Killing the Cockroach

[Frostbite]

Deaf to the world, Lorelai walked to the far side of the lake with a drawstring bag slung over her back. In it were the things she was going to burn, because she just didn’t care anymore, and she never wanted to see them come back to her again. The clothes she had stashed in her closet and the boomerang sheets made her bag look near perfectly round as she stalked her way to the lake. She decided she was going to do something about them, and she didn’t care about what happened next. Why should she? She was in a school where damn near everyone either didn’t give a shit about her or liked her. She’d had it with every single one of them, especially the ones who kept messing with her, so what did it matter what she did now?

Her music blared in her ears as she fingered the lighter in the pocket of her jeans. She knew it would come in handy one day; she just didn’t know exactly in what way up until then. As she had decided in her room what she’d do next, she considered a couple of things that sounded good to her in her head but probably were impossible for her to do: freeze everyone to death, find a way to send them to Limbo, find a way to set them all on fire. When she thought about it in some manner of perspective, how could these people be worse than Limbo? It was a fiery hell where she nearly died- but didn’t, so if she could survive that, she could survive living with these unbearable fools. However, the thought kept returning to her: why the hell should she care about any of them in the first place? Not a one really cared, nary a few showed her kindness, and the rest either thought lowly of her or just decided to prank the shit out of her because it was fun for them. They deserved nothing good from her, and from then on, she decided they would get nothing.

Her face was stony and expressionless as she reached the furthest edge of the lake she could while being a safe distance away from the forest’s edge. She stopped at one of the numerous steel fire-resistant drum barrels and looked down into it. It was just about empty, and her eyebrow raised in approval. They were all around the grounds of the school, and it worked well because they were able to withstand some of the students’ powers. The barrel would suit her well for this.

Pulling open the drawstring bag, she shook the contents out into the barrel, looking down disdainfully at it. She tucked the bag under her arm as she took out her lighter and picked up one end of the dirty sheets. Lorelai flicked the lighter on and looked at the small flame before she put it to the sheet. It lit, but she moved the flame over more of the sheets so it would light up faster. She moved away quickly from the heat and stuck the lighter back in her pocket as she watched it catch fire. As it burned, she watched with her arms crossed over her chest as the flames licked the edge of the barrel.

[Puppy~Love]

The smell of something burning caught Lurai's attention as she spent time running around in the forest and keeping up on her hunting skills. She had heard in passing the commotion of everyone around the basketball courts and couldn't be bothered to sit around with them like Riker could. Instead, she had better things to do, and so she was doing them- until the smell distracted her nose.

Quietly she crept closer through the brush to find the source of the smell until she found herself on the far side of the lake. She crouched behind a tree near the open space and tilted her head in curiosity at seeing Frostbite standing and watching a barrel with a fire in it. Lurai's face contorted slightly in confusion as she watched Frostbite just stand there and watch it. She didn't look like she felt anything and her face seemed hard and blank, but Lurai's interest was piqued more.

Only watching seemed to go by painfully slow, and it didn't keep her amused for long. When she saw that the blue haired girl remained unmoving, Lurai decided to see what was going on. As much as she liked havoc, why someone who didn't have fire powers was burning something was beyond her, so she stepped out from behind the tree and sniffed the air again, picking up the distinct smells from the fire in the barrel. She opened her mouth to speak, but stopped herself when she saw a black string hanging from her head and ending in her hoodie. She could hear the static noise coming from the girl and realized she was listening to the music and probably wouldn't have heard her.

Lurai took a couple steps closer, her approach was most likely unnoticed since Frostbite seemed completely deaf. She stuck out a finger and poked the girl in the arm to get her attention so she could speak and be heard. "Blood? And fabric. You're burning them. Why? Is not the logical thing to do with fabrics is to wash them?" Lurai asked, her head still tilted to the side in curiosity as she looked between Frostbite and the fire.

[Frostbite]

Drawn from the hypnotizing flickering of the fire by a poke on her arm, Lorelai slowly looked over to see who had found her and was bothering her. Her eyebrow raised slightly as she saw Lurai there and saw her open her mouth to speak. She let out an audible huff in annoyance as she made a face and plucked out one of her ear buds to hear whatever it was the wolf chick wanted to say. She let out a controlled but forced sigh and reached into her hoodie pocket to turn down her music slightly.

“No, it is not the logical thing to do with them. Not with these pieces of shit,” she said, half mocking the wolf chick’s way of speaking in annoyance. She seemed actually curious as to why she was burning the sheets, but Lorelai couldn’t be bothered to care. What mattered was making sure they burned until they were nothing more than ashes so they couldn’t be used against her again. She had little else to say, as she wished she were just left alone so she could watch the things burn in peace. She was slightly surprised however, that Puppy~Love wasn’t ratting her out or beating her ass or something. The latter was something people liked to do, so she was surprised why her ass wasn’t getting beaten for having started a fire. Then again, she wondered why she was even giving a crap about that. No one mattered anymore, so why should she still take into consideration what they might do in response to something she did?

No more. I don’t care anymore. Nothing about anyone anymore, pricks don’t deserve it. She’d have to remind herself not to care anymore; it was slightly weird to not care anymore after having done so for ever, but she couldn’t afford to. It was a weakness that would always be exploited, so she couldn’t let anyone take advantage of that anymore. She couldn’t let herself care, and she couldn’t afford to take anyone else into consideration anymore. Her lips pressed together slightly as she was about to comment further on the demon sheets, but she didn’t have to explain. The bare minimum of an answer was all anyone deserved if they spoke to her.

She crossed her arms over her chest and looked at the fire burning; her stance showed she was clearly bent on ignoring the wolf girl because she didn’t want to talk. She wanted to watch the fire in peace. Besides, she was sure there was something else going on elsewhere anyways. If all else failed Lurai could go over that way and leave her alone. After all, she heard some loud noise off where everyone else was. Sounded like there was a commotion, so all the more reason for the wolf chick to shoo.

[Puppy~Love]

"Hmm," Lurai said, watching Frostbite with a curiously tilted head. If her observations were what she thought they were, it seemed that she was being purposefully ignored. Of course, this would prompt her to bug the blue haired girl all the more because it would be funny and she could fully defend herself if it came down to that, but her ears had caught the loud laughing and the sounds of people groaning, and then hearing them talk over each other as they scrambled to get help. Her ears twitched at the sounds, catching her attention and her curiosity. The fact that something more interesting was happening while Frostbite was standing there ignoring her and watching the fire in the barrel was convincing enough for her to consider leaving.

As much as she'd probably like picking a fight with a grumpy girl, the sound of a much bigger event was far more interesting and had much more happening by the sound of it. She looked between the blue haired girl and the area all the noise was coming from, as there had been another somewhat loud noise coming from the area. It was decided then, that she would see what was going on and in the same move, find a better amusement for herself. She looked at Lorelai and made a face.

"You bore me. I would poke at you, except there are much more interesting things going on," Lurai said, taking a whiff of the smoke emanating from the barrel. "I must see where the loud laughing came from," she said to herself as she gave Frostbite a weird look, almost resentful for not being enough entertainment to suffice Lurai, and then took off at a run, but not before giving the blue haired girl another poke in the arm because she wanted to, making her sway slightly. Then she headed towards the area it was all coming from: the basketball courts.