Short Stories

It's in the Past

Words: 2,035
Preview: Liy thinks about the people she has met due to her time in EXIT. Then, a certain someone decides to ruin her sleep to talk to her.

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It was another late night of sleep for Liy. Typically she would only get around five and a half hours of sleep, which wasn't healthy when she had to wake up and do endless math worksheets afterwards. She had lost track of time in the EXIT a long time ago, being the fourth contestant eliminated. She missed having freedom and her old friends, but the bunch of people in EXIT weren't terrible. Quite the contrary, even.

She grew a kinship with Pencil, since they were both longtime members of EXIT. Although ever since Match got eliminated, she and Pencil interacted a lot less. It wasn't a shocker that Pencil would choose her longtime best friend to hang out with over herself, but it still had the sting of singe attached to the thought.

Bracelety was surprisingly fun to talk to when she wasn't obsessing over Ice Cube. The problem was ever finding a time where she wasn't. So her relationship with the cyan bracelet was more close acquaintanceship.

Roboty wasn't all that interesting, but even so, she liked to talk with him if everyone else was too chaotic. He was always the calm one, although that could be mostly traced to the fact that, well, he didn't have an expressional face, and the fact he could only speak through Morse code. It was clear he had a lot to say, but basically nobody could understand him. It made her feel a little bad for him. He was a good place to talk to if Liy wanted to be listened to, while also still feeling like she was talking to a brick wall. Not that there was much privacy to vent in this classroom, anyways.

Match, Liy didn't get to talk to too much. Mostly because she was always around Pencil from day one. Her and Pencil usually dominated an argument due to them hardly disagreeing on things, as well as stubbornness. Acquaintanceship with Match was satisfactory for Liy.

8-Ball was pretty funny for having such a mono tone. All of his humor was sarcastic, even if it was hard to tell if he was being sarcastic or not. He was pretty cool headed and pretty down to earth. It was clear he wasn't really much of a leader, though.

David was quiet, unsurprisingly. Similarly to Roboty, she didn't mind talking to him. He would blink to acknowledge something Liy would say. It made sense why he and Roboty got along. They had similar issues of being pretty stagnant body-wise, as well as communication issues. It was basically like a disability. It made her feel bad for him and Roboty. Even Dora, too. They all had issues that made them less liked by viewers, so they never really got chances to shine. It made Liy appreciate having all of them in EXIT. She got to learn about them more deeply.

As for Dora, she was definitely the most interesting when it came to the three oddballs of the group. Liy really liked the style Dora went for with her hair. Suited her much better. Dora also had communication issues, with her speaking in a different language. There was a certain charm to her language, though, and Liy liked to listen to her ramble, even if it was impossible to tell what she was saying. Although, one thing Liy learned was Dora's word for "island." She used the word pretty often, so she picked up on it.

Then there was Firey Jr. Small in stature, he was surprisingly intelligent, although had a semi disrespectful tone when questioning and correcting people. Liy supposed that's why Team Ice Cube was so on board with kicking him off the team when he got eliminated. Firey Jr. was fun to talk to, though. Him being small created a lot of different scenarios, too. When Four wasn't around sometimes the EXITors would play hide and seek with him. Glowing in dark places didn't help, but Firey Jr. was creative and would always find unique hiding spots, even in such a limited space of a classroom.