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by Matt on Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:14 pm
OOC: I apologize for the great longness that is my first post. I always make the first contribution to a story the longest, so that it is the most rememberable. By the way, if you are curious, there are exactly 1,175 words in this post.
Running. Something Boku was not in the mood for. However, with the morbid grimace upon his face, it would appear that he was not in the mood for anything that dealt with the physical body. In truth, this statement was very much a matter of fact. Regardless, in view came Boku, his body excelerating at great speeds as he draw near the entrance of the gate. He was late, yet if he continued at this pace, he would not miss the speech which he believed more important than any. Book's speech. The mere name made Boku accelerate even further, as if he had not been running at full pace before. Book's speech. His muscles tightened and contracted to allow for greater and greater speed. Book's speech. Boku's stride grew larger as he fed all of his energy towards growing speed. He would not be late, he simply would not allow it to be.
As he ran from the hallways, Boku would occasionally jump into the air, and crash into the ground, making a small indentation into the linoleum floors as his direction changed. He had to make a turn. And within moments, Boku was once again trudging through the school, until finally he came across the room. THE room. THE room in which Book's speech would be held. THE room where his role model, Akihito "Book" Nori, number 1 student of the senior class of Nottori High School, age 17 years and three months, blood type O-negative. THE room in which his great leader, and founder of the Brilliant Aspiring Minds Club, BAM for short, would speak to the student body with a great thunder and confidence that would surely bring a tear to Boku's eye if he were able to.
Sweet joy!
Hallejuah!
With trembling hands, Boku placed his hand on the door knob of THE room, and slowly, but surely, began to twist it so very carefully. Yet, in the middle of this desperate moment, he stopped. The entirity of his body simply froze, paralyzed by what seemed like fear. He was sweating profusely, and his breathe quite heavy. Yet, it was not because of how he sprinted to get to the school as fast as he could, but instead for a different matter. Boku was late. Quite late actually. He was certain he had missed first period, possibly the second, at which he grew angry at himself. Curiously, Boku, other than today, had never been late to school. Ever. The mere thought of it would baffle any teacher or student of Nottori High. Boku? Late for class? Preposterous! Such an idea would be accompanied by a fit of laughter. "Boku practically lives in Nottori!" they would say. "Boku attends school more readily than the principal!" they would say. There was without a doubt; Boku had an obsession with being punctual when it came to attending school. However, it was not that he loved or was interested in school in the least; he was almost always absent in his own classes. The teachers of the junior class did not even bother to place his name on the seating chart. Why then would Boku be obsessed with school?
It was Book's presence that gave Boku such a great fuss over how puntual he was. He would attend every class Book took, even though he was not supposed to be in that class. He would simply ask for the school work from his teachers at the end of the day, and have it turned in by tomarrow. As for tests, he would merely take them in detention, which he tended to procure due to his perpetual absence. Why? Why would he take such a great burden upon himself? To protect Book. It was his single purpose; the bastion of Book was of ought most importance. Because of his leader's great intelligence, power, charisma, popularity, and simple all around amazingness (Boku tended to possess the same delusions that Book did), his life was always within great danger when out in public. Why, if Boku was absent a single day, the Japanese government may very well recieve notification of his lack of presence, and swarm in to sweep Book off into their captivity! Certainly he, who had such a great obsession of Book, to the point of stalking, would not be late for his leader's classes?
However, that was the situation. Last night, Book had commanded Boku to modify the design of his puppet. It was an idea Book had in order to power the doll with a system that would allow it to run on cigarette smoke, seeing since Boku smoked rather heavily. Boku had told Book that the doll was fine; it ran on a power source that would allow it to recharge during the hours of the night the moment it reached the surface of the mirror realm. However, Book had insisted that the doll be run on cigarette smoke. What if Book needed Boku's services during the night? What if an unknown enemy followed Boku to his realm, and try to kill Boku as he slept. What then? Thus, despite the likeliness of either of those scenarios being highly unlikely, Boku spent the entire night remodeling his puppet, and sure enough, it now ran on cigarette smoke.
Yet, it was all in vain! The work for not! He overslept after his many hours of nonstopped reconstruction of his puppet, and now where was he? At THE room, of THE greatest speech in history, spoken by THE greatest hero of all time! Late. Utterly late. Boku's mind began to race with thoughts. Should he go in? Could he? Yes? No? However, in the end it was pointless. Boku tightened his grip on the door knob, and pushed it open with a quick, though silent, swoosh. Boku then realized that he was at least not late for the speech, the speech he had waited for months to hear. At this, he was slightly relieved, and walked towards the side of the stage, hoping to observe Book walking towards platform with that great charisma he so admired of his leader. He did not. Instead, as his gaze lowered slowly, he noticed Book was only a few feet in front of him, daydreaming away as his name was called. His leader tended to do that.
"BOOK. DAMMIT BOOK GET OUT HERE ALREADY. I WILL NOT REPEAT IT ONE MORE TIME."
Out of desperation, Boku pushed Book onward towards the stage, shuttering slightly as his great leader tripped upon his own feet. And as Book took the stand on the plateform, Boku was sure to follow, placing himself to the right of Book and slightly towards the back. He awaited for his book to begin his speech, his hands placed behind his back in respect towards his wise, all-knowing leader.
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Matt on Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:01 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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