"I can't believe Roxie is sick!" Annalise whined as the three girls made their way through the park. "Today, of all days! We need her today! She's out star!"
The fall wind was cool as it whipped around them and Alex tightened the scarf around her neck before patting Annalise sympathetically on the back. Olivia was running a little way ahead, kicking fallen leaves and stomping on the many puddles formed by the past few day's rain. She was wearing a pair of ladybug rain boots, which would have looked childish on anyone else, but on Olivia, they were just endearing.
"We'll do fine, stop worrying about it!" said Alex, looping her hand through Annalise's. "Sure, Roxie is the most skilled of us, but we're a team, and we're going to kick butt."
"Yeah, but-" stared Annalise but she was cut off by Olivia.
"Check out this leaf!" she said with a big grin, excited beyond reason. In her hands was a maple leaf, bigger than her face, with a beautiful array of colors across its surface. Reds, yellows, oranges, and greens sliding and swirling in beautiful patterns on it and Alex smiled softly and looked up at the trees around them. True enough they were filled with similar colors as they swayed in the wind.
"God, I love autumn," she said, her smile widening.
"Yeah, we know," said Annalise with a laugh as they continued walking, Olivia leaving their side occasionally to pick up more beautiful leaves from the ground. "And everything that entails."
"Is there a sweeter thing in the world than a pumpkin spice latte?" sighed Alex wistfully.
"Anything else," said Annalise at the same time as Olivia chimed, "Cotton candy!"
"It was a rhetorical question and you know it, twats," said Alex, giving her friends a mock glare. "And quit raining on my parade, I don't ruin Valentine's day for you, do I?"
"But I thought you liked rain!" said Annalise and then dodged the slap Alex haphazardly threw her way.
"Hey! Skye!" squealed Olivia when the front of the gymnasium came into view. She was waving at the fourth girl who had been waiting for them by the front door and she waved back. Olivia ran the rest of the way, only remembering to check for traffic after stepping on the road that ran between the park and the gymnasium.
"Sorry, did you wait long?" asked Alex when the two of them reached the gymnasium. Olivia had already glued herself to Skye's side, but she smiled and shook her head.
"I've only been here for a few minutes. I could hear your talking from across the park and decided to wait," she told the others. Olivia rested her head on Skye's shoulder and smiled in a manner that could really only be described as 'stupidly'.
"That's nice of you," said Annalise as they started to move inside. "Olivia clearly appreciates it."
Olivia stuck her tongue out a her, but then turned her attention back to Skye, a wide smile on her face. They greeted the janitor as they walked across the entrance hall and towards the back, through the door that lead downstairs where the dressing rooms were situated. Their dressing room was empty when they got there and Alex checked her watch, surprised. They did have over forty minutes left, which explained why no one else had come yet.
"Someone remind me why we're here so early?" she asked.
"Because you said we wouldn't have time to go anywhere else after school so it would be just the same to come straight here," said Annalise, hanging her bag in one of the lockers and pulling her coat off.
"Well why didn't anyone tell me I was wrong," complained Alex as she started to tug her own boots off. "We would've had time to stop by that one café on the way from school, but it's too late now to go back!" She dropped the boots to the bottom of the locker and then unbuttoned her jacket.
"If we'd stopped, you would've just had a bunch of cupcakes, right?" asked Olivia with a grin. She'd already taken her uniform from her bag and was in the process of taking her shirt off. Alex flushed, but only a little, mind you.
"That's not true!" she sputtered and then paused. "Necessarily..."
"God, Alex, you can't binge eat on big days, you know that!" Annalise reprimanded her as she looked away. "It's bad enough Roxie is-"
"Roxie is what?" came a voice from the door and the four girls turned to see Roxie herself standing there, hands on her hips and a grin on her face.
"What the hell, girl?" Annalise almost shouted as she stood up and walked over to the tallest girl. "
We thought you were sick! Why weren't you at school?"
"I was sick," says Roxie, pushing past the not-quite-fuming Annalise. "So I decided to skip school and rest so I'd have enough energy to come here! I couldn't leave you guys stranded on our big day, now could I?"
"Nice," said Alex and gave her a fistbump. Annalise sighed and rubbed her forehead.
"Well, as long as you're here now. You sure you're up for this?" she asked.
"As sure as I'll ever be!" said Roxie, giving her a thumbs up.
"Should we do some last minute practicing once everyone has changed?" suggested Skye, who had apparently managed to change into her uniform already. The others nodded in agreement and went back to changing, and once they were all ready they went over to one of the large rooms along the hall.
After a rather tense thirty minutes of practicing they left again, stopping by the dressing room once more, before making their way up into the main hall.
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Ooh, exciting!
Apparently our main character this time is... a group of teenage girls. Or like... young adults. 18±2yrs I imagine. Alex is British.
But the big question is, of course, what exactly do they do? Is it a sport? Basketball, volleyball, floorball? Is it dancing? Or is it something... magical?? A pokemon contest!? Are they participating in a talent show?? Who knows!!? I sure as hell don't!!
We shall see, eh?
Okay, so, schedule! We're doing this thing like we did with the previous story: that is every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, each writing every second one. It will go... until it goes, somewhere to the middle of November probably. It will end before December tho, because that's when the next Christmas story begins.
On a separate note, in case someone missed it I finally wrote that epilogue for "The Sorcerer"! Yay! It's literally the previous post made, so just keep scrolling down to get to that. And drop a note if there's still something you didn't understand about what happened/want to know something more about what went on after the thing.
Anyway, I'm gonna go eat dinner now. The next part will be on Monday and the topic will be... "Wild"!
Pie out.
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