Again, that was another obvious one for who came into it. Lel. I'm seriously debating on whether or not to put someone else, or a couple other people, into the story bc I feel like there needs to be more than just 5 people. Idk. Maybe. Do you guys want another character in the story? But it can't be Ryland, Maia or Laura bc they're in the flashbacks. I mean, I have a character in mind but he doesn't exactly have anythign to do with R5 much... I have asked someone, but yeah. I guess this is up to you guys now really.

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R5Girl13: If I said he's the very last character to come into the story... then he's obviously not dead is he? Haha. cx

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Chapter 7
A Sort of Friend

Ratliff walked up the steps, more stomping angrily, to the roof of the school mumbling stuff under his breath about the ass of the teacher who made him do this. It's the start of his senior year in high school, why don't the teachers expect Ratliff to not be doing the stuff he won't be able too soon because he leaves?

Maybe this was a little bit mean, but there were some kids that, obviously, go to this school and they had a football. For a joke, Ratliff ran over with his friends and kicked the ball away from them. Of course he gave them it back, but then it ended up hitting him in the side of the head minutes later so he took the ball and kicked it as hard as he could where it landed on the roof of the school. Unfortunately one of the school teachers who just so happens to hate him, Mrs Hayes, caught him doing it.

Needless to say she came over, shouted, threatened him with detentions, exclusions and what not before he finally came round to going upstairs onto the roof and getting the ball and throw it back down.

Best part, the school has an elevator and she wouldn't let him use it. He had to walk the flights of stairs up to the roof. The tiring, stone steps.

Wonderful.

He got to the top and sat down on the bench that was there. His legs had gone numb from walking up the stairs. He sat there for a couple seconds, twisting and turning his head to see if he could find the football. Seen as though it wasn't in sight, that meant it was behind one of the big plant pots or air ventilation.

Ratliff pushed himself up off the bench, making it look like great struggle, and made his way across the roof to go find the football. He checked in between the plants in case he kicked it into one of them, in which case if the gardener who did all this found out he or she would not be pleased.

Ratliff's head turned towards the front of the building when he heard something. He stopped peaking into the plants for the ball and made his way to the front of the building to see what it was. He didn't know why he was taking it slowly for, it wasn't like something was going to jump out at him.

He got to the front and slowly looked down behind the lump of stone, or whatever it was, where he saw a boy about his age sat there. Ratliff jumped a little because he wasn't expecting somebody to be there, he was just expecting the ball to be there rolling about. But no. A blonde boy the ball next to him. The blonde boy looked up to Ratliff "Is this yours?" He asked, holding the ball.

"Not exactly, I got forced by a teacher to come up and get it for kicking it onto the roof."

The boy threw the ball to Ratliff and he caught it. Ratliff walked over to the ledge of the roof and looked down, seeing the boys he'd taken the football off as well as the teacher stood there waiting. "HEADS!" Ratliff shouted, catching their attention. He threw the ball down at full force. Secretly he was trying to "accidentally" hit Mrs Hayes, but that failed because it only bounced about 3 metres in front of her and hit somebody else. "Sorry..."

"Don't forget, Ellington. Come see me at break." Mrs Hayes called up "and get back down here for goodness sake before you get caught by someone you shouldn't!"

Ratliff gave her a sarcastic thumb up before turning round to where the blonde boy was still sat. "What are you doing here?" He asked. He was curious, due to the fact there was nothing interesting up here and nobody was ever seen here.

"I got a lesson first that I don't really want to go to."

Ratliff nodded "Can't blame you," he went to go walk off, but stopped when he realised something. He turned around and looked back at the boy "Wait... a lesson first you don't like?" Ratliff asked, the blonde nodded "don't suppose it's English with Mr Baxter, is it?" Ratliff asked.

The blonde looked up at Ratliff, sort of suspiciously "Yes..."

"I'm in that class too. Don't you sit at like the back of the classroom near the window?" Ratliff asked "or am I completely wrong?"

"No, I do. And you sit at the back too about 2 seats away from me. I'd know because your two other friends sit in between us."

Ratliff nodded, almost like he should have known this and he really should have "Oh, yeah! Riker, right?" Ratliff asked,Riker nodded. Ratliff got on the floor and sat next to him "skipping lesson, huh? I never thought you'd be the type."

Riker shrugged. Ratliff smiled "Riker, I can see this being the start of a beautiful friendship." he said, taking his hand and shaking it.

And that's where it started.

Though doesn't everything start when you make friends with someone? A great story between you both. It just so happened that for Ratliff and Riker that was where their friendship began, obviously. You might think "Oh, how sweet, new friendship" but, there was more to it than you probably think.

After finding Riker, they checked to make sure he was alive and not dead. He was alive. He had just been knocked out or passed out from something.

Seen as though Ratliff knew who he was, Ross and Rocky decided it was okay for them to bring Riker along with them. And so they did.

They all climbed back to the top of the hill, with Rocky and Ratliff carrying Riker back up too the top, where they all grabbed everything they needed out from the back of the car. Rydel didn't need anything from the car, but she decided to carry Rocky's backpack seen as though he was probably going to be helping carry Riker until they found a safe spot, which was what they were going to look for.

It had only just got to the afternoon. All of them had been walking for around two hours now ever since they had to ditch the car, due to it breaking down. Riker still hadn't come round. The four of them all took turns in carrying him every so often as they would stop for breaks and what not.

Right now Ross and Rocky were carrying Riker whilst Ratliff and Rydel walked in front carrying the backpacks for them. Rydel sighed, swinging Ross's backpack off her shoulder and going into it too look and see if he got anything decent to eat in the backpack from when he and Rocky robbed the store earlier.

He did. Thank God. And drinks too.

Ross and Rocky had huge bags with them. Rydel and Ratliff both knew there was probably more in the bags, but they decided not to look through them or ask until they got a little further along the journey and could ask more about what they were going to do.

Rydel took out two packets of sweets. Sure they weren't actual food, but they would do for now. She held her hand out towards Ratliff with one of the packets "Here, incase your hungry." Rydel said.

Ratliff took the packet from her "Thanks." he said, giving her a small smile.

Rydel glanced behind her where Ross and Rocky were carrying Riker and having a small conversation of their own. She turned back round and returned to talking to Riker "So, you knew him in high school?" Rydel asked. Ratliff nodded. "Did you both use to be best friends or something?" She asked.

Ratliff nodded, shrugging a little "I guess you could say something like that..."

Rydel raised her eye brows in a sort of puzzlement "Were you two like... frenemies?" Rydel asked.

Ratliff looked up to the blue sunny sky, like he was thinking about it "Well... maybe towards the end of the 'friendship' we had, you could say."

Rydel's eyes widened a little, she raised her eye brows again "Were you two...?"

Ratliff turned his head, he looked at Rydel for a moment debating on whether or not to answer that question. As he went too, they were disturbed by a voice from behind them. They both turned where they saw Ross and Rocky had stopped walking and placed Riker down on the floor. Ross was stretching his arms, due to because they were aching from carrying Riker "Its your turn now," Ross said, hinting it to Ratliff "my arms are aching."

Ratliff walked over to him. Rydel followed to go take Rocky's place in carrying Riker, but when she went to Rocky stopped her "No," he said "it's okay. Ross is just a pussy and can't handle strength." he said, joking slightly.

Ross glared at Rocky for a few seconds, then taking his bag from Ratliff and putting it on his back. He started walking with Rydel by his side whilst Rocky and Ratliff got Riker again. "Did you talk about anything interesting to Ratliff?" Ross asked.

Rydel shook her head "No. Not really. When we were about to talk, you interrupted us."

Ross laughed "Sorry. I'm sure you can both continue your little conversation later."

Rydel smiled sarcastically "Maybe."

Sorry for the short chapter, I needed to get this in somewhere. I promise the next chapter will kick off the story even more :) Okay? YAY!

Remember what I said at the beginning of the chapter about the new character? Yeah, tell me what you think.

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