Chapter 10
The storm
Howard had a wide grin across his face. "You like her don't you?" he asked. Rachel fell asleep on the couch. Randy looked at Howard and smiled. "As a friend..." Randy said but remembered about asking her to the prom. Howard smiled. "More than a friend?" he asked. "Hmm...Does an upcoming school prom give you any ideas?" Randy replied as he walked over to grab one of Howard's extra blankets. Howard just grinned. "Plenty of them. You like Rachel!" he replied. Rachel was peacefully sleeping.
"As a friend!" Randy repeated and looked at Flare. "Hey you wanna hold Flare?" he asked. Flare refused to leave Randy's hand. "I don't she wants me to hold her." Howard said. Lightning struck very near to Howard's house. Randy jumped a little. "What the juice... that was close!" Randy exclaimed. "Relax Cunningham. We are safe as long as we are insi-" Howard started but lightning struck a window upstairs near where Rachel was sleeping and shattered the window and caught the ground slightly on fire but it was rapidly growing.
Randy dropped the blankets that he was holding and looked at Howard. "Ok, that didn't sound good." Randy said. Howard nodded and opened the door and saw the fire was quickly making its way toward Rachel but it wasn't burning anything. "Rachel!" Randy called out as he bolted out the door. Rachel rolled over and the fire made a wall between Randy and her. Howard threw a pillow at Rachel and she sat up. "I'm awake!" she said startled then became even more so when she saw the fire. "What the juice?!" she exclaimed scooting away.
Randy looked at the fire and notice that it wasn't burning anything. Randy looked at Flare who was still in his right hand and put his left hand near the wall of fire. The fire burnt his hand. Rachel looked at him. "What happened?!" she asked confused by the fire. "Yeow, that's so wonk!" Randy cried out while shaking his hand. "I think the lightning started a fire of some kind!" Randy answered back to Rachel. The fire reached towards Rachel but she backed away. "Leave me alone!" she yelled at the fire and it started to die down and it disappeared but it had still burnt Randy's hand.
Rachel looked at Randy confused. "That was weird...I'm going back to sleep." she said but before she did she threw the pillow back at Howard. Randy looked at Rachel then at Howard and walked away to go treat his burn. Howard went back down to his room. Rachel slept. Flare looked at Randy's burn and blew fire onto it but it didn't hurt and when it went away his hand was almost completely healed but it still stung a bit.
Randy stared at his hand for what it seemed to be a long time then looked at Flare. "You know if I wasn't so tired I probably would be creep out...but thanks..." Randy said as he walked back to Howard's room. Flare smiled and curled back up on his hand. Howard was waiting on Randy. "Come on, we have a prom tomorrow." he said. "I know, I know" Randy repeated as he walked in the room and tried to make a suitable bed on the floor.
Howard helped him and when they finished he climbed into his bed. "Night, Cunningham." Howard said. "Yeah, Night bro." Randy replied and crawled in bed as well. Randy rolled over to his side and put Flare by his head. "Night Flare." he whispered. Flare smiled. 'Good night Randy.' he heard her say telepathically before she fell asleep. Randy couldn't tell if he was dreaming or he actually heard Flare speak in his mind. "Bruce..." he said to himself before drifting off to sleep.
(Randy has a crush, Flare's telepathic, and I don't even know about the storm.)