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A Strange Beauty Chapter 8: Back to School(Part 2)

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Alice slumped down into her chair at the lunch table. Throughout the entire day she could feel everyone staring at her. It was different from the stares of fear people gave when she and Ryan fought back when she was still Alex. She could feel the gazes of boys eyeing her body up and down, others eyeing her curiosity, even the occasional glare of suspicion. It was nothing but an entire classroom of eyes staring at her constantly.

"I'd hate to have put myself in your shoes, Alice." Lucas sat down at the lunch table, pulling out his lunchbox.

Alice swiped her bangs from her eyes. "Well, you didn't help create any semblance of peace with what happened with Lyra."

Lucas leaned back into his chair. "It was unavoidable given the circumstances. I don't care what happens honestly, as long as she doesn't hold it against me."

"I don't think she will. She's the most mature out of all of us, and will avoid the drama."

Lucas sighed. "I hope you're right, mate."

It was at this time Maria walked up with a lunch tray in her hand and sat down across from Lucas. "So what're we talking about?"

Alice turned her head to look at Maria. "We were talking about the incident between Luke and Lyra this morning..." Alice paused when Lucas indicated with his head that there were 'incoming hostiles'. Alice turned around to see who was walking up and her heart sank. Ryan and three of his cronies were approaching the group's lunch table, and Ryan had a grin on his face that made the skin crawl. He clasped his hands on the back of the chair and bent down so his face could be level with Alice's. His breath was rancid and she could tell he had just come in from smoking marijuana out in the woods by the school. "Hey there Good Lookin'. I don't believe I got the chance to introduce myself. The name's Ryan, and I'm granting you the honor of being my girlfriend as I'm sure you're lonely after-"

"Not interested." Alice interjected. An action that caused Lucas to giggle due to Ryan's taken aback expression.

"Watchu say, bitch?" Ryan growled.

Alice looked Ryan in the eye. "Alex told me about you. Sorry, but I don't date filthy scumbags."

Ryan grabbed Alice's wrists in anger. "Listen here, wench, you have two options right now: submit peacefully to being my woman and I'll be sure to treat you relatively nicely or you can continue at this pace your at and I'll show what happens when a bitch fails to obey her master."

"And what exactly does happen, Ryan?" Lyra stood behind Ryan with her right hand outstretched and already gathering mana for a spell based on the white glowing aura.

Ryan whipped around to face the sorceress. "Your fancy little magic tricks don't scare me, Lyra. What are you going to do? Pull a rabbit out of a hat?"

Lyra tapped her chin with her free hand. "No I was thinking more of One-hit K.O. for Idiots." and with that statement she drew her arm back and threw it forward as if pushing an invisible force, releasing her magic in one motion causing the energy to hit Ryan square on the chest and send him flying across the lunchroom until he crashed into one of the support pillars.

Lucas spoke in a deep nefarious voice. "Fatality." 

Lyra acted as if she was cleaning up her hands then took her seat across from Alice. "You're welcome."

Alice folded her arms and averted her gaze. "I could've handled that."

Lyra smiled. "I know, I just made it so that you didn't have to expend energy on a piece of trash like him." She looked towards Lucas who was uncharacteristically silent and busying himself with eating his lunch. "Now as to this morning, Mr. Cresone..."

Lucas looked up in surprise, one cheek full of a sandwich he was eating and said cheek had begun to turn red. "This morning? I have no clue what you're talking about. Must have mistaken it for a dream. I have dreams like that all the time."

"Lucas, were you implying that you have a crush on me?"

Lucas' filled cheek was now completely red. He swallowed the food in his mouth. "Yeah, I do... Was hoping for it to wait till after things had calmed down for me to confess what with this whole situation, but it seems fate had other plans." He averted from looking at Lyra. Alice actually felt sad for the guy as he was unaccustomed to such situations.

Lyra folded her arms behind her back and sighed. "Eh, I guess there's no harm done indulging you at least this once. Who knows, maybe all that romance anime you watch has made you a gentleman under that eccentric attitude."

Lucas just faced forward and deadpanned for a few brief moments before pulling his chair out from the table and walking off in a rigid manner.

Alice looked in the direction Lucas had gone. "I think you broke him." She grabbed Lucas' lunchbox and pulled out a Kool-Aid Jammer and PB&J Sandwich for herself.

Lyra shrugged. "Eh, wouldn't he have been even more broken if I said no?"

Alice took a sip of Kool-Aid. "Nah, boy's been rejected plenty of times. Luckily he has a self-repair mechanism."

Lyra raised an eyebrow. "Oh? What is that?"

"Usually he just goes to relieve the energy." Alice flicked Maria's ear when the latter began to giggle at Alice's comment. "Get your mind out of the gutter; you know that's not what I meant."

Maria calmed herself down. "I know, I know, you meant that Lucas would just go and be his normal hyperactive self, but that just sounded soooo wrong."

Alice looked at Maria with half-lidded eyes. "I thought you were supposed to be the mature one in our relationship...Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it, Lyra, except if you were expecting him to get advice from me because you can ask Maria, I am not an expert on dating."

Maria covered her eyes with her hand in an ashamed look. "Oh dear lord, ain't that the truth. You were TERRIBLE."

Alice shrugged. "You went to me first, not the other way around...By the way what class do we have next?"

Alice tapped her chin in thought. "I have gym next, but I can't remember if I share that class with y'all or not."

"you do." Maria confirmed

Alice suddenly froze. "G-g-g-g-gym?"

Maria tilted her head to one side in confusion. "Yeah, what's the problem?"

Lyra covered her mouth as she snickered. "Alice has to use the girl's locker room."

Maria raised an eyebrow. "Most guys would kill for the front row view you're gonna get, Alice."

"I a-am not like most g-g-guys." Alice stammered.

"In more ways than one." Lyra added.

"Ah, I can't remember the last time we had such a vivid atmosphere at our lunch table." Maria pitched in cheerfully.

Next class period...

Alice's body was frozen in place. Before her stood the words: "Girls Locker Room". "I can't go in there, no way no how. I have to uphold my dignity as a man."

"Look at the bright side, man. You are treading where no boy at this high school has ever tread before, and you are in plain sight to top it off." Lucas spoke up from where he leaned against the wall opposite the locker-room door.

"You know I am too principled to do that!" Alice rebutted.

Lucas rolled his emerald eyes, looking to see if Lyra and Maria had returned. "You and I are on the same boat in that department, but I'd take whatever side of optimism I can get."

"Hey Lucas, you've watched shoujo anime, right?" Alice inquired randomly.

"Uuuuuh yes, why you ask?" Lucas raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

"Do you know if girl's change bras in the locker room?" 

Lucas looked up towards the ceiling as if he was searching his head. "I've seen it happen in a few anime, but what happens in a Japanese cartoon and what happens in an American Private School are two completely different things. Jeese, where are those two. " (1) He looked down both sides of the hall hoping to find the aforementioned persons, it was then that a short redheaded girl by the name of Sophia walked up to Lucas. "Lucas, why are you standing in front of the girls locker room? I thought you were better than to try and sneak a peek like that."

Lucas inclined his dead slightly downward to try and make eye contact with the girl, but he could only maintain eye contact for a few brief moments at a time. "Oh, Lyra and Laura had to take care of something regarding Alice's gym uniform, so as one of Alice's guides around the school they asked me to show her where the locker room is, but Alice didn't ever take gym class at her old school so she's uncomfortable entering a locker room without Lyra and Laura here with her. In other words, I'm just keeping Alice company while she waits for the other two."

Sophia tilted her head to one side before turning to face Alice. "Is he telling the truth, Ms. Scanler?"

Alice reached around to scratch at the back of her head nervously. "Uh yeah, I just don't want to be without people I know on my first day so I asked him to wait with me."

Sophia looked between the two skeptically before giving a hopeless shrug. "Okay then, I'm trusting you not to do any peeking Lucas." and with that she entered the girls locker room just as Lyra and Laura finally appeared walking down the hall towards Lucas and Alice.

"What took you so freaking long? You leave before lunch was over and now next period is about to start!" Lucas glared at the two girls with exhausted patience.

"Well they searched all over for a gym uniform for Alice, but in the end couldn't find one then moved her assigned locker to be near Mine and Maria's so we can sort of block Alice's field of vision." Lyra responded to Lucas' accusation in a neutral manner. 

Alice looked from side to side. "Welp, guess that means I don't need to dress out! Now, if you'll excuse me." Alice began to walk away but was stopped when Lyra grabbed her by her jacket collar.

"Oh no, you're still dressing out, you and Maria are roughly the same size, your extra height will equal out Maria's advantage in breast size so the shirt oughtta fit." 

Alice turned pale as all hope of salvation immediately faded then turned to look at Lucas with pleading eyes mouthing 'please help me.' 

Lucas began to slowly back away. "and on that note it would appear it's nigh time I dress out. Later girls." He then turned on his heel and proceeded in the direction of the boys locker room leaving Alice to her fate. 

Maria rolled her eyes in an exasperated manner. "Relax Alice, it's not like you haven't seen me in my underwear before."  (2)

"It's not you I'm worried about."

Lyra pushed Alice towards the door. "Man up, you big baby."

"You are not funny."

<Due to author's gender, the events of the locker room are being exempted from this piece of literature>

Alice was trembling in shock as she stumbled out the locker room. All the frilly lingerie! all the boobs! It was too much for her teenage male mind to handle, and boy did she never realize how tight the girl's gym shorts were. What were they made of? Spandex? 

"Nothing stirs up teenage white girl's social butterfly instincts like a new pretty girl attending the school. I'm sorry Alice, that was not what I intended." Lyra came up from behind, rubbing her head.

"Oh i-i-it's fine, y-y-y-you c-c-couldn't do anything about it." Alice stammered, Lyra looked at her and noticed the usual rather tanned skin color was white as sheets.

Maria exited the locker room rubbing sweat from her brow, she had stayed behind to lecture the girls who had swarmed Alice about giving new students space so they can adjust. "Alice, are you alright?"

"I-I-I'm..." Alice started to fall over from dizziness which Maria reacted and caught her.

It was at this time that Coach Taylor, a fit brown haired woman in her mid 30's began to walk towards the locker room to tell the girls to hurry up for class, but she stopped when she saw the ghastly pale Alice. "Oh dear, what happened?"

Maria was helping Alice to her feet, using her shoulders as leverage to hold up the light-headed former boy. "She wasn't exactly prepared for the new girl treatment."

Coach Taylor nodded in understanding. "Yeah, I had tried to warn the principal about this. How do you want to cover this up so nobody gets suspicious?"

"Just say that at her 'old school' she never actually took Gym due to a certain discomfort undressing around others so all the girls swarming around her was too much We're basically going for the 'shy girl' approach." Lyra said.

"Alright then, Maria, can you help Ms. Scanler get to the nurse?" The Coach looked towards Maria.

"Yeah I can, she's not as heavy as she used to be." Maria smiled up at the Coach in good humor before turning and helping Alice move to the Nurse's Office.

Coach Taylor rested her hands on her hips and shook her head"That poor kid, she just can't seem to catch her breath can she? Well let's get the culprits out of the locker room so class can start"

Nurses Office

Alice groaned as consciousness suddenly reclaimed her. She wasn't sure when she lost it, she remembered Maria helping her move down the hall and little else. She looked to her left where Maria was sitting on a chair next to the bed messing with her phone. "Maria?"

Maria looked up from what she was doing. "Oh, you're awake! The Nurse said you just got lightheaded from over-stimulation and just needed to rest a little..."

"Maria."

She cocked her head to one side. "Yes?"

"Boobs are scary."

Maria couldn't hold back her laughter. "Oh Alex, whatever am I going to do with you."
To be honest I was intending on taking turns between chapters of A Strange Beauty and Predator and Prey, but Predator and Prey is proving to be a challenge so enable to get the most out of it I'll have to take it on slowly.

and the Lucas/Lyra Ship is set to sail! They will develop slowly.

(1): Yeaaaaaah, I'm a dude, I got no idea what specific things girls do in the locker room. considering how long it takes them it's gotta be more than just changing pants and shirt, but again. I got no idea what goes on in there. 

(2): I think I need to iterate that Maria and Alex/Alice are virgins. They've been dating for 6-7 years depending if you round up or down and without alex having a parental guardian they were bound to have some half-naked experiences (they've done that make out in only underwear deal) as well as them being more comfortable around eachother.

This Back to School thing was supposed to last longer, but I really want to continue on the magic arc. these past two chapters (7 and 8) are basically getting school back into the picture, and thus the story will be able to progress at a more...steady pace, and giving a small sample of what Alice is going to have to deal with now that she's back in school again.

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"Sorry, but I don't date filthy scumbags"

I died laughing at that XD