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Eye of the Storm
Chapter Nineteen: Apples and Jackal
If someone had come up to me a year ago and told me that I would be madly deeply in love with Johnny McGregor in the near future then I would've told them to get their heads checked in the nearest hospital. That, or burst out laughing, and remain cackling for the rest of the day, which would be the cue for Kara's daily 'You belong in a loony bin' comment.
Needless to say, I am madly deeply in love with Johnny McGregor.
You know what makes it weirder?
He loves me back.
I am completely serious.
Willow Tate and Johnny McGregor, both players, are in love. With each other.
Honestly, someone up there sure loves screwing things around.
"Willow, you have a completely horrible goofy look on your face," Kara said coolly, sipping her coke.
I attempted to glare at her and failed miserably.
Heh, life moves on.
"So?" I managed to shoot at her.
"Just saying," Kara shrugged, as we sat waiting for everyone else in the cafeteria.
Silence.
I waited.
And waited.
And then-
"Johnny admitted it, didn't he?"
I KNEW IT! I swear this girl knows me back to front!
"Yeah," I said with another horrible goofy grin. Who could blame me anyway? I have a seriously hot player IN LOVE WITH ME. "How did you know anyway?"
Kara grinned her all knowing grin, "Duh. I looked exactly the same way for a whole week after Max told me he was in love with me,"
Ohhhh yeah. I remember that week. Max was more often in Kara land then he was at home. And don't even get me started on Kara. Sheesh.
"MAD! ALL MAD I TELL YOU! COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY MAD!"
Errr…?
Oh look, its Fuzzhead back from the Universe of Snogging Kai Hiwatari In The Broom Closet.
And she's shrieking something about being mad.
I think.
Mirror Chang is completely incomprehensible.
For you dumb people out there, it means no one can understand her.
Not saying your dumb or anything. Although that is EXACTLY what I said, but that's not really…oh, never mind.
Er, yeah.
"What's mad?" I asked as Mi sat down next to me. She immediately stole my apple. "MY APPLE! MINE! EVIL! EVIL!"
"ARRRRRGH!" She yelled as I tackled her.
"Oh God," Kara quietly groaned.
We promptly ignored her.
"YOU DON'T EVEN LIKE RED APPLES! YOU LIKE GREEN APPLES!"
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT! YOU STOLE MY APPLE!"
At that point, we both fell off the bench, me still attempting to wrestle my apple back.
And everyone was staring at us.
Which is funny, cos we weren't even doing that much. Just wrestling over an apple on the cafeteria floor. That's normal right?
"DIE EVIL FUZZHEAD!"
"IN YOUR DREAMS APPLE LOVER!"
Then came the pivotal moment. The apple was thrown, courtesy of our resident Fuzzhead, over our heads and smashed against the table, spraying everyone in apple bits.
Well, I suppose we don't have to worry about there not being any apple sauce.
"MY TOP!" I heard a wail that could only come from none other than Fashion Disaster.
We looked at each other, before peering over the table top, ready to duck again just in case. We spotted Amber covered in more apple bits than US, which is saying a lot, since we're absolutely soaked in the stuff.
And she looked like she was just about to explode.
"YOU!" she shrieked, pointing at us.
"Which one?" we chorused with identical smirks.
I swear that Amber actually growled. Picking up her plate of spaghetti bolognaise, she flung it in our direction.
We ducked.
SPLAT!
Oh.
Whoops.
Erm, sorry Kara?
"BLOODY HELL! THIS MEANS WAR BITCH!"
Or no apology needed…
Kara, covered in bits of spaghetti, stomped over to Amber who seemed completely frozen. And rapidly smashed a whole apricot pie into her face.
"GO KARA!"
"ROCK ON BABE!"
And so the food fight began.
I hastily snatched all the fruit on the table and grabbed a bowl, only two minutes later. Mashing the whole load up while crouched behind a now overturned table as our defence, Mirror continuously shot off pieces of random food that was piled up next to her. She was already covered in apple bits, lemon cheesecake and err…what vaguely looked like broccoli. I think.
"Done," I said triumphantly, holding the bowl up. Mirror grinned, and ducked as another apple whizzed over our head and smashed against the wall, spraying us in MORE apple bits.
Bloody hell, what is up with the apples already?
"Goodie! Ready?"
"Yeah, on three,"
We're homicidal, I'm telling ya.
"One…"
"Two…"
"THREE!" we yelled together as we both jumped up and leapt from our cover. Streaking through the chaos and attempting and of course failing to avoid flying food, we reached where Amber and Kane were cowering.
Smirking evilly, we dumped the contents of the bowl on top of their heads.
The results were rather pleasing, I have to say.
Amber screamed as the gooey yucky stuff slid all over her hair and face, covering and probably effectively destroying her clothes.
And Kane?
Well, that was just plain funny.
He, er, began running around in circles yelling at the top of voice. The only thing I caught was 'in my eyes'.
"WE ROCK!" We yelled triumphantly.
It was then, of course, that Melody Summers dumped a load of melted chocolate on my head.
And they say what goes around comes around.
WHY!
WHY ME?
NO FAIR!
Huh.
And once again, Mirror just laughs. Only after shoving a strawberry cheesecake in Melody's face though. Which was nice of her.
But STILL!
"I guess that's two of us then," Kara deadpanned, and we turned to see her soaked in ice cream.
"DUCK!"
We ducked.
And yet another apple came flying over our heads.
Sheesh.
Of course, the food fight hadn't stopped just because Kara and me were hit. In fact, nearly everyone was throwing food and mixtures of stuff that I really DON'T want to know about.
"YAAAAAARRRRRHHHHH!" a sophomore guy yelled as he ran past me, seemingly on a warpath. Or something.
"CASS!"
I whirled around to see the twins sprinting towards us, leaping behind the overturned table we were hiding behind and tackling me in a huge hug.
"Jesus, guys, its only been an hour since I saw you!"
Fred sniffled, "Well, next time we won't show you how much we love you,"
"Yeah," Nick added, "In fact, we will refrain from all contact,"
"And proclaim that our love has been vanished into thin air," Fred exclaimed, waving his arms around wildly, before covering his head with them as an orange came whizzing past.
I snickered, "You guys…"
"NO!" Nick yelled dramatically, "Do not say anything that will make this harder for me!"
"Hang on," Fred interrupted, "Who says this is harder for you than it is for me?"
I bit my thumb in an attempt to keep myself from bursting out laughing, which trust me when I say it isn't easy.
"Well, its obvious I loved her more than you did,"
"Obvious? Like hell!"
"I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!" I yelled, effectively interrupting their little show and tackling them both in a hug.
"SEE! IT WORKED!" Nick yelled triumphantly.
"What?" I said incredulously.
"You, my dear Cass, have a flaw," Fred announced, briefly ducking as some spaghetti bolognaise flew over our heads.
"A flaw?"
What on earth are they banging on about?
"Yep!"
Have they finally snapped or something? I knew constantly being together was screwing with their heads!
Nick said, "You see, you have this thing where you don't like people thinking really bad of you when it isn't true,"
It seems ironic that I had that conversation in the middle of a food fight. Serious yet light hearted, mixed in with insanity. Although I didn't know it then, that conversation was a sign: a sign warning me of what would happen the next day…or night I suppose. And everything that would happen after it.
"Are you mad?" I asked incredulously, pushing the both of them down to avoid another flying object.
"Nope," they chorused.
And at that moment the others joined us, including Johnny, who was positively beaming at the mess around us, and Holly, who was definitely disapproving of the whole thing.
And I forgot about that conversation.
"WILLOW TATE AND MIRROR CHANG!"
Which was just as well, since I had other things to worry about. Like the fact Jackal, or Mrs Jackson our lovely (erlack!) headmistress to most had just walked in.
And had discovered who had started the fight in the first place.
Bugger.
"So what's the verdict?" Kai asked as me and Mi FINALLY rushed out of Jackal's office. Kai, along with his sister, my brother and my boyfriend (!) had obviously been waiting for us while we got lectured and weighed down with a week's detention starting next Monday.
BITCH!
That's all I have to say.
Ahem.
"A week detention," we sighed together, before grinning at each other.
"So, birthday girl…"
I immediately perked up at the reminder as to what day it is.
Y'know, I can't believe I haven't mentioned this yet…
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!
WOOOOOOHOOOO!
"Its my birthday, I'm seventeen, its my birthday, I'm seventeen, yay, I'M SEVENTE- mumph!" I sang, doing a little victory dance before I was very nicely cut off by a pair of familiar lips attacking mine.
"Oh no, guys!" I heard Kara groan, before I noticed she was very suddenly silenced.
Who wants to bet that Max just kissed her?
Ohhhh, never mind that…
Y'know, I really like being in love with Johnny. The benefits are great. Like a very hot redhead kissing you at random and sporadic times.
I moaned as his hands raked through my hair and as I gently nipped at his lip, a cold voice rudely interrupted us.
"Detention again Miss Tate, and the same for Mr McGregor, Mr Tate and Miss Hiwatari,"
I pulled away from Johnny to see Jackal sneering at us.
"Whatever," I said calmly before going back to my activities.
"MISS TATE! MR MCGREGOR!"
I felt Johnny grin against my lips, before pulling away. Our friends were trying their best to hold their laughter, and were doing an okay job considering. Well, Jackal hadn't noticed yet anyway.
"Whatever you want, please hurry up cos we're kinda busy right now if you haven't noticed," Johnny said matter-of-factly.
Jackal was actually speechless. Seriously, she was just standing there gaping at us. Maybe the amount of PDA that were on show was too much for her. Cos, really, when was the last time she got laid? When she lost her virginity at the age of twenty six?
Johnny just raised his eyebrow, and I smirked at her. Then Johnny pulled me closer to him, his hands trailing over the hem of my shirt, before slipping underneath. He lowered his head til his mouth was right next my ear, and his eyes were trained Jackal.
"Y'know, I think we should get outta here before them lot spontaneously combust with laughter," Johnny whispered, as grin unfurled on my face.
"Okay," I said simply, grabbing his hand. "Bye Mrs Jackson,"
And we got the hell out there.
"Oh my God, her face!" Mirror cackled as we ran outside.
"I know!" Kai chuckled.
"Especially when Johnny said…said…" At that point Kara lost all control and fell to the floor in laughter.
"Brilliant acting Johnny," I beamed.
"Thank you, thank you, I'm here til Sunday," Johnny stated, bowing extravagantly.
"Come to the point," Kai started, once everyone, or Kara anyway, had calmed down, "Don't we need to start practising for the Christmas Ball?"
My mouth formed an 'o' shape. "Yeah, we do,"
"Well, how about before school on Monday, since Cass gets to school early thanks to her training," Mirror suggested.
We agreed pretty quickly, but then an idea struck me.
"Guys, why don't we do an actual play? Instead of just a scene?"
Kai and Johnny shrugged.
Great help THAT was.
"Sounds great," Destiny said, walking up to us, along with Mariah, Mariam, Holly and Sky, who obviously had just turned up at lunch. "Unfortunately, I'm not that great with big parts in plays,"
"Well…Mirror can do it!" I exclaimed.
"I guess," Mi shrugged, but I could tell she was pleased.
"Brill!" I grinned, "Lets go tell Connors then!"
I was dead pleased with myself that day. Hey, I mean, its my birthday, I'm FINALLY seventeen as of eleven o'clock tonight, me and Mi managed to start a food fight with an APPLE no less, and me and Johnny stumped Jackal into silence and now we're going to do a play!
Then again, I should've known that once you reach the top, you can only start to fall.
And there was a long way to fall.
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