Chapter #35The Delinquent Girl by: rugal b.   In debating those choices with Evie you're struck by her motivation for considering them not being entirely self-serving: Andrew deals with one of Bhodi's biggest frustrations. Lucy has never bothered Evie but she's worried about what might happen to Paulina if Paulina keeps the recruitment campaign. With Leslie, both Evie and Lindsay get crap from her but Evie knows that it gets under the skin of Lindsay far more than it does her. In each case it's less about how the change would benefit herself and more about how it would benefit her friends.
There's a dedication to them that you actually find admirable. Evie's a very nice girl and while you feel even worse about shoving her in a terrible situation like that but it also strengthens your resolve to get her back to normal. It's why you eventually settle on Lucy as your target. Andrew might be annoying and Leslie might be a bitch but if Lucy's as bad as everyone seems to think then Paulina might very well be putting herself at physical risk.
It doesn't take much convincing on your part as Evie agrees with you one hundred percent. While she still has reservations, far more than you do, about doing something like this to anyone the ability to minimize the chance of her friend getting hurt far outweighs them. Besides, she reasons, that if anyone could survive under those conditions it's someone as tough as Lucy.
So it's on that agreement that the two of you shake to finalize things. By tomorrow afternoon Evie will finally be back fully in her life and you'll be living the life of Lucy Gibbon. With everything set you then strip out to pass the clothes you've been wearing along to her. You're reluctant to do it at first but Evie waves off any worries. It's just her body and it's nothing she hasn't seen countless times. Besides, she'd rather see it than see you naked.
You ask what she wants done with her mask since you're not sure, being magical and all, if they can really be destroyed. With a shrug she tells you to hang onto it. She doesn't want Caleb (or your friend as she merely calls him) to have it while she has no use for it. You then ask her if she's worried about you using it. She gives it a moment of thought but just shrugs at that. It's not like you'd get much use out of it aside from messing around and seeing as you've probably already done that anyway there's not much she can do though, she pleads, for the love of god keep any of that to yourself as ignorance, for her, is bliss even though you insist nothing of the sort happened.
Once the two of you have confirmed, re-confirmed and re-re-confirmed that this is what you're doing and the way it'll be done you point Evie to her bag and keys on the table and she's gone.
You flip on whatever dingy lighting exists in the basement and head up the stairs to make sure the door is locked. You make sure Dane's mask is on the table as well as the blank and mind band Caleb had stored down her. You then sit around for you're not sure how long to reflect a bit on what's happened. But very quickly you grow bored; at least Evie will have her phone. You don't even have that.
What you do have however is the body of Evie Cummings. You've gone out of your way to treat it with respect and courtesy but, well, Evie said she didn't care right? Just don't tell her was her one rule. So you don't have to tell her and besides you have to pass time somehow. So you sit back against a pile of supplies and, with a deep breath, allow yourself to really enjoy being Evie.
* * * * *
You awaken to the sound of loud knocking, really more like banging, on the door. You groan as your eyes adjust and you work your way into a standing position as you're feeling quite sore. You had no sleeping bag of any sort and only whatever dusty old padding you were able to drag out as well as wearing Dane's musty clothes to keep warm so to say you didn't sleep well is an understatement. Slowly you trudge your way up the stairs, unlock the door and push it open.
Evie's there of course and eyes you intensely. You realize it's the first time that she's seen the face of the person who tried to steal her's. "So that's you," she asks as her gaze finally softens and she walks past you down the stairs. "If you hadn't told me you were a senior I'd think you were a sophomore."
"I get that a lot," you reply.
You walk silently behind her down the stairs until you reach the bottom and you see her place a plastic shopping bag onto the table. "What's that for," you finally ask.
"Change of clothes," she says matter of factly. "Just some work out stuff. I'm not going to be sitting down here naked like you and maybe I can get some running or something done in a little bit." She then gets ready to take her shirt off but suddenly stops and pulls it back down. "Hey, can you," you she starts. "Like, turn around or something?"
"Turn around?"
"Yeah," she replies. "I'd just feel more comfortable if you did."
"I've seen you naked before you know," you say mostly teasingly but quickly decide that's bad. "But sure," you add as you grab Evie's mask off of the table, "I'll just throw this on. You'll probably be done changing by the time I'm back."
"Thanks," she replies gratefully. "I know you have but that's, like, a magic copy of me or something. That's not me me."
So you take a seat once more against the stack of boxes and supplies and put Evie's mask to your face. You come to some time later wearing Evie's body once more but still wearing Dane's clothes. Evie's finished changing so quickly you gather up what she had come wearing and put it on. Dane's clothes you fold up and throw his mask on top. You take the blank and the mind band and put both of those in Evie's bag.
You then exchange goodbyes with her, apologize once more and assure her it'll all be over in the afternoon before heading out. You arrive at school far earlier than Evie normally does and the parking lot is still fairly empty save for the cars of those who need to be there early. Well and the beat-up junker that belongs to Dane. Evie had rode back to the hideout with you in her car and left Dane's at the school so you make it a point of parking alongside of it.
You then hang around in the car reviewing Evie's things and listening to some radio until it gets closer to the first bell and you can go on in.
* * * * *
School passes for you much the same way it had yesterday. Once again you allow yourself to sink into Evie's persona for the first half of the day as her classes go by in dull tedium. Once lunch rolls around you allow yourself to take a little bit more control just to keep your mind alert. You allow yourself to engage a little more with the three girls Evie shares lunch with.
Samantha Fletcher is a farm girl in appearance who spends summers working on her aunt and uncle's farm just outside of town. Though her personality is much more deferential and she more prefers to pursue her artistic side as she has no desire to enter the family business as a career.
Zoe Koch, meanwhile, is her opposite; energetic and scatterbrained as if she some times can't quite keep up with all of her own thoughts. Her chipmunk cheeks give her a cute appearance with eyes that squint as if she's constantly on the look out for something in the distance.
Carly Schmidt, meanwhile, is aiming to join the cheerleaders next year. Like Chelsea she's very blonde and very pretty but their personalities could not be any more opposite bubbly in personality and warm in disposition.
It's as you're taking in each of these girls that you notice her: tall with dark, wild hair and a gaze as hard as steel. Her dark pants are billowy over her boots. Her dark shirt, ratty and sleeveless, hangs loosely exposing well toned arms. Lucy Gibbon says nothing as she walks by you and doesn't need to. She has an aura about her that makes you want to instantly run in the opposite direction. She's flanked by a couple of other girls. None of them are anyone you'd want to meet in a dark alley.
She's on your mind for the rest of the day as you go back into auto-pilot mode. But though you're not taking an active role you're still observing and it's in Evie's eighth period class that your eyes settle on one of her classmates. Miki Quinn, who everyone just calls Mickie, is one of the girls that you saw with Lucy at lunch. She's shorter, especially compared to Lucy and her hair, styled in two thick pigtails reminiscent of the girl from that superhero movie you'd seen not too long ago, is currently dyed a bright blue.
Evie's never said a word to her but she is part of Lucy's group so maybe you can think of an excuse to get her to take you to Lucy. The problem is getting the mask on her from there because you'll have to get her alone and if you mess up you're likely in big trouble. You had decided with Evie that even if you weren't able to get any of the three that at least getting someone from their group would be good.
So maybe the safer option would be to see if you can grab Mickie instead.  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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