Ch. 6 The City of Hamilton and Torture Galore
Tim Horton Stadium
2:25 p.m
We then arrived at the Hamilton Tiger Cat Stadium and it was packed. We all were bunched up together, but it was nice to pass through the city. The city was absolutely huge….I couldn't believe that no one told us about this city earlier.
Hamilton had a ton of amazing buildings and houses being surrounded by Harbors and Piers that held ships and boats. People fishing left and right. Don't even get me started on the Stadium alone!
Hamilton Tigers Stadium, or Tim Hortons Field as Ms. Quistis said to us after getting the tickets and passing them out to us, The stadium could hold over 24,000 to 40,000 bystanders for both Soccer and, in this case, Football fans. She told us that normal football games last from 6 hours to even longer maybe. But this game was 2 hours since it was a Scrimmage game.
So, many people were there and chanting "Hamilton Tigers!" and clapping as we entered the stadium, but she was shocked because it was a Scrimmage game. The police officers there escorted us to our seats on the middle row of the gigantic stadium. Me, Emily, Jane, Joseph, Matthew, and Alex all we in a single row while Ms. Quistis was in the other row. The best part was the game was starting and I saw none of the Heathers in sight….life is really good.
"So, Angela." Emily spoke to me sitting right next to me. "Are you having fun?"
"Absolutely! My brothers would go nuts from seeing this place. It's huge and they LOVE football!"
"Yeah, I'm really glad you would like the field trip. I was a bit worried you wouldn't like it."
"Why wouldn't I? Besides, I have been having fun with you lately."
My phone then buzzed and I thought it was my mom, but it sadly was Jane.
Jane: Awwww, more sappy crap? Yeah, that will really get Emily riled up like you did on the bus :-)
Me: YOU SAW THAT!
Jane: I'm proud of you, kid. You finally got a set and grabbed what you wanted it. Literally. Lol
Me: I'm going to punch you if you don't shut up.
Jane: Come onnnn, I'm your wingwoman here to help you on the runway of love.
Me: Jane, no. I'm not desperate, okay?
Jane: I am going to help you. Don't you want to have Emily to yourself?
Me: Jane, if she likes me, she likes me, if not, then fine.
Jane: Dude, she likes you. She flirted with you in front of a ton of children and she didn't question me being your daughter….any other girl or boy would think that would be weird.
Me: Just get to the point before I ignore you and watch the game with Emily. She is starting to get on to me and I don't want her to think I'm texting another girl.
Jane: Fine, take her to the concessions and get her something nice. You still got that $20 Matthew gave you right? Get her a drink or some popcorn.
"Sorry about that again, my mom was worried about me since I didn't text her this morning." I told Emily. "You want to-"
"You want to-? I'm sorry, go ahead." Emily is really cute.
"You want to get something to eat from concessions with me?"
"Yeah, let's walk together. It's nice to get out of this seat. It's gonna be a long walk." She stood up and then held on to my hand to make sure we didn't fall when walking down the stairs. Then we walked a bit around the stadium on our to concessions stand on the other side of the stadium on the Away seats, although, Emily didn't let go of my hand, I kind of liked it.
"Hey, Emily you haven't let go of my hand."
"Well, I just didn't want you to get hurt." She doesn't want me hurt, huh? I decided to get a firm grip on her hand.
"I guess you can protect me this once, Emily. It would be a shame to let an opportunity like this. On account of how you promised you would protect me." Just then somebody was booing and throwing popcorn near where we were but then we looked at the booing and even threw a candy bar at Emily. Then I turned around near the crowd and saw three dudes who looked like they were in high school yelling and screaming at us.
"You two look absolutely hideous together! How do they even have sex?" One black haired kid with a white tank top said.
"Both of you are abominations to the country of the Maple Leaf Flag and the planet Earth!" One fat kid yelled at us.
"Hey you, you!" The skinny kid in the middle pointed at me. "Just by looking at you freak, I can tell you are a bottom!" He then threw his drink at Emily, but I got in the way and decided and block it, but my outfit was drenched. All three of the kids started to laugh and high five each other, but there were police officers who escorted them out of the Stadium. Some people did clap for who didn't want to see those jerks again and for how I cheered for how I shielded Emily.
"Emily, are you okay?"
"I should be asking you that Angela. That was really sweet of you. I'll pay for you, and get some paper towels."
"No, it's fine. I can pay for it, but I will take your offer on the paper towels on account of how wet I am." NONE OF YOU TAKE THAT OUT OF CONTEXT!
"Come on, Angela. Let's get something to eat. People's hatred is starting to make me hungry."
"Hatred?"
"People truly believe that a Man and a Woman should be wed together, but people are so stuck to that belief people even hold riots, protests, and even kick those who believe otherwise kick them out of their homes…" Emily said with a frown as we continued to walk.
"But why" I said. "Feeling something for another person is completely natural. Having feelings just for anyone is normal. The thought of love for someone is fine, but….its just wrong to criticize someone for caring about a man or woman regardless if you are either or. Like How I have for you."
"Angela…" Emily said while blushing. Shit, I didn't mean to say that.
"I mean How like everyone else is like for everyone else. I mean let's go get something to eat now!" Why did I say that? We then continued to go to the concessions stand on the other side and a couple of minutes later we arrived, but there was barely anyone there. We were both shocked by how small the line was since it was Halftime already. Now, we got in line and I was going to get us some popcorn, a hot dog, and a couple of drinks and get some paper towels.
"One large size of popcorn, Two medium sized drinks of Dr. Cola, and a hot dog for me." I tell the people working at the concession stand.
"Can you get some Paper Towels, too? Someone was rude and threw their drink at us." Emily said.
"Coming right up. Hey, Charles! Can you get this lady some Paper Towels, too!" The woman said to the Charles guy. Although, Charles was a bit confused with how the guy was pointing to the Paper towels near the Drinks in the freezers. "Sorry about that, our friend speaks French so it's a bit hard understanding him. He barely speaks English, but he is a really nice person. We will get the food for you asap in a minute."
Emily then gave a small cough, "Sir Charles, voulez-vous s'il vous plaît apporter des serviettes en papier à ma petite amie?Une secousse lui jeta un soda."
"venir tout droit. Votre petite amie est plutôt chanceuse!" I had no idea what either one said, but it was nice to get some paper towels and dry me off a bit. Then we got our food and started to walk back to our seats near our group.
"Emily, what did you say to him to get my paper towels?"
"Simple, I just told him to get some Paper towels for you in French." I then walked in front of her and stopped her.
"Wait….you actually know French? Nanette could barely understand it."
"Yeah? I just studied it for a few years. If you want, I can teach you."
"You think it would help me have a better chance to be friends with Nanette if I learn French?"
"Angela, I think Nanette would think you are cool just with how you've been acting lately." I was honestly a bit confused by what she said.
"Well, look what we have here." It was Heather Lane with her goons standing right next to her. "If it isn't Manoir and her pet. You should realize that pets can't eat certain foods especially popcorn. We may be worried that she may choke on it."
I then stood in front of Emily to make sure she doesn't get hurt in case the Heathers do something. "Well, Lane, I least I know how to eat properly. Rodents like you shouldn't even be around us to long. You will give us the plague just standing there. Careful, Miller and Brooks, I heard she is contagious."
"If it wasn't for the Female Counselor being there, I'd knock your teeth out."
"Helen, come on. I want to just have fun together like we used to. Just ignore Angela for today. Please?"
"Come on, girls. Besides, it looks like she is all drenched up. What happened, Angela? Did you fall into the Toilet?"
"For your information, Heather, she was trying to protect me from some dudes."
"Why?" Heather Miller asked with one eyebrow raised. "What were they doing?" Even Brooks and Lane were shocked by asking that.
"They threw their drinks, food, and candy bar at us on account of they were calling us names."
"What kind?" Miller said taking a step forward.
"How do they have sex? You both are abominations to this planet! I can tell you are the bottom. Stupid stuff like that." Miller then just walked past us.
"Miller?" Lane yelled. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Letting them enjoy their date. If Angela really wants to protect her girlfriend and have a good time who are we to judge them. Besides, this tall girl wants something to eat." She then continued to walk to the Concessions.
"Finally, someone who wants to have a good Summer. We'll deal with her later, Lane. Come on." Lane then also went with Miller. Lane then just gave a giant sigh full of anger.
"Angela, you got lucky today." Then she also walked with the her minions. I don't know what was more weird; the fact Brooks called Lane, Helen, or the fact that Miller, who broke a football player's arm, wanted me and Emily together. We then continued to make our way back to our seats with our group.
"Angela!" Ms. Quistis said to us as we were about to sit back down. "Are you okay? I send the police after them because they were bullying you for literally no reason!"
"They thought we were a couple and they just started throwing stuff at us."
"You two a couple? Now, that's entirely rich!" Ms. Quistis chuckled. "Now, go ahead and go back to your retrospective seats. The game is nearly over."
I honestly was too busy to notice the store, but I was still weirded out from our encounter with the Heathers. Like why was Miller nice to me and Emily earlier?
Eventually, the game was over and Emily and Cody had to talk to Ms. Quistis in the entrance because it was already 5:00 p.m and we had to get some quick dinner soon so all of us had to wait a bit. I was talking to Alex, Matthew, Jane, and Joseph waiting on all of us to get back to the bus. Then all of the cheerleaders exited out of the Stadium, too. One of them saw me apparently and wanted to talk to me. She was dressed like the other cheerleaders on account of how she had long black sports pants with a yellow line on the side of her legs, her white shirt that had "Tiger Cats Cheerleaders!" on there as the logo and how she had yellow and black stripes on the sleeves. Her stomach was showing a bit and she was a bit skinny, too. She had red hair and had a nice piercing with beautiful eyes like Emily and Nanette have.
"Hey there, I'm one of the Tiger Cat Cheerleaders."
"Hey there, one of the Tiger Cat Cheerleaders, I'm Angela Anaconda. It's kind of a first for a cheerleader to be talking to me." What I said made her laugh apparently.
"I mean my name is Louise. I'm from around here and I'm just participating because I'll be going to college around here next year. But I saw what you did earlier. Protecting that girl. You know….um…." Just then I saw a bunch of girls in the same outfit as her started to giggle a little bit and even a couple of them just roll their eyes at me. "Oh, them, ignore them. Some hate me liking girls and some support me, but I just let it slide." She gave me supportive smile. "Right, sorry! Sorry! I was just curious if…...you want to do something together sometime."
"Well, I mean I can't right now sadly. I have to-"
"Hey, its' fine. I get it! You were with that girl earlier, but is it okay for me to give you my number?" Jane overheard the conversation and I saw her jaw drop and eyes just widen. Even Alex and Matthew tried to fix her face and body.
"Well, I can't say no to a friendly face like that." Louise then pulled out a pen and paper out of her sports shoes and wrote Louise Smith 411-345-9880. "Hey, let me know if anything happens. I'd honestly like to know you better." She then gave me a small wink and decided to go back with her Cheerleading group while they murmured and whispered "You were way too strong again!" and "I know!".
Emily then came up to me and spoke. "Angela, who was that?"
"Good question, Jane, is this more of your tricks?"
"Hey, its' not my fault she wanted to sleep with you!"
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Dude, that cheerleader just gave you her number and you didn't even look at her. She just came up to you and just bam, she gave you a free wink."
"Well, how did you respond to her, Angela?"
"I was going to tell her I won't, but she just gave me her number. Although, she was really nice. Why are you asking?"
"I'm just curious just for being curious."
"It sounds like Emily is jealous." Matthew said. Then Emily stepped on his foot.
"But Angela, are you and Emily, okay?" Joseph said. "We didn't even know that you were being bullied."
"Its' fine. Just some rude people being rude as usual. As long as Emily is fine, then that's all that matters." Alex then just gave a giant "awww" after what I said. "So where are we heading now?"
"In the next couple of minutes, we are heading over to Chicago Style Pizza Shack a few miles away from us. Then we got a long drive home. We will be back by 9:30, 10 p.m. sadly."
"Guess we will get some good Zs on the way back, huh?" Matthew said.
"Matthew, we love you, but you are super weird." Joseph said.
We got some pizza from the Chicago Style Pizza Shack, but decided to stay there for 30 minutes for dinner and then leave. We had a long drive on the way, and decided to get some rest. Emily sat beside me again and I nearly fell asleep again.
"Angela, you look tired again."
"It is late on account of how late it is."
"Its only like 6:30. I was hoping to talk if that's okay."
"Yeah, of course. What's wrong?"
"About earlier….that cheerleader. She was talking to you."
"I guess she wanted to be my friend. And I just met her."
"Angela, she gave you her number."
"What this thing?" I pull the note in front of her.
"Yeah, aren't you going to talk to her?"
"Why would I? Besides, I rarely use my phone."
"That's not what I meant...I mean she likes you."
"Like like? I'm not really interested in her. Besides, we just met."
"Well, I was just checking." Emily seemed a bit jealous. I decided to test the waters and put my hand on top of her hand that was sitting on her lap. After a minute, she didn't get angry, but gave me a small smile.
"You know...I'm getting a bit tired. If you want, you can sleep on my shoulder if you want." I said to her. I figured I could show that I could trust her, but I feel like she already trusts me, but she likes me, too. She then accepted my invitation by laying her head on mine.
"Do you really think anyone will notice?"
"If they do, I don't care. Everyone is about to sleep anyways. Emily...I had a really good time with you."
"I had a really good time with you, too. Angela….I have to tell you something….On second thought, never mind."
"What's wrong?"
"I like you, Angela" She said before closing her eyes and snoring quietly. I then fell asleep as well. All I would remember is that our hands were intertwined in a interlock position.
We then came back from the trip around 9:15 and we were all ordered to go back to our cabins. Jane ate too much to talk to me so she just plopped on the bed and went to sleep and prepared for a relaxing day tomorrow.
I did hear my door open quietly that night. I then got up to fix the screen door then I turned around and go back to bed, but I was halted to see a shadowy figure knock me out unconscious. I woke up every now and and then to see myself being dragged across the ground of our campus. I could see the Girls' cabins often, but I just closed my eyes.
"She is finally awake." Someone said.
"Look, let's just do this and bring her back to her room asap." I couldn't tell who was there, but I just saw a frog in a person's hand. I then looked up to Heather Lane, Brooks, and Miller looking at me. "About time you woke up. You are a pretty heavy sleeper."
I then woke up to a room similar like mine, but it was decorated differently. The lamp light on the desk was the only thing on. I just saw tons of posters from bands such as The Runaways, Evanecence, Paramore, Joan Jett, Sleater-Kinney all over the Cabin.
"You!" I said to those mindless numbs. I tried getting up my hands were tied up behind the wooden seat I was in and I had a collar attached to the metal chain that strangled me a bit. "Oh, what's this, Lane. Torture, huh? Do you this with every person you meet? I bet that's why you are still single and lonely." Lane then gave me a slap across the face.
"You got a big mouth as usual, kid." Lane said pulling up and chair and sat close to me. "I bet you are wondering why we gathered you here today."
"You mean you and Brooks. I'm just here." Miller said slouching on her bed bunk. "I promised I would bring her here, and that's that."
"So YOU dragged me here!"
"Its' not my fault. You are heavy. You don't even look that heavy."
"Enough, both of you. Angela, we have a score to settle with you."
"What because you can't handle me on your own? You have to your own cohorts to try and take me down."
"If we weren't aren't on the grounds of the Troubled Youth school, I'd have you buried alive right now. What you did a few weeks ago was Personal family business and you stepped past the line you should have never crossed. Saving your girlfriend was a BIG mistake."
"You mean Nanette? You girls were bullying her for no reason!"
"If I were you, I'd 'pipe' down." Brooks said holding some firecrackers while chuckling. "We don't want you to have an accident like Nanette did. Personally, I'd love to make a BBQ like we nearly did with her in her own car, but sadly we got the shoulders of that pig instead."
They didn't…"You were the ones who not only put firecrackers in anyone's car, but you put in Nanette's car?"
"You met Nanette's family before right? Much younger?" Lane said. "Let's just say her mother owes my family a ton of money, and I figured if we can't get it out of Nanette, I figured we send them a sign that my family means business."
"Wait a minute, why don't you just talk to Nanette's mother and just negotiate or I don't know ASK her mother to give you the money."
"Because ever since Goldilock's family got divorced for the past 3 to 4 years, her mother has gone awol." Miller said.
"What did you say?" I say in shock.
"Her family got divorced, we don't know where her mother is. We could ask her father, but he is gone, too. So, now it's the game of Where in the World is Bunny and Howell Manoir?" Brooks said waving her firecrackers around. I didn't even know that Nanette had her parents divorced…...sure, they were rude and stuck up to my own family, but I never thought they would get a divorce.
"But now, until we find Nanette and her family, we are stuck with you. The same meddling freak who got in the way. Now, you are gonna tell us where Nanette is." Lane said with an angry look
"I really don't know where she is. You act like we were best friends."
"Then why the hell would you save her?"
"Because I care about her! I don't want her to suffer by freaks like you!"
"That is REALLY interesting. Like you do Emily? Well, if we can't make you talk, we can try to make your girlfriend, Emily Manoir, talk then. They look like twins, so I figure why not make Emily squeal and tell where her family is. I got a feeling Emily would tell us with our 'methods'. Although, I got a feeling her little pet here wouldn't mind if we talked to her, would we girl?" Lane then started scratching my nose like a dog. She went way too far.
"Lane, I really think bringing her girlfriend is WAY too fa-" I then took a big bite on Lane's finger causing her to have a blood curdling scream and she responded with "WHAT THE FLYING FU-!", but before she finished I headbutted her to cause her to fall to the floor. I then tried to get out of my tied up hands and tried to get up even being attached by a chain. My face even started to turn red by how much force I was trying to exert. I didn't care about my well being, just people like Lane shouldn't exist on account of how much she wants to hurt Nanette and her family, but Emily, too!
"Holy shit…..she is nearly breaking the chain and she is out of the rope. Who the hell are you?" Brooks said. I'm Emily's girlfriend, you bitch! I then snapped out of the ropes and then tried to get this dumb collar off of me.
"Angela, wait, wait." Miller said to me. "She isn't going to hur-" Miller was interrupted by Lane pulling a switchblade near my throat.
"Tonight, Angela Anaconda. You are on my shit list. By the end of this summer, your head is going to be on a silver platter because NOBODY fucks with me."
"And if you ever lay a finger on Nanette, her family, or even Emily. I'll hunt you down." All the Heathers' widened their eyes a bit. "Emily is too important to me. She has been one of the nicest people I ever met and I really like her. If you even go near or try to hurt her, I'll find you and I'll end you." I just gave her a smug look.
"Heather, I'm done. You promised no one else will get hurt. Yall have fun. I'm going to read some comics in the bathroom." Miller then walked into the bathroom and slammed the door.
"Fine, we can do the rest of this. Brooks, give me one of your firecrackers, tape, and a match. I want you to hold her down."
Brooks then held my arms and closed my mouth. Lane taped a firecracker to the skin on below my right shoulder and lit the firecracker on my shoulder. Even if it was just one small firecracker, it stung like hell to make me nearly wiggle out of the chair. I was still screaming by how much it hurt.
"Tell ANYONE about tonight, I'll be sure to cut you and Emily in your sleep!" She then punched me in my stomach causing me to go unconscious.
Then I immediately woke up around 8:00 a.m. in the morning to see that Jane was still asleep. I guess Miller took me back to my cabin while I was unnoticed. Was last night...real? I decided to get up and see if it was real. I went into the bathroom and checked my right shoulder, it had the burn mark of the firecracker, it was about medium sized.
"If you girls go near Emily, I'm hunting you down." I said to myself in the mirror. I then decided to dress up in another orange shirt along with some blue jeans with some holes and my windbreaker jacket and head over to the Activities Center for some early breakfast.
As I got me some cereal from the Breakfast staff, I saw Emily was sitting by herself with a ton of papers and a calculator. She was scratching her head a lot and using her fingers…...why does that….
She then turned into Nanette Manoir for a few seconds. She was writing on her Math Test like she did in the 3rd grade and struggled to try to do the math on account of how she used her fingers to count. Then, she gave me an evil glance telling me, "What are you looking at Angela Anaconda?"
"Wait, what?"
"Angela, are you okay? I'm shocked to see you here so early. I figured you would be asleep like the other kids."
"I just wanted some fresh air and get up early. Do you mind if I-"
"Go ahead, I'm just studying. Me and Cody have to take our Counselor course tests this Saturday and they just HAVE to be Junior class level Math and History for the course. I can kind of understand the History, but the Math is just unbelievable Algebra and stuff I can't remember like the Unit Circle and the Foil Method."
I decided to look at some of her problems she struggled a little bit with a problem that had (2x - 3)(3x -5) and she had many scribbled out Circles, but I'm shocked I remember some of this stuff in school. That and I do like math ever since the 3rd grade.
"Here, let me help, you have to multiply the 2x and 3x along with the 2x and the 5 to get 6x^2 + 10x because both integers are positive like this." I then drew out the problem in a more clean manner and showed my work. "Then you multiply the 3 and 3x and 5 retrospectively getting you -9x - 15." Then I continue to show my work regarding the problem. Then you after FOILing everything out, you get 6x^2 + x -15. Did I go to fast?"
"No….you have x because 10 is the bigger integer compared to -9 so it would have to be 10x -9x giving you the x right?"
"There you go! What else do you need help with?"
"I do need to memorize the Unit circle, so can you help me?" I then started to draw off the Unit Circle to the best of my ability. "For starters, you have to have four quadrants and you have four major points in the Unit Circle. To make this simple, you notice how there is a pattern for some of the points in the Unit Circle?"
"What do you mean?" Emily said with an eyebrow raised.
"Okay, look here." We were both looking at the Unit Circle now. "You notice how all the numbers are least ½, √3/2, √2/2, √2, 2 and √3/2? Even some of the numbers with Pi with them have a pattern. You notice that?"
"Angela….you are actually right. I see what you mean by that. It actually makes a bit of sense! Angela, how did you become this smart?"
A few years ago after King died , I used to go to the library all the time and just pick 5 books from the library and start to just read them and I mean anything. I would go downstairs and ask my family any five topics.
"Hey, Mom. What is your favorite topic?"
"Well….I always loved to cook and-"
"Cooking, got it. I'll be right back, I am going to the library."
"On a Saturday morning?" My dad said reading his newspaper. "Shouldn't you be out hanging out with your friends?"
"Well, I just want to get some fresh air and I might see them on the way."
"Well….alright, sweety. Be back soon okay?"
Every now and then I saw Nanette at her stupid mansion and she would always say, "Well, well, Angela Anaconda, going to the library again?"
"I'm going there to get me some books. You know to read? Something your brain can't do."
"Well, Angela, I guarantee you you have the mind of a chien, which is French for you are a total idiot."
"Nanette, you are epitome of stupidity, which is English for you are dumb."
"Riff-raff."
"Degenerate Clown. Also, Ninny-poo, your dog is eating the trash again, might want to get get him before he gets sick again. Oh, wait, he is already sick of you."
"You make ME sick, Angela Anaconda." We then just gave ourselves a giant glare before I headed off to the library. Her anger fueled me to become stronger. It made me sit every weekend to become smarter. I then developed a passion for Mathematics and learned a lot of things on my own. One day at the library, I read a book on Engineering because my dad said it was like inventing, but better. It mentioned everything about how they can build cars and even work on Spaceships for something called NASA….and that's when I wanted to be an Engineer. My dream was to be great like my dad.
Just then, some other students came in along with the Heathers came in and started to get Breakfast as well.
"I guess you can say I had a lot of inspiration in my life. When is your Counselor Exam again?"
"Saturday." I guess I can TRY to help her. I can help her on her off time and more importantly….I can protect her from the Heathers.
"Emily….is it okay if I can try to-"
"Do you want to help me study for the Exam? I feel like I can be more focused with your intellect and you can help me release some stress…." Both of us just had bright red cheeks after what she said.
"Emily….what do you mean by…?"
"Ignore that! Do you want to help me?" Before I can say anything, I saw Heather Lane give me a glaring look, I would give her a look back, but it would cause suspicion and I don't want to alarm Emily on account of her safety. "Yeah, I can. I'll help you make a perfect score!"
"Well, Angela the Tutor, when shall we start?"
I then held on to her hand and said, "Whenever you like, my student."
Both of us gave a small little laugh and smiled back at each other with joy.
Well, I made it shorter, but I'm gonna have to make this a Two Parter. But the next one I'm gonna leave a little surprise and bring a character from Tapwater Springs for a 'visit'. Wanna know who it is? Guess you are gonna have to find out! Hope you guys liked it :) Leave a review, Comment, Favorite or Follow! You guys are great and thanks for reading! I'm glad people like this show like me!
