Okay, I'm on a typing palooza today. I have this to update, then I have another fic, then all my fics have been updating. Yea me! Anyways, here's chapter 11, things might get a little better for the girls in this chapter, but don't hold your breath (seriously, don't, I don't want you to knock yourself out or anything).
Chapter 12- A Final Count
Allie's POV
Allie huffed in frustration as she glared at Torie during Science. None of them had any luck talking to her, not even Allie, who'd known Torie the longest. Not that they'd ever been great friends, Allie hated Torie's attitude, and Torie hated the way Allie always tried to joke about things. Now, of course, Torie was being horrible towards them. She wouldn't listen to anything her friends said, and she was ignoring them. She wouldn't even talk to them online anymore. It made Allie mad.
She caught up to Torie as the blonde left school. She was determined to make Torie listen. Whether she liked it or not.
"Torie!" as usual, the girl ignored her, "Torie, wait! Come on, can't we talk?"
"What's there to talk about?" Torie snapped, whirling around. Allie almost ran right into her.
"I dunno…" Allie said slowly. Torie shook her head and turned to walk back down the street. "Wait!" Allie said, "Come on Torie, please…"
"Whatever you have to say, I'm not listening", Torie said firmly.
Allie tried to talk to Torie the whole way to Torie's apartment, but had no luck. They walked into her apartment building, and Allie managed to slip through the elevator doors before they shut.
"I'm not having this discussion Allie", she said firmly as they rode the elevator, "I'm out. Someone else can have my job"
"No one else wants it", Allie smirked. Torie rolled her eyes as the elevator came to a halt. Allie stepped out quickly after her friend and walked down the hall behind her. "Come on Torie", Allie said as they came to a halt outside her apartment, "Do you think I'd be bothering you if this wasn't really important?"
Torie hesitated, and finally just said, "You saw that snake thing. This is dangerous, I have enough to deal with, I don't need to come up dead and send my mom over the top. She's been kind of iffy since my parents got divorced, the only reason she hasn't completely lost it is because of her friends, and my sisters and I. I can't just take the risk that something bad is going to happen, I don't want to hurt my mom"
On a normal day, Allie would have said something sarcastic like, "Oh how righteous", or something to that tune. But now she understood. Ever since their almost encounter with that snake, she'd thought a lot about what if something happened to her or her friends. But Haley had something that made sense. Maybe this little bit of wisdom could get through to Torie the way it had her.
"I know you're just trying to protect your family", she said quietly, "But what about the rest of the world? Do you really feel comfortable knowing there are things like that giant snake running around Heatherfield? No one else knows what goes bump in the night, but you do. We all do. Haley, Kapree, Sam, you, and I, we know what's going on. We know what's really out there. We know we're the only ones that can stop it. Could you really live with yourself knowing you never did anything that might have saved as all?"
Torie turned slowly from her door, and looked at Allie as if she weren't like anything she'd ever seen before. And Allie knew. She'd hit gold.
"I don't like the danger", Torie said slowly, "I don't like knowing what's out there"
"And I don't like math exams", Allie quipped, "But we've all got to deal, right?"
Torie smirked, "You never will change will you?"
"I can't be anyone but me"
"You really aren't going to give up then", Torie concluded, "No matter how dangerous this is, you won't give up, just because you can't be anyone but you and you are stubborn"
Allie didn't even bother to contradict her. It was true, after all. "I guess", Torie said after a minute, "If you're going to do this…and if Haley and Kapree are…I guess I don't have a choice but to go along, now do I? I can't have my girls going off into danger alone, now can I?"
"We're not alone", Allie said, 'We've got each other"
"Final count", Sam was saying half an hour later. Kapree had stopped celebrating that Allie of all people had broken through the force field Torie had put up around herself.
"Final count?" Allie repeated, "What's that, some kind of B-Rated movie?"
"Very funny", Sam shot back, "I meant this is it. We're all the world has for defense anymore. We're the final count"
"But no pressure right?" Allie asked, smirking. Sam shook her head and sighed.
"So we're agreed?" Kapree said, "No matter what, we're in this together, right?"
Haley and Allie both nodded. Torie hesitated, but finally nodded as well. "Sam?" Kapree pressed, "You're in to, right?"
Sam looked up, a little surprised. Her brown eyes shone slightly as she nodded, and a small smile played around her lips.
"We're in this together", she agreed, "No matter what"
"No matter what". Well, we'll see how long that last, won't we? Wow, my wrist hurts, I'm gonna see if I can dig up some ice. If I don't update next week, merry Christmas!
