Mako's Message: I'm disappointed with the length of this chapter, but only because it felt like I'd written so much more. Also I've been pecking away at it for almost a week so...
Anyway, today is the last day of the Mindy Vs. Bed Rest contest. Quick reminder of the rules if anyone want's to make a last minute entry.
-Mindy, for any reason, is put on bed rest
-5,000 words or less
-A link or the story itself must be PM'd to me.
I ended up staying out pretty late with the team last night. I'll never underestimate the power of karaoke again. … Actually, it was probably more the power of the alcohol Jackie "talked" one of the waiters into slipping into our drinks. Thank god I have a good sense of smell. I prefer to keep my wits about me, thank you very much, and who knows what I might have said if I'd gotten smashed. I think Cameron is the only other girl who didn't drink anything. She's the only other girl that didn't get tipsy at least.
Anyway, I got home kinda late, relatively at least, and went straight to bed. Turns out an unexpected bonus of being a costumed hero is that I get to walk in at hours that would get other girls grounded or the rest of their lives without consequence.
Our bus wasn't early, so I was still able to get my morning workout routine in without any problems. We were supposed to show up an hour before we were supposed to leave though. A couple of the girls still managed to be late. Lazy bitches.
It was kinda fun watching Cameron and Coach Baum chew them out though.
After they were through with them, I heard one of the girls grumbling about why we had to bus it anywhere, since about half the teams competing in this are from the city.
Coach Baum didn't hear it, but Cameron did, she turned and she said that they actually alternated. One year it'd be in the city, the next out in the country. The idea was to get the kids in the city, OUT of the city, and give country kids a chance to visit the city.
I slept on the bus, of course. Nothing else worth doing, and let's face it, I can use the sleep when I can get it.
The competition is two days. Sorta. First day is registration and shit. Second day is the actual competition. It could probably be done in one day if they really wanted to, but I guess if they did it'd probably be chaos and the teams would have to show up a day early anyway.
Anyway, it takes place at this resort hotel that's in the mountains. It's pretty nice. I'm gonna have to get Dave to bring me up here for Valentine's Day. Eventually.
Though, it's a full season resort, so there are out door pools and tennis courts and shit that are all closed down and they kinda make the place look...shut down. Probably looks nice in the summer, but right now all the action is on the slopes. Well, and the indoor gymnasium where this is all taking place.
When we got in to register and saw all the other teams standing around, Angela started hopping up and down and squeeing... and didn't stop until her voice hit a pitch usually reserved for calling dogs. Cici was standing next to us and said what I was thinking before I could, "Down girl. We haven't won anything yet."
And then Angela gave me a hug that was more like a choke hold and said, "But we've got Mindy! With her on the team we can do anything!"
Tashaya came over and said, "Yeah, she's got some good moves, but she's not gonna support the team by herself, and a lot of the moves she lets us pull off are moves WE have to pull off. Plus, we don't know what any of these other teams can do. And finally, she's not gonna be our secret weapon if you keep going around shouting about her!" and then smacked her in the back of the head hard enough toss all her hair in front of her face.
She muttered a "sorry", THEN she let go of me.
Friendship. Letting someone get away with assaulting you without a beating.
So after we got registered and checked in and got our bags up up to our rooms we were allowed to go out and have some fun. A couple girls wanted to go skiing, but Cameron shut that down pretty fucking quick. It was actually kinda epic. In a low key kind of way. She heard them discussing it, and walked up to them and said, "Wow. Skiing huh? Be careful not to fall and break something. I'm sure Mindy would hate to find out we couldn't compete because you got careless." And then they went and did something else.
It's nice to have your abilities appreciated.
Angela and I decided to just go t-
Oh my fucking god why did I have to get stuck sharing a room with such nosey bitches!
I mean, seriously, it's rude enough trying to read over someone's shoulder, but trying to take what they're writing? And they actually tried to play keep away with it. They'll be lucky if I let them out of that closet before morning.
Actually, they're lucky we have a competition to win tomorrow so I couldn't get too rough with them.
Anyway, Angela and I decided to just wander around the place for awhile and see what there was to see. We did end up going tubing for a bit. It was...fun. We were under orders from Coach Baum to get to sleep early though, so we didn't stay out for long.
Sleeping might be a problem now though. I really don't want to have to deal with those two bitches, but I'm going to have to let them out eventually. Maybe I should just wait until they fall asleep and then take the chair away.
At the very least I'll need to make sure I stash my journal somewhere safe first. Not sure if putting it under my pillow will be enough.
