Chapter 43 Gym Class (2/2)

Home room was nothing special and Kennedy didn't stop in. Although Laz didn't expect her to, he couldn't help but be a little disappointed. He didn't think this could be considered a crush or anything like that as he believed that he had a type. But even he realized he was somewhat infatuated by her. For a young man, it is somewhat easy to lose themselves when they start talking to a somewhat mature older woman. No matter how mature Laz was, he was still a young man at heart.

His entire day proceeded along the same lines of nothingness. The only real change that he noticed was that people would somewhat avoid him more although he had no idea why. What he didn't know was that after he had killed Joey, he gave off a rather powerful aura that either intrigued or threatened others. Now however, after his crazed nectar and mystic water binge, he body's aura had corrected itself. He might have been filled with energy, but due to the energy's rotation that was constantly spinning within him, it was all self contained.

Had Laz paid a bit more attention to himself, he would have noticed the strange color rotation of the icy blue and vibrant green energy circling around inside of him in the same pattern the two energies were swirling around in the night. But, he didn't. Mostly because he had no idea that he could, or should.

As far as Laz was concerned, he was just full of energy, strength and feeling better than he had ever felt before. His mind was focused and stable. The things being taught in any of his classes just seemed to make sense as soon as he saw them. On top of that, he could visual everything that was written down and be able to describe things as though he was looking right at it. It almost seemed like cheating.

As the day wore on, they finally got to the part he had been looking forward to, gym class. Normally, like most average high school students, Laz hated gym class. Being stuck having to work out or do some other activity with various guys who you either didn't know or didn't like was not an enjoyable thing. The best part was the guys who treated the entire class as if it was their stage to show off. Since Jesse, Tommy and Alex were all in Laz's class, he had to constantly deal with them in gym class as well since homerooms had gym together.

Although Tommy wasn't the sports type and Jesse didn't really care, both of them were more or less athletic and when adding the sport star Alex into the mix, they enjoyed showing off as much as possible. What brought out this behavior more was that they had to share the gym with the girls most days.

Although Basin Falls High School was relatively large, they still had a great deal of students spread out over each year and only so many hours within the day. Due to this, there was only so much time and so much room for every to use the rather large and spacious gym. Since they didn't have a choice, they instead embraced it. Usually, they would have a younger year paired with an older year.

For example, if the guys class was in the 8th year, the girls class might be in the 9th or 10th year. It would be the reverse for the older guys and younger girls.

As Laz thought about this, it made almost no sense to him whatsoever. Why didn't they just have similar age groups together? If he had to pick a reason, he figured it would be because there was less likely of a chance that there would be relationships popping up from the age differences. Even if both classes stayed on their own side of the gym, interactions couldn't be avoided entirely.

The locker room smelled like dirty teenage male which always made Laz gag a little, but he quickly got changed. He took steps to avoid facing anyone with his shirt off since he had the rather flashy 'brand' of the black tree and red moon on his chest. Although he could probably get away with saying it was a temporary tattoo, if it was seen to often, people might not believe it.

After getting changed and walking out to the floor to sit down while waiting for the coach to arrive, Laz happened to glance over at the girl's side for a lack of anything better to do. He saw Tommy and Jesse talking to someone while Alex had his head out the door, talking to someone else. Although he didn't know why he paid attention to these three, he was starting to get a strange feeling from them. It was different than the dissonance he felt from another like him, it was somewhat less ... powerful?

As the bell rang and the coach stepped in, Laz shot one final look over at the girls side and noticed that Tommy and Jesse had been talking with Kennedy. Apparently, he class was the girls class opposite of them and Laz had just never noticed, or cared.

As he caught sight of Kennedy, he wanted to call out at first, but then remembered that it wasn't something he could do. Not to mention she was someone else's 'girlfriend' but she also clearly told him he needed to keep their interactions unknown to others. At this point, Laz just sat back as though he was unconcerned, but he could see that Kennedy's face was not only a bit red, but she also looked like she wanted to hit something, or someone.

'Well, looks like she is pissed off... glad it wasn't me,' was the only thing Laz could think to himself at the moment.