And So It Begins [Kodi]

Kodi had talked with Alison more than a few times. They were room mates after all. Kodi’s natural curiosity had lead to her ask Alison questions in the past and the two had conversed many times. Kodi found anything more interesting than homework usually and used anything as an excuse to put the homework off. Of course when she did homework her grades were phenomenal and she could tolerate doing homework—but she just liked to do anything else more.

Today she had gone out and done a bit of running. She had just decided to jog a bit and then head back to her dorm. She had been out half the morning so instead of wearing something more logical for jogging she was in jeans and a sleeveless shirt. Her coat was on over top due to weather but she was certainly comfortable in her clothes.

Upon getting back to the dorm she slung her coat up on a hook and kicked off her flats. That was the worst part of her jogging. She should have grabbed some running shoes. Having dropped her bag next to the door she walked into the kitchen to get a drink of water. She wasn’t sure if Alison was about…or their other room mate, Camille.

Kodi also had no idea that Alison had been recruited to RSOR. And the field day she would have if she ever found out would be amazing. Especially, after meeting Tamara. Kodi had been recruited herself into something…anti-RSOR. And she was getting pretty passionate about it. Anti-RSOR was just trying to find out what the hell RSOR was. RSOR was truly the mystery of the school, and if Kodi could be the one to crack that mystery…oh how awesome would that be?

Kodi hadn’t considered talking to Alison about it since meeting Tamara. And though Kodi had yet to meet Errol she was already a key member of Anti-RSOR. She was wondering what her role in group would be but it seemed she had already made herself important and key to their efforts. Kodi had suggested formulating almost file-like pages for the known RSOR members. More directly, making a list and just compacting what they had discovered under the member on the list that it corresponded with. Kodi had put it together herself, with help of course since Tamara and Errol knew way more about RSOR than Kodi did. However, skimming the website had been refreshing.

Kodi wandered out of the kitchen and moved to her room, where her homework was stacked up and waiting for her. She let out a dramatic sigh as she approached it, before catching a glimse of Alison. Her homework could wait right?

”Hey Alison!! You doing homework?”

Kodi was really the worst person to run into if you intended to do your homework. She was talkative and very distracting and it wasn’t like she did it intentionally. Now if she wanted to keep you from your work you were royally screwed and doomed to make up excuses for your teacher. Yet, the girl managed to maintain amazing grades that made no sense to the work load and effort she appeared to put forward. Truth was, Kodi spent a lot of time doing homework, but it was time away from other people. She hid her commitment to academics well but she also loved a good distraction.

So naturally, when Kodi realized that Alison was doing homework she pondered for a moment if she should leave the girl be or continue talking. But hearing the question that followed the information Kodi dropped all ideas of leaving and flopped down next to Alison. ”French? Really…? French is boring! At least you are almost done. I decided to go for a run…and it was a long run. Now I gotta figure out how to waste my afternoon…any ideas?”

Kodi laughed in agreement to Alison’s response. Getting French homework out of the way sounded like a smart idea. It was a subject Kodi didn’t care for, but she was also not amazing with languages. She wasn’t awful but she certainly didn’t specialize in language. It’s a good thing she didn’t want a job that dealt with too many customers otherwise she’d be screwed. No, Kodi wanted a management job or some sort and in a decent business, perhaps as a police officer, detective or crime scene investigator. Eh, she would work it out later.

”I’d much rather learn a dead language, or how to speak elvish or something like that. It’s much more colourful. Maybe I will take up Klingon!” Kodi joked with a wide smile breaking across her face. Motivation came easy to Kodi when it wasn’t concerned with school. Just look at the effort she was putting forward for RSOR. That spoke for itself.

Kodi was also not the greatest at keeping secrets so what she knew about RSOR was pretty public. Or at least amongst people she spoke to. And that only included a smaller number. Tamara especially knew since Kodi was sure to post anything she worked out on the anti-RSOR website. That was a real work of genius and now Kodi found herself responsible for compacting and keeping a list of all the information on different RSOR members and who was a member. It was a fun job to say the least. It meant she was the first to see the complied information and through that Kodi hoped to be the first one to work out the secret.

Just as Kodi was about to suggest video games or something like that she caught herself and reconsidered. Perhaps more of a chilled night with none of that. Then again, causal gaming never hurt anyone right? Kodi wasn’t a huge gamer to begin with, but hey it was another distraction. She could pull out a board game…but to be honest Kodi’s attentions to a board game didn’t last long. She shrugged to herself, deciding no games. So then what were they to do?

Kodi perked up at the sound of Errol’s name leaving Alison’s lips. Any mention of Anti-RSOR, Tamara or Errol did that now. Oh and RSOR of course. But Kodi was all about figuring out the mystery now that she had gotten involved. And she had sort of dragged Alison into it too in a way. It was awesome having a roommate you could tell everything to. Kodi wasn’t sure she was ready to let their other roomie into it just yet. Kodi had no way of knowing if the girl was RSOR or not after all.

”An article? Whatever for?...and honestly, give it time and we will work it out. We already know who some of the members are and they have done some strange things that we have committed to memory. With time hopefully we can work out what the big secret is. I mean, hints are dropped all over. With all of us listening for them we are bound to hit on something eventually. I mean, I am making sure to go over everything over and over when I have new information to see if I can work anything out.”

Kodi laughed at Alison’s response to her joke about Elvish or Klingon. It was something to consider to say the least but Kodi couldn’t see herself focusing on that. She would take courses pertaining to her actual major, whatever it ended up being. Though, the idea of speaking Klingon or Elvish was hysterical. Oh the ways she could screw with people with those linguistic skills in her arsenal. Kodi was still struggling with the idea of college or university because of her parent’s desire for her to be at the top. Who knew where she was going but at least Kodi knew it would be an amazing school. Her parents would make sure of that.

Hearing the next response from Alison, Kodi found herself laughing quite profusely. ”No! Not at all…it just…it’s Errol!”

Kodi could be many things. She could be studious, serious and strict or fun, relaxed and procrastinate like no tomorrow. She flopped between the two and as a result she was sometimes also volatile. But if one thing was certain, Kodi usually knew the difference between one mood and the other. Right now, she was in procrastination mode. That was the Kodi who wanted to know all about RSOR. It was her dominant side lately, but it didn’t help that her serious and intelligent side wanted answers too. She was curious and that played into both worlds.

Naturally, that also meant that she was light hearted and friendly. Kodi could deal with anything, she just had to be in the right mood. So enjoying a good laugh with a friend was more than welcomed, even if it was at her expense. Errol was hardly Kodi’s bag of treats. She needed someone who was just as open as she was and just as dedicated to what he did as Kodi was to what she started doing. She was pretty open to guys right now though, and to be honest, Errol was a little too strange for Kodi to deal with him in big doses.

”Posters!!? That’s brilliant!! Awareness will gather more people and maybe we can start something. Something that tells RSOR that we are sick of secrets being kept from us…I mean, they are high school students. None of us have that much to hide!!”

Kodi, being clueless to Alison’s intentions, was really being played like a fool by now. Anyone else and she might have suspected something but Alison was her close friend. So naturally she didn’t think anything of events as they were transpiring. She just saw a friend who was happy to help her work out the big secret she had been hoping to discover. And not only that, a friend who was just as interested in the end result. She didn’t know just how true that last part was, just not in the same direction she would have thought.

”It would raise our numbers. I mean, there are so few people trying to work out RSOR that some people may have critical information and we wouldn’t know it yet. Can you imagine? A whole chunk of the school population gunning for the RSOR secret. We might even be able to petition the teachers and the club’s secrecy for answers. I mean, this is a school and I am sure a lot of these kids have parents in pretty places…even if my own parents don’t have much of a pull.”

Kodi had a close connection with Alison, which was always something she needed in any friend. Alison had to be Kodi’s best friend, though Tamara was getting close, but there relationship was more centered around anti-RSOR and who knew what would happen when they found out the RSOR secret. Tamara would no longer have anything in common with Kodi really and Kodi had been there many times before. Friends did that to her all the time, so she was wary of it. But Alison was someone Kodi really connected with and it wasn’t over some mission either.

Kodi knew how to follow the rules and she knew that all schools had rules and guidelines. If they could get enough people on board to total RSOR, then why not? Though, RSOR was quite large and getting students who cared enough to sign something to get the information seemed unlikely at the moment. That’s why Anti-RSOR really needed to raise the bar and get some more members. Who knew, maybe they’d have some new ideas to add to the pool.

Kodi should have noticed a change in Alison’s attitude after the girl made the committee comment but she was much too concerned with what she was thinking about the committee itself. If she hadn’t been she might have noticed the change in the other girl’s apparent mood, but then again, it didn’t last too long, and Alison certainly let Kodi’s guard down. So perhaps she wouldn’t have noticed after all. Though, when Alison spoke next Kodi perked up to listen. That last tid bit of information couldn’t be ignored.

”It totally could. It’s just a matter of what that committee is for. It could be something silly like a logo contest, or an entertainment committee to decide what they do in that attic each week. I mean, I have heard plenty of rumour that they play board games….So I really should get too hyped up about it. The big picture is still more important than the components but give it some time and maybe we can work out both.”