(Alexander)
After she took off her sandals I noticed her wince when she got up, her taking off her sandals was a double-edged sword. It may help in her speed but It would be quite painful running around after me barefoot. I sighed in exasperation "you're going to regret it"
"I don't care, winning is going to make it all worth it," the girl said.
Geez, I didn't mean to rile her up this much, but it's kinda her fault for provoking me first. I looked at the guard, "start the countdown for one minute, on your mark"
"Ready, set, go!"
She started the game the same way she did previously, running towards me head on. Instead of dodging to her left I went to the right so she could fall down again, but this time she had better footing so with her left foot she slid forward and used the momentum to continue chasing after me. Gosh this is gonna be a pain, I didn't think the sandals would make too much of a difference from last time. I started to use the playground itself this round by climbing up the slide and using the opposite one to put some distance between ourselves. There were too many close calls for comfort and I can confidently say that we were almost evenly matched. The only explanation I can come up with on why I've been having the upper hand is through physique. I'm a boy and she's a girl, at our age there's a huge gap on what we could do, well for right now at least.
I could already see her starting to run out of breath and stamina by the amount of sweat she's been showing. I looked at the guard so he could give me the amount of time left, he showed me ten fingers meaning 10 seconds. The girl noticed that I was distracted so she built up the last of her energy to rush at me with a last feeble attempt. I backed away to find any option of escape but found myself backed into a corner for the second time.
Great, am I really going to let my first loss be with this girl… certainly not, She's probably going to rub it into my nose until the day I die. How could I ever lose to someone I just met? I ran towards the wall, making sure she was right behind me. As we got closer to the wall I sped up, then with the best precision I ever did, I turned. "It's been really fun playing with you red head, but I think it's time to end this" I immediately changed directions and ran, causing her to lose her footing by her own momentum which made her run into the wall in front of her.
Yikes! That's gotta hurt, I was about to walk towards her to see if she was alright when two figures sprinted past me to her laying form. "Oh my gosh, are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere? Should I go call Mom or dad?" The other red head who I can only guess was her sister looked flustered as she touched her to make sure nothing was broken. The other dark haired girl just looked distraught while looking at him in a venomous gaze, she looked like she wanted to punch me for what I did, but I didn't really do anything though, she's the one that ran into the wall.
"Ughhh, the girl moaned, I feel like I just got hit by a car"
I laughed, it's a good sign that she's making jokes, "oh you got hit all right, by a wall that is". From the sound of my voice she immediately sat up and glared at me. "Not funny"
I raised my arms in self defense "my bad, though I do have to say that I wouldn't get up if I were you"
"Yea, yea, whatev-ouch!" she tried to stand up, only to fall back down on her knees.
"I told you" I sighed, I walked towards her and knelt down in front of her, I pointed towards the soles of her feet where dozens of splinters dug into her. "You shouldn't walk on your feet or else those will dig in more"
"Thanks for the late warning" she grumbled
"Anytime" I smiled, "well now since I won I think It's time to reap the rewards". She gave me a look of 'you're seriously doing this now' before sighing and giving a shrug. "As for my first order, I want you to introduce me to everyone here and to tell me your name"
"That's two"
"Its a two parted single order"
She gave me a hard stare before giving in. "Fine whatever, my sister's name is Layla and she's my cousin Eva" pointing at each one of them in turn, "as for that jerk that didn't want to come… his name is Edward," She said.
"And yours?"
A hard silence ensued "Its Kiara"
"Kiara huh, nice name"
"I didn't ask for your opinion"
I sighed, this girl is going to be the death of me, I sat back down wondering how we were going to get her back to the dining hall when an amusing idea surfaced. "Ok, I know what my second order is going to be"
"Wow I'm so excited" she moaned while rolling her eyes
"Trust me it's a great idea, I want you to ride me back to the dining hall, piggyback style"
"Are you freaking serious, there's no way I'm going to do that"
Everyone laughed, and after a bit of persuasion from her sister Layla, and a bit of her honor contributing too we finally got her to agree to do it. With the help of both of them, they were able to get her onto my back. I gripped the back of her knees as I began to stand. 'Oh wow, she's so light, well I'm not going to give her the satisfaction of getting a free ride'. "Ughhhh my gosh, why are you so heavy, look, you're even making my legs shake" I said, shaking my legs in the process.
"Shut up, I'm not fat" she yelled
"Wow, language, are you sure your mom allows you to speak that way?"
"It's not up to you, I just want to get this over with, now hurry up," she said, flapping her feet back and forth.
"Ok ok, geez, you're going to make me lose my balance"
I carried Kiara back through the path we came from with the other two girls following close behind, soon I saw a man standing outside of the dining lobby. He looked over in our direction and began to walk towards us, "oh good, I was just about to head over to you kids, everyone is getting ready to leave". As he got closer he noticed the slightly bloody feet on Kiara, he told me that he's Kiara's dad and that he would take her from here. I stood there as another woman who looked like an older version of Kiara opened the door, she walked out and after one look at her daughter's condition started to fuss around her. After reassuring herself that she would be alright she bent down to pick up Layla and with the family back together they said their goodbyes to everyone and left.
I waited for a while longer outside of the dining hall in the lobby for my parents. I noticed the doors open again and saw my parents already ready to leave. They motioned to me to follow them, and as we got back into the car they went back to their normal selves. They bombarded me about next week's practice schedule and how I need to improve my grades for a good Ivy League university. I sighed internally while looking out the window trying to drone out everything there trying to say. If the legendary Suyama had to go through all this to get where she did then I want no part of it. I started thinking about the happy family of that redhead Kiara and how both of her parents looked at her in concerning gazes, I envy her, but I had fun playing with her too. If I ever do see her again I want to call the match and challenge her, oh wait, now that I think about it I should have ordered her to call me by my name. Never mind then, I seriously don't want to see her again.
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The drive home was such a pain, mom made me sit in a certain way so that my feet wouldn't be touching anywhere, so the sitting position wasn't comfortable at all. To make the drive any worse she was questioning me on how I got my feet to look all banged up. "The sandals were giving me blisters and they were starting to hurt, so I wanted to take them off". Mom gave me an odd look, she didn't really believe me, she inspected my feet and it didn't look like there were any blisters. "Kiara, I know you're lying, but can you at least tell me where your sandals are?". I didn't say anything because I had no excuse for that, I was about to apologize when Layla decided to tell her the truth "She decided to challenge that kid Alex so she took off her shoes so she could run faster". You goody-two-shoe brat you ratted me out. "Kiara, I'm not going to punish you because kids lose things all the time when they play so I'll let you off the hook this time," mom said as she inspected my feet, "though I think your punished enough with all these splinters in your feet" she had an evil glint in her eyes and it wasn't helping me feel safe at all.
Once we got back to Grandma Liz's home mom carried me to her room, she sat me down on her bed while getting a pillow and gave it to me. "Ok Kiara this is how it's going to go, I need you to lay down, it doesn't matter what side but I need you to dangle your feet off the bed ok?". I was confused but I had an idea of where this was going. "Wait mom, I'm sorry, I won't lose my shoes again, please don't hit me" I stuttered desperately, I had previous trauma and experience in this position and I surely didn't want to go through it again. Mom laughed at my reaction "relax, I'm just telling you to lay down so I could take out all your splinters, so you better be laying down when I come back". Relief enveloped me, making me relax as she left towards the bathroom. I followed her instructions as I laid down on my stomach and waited.
When mom came back she was carrying a tweezer and a first aid kit "I need you to lay still, this is going to hurt so ill be as quick as I can" She sat right next to my legs and proceeded to bend my knee, lifting my feet up to the air. I gritted my teeth and tried to restrain my yelps of pain as she dug into my flesh to remove the splinters. It went on like this for a good while until I felt her placing pads onto my sole's "ok i'm all done, I just need to pour some of this water to clean it out ok?" She lifted a clear bottle of clear liquid so I could see. "Ok" I said. She lifted both my feet and began to pour the water on top of them, I felt a searing indescribable pain before I blacked out.
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Author:
wow can you believe it, I just posted two chapters in a row 0_0
Praise me x_x
its a 2k, so I wrote the quite a lengthy one
It was difficult on deciding on weather or not I should extend the chap or not, so i decided not to, suck to be yall haha
Welp until next time