Read Brunette Girl and frogs :: Fortis part 2

As the figure was sifted from darkness There stood whom I expected, the girl that mom mentioned some three-minutes ago.

Her mouth opened in a rapid fire

"HIIIII—IAMYOURNEIGHBOUR—IJUSTSHIFTEDYESTERDAY—OOYESANDIJUSTTALKEDTOYOURMOMATTHE—"

Blah blah

She kept speaking as I was analysing her appearance to make an image carved on my brain, it could have looked like a freak oggling for I looked too zoned-out arranging the thoughts.

A sudden roadblock stopped her words and now she stared directly in my eyes, it felt like this girl will filter out my soul from this body of skin and bones.

Hey

I froze at the sudden calm that felt.. alien to the way she kept talkin' to my face right now.

"Why are you silent dude?"

Embracing for what she will say

"Have you never seen a girl before?"

"Well yeah kind of cuz I never step ou—...ohh shit".

(WHAT THE HELL I JUST SAID!!!!??? NO-NO-NO-NO NOW SHE WILL THINK I AM A CAVE-DWELLER!!!)

I lightly slapped my back head to snap back into reality, the girl stood there but now I could see her face cheeks inflating from trying not to laugh.

—PUFFFTT—

In the end seems like the girl couldn't control the laughter.

"Oh my god—Why did you say that—BLAHAHAHA—thats—so— embarrasing you know!"

"Hey I slipped there okay?!"

"Yayaya, 'slipped', Seeing your eyes it feels like what you said is genuine"

"No IT AIN'T you mud-head!"

(Oh SHIT—SHIT—SHIT WHY DID I CALL HER THAT?!?!?! WHAT WILL SHE THINK NOW!)

The girl's lip corners tugged upward in smile as she opened her mouth.

"Ooh so we doin nicknames huh BALDY!?"

Her words were factually incorrect because I have buzzcut.

"AYE—I am not bald Its a buzzcut! Bald head is smooth while buzz head can feel spiky!"

A stiff defense tone was felt from me to me, for I knew nothing of what she felt.

"Well it's a 'can', which means it can be smooth!"

The girl steps forward in a blink and lands her right palm on my head. A slow circular rub started happening at the top.

(I did NOT like my head getting rubbed)

"Oh damn the hair is smooth, WHICH MEANS YOU ARE A BALDY-BALD-BOY!!!"

"That does NOT mean that you Brunnete-head"

"That DOES mean that"

(For all the loud pitch of our squabbel..Mom didn't seem to be reacting at all.)

I turned my head back to see where mom was, she wasn't seem to be in the hall or the kitchen, whixh meant she might be upstairs.

Sighs.

"Whatever, tell me why did you come here anyway?"

"To take you with me"

"YO—that sounds malicious to me"

(That is DEFINITELY malicious)

The girl smirked in a tired expression.

"Of course it is...for a cave dweller like YOU!"

(Damn it! The cave dweller thing became true!"

"Well mud-head, sorry to break it to you but I can't—"

"You are making excuses"

(How the fuck did she know)

"I don't think I am—"

"Yes you are. And you suck at it."

"BUT NO—"

"YES YOU ARE"

The cut off before i could conclude fell like a tick biting my eye, that is IRRITATING AND GODDAMN PAINFUL.

(Though I never had a tick bite my eye)

YES

***

The chain of" yes" and "no" kept movin' for exactly two minutes, for the last second I just cut it.

YE—

"AYE SHUT UP GIRL WE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES—JUST SHUT UP!"

She giggled as there were veins on my head from the shouting which further solidified my embarrasment.

"Well baldy, looks like the veins give your emotions away".

"I GUESS"

THUD! THUD!

There were steps inching closer to me, as the came closer the sound of it was more and more aloud.

The steps finally stopped, I could feel a presence just behind my back, a maternal one.

"hello kids~"

It's mom. Her face is visible by my shoulder while the entirety of her body is covered by my frame.

Suddenly I felt her hand gripping my arm and pushing me aside, she now takes the lead at door.

"Hello~.. how's my son talking like?"

The girl crosses her arms as she swipes her eye to take a full top to bottom scan of me.

"Well for starters, neither he told me his name nor he asked mine—"

Mom's head snapped back at me, her eyes widened with an uncanny smile on her face, the stare made me afraid of her for a second.

(It creeped the fuck out of me)

She grips my wrist firmly.

"Is it so?"

Her nails were right a speck distant from digging my skin.

"Introduce yourself to her young man".

Gulped at her words. I spoke.

"Uhm..I am Beenli, Beenli Sahu".

Mom slightly loosens her grip on my wrist.

"Good boy. Those are called manners. Now ask her name".

The girl coughed in interruption to the command.

"Mhm—it's okay Mrs.Sahu I will tell him myself once we are outside".

Mom's eyes light up in dazzling sparkles as soon as she heard the word "outside".

"Hmm—oh yes please! Let me send him out".

(Outside? Oh crap. I don't want to stick with her for even the SLIGHTEST of the time)

"Uhh mom but I—"

"—shuhhhh—I don't wanna hear anything, you do not disobey when two girls have made their mind, UNDERSTAND?!"

SIGHS

Yes mom—

As soon as the word "mom" ended I felt a force that pushed me from behind.

It was of palms. Her palms, as quick as I could turn I did but it was late, for the door was already shut, and mom was nowhere to be heard close to it.

The brunnete-head giggles at what just happened as she is lookin' at me.

"Damn dude—your mom really just threw you out!!"

"Hey she did not throw me out! She SENT me out—understand?!"

"Hehe—whatever pleases you"

She was giggling, but as she giggled the sun highlighted somethin' 'bout her, that was her hair, her brunnete hair, her brown hair that looked golden as the sunrays fell on it.

I have never seen a brunnete girl in my entire life, never knew that hair could pull off such things.

(Well I have seen them but only on tv and magazines.)

Now I have noticed her hair is shoulder length, by each moment of hers the golden shine alters a little.

"HEY BALDY WHY YA LOOKIN' AT ME SO INTENSELY?!"

(Oh crap looks like she noticed my stare)

"Aye nothin' its..uhm...I-..I just uhh—its just you got some nice hair!"

She turns towards me as a grin forms on her face.

"Nice butterin' baldy looks like—you got a crush right here!"

(Crush? CRUSH??!! WHAT THE HELL IS SHE SAYING!?)

"HEY—that meant nothing!!"

She chuckles with a finger on her upper lip.

"jeez—I am just playing with you man!"

"Oh thank god"

(I don't know why I say that when my family is atheist)

"Well so..uh—what are we gonna even do?"

"Goin to a certain place"

"And where's that?"

Chuckles

"Well thats a secret baldy"

"Whatever"

The thought of a secret rested suspicious in my head, for secrets are very unpredictable.

The girl takes off in her slippers.

"Follow me smooth-head"

I raised a brow at this nickname.

"Hmph..smooth-head? Seriously?!"

A playful tug formed on her lip corners.

"Of course, sounds silly right? Thats what the nicknames are for"

Done with her whimsicalness My tongue spoke in monotone.

"I guess. Well how am I suppose to follow you barefoot? I should get my—"

"Trust me where we goin', slippers are not needed"

"Then WHY are you wearing them mud-head?"

"I WILL TAKE THEM OFF THERE"

She took off in her slippers. I went after her in a somewhat slower pace but not a sloth pace.

It was fine for the first eleven steps, until the blazing road in front touched my sole.

SSSSHEEEII!

(yeah—that sound came from my mouth)

Apparently we had to do straight left of the road as her lead suggested.

I realised, the Sun punishes those who haven't seen it and grass for ages as I couldn't look without squinting my eyes at extreme.

***

We have been waking for five minutes, the way I walked is insufferable.

A technique I call the 'foot-switch" was done to travel all this way.

(Well apparently you have to hop on the other foot as soon as the first foot reaches the hot ground, then switch back to the first..keep repeating until the destination is reached.)

The technique reduced the burn, but it still failed to eradicate for there were, a lot of mouth sounds while doing the hops.

I looked at her, marching forward while her hair still shined under the sun, what sun shined on me was stinky sweat drippin' down the skin.

(She didn't even look back once! Not considerate at all!)

As the steps went the mouth sounds grew more and more frequent.

Finally taking a notice, she turned back with an expression of slight dissappointment.

"Walk properly instead of making weird sounds from your mouth!"

The audacity to say that made me furious.

"YOU ALREADY FORCED ME TO COME WITHOUT SLIPPERS! DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH IT BURNS YOU ASS-HEAD?!"

(Oh shit—I shouldn't have called her that)

Her brows moved closer in the expression of fury as she glared at me. Deep lines forming from her nose to deep as her nostrils inflated in red, the wrathful red not the blushing one.

"How DARE you call me an ass-head when your head looks like an unshaved TESTICLE!?

(EWW—WHY THE HELL DID SHE SAY THAT?)

"Thats—SO—nasty why did you say that brunette?!"

"its called 'GIVING IT BACK' you idiot!"

She lifted her right leg up, before I could process she did a roundhouse kick, the slipper went flying—

THWACK

(OWCH—IT SMACKED INTO MY FACE—what the HELL is wrong with her?!)

I rubbed my face to soothe the impact of the hit, as my palms slid sideways from my face I could see her face again, but less angry and more decent.

"UGH—why did you threw that on my face!!"

She crossed her arms as she eyed me in the eye.

"Thats for you dumbass!"

I wore the slipper in my right foot, it was uncomfortable as it seem my feet was larger than hers, but somehow I shoved it in.

The distraction from this interaction caused me to ignore the fact I was standing on the blazing hot road purely still, as soon as the realisation hit, it was already too late for the feet had red look blisters and the heel went numb.

....She shrieked as her foot touched the road by accident.

(Now thats gonna give her some empathy)

"HOW IT FEELS NOW MUD-HEAD?"

"SHUT UP BEFORE I THROW THE OTHER SLIPPER AT YOUR FACE BEENLI—THE BALD-BOY!"

"Its a BUZZCUT you idiot!"

"WHATEVER"

***

Its been fifteen minutes since we are walking.

"HEY BRUNETTE!!"

She turns back in a hop.

"What?!"

"when is the place coming? after we both turn into burnt toast?"