Next installment of Kam's Valentine... hope you enjoy!!.
Upon Partnership Comes Jealousy IV: An Unexpected Save
"Okay," Sunny started. "Everybody here?"
"Yes Sunny" the class responded.
Today was activity number two for the Music class. It was a bright, sunny, warm Wednesday morning and the class was out of school for it was an outdoor activity. Actually, they were in a forest near the mountains. Everybody had their partners in hand and almost everybody has their minds set on the activity... except for Kam. His was at the clouds, ever wondering freely and thinking about good times with Sketch and how his envy towards him was growing ever.
"Kam!" a harsh whisper was released in his ear that lead into cutting off the train of thoughts.
"Huh?" Kam said as he looked at his partner, Tamika.
"You got what Sunny said?"
"Uuh... yeah... find instruments... survive with partner..."
Tamika frowned. "Good," she said as she crossed her arms. "We better need 'yo smart brain to keep workin' 'cause I wanna bag me an activity!!"
"And a good grade..." Kam reminded as his face started to unnoticeably scrunch into a frown.
"Whatever..." Tamika whispered back.
"Okay, now," Sunny said, as he took out a red flaglet. "On 'yo marks... get set... GO!" he shouted as he swished the flaglet. The class was now starting to zip off to the mountains, trying to find their instruments as partners.
"Where are we going?!" Kam asked at his partner.
"Findin' our instruments, what does it look like to you?!" Tamika retorted back as she kept dragging a powerless Kam.
Meanwhile, at Lil'D's side, they were doing good though not finding any instrument yet.
"Are you sure these mountains are safe, Lil'D?" Sketch asked as she trailed behind a very sure and proud Lil'D.
"Heck yeah... I've been here before..." Lil'D said placing one foot over the other as they followed a path in the mountains. After some moments of silence between the two, Lil'D stopped and looked around for a while. Their views were nothing but trees and bushes and a dusty path. "Splitting up would be a great idea. You take this road and I'll go that way..." he announced as he slowly disappeared into the bushes.
Sketch just shrugged and continued down the road. But soon enough she found herself in big trouble:
Her searching eyes met a rocky side of the mountain with the road curving to her left. She remained calm but a stone was out of her sight and she accidentally tripped on it. Her body thumped hard on the ground causing some small and medium but heavy rocks to fall which one of them landed on her right ankle.
"AH!!" she screamed in pain. She tried to reach her ankle but was in deep pain to do it. And as you know very well, the falling of some rocks might lead into a rock slide... and which to tell you, it did turn into a rock slide.
Rumbling started to occur as Sketch looked straight forward. Large boulders started to roll down the mountain. Her mind went crazy as one was rolling towards her. She wanted to scream, but was in deep shock to do so. She wanted to reach the stone that pinned her ankle to the ground and take it off as quickly as possible but with the same reasons to not to do so.
Going back to Kam and Tamika's side, they were looking for their instruments in the bushes, which was Kam's idea.
As Kam was scurrying through the bushes, she heard a female voice...
"AH!!"
...and it was familiar. Too familiar.
Kam stopped and searched for the voice. Just then, he heard rumbling. "Tamika..." Kam called out. "...did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Tamika asked from the bushes. "I ain't hearin' anything!!"
Kam looked at his partner who was still looking in the bushes. Kam shrugged the thought of his partner as he ran towards a direction that he didn't even bother to analyze.
"Yo Kam!!" Tamika said, popping out of the bushes, with a guitar in hand. "I found mine!! KAM!!"
Kam didn't bother the sound of his partner. He just ran until he found a path at the end of some bushes. And then and there, he thought his eyes decieved him for a moment but no deception was there for it was true. There on the path, a stupefied young brunette with a stone on her ankle was lying there, looking at somewhere. He traced the path of the girl's vision and found rolling boulders, heading towards her.
Taking no time to think, Kam sprung into action. "Sketch!!" Kam shouted as he ran towards the girl.
Sketch looked at where the voice came from and found Kam, an unexpected person, next to her. Kam struggled to pull off the huge rock on her right foot and successfully managed to do so.
The boulder was nearing them. Kam looked at the boulder then at the girl. He pushed Sketch to the other direction as he jumped into the same direction.
Dust filled the air as the boulders passed by. It didn't take long for them to pass by and for the dust to clear.
After some moments, the dust was long gone. Kam and Sketch still had their eyes closed. Slowly, both started to open their eyes. Their eyesights were still a little blurry and it made it hard to decipher on what was going on. Soon, both had found themselves into one big issue:
They were lying sideways, Kam holding Sketch close to him... their lips... attached to one's.
Kam and Sketch both looked at what they were doing and broke the kiss apart. They backed away from each other and panted.
Did that just happen or was it a dream? was on each other's minds.
"I..." Kam started. "...didn't mean to!!"
Sketch was wide eyed. "You didn't... I know..." she started which made Kam a little better.
Silence was once again filling the air. Tension began building up. So did blushes...
"Kam..." Sketch began, still having no eye contact. "...I... oh! I'm such a clumsy person..."
Kam was confused at what she said. He looked at her direction but she wasn't still looking at him.
"...if I never would have been clumsy..." she continued. "... you wouldn't be in this mess..."
"Oh..." Kam began, crossing his arms at his chest. "No 'thank you' 's?!"
She was startled. Yes, she did forget a thank you. But she found no way to say it so or how to do it... still, she found herself lifting a hand towards the boys face, successfully caressing his skin, holding his face and bringing it forth to her. Kam closed his eyes, got ready of what was going to happen. Sketch closed hers too as she started to inch towards his face too.
They were ready for the moment of their lives. Their lips were closing in...
...a little more...
...they were nearing there...
...closer...
...closer...
"Yo Sketch!!" a voice from no where filled the air.
...darn!! It was nearing there...
"Huh?" Sketch opened her eyes and brought her hand back to her and blushed.
Lil'D was back and had a recorder in hand. He came towards the sitting girl, while twirling the recorder in his hand like a baton. "Found it," he said.
She half-smiled. "Good," She tried to get up but found herself in great pain and that, kept her on the ground. "Ah...!"
"Sketch!" Lil'D said, sitting beside the injured girl. "You alright?"
Yes, Kam was there too, watching at how the boy he hated was tending to the girl of her dreams.
"Guess so..." she said she started to rub her ankle. "I just... tripped... and maybe sprained an ankle..." She tried her best to look okay.
"Good thing I brought this cast which I thought would be no use..." Lil'D said as he dropped his bag and scurried in. He found a roll of it and started to take off her right shoe.
Watching him doing that was making Kam sick.
As Lil'D was successful in taking it off, he started to cover her ankle in a cast. After doing so, he kept her shoe in his bag for safekeeping.
"I'll uh..." Kam muttered as he got up and brushed himself. "...go now... bye Sketch! Hope you get well!" he started to run away and return to his partner.
"Thanks Kam," Sketch smiled but soon faded away as his sillhouette faded away from her sight. Lil'D seemed to not mind it at all...
Inside Kam, anger, jealousy and hatred started to grow. He never thought that even though Kam reached far, Lil'D would go farther...
Ooh... sad ending of the chapter... sorry about not updating for so long, I've just returned from the province... so here's the second installment...
It's 2 AM here... and I have to go to sleep so sorry if that was a bit rushed. So bye!! . R&R
