Chapter 9: IT LOOKS BETTER ON YOU
We all assembled in a line, both boys and girls.
‘’Today we are going to share the field with the girls, so boys I hope you will be in your best behavior’’
‘’Girls, I want you to know, why I have chosen on doing the class here; because I want to see how fast you guys can run. Am I clear?’’
‘’Crystal’’ we hollered
‘’so boys will be training in the center of the field whilst the girls will be taking the running tracks, so let’s get started’’ Coach Parker says and blows his whistle.
We girls walk towards the running track.
‘’get into your positions’’ Ms. Hellen says after we finish warming up
‘’Ready?’’ she asks as we take our positions
‘’yes’’ we holler
‘’give 5 rounds’’ she says
‘’On your mark’’
‘’Get set’’
‘’GO!’’ she blows a whistle and all of us start running, I ran as if my life depended on it, a tinge of joy built inside me I felt as if, I was flying, I was smiling, I felt as if I was tasting liberty. The cold air hitting my skin, made me feel as if, it were signified only to take away all my worries. I felt euphoric! The feeling was unutterable. I had completely lost track of how many rounds I had given, seeing many girls had already backed out or slowed down, I understood I was doing well, but there were girls still behind me trying to take my position, my limbs started throbbing. I took a glance towards Ms. Hellen and asked
‘’how many rounds left?’’ I asked running and breathing heavily.
‘’One more to go!! Come on Katherine you are doing great!!’’ Ms. Hellen exclaimed.
I completed my last round with Ms. Hellen’s whistle. I slowly walk towards the bleachers and squat over there panting and drinking water but most importantly I was interested in knowing my timing,
‘’what’s my timing??’’ I asked curiously after Ms. Hellen had recorded all the timings
‘’I must say you have surprised me, girl!!’’ Ms. Hellen says with a smile
‘’Thank you’’ I say, still panting tediously
The coach and the boys walk towards us ‘’that was a mind-blowing race!’’ the Coach says
‘’Thank you’’ I say feeling too proud of myself
‘’so the timing, I will not say that I was expecting this, but I knew you would do good. Katherine your timing was 3.75 minutes as in, you took 45 seconds for each round!’’ she says clapping her hands frantically
The boys and the coach clapped as well.
‘’I must say the boys needed a week to come in 45 seconds per round’’ he says smirking
‘’enough coach, we get it she’s good, we don’t need to glorify her and boost her ego that much’’ Christian says and I roll my eyes at his comment, I didn’t have the energy of fighting with him at the moment so I just overlooked him.
‘’shut up Chris. You did a great job’’ a ginger-haired guy says with a smile and I nodded in gratitude.
After getting ‘well done’ s and ‘great job's the class ends, and I and Natalie head towards the changing room. Being the last ones to enter the dressing room; we found the bathrooms and the room empty I head towards my locker to take my clothes, when I open the locker I see that my clothes were drenched with water. I didn’t know how it happened or did anyone do it intentionally? Not being able to come to a conclusion I groan and say ‘’you must be kidding me!!’’
‘’what’s wrong?’’ Natalie asks and I show her my wet clothes
‘’I am so sure Nichole did this!’’ Natalie exclaims
‘’no, why would she do it?’’ I ask confusedly raising an eyebrow
‘’of course, she would! The boys were freaking impressed by your running skills and before that they were staring at you with enthusiasm, I am sure she noticed that as no one was giving her shit’’ she huffed
‘’giving her shit’’ I laughed
‘’Yeah. Now what are you going to do, I would have lent you mine but I don’t have any extra’’
‘’it’s fine Nat I will shower and wear the wet clothes I sure as hell cannot wear these muddy P.E dress’’ I say by pointing on my P.E shorts and t-shirt
‘’but you are going to be sick!’’ she says in a muffled voice
‘’come on, I am not that weak, I already have detention, I am sure my clothes will be dried by the air-conditioner’’ I smile, reassuring her
‘’ I am sorry I couldn’t help you’’
‘’enough, it’s alright Nat, I am going to take the shower, I don’t wanna get another detention’’ I say smiling at her and head towards the bathroom.
After showering I come out and was waiting for Natalie. Scrolling through my phone I see that I only had 20 minutes before the detention starts and I didn’t even know which room it was going to be held in.
‘’Nat, I guess I gotta get going, my detention starts in 20 minutes’’
‘’Yeah, it’s fine Kate, bye and thanks again’’ she shouts from the bathroom
‘’No problem and sorry’’
‘’it’s fine, go or else you will be late’’
‘’Yeah, right bye’’ with that I exit the dressing room. Suddenly someone grabs my hand and pulls me towards the closest closet. Before I could start shouting, my kidnapper places a hand on my mouth.
‘’Shush’’ he says and I instantly recognize the voice
‘’God! Christian what on earth is wrong with you?!’’ I exclaim
‘’you didn’t flinch’’ he sates after staring at me for a second
‘’What?’’ I say confusedly
‘’you didn’t flinch’’ he sounded surprised and showed me that by grabbing my hands
Honestly, I was surprised as well. ‘’yeah I guess, I just knew your touch or something, I don’t know… why didn’t I flinch...’’ I trail away, taking my hands away from his.
‘’okay’’ he sighs and mutters something I didn’t hear
‘’what do you want?’’ I ask raising an eyebrow
‘’Oh I wanted to say, you were great on the field’’ I roll my eyes
‘’really? why are you saying this? It will boost my ego right?’’ I ask, repeating what he said
‘’no I mean, that time I was just angry’’ he says and I sneeze
‘’Am’’ sneeze ‘’I’’ sneeze ‘’your’’ sneeze ‘’anger venting’’ sneeze ‘’ machine?’’ sneeze
‘’what happened? Why are sneezing?’’ he asked and I could hear the concern in his voice. That's not possible. I really need to clean my ears. ‘’and why are your clothes drenched?’’ he exclaims
‘’None’’ sneeze ‘’of your business’’ sneeze
‘’oh hell it is, wait’’ he says sternly and takes out a sweatshirt from his bag ‘’wear this’’
‘’you don’t need to-‘’ I say but he interjects ‘’wear it’’ he says sternly.
I sigh ‘'fine get out, to let me change’’
‘’I would rather stay in’’ he says with a smirk
‘’Gross, get out!’’
‘’okay woman calm down, I gave you my shirt, I deserve some respect’’
‘’I didn’t want your shirt’’ I say when he nears the door he chuckles and says
‘’I know, you want me!’’ he shouts and leaves the room before I could reply
‘’Yeah. As if’’ I say to myself, and pull over my wet t-shirt and put on his sweatshirt.
It smelled like him, a faint smell of his cologne, and boyish as much as I hate to admit it, it smelled good.
I exit the room and see him standing in front of the door, blocking my way.
‘’Move’’ I say and he turn back, in my way
‘’This is the moment, I am supposed to say,'it looks better on you', but I guess I won’t be saying that’’ he says with a wink and shamelessly checking me out
‘’wasn’t expecting to’’ I say rolling my eyes and a blush crept its way on my face when I saw him checking me out. I pushed him aside and started walking so that he doesn’t see me blushing because of him, why am I blushing?!
‘’Why are you going that way? The detention is this way’’ he exclaims from where he’s standing
I groan and turn towards him ‘’Do you know where it is being held?’’ I ask checking my phone only to see 10 minutes left for the detention to start
‘’yes I do’’ he states staring at his phone
‘’where?’’ I ask
‘’What did I say? Nothing Is free’’ he states
I groan ‘’you know what I will find it myself’’ I say and start walking not knowing where I was heading
I hear footsteps behind me and I turn around ‘’ will you help me out?! For god’s sake we are being late’’ I exclaim
‘’only in one condition’’ I huff in annoyance
‘’And what is that?’’ sounding defeated and sneeze. I notice that the corner of his lips tug upwards in my defeat.
‘’why were your clothes drenched I mean, if you were so eager on playing water fight you could have kept extra clothes right?’’ he asks
‘’I didn’t play water fight, I found my clothes wet in my locker’’ I huff ‘’now let’s go?’’ I say raising an eyebrow
‘’yeah, just walk with me. that means someone intentionally drenched them’’
‘’obviously’’ I say rolling my eyes
‘’who?’’
‘’I don’t know’’
‘’Hmm..’’ he says and zones out as if he was in a very deep thought.
‘’Here we are’’ he says opening the library’s door. Oh so this is where the detentions are held.
‘’and don’t follow me’’ he adds and I roll my eyes, as If I was planning on following him. Asshole.
Gifts
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received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
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