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Ch. 6
Moments Lost
Kerry awoke with a start her head spinning her mouth dry. "Ugh what happened last night? I remember eating and getting sick, Dad and Michel fighting after that I must have passed out from being sick." Kerry realized strangely other than the quickly fading headache and dry mouth she felt fantastic better than she had felt in a long time. With a quick glance to the clock she had realized that she was up a whole thirty minutes before her alarm. "Well no sense in wasting the morning, might as well get a jump on getting ready for school." She moved about her room with a light grace she had never felt before and a fluidity of motion foreign to her. She showered and dressed for school grabbed her bag and with another glance to her arch-enemy the clock she noticed that she had finished her entire morning routine in record time. "Well I'm not hungry so I guess I have some time to kill" kerry mused to herself as she went to her computer and set her mp3 player in its charger and start to mess with her playlists." God this week seems like its dragging on and on I can't believe its only Tuesday I have that stupid math test today and I really don't want to go to gym class" Kerry contemplated just skipping it but for once she felt up to the challenge. Thunder sounded in the distance causing Kerry to jump " Ha wow that scared me but not even you can upset me today mister storm I feel to good for you to get me down." Kerry laughed to her self. She grabbed her mp3 player as the time to leave quickly caught up with her. She crept down the stairs to the living room and quickly spotted her father sleeping on the couch. "hmm whys he on the couch he should be in his bed must have stayed up all night worrying about me" Kerry quietly thought to her self. She left the house as quietly as she could so that she wouldn't wake her father. The drive to school was uneventful even with it starting to pour. Kerry pulled in to the school and cursed herself for not remembering to grab an umbrella. She rushed to her locker where her friend Sarah was waiting for her. A pure look of melancholy painted Sarah's face. "Oh god what now let me guess your boyfriend" Kerry questioned. A frown creased Sarah's face
" How could you tell? Did someone say something? That's not cool that people are talking it's not their business what happens between him and I. They just need to keep their nosy mouths shut..." Sarah ranted
"Whoa whoa calm down now no-one said anything to me I just know that when something in your life goes wrong it's because of him. What happened?" Kerry had to interrupt Sarah or she would have never stopped her rant.
"Well he stood me up and when I called him to ask what was up why he hadn't showed up he told me something urgent had come up and that I need to stop being so clingy." Sarah started to pout.
"Well I would love to sit here and help with your BOY troubles but if you remember we have gym class now so we should probably get to class before Ms. Krumpford has us running laps." Kerry was glad to just change the topic ever since Sarah started to date this new guy its been nothing but trouble.
"Fine I guess we should get to class now I really don't want to run laps all class." Sarah pouted. Kerry and Sarah piled into the gym with the rest of the students and sat in the bleachers awaiting their gym class instructions. Just as Ms. Krumpford walked over to let them know that for gym class they would be playing dodge ball Kerry noticed the blond girl from the other day sitting near by. "Jessica is still mad at you for flirting with her boyfriend and tripping her from yesterday you should probably just stay out of her way" Sarah whispered quietly to Kerry.
"Oh not a chance I'm done playing little miss goody two shoes she's mine" Kerry could feel the anticipation building as she awaited her chance to knock Jessica off her throne and get school credit for doing so. They all set up on opposite sides of the gym hands against the wall just waiting for the whistle to blow. With a shrill sound the whistle signaled the start of the match. Much to everyone's surprise Kerry was first to the line in a blur of motion she swept up the dodge balls and tossed them to her teammates. The game was a blur of dodge balls and shouting Kerry smiled at the thrill she felt as she danced around the onslaught of enemy fire. Everyone seemed so intent on hitting her but Kerry held the ball she had for one person and for just the right moment. Just as the other team started to dwindle she found the perfect moment Jessica had just wound up to throw the ball at her. Kerry threw the ball with a blur of speed and nailed Jessica in the face with the ball Jessica dropped the ball as she brought her hand to cover her face. Without even seeing it Kerry knew she had busted Jessica's nose she could smell the blood from where she was. It wasn't until Ms. Krumpford was dragging Kerry from the court that she had even noticed everyone staring at her and whispering.
" Kerry Nowicki principles office now " Shouted Ms. Krumpford over the rising voices of the other students. Kerry sat in the principles office listening to him go on and on about the gym class incident as if it was a violent attack it was a complete accident he was way over reacting.
"So Miss Nowicki you understand that since this incident was violent in nature I'm going to have to suspend you for a week" the principle stated as if he was bored with the whole thing.
" I understand just let her know that I'm very sorry that the game got out of hand" Kerry feigned regret and left the office with a smirk. Kerry left the school and drove home laughing about the event all the way home. She slowly opened the front door her father still asleep on the couch. She wrote him a note letting him know that she wasn't feeling well so she came home early from school and that she was asleep. Kerry laid in bed listening to music as sleep overcame her. She began to dream almost immediately which was odd. These dreams were unlike any of her other ones it was as if she was watching herself through someone else's eyes. It didn't take her long to realize that it was Michel's eyes she was seeing herself through. It was strange she could also feel what he was feeling specifically his feelings for her. The dream shifted and faded there she was watching herself walk away and feeling so much sorrow as she watched. Kerry jumped awake as she felt a hand brush the side of her face. Startled and shocked she quickly realized that it was Michel that was sitting next to her with that heart melting smile on his face.
"Here I brought you something to drink figured you'd be thirsty when you woke up." Kerry was a little caught off guard as she realized that she was parched. She took the glass unable to see what he had brought her due to the dark but whatever it was smelled delicious. She downed it without pause he smiled at her. Without him saying a word she knew that he was watching her pondering what she remembered about the day before. Why she questioned to herself what happened that he's worried about.
A/N
So here we go with number 6's rewrite just one more to go then hopefully to finish the story so as always please review and enjoy. Stay tuned for more in the story of A Companions Return.