Okay, here's the epilogue. Thanks for reviewing, Nicky Haugh, lumigo akvo9504, SuperKitty4789, Silver Writer 0927 and Bloodylilcorpse.
Kat and I kept in touch with our friends on the show – even the ones that we weren't so close to. It's been a few months since, and I've been at middle school for about ten weeks – fall break starts soon. I just got home from hanging around at the deserted playground after school. More on that later.
Kat's back on the other side of the country. Because everyone's scattered around Canada, some of us see each other more than others.
Kat said the last time we talked on the phone that she ran into Taylor at the mall, but they didn't talk. Most of her friends only contact her via email, but she gets emails from Laurie and Miles a lot (well, actually, they message me, too, but they live nearer to me and have talked about visiting).
Kat and I talk a lot more on the phone. Although we definitely got to know each other during the race, we still don't know each other the way most sisters do, and long talks have definitely started to bridge that gap. There's still a lot we don't know about each other, but I'm finally getting to know who Katherine Andrew is.
I occasionally get messages from Kitty and Carrie. I was never closest to them, but they both helped me out and I counted them as friends, so it's nice that I'm still in touch with them. According to Kitty, things between Noah and Emma couldn't be better. And Carrie says that although her relationship with Devin isn't everything she imagined, they still get along as well as they did when they were just friends.
Stephanie's still with Ryan. She wants to start talking about kids with him soon, according to her emails. I don't know how he'll take it, since they haven't really been together that long, even counting before the race, but Stephanie seems pretty in-control now. I don't see them breaking up unless they're put under even more major stress.
Mickey and Jay don't live too far away – just an hour and a half, so we still meet up from time to time. They have tons of homework now, since they're in eleventh grade, but they still find time to hang out with me. They don't have that many friends because of their weaknesses and terrible luck, but they're going to stay my friends no matter what. They're doing fine – they even have more confidence than they used to. That crush Jay mentioned during the race was never brought up again, so I assume he got over it, especially since none of us expected anything to come of it.
I don't know much about the rest of the cast, apart from Junior. As for us, we don't usually speak during school. But we have ways of communicating if we want to hang out, like leaving notes in each other's homeroom. We meet up at least twice a week after school and we usually play kiss tag. That, or we sit down and talk, although we do usually get in at least five kisses whenever we meet up. That's why I was at the playground after school – I never actually play on it, but since no one's around it after school, Junior and I can pretty much be alone if we meet up there. We don't have the same groups of friends since we're not in the same year, and we mostly keep quiet about being together.
We don't just meet up in secret, though. For some reason, Mom and Dad have this thing about meeting my friends at this point, so I did have to drag Junior over to my house one weekend. Of course, they didn't know that after the introductions, we spent the next hour in a deserted park.
Oh yeah, and I briefly met Junior's mom. It's true that she seems to know her son better than his dad does, because she seems to trust him more.
On the whole, I'm pretty glad that Kat signed us up for the Ridonculous Race. I could've done without Owen flushing on me in Australia, and just meeting the Ice Dancers, full stop. But the good stuff in the race outweighed the bad, big time. I'm glad I was part of the race, and I'm glad I met the people in it.
The End
A/N: Well, it took me a while to finish it, but I'm glad I did. Keep reading and reviewing my stories, guys, please!
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