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Fallen Catalyst and Fiera
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Mar 17, 2016 07:03PM
Ari listened in silence, looking down. The two minute audio file ended and Ari closed it. She frowned, bringing her knees to her chest as she clicked back to the folders, deleting the one with her name. She didn't want anyone else to read or hear that. It was meant just for her.
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"You okay?" Zia asked. If she was honest, she was a little jealous. Ari had messages from her parents, while all Zia had was a discarded raygun and a name she dared not use anymore.
Ari nodded. "Yeah." She lied. She closed the notebook and stood up.
Ari shrugged. "I wish they hadn't left that audio file. They could've just written it.." She mumbled under her breath.
"Maybe they wanted you to hear their voices." Zia guessed. "I know my mother would have."
Ari shrugged. "Maybe. It just brings up bad memories." She said softly, clearly a bit shaken.
Zia went over to her, putting an arm around her. "It's okay," she said softly.
Ari nodded. She took a deep breath, pushing her emotions away.
"You all right?" Zia asked again, watching Ari's face closely.
Zia nodded, "Okay. Ready to face them again?"
"Good, because I don't think they can stand not knowing what we're doing any longer," Zia said with a laugh. She opened the door.
"Probably." Ari nodded. She stayed behind Zia.
Kobra turned around as the girls left the room. "Everything all right?"
Ari nodded. "Yeah." She replied. Poison heard them talking and walked back down the hall to them.
Zia glared at him as he approached. She'd decided that she didn't like him much.
"what'd I do?" Poison asked, seeing her glare.
"I'm sure you'll do something," Zia grumbled.
"You're glaring and seem upset. I haven't done anything." Poison replied. Ari sighed.
"I'm not allowed to dislike you?" Zia asked. She could hear Kobra trying not to laugh from behind her.
"I didn't say that. What have I done to make you dislike me?" Poison asked. Ari rolled her eyes at them.
"For one thing, you've been nothing but rude to Ari." Zia said.
"She hasn't exactly been nice to me either." Poison replied. Ari walked down the hall a little ways before sitting on the floor.
"Well you guys are a lot to get used to." Zia snapped.
Poison sighed. Ari took out her notebook, Writing the number key on the top of a page.
Zia crossed her arms, knowing she'd won.
"She should be able to defend and speak for herself if she's gonna have a chance at making it" poison mumbled. Ari ignored them.
"She's shy!" Zia practically yelled. "You would defend your guys the same way."
Poison sighed. "You've only known her a week. Not years like us here." He mumbled. Ari made herself small, bringing her knees to her chest.
"That doesn't matter to me. She's my friend. I was raised to stand by my friends no matter what!" Zia tried to calm down, but it was a useless effort.
"Well then you better watch out for when she stabs you in the back." Poison told her. Ari clearly didn't like the yelling, covering her ears. Loud noise bothered her a lot now.
"She isn't going to." Zia said. She turned away, unable to take this anymore, and saw Ari on the floor. Suddenly worried, she ran over to her.Kobra turned to Poison. "Dude, what was that all about?"
When Ari could tell that it had calmed down and they'd quit yelling, she took her hands away from her ears. "I don't trust her." Poison answered.
"I'm sorry..." Zia said, kneeling next to Ari. "Are you all right?""Why not? She hasn't done anything wrong. She's just a scared girl." Kobra said.
Ari nodded. "Just loud bothers me." She whispered. "Scared or not, she still should be able to speak for herself." He replied.
((I'm gonna go to bed after this probably))"I'm sorry." Zia said.
"Look at her, Poison." Kobra said. "She's done nothing."
((That's fine. Goodnight!))"Don't be. I'm fine," Ari replied.
Poison sighed. "I think she's hiding something." He mumbled.
"You all right now? Zia asked."We think so too," Jet said suddenly, including Ghoul in his statement.
Ari nodded. "Yeah. I'm fine." She promised, looking at Zia. Poison sighed. "Exactly my point. We all think she's keeping something from us."
"Good. I'm sorry for shouting." Zia looked down.Kobra crossed his arms. "I must be missing something here, then."
"It's okay Zia." Ari told her. Poison rolled his eyes. "Clearly."
"Okay." Zia sat next to her, stretching her legs out in front of her. "Did you figure out what the message was?""What exactly am I missing, here?" Kobra asked.
"I'm working on it.." She replied. "You're being oblivious. Did you not see how odd it was that she recognized those numbers so easily? Or why she says she has that drive, or how protective she is of her bag?" Poison listed.
Zia nodded. "How's it coming?""Is it not possible for her to have a good memory? Jeez, maybe she just wants to keep her privacy? Is that such a bad thing?"
((I feel like I'm the one missing something here! lol))
"Slowly." Ari shrugged. Poison sighed. "Whatever. You'll figure it out eventually." He mumbled.
((Good. Then I'm good at being suspicious.))
"Well, that's all right." Zia said. She tugged on the hems of her shorts.Kobra rolled his eyes. "Whatever."
((What are you planning I wanna know))
Ari nodded. She kept working. Poison went back over to the computer.
((I honestly had no clue.. I just figured he'd be suspicious and I went with it.))
Zia leaned up against the wall, eyeing the other three, who were not-so-subtly staring at her.((Ah I see.))
