After that I decided to head over to Reinella's house because after all I had to see Cherry since Reinella said she needed to see me. Also I wanted to find out how I got Reinella ticked off I mean I have the right to know at least the reason why. I hadn't lied to her it was true I need to do something important.
10 minutes later
I ranged the door bell and waited I practically ran over here. Don't know why, but I guess I wanted to get this over with I don't know. The door swung open, a lady with long purple hair, tied into a long braid, wearing scrubs had run out of the house, "Oh, Reinella, there you are, I thought you were inside! No time to talk! Super late for work! Love you! And for goodness sakes child, warn me when you decide to dye your hair!" with that she had sped off in her black SUV.
Apparently that was Reinella's aunt. The fast talking must run in the family. Reinella's voice called out, "Auntie, you could have shut the door!" she appeared looking worn out, "Oh, hey Becky, c'mon in!" she didn't have to ask, she just dragged me in. She slammed the door shut.
She dragged me into the kitchen, "Hey guys, guess who's here!" It was just Armin and Nina, "You don't have to yell. I can practically hear you from upstairs in the English classroom to downstairs in the Principal's office." Nina said, rolling her eyes.
"Oh, so I need to tone it down?" Nina nodded, "Yes, either that or get checked out for ADHD." Reinella pouted, "You're no fun!" Nina stuck out her tongue.
"No, Nathaniel is the opposite of fun." Armin joked, Nina snickered, Reinella just rolled her eyes, "Eh, he's not so bad once you get him away from the paperwork." Reinella said.
Armin looked at me, "So, you invite somebody over, yet you forget that they're here? I'm going to smack some sense into you!" Reinella screamed, "No! I'm sorry!" Armin chuckled, before pulling her into his lap, "Aww, don't worry princess. I'd never hurt you."
Reinella pushed his hands off her waist, "I totally forgot about you Becks! You need to speak up! Use that loud voice sometimes! You're here to see Cherry right?" Reinella asked, trying to squirm out of Armin's grasp, "Let go off me!" Armin continued to hold onto her, "No, otherwise you'd run away!" Nina face-palmed, "You go upstairs, and head to the room at the end of the other end of the hall. It has her name is cursive painted on it. You two love birds need to go get a room!"
I guess I'll apologize later. I hid my laughter behind my hand, but at the same time I felt disgusted don't ask why. She was busy talking not my fault I didn't want to interrupt her. I walked up the stairs and I found Cherry's room I knocked before coming in since the last time I barge in to a room Apple was in it.
"You can come in. The door's unlocked." Cherry's voice sounded allot softer. Was soft even possible with these people? Who knows? I walked in and closed the door behind me and said, "Hi Cherry," Cherry was sitting up in her bed, playing with her stuffed rabbits ears. She looked awful. Her face was flushed, almost the same color as her hair. Her once sparkly blue eyes were dull and tired looking.
"Oh, hi Becky." she never seemed to move her eyes off of the rabbit. "Reinella told me you wanted to see me… are you ok Cherry?" I asked concerned.
Cherry's eyes looked up, "Yeah, I'm fine." she pointed to her watermelon bean bag chair, "Lets' talk." she started playing with her rabbit again, "You're familiar with empathy, right?" I went over and sat down and answered "Yeah I've heard of it"
Cherry lay down and turned to face me, "Promise you won't get weirded out?" I smiled at her responding, "How could I, but if it makes you feel better I promise."
Cherry's eyes went towards the ceiling, "Since I was little I could sense what my sisters felt, what they thought, and other things. Reinella once burned herself and when she said, "Ouch." I felt the burn as though I had also touched the stove. She thought I was mocking her. I had no way to tell her that she was wrong, but we were stubborn kids at the time." she said, "When she came home with this excited look on her face, I felt her happiness. But I felt a stronger feeling and decided to go check it out."
"When I saw you, the feelings mixed between many different things. I felt this pain of losing a father and of a mother who's never around. You've been faced with many difficulties and they pain you." she frowned, "You kept this all hidden from big sissy. She knows the pain of losing a parent. You should talk to her; she wants to tell you so many things. She doesn't want to keep secrets from you."
A knock on the door sign land the end of the conversation, "Cherry, It's me!" Reinella opened the door and walked in, "Hey, Becks. If you'll excuse me for moment, I've got to give her this fever reducer." she said, handing Cherry the medicine cup, "Uh, do I have too?" she asked.
Reinella sighed, "Do you want to get better or not?" she said, rolling her eyes. Cherry handed it back to her, "Don't veer make me take that again...ugh, it's cherry flavored." Reinella chuckled, "Of course it is. Now, get some sleep."
"C'mon Becky, I want to show you some place you've never been before." she said, grabbing my arm.
Reinella had unlocked the attic door and ran up the stairs, "C'mon, the views great~" "Okay, I'm right behind you," I answered. All the things Cherry said had settled in she knows what I feel, but she doesn't exactly understand what they mean to me.
And if it was true that Reinella had lost a parent, but the way she lost her parent wasn't the same as mine. "So...where do I begin? Here's something you'd want to look at first." she threw a huge photo album at me.
Inside were pictures of what appeared to be Reinella's mom. She looked just like her. The ocean blue eyes, the straight long blonde hair.
"That's my mom. Her name was Daisy. She was...crazy." she said, flipping the pages. Reinella's mom was holding what appeared to be her brother, "That's Garry. He got to spend more time with mom than I did."
Reinella seemed to have trouble talking about it, "I heard from Cherry you lost your dad...I'm sorry." she said, her voice going soft, I began to cough as if I were choking on something , she continued "After losing my mom, it was difficult for me to open up to other people. I just didn't want to. The other kids had parents that loved and cared for them. I was jealous of them getting to go home with their parents after school. I usually just walked home with Garry, because he was the only person who knew what I was going through."
She smiled, "I have a nice family. I wouldn't want to trade them off for the world. When Cherry was born, she was premature and the doctors said that she wasn't going to be a healthy child. She would be slower in development than most children. That's why she's so small. It's hard for her to understand why she has empathy, but Apple and Margie don't. Daddy said it was just something she was born with. I, on the other hand, suffer from personality disorders. I don't take my medicine. Too many side effects and it makes me boring." she said, turning the page.
The next page had many pictures of Garry and Reinella as kids. They were total opposites. Garry has brown hair, as murky as mud, and big light ocean blue eyes. Reinella has blonde hair, and a darker shade of eyes.
"Garry is my only biological sibling. We have our brother sister moments. I'm so glad he's moving out. I can have my room all to myself again." she said with a laugh. "Oh, I'm dropping out of student council. Not because of Nat, that would be childish. It's because of Cherry. Today, she had a fever of a hundred and two. I know where the medicine is located, what to give her and how to help her. I can get Armin to watch her tomorrow, because we got the race happening."
"Oh yeah tomorrow is the race …" I began to sigh I didn't know what to say to think this all happened. "Umm Reinella … how old were you when you lost your mom? I mean you said she died from cancer." My voice cracked a little so I cleared my throat a bit. Hoping she hadn't noticed.
Reinella gave me a weak smile, "I was a day old when my mom died." "Oh I wish I could tell you something but I don't think it would make it better would it. I am sorry though." I said
She smiled, "Its fine. My dad may seem antisocial, but that's because he worries about me. I'm growing up and I have a boyfriend. So, he worries about me allot." "Yeah I suppose it's normal for a father to worry about their daughter though," I said smiling.
She smiled too, "So, you're going to be on my team, right? It's just me and Alexy. I wanted to race with Armin or Rosa, but Rosa is too girly and Armin hates sunlight." She rolled her eyes.
"Oh, you saw my garden, right? Did you like it? I grew them all myself." she said. "Seriously," I said surprised. She grinned, "Yes m'am! I love to garden." She said, "Oh, I need your number. You know, so we can text and hang out sometimes." Reinella said, taking her phone out.
I did the same and took out the phone my dad gave me when I was 9 which aren't even out till 3 years from now. When I was 9 it was 10 years from then just for you to know it looked like any purple touch screen phone though. The only difference it could give holographic maps and scan for finger prints. Yeah my dad used to give me the newest spy gear.
A few minutes later we had finished exchanging number and along the way she gave me Lily's too. I smiled at her, "Hey I'm sorry if I did something that got you upset earlier today," Reinella had a look of confusion on her face, "Um...I honestly don't know what you're talking about." she said, very confused, "But, I guess whatever you did I can forgive you for." she said, smiling, "So...do you play sports? I play: volleyball, baseball, softball, soccer, tennis, and I run track!" she said.
"You also said that you like music. So, c'mon, I'll show you someplace else you've never been before." she grabbed my wrist and darted out of the attic. Once downstairs, on the first floor, she opened up a door. One that anybody would think was a hall closet.
Reinella had already gone down. "Becky, come on!" downstairs looked like a basement, but instead of anything you'd normally see, it was filled with musical instruments. "This is where I keep all my instruments. It's pretty spacious, so I can also sleep on that big couch over there when the weathers too hot." she said, "Oh, by the way. Do you want to help me paint my bedroom after I get it to myself? I'm thinking of painting it purple and black."
"Sure," I said as looked around the room with awe. Soon a classical guitar catches my eye I walk towards it and I crouched near it and my index finger strums the strings and a beautiful sound rings through the room. I heard footsteps behind me so I get up quickly and said, "There are so many instruments."
I can play every instrument. I used to own a classical guitar that my dad gave me for 3rd to 4th birthday, but my mom either destroyed it or sold it or even threw it away after dad died. I didn't bother to buy another one… I understood why she did it though .
Reinella smiled, "I see you like my old acoustic. If you want it, then you can have it. My main instrument is piano anyways. I worked for months to get enough money for it." She smiled, "I can play any piece by hearing it once and can play it flawlessly." she said, sitting down at the keyboard, and started to play something from Mozart, "First thing I learned to play.
Time past and she continued to play, while I sat down on the couch and listen to her. For once since I moved to this town I didn't feel a thing… no… I felt free. Free from problems and worries sports and music did that to me, but somehow I had lost contact with them because I didn't have instruments and competing in a team caused me to remember my father and that is the last thing I want to remember.
Soon I heard someone yell, "Reinella dinner!" but I was so caught up with the music I didn't recognize the voice or what time it was. "COMING! Totally forgot that auntie was going to be home early. C'mon, dinner is hamburgers. Auntie wouldn't mind one bit." She said, grabbing my arm and pulling me through the halls into the kitchen.
The crazy lady from before was sitting at the table with Nina and Apple. "Reinella dear, I thought you had - oh, hello Becky dear. Have a seat." Reinella smiled, "Hey Auntie, what's the big news?" She asked, pulling her chair out and sitting down, "Well, you ready to be a big sister?" Reinella dropped the ketchup bottle she was holding, "Oh my gosh, what is it going to be?" She said, excitedly.
Her auntie smiled, "You'll have a little brother! Two more months. " Reinella grinned, "I knew mama was fatter than usual. I can't wait! His name will be Asher." She said.
Her auntie grinned, "Perfect. Your father will be dropping in shortly, so you can tell him all about it." Reinella's grin widened, "When? And why?" She asked, "Either tomorrow or Saturday. He'll be working at your school for a bit, while the regular school nurse will be in Spain on vacation." Reinella nodded, "I'm glad daddy's visiting. We're going to keep him so busy."
"Congratulations Reinella!" I said with a smile. I was happy for her she's lucky to at least have one sibling while I have none and I don't think I'm ever going to.
She smiled, "Thanks, Becky. Now, I have a uniform for you." she said, exiting the room and coming back handing me the uniform, "Oh, it's already eight thirty!?" she gasped, "So, you want me to walk home with you? I mean, you don't want a run in with Castiel again, do you?" before I could say anything, Reinella had already called out, "I'll be back!" before dragging me out the door, "So, I want to see where you live! Plus, I have nothing else to do. Let's go!"
I was about to object but I didn't see the point because Reinella seemed like one those people that when their feet are in the ground they just dig down deeper if you try to convince them not to.
Few minutes later we were at my apartment the walk there was quiet, and there was tension in the air. I broke the silence by saying, "Well this is where I live." I took out my keys and open the door in a second and stepped inside with Reinella behind me and closed the door behind her. I put my book bag on the counter and my key on top of my book bag. I sat on one of the stools "Make yourself at home."
Reinella's whole attitude changed. Everywhere else she was outgoing. But here, she acted as though she was having tea with royalty.
Reinella sat down on another stool, with her legs crossed, and her hands folded neatly. She was so dainty and elegant that it was hard to picture her being rambunctious, "Wow. It's so small." she said, looking around, her eyes darted anywhere possible, "What was your father like? My dad is..." she stopped, pausing to think, "My dad is the best. He's actually a lot like me. Believe it or not." she chuckled, "He got me into music because we went to classical concerts allot. I've been to opera's, plays, musicales, you name it. He also got me into playing sports." she laughed, accidentally falling off the stool.
"Are you okay?" I asked alarmed. "I'm fine~" she said, sitting up, "Must be lonesome living all by yourself. I am not able to stay by myself. Medical issues interfere with that." she said, standing up, I picked up the stool as I said "I don't exactly live alone I live with my mother." "She works allot? I understand. I'm so used to screaming children and taking care of them that I've become a neat freak. Have you seen Nathaniel's desk? Needs a good cleaning."
I said trying to lighten the mood, "Well I do keep this place clean that's for sure and I guess you can say that my mom works a lot". "Yeah, when your parents bring home a new baby every two years, you really start to get used to all the smells and crying and having to help out. I want to tell you so much about life in a full house, but I don't have enough time to spare. Maybe Saturday you could come over. I'll just text you about it." She said. I responded with a sincere smile "Sure I'd like that."
She checked her phone, "Oh, I'm sorry I can't stay long! My dad just dropped in. I'll text ya later. Oh, meet me and Alexy in the gym tomorrow, that's where everyone will be. Later" she said, darting out the door so fast, that you'd never had known that she was here.
Well the next day, I went to school with a purple basketball jersey my mom gave me when she went to New York as a souvenir, with a white tank top under it and skinny jeans and black high tops and my necklace. I had my brown hair in a ponytail.
I went to the gym and half of the school was there. Coach Boris was giving out gym clothes. He handed me one and told me to change into them. I only went to the girls locker rooms and slipped on the sweat pants and tied the jacket around my waist not wanting it on cause it was a sunny day.
I got out of the locker rooms and began to look for Reinella. I soon saw her at the other side of the gym and was being hugged by Nina. She noticed me and mouthed the words "Sorry I promised Nina that she can be my partner." I gave her sympathetic look and walked towards her.
"Hey Reinella have you seen Lily around?" I asked making it look like she hadn't offered me to be in her team. She thought for a moment, "Yeah, she's partner's with Lys." She dragged me by my arm and pulled me into a corner, "I'm really sorry...I would let you partner up with Fran, but you know she...really can't do much in her condition. I wonder who's left..." she said, and scanned the room. Fran is Franny her best friend from New York she got here yesterday.
"Aha! Do you want to partner up with Alexy? I...heard from Franny that you didn't like the nicknames...so I told him that we should stop. I'm sorry that they bothered you so much. I'll try not to do it so much."
"Alexy won't do it anymore, I can promise you that. He's my absolute best friend and he'll listen to me. Can you try to get along with him? I swear that he's all lot of fun to be around. It beats having Castiel as your partner, right? If something like this comes up again, I'll be your partner."
She stopped for a moment, "Oh, me and Fran have got a big surprise for you. It was her idea, I just followed. You're really going to be surprised! Wait by the staircase and the surprise will be ready!" She said, getting ready to run into the crowd, possibly to socialize. But before she could I said "I thought you and Alexy and Nina were going to be team at least 2 days ago that"
She stopped, "I...did?" she called Alexy over, "What's up, Reiney?" she looked at both you and him, before saying things in French, "Uh...you need to stop. That's not really going to help..." she grabbed his arm, pulling him away, "Yeah, I remember now. But for now, Alexy and me have some things to discuss...privately."
"If you know what I mean. Lily should be with Lysander somewhere around here." she seemed more and more stranger, "Tomorrow you'll get to meet Franny in person! I know you two will get along!" she dragged Alexy over to where Nina was and they started a full conversation in French. Something was not right about her; she was hiding something that only the two of them knew about.
I could've eavesdropped on the conversation being able to understand French and speak it and maybe 7 other languages, but I'm not like most people who buts in other people's life if she wants me to know she'll tell me herself . She finished up whatever they were talking about, before bounding over, "Oh crud, I forgot...your surprise will have to wait until Monday. I hope you can wait." she said, winking, "Now let's go find those two lovebirds"
"Umm I think I found her." I said looking behind her but Lily wasn't with Lysander, but he was probably somewhere around here. "Oh, OK. Well..." she looked behind me and her face paled over as if she had witnessed a crime, "Uh...I-I got to go back to my team. I- I see you in a bit." she looked like she was really scared.
She went back to Alexy and hid behind him. The only thing that was there was a tall blonde haired boy with brown highlights and green eyes. He seemed perfectly normal.
Alexy was trying to coax Reinella out from behind him, "C'mon, you can't stay behind me forever! Armin would get jealous." he managed to drag her out, only for her to cling to his side. Nina patted her back, "He's gone." she wouldn't leave Alexy's side until she was for sure whatever it was that scared her was gone.
I guess it'll make sense sooner or later right. I was going to walk up to Lily and ask her if I could be in her team when someone tapped my shoulder I turned around to see short, wavy silver hair with black ends, a yellow right eye and a green left eye he usually wears Victorian-style clothing, but now he was wear a black long sleeved shirt and the gym pants and the jacket around his waist just like me.
"Hey Lysander," I said to him I met him in science class the other day. "Hi Becky it's nice to see you are you also joining the race?" he asked. The thing about Lysander is that he's a total gentleman and yet yesterday I found out that his best friend is … Castiel I wonder how's that possible but then again opposites attract right.
"Yeah Reinella and Lily told me about it and I wouldn't miss it for the world," I said. He smiled "Well then will you do me the honors of being my partner," I was shocked a bit. So I guess Lily hadn't asked him to be her partner. "Umm sure but can Lily join our team too," I answered his smile grew larger when I mentioned her name.
"I'd be delighted," he responded I smiled too and replied immediately, "Great! You can sign us up and I'll tell Lily." "Sounds like a plan." he said and went to coach Boris to sign us up I went towards Lily who seemed to be arguing with herself.
"Hey Lily," I said with a smile "Hello Becky" snaps out of it and smiles. "I was wondering do you want to be in my team for the race?" I asked. "Oh-Of course" she smiles. "Great!" I said soon Lysander came up to us and spoke " I signed us up, and coach Boris said we can get on the bus now so shall we," I looked at Lily and shrugged "I guess so."
He walked off a few feet away from us and Lily whispered, "H-HE'S on our team?!" "Yeah, are you ok about it? I mean Lysander being in the team I mean he asked me. I thought maybe you wouldn't mind if he was," I asked concerned.
"Of course it's fine, I'm just- a bit surprised" she began to blush. I gave her a comforting smile and said quietly for Lysander to not hear me "Don't worry. I think he likes you too just talk to him a bit."
"Really? Alright then," Her blush deepens. I pat her shoulder and smile we went on the bus I sat next to Lily and Reinella. Reinella sang the whole way over to the location I lost her when we got out though.
Lily, Lysander and me walked to a nearby tree and waited for further instructions. I leaned against the tree arms crossed and looking around Lily on the other hand just stood there I knew she wanted to talk to Lysander, but didn't seem to exactly know how to start a conversation.
At that point I decided to start things off, "So what do you guys like to do?" I asked care free in my tone. Lysander shrugged not seeming to care but thoughtfully thought out his answer before saying, "Well I love to listen to music and write down my thoughts or random lyrics on my note book." I nodded.
"So you write songs…" I answered intentionally putting curiosity in my voice. "Yeah pretty much, I write down songs for Castiel and me since we're in a band together," he said. "That's cool," I said smiling he smiled back. I looked at Lily and nodded toward Lysander trying to say "Speak with him…"
I quickly said, "Right Lily…" she responded, "Y-yes that sounds really interesting" I gave her sympathetic smile she was she about it. I looked away from Lysander and my eyes roamed into the forest as I said "I have to say I'm envious of you Lysander," I felt him staring at me confused. "I mean you're able to write music I wish I could do that."
"It's very simple really it's like writing a poem, not many people look at it that way so it is often difficult for most people." "I love writing poetry" a sunny smile formed on her face, causing me to smile as well and I wasn't the only one Lysander soon had a smile on his face, "You do?" they soon began a whole conversation.
The teacher announced that we had to move we began to walk through the forest to where the race was going to begin. It took us an hour to get there and through the whole way Lily and Lysander spoke about a whole lot of things. I was glad Lily had finally found the courage to speak to her crush.
When we got to this place that looked like a forest ranger house it was lunch time Lysander and Lily sat next to each other under a tree speaking to each other. I had excused myself of course before leaving the two love birds all by themselves I told them that I needed to walk around because I would soon get bored.
I began to walk around I wasn't hungry so I didn't eat. I put my hands behind my head as I looked at the sky it was nice walking around and being able to be in a peaceful place. "Ugh, I hate this stupid race! We're so going to win again." So much for peaceful I turned towards the sound and saw Amber speaking with Charlotte and Li.
Charlotte nodded in agreement while Li asked "How will we do that?" Amber rolled her eyes, "By sabotaging the race! We'll do anything we can to make the other teams lose." they all laughed like a villain who had just defeated the hero.
I noticed I wasn't the only one who was listening Reinella was there she began to back up and ran straight into me. She slapped a hand over her probably trying not to scream. "Oh hey, Reinella," I said to make her realize it was just me.
"Oh, thank God it's you!" she said placing her hand over her chest as if I had almost given her a heart attack. "Sorry if I scared you, Reinella" I apologized I looked over her shoulder to see Amber and acted as if I hadn't listened on their conversation. "Did you listen to what they said?" I asked.
She nodded, "Amber is planning on cheating again. If you don't believe me, come closer and hear for yourself." "I'll take your word for it. Wow, she really is the wicked witch of the west all right." I answered.
"I tried to be nice to her, but she was too stuck up for her own good. Let's drop a house on her, or maybe throw some water on her face and see if she melts. I wanted to do throw water on her so badly, but Nat was all "Give her a chance." uh, no. I was so tempted, even after we broke up, to do it, but I could still hear him say that I should give her a chance." She said
I smiled and nodded for my approval I actually wouldn't mind if we did that to her she seems like she deserves it. After all she accused me of taking her "guy" and she yelled at Reinella telling her she was the cause of Nathaniel broken heart.
I'd feel bad to have a sister like that, she's pure evil. We walked towards our teams to warn them of Amber's scheme. Reinella began once we were in front of them "Well, Amber is planning on cheating again." Lysander rolled his eyes as he responded, "So, you're saying that we should stop her?"
Reinella shook her head, "No, we beat her at her own game. It takes one person from each team to win. So, two of us will distract Amber's group, while the other runs to the finish line. Agreed?"
Everyone agreed, it wasn't a bad idea as long as one of our teams win instead of Amber would be enough to get her mad that's for sure. We took our separate ways know the rules had said that two teams couldn't take the same path.
We walked most of the way 5 minutes later we made it to our first challenge. The challenge was that one of us had to climb to the peak of the tree get a flag and then throw it to the teammate on the ground. Then move to the next tree to get the others, five trees, and five flags. The challenge of it is that we can't touch the ground again once in the tree. The team to complete the challenge would be told to the path to go.
We only had 5 minute to decide who should be the one to catch the flags and who should be the one to climb to get to them. I looked at Lily and Lysander "Do any of you want to be the climber since that's the most important part? If neither one of you wants to do it I will, but if everyone agrees," I said.
"I-I'll do it if you don't want to," she said nervously. I looked at her concerned "Are you sure? I mean I wouldn't mind doing it, but like I said we have to all agree," I said. Lysander nodded, "Yeah Becky has a point and we really don't have time to argue after all we still have to decide who's the one to catch the flags, while the other is climbing. It has to be some who is quick too," he said.
"He's right," I said "I can do it and you can catch the flags your probably better at catching then I am" she said regaining confidence. I smiled at her and put my hand on her shoulder as I said, "I know you can I have faith in you." "I do too" Lysander said putting his hand on her other shoulder. "Okay so it's official I'll catch the flags while Lily grabs them and tosses them to me. Then when Lily and I get to the finish line Lysander will ring the bell. Okay,"
We all shook are heads in agreement. Ding! Ding! And just in time too, time is up we all got in positions. Lily was getting ready to climb; I was next to her wearing the belt that was to hold the flags that she would drop to me. Lysander was in the other side waiting for me to high five him to ring the bell. I whispered to Lily remembering that Amber and her team were going to sabotage the obstacle courses in the race.
"Be careful Lily, we don't know if Amber already fixed this challenge," she nodded before saying, "I'll be fine." Coach blew the whistle and another teacher yelled "GO!" Lily began to climb and so did the other teams.
"You can do it Lily!" I yelled, everyone else did the same. Yelling after their partners shouting supportive comments, soon Lily got the flag first before the others and threw it to me I caught it and quickly tied it to the belt. "We're doing great 1 flag 4 more to go!" I yelled after her. Jogging towards the next tree as Lily carefully climbed to the next tree. She got the next flag and threw it to me I tied it just as quickly as the first on to the belt, "That's it we're almost there!"
We did it for the next flag and we were going for our 4th flag , [so far so good so far it seems that Amber and her posse hadn't seem to touch this obstacle course] then I heard a yell. I couldn't believe what I was seeing "LILY!" my eyes wide at the sight Lily had reached for a branch and it broke. She was able to grab another branch but how long could she hold on.
I guess I spoke to soon "HOLD ON LILY!" I was so close to climbing myself but then I remembered the rules I wasn't allowed to climb unless the climber were to call a time out and switch places with a member but that wasn't the case Lily is in danger.
If only she could call time out or if I could catch her but then we would lose since the climber wasn't allowed to touch the ground. "Lily…" I whispered thinking rapidly wondering what to do.
"Oh cheese" the branch she's holding onto starts to crack and she squeals before calming down. She looks around herself before swinging up and grabbing a thicker branch then crawls towards the trunk. Lily pause for a second holding the tree shaking. Before she looks down "I-I'm okay, I'll go get the next flag." Then she climbs quickly to the next flag a bit shakily.
I sigh of relief that she's ok not really sure if she should be climbing though but I trusted her instincts. If she believed that she could continue I did too.
She got the next flag and threw it down tome one more flag to go. I clipped it to the belt we were still ahead but by a foot. I began to jog to the next tree and another branch broke but it didn't cause much damage. She continued to climb and got the last flag and threw it to me.
I caught it and began to run towards Lysander I gave him a high five and he rang the bell. The coach came over and counted the flags. "LYSANDERS TEAM WILL BE GOING TO THE NEXT CHALLENGE!" he announced. I smiled Lily caught up to us with a huge smile on her face I gave her a hug for 2 reasons first we won, second she was safe I let go pretty quickly though.
Lysander came up to Lily and pulls her into a hug "You scared me half to death. I really thought the worst don't you ever do that again…" he said furiously but still holding on to her. She began blushing bright red like a tomato "I-I'm sorry" she stuttered. They held on like that for a few second and the Lysander broke the hug he looked at me and saw that I was staring in the other direction (I faced the other direction when he hugged her. I saw all of it through the corner of my though).
I turned to him and he began to blush lightly not as much as Lily though. He cleared his throat almost making it awkward to be near each other, "Well the important thing is she safe… so where's the next challenge going to be at." I asked making it seem like what just happened was normal Lysander led the way which is awfully weird to me because Lily and Reinella had mention he had no sense of direction.
Lily and I stayed a little behind him, "So…" I said trying to make conversation she was still pink and I was trying my best to figure out a way to calm her down. "Um," she said nervously "Uh … (laughing a bit) umm well how's things? Are you ok? I mean you could've fallen and hurt yourself." I responded.
"I'm Fine I was really scared at first but I'm okay," she said getting back to normal a bit. "Well Lysander is right about one thing I was scared to death wondering if you were going to be ok." She answered, "I know, for a second I thought I was going to pass out"
"To tell you the truth I was about to break the rules and try my best to save you myself," I said half smiling. "I'm glad you didn't otherwise we would have lost" I stopped smiling and had a bored look probably because we were still walking and not at the next challenge yet I responded calmly "Yeah I know that's why I didn't, but I would've done it anyway not caring for the rules. After all it's just a game and you're more important than a dumb game. (I began to smile and motioned over to Lysander) and I think I know someone who would agree with me."
"Y-yes I suppose" she blushes and glances at Lysander I elbowed her lightly and laughed teasingly and began to whisper, "Hey I told you he liked you, and what just happened a few minutes ago just proves it. Which means you have nothing to be afraid of and all you have to do is talk to him, I know it's easier said than done, but you going to have to try."
I told her trying to sound supportive "I-I don't know Becky... I'm not really one for crushes and dating and all that" she shrugs. "Well just think about it before you make a decision ok" I said because Lysander was looking at us right now "Well we're here," he said which for the first time he was right.
"Okay I will," she said I smiled at her then a coach from some school which was definitely not ours came up to us, "Hello, you guys are so far are the first to pass to this challenge. So let's get started in this one you all get to do something not just 2 of you," I smiled at Lily thinking of what just happened earlier and how Lysander only had to do was ring a bell once I had high fived him.
The coach continued, "In this challenge one of you has to swim across the lake, and on the other side one of your team mates will be there for you to tag them for them to continue the race then that person will jump through hurdles of all kinds of sizes. And there will also be someone there once they're done for them to tag and well finish the race with a rock climb, but be warned there are 3 walls you have to climb and ring the bell once you're on the ground. Oh and here are you opponents."
A group of guys were coming, they were from a different school the coach went to them to explain the rules to them, and left us to decide who did what. I looked at them both Lily finally wasn't blushing from Lysander's random hug. "So we're back to square one where we have to decide who does what," I said kind of annoyed that we had to make decisions.
"This will be- interesting to say the least," she said "Yeah that's for sure," Lysander and I said in unison but I had rolled my eyes. "So who wants to do what?" Lysander asked us looking at us. Lily and I looked at each other "Well- who's best at what?" she asked.
"I'm pretty good at all of them, but this time I'll do the climbing I think I can handle whatever Amber has for us in the course and I don't want anything to happen to either one of you," I said sternly to them. "And anyway Amber couldn't sabotage the lake, so it only leaves the hurdles and the rock climbing walls," I added.
"I'll do the swimming then- I love water" she smiles. I smiled at her cause I did too love the water and also I knew this time she would be safe from getting hurt. "Then I'll do the hurdles," Lysander said we nodded in agreement to the arrangements.
The coach came up to us "Whoever is doing the swimming will go over there to get their bathing suits and change in the bathrooms over there." "Alright I'll be back in a moment."
Lily went and did what she was told when she changed she was wearing a one piece light blue bathing suit. I noticed Lysander blushing at the look of her, "Alright let's do this" She began to smile as she said it.
He soon began to glare behind her, I looked for myself and I saw the other team (remember I said earlier the team was all boys) staring at Lily smiling and one was about to whistle, but when they noticed Lysander glaring at them they were too scared to try anything.
"Okay," I said in excitement to distract Lysander before he did something he would regret. We left Lily in front of the lake I had to haul Lysander by the arm to leave Lily with the guy who was going to whistle at her. Though I couldn't stop him from giving the guy a deadly stare, I mean if looks could kill Lysander would've been arrested for homicide.
I left him at his station and gave him a concerned yet "if you do something idiotic like choke the guy next to Lily you are going to regret it" look. He simply rolled his a eyes a bit and said "I won't do anything I shouldn't."
I raised my eyebrow to get my point straight; I went to my position and waited for the race to start. I heard the whistle and Lily dove in 2 minutes later she made it to other side the guy that was next to her made it probably a second later Lysander and a red head unlike Castiel's it was natural. And they went through the hurdles of stacks of hay to huge boulder, but I saw the red head say something to Lysander causing Lysander to lose focus and trip on the hurdle falling into the mud.
"LYSANDER!" yelled Lily and me in unison, but obviously Lily yelled for a totally different reason. The guy was ahead of him now; Lysander tripped trying to get up. The guy tagged the guy next to me who winked at me as he began to climb the wall. [Come on Lysander you can do it] He finally got up and jumped the last hurdle and tagged me.
I then hit it to high gear I began to climb the guy was climbing down the wall already by the time I made it next to him he looked astonished and then I giggled a bit and winked at him to mock him. I then was on the ground and I ran to the next wall I began to climb quickly I was half way there when the guy began to climb. "Go Becky!" I heard Lily yell.
I was reaching forward to one of the rock with my right hand when all of a sudden the rock that was holding my foot came loose. "BECKY!" I heard Lily yell, I managed to grab hold of the rock I reaching for, but now I was hanging from it and nothing else.
With that one hand I managed to pull my body up ward and reached with my left hand for the nearest rock. I then did the same strategy with my Left hand and with my right reaching for the nearest rock.
I did that until I could put both my feet on top of a rock. I sighed of relief as I continued to climb. I had wasted precious time because the guy had caught up with me I looked down at him and began to climb faster and so did he. Then the so called "accidents" didn't stop there the guy next to me well let just what happened to me repeated itself.
The only difference he didn't have the reflex I had to grab any rock around him. My eyes went wide "Ahh-…. Huh," I had managed to grab him by the wrist I looked at him in the eye seeing a puzzled look in his eyes, I then looked away and looked for the nearest rock I could find to put his hand on that was safe. I wasn't about to do the work for him, I managed to put his hand on a rock near him and held on and he got his original composure.
I then continued to climb quickly there were few times where I would slip either because the rock was slippery or the fact that some of the rocks once you put pressure, even worse weight they would fall off. Didn't Amber realize that people could get hurt no not could, would get hurt because of her need to win a stupid competition. But I would quickly get back to the race… wish I could say the same about the blond I was competing with.
He seemed traumatized from the fall so much he climbed slower and with more caution. I felt bad for the guy might as well win this by default cause that was technically what was happening. I then went to the next wall same happened there and he kept having caution with each rock he climbed.
I then couldn't climb anymore I dived into the ground doing a handstand/ car wheel and ran to the bell and rang it. "BECKY'S TEAM WILL GO TO THE NEXT CHALLENGE!" announced the coach. "Yes!" I said out of happiness. Lily was coming towards me with Lysander behind her "WE DID IT!" she pulled me and Lysander into group hug.
We all smiled and laughed out of happiness, someone poked on my shoulder. I pulled away from the hug to see who it was; it was … the blonde kid I competed with he said while his hand went through his hair "Thanks for you know … saving me," I looked at him confused as I responded, " Your welcome I guess." I was about to turn away from him and put my attention to the next challenge we were headed to, when he said "Why'd you went and saved me though?"
I turned to him quickly shocked of the question as if that was something you shouldn't ask "Because you could've gotten seriously hurt if I didn't, cause it was the right thing to do. And you would've done the same if you saw someone in trouble." Lily nudged and winked at me, I just rolled my eyes and smiled at her I then turned away and saw that Lysander had the instructions for the next thing we had to do.
It said:
You must go to the finish line now there're plenty of other teams heading to the finish line as we speak. So you are competing against teams you can't see. Be careful there will be plenty of obstacles [including ones that were added by Amber] I wish you the best of luck here is the direction you should be heading.
We looked at the arrow that was at the bottom of the page, and looked where were headed and looked at each other and smiled and nodded before running towards that direction. We were heading in the right direction, until there was a sign saying if we went to the right we would be on the trail, if we went to the left a pond of some kind.
I stopped in between the two paths having a bad feeling about this; Lysander on the other hand was walking to the right to what was supposedly to lead us to the trail with Lily behind him. I grabbed Lysander's shoulder to stop him, Lily and he looked at me confused "Wait a minute Lysander."
"Wait for what, we know we have to take this way," he said motioning towards the path to the right. "I don't know about this" Lily seems to respond sheepishly, "Lily's right," I answered. Lysander crossed his arms "I don't see the big deal of it, it's pretty simple we just walk this way, and we're wasting time" he said impatiently.
I sighed deeply nodding my head back and forth, "I think we better take a rain check before we make any decision… I mean from the beginning Amber was planning on sabotaging this whole race to win, and so far she has. Each Challenge she has sabotaged something. Lily almost got hurt because one of the branches was cut half way I saw it for myself. Me with rock climbing wall or are you going to say it was all coincidence."
"I understand Lily's because some branches are weak but rocks coming of the rock climbing wall. Now that is clearly sabotage, so I don't know about you but if all that was changed did it ever occurred to you that this was too?" I questioned him sternly trying to make him see the light. He looked a little bit embarrassed for have raising his voice at me "I see it now, but what if it hasn't been altered?" he asked.
"Mmmhh (I began to walk towards the sign and I pointed towards the ground) Aha see here it shows that the sign has been moved not too long ago. Since it rained earlier the floor is damp leaving smudges of mud on the post, if it had been days even months or years ago the ground would 've been dry and it wouldn't have left such marks." I said not really sure if they understood, but at that point I really didn't care after all I knew I was right and that was enough for me.
"I think Becky is right" said Lily "So that means that the pond is really this way and the trail to the left," Lysander said with understanding, I nodded. We then ran to the left and I was right it was the trail. I soon heard noises behind us and I looked behind us when I saw it was Amber, Charlotte, and Li. Amber soon saw us running and her face became furious.
"Plan B," Amber said to Charlotte, and Li they nodded in agreement. They ran further into the forest we kept running further. "Have your eyes peeled we have trouble surrounding us," I said while running I was in front of both of them Lily behind me and Lysander next to her.
Then I heard someone yell "I hate you!" I looked to my left and saw Amber come at me and jumped on top of me causing both of us to fall unfortunately there was a hill. So we rolled down the hill I heard Lily yell "Becky!" but was attacked by Li and Lysander was wrestling Charlotte. "Get off me," I yelled she tried scratching my face "You won't be able to stop us. We will win." She announced.
"Yeah as if we're going to let you," I said out of breath we finally stopped rolling but I hit against a rock pretty hard. I groaned out of pain as she put her hands on my shoulders to push me repeatedly into the rock "You and what army?" she said snorting a bit saying it sarcastically. I got annoyed "I'll show you who," I kneed her stomach and flipped her to be on her back right in front of me I got up rubbing my shoulders, I noticed that she landed in mud.
"Eww!" she squealed of disgust I soon saw that Lily and Lysander had switched places. Lily pushed Charlotte into a hole which I think they made. Lysander was trying his best not to hurt Li. Then Lily went to help Lysander "I'm coming!" I yelled about to climb the hill "No go to the finish line before Amber does, we'll be fine, we'll distract them as long as we can " Charlotte somehow got out of the hole and attacked him from the back.
I was about to not listen to him when I saw Nina and Alexy coming to help them. "Go run!" Lysander and Lily said at the same time causing me to run as fast as I could causing Amber who was trying to get up to fall right back down. I ran without looking behind me but I did wonder where in the world was Reinella?
I kept running leaving behind every one hoping they would be ok. I ran until I saw someone who had tripped on a root of the tree. It was … Reinella I soon began to slow down as she began to get up. "Reinella!" I yelled after her as I ran from behind her. She smiled with joy, before throwing my hand back for me to take.
I automatically took it she then yelled, "Are you ready to win this thing!?" I smiled at her and said, "Let's do this." So we ran I tried my best to not run faster than her but enough to not make her haul me. We then made it through the finish line; Reinella fell to her knees out of exhaustion.
I figured she was probably tired and hurt, she looked like she was about to cry right now. I turned and saw Alexy running towards her and hugging her with Nina behind him. Lily and Lysander were behind them talking I managed to hear something I didn't expect, "So when this whole thing would you like to hang out sometime?" asked Lysander to Lily.
I guess I'll speak to them tomorrow, I laughed a bit and I nodded back and forth. Principal Villa then announced Reinella and Lily and my team won first place. Amber got second place. Reinella then came up to me when I was about to head home, "Becky, do you need a lift home?" night had fallen and it was dark and Aunt Tata would probably would get mad at me.
So I responded "Sure. I hope you don't mind." I smiled, her dad then said, "Sure. I hope you don't mind." when they left me Reinella said, "Have a goodnight, dear." I smiled and waved good bye.
I went inside and I sighed deeply as I went to my fridge to get cold lemonade soon my phone started to buzz I answered it "Hello (clear my voice to take out the exhaustion) Hello?" "Yes is this Becky?" the voice sounded familiar "Yeah I'm Becky and may I ask who I'm speaking to seeing that clearly you know who you do," "I'm Nathaniel I called to tell you that you can use the equipment at school if you can prove you can use all the equipment correctly," Nathaniel said.
"Really? Oh thank you when do I start? I mean when can I meet up with them so I can be granted permission? How can I ever repay you" I asked. "On Monday there's no need to repay me, so I guess I'll see you in school tomorrow." "Yes definitely. Uh, but can I ask you something how did you get my phone number?"
Author's Note: How did Nathaniel get her phone number? What happens now after the race? And did Lily say yes to Lysander?
You'll have to read the next chapter to find out
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