Get me out of this cavern Who: Blake and Steven Finklestein (NPC) What: Blake taking out some of his aggression on the water, Steven beating Blake up and talking smack about Bunny When: Thursday June 11, 7 AM
Early Thursday morning, Blake woke up, found his swim trunks and headed out the front door on his new skateboard that he was regretting getting already. Nearly everything he had in his possessions were somehow connected to Bunny. Now even his skateboard, proudly brandishing a bunny conveyed the clear message - what he wanted he would never ever have.
Kicking and pushing, he tried his best to get his aggressions out on the pavement because being angry was such a big relief and break from being upset. He had built his life - intentionally - around all things Bunny and when she finally found out - in this grand gesture (or at least Blake found it grand) - all she wanted to do was run away from him. HIs poor little heart wasn't just broken, it was shattered - he hadn't thought things could go this badly. All he wanted was for her to know, just in case she felt the same. But if she didn't, he was alright with pining after her for as long as she was still around. How was he to know that she would push him away completely? That she was so against the idea that she didn't even want to see him again? Didn't she realize all that he had done for her? Oh what does it even matter?
Finally, he got to the school and slipped into the locker room. After changing, he got into the pool and swam a few laps. His body relaed and he pushed thoughts of Bunny and how she didn't love him and everyone else in the world being happy but him out of his mind. For a water elemental, his dependency on the water wasn't that big just yet which was strange because as soon as he got in the pool, he felt more at home. It was something that was his and his alone in that moment. Bunny had his heart, even if she so clearly didn't want it. But the water? It had all of him.
When he got home, after a big hug and long talk with his mom, the first thing Blake did was throw away his script for "Into the Woods." A performer at heart, this was something very hard for him to do - but if Bunny wasnted her distance, then distance Bunny would get. Blake just felt miserable. Miserable and all alone.
Without Bunny, what was he? That was the question he was now presented with. He had attached himself so much to her that her pulling away had left him there with a shell of a life. Psalm's words - that if she wasn't it for him then why was he so wrapped up into her - were running through his head. Maybe she was it for him - the girl he would always want but never have. And what did it matter that no one else felt quite like him? Words of encouragement would fall on deaf ears, he didn't want time to make the feelings subsitde because he didn't think the feelings would ever subside. Bunny was just going to have to see that he had felt this way about her for a long time and would probably continue to - whether she liked it or not. But he was still also very much her friend. Hadn't they been friends all along? Whas she going to cut Psalm out of her life too because he was dating Myra (Yes he knew that she didn't like Psalm, but he was still projecting some of his same nad anger onto Psalm). Maybe instead of running from him she could learn that he wasn't going to treat her any differently and he hadn't really guessed that Bunny would like him. He just wanted her to know, he needed her to know.
He thought all of these feelings had subsided in the pool, but has he was leaving he saw Steven Finklestein. Oh Finklestein. Immediately Blake turned the other way, hoping Finklestein would go to football practice or whatever he was going to do and just leave him alone but he wasn't so lucky. "Where do you think you're going Lowell?" He called out after Blake.
Blake turned his head back to look at him and he shrugged. "Home."
"Why so you can cry?" Finklestein said and laughed.
"What?" Blake said turning now.
Finklestein looked a little shocked that Blake was questioning him. Truthfully it wasn't an often occurance. "I said you're going home so you can cry. That girl of yours, Barney or something, heard she hates you, is repulsed by you."
"Her name is Bunny." Blake said staring Finlestein in the eye.
"Yeah, Bunny, whatever. The point is no one likes you freak." Finklestein replied.
"I know." Blake said with a nod.
"Not even that little crazy twitching idiot, Barney." Finklestein paused and laughed. "You're such a freak that - "
But he wouldn't be able to finish that sentence. What did it even matter? He had pushed Blake too far. Even if Bunny didn't love him, he loved her and he wouldn't let some asshole like the douche king himself, Steven Finklestein say anything bad about her! So he lunged after him and got in one good punch on that big old nasty nose of his. Finklestein. Uck.
There was no way Blake was going to win this fight, maybe if he had ran right after he punched Finklestein he could have gotten away, but he didn't. He couldn't he was so stunned by his own actions that he stood there face to face with a now etra angry Finklestein. Finklestein hit Blake twice and he was down, but that wasn't going to stop Finklestien. After kicking him a few times, he bent down over Blake's now scrunched up body and pulled him by the hair and looked him in the eye. "Don't you ever do that again."
"Don't ever talk about Bunny like that again." Blake replied with a weak smile.
"You're messed up Lowell, she doesn't even like you." Finklestein said now seeming a lot less scary.
"Doesn't mean that I can just stop loving her, or that she isn't my best friend, or that she isn't a human being with feelings and wants and needs and a heart." Blake said, his head was now throbbing.
"She's a bitch man." Finklestein said. "She broke your heart."
"She's a great girl, and maybe I don't deserve her."
Finklestein grunted, looked Blake in the eye, and punched him one last time. "You're all freaks."