Life After High School - Ten Years Later.
By Risty and Silver
Disclaimer: With Tolkien spinning in his grave as it is, I refuse to lie and say we owned them. I will say that we own our characters though.
Summary: Title says it all.
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I had woken up early to go to soccer practice the next morning. I was about to open the door, when I heard horses outside. I peeked out the window and saw Damon Darkshield shoving my envelope into the letterbox. Kane must have seen me, because he shrugged and shook his head. I came out of the door, just as they rode off.
"Wait!" I called. Benny, Damon and Kane all stopped about half down the road. Benny and Kane looked back but Damon held his head up high and stared straight ahead. I stood at the gate, in my soccer uniform, my waist length hair tied into a tight plait. "Please, wait. Mr. Darkshield, please. I know you don't like my mother, and that she doesn't like you. But what is the point of fighting for years on end when you don't see each other? You could at least answer the letters my mum sends." Damon turned around.
"We don't need your mother. She's a liar and a cheat. I'll take the chance to say that you're not like her. You're an innocent bystander just wanting to see her happy again. Well, she'll just have to keep on waiting until she dies! Because that's all we care!"
Rage filled me. People say I fly into a temper as easily as mum. But no one calls my mother a cheat and a liar and gets away with it. Luckily, before I could jump the full grown man, I was held back by a hand.
"Let it go, Ria. Damon will just come back with stupid remarks. He lies about your mother and you know that. Don't let him make you think otherwise."
I looked up into Uncle Baz's face. Damon scowled that a person had come to my defense. Now he couldn't bully me so easily. Kane looked at me apologetically. I waved to him, glared at Damon and let Uncle Baz turn me around and head across the road toward the soccer field. My team mates were already there. Baz was our coach. I looked back to see that the Darkshields were watching me. The team split up and we began to play, I think Kane had persuaded his father to just watch for a while. I totally ignored them, and my team, which consisted of my cousins, Anna, Susan, Peter and my sister Fortuna, began to play the other team, which consisted of Gillian, Sally, Harry, Rick and Adam.
I kicked the ball between Susan and Me and Susan kicked the winning goal. Well, not really. It was only the first goal of the game, but our team did win overall. When I looked back, Kane, Damon and Benny had gone. I couldn't believe I already missed Kane. He was cool.
By the time Fortuna and I got home, it was almost time for school. We both had a quick shower and dressed. Me in my usual jeans and T-shirt with some sort of logo, Fortuna with her dress and jacket. We wolfed down a quick breakfast, grabbed our lunch and our brothers hands, and raced down the road, before I did, I cleaned up the envelope that Damon had left in the letter box. I threw it in a bin on the way to school. We dropped off the identically dressed twins off at their room, Fortuna went into her room, accompanied by our cousins Peter, and Anna. I went into my classroom with Susan, Gillian and Sally, then sitting at our desks, we waited for our teacher, Uncle Jake.
By Risty and Silver
Disclaimer: With Tolkien spinning in his grave as it is, I refuse to lie and say we owned them. I will say that we own our characters though.
Summary: Title says it all.
***
I had woken up early to go to soccer practice the next morning. I was about to open the door, when I heard horses outside. I peeked out the window and saw Damon Darkshield shoving my envelope into the letterbox. Kane must have seen me, because he shrugged and shook his head. I came out of the door, just as they rode off.
"Wait!" I called. Benny, Damon and Kane all stopped about half down the road. Benny and Kane looked back but Damon held his head up high and stared straight ahead. I stood at the gate, in my soccer uniform, my waist length hair tied into a tight plait. "Please, wait. Mr. Darkshield, please. I know you don't like my mother, and that she doesn't like you. But what is the point of fighting for years on end when you don't see each other? You could at least answer the letters my mum sends." Damon turned around.
"We don't need your mother. She's a liar and a cheat. I'll take the chance to say that you're not like her. You're an innocent bystander just wanting to see her happy again. Well, she'll just have to keep on waiting until she dies! Because that's all we care!"
Rage filled me. People say I fly into a temper as easily as mum. But no one calls my mother a cheat and a liar and gets away with it. Luckily, before I could jump the full grown man, I was held back by a hand.
"Let it go, Ria. Damon will just come back with stupid remarks. He lies about your mother and you know that. Don't let him make you think otherwise."
I looked up into Uncle Baz's face. Damon scowled that a person had come to my defense. Now he couldn't bully me so easily. Kane looked at me apologetically. I waved to him, glared at Damon and let Uncle Baz turn me around and head across the road toward the soccer field. My team mates were already there. Baz was our coach. I looked back to see that the Darkshields were watching me. The team split up and we began to play, I think Kane had persuaded his father to just watch for a while. I totally ignored them, and my team, which consisted of my cousins, Anna, Susan, Peter and my sister Fortuna, began to play the other team, which consisted of Gillian, Sally, Harry, Rick and Adam.
I kicked the ball between Susan and Me and Susan kicked the winning goal. Well, not really. It was only the first goal of the game, but our team did win overall. When I looked back, Kane, Damon and Benny had gone. I couldn't believe I already missed Kane. He was cool.
By the time Fortuna and I got home, it was almost time for school. We both had a quick shower and dressed. Me in my usual jeans and T-shirt with some sort of logo, Fortuna with her dress and jacket. We wolfed down a quick breakfast, grabbed our lunch and our brothers hands, and raced down the road, before I did, I cleaned up the envelope that Damon had left in the letter box. I threw it in a bin on the way to school. We dropped off the identically dressed twins off at their room, Fortuna went into her room, accompanied by our cousins Peter, and Anna. I went into my classroom with Susan, Gillian and Sally, then sitting at our desks, we waited for our teacher, Uncle Jake.