This chapter took so long for me to write but I knew I had to get it over with if I wanted to get to the good parts, so here it is.
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Chapter 4: Awkward Moments
"What now, Fang?" Iggy asked me after that girl had gotten quite far away from us.
"We have to watch her and make sure she doesn't do anything funny" I said as I returned to the rest of the flock.
Nudge was hovering over the laptop, looking really frustrated. "She must have modified it or something, but I don't see how she can if she doesn't even touch the keyboard to go on!" said Nudge. She fell on her back, her eyes closed and her arms spread out.
"Keep trying. I'm sure you'll get it soon" I said. The only reason why we even attempted to take her computer was because I had a very good feeling that it contained very important Itex related things that would take us months to get. How she got her hands on it, I don't know. But it would be very useful to us.
"Iggy, Gazzy, Total, go find some firewood. Don't blow up anything this time. Angel, you get anything yet?" I asked as I took a seat next to her. She had been unnaturally quiet since we captured that girl.
"She keeps blocking me out. She's not faltering at all. The only thing I got from her was when she was knocked out. She seems just like us. I think she had a sister, but she lost her near the School" Angel said. She shivered as she remembered her time at the School.
It wasn't like a basket full of dull roses.
It was more like Hell packed up and moved from the Underworld to that place.
I clenched my jaw, trying hard not to remember the dog cages, the unimaginable torture, the failed experiments dying right and left . . . yeah, not doing too well in the remembering section.
"Keep a close eye on her" I said as I stood up to go help Nudge as best as I could. I only glanced back once to see the girl, her hair seeming to shimmer in the dimming sunlight, the water splashing around her as she caught some fish. Her head swivelled in my direction and I quickly turned my head around and continued to help Nudge with the computer.
By the time she came back, Iggy, Gazzy, and Total had already come back with firewood and had started a small fire. We were putting random things that I had in my bag on clean and stripped sticks and roasting them over the fire.
"YOU'RE BACK!" Total yelled as he rushed to the approaching figure. The girl had three makeshift baskets woven out of twigs; one in her left and right hand, and her mouth. Where she got them from or how she made them, I would never know. She put the two in her hands down on the ground and took the last one out of her mouth. She smiled warmly at Total. "Is all of this for me?" asked Total.
"Definitely not. But you get first dibs" she said as she bent down. "OK, so you're a dog" she said.
Total scowled and puffed up his chest. "I prefer 'smart canine', thank you very much" said Total proudly.
She chuckled slightly. "And a smart canine like yourself must have a name. So what is it, oh smart canine?" she asked. I could tell there was a slight hint of sarcasm in her voice.
"It's Total . . . " he said, sounding off, as if he was shocked.
"A very smart name for a very cool dog" she said as she put her hand behind Total's ear and started to scratch. I swore that Total literally became putty in her hand, the way he melted to the floor with his tongue hanging out and his tail wagging like a maniac.
She looked up from Total with a small smile. "Angel, could you take this one? I got some for the rest of you . . . in case you wanted some" she said as she stood up. Everyone looked toward her, thinking the same thing.
"How do you know my name?" Angel asked cautiously. The girl shrugged a little.
"I heard it being said earlier and guessed it was you. I pick up on names pretty quickly" she said, as if it wasn't a big deal. Angel looked at Total, who seemed content beyond words, and back to the girl. "If you don't want it now, I'll just leave it here" said the girl as she picked up her basket. Her eyes seemed to linger on the flames before she turned away and walked to a different tree away from our makeshift camp.
"What just happened?" asked Nudge, confusion clearly scribbled on her face.
"I'll tell you what happened! I just found a new best friend!" said Total, grabbing some fish from the basket into his mouth and bringing it to the fire. My eyes shifted to the flames while my mind drifted, trying to comprehend what I had just witnessed when I swear I saw a spark float out of our fire to the girl's sticks that she had gathered. The spark landed and suddenly, she had a huge flame, higher than even her own head.
"Fang, you OK?" Nudge asked, noticing the way I spaced out.
"Yeah, I'm fine" I said, grabbing a fish and putting it on a stick.
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