A/N:Chapter 15

Never Give In

Chapter 15

Auggie

There were a lot of things that Auggie was aware of. He was aware that when it get super cold the glass windows fog up. He was aware that if you step on third step at his school bleachers area there is a slight squick. And that sometimes in the late nights when he has a nightmare, Riley will crawl into his bed. By morning she will be gone. He never wondered how she knew. He assumed it was because Riley was his sister, and the females in his family tend to know everything.

His sister wasn't around anymore to help him through the nightmares. And he was grown up, he can't go to his parents. But he was grateful that they do check up on him every night. He knew they did because his door squicked ever so slightly. It made him feel less alone.

He also knew that if you placed kids his age in an empty room with nothing to do someone will eventually get bored and things could potentially be catastrophic. That was one of the words for vocabulary this week.

Along with ostracised and flamboyant. Their usual teacher was out with the flu and they had a substitute teacher who told them that he will be out of the classroom for about fifteen minutes for personal reasons. Or something along those lines, he was not really paying attention.

Greg Miller was his classmate. He had blonde hair, green eyes and a knack for getting into trouble. He was easily bored and had a certain charisma that made almost everyone in their class follow whatever dumb thing he would do.

Normally Auggie would not mind, it gave him a distraction but today was one of those day. Those days where he felt a little lost a whole lot more and he wanted to just drown in self-pity and sadness.

"Auggie," Ava approached. Ava was his girlfriend, if that made sense. He had loved Ava for a pretty long time now, regardless of whichever grown up that said he was too young to understand what love was. Ava was his best friend, next to Dewey of course, and she easily had recognised when he was upset. Sure to other people she was self centered, a little wacky and unhinged but Auggie knew she protected and loved strongly.

"Yes Ava?"

"Do you want to join Greg, he is trying to convince people about this website that can read people's future," Ava said with a roll of her eyes.

"Not right now," Auggie replied, not taking his eyes of his notebook. He could barely remember what was written on the page. Auggie sensed more than saw Ava turning that was in front of his desk and sat down.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Ava asked not unkindly.

"Do you miss your Dad?' He asked.

"I get to see him every once in awhile. He tries to make up for leaving by trying to get me things," Ava said off handedly before her voice took a slightly more different tone, "I do miss it when I wake and he isn't around. I have my mom but it's not the same. I know that my parents are in a good place and I should be happy but sometimes I wonder what it would be like if they stayed together."

"Mrs Svorski used to tell me to have faith in what life i s giving me now, she said that thing could always be much worst," Auggie said. Ava waited for Auggie to continue, "I just wonder too, how life would be if things were different."

Ava knew what he was implying, knew the direction of his thought and she wished that she could find the words or actions to make things better. She was about to say something when Greg Miller rushed to their table; eye wide with excitement.

"I got the computer working, come on let's find out of future," He said before dragging the pair of them to the computers. Auggie could see his other classmate chatter and talk about their supposed future.

"Okay so how does this work," Ava said, her tone no longer soft, but in a mildly disinterested bored tone. Auggie shot her a look of amusement before he had to focus on what Greg said. Greg was speaking a mile a minute.

"...And so after that just type in your name and tick your answers to the question and they will show you your future. It's super accurate, they said I was going to be wearing blue today and my mom laid out a blue shirt for me," Greg boasted.

"Oh dear lord," Ava said. Auggie could tell that she was about to snap a sarcastic retort to Greg. He decided to step in before Ava bit Greg's head off.

"That sounds neat," nudging Ava who was giving him a look of disdain, "We'll try it out."

"You should, the website said that I was going to be a scientist," Greg said proudly.

"The only experiment that he will be a part of would be why someone could be that dumb," Ava muttered under her breathe.

"Let's just try, what harm could it do?" Auggie coaxed her.

"Famous last words," Ava said but followed along.

The website itself had all these bold wording and bright colour scheme that almost hurt to look at. Auggie started to read the questions which were super bizarre and random like 'what is the difference between a dove and a crow' or 'how many ants can you see right now in you line of sight."

"The internet said that I'm going to get my sibling back in Spring," Ava shared as soon as she read her results, "That is so stupid, I'm an only child."

"What number did you write for how many ants you saw?" Auggie grinned.

"I didn't, I wrote the word porcupine."

Auggie shook his head and typed down his answer. He read the results.

Congratulations! You will be roomates with a soldier, try to skip lunch today and if anything avoid the mystery meat. This prediction was brought to you by the good people of the psychic realm. For a charitable donation you would be able too…

Auggie stopped reading and turned to see Ava beside him, "Huh lunch was an hour ago and there was no mystery meat. It was mac and cheese"

"Maybe they were talking about Cody's packed lunch"

"That would be something to stay away from," Ava agreed.

"So what's the verdict?"

"Greg is nuts," Ava replied easily, "But we already knew that. Come on let's get back to our seats before the sub comes back."

" Did I just here you try to respect a grown up," Auggie faked gasped.

"Haha, really funny," Ava said sourly, "You are lucky I like you."

And done. So something light hearted before the next chapter which is going to have some of the answers to certain questions. I hope you guys are having a good holidays. Till the next chapter :)