2 Chapter 2: On The Roof

Coming to a stairway she began to ascend, fingers still tapping away at her phone, soon another message appeared.

"There is someone else up here I want you to meet."

Faith stopped in her tracks for a moment, staring at the screen, she responded,

"Who?"

Once again continuing up the stairs returning to her game, soon after another message appeared,

"The person your playing."

Reading the message, her lips turned up into a slight grin, a slight chuckle could soon be heard followed by roaring laughter, tears rolling down her face Faith sent a reply,

"That is the funniest thing you've said all day, honestly, there is no way the guy I'm playing goes to this school and even if he does I'd know, I'm the only one who plays here besides you."

She didn't have a chance to return to her game before yet another message arrived,

"It's the truth, hurry up, I got your favorite."

A smiley emote followed the message, reading it Faith shook her head slightly, before exiting the message to continue playing, her full attention once again on the two avatars fighting.

As her opponents avatar fell, the screen flashed the word Victor before another rematch request appeared, amused Faith watched her avatar load to its home screen,

"Whoever this guy is, pretty tenacious to keep challenging me."

She thought happily, no one else really gave Faith a challenge when she fought, be it games or life.

Yet to her surprise this one continued to come back each and everyday for the past week, thinking about that message Faith quickened her steps, nearly jumping up the last flight of stairs to an open door that lead to the roof. Crossing the threshold Faith looked around a seemingly empty rooftop, in a corner a waste basket along with a small blue chair could be seen, the waste basket overflowing with empty containers of juice and candy wrappers.

Walking toward the chair Faith looked to her phone, her avatar still standing at the home screen a caution sign above her weapon icon, asking her to equip a weapon, ignoring it Faith accepted the rematch request and loaded her avatar into the arena. Sitting down her focus intensified as the two avatars began to fight, her screen constantly flashing as Faith noticed an opening, not kind enough to overlook a flaw, Faith had her avatar exploit it disarming and knocking over her opponent.

With attacks raining down on her now defenseless foe, its health was quickly depleted, the familiar Victory screen and request appeared once more.

As Faith was about to accept a shuffle of footsteps echoed through the doorway, as three guys made their way onto the roof, looking up for a moment Faith recognized two of them.

On the right was a short fat guy, his stomach jiggling with each breath he took.

On the left was a pointy-eared kid that resembled an alien, a wide creepy smile on his face.

The one in the middle was new to Faith, looking at him for a moment longer than the others, his hair fell short on one side and long one the other, she could only see one of his amber colored eyes covered by the lens of his glasses, aside from his bad hair cut, the parts of his face that she could see weren't bad to look at.

In Faith's opinion, he could be considered better looking than the two next to him.

The short fat guy began to walk toward her, his stomach jiggling more with each step

"I told you she'd be here."

He said in a garbled voice making his way to the waste basket, staring down at its contents he turned back and chuckled, he looked towards Faith, squatting down he inched his face close to hers, the heat of his breath could be felt on her cheek.

"You won't beat us this time, we've brought some help."

He said looking to his friends, the pointy-eared guy cackled like a crow, his nose high in the air as he laughed. Sauntering over to Faith's left he bent over, the creepy smile on his face wider than before joining in to taunt her. His scratchy voice mixing in with his laughter

"Yea, this guy is crazy strong, there is no way you could beat him."

Standing next to her they continued laughing, Faith looking back to her phone cancelled the rematch request before rising from her seat, shoulder brushing past the short fat guy's nose as she rose. Startled he tumbled backward narrowly avoiding contact, rolling along the ground he came to a stop next a few feet away from Faith. Getting to his feet, he inched backward toward his friend with the crazy hair cut, the pointy-eared kid backing away as well.

"You must be new, you'll get hurt"

Faith said, her voice as soft as silk with a clear trace of annoyance, looking at the three of them she continued

"I just want to play my game."

The guy with the bad hair cut stared at her with an uninterested look, turning to the short fat guy, he pointed towards Faith his thumb

"You said there would be someone strong here, not some girl, don't go lying to me."

His voice stern and proper, as Faith listened on, she could tell he was defiantly new as most rumors about her circulate the school, most of them warnings to stay away from the girl with red hair.

"Those two must have gotten to him first and convinced the poor fellow to come up here."

Faith concluded to herself, shaking her head slightly, Faith placed her phone on chair she was sitting in the screen flashing with the message icon as she did so, not noticing this Faith turned toward the three guys before her catching onto the conversation they were having.

"We promise Jayson, that woman is the strongest in this school."

The short fat one pleaded, nudging his pointy-eared friend in the ribs to get his attention, pointy-ears quickly nodded his head in vigorous agreement, laughing through his wide smile he put his hands behind his head and looked toward Faith. His laughter caught in his throat once he locked eyes with Faith, standing there she begun to radiate a ferocious aura, fire danced inside of her eyes, seeing this both the pointy-ears and the short fat guy broke out in a nervous sweat that soon dampened the backs of their uniform jackets. Retreating behind the one they called Jayson, they looked up to him and began to point toward Faith. Pointy-ears voice squeaking out

"S-s-see, th-that woman is a-a-a demon."

Jayson looked at the two shivering behind them, shaking them off he took a step toward Faith raising his palms he thrust forward, generating a small wind that blew past her hair, a smile slowly appeared on his face as he opened his arms wide taking small steps toward Faith, the wind blowing his hair off his face, for a moment Faith could see that all together the guy before her wasn't all that bad looking, just had a bad taste for hair styles. Rating him a 7 in the looks department, if Jayson knew her thoughts of him at the moment, he probably wouldn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Hello there, my name is Jayson, I'm new to this school and I heard you were the queen.

May I know if that is true?"

Jayson's voice no longer stern, but soft and seductive as if he was trying to calm down the violent aura Faith displayed. Stopping a foot away from her Jayson kept his arms spread wide, he looked straight up into the sky. Faith watching him approach began to tense up her body in preparation for a surprise attack, never one to let her guard down in front of new people, Faith tilted her head to one side before responding

"So what if I am?"

Jayson looked down with a warm smile that threw Faith off for a moment, what he said next put her back to focus

"Then I can dethrone you."

Stepping forward his palms shot toward her, his finger tips slicing through the air like swords wanting to cut Faith in half, watching this Faith was unimpressed her body fell back away from his hands as though pushed by the wind he generated. With a slight stomp of her feet Faith floated away, seeing his surprise attack failing Jayson's body tensed instinct taking over he jumped away, looking over his shoulder toward the two cowering guys he shouted

"You do realize, it's 3 on 1 right!!"

They looked at each other and nodded bursting forth into a sprint toward Faith in a attempt to cut off her escape path, Faith following their movements with her eyes with a face that expressed boredom. Sliding to a stop Faith watched as they surrounded her, with a slight shake of her head Faith sighed

"Your interrupting my game, I didn't bother you."

She muttered to herself stomping on the ground her body turned into a blur, the sunlight reflecting off Faith's hair turning her into a red bolt of light, as she streaked across the rooftop toward the short fat guy appearing before him in an instant. Her curled fist an inch from his face , before he could react the world before him went dark, Faith's fist connected to his eye sending him flying away, landing in a heap his fat body still jiggling slightly in various areas.

Jayson blinked

"I didn't even see her move, what kind of freakish movement is that?!

They didn't say anything about speed like that!! No matter there are still two of us."

Looking to the pointy-eared guy a slightly confident smile taking his face breaking into a sprint toward Faith, wanting to take advantage of her lapse of focus on him, this was the perfect chance to attack, he shot a glace toward the pointy-eared guy as he ran.