Pixelated

In The Game

Katherine's POV

I landed with a thump on a hard surface. I looked down at my feet, but before I could take in what it looked like I vomited.

Poor ground.

I stepped away from my vomit just as Ari landed on top of it.

Gross. The vomit splashed up around her feet and stained her black leather combat boots. Ari looked down and cursed. She then noticed that the food at her feet was my salad and tofu burger from lunch.

"EWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!! KATHERINE JAYLYN FRANCO!" She turned around and glared at me. Then her face went blank.

"KAT!" She screamed, tackling me and catching me by surprise. "I got so scared!" she said, pulling away after giving me one more tight squeeze. I raised my eyebrows and smirked.

"The super-tough Ariana Stors was scared for moi? I'm honored to be your first Ar." I winked as she wrinkled up her face in disgust.

"You're a pervert," she said.

"Hey, you interpreted it like that, not me!"

She rolled her eyes. "But you implied it."

I smirked. "Nuh uh. But seriously, I'm honored to be the first person or thing on this Earth to scare you!" Arianna glared at me as another splash was heard. We grimaced and backed away from the vomit quickly, not wanting to get any on our clothes.

"GROSS!" Mindy and Nikki exclaimed. "AHHH!" they screamed as Lee landed on top of them. Weird how everybody except for me landed in the spot where the vomit was, whereas I had landed directly in front of the vomit. You know, since I was the one to put the vomit there in the first place...

"FUCK!" Lee exclaimed as she fell backwards off of Mindy's shoulders, down a total of five feet and six inches. She landed on her bum and did a backwards roll onto her feet. She dusted herself off and looked at the vomit splattered all over everyone's clothes except for mine and hers, and she raised her eyebrows.

"Really, Kat? Really? And weird, considering you must have landed exactly in front of the vomit, but everyone else landed on the vomit, in front of where you were... You'd think that everyone would land where you originally did... Oh, did you scare Ari?" she ranted, ending with a glee-filled question. Ari narrowed her eyes at Lee as I smugly said yes. Hayley laughed as Ari punched my arm.

"Traitor!" Ari exclaimed. I just smirked smugly.

"Soldiers! Get back on over here and quit fooling around! The busses are leaving soon, with or without you! And who the hell gave you permission to change out of your uniforms!?" a woman's voice said. We all turned to see a woman in her late twenties charging towards us angrily. Her black hair was pulled tightly into a low ponytail, and her chocolate skin glistened with sweat that was noticeable under the sunlight. I suddenly realized how hot it was and took off my sweater. The woman was wearing army fatigues with the sleeves rolled up. She had on black combat boots identical to Ari's.

"You're General Morgan!" I exclaimed, gaping. She turned abruptly to look at me strangely.

"Of course I am, Franco. Now get back on over to the rest of civilization and change back into your uniforms so we can get to the airport! Hussle, hussle!" She waved us to the left and we all ran to an area with a few large tents and a couple large busses. The tents were being packed up, and people in U.S. Army fatigues were climbing the busses, bags in hand.

I glanced over at the girls, who looked just as confused as me. Furrowing my eyebrows, I tried to think of some explanation for all of...this. But nothing popped up. Everything was normal. Nikki was being herself, Mindy was being herself, Lee was being herself, and Ari was only a little more bitchier than normal, and that's just because she lost that racing match. Then I made the rest of the girls play 21 Guns, as usual.