Chapter 7: Down and Dirty
About seven that night, Alex had finally finished with pulling the weeds. Alex is now on her hands and knees, face facing the ground, tired and even sore then before. The cool wind of the night air now stings her sensitive skin. Rain had started to come down fairly hard drenching her and causing the ground below her to become muddy. Alex finally collapsed onto the cold muddy ground tired and worn. Alex did all she could to just stay awake but soon failed and fell asleep in the mud.
Back at the room, Stevie looked out the window not seeing Alex ever come back inside. 'Alex must be pulling weeds; I remember when I had to do that.' Stevie thought and then everyone in the room heard a scream from Miss Hanson's room. 'Oh Alex, you just had to do something didn't you. Why couldn't you just leave well enough alone?' Stevie thought knowing that Alex has got to be in big trouble now. 'Alex, if you think today was rough, and then you're in trouble.' Stevie laid back down on her bed and waited to see if Miss Hanson would come out. Soon it was time for bed and everyone had started changing and still no sign of Alex or Miss Hanson when the door to the room opened and in came a guard with Alex in his arms. All the girls screamed when they saw the man walk in and they all grabbed their covers and hid themselves. Stevie just Continued to change as the man was looking at the ground as he walked. Stevie finished changing and then went over to the guard. "I'll take her, but what happened?" Stevie asked as they turned and went the other way.
"She fell asleep after she finished." The guard said simply and then walked away and out of the room.
Stevie went over to the bed and changed Alex and threw her dirty clothes onto the ground next to her bed. "Stevie, what are you doing?"
Stevie turned to the person talking. "I'm helping a friend Megan. That's all." Stevie said as she continued to change Alex.
"You know what Miss Hanson would do if she saw you help her." Stevie simply nodded and Megan sighed and then walked away.
Stevie finally finished changing Alex and then laid her down on her bed and then put her dirty clothes in a corner. 'You're truly lucky Alex, if Hanson would have been here, you would be sleeping in dirty clothes right now.' Stevie thought as she climbed onto her bed right above Alex.
That morning at three o'clock Miss Hanson woke up and then changed into her uniform. Miss Hanson walked silently out of her room and then found Alex asleep on her bed. Miss Hanson walked over and woke Alex up. "Good morning Cadet." Miss Hanson whispered and then pulled Alex out of her bed. "Get changed Cadet." Miss Hanson whispered waiting for Alex to change.
Alex felt around painfully, sore from the day before and still tired. Alex finally managed to find some clothes in the corner by her beds leg and then she realized that she never changed out of her clothes. 'Someone changed me?' Alex thought as she noticed that the clothes are muddy. Alex took about ten minutes to finally change and then got grabbed and pulled out of the room. "It's dark and it's still raining. Let's do this later." Alex whined having a hard time walking.
"Here's what's going to happen Cadet. Thanks to your little prank, I couldn't take my pills last night and since I have had lack of sleep, so will you. You see, I have an allergic reaction to lizards and so I can't touch them and thanks to you, I almost swallowed one. You taking on a bear Cadet, you can't win this. As for what you're going to be doing, you will run the track six times over in the dark and you will have every little part of the track memorized. I want you to be able to do this course better and faster then any of the other cadets. Now move it Cadet." Miss Hanson said as she pushed Alex completely outside and then closed the door.
"I'm not so easily beaten either Hanson." Alex said and then ran toward the course slowly due to being so sore. Alex slowly made it to the course and started trying to not trip on the very slippery tires. Alex made it to the last tire and then slipped and hit the muddy ground face first. Alex stood up and coughed up mud. A fire grew within Alex's eyes and she stood up and ran the whole course six times over with little problem and then hid underneath one of the bridges and fell asleep.
Nine o'clock that morning and Miss Hanson looked out her window and saw Alex asleep under one of the bridges. She walked out the back way and looked at the obstacle course and found it very muddy. "So she actually did it, fine, I have much more for her to do." Miss Hanson said and then walked over to Alex and dragged her out from underneath the bridge and into the mud. "Morning Cadet."
"I did the stupid course so let me sleep." Alex snapped as she rolled over not caring that she is now in mud.
"I'm not done with you yet Cadet; you still have a full day of work ahead of you." Miss Hanson took her to the work out room and then had her work out again.
"I'm too sore to do anything today no thanks to you. Why don't you just go make someone else's life miserable?" Alex said sitting down on a bench.
"Everyone else has already gone through this so now it's your turn. I don't take this kindly Cadet and the sooner you learn this, the better for you. Now get to work." Miss Hanson said sitting down on a bench.
'The worse things get for me Hanson, the more I'll do to get to you.' Alex thought picking up some dumb bells.
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