Chapter 17: Anger
Terra stopped dead in her tracks. He was here, but why? Oh, right. He was a hockey player. She turned on her heel and started skating off the ice. She walked off and started stalking off to the changing rooms. She sat on the bench and bent over to take off her skates. She unlaced one when the door banged open. Charlie stood in the doorway. He looked angry. Terra straightened her back, and tried to look him in the eye. She leaned against the lockers and put her hands up to her eyes. Charlie didn't say anything. Terra leaned back over and started untying her other ice skate. Then she slipped off the skates and put her feet in her Converse. She started tying her shoe laces, when Charlie said his first words to her in three days.
"I thought you couldn't skate." Terra looked up at him from behind her hair. She attempted to speak and explain, but he went on right ahead with his shouting at her. "So, all this time you have been lying to us, to me? Everything you have said has been a lie. I cannot believe this! I cannot believe that you would do something like that to me, but yet you are. I can't believe that I ever trusted you, or believed you, or helped you in any way." He looked at Terra with disgust and deep loathing. Terra stood up and opened her mouth to explain, again, but Charlie stopped her. "Don't bother. Anything you say now, won't matter. I don't believe you."
He pivoted on his heel and slaked out of the changing room. Terra sunk down to the floor. She pulled her knees to her chest and rested her head on her knees. Her hands tied her shoes. She sat there, on the cold floor, until she stopped moping and decided to leave. She stood up and hoisted her backpack onto her shoulders. She grabbed her skateboard and walked out of the building. When she reached the pavement, she slammed her skateboard onto the ground and skated off. She knew where she was going. She was going to her favorite place. It was a little alcove under the bridge. When the water wasn't too high you could get to it. Sometimes other kids found it and wrote in it, but it was Terra's little hideout from the world.
She skated off the ramp, and picked up the skateboard. She help in under her arm, and climbed down into the plants. She was about to crawl under the concrete, when a voice from behind yelled out to her: "Terra!"
She turned around, and saw Fulton standing there. He was walking toward her. Terra waved, and stayed rooted in the same spot until Fulton was withing reaching distance. "Where are you going?" he asked. Terra pointed to the little alcove. Fulton peered at it and looked throughly confused. Terra laughed and squatted down and wriggled into the alcove. She waited for Fulton, and after a minute of waiting, she stuck her head outside. Fulton was still standing there, even more confused. Terra laughed, and pulled him down, and into the alcove.