PART 1e Bouncing away Sarah or... Chess... Sarah/Chess hopped and did a cartwheel happily. Kevin scrambled to get back to his feet still completely floored by this new development, as he did trying to furiously brush himself off Sarah hopped a little when she was back on her feet and. ZOOOOOOM! "YAH!" Kevin let out another startled yell when Sarah was suddenly in the blink of an eye again right in front of him. "Whatcha wanna play!? Your choice!" She said excitedly as Kevin teetered backwards and spun around away from her quickly to regain his balance. ZOOOOM! "We can play chess checkers whatever you want I have!" She said again right in front of his face making Kevin fall back again shocked. "Christ!" He swore... shit she moved fast! He spun away again still trying to regain his balance. ZOOOOOM! "Wanna play cards!" Sarah asked beaming once again in Kevin's face making him recoil backwards again. Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffft! Sarah's arms moved as cards flew from one hand to the other and seemed to disappear like a magic act as she advanced on Kevin who was stumbling backwards. "Or we can play hide and seek or tag!" She declared. Kevin's heel hit a rock or something and he found himself with horror falling down again. ZOOOOOOOM! "Tag! Your it!" Sarah suddenly squealed *behind * Kevin this time and slapped him on the back. "AH!" Kevin shouted... she had practically *shoved * him and he went pitching forward this time his arms pin wheeling wildly. ZOOOOOOOOM! "Or roulette!" Once more Kevin jerked back as Sarah once again grinning was before him... as she spoke she bent as if bowing but seemingly still moving towards Kevin. Despite Kevin's awkward sense of balance ( Which he was rapidly losing seeing as which he was falling back again. ) he barely was able to see a roulette device on Sarah's back; she managed to spin it so it made noise grinning proudly. "OPF!" Kevin lost the battle for balance and fell down again ungracefully onto his rear shocked a stunned. all that had happened in less then ten seconds. Good god... what the hell was she on!? Good thing she wasn't eating anything with sugar! "Crap!" He yelped rubbing his lower back not believing that this was happening... just *trying * to keep up with her movements was enough to make his brain explode. "Ooh! We can play that too!" Sarah squealed clapping her hands still bent at her waist, kicking out her leg she jerked it back making herself flip though she stayed where she was, as soon as her feet hit the ground and bowed again holding out her hands in offering proudly. In it was six pairs of gold dice. Kevin gave her a leery "get real" look. "Listen Sar... Miss. Chess... whatever!" Kevin snapped furiously now rapidly getting over his earlier shock, which was being replaced by annoyance. Friend's fiancée or not when she moved at the speed of light and kept getting in his face wanting to play, she was just flat out the single most annoying thing he had run into so far. Kevin scooted back to get the hell away from her exasperated. "I don't want to play any of those games! I don't want to play a game *period *!" He snapped crab crawling backwards a little, Sarah's head raised up to look at him blinking but still remained leaning over bowing. "I am having a *really * bad day here and just want *one freaking * break okay!" Kevin quite literally snarled. "I just want outta here alright!" Sarah pouted. "But I wanna play!" She whinnied again. "*Well I don't care *!" Screw being polite! Kevin had had it up to here with her by now! Kevin rolled over and scrambled to his feet once more quickly spinning around halfway as he wildly beat the dust off himself to glare at Sarah who straightened up still playing innocent. "I don't have time for this crap! I'm in a hurry! Can't you *grasp * this concept!?" He snarled non-to gracefully trying to throw some of his duster behind himself so as not to tangle with his shoes. Sarah pouted but luckily didn't zip around again like some kind of fly on steroids. "Everyone is in a hurry! I wanted to play with the White Rabbit but he couldn't stay cause *he * was in a hurry to!" Kevin's shoulders sagged in time to his jaw falling open again. "WELL HOW THE HELL COME DIDN'T YOU BUG HIM WITH THIS SHIT!?" Because he was pretty sure that Sarah probably bugged everyone that passed by through here like this. *Wait a sec... Brian passed through here *? He didn't have time to contemplate the thought cause Sarah suddenly giggled and raised her arms and hopped into a cartwheel again. "Cause! The White Rabbit has *very * good reasons for being in a hurry!" She giggled as Kevin watched her wheel around in a circle around him. "*I * have good reasons for being in a hurry!" Kevin snapped not *believing * this. Sarah continued to giggle as she slowly made lazy circles around Kevin. "Not as good as hiiiiiiiis!" She sang out gleefully. "Wanna bet!?" Kevin asked raising an eyebrow. Sarah suddenly stopped in the middle of a cartwheel balancing on one hand; Kevin hadn't failed to notice the way her eyes lit up and immediately knew he was in trouble. Oh shit. "Okay!" She suddenly yelled ecstatically. Kevin took a few steps back. "Okay!? Okay what!?" He instantly asked nervous. "LETS BET!" Sarah grinned and raised the other hand she wasn't balancing and snapped her fingers once. Out of the forest... quite literally a chair shot out of the path suddenly appearing. Kevin had his back turned to it and didn't see it coming flying at him until... Well, until it hit him really. "YEEEEEEAH!" Kevin let out a startle scream of shock when the chair crashed into him sending him falling back into it. His hands instantly clamped down on the sides of the seat terrified and out of instinct as he found himself flying while sitting on a goddamn chair across the clearing to the middle. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! AH!" Hey... Kevin wasn't going to keep quite about this. Being hit with something he hadn't yet registered as a chair and flying across the clearing at the speed of a roller coaster he wasn't going to just *take * it for god's sake and not say anything. If Kevin hadn't been holding onto the seat for dear life he would have probably gone flying off it when the chair suddenly stopped making him lurch forward as if in a car and fall back against the back with a startled grunt. "Guh!" He gasped when he finally got his brain to send a message to his lungs to breath again. WHAT THE HELL HAD JUST HAPPENED!? Kevin instantly shifted but still clung to the seat trying to convince himself that what had just happened and actually just happened. Okay... he was sitting in a chair... Puzzled Kevin looked forward again not seeing Sarah. That didn't last long. SHEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOM! BAM! "AH!" Kevin almost launched into orbit with surprise when Sarah suddenly fell out from the leafy ceiling above. "Weeeeeeeeee!" She squealed crashing down onto the ground right in front of Kevin, as she fell out of the leaves she was sitting on a table and once the table hit the ground she bounced as if it were a trampoline doing a little flip before landing on the table top again grinning proudly. "What the-" Kevin started shocked as hell over what had happened when Sarah's hands move. Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft! Cards shot from one hand to the other in a blur as Sarah shuffled them sitting cross-legged on the table. She giggled and with flourish raised a hand and held the other out in front of Kevin who shrank back a little. The cards from her raised hand flew down into her other hand before Kevin, when the last card hit Sarah leaned forward putting her elbows on the table and setting her chin in her free hand still offering the cards to Kevin. "What is this!?" Kevin asked pointing looking like he really didn't even want to know. Sarah beamed. "A bet!" She declared. Oh yeah... cause that just cleared everything up. "For what!?" "You said you wanted to bet! So were betting!" Sarah's smile suddenly seemed to shift like Nick's had... turning sly in that "I know something you don't know" cheese eating grin. Oh god... Kevin sunk in his chair a little. "What's the bet?" He asked warily. "I bet you..." Sarah thought for a moment though Kevin damn well knew she already knew what she was gonna say. "That if I get the highest card... you have to play whatever game I want! And if you get the highest card... then you can go." Kevin instantly perked up at that. "Really!?" He asked surprised. Sarah nodded. "Yep yep!" She chirped grinning. Kevin eyed the cards suspiciously. He had a feeling that he wasn't going to be getting outta here anytime soon if he didn't play along, this hyper version of Sarah wouldn't just drop the issue for god's sake... but...but... There really didn't seem to be any other choice. Kevin growled relenting and reached for a card. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Okay... every mom will tell you the same thing. "Gambling doesn't pay". And just as a general reference it is always wise to listen to your mother since ninety five percent of the time, she knows what she's talking about. Gambling. Doesn't. PAY. Simple as that really. Three simple little words... and by that time Kevin was *vehemently * kicking himself for not remembering them sooner. Laying with his head buried in his arms on the table Kevin laid practically half dead as Sarah/Chess sat staring at the chess board before them considering her next move with the concentration of a rocket scientist carefully considering how to make cold fusion possible. "God... *damn it *!" Kevin groaned but didn't raise his head. Chess still sitting on the table ignored him as she still thought of her next move rubbing her chin. A ten of spades... a freaking TEN OF SPADES! Kevin's entire body tensed as he thought back on the card he had drawn. A TEN OF SPADES! SO HOW THE HELL COULD SHE HAVE GOTTEN A QUEEN OF HEARTS!? "I hate this place... I hate this place... I really really *really * hate this place..." Kevin was chanting. his voice muffled in his arm. Okay... so it had been a fifty fifty chance in the first place but. It just wasn't fair! A whine? Hell yes... Kevin himself was to the point of whining himself by now. Stuck with a hyper insane version of his friends fiancée forced to play a goddamn game of chess against his will was not... NOT... his idea of the ideal time! Sarah brightened up and slowly reached out to pick up the black knight and move it... painstakingly... still considering as she made the move. agonizingly slow... move. "There!" She suddenly declared proudly leaning back beaming as if she had just figured out the solution to achieve world peace. Kevin's head slowly rose up from behind his arms to glare at his opponent. "Are you sure?" He suddenly asked in a condensing sarcastic tone. "I mean... you don't wanna wait like *another * fifteen minutes cause I don't think hell has fully frozen over yet." Sarah threw back her head and laughed as if that were the funniest thing she had ever heard, Kevin couldn't help but be mean. They had been here two hours. In total they had made seven moves. Kevin sat up stiffly and reached out furiously to pick up his white bishop and slam it down so hard onto the chessboard the other pieces rattled ( It was amazing he didn't shatter the bishop into a ton of pieces since all the chess pieces were made out of beautiful glass. ) That complete he sat back slouching in his chair folding his arms across his chest as he seethed while Sarah yet again began her "I'm thinking of my next move" routine. HALF HOUR LATER! "Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz." As Sarah's hand slowly moved a the rook across the board still in consideration as weather or not where the rook was going was really where she wanted it to go ( Cause after all if it didn't touch the board then she could take it back. ) Kevin once again hand his head in the crook of his arm. Only difference was he was flat out asleep. His other arm lay across the table limply. "There!" Sarah suddenly declared which cause Kevin to shot up instantly in his seat with a startled jerk. "Huh!? What!?" He asked blinking rapidly disoriented. His vision was blurry for a moment before focusing on the chessboard. Oh... stiiiiiiiiiiill playing. Yeah. Kevin sighed and reached out taking a pawn and moving it up a space, feeling depressed ( since he had reached the conclusion it was his own damn fault for being in this situation. He *had * after all agreed to the freaking bet. ) before leaning back again sagging in the chair. Sarah had brightened up her delighted grin growing even wider before she lunged and suddenly moved her queen. "CHECKMATE!" She cheered making Kevin's jaw fall open and stare at her in disbelief as she clapped her hands happily. "CHECKMATE!" He repeated as if he had never heard of the declaration before. Kevin sat up a little and gestured to the board exasperated. "YOU ONLY MADE A TOTAL OF EIGHT MOVES!" He shouted not quite sure why the hell he was so annoyed and pressing the matter. Really... the longest chess game in history was *finally * over he should have been glad. He hadn't even wanted to play in the first place but... maybe it was male pride or something but losing the game just seemed to piss him off for some unknown reason. Maybe it was because it was a game and the object was to *win * and he had lost the freaking bet before. Or maybe cause this Sarah or Chess annoyed the ever loving shit out of him and like hell he had been planning on losing to her ( Then again he hadn't planned on losing to her in the *first * place. ) either way he was still pissed. Sarah giggled as if Kevin were a total idiot and clapped her hands together in front of her as if praying. "I know! I can win making only three moves but I decided to give you an advantage!" She claimed. "You-!" Kevin sputtered not believing her gull. Giving him an advantage! *Bullshit *! "You cannot win by only making three or eight moves!" Kevin cried exasperated as if Sarah/Chess had had no right to even *make * the claim. "Yes I can!" Sarah protested proudly. "Winning isn't about the *amount * moves you make! It's about the moves you make!" Kevin stared at her... *just what the hell was that supposed to mean *!? "Huh!?" Kevin asked not getting it till he realized that what she had just said was one of those... say something and it makes no sense... but, really does?... phrases. Say something and it makes no sense but really does phrases... Christ no wonder he had been dumped in this place... oh shit! He really DID belong here! He was actually starting to *understand * some of this stuff! Kevin grabbed his head and shook it furiously for a moment trying to get rid of even *that * notion before looking back at Sarah. "You mean the *placement * of your moves!?" He asked still disturbed by the fact he was starting to understand these people. Sarah nodded vigorously grinning. "Exactly!" She said pleased Kevin got it. "Plus!" She added and leaned forward making Kevin lean back. She spoke in a hushed tone as if divulging some kind of secret even holding her hand up to shield her mouth movements. "See I could anticipate your moves! I can easily read a person! It's like reading their psyche!" Sarah fell back in a fit of giggles as if that were the funniest thing she had ever come up with. Kevin's eye twitched as he watched her howl with laughter. Read his psyche? He wanted her no where *near * his psyche! He was pretty sure he himself had done enough damage to it already! Shit he probably almost killed it seeing as which he was still thinking he had gone insane or something and put himself in this place by his own doing. Kevin opened his mouth already having sucked in a breath to speak and was about to when Sarah suddenly sat up grinning and pointing to the chessboard. "See? You can look for yourself! Its checkmate left to right back and forth! No chance what so ever of getting out of it! Zip! Zero! Nadda! Goose egg!" "I get the point!" Kevin hissed tensing his shoulders... she seemed to be driving a little too much pleasure out of her victory and it was if possibly pissing him off even more. Kevin leaned down to eye the chessboard carefully to see if she was right. His king was in where square his rook would normally have been... her queen was off diagonally a few squares away and her bishop... WAIT A SEC! Suddenly as if someone had whacked him upside his head or dumped a bucket of ice water over him Kevin abruptly sat up realizing something. Why in the name of all that is holy are you sitting here WHINNING about losing a game to SARAH... no, CHESS and bitching and moaning about it when the game had dragged on for so long the sky could have fallen and Kevin would have dragged his limp and dying body up long enough to thank god for it. "Checkmate?" He echoed again as if considering a frightening calm coming over him. "Checkmate. So... that means, the games over right?" Sarah nodded proudly. "Yep yep!" She agreed and jumped blinking shocked when Kevin suddenly stood slowly pushing the chair he had been forced to sit in back. "Fine." He said sounding satisfied and pleased again. Sarah's eyes widened as Kevin turned and made a move to walk away from the table. "Wai wai! Wait!" She said frantically making Kevin pause again. "Where are you going!?" Kevin could see where she was going with *that * question, eyeing her from the corner of his eye for a moment he suddenly turned and placed his hands on the table and leaned forward making her blink and lean back. Kevin got within three inches of her face giving her a very evil eye. "Where am I going? Why... away. That's where I'm going Miss." He said in a very calm voice. In that kinda calm bout to go psychotic kinda way. "Far *far * away from here! As far as I can go actually." He said sweetly. "I'm going to leave now and walk as faaaaaaaaaaaaar away from this precise spot as I can, and should god insist on keeping me in this hell hole I'm going to pray to him to at least allow a thunder storm to come along and strike me down with the biggest *brightest * bolt of lightening it can shoot out." Kevin was leaning forward more making Sarah lean back, he was practically crawling onto the table getting on a tirade, all his pent up fury and annoyance with this goddamn place boiling over. Sarah was hardly threatened though; she just knew that if she didn't move Kevin would push against her. "Hell... the lightening doesn't even have to hit me! All it has to do is hit a damn tree and start a freaking fire; I'll stand there and let it suffocate me! ANYTHING then having to stand here another minute and having to play this freaking game with YOU!" Kevin practically snarled in Sarah's face having climbed onto the table livid. Sarah pouted. "But didn't you have fun? I did!" She squealed. "NO I DID NOT HAVE FUN!" Kevin barked recoiling not BELIEVING she had actually asked that. "I didn't even want to play with you in the first place! I STILL don't want to play with you! And if you keep me here I'm going to have to insist you at least allow me the chance to run into the forest and find a goddamn grizzly if there are any in this place and allow it to eat me! Or let me go get that freaking clock and speed up time so I'll become an age where I'm senile and won't care anymore and won't be able to tell the difference between yatzi and CHECKERS! ALRIGHT!" Kevin was hollering how pulling on his hair. The two stared at each other in silence. Sarah just giving Kevin a blank look and Kevin baring his teeth furious. Sarah finally broke into a dazzling innocent smile shrugging slightly. "So I guess this means you don't want to play again huh?" She asked hopefully. BACK NEXT |
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