Chapter 15: Stoked Up pt.1

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It was lunchtime. The beginners would eat at different periods of time depending on their group so the cafeteria never got too crowded. Sat down together was me and Damien who asked to join and the squad were eating tamales, we were having a pretty good time. “Honestly, I still can’t believe how you two almost died on your second day” Steve son of Alexander mumbled with a mouthful of tamales.

“Yeah, honestly we were strangely lucky” Damien said “Imagine if the head priest was one second too late” He said and then looked at Sigmund’s sauce he brought from home

“If he was I wouldn’t have everyone taking my mom’s sauce all the time” Sigmund replied and gave up on trying to save the special sauce. We were laughing and joking around, eating a good meal at the end of the day, but then someone passing next to Damien tripped a little and a couple of tamales fell.

“Hey, you dropped your food” Damien called to the guy’s attention with a sincere tone, not accusing. But the guy seemed unaware, that quickly changed when Damien grabbed his uniform to stop him in his path. “Dude, you dropped your food” He still commented with a sincere unaccusing tone.

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“Yeah, I got it. I’m sorry” The guy rotated his shoulder to brush Damien off, irritated. The guy tried to keep on tracking, but Damien’s firm grasp just kept him from escaping.

“Then pick your food back up.” It was no longer a sincere tone.

“What? Why?!” The guy asked, feeling an uncanny feeling in his heart, getting real bothered trying to whip his grasp away one more time. “The janitor will clean it up anyway!”

“Because you made the mess” Damien said with a strange tone, trying to bring the guy closer to the tamales he dropped. “Now, pick it back up.”

“Fuck man just drop it!” The guy said, finally severing Damien’s hold, but Damien grabbed the collar of the guy’s uniform instead, harder.

“Clean it up man, take responsibility!” Damien demanded.

“You wanna fight, idiot?”

“If you’re not going to clean your mess then-”

“Dude… just drop it!” I said, a little put off by Damien’s crazy strong stance against littering. “We don’t need to get into random fights”

“But…” Damien said before the guy finally pushes Damien’s hand off and walks away, quickly and far enough. “...I guess you got a point.” Damien said and sat back down, though the way his forehead beaded sweat and wrinkles, it was clear he was really not happy about what happened. Damien later went and apologised to the janitor that has to pick up the guy’s dropped tamales, to the janitor’s confusion.