them she recognized. "What's this?"

Dracos looked at it for a moment.

"That was from spring vacation." he replied. "Our sophomore year."

"Is that...?"

"Pagasis? Yeah."

Esthenia stared at it even more. Pagasis was shirtless and wearing a blue pair of shorts. His hair was long then. Standing next to him was obviously Dracos and next to Dracos was Torrik. He had his hair down for once. On the other side of Pagasis was somebody else. She was a girl with long brownish hair. There were also four more people kneeling in front of them. All of them were in swim suits. Behind them was a beach.

"This is me..." Esthenia gasped. "Standing next to Pagasis."

Dracos looked at it even more.

"So it is." he said. "I cant remember who everyone else was. I haven't seen any of them in a long time."

"Well... they do look familiar..." Esthenia said thoughtfully. "That girl in front of me looks kind of like..."

"Zera!!"

"And next to her.. That's Tsuniker! And next to him is Umie! Dracos! We knew each other in high school!!"

Two hours later, Esthenia and Dracos entered the living room to find Torrik playing "Resident Evil" on the Playstation. He pressed the pause button and looked at the two.

"Woa... You two look like you've been..."

"Zip it!" Esthenia said. She took of her top layer and was wearing a spaghetti strap and one of her pant legs were torn.

"Did you know that all of us knew each other in high school?" Dracos asked. He was sweating a lot.

Torrik just tilted his head to the side.

"What the hell are you talking about?" he asked. "Sure, I knew you and Pagasis..."

Dracos handed him the picture.

Torrik studied it for a moment. His face drained its color.

"..."

"Remember?" Dracos asked.

"I remember her." Torrik said as he pointed at Esthenia. "She was that freshmen... the one who had that..."

Esthenia let out a loud gasp. She then turned away from them.

Both boys stared at her for a moment.

"Something wrong?" Dracos asked.

"No." Esthenia said as she turned around. "It's all good. Well... Dracos' room is finished. No thanks to you ya bum!"

"Hey, I've been doing work." Torrik said as he pointed at the TV screen. "Check it out, I just walked into that room there and started chopping people's heads off..."

"That's real work..." Dracos said sarcastically. "Don't let your fingers fall off..."

Torrik stared at him for a moment. He then looked down at his hands.

"You're right..." he said as he examined his fingers. "I've got a blister... I'm getting a band aid..."

He got up and walked to the bathroom.

"And he calls me lazy..." Dracos muttered.

"Well... It was your room that was trashed." Esthenia sighed. "I wouldn't want to help you clean it..."

"But you just did..."

"That's not the point..."

"Oh."

"It's odd how we knew each other in High school." Esthenia said as she sat down on the couch. "I wonder if Terrin and Sheirow went to the same school we did."

"I don't know..." Dracos said thoughtfully. "Apperently, Umie and Mupo went."

"I wish I could remember." Esthenia said.

"Want something to drink?" Dracos asked.

"Hell yeah!" Esthenia nodded. "I've been crammed in hell's pig pen for three hours."

"Okay, don't let your panties get in a bunch." Dracos said as he walked into the kitchen.

"Is your finger all better boo boo?" Esthenia asked as Torrik walked out of the bathroom.

"Indeed it is..." Torrik replied as he sat on the couch next to her. He picked up the controller. "So... you remember?"

Esthenia looked away for a second.

"Yes." she said while clearing her throat. "I can't believe you remember."

"Ironic..." Torrik grinned.

"What is?"

"..."

"Well?"

"Your mom..."

"Ugh... don't start that again." Esthenia hissed.

At that moment, there was a knock at the door. Dracos walked from the kitchen with a couple cans of Mountain dew and answered the door.

"Hey there horny." he grinned as he stepped aside.

"Speak for yourself." Pagasis snickered as he walked through the door. "There you are." he said when he spotted Esthenia. "I was wondering where you disappeared to."

"They kidnapped me." Esthenia said as she stood up.

"I'm sorry." Pagasis said to Dracos.

Torrik only nodded.

"Hey now!" Esthenia snapped. "What's wrong with kidnapping me?"

"Well..." Pagasis said. "All of the above...?"

"I see..." Esthenia said. "I'm obviously too much for you gentlemen to handle..."

"Indeed." Torrik said.

"Can I have my butter now?" she asked Dracos.

"Oh yeah." Dracos chuckled as he handed her the Mountain dew. "Just a second."

"So, did you find something?" she asked Pagasis.

"Actually, yeah." Pagasis said. "With a computer store down the street. They said I could start work next week."

"That's awesome!" Esthenia exclaimed.

"Now it's your turn." Pagasis said.

"Eh..." Esthenia nervously laughed. "You're right."

"Here." Dracos said as he handed her the cup. There was a stick of butter in it.

"What the hell?" Esthenia asked. "Dracos, if you had a stick of butter you wouldn't have to put it in a cup. You could have just left it in the wrapper."

"Moron." Pagasis pointed.

"Jack-ass." Dracos said.

"Drac-ass."

"So..." Esthenia sat back down next to Torrik and watched him play. Pagasis and Dracos were still hard at it behind them. "You remember?"

"..."

"How in the hell could you remember I had a pimple on my nose?"

"One that size..." Torrik grinned. "It's hard to miss..."

"It was not!"

"Liar."

"Ugh! You're impossible!"

"I beg to differ."

"Ohhh..." Tsuniker poked his head through the door. "Cat fights!"

Zera said as she appeared next to Tsuniker. She heaved a sigh.

"Reminds me of High School."