Knit Wits
Episode 1, Chapter 3
.:So Much More Colourful:.

The school was quiet, sleepy, and full of mindless drones, milling about. Perfectly boring, don’t you think? Suddenly, the doors burst open and...

“WE’RE HERE!” Adie and Netti said, holding their hands up in the air. Suddenly, colour returned to everyone’s face. They were, dare I say happy?! And they even started skipping! What a wonderful start to the school year!

“Nice Job, Netti!” Adie said, giving her a high five.

“No problem, it was probably all you anyways, ” Netti said, winking and giving him the secret high five handshake hip check. Suddenly, Netti went flying down to hall at the very end (the hip check part, of course).

“Oh darn, I seem to have gotten stronger over the summer, ”Adie said, while flexing his muscles. Did he see people looking over at him, MEN people?!

But then he sighed. He should go help Netti. His muscles deflated as he walked over into the hallway, just in time to see her foot turn the corner?! Oh no she didn’t! She was not going to have the slip on him and, oh no, what if she was planning something? He had to find her!

He ran after her, and was just about to turn another corner when he heard a voice.

“Get offa me!” Netti squealed. Oh no! Maybe someone was going to murder her, or kill her, or both! Or, maybe they were going to torture her. Tickle her even! Oh, she hated that. But maybe that was good, because then she might help him out when he was beating up her captor. He’d be a hero! Never mind Netti’s help, he was going to be a hero!

Adie stopped just short of the corner, listening to find out who had Netti, so that he knew what to expect, since he HAD gotten stronger over the summer!

“Look, I just want to ask you a few questions, okay?” Was that a threat? Did he dare threaten Adie’s best friend, Netti?! How dare he! He would pay, oh yes, he would.

“What do you want to ask me Kurou?” Adie swallowed. Kurou was back there. Just around the corner? “Make it quick.”

“Look, I was just wondering, er...” Was he, was he stalling? Adie leaned closer to the wall. Kurou, the most popular guy in school, was talking to Netti? Why? Had they talked before? Why didn’t Netti tell him? That slut!

“You and Adie, you guys aren’t...”

“Going out?” Netti asked, “Us?” She started laughing. Adie wanted to too, but also, he wanted to know why Kurou was asking. “No way! If we were going out, he wouldn’t be gay, and I wouldn’t love him nearly so much!”

“He is? Really?” Kurou’s voice cracked. It cracked? Was that good, or bad? Adie couldn’t tell.

“Yeah, look, I gotta go, because Adie’s probably gotten himself lost looking for me.” She turned the corer and walked right into Adie. What a klutz! What was wrong with her, he was obviously standing there!

“Oh, hey Adie!” Netti said, cheerfully, but then they both looked up at Kurou.

“I, uh, I gotta go.” He turned around and started hurrying in the other direction.

“Wait, Kurou!” Adie said, as he struggled up, “Wait a second!” Adie started running towards him. Kurou, did he just, oh my gosh! He stopped! He stopped and waited!

“Yeah?” Kurou said, looking at Adie, looking at him anxiously? Could it be? Why would Kurou be looking at him like that? He was so popular, and Adie was so.... gay!

“Wh-why did you want to know if me and Netti were going out?” Adie said before he could help it. Oh no, that was bad, what if Kurou took it the wrong way? What if he thought that Adie was just meddling? Oh, that would be so bad! Adie had to fix it before-

“Because, well...” Kurou looked up, as if the ceiling might give him some inspiration. “Well, it’s gonna sound stupid, because every girl in the school likes me...” Oh no, maybe one liked Adie, and not Kurou. And, oh! What if he was here to hurt him! Or tell that girl that he was taken? OR HURT HIM?! Adie started looking around for a place to run, in case it came to that.

“Except, I don’t really like any of them back.” What? What did he just say? “I only like you.” Adie looked into his eyes. He meant it, he really meant it! He-

-just woke up. “What? It was, it was a dream?” Adie looked at his clock, it was 7:15 and beeping.  He poked his muscles that hadn’t, in fact, gotten bigger over the summer. If anything, they were flabbier. Wait, were they flabbier? He poked harder. WERE THEY?! No way, that couldn’t be true. They definitely couldn’t be flabbier, right?

“Damn. And here I was, thinking that it was real... Damn, damn damn.” Adie got up, cursing under his breath all the way to the bathroom. He looked in the mirror. “...damn. Why can’t any of the good-looking ones be gay?”

As he washed his face, he thought of the entire gay population at his school. Him, ugly, stereotypical gay guy #1, 2, 3, and 4. He couldn’t wait to get out, to find some one real. Psh, screw real, he wanted someone HOT.

Adie laughed at the thought while toweling his face dry. If he didn’t watch it, he might turn into Netti. He walked down the stairs. Maybe that wasn’t such a bad thing after all. Adie smiled at the thought as he skipped off to the bus stop.