I really want Kate and I to be voted cutest couple for the yearbook. Buuuut that's all the way in spring so I don't have to worry about it for a long, long, long time.
So I promised Howard that I'd spend at least a day with just him. I guess I've been making him feel left out lately since I've been spending a lot of time with Kate. So we decide to try pulling an all-nighter at my place. We started right around five in the afternoon by playing Grave Puncher. "Oh you are sooo going down Cunningham! I've got you right where I want you." Howard says as he tries to beat me at the game.
"Ha! Yeah right! I'm going to beat you so hard, you're going to want to go back to your house!" I snap at him.
"We'll see about that!" We both suddenly start pressing random buttons on our controllers as we try beating each other. But just as I'm about to beat Howard at the game. "Boom! I win! In your face Cunningham!" He shouts taunting me in my face. I push him away.
"Yeah, yeah, I let you win. You know, to build your confidence." I tell him even though I knew that I lost just because he's good at playing Grave Puncher.
"Whatever you say Cunningham." I turn around to see the Nomicon glow red on the small table in the center of my room. I reach my hand over to it, grab it, and place it on my lap. Howard looks at me with a confused face. "What are you doing?" He asks me.
"Going in the Nomicon." I reply pointing at the book.
"Oh no! No, no, no, no! You said that this night was going to be just us. You and me. Playing Grave Puncher, all night!" He shouts at me.
"And it will be. I just have to go in real quick. Then when I come back, we can continue our Grave Punching." I assure him.
He suddenly snatches the book out of my hand. "NO! No ninja stuff. When you're the ninja, you're a whole other person. The ninja is another person." He looks at the Nomicon. "And so is the book. Haven't you noticed that when ever you and I are having a great time, the book always gets in between us?" He explains to me.
I snatch the Nomicon back from him. "Howard, it sounds to me that you're jealous of a 800 year old book! A book Howard." I tell with a grin on my face.
"What! Me! Jealous of a book! Please! I can do anything that book cant do. Maybe even better." He states as he folds his arms.
"That didn't make any sense what so ever." I say with a blank face. "Just let me go in the Nomicon, and then when I get out, we can't continue our all-nighter." I explain to him.
"Ugh! Fine! But you better not be long. You've got five minutes!" He tells me before I open the book.
I am transported into a huge meadow where out in the distance, I can see mountains. I feel a long breeze pass by me. Wind carries leaves and starts forming into a sentence.
At One Point In Your Life, You Have The Power To Say 'No! This Is Not How The Story Is Going To End'
"What the juice Nomicon? Are you saying that something bad is about to happen to me? Or that the Sorcerer is going to escape? And why did you have to suck me in when I was right in the middle of hanging with my best bro?" The sky suddenly turns gray. I look around the meadow to see the grass dying. I look up at the mountains as they split apart from one another. Before I can see anything else; I am swooshed back into reality. "Gah!" I shake my head rapidly. I look over at Howard who was already starting the game without me. I quickly grab my controller and start play. "What the juice bro? You couldn't of waited until I was done in the Nomicon?" I say trying to catch up with Howard in the game.
"I told you; five minutes. You were in there for six." He says to me as I finally catch my score up to his.
"Really Howard, six minutes isn't that long." I tell him.
"Yeah well it seems like it to me!" He shouts. "Hey so what'd it tell you anyway?" He asks.
"It said something about a story and how its not supposed to end a certain way. I don't know; I really wasn't paying attention." I say.
"Oh okay. And that better be the last time you go into the Nomicon tonight!" He demands.
"Relax, I'm not going back in the Nomicon probably until tomorrow or something." I assure him. We continue playing Grave Puncher for the rest of the night. Well, until three in the morning. We ended up blacking out when we had played the game for the sixtieth time in a row. When I woke up, Howard was nowhere to be found in my house. I asked my mom if she had seen him and she said that he had left about an hour ago heading back to his house. I was about to head back up stairs into my room; when I suddenly hear the house phone ring. I turn to see my mom answer it.
"Hello?...Yes this is her…..Oh my gosh, is she alright?...Uh huh…Okay….I'll drive him over right now…Thank you." She hangs up the phone and she gives me a worried look.
"Wh- what's wrong? Is everything okay?" I ask.
She walks over across the room and grabs the keys off the coffee table. "It's Kaitlin. Apparently she broke her leg trying to grab a paintbrush on a high up shelf. Her father wants me to bring you to the hospital. He said that she keeps on asking for you." She walks over to the door and holds it open for me.
When I get to the hospital, my mom had to keep on telling me to calm down since I seemed so panicked. I finally get to Kate's room and my mom and Kate's dad said it would be okay if I were in there alone. When I walk in, I see Kate lying on a hospital bed reading a book. I run over to her and squeeze the life out of her. "Calm down, I'm fine. I just hurt my leg that's all." She says to me as she pushes me away.
"I know. I just was so worried when I heard you were in the hospital." She rolls her eyes at me. "So a paintbrush, huh?" I grin at her.
She suddenly looks embarrassed and blushes. "Well yeah. I was trying to get my detailing brush cause I was painting and I really needed it." She explains to me.
I roll my eyes back at her. "Sure." She smiles at me. I sit down at the end of the bed and look at the long brace on her leg. "I thought you broke it." I say.
She suddenly looks confused. "What! No, I didn't break it. I just sprained it a little, that's all. Why would you think I broke it?" She asks me.
"Well my mom told me that you broke it cause that's what your dad said." I tell her.
"He thought I broke it; but he was just overreacting to the whole situation. You should have seen his face when he heard me hit the floor and came up stairs to seem me on the ground." She giggled.
I sigh and lay a hand on her shoulder, "I'm just glad you're okay. So how long do you have to wear the brace anyways?" I ask.
"About a week or two. The doctor said that I might need to use crutches in order to get around. So I'm probably going to need someone to help me out with carrying my stuff." She tells me. My eyes suddenly widen. I go back to my first day in Homework club when everyone had said that Kate was taking advantage of me.
"Huh, that's weird." I say aloud.
"What's so weird?"
"Oh it's just. When I was in homework club I was sitting with Bucky, Flute Girl, and Theresa. When I was there they said something about you taking advantage of me. You know like just using me to get something you want." I explain to her as I scratch the back of my head.
She giggles, "Well, you don't believe them, do you?" She asks me. A was looking away from her and was gazing at the ground. "Randy, you don't really think that I'm taking advantage of you! I mean that's ridiculous. I would never do something like that to you. Never!" I turn to look back at her and smile at her.
I grab her hands and hold onto them. "Of course I don't believe them. I know you would never to such a thing to me. And I would never do such a thing to you." She smiles at me with delight.
She leans over to and wraps her arms around me. I can start to hear her cry a little. "Randy, there's actually something I have to tell you. I'm not only here at the hospital for my leg." She whispers to me in my ear.
I wrap my arms around her waist and hold her tight. "What are you here for then?" I ask.
She pulls me away. Her eyes were filled with tears and she tries wiping them away. "Randy, when they checked me up for my leg, they thought it'd be a good idea if they did some blood tests to make sure I'm healthy." She puts her head down and breaks down in tears. I pull her in against my chest.
"It's alright Kate. What ever it is, you can tell me." I say trying to comfort her.
She takes a deep breath. "Randy, they said…"
Sorry I kind of left you guys on a cliffhanger there. Thought I'd be a little evil today! Hehehe! Anyways, I just got back from spending a few nights at my step-sister's so I tried to make this chapter make up for it. Sorry if it didn't. So tell me what you thought, and what do you think Kate is about to say? Review please. Oh and if anyone feels like chatting, just PM me and maybe we can hang. Just say'in. Anyways, bye!