Chapter 11 - 'May I remind you, this is a marble floor!"
I woke up to the sound of thumping foot steps and someone calling my name over and over again. I groaned and rolled over in bed. Whoever it was ran into my room, and I heard a thump. I'm guessing they thought that the door was still there, so they were planning on bursting in, and they fell on the floor instead.
I heard someone groan and I pulled the blanket over my head and I snickered quietly to myself.
Idiot.
"What the heck Kim? What in the world happened to your door?"
I didn't answer, but started to fall asleep again. Man, I was really tired. Maybe it was those pills that the doctor gave me yesterday.
I was so close to sleeping, when I felt someone smack me in the head. I groaned and pulled the blanket around me tighter in response. They hit me again and again, but I ignored them and only pulled the blanket tighter with each hit.
Apparently they figured out that hitting me was getting them nowhere, so now they started to pull on my blanket.
Oh hell no. Not the blanket.
I started to pull the blanket back, and they started to pull also. The next thing I know, we're in a full blown tug of war. I open my eyes to see who I'm fighting with and I see Jerry there with his eyes shut tightly, trying to get me to let go of the blanket. I snorted. Yeah, no way is that happening.
He let go of the blanket, and I fell back on the bed with an 'oomph'. He let out a evil smirk. "Alright then. You want to play this way? Then we'll play this way."
I was about to ask him what he meant, when he stalked closer to me and picked me up and threw me over his shoulder as if I weighed nothing at all.
I squealed in surprise and I felt the blood start to rush to my head.
"Jerry! Put me down!"
I heard him laugh and he only hit my back. "Nope. We have to go out today, and you wouldn't get up. Grace had to call us in order for us to get you awake."
I got confused. "Why didn't she just wake me up herself?"
I felt his chest vibrate when he chuckled and he started going down the stairs. My head bounced up and down with every step and hit his back on the way down. On the last step, my chin hit his back so hard, I bit my tongue in the process.
I cried out in pain and tried to reach to get my tongue. I couldn't, since my hands were in his front in a really uncomfortable position. I felt him stop and ask, "What's wrong?"
"I bit my tongue!" I wailed like a three year old child. He paused for a while, but kept on walking. I just knew that he rolled his eyes at me, and I rolled my eyes at the fact. We walk into the kitchen where everyone was waiting, and I saw them all roll their eyes at the way he brought me downstairs.
Grace's parents walked into the room, and they both also rolled their eyes at our childish behavior.
Okay, what was up with everyone rolling their eyes today?
I dismissed the thought as I felt Jerry put me down. Let me just say, he did not put me down gently.
"Ow! Jerry! Why did you just throw me to the floor! May I remind you, this is a marble floor!" I complained. I got up and rubbed my now sore butt and I glared at all the people who were laughing. "Hey! It's not funny!"
Grace's dad wiped the tears from his eyes before answering. "Oh come on Kim. You have to admit it was pretty funny!" I huff out a breath of annoyance and turned on my heel to go to my room.
I go to my room and open my closet trying to find out what to wear. I looked to the entrance of my room and I remembered that they never told me where we were going. I didn't really want to be with them right now because they are probably still laughing.
I go to my window and open it slightly to put my hand out, trying to feel what the temperature is. It was warm, with a cool breeze. Perfect weather. I closed the window and go back to my closet. I pull out some black jeans and a light blue blouse. I went into the bathroom and started to take a shower.
I can take as long as I want to. They may be able to chase me out of my bed, but they can't chase me out of the shower.
"Kim! Hurry up before I drag you out of there! I don't care if all of the guys see you naked, I will go and get you!" I look over to the bathroom door horrified. After that stunt she pulled with the tub full of ice, I have no idea what that girl is capable of.
Well, looks like she can chase me out of the shower.
I washed my hair at a break neck speed and I turned of the water. I got my towel and dried myself before putting on my clothes. I opened the bathroom door, and wasn't really shocked to see them all sprawled around my room as if they owned the place.
I snorted at the thought and put my clothes away.
"Okay guys." I turned to them. "Where are we going?"
Milton jumped up and grinned at me. "That, is for us to know, and for you to find out."
Julie grabbed my hand and literally dragged me out of my room in pure joy. I turned back to face my friends, and I saw them all lagging behind in a painfully slow rate. Damn, I hope I've never walked that slow.
We went outside, and right as I closed the door, Milton shouts, "SHOTGUN!", and rushes to Jerry's car. I chuckle at his childish way, and we follow him. We piled in one by one, and we were off to wherever we were going.
After about 10 minutes, I was starting to get antsy. We've been driving for a while, and I had no idea where we were. I looked around, and all I saw was trees. I looked to my friends, and they all looked normal. Well, they looked normal for my friends.
Milton was giving Jerry a noogie even though he was driving. Surprisingly, the car didn't swerve that much. So that should mean that Jerry is a pretty good driver right? Grace was talking on the phone so fast, that I was surprised that the person on the other line could understand what she's saying, Julie was looking at a magazine, and glancing every once in a while out the window, and Brody was cheering Jacob on.
Remember when I said that Brody was the mature one?
Well, I'm not so sure now.
I rolled my eyes and looked back out the window. We were still surrounded by forests and trees and I was starting to get a little creeped out. I know I should trust my friends, but seriously. If you were in my position right now, you would be freaking out also.
We finally made it to a clearing, and I saw so many shops and places, I was almost awestruck. Keyword being almost.
We kept driving for a little while longer, then we parked in front of the place I was least expecting.
We all piled out of the car, with Jerry's hair still messy, and his face still flushed from the noogie that Milton was giving him. Grace had hung up with whoever she was talking to, and Julie had thrown her magazine in the back of the car.
I looked at them all with a raised brow. They all looked back at me expectantly, with excited smiles on their faces.
"Really you guys? You had to take me practically twenty minutes away from where we live, just to go ice skating?"
Yup. My crazy friends drove all the way over here just for ice skating.
"Honestly, I live about five minutes away from an ice skating rink. Why didn't we just go to that one?"
Milton came over to me with a huge smile on his face. "But where's all the fun in that?" he asked while wiggling his eyebrows. I had to stifle a giggle. He looks totally ridiculous when he does that.
He dragged me inside, and all the rest of the gang followed, not too far behind. We went to the guy behind the counter and Grace ordered my size for me while I went to the restroom.
What? It was a long ride, and I didn't get to go before. Don't blame me. Nature called.
I got back and Grace handed me my skates. I looked at them and suddenly a thought came to me that filled me with dread.
I can't skate.
Damn. And I was really looking forwards to skating! I started sulking while looking at the skates. I guess I didn't know how long I was just standing there, sulking at the skates when Jerry came and tapped my shoulder, breaking me out of my sulking mood.
"What's wrong?"
I pouted at him. "I can't skate."
He chuckled and took the skates from my hands. "It's fine. I'll help you. Trust me, if you can fight bad people while getting a few scratches and bruises and maybe a few cuts, then you can totally ice skate." he said with a playful smile.
I glared at him and snatched my skates back from his hands.
"Whatever." was my genius response.
After I finished tying up my skates (yes I needed help), we all made our way over to the entrance of the rink. I looked for Jerry and found him lagging behind. I waited for him to catch up, then I took his hand in mine, and literally squeezed all the blood from it.
Poor guy. His hand was probably numb by now.
I heard him gasp and I looked at him, but he wasn't looking at me. He was looking at our hands with his eyes wide open. I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion and when I saw what he was looking at I gasped also.
My hand must have been squeezing harder than I thought because his hands were now purple.
I immediately let go, and he clutched his hands to his chest and tried to get some feeling back into it. "Gosh Kim! I said I was going to help you! I didn't think that it would include me going to the hospital for a broken hand!"
"Sorry!" I managed to squeak out, and I looked back to the rink to see all the little kids freely skating, and the couples skating with their hands interlaced together.
Then there was my friends.
They were way out of the normal picture.
Milton was skating with one leg up, trying to balance, then Grace kept trying to get on Brody's back, but they both ended up falling. Julie was trying to twirl around like the professional skaters, but she got dizzy and hit herself on the wall and fell to the floor.
Milton gave up on trying to skate with a foot in the air. So when he went to put his foot down, he accidentally kicked a little girl in the face, making her cry out in pain and stumble into an eighty year old looking grandma. They both fell, with the little girl on top of the grandma.
The little girl tried to grab whatever she could on the way down so that she wouldn't fall, and she ended grabbing Milton. Since Milton wasn't prepared for that, he ended falling on top of the girl and the grandma, squishing them both with his weight.
And let me tell you this now, Milton is not light. He is probably one of the heaviest creature made to man. According to him, it's all muscle.
So when he fell on top of the girl and grandma, the little girl let out an ear piercing scream, and the grandma let out a cry of pain, and you could hear something crack.
Silence.
That's all that was heard for a few moments.
Then everybody sprung into action.
People started calling 9-1-1, and Brody started to get Milton off of the little girl and the grandma. The little girl's arm was bent at an angle it was not supposed to be in, and her face had a cut on it.
The grandma however, was passed out cold.
I couldn't do anything. All I could do was stand there in shock. Jerry however, went on the ice and started skating over to the scene like a pro. Grace and Julie went to the little girl and Julie scooped her up in her arms.
The little girl was wailing in pain and screaming a lot of nonsense. The only thing I could make out from her screams was that she wanted her mommy.
That snapped me back into focus. I start to make my way onto the ice, and right when I was about to step a foot on the ice and help everyone out, I remembered I couldn't skate.
I let out an annoyed huff and I went to the seats and waited for everyone to get this catastrophe under control.
Julie and Grace got out of the rink with the little girl still squirming and screaming bloody murder. Gosh, honestly, we know you're hurting. You don't have to make a big deal out of it!
I stood up and searched around the rink for her mom.
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon! She has to be here somewhere! I can't take it anymore! I just know that by the time all of this is over, I'll be deaf.
"Who are you looking for?"
I didn't bother facing Grace and I just answered her. "I'm looking for the little girl's mom."
"Um Kim. You don't even know how her mom looks like."
That stopped me dead in my tracks. Of course I wouldn't know how her mom looks like! I've never seen any of them before! Of course it wouldn't be that easy!
I heard someone shouting behind us, slowly getting closer. I turned around and saw a lady with brown hair to her shoulders, and a frantic look on her face. I noticed that she was only looking at Julie. Or was it the little girl?
The lady finally reached us and scooped the little girl up and away from Julie's arms. She started to shush her and said soothing words in her ear which made her calm down slowly, but surely.
The lady looked at us and gave us each an apologetic smile.
"Sorry. I bet your ears are ringing huh?"
Grace laughed and chuckled. I only replied with bringing my hand up to my ear, and started trying to get the ringing noise out of my ear.
Then, it suddenly clicked.
The lady was the little girl's mother!
Well, maybe it was easy!
The little girl was now silent and just staring at us. I looked at her, and she stared back at me with her big brown eyes. We were just staring at each other for the longest time, and for whatever reason, when Julie's voice brought me back to reality.
"Kim!" A hand was in front of my face and fingers were snapping at me. I swatted the hand away and looked at Julie.
"What?"
She rolled her eyes. "Oh gosh. Lisa was asking you a question."
I raise an eyebrow. "Who's Lisa?"
Grace stifled a laugh, and the lady from earlier stepped in front of Julie, blocking my view of her. "Hi." she stuck out her hand for me to shake, which I did. "My name's Lisa."
My mouth dropped in understanding. Oh gosh I was so embarrassed. I had said who's Lisa in front of her, and now she must be thinking that I'm some sort of mental retard! Which I'm not! I'm an agent! I'm super smart!
"Hi, my name's Kim."
She gave me a warm smile and dropped my hand. "Nice to meet you Kim. Thank you for staying with my daughter until I had got back. I was just in the bathroom for a few minutes and when I come back out, she's with a sprained arm!"
I chuckled a bit and scratched the back of my head. "Yeah. I'm sorry about that. I feel really bad about what just happened, and I wasn't even on the ice!" They all laughed a bit until the little girl started to tug on her mom's sleeve with her good arm.
"Mommy? Can we go now? My arm still hurts." Her bottom lip started quivering, and her eyes started to well up with tears. My heart instantly went out to her.
How could I forget that there is a little girl who's arm is probably broken, and we're just here, talking as if she wasn't even here.
I guess her mom realized the same thing because she gasped and she bent down to give her a hug.
"Oh my! I'm so sorry baby! Yes! Let's go right now!" She turned to us and gave us a small smile. "I'm sorry, but I have to go. Thank you so much for helping my little girl."
We nodded and smiled. "No problem. Honestly. Just go and get her arm checked. By the way it looks, I don't think that the results will be all that pleasing."
Lisa chuckled and looked at her little girl's arm with a grimace. "I know."
She looks back at us and gave us a hug one last time before carrying her daughter out the door, and away from the ice rink.
I looked back at Julie and Grace and I see them both deep in thought. Grace looks up at me with a confused look.
"That little girl is probably about four or five am I right?"
Julie and I nodded slowly.
"Then what the hell is she doing on the ice rink alone!"
I look back at the ice rink to see Jerry, Brody and Milton finally making their way off the ice, and the people carrying the old lady off the ice too.
I looked back at Natalie and shrugged.
"I have no clue."
/AN/
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