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Katie walked the hallways of Blue Ridge, wandering around, when she saw some smoke coming out of the main science room of the school. Her curiosity, getting the best of her, opened the door.
She saw a figure of that same guy from her apartment complex’s hallway.
Multi..Perfect time to try to talk to him.
“Kurwa! Close the door! I’m doing shit in here!”
Katie jumped and walked inside, coughing a bit and closing the door behind her.
“Holy shit-..what the fuck are you doing in here?..it’s smoking bad..”
Multi looked up and took off his goggles.
“Oh you again..”
“Oh, me again, yes, and you’re the rude guy from the hallway… but I’ll let it slide. What are you doing in here? You can cause the fire alarm to go off.”
Multi turned on the fan so the smoke could go away, showing him behind a bunch of chemicals and bottles.
“Science. Why are you so curious about?”
“You-..kidding. Well maybe a bit…heard a bit about you.”
Multi raises an eyebrow and looks at her seriously, taking her in.
“What did you hear?”
“Nuclear scientist, rapper, and I guess…rough guy? Maybe… and no friends.”
“Who told you this?”
“Ewron?”
Multi put his goggles down and walked towards her slowly.
“Who is Ewron to you?”
“Best friend.”
Multi rolled his eyes, annoyed.
“I mean he did say you were old friends from
Poland. So you need friends—“
“I don’t need shit. I’m fine on my own, kurwa. I don’t need anyone.”
“Well, if you’re ever curious, my name is Katie!”
Katie nodded but chuckled.
“But aside from that, you really do act like a tough guy!”
Multi looked at her with annoyance. He rolled his eyes again.
“I don’t want to be friends, kurwa..Listen! I don’t know what the idiot Erwon told you, but I don’t need friends; I’m fine by myself.”
Katie nodded and leaned against one of the counters.
“Fine fine…But I heard you were a rapper. How good are you?”
“Why do you care? Can’t you leave me alone?”
“Fine..will do. But trust I’ll break your hard shell multi! I will!!”
Katie got off the counter and walked out of the science room.
She will get him. She was determined to… He wasn’t going to slip away.
Multi thought she was weird and frankly annoying. He couldn’t deny she was pretty, but he wasn’t looking for friends or a girlfriend…in fact, nothing. He kept testing chemicals in the science room; he needed a good smoke after this.
—AN HOUR PASSES—
Multi finished the experiment shortly after that last conversation; he is sitting behind some stairs behind the school, smoking. He hears some footsteps; he doesn’t think much about it til..
“Oh hey multi!”
He looked up slowly, at Katie again.
“Hm..”
“Smoking, I see..I come back here to smoke some weed…want some?”
He stares, raising an eyebrow… he thinks about it hard…as if he hasn’t smoked weed before, but he nodded… he threw his cig and stomped it with his boot.
Katie sat down next to him; he quickly shifted a bit away from her. She took out a joint.
“This is technically Bagi’s weed, but she gives me some every once in a while, so today is my day!”
Multi nodded, questioning her: why is she so determined to be friends?
“Well, what if I don’t smoke others' weed?”
Katie looked back at him and scratched the back of her neck. She didn’t consider that.
“Well…then..I’ll just smoke alone then..”
Multi rolled his eyes... and spoke softly...
“I’ll take some, kurwa.”
Katie smiled and lit the joint, taking a hit before handing it to him.
“Soo…you’re a rapper?”
He took a hit and handed it back to her. He didn’t speak much, just nodded.
“Hm… It’s pretty cool… You know, like I like singing too! And well, I’m not the best, but you know, I do it for fun instead of seriously. You know I had this ex; he was mute. He was like obsessed with me…But I don’t know; he was just…I never felt understood by him. I think I just wanted romance, but it didn’t fill the hole I had.”
Multi listened to her; he frankly didn’t pay much mind to it. But hearing about her ex made him feel a bit bad. But he didn’t know her, so how was he supposed to feel?
“Sounds like a dick.”
“He was nice but just too nice. I think you’re pretty cool, I mean, from the things I heard about you. You sound very chill.”
“Thanks.”
Multi gave out a simple thanks. People rarely give him compliments, so this caught him off guard, but he still held up his walls.
“I try to be nice to everyone here because everyone deserves a chance, you know? Even you!
Katie thought some more.
“Plus, you shouldn’t judge someone based on others' opinions. You should always make your own judgment on them. Ewron told me you were rude, but that he ruined your friendship, and trust me, I’ve been there. Ewron always tells my other brother all the shit I’ve done. He’s an actual snitch…but then he begs to be friends again.”
Multi looks at her and nods.
“He did the same shit to me.”
Katie takes a hit.
“That’s his personality, I guess.”
“It is; he’s always been like that since we lived in Poland.”
“Didn’t know that.”
Katie nodded, handing him the joint. Multi looked out to the window next to the staircase…and Katie watched him taking a hit of the joint…his lips connecting to the joint…she studied his face— knocked it off, Katie. Focus.
“Well, you can have that joint for yourself. I-I gotta go. I promised my roommate Tina some stuff… uhhh… see ya!”
Katie got up quickly, not noticing she dropped her hat to the floor. Multi was about to tell her, but she left so quickly he couldn’t even react. What is up with her?
Katie practically ran down the hallway. Why was she doing that? She barely knew the guy... she tried to calm down, but she realized she didn’t have her hat... fuuuucckkkk! She felt too embarrassed to go back to retrieve it now. She kept walking, thinking clearly that he isn’t the best conversation starter. He sucks at talking.
Katie was so embarrassed, and now it was gonna eat her alive for the rest of the day, knowing her.
She went to the rest of her classes, thinking about it. Trying to analyze his every action, but he was so hard to read she couldn’t understand him, but she wanted to.
She had the whole next day to focus and try again. So that’s what she did.
Katie left school at the end of the day and went to her apartment. It was empty. Tina was probably with Bagi doing whatever, which was fine, but…seeing romance everywhere around her made her feel more alone than normal.
She walked to her room, slumping against the bed, very tired… As soon as she was going to close her eyes, she heard music coming from the other side of the wall. She couldn’t get a good night's sleep from loud-ass music. She was gonna get up still; she heard singing—wait, no rapping.
She sat up and rested the side of her head to the wall to hear…it was so loud… at this rate she’d never sleep. She got up and walked out of her room to the front door, opening it and closing it behind her. She was hesitant about knocking but did it anyway…
A few seconds go by, and someone unlocks the door…
What emerged from the shadows of the apartment was none other than...Multi.
“Oh Kurwa you…how do you know where I live?”
“Well, I’m your neighbor… surprise…next door.”
Multi nodded..
“So what is it?”
“…your music is very loud..I’m trying to sleep… so if you can, please lower it a bit? It’s not bad, I kinda wanna sleep…”
Multi nodded again.
“Fine..will do—..and oh..I have your hat that you left after you ran off.”
Katie’s face flushed in embarrassment..fuck.
“Yeah..thanks..sorry about that..I had stuff to do that I forgot..sorry..”
Plus, she was high; it took something to flutter in her for her to bolt… but she wasn’t going to say that.
“... can I have it back?”
“Sure sure…and I’ll lower the music… but are you okay?”
Multi? Out of all people, asking her if she’s okay? After he had made her fluster over just taking a hit on a joint?! ASKING HER IF SHE'S OKAY?.. No, yeah, she’s chilling.
“PFFFTT! I’m fine! Like I’m sooo cool, like I’m
Always cool. What do you mean? Like, I literally had shit to do because I’m like popular, you know? Like..I’m always fine.PFFTT..”
Multi looked at her, concerned, but didn’t question it. What if she’s always like that?
“I’ll go grab your hat then… if you’re so cool…”
He walked away from the door and deeper into his apartment. Katie?.. She was sweating bricks. How did he notice that she was acting weird? Was she that obvious? Fuck!
Multi comes back holding her hat.
“Here ya go.”
“Ahh, thank you! Well..I’ll see you tomorrow, multi..!”
Katie tried to get out of the conversation as quickly as possible. Embarrassing.
“See you tomorrow.”
Multi said while nodding his head.
Katie slowly walked back into her apartment, locking the door behind her so quickly. She wanted to crawl into a hole and die. She walked to her room with the hat and just knocked out from embarrassment…
Katie fell asleep knowing she had to face him still tomorrow..but oh well, that was a problem
For tomorrow, Katie, not now.
Goodnight Katie..
TBC….