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Jecka was not pleased with Nicole, in a way it was her fault for trusting that bitch.
“What do you mean you didn’t do the assignment, it was your job!”
“Jecka, first of all, I have better things to do than this experiment,” Nicole said.
“Like flirting with the gym teacher,” Jecka rolled her eyes.
“He’s the one flirting with me, and it’s impossible to not use the pedos at our school to our advantage! That’s just a waste.”
“Bitch, if you’re calling me wasteful for not trying to bang the science teacher I think you might need help.”
“Took you long enough, but all I need is some Xanax right now. Anyway can’t you just bribe your way out of the project?”
“I’m trying to save up to-,” Jecka paused, “do you smell that?”
Nicole looked at her confused. She didn’t notice any smoke, but maybe it was all the cigarettes she smoked. She hoped it was smoke, a fire would be a great way to get out of this crap.
Unfortunately it was coming from Jeffery’s desk. Why Jeffery? That guy was such a freak, and he didn’t even give an effort to hide it. Nicole stared at him. He was working alone. That was normal, but the fact he was actually working with the test tubes was weird, normally he sat in the back of the class to read manga or some crap like that where no one would see him drooling over his anime “waifus” like a freak.
“Jecka, do you think he’s trying to make drugs?”
“Why else would he be smiling without looking at feet pics?”
“Or he’s trying to make explosives.”
“Yeah but look at him, that’s the look of someone who wants to climb up the social ladder.”
“You sure? I thought he gave up on that as a freshman.”
“Well Kyler sells drugs, but his cousin who supplies him was sent to juvie. He needs a new source since he’s too stupid to make them himself.”
“But when did Jeffery care about popularity?”
“He wants Karen back, duh. Karen and Kyler share every class with each other, plus they’re NEIGHBORS.”
“Wow, I didn’t know he had the guts to get his ex back by having Kyler stalk her.”
“Hey, are you talking about me behind my back!” Jeffrey said in his painfully annoying and nasally voice.
“What a great observation,” replied Nicole.
Jecka commented, “How do you think we're talking behind you when you’re behind us?”
“He’s desperate for female attention.”
“That’s not true, you’re gossiping about me so of course I’m going to be upset,” he protested.
“Yeah and of course Karen broke up with you. Now shut up and give us our lab results.”
“I’m not letting you cheat. I worked hard on my project!” Jeffery cluttered the test tubes and beakers.
“What? You just want to hog all that crack to yourself?” Jecka asked.
“It’s not drugs!”
“So you’re making a bomb?” Jecka questioned.
“It’s not illegal!” he whined, “I-I just don’t want you to see it.”
“Oh he’s definitely making drugs,” Nicole sniffed a beaker she grabbed.
“Go away and stop it!” Jeffery tried to snatch the beaker back from Nicole, but his gross sweaty hands made the beaker slip from his grasp and fall to the floor.
Another container dropped in the chaos. The chemicals from it seeped out and mixed with the liquid. It frothed and a thin cloud puffed up.
“What the fu-,” Nicole started to cuss out but then fainted.
“Oh no…” Jeffery panicked as Jecka glared at him. Why did he have to be so stupid, he should have made his mystery drug as a pill. Or did he do this on purpose for weird reasons like Kyler would do with his drugged up teammates? Anyway things were getting weird as the cloud enveloped the three.
• • •
“I did it! It actually worked!” Jeffery hollered.
“What?” Jecka said, dazed as she looked around to her surroundings. They were on the pavement, obviously not in the lab anymore. Which was weird. She knew it wasn’t the outside of their school because the place wasn’t covered in bird poop and didn’t smell like beer. It looked like a college or fancy private school because it actually looked nice and had some greenery. Whoever went here must be LOADED.
“Wait, where are we even?” Why aren’t we at school?” Jecka asked Jeffery, as she woke Nicole up.
Ecstatically he said, “We’ve been isakai’d!”
“The heck does that mean?! Nicole questioned, more alert now.
He smiled, “We’ve been transported into a fictional world, in this case it’s an anime! All because of my concoction. Typically isakais are reincarnations…”
“You killed us!” Nicole screamed.
“No, sometimes there are other ways to be transported to fictional realms, my formula is temporarily separating our souls to another plane of existence.”
“Oh, so you just gave us overpowered drugs,” she replied.
“It’s not drugs! Well I guess it would technically count—,” he started to say, but was stopped.
“Why do those girls look weird?” Jecka said, pointing to two girls, one a ginger and the other a brunette, walking on their way to the school.
“Well it’s Japanese school in anime, they always wear uniforms,” Jeffery told her.
Jecka clarified something that should already have been obvious, “No Jeffery, they have freaking tails and animal ears!”
“Oh, we aren’t in any anime, we are in Umamusume: Pretty Derby!” he pushed up his glasses and smirked, “The anime takes real life race horses and turns them into anime girls who train and race to achieve their dreams.”
Nicole sighed, “First cat girls, now horse girls, can’t you get real girls Jeffery?”
“Y-You don’t have to keep saying this to me. If you really think I’m pathetic…” Jeffery grumbled to himself.
“At least try to think of a comeback.”
“Hello,” an unfamiliar voice interrupted, it came from one of the girls they spotted earlier, “what brings you to Trecan Academy?”
“Well we’re actually not from here,” Jecka said.
“Oh, are you from America, my friends El Conder Pasa and Grass Wonder are Americans too? So did you come to see their races today?” asked the horse girl.
“What kind of name is freaking Grass W-,” Nicole started to say but was cut off by Jeffery.
“It’s so great to meet you Silence Suzuka, I never thought I would see my wiafu in person!”
“…” Silence Suzuka lived up to her name with uncomfortable silence after the word “wiafu” as Nicole and Jecka both gave Jeffery a very judgmental side eye.
“Oh, I didn’t even introduce myself. I’m Jeffery and these two are…”
“Nicole,” Nicole said.
“Jecka,” said Jecka.
“Good to meet you,” she said, averting her gaze from Jeffery, “This is Special Week,” she pointed to the girl with brown hair coming behind her.
“Special Week? That name sounds like it’s—,” Nicole was about to say some very rude words, but Jecka glared at her. Not that she was so easily swayed by Jecka, she wasn’t some wimp like Ari, but she could let it go for once. Insults could wait.
“Could we have a tour of Trecan Academy?” Jeffery asked.
“Sure, Spe-chan and I could give you a quick one, but don’t you have to get ready for the race you’re attending?” Suzuka said, clearly trying to find a way for Jeffery to leave.
Meanwhile Nicole whispered to Jecka,“Spe-chan? That’s her nickname?”
“Um, we actually do have to do some training,” Special Week said and she gave Jeffery a bit of a side eye.
“We can come along and just watch,” he offered demandingly.
Nicole and Jecka tried to tell Jeffery they were not interested in a tour and wanted to go back to the real world, but much to everyone’s dismay besides him, he was not at all listening.
“Maybe we’re finally being sent to h*ll after lying to Karen about him cheating on her,” said Nicole.
“Bitch, we’re definitely being sent there after you made Ari become straight,” Jecka replied. Nicole just laughed at the memory of being so abusive to Ari that she made the lesbian become “straight”. Although she wished they hadn’t broken up, even though Nicole didn’t actually like girls in the first place. She just wanted to try abusing a girl instead of a guy, that’s what she told herself.
“This is where we train,” said Suzuka, showing them the track at the back of the school, “and this is our trainer,” she pointed to a guy with brown hair and no horse ears.
“Why isn’t he a horse guy?” Nicole asked, she didn’t really care, but it was weirdly inconsistent.
Jeffrey answered, "The name of the anime is Uma Musume, which means horse girl in Japanese, so they’re only girls.”
“So they’re forced to have interracial marriage?” Nicole said, not that she was against interracial marriage, she just didn’t expect that from an anime Jeffery liked.
He said in his annoying and nerdy voice, “It’s not a race, horse girls can be any ethnicity. It’s like a sub-species.”
“So that’s why you like this anime, you only get laid when girls are forced to date you.”
Suzuka added her own thoughts to this, “Well we don’t have to love a man, some prefer to dedicate their life to the races instead of a partner or…” she gazed a Special Week and smiled, “some prefer to find love with someone who understands them in way that no one else can.”
Nicole suspected something gay was going on between the two. Unfortunately it was not even the fun type of gayness. These two were way too sappy. Were there any toxic people here?
“Hey, who are you girls?” a man said.
Suzuka introduced them, “Nicole, Jecka, and Jeffery.”
“Are they American?”
“Yes and their Japanese is quite good for a foreigner,” replied Suzuka as Nicole and Jecka looked at each other confused because they were clearly speaking English.
“It’s an anime dub thing,” Jeffery stated, as if that explained anything.
“Have you heard about the team I trained or are your girls unaware of my roster?” the man said, to Nicole it sounded like he was talking about a harem but then again she was very dirty minded.
“Well I’ve heard all about them, but these two are so uninformed it’s embarrassing,” said Jeffery. Nicole rolled her eyes at this, as if Jeffry was one to talk like he wasn’t a total weirdo and freak.
“It all started when I met Daiwa Scarlet, Goldship and…” he trailed off about the forming of Team Spica. It was absolutely uninteresting to Nicole.
“By the way, in case you didn’t realize,” Jeffery in his annoying voice started to rant, “this man is their trainer, named Trainer, and he’s my favorite of the human characters. But I personally like the Umamusumes better, they’re so…” he chuckled to himself in a way that sounded pervy.
“Great job mansplaining,” Nicole rolled her eyes.
“Wait, how come he’s your favorite character when he’s brown?” Jecka questioned.
Jeffery was stunned, “What do you mean?”
“His race Jeffery, how come you aren’t being a racist to him?”
“I’m not racist! Why do you think that?”
“You joined a white supremacist group.”
“…i-it wasn’t because of the racism, Mr.White was just so convincing and welcoming. And you guys joined too!”
Nicole stepped in, “We did it because we like torturing people in general, not because we specifically like torturing non-white people. That’s what politicians are for anyway.”
“This argument doesn’t even make sense, besides he’s Japanese anyway,” sighed Jeffery, which still made him sound like a racist, a white and Japanese supremacist.
Then the trainer said something weird and pervy that drew everyone’s attention to him.
“Now we know why you like him, you have so much in common,” Jecka said to Jeffery.
“N-no! I-I’m…er,” Jeffery’s stutter did not help his case.
Special Week said to her trainer, “Stop being pervy, especially in front of our guests!” as she kicked him, making the guy fly backwards.
“Pedos as teachers? This is starting to feel like home,” commented Jecka.
“Oh…he’s not actually a pedophile,” Suzuka said, embarrassed, “he’s a bit perverted though, but not that often.”
Both Jecka and Nicole did not buy this.
“So besides that, are you satisfied with your tour?” asked Special Week.
“Yeah, can we just leave?” Nicole turned to Jeffery.
“We didn’t get to even see the race!” started Jeffery.
“Does it look like we care?” Nicole said.
“Well…” he mumbled, “I don’t really know how to bring us back, I was planning on staying in my anime realm, so I didn’t research a way out.”
“You stupid weeb! All you can do is drool over your waifus or be a school shooter!”
Suzuka tried to step in and calm everyone down, “Now um…if you don’t have a place to stay, you can have a dorm at Trecan Academy while you get it all sorted out.”
“You’re so hospitable!” Jeffery told Suzuka.
“Too hospitable,” muttered Special Week.
“You didn’t have too, we’re so thankful,” he said.
“You REALLY didn’t have too,” Special Week glared at Jeffery.
“Well I’m sure I can get Symboli Rudolf to it,” she ignored Special Week’s displeasure.
They walked to the office of Symboli Rudolf. Jecka looked at the saying that was framed in the room. It wasn’t a cheesy phrase like, “Live, Laugh, Love!” or a quote about education which she usually saw at her school.
“I see that takes your interest,” said a horse girl, probably Symboli Rudolf, turning from the window on her swivel chair, “It’s our school moto,” she pointed to it the sign that read:
Eclipse first,
the rest nowhere.
Jeffery started to add, “It was initially coined by—”, but was interrupted by the horse girl.
“Suzuka-san, what brings you and the rest here?” she asked.
“Emperor, I came to ask if these three could have a place to stay? They have nowhere else to go.”
“Emperor?” Jecka questioned the use of the title.
“Oh, it’s just a nickname. But I’m mostly called President.”
Special Week elaborated, “Symboli Rudolf is head of the student council, along with her undefeated Triple Crown, that’s why we treat her with such respect.”
“And student council members get an office to themselves?” Nicole said, dubiously.
“Anime logic,” said Jeffery. This just frustrated Nicole on how unrealistic and crappy anime was.
“So back to your request, how long would they stay?”
“Umm…” Suzuka looked back at the group wearily, “about a week or two?”
“Hopefully they leave quicker,” Special Week eyed Jeffery with discontent. Nicole really hoped Jeffery would get kicked by Special Week, she was surprisingly strong.
Suzuka sighed, “Spe-chan, please not now.”
“Well there might be room available since El Condor Pasa is in France right now, so the two girls could stay there because it’s only for a short time, but for the boy…legally he can’t be here since we technically classify this as a girl school. It goes against school code.”
“What!?!” Jeffery explained and clutched his foggy glasses.
Nicole considered, being free from Jeffery would be a total plus, but how would they go back home?
“Hold on!” Symboli Rudolf continued, “You could stay in the teacher’s quarters instead of the girls' dormitories.”
“Oh,” he said, Nicole bet he was disappointed he couldn’t see any anime girls.
They walked down to the dorms, the room that was for Nicole and Jecka was across the hallway of Suzuka’s and Special Week’s. It reminded Nicole of back when she and her brother shared a room. It had been cozy and she kind of missed it, before he became a gamer and developed a minor fetish.
“Remember Jeffery, we have a time limit now, so don’t waste your time with anime girls who already think you’re weird,” Jecka told him before he left.
“Finally, the freak is gone,” sighed Nicole, if she had to endure these sappy anime girls at least she didn’t have to see Jeffery looking at them like it made him high.
Nicole sat on her bed and took a pill she had in her pocket.
“Do you have any more?”
“Sorry, last adderall.”
“Of course,” Jecka rolled her eyes and went to her bed.
Meanwhile Suzuka and Special Week talked in their dorm.
“They’re a strange group, especially Jeffery.”
“Yes,” Suzuka admitted, “but it seems like they need help from us.”
“Oh Suzuka, you’re so caring and kind,” Special Week said, and then kissed Suzuka on the cheek, “well then, goodnight Suzuka-san.”
“Goodnight Spe-chan, I love you!” she said and turned off the lights.
(To be continued…)