I've done a bit | An SVA stori

Chapter 20: Smoke Bomb!

The twentieth of April was Wolfs birthday. It was a sunny Thursday and despite her family making the day a big deal she didn't feel any better.

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Rowan met her at Bill Manks before school and they went through the trees.
"I'm shit with gifts but I actually got you something." He said.
"Shut up, you didn't?" She laughed.
He reached in his bag and took out the robot sword. It was folded and cleaned.
"What the fuck!? How'd you get that!?"
"It was easy actually I broke in." He boasted.
"You stole it? I'm not taking it, they're gonna think I stole it!"
"They're not gonna think anything." He swung the sword about.
"No, just, dump it somewhere."
"C'mon it's-"
"Just fock off!.. I'm not taking it." She walked off leaving the boy alone.

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Wolf was the only one in SunGlass City who went to class anymore. Two empty seats were beside her so she took Ires in the middle most classes.
History was boring. She wondered now if there was anything they didn't teach, or anything they didn't even teach the teachers.
Biology was the same. No walking coconuts, did the teachers know about them? No mushroom men. She'd think about him a lot.
Science books showed nothing she'd seen, nothing useful to her; not in this new world she'd found herself in. The world her friends abandoned this one for.
French was the worst, at least she could choose not to take it in year ten.
She wasn't an A student thank you.

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"Feels weird not being with Wolf now." Ire said.
Her, Tom and Rowan were in the library.
"Ye." Rowan agreed, "Don't blame her tho, it is pretty boring."
"It's research."
"Speaking of, I found this." He put an old note book on the table, "It washed up on the beach."
"What is it?"
"It's a map."
The pages told of a bunker below Holy Isles breakwater.
"We can go explore it!" Rowan planned.
"You're just psyched we're not reading." Ire said.
"Yea, we're doing something!" He said excitedly.
"Should we?"
"What?" Asked Tom.
"It's nice researching and all, but this might be dangerous."
"I can fight." He said proudly.
"I think if only us two go." Ire said.
"What about me?" Tom sulked.
"You stay safe with Wolf maybe."
"C'mon I wanna go!"
"It's dangerous we don't know who's gonna be down there."
"Listen, we'll go slowly, if anyone's down there I'll distract them while you two- three get out. We'll cover our faces so they won't see us, it'll be fine." Said Rowan.
Ire pulled Rowan in to whisper: "Promise me she won't get hurt."
"Promise." He whispered, "Tom!" He got up, "I got a plan for you. I got a GoPro, you want the honours of recording everything?"
"Really?" She chirped.
"Can you keep it down!" A kid popped his head around the corner.
It was a blonde boy, a bleach blonde boy!
"You!" Rowan laughed.
"You!" He said back before charging for him.

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"Bonnie." Her english teacher called as everyone was leaving class, "Are you okay?"
"Yea?" Wolf sighed.
"You're not engaging anymore, I've had a look through your work it's no where near your targets."
Wolf just shrugged.
"I moved you up a set because I thought you could keep up. You've just not been yourself lately."
"Whatever you sound like my dad." She said slyly.
"Excuse me?"
Wolf immediately regretted standing up.
"Sorry, I just-" She sighed.
"...your friends." Mrs Tank went on, "They've not shown up in a while. They're not protesting are they."
"Uhh, no." She said, trying to get her to finish.
"Sweetheart are you sure you're okay?"
Before Wolf could answer Mrs Tank went on, "You know if anything wrong, if you need to talk Ms Pendleton is-"
"Really, it's okay!" She left quickly.