"Senior, are you for real!? You really didn't prepare anything!?" , I growled. That devastatingly aggravatingly stupid man!
He gave a nervous smile as he said ,"...I c-can't see-". I cut him off as I said,
"I get it, ok. So you have no slides prepared?", sucking air to calm my nerves. He scratched his head as he said ,"We are freestyling it…".
A moment of silence…
I said ,"Senior".
He responded solemnly ," You can call me Daniel…and what?".
I spitted ,"How did you survive being a freshman?". He shook his head as if reminiscing something extremely mission impossible coded, before releasing a sigh and flicking his bangs aside.
He responded ,"I don't know".
I can tell that much…
Nonetheless we waited backstage, sadly this presentation was being held in the auditorium, other than the teacher there will be countless students even freshmen were allowed.
Damn you Lioren!
Then with my anxiety crisis I loosely examined the object of our presentation. Thankfully we are third to present so we have plenty of time. Otherwise I would have had a heart attack.
..
I am just gonna imagine everyone there, is a cow.
Yeah…
yeah?..
"Cow?! Why cow? Why not carrots?", questioned the Settings.
About time you appeared, just shut up already if it weren't for your idea to watch Liana to understand her. I wouldn't be in this state.
"Look, you were being creepy. I said , act friendly, be around her…not to stupidly hide as if you definitely harbor ill intentions", defended the Settings.
Ok, enough of that. You are always throwing me down the pit. Anyways, did I accumulate enough LV to at least not trip down while walking up the stairs?
"...Seriously…it happens because you are clumsy as shit.", said the Settings.
I broke my hair clip.
Daniel moved away from me.
..
After what it felt like eternity, it was finally our turn. I carefully walked up the stairs…oh fuck…oh shit.
I almost tripped then I regained balance but at the end I gripped the rails tightly. That was a close call. This body is kinda hard to use.
"Seriously? Now blaming the body? Just how petty can you be?", snorted the Settings.
Haha…why don't you just vaporise?
As we stood on the stage, Daniel finally brought whatever we are presenting today. It looked pretty cool, a robot trash can. I kinda feel like this will go good.
Daniel cleared his throat as he spoke with utter confidence ,"Hello my dear peers and juniors…and teachers, today I…no we would like to present The Junk Eater Wizard!"
Is that its name? Whatever. Just smile and nod.
But he suddenly looked at me.
Why is he looking at me? Hey?! No way! He stepped back as he went quiet.
Did that fucker just offloaded it to me?!
I bit my lower lip and smiled my best ," Yes, The Junk Eater Wizard!"
I don't know what I am saying.
" The Trash..is ultimate and the best choice because…just look!".
As Daniel took out a used plastic cup and said ,"If you are blind like me and don't know where to throw your trash…then fright not cause…". He threw the cup in the air as the trash can opened its lid and caught the cup.
Both me and Daniel went ,"Awesome!".
I started with a smirk,"The best feature yet, it can self clean itself!"
Hehe caught the attention of the audience. They all gasped.
I junked tons of trash into it. At first nothing happened but then it weirdly and very slowly rolled over and threw all the trash on the ground.
Holy shit..
I kept my smile as I said ," Extremely efficient in collecting trash in one place! You can easily scrap it into a trash bag!"
As we both went ,"Awesome!".
Then Daniel went ," Not only that it can converse with you! Giving you a taste of what it's like to have friends!"
As he cleared his throat before speaking ,"hello".
Crickets…
Crickets…
He laughed nervously as I had finished cleaning up the trash. I pressed the button as it went ," Whacha looking at butt face?"
Shit.
Daniel was perplexed for a second as he shook his head and said ,"Hey where did you learn that language young trash!? Did ya eat your manners for breakfast!? Huh!?"
"Daniel stop…you are scaring it..", I chimed in,but of course in his electric rivalry with a trash he also went deaf.
"Uhhhh…what an idiot" I mumbled as they quarrelled.
"See what an amazing…thing to talk to! It can improve debate skills and self awareness!" I went on as I tried to use this nasty situation somehow...
The trash went smugly," Throw at me, if you can perfectly throw at me I will quit trash"
Daniel reprimanded ," …OK". He exasperatedly took out a half eaten apple.
Seriously, is this his bag or an actual trash can?
He smirked confidently as he threw the apple straight at the trash. But…
It closed its lid…in TIME! It wasn't slow as fuckinh snail!
As it went all kira laugh in AI… so I had to turn off the button.
We both went ," Awesome!".
The audience seems to be engaged…well not in a good way.
As one boy raised his hand, his expression conflicted as he speaks ,"...Yeah so…you said it collects trash by itself by detecting it midair. But all this time that blind dude purposefully aimed his throw-"
Daniel cut him as he said ,"I am blind"
End of argument.
Another girl asked ," But you can see..I mean…it's…weir…." she stopped as everyone gave her the look.
Daniel sucked in air as he said pitifully ,"...I am good everyone…I get that a lot. It's just my six senses…are...forget it".
Damn within seconds everyone suddenly cares more…
As I continued ," Yes so you can ask questions once we are done, right now let's move on to its last and final feature…" I created anticipation
"It can walk."
I waited for a sec for the audience to cool down as I demonstrated.
"Look carefully", I said as I grabbed Daniel's half eaten apple and kept it mid air. I walked as the trash was supposed to follow me…
But it was aggravatingly slow…just too slow…
[84 years later]
My smile dropped as I felt my arms hurt from holding for too long.
Finally it reached me!
I smiled as I ended ,"See like a baby coming to mama! So much connection, emotional support,…"
" Yes, so much love…", Daniel chimed in as he glared at the trash.
With that we wrapped up our whatever presentation. I felt kinda lighthearted after this. Daniel and I were preparing to leave. I asked him ," Hey where did you get this item from? I mean it's actually kinda good if it weren't for its malfunctioning"
He stopped and looked me in the eye and said ,"I stole it from Lioren…Lioren made this…[sighes]"
"You are dead" , I responded.
As he laughed ,"haha…ha…hahahaahs…[sniffles]" , yeah he is crying.
In the book , the genius Lioren only had one interest, robots and tech. He adored his creations a bit too much. One time Devian made Kia steal one of his gadgets obviously for Diana.
That story was extreme when it came to Diana. She would always get in trouble. Anyways when he found out, he made Kia have a trauma of dogs.
He has a dog. Yes. As he would make his dog chase Kia to doom everyday for months until she kneeled in front of him in the rain. I mean who does that?
Uhh that guy is so weird. I feel sorry for Daniel, even though it was his fault.
Just then, the tapping click clank of heels echoed through the room. My ears perked up. As the owner entered, it was a guy, he was chewing gum wearing his jacket like a girl.
He spoke in a high pitched voice ,"Hi Daniel baby~".
I choked at that. I shot Daniel a glance as I saw his repelled face. The guy walked closer to him but before he could wrap his arms around Daniel.
He went flying down. Daniel had punched him in the face. His knuckles white as he stared down at the poor guy. His voice devoid of mercy as he said ,
"You son of a bitch!"
…
Turns out he was the person Daniel was supposed to present with, but he had ditched him and the rest is history. As I swung my legs while enjoying the tiramisu I forced Daniel to give me. My eyes went back and forth on them as they argued.
Daniel blasted ,"You piece of crap! I told you not to chicken out!"
As to which the guy responded in a deep manly voice ," I had a fucking date! It was Jake!".
Daniel retorted ,"Jake!? As in Jake Melanie?"
To which the guy responded, "No! JAKE TREVOR!".
Daniel's face contorted to pure agony as he reprimanded, "He is MY GODDAM COUSIN! I TOLD YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM MY FAMILY!!"
I Sighed, as they went in arguing about I don't know what. It kind of reminded me of Jia's and Roland's usual fight.
As the guy went ,"WHO IS THAT!?",pointing at me.
As Daniel replied ,"KIA!"
"WHO THE FUCK IS KIA!?", the guy demanded.
"HER!", Daniel pointed at me.
Ahhhh…. I hate the sun…
..
After some time passed I finally got to know the fruity guy's name. He is Kevin. He for some reason acted weird around me.
He held his chin up as he crossed his arms. He furrowed his brows as he spoke conceitedly ," Hey". I lazily looked at him.
He got more pissed off as he came closer and said ,"Hey!".
I responded half heartedly ,"I am not deaf"
He humphed as he walked, stomping on ants as he left. Then glanced back at me and then kicked a tree and got hurt.
What a pain.
The day went on a blur. Tomorrow is the last date I have in hand for the sign. Daniel told me he will get me tomorrow so I laid low today. As I was walking through the corridor…
"What the hell?!" , I mumbled…