The Pack in High School Merome Vikklan Poofless

Chapter 14 : The Start of Somethings

CHAPTER

Mitch's POV

Every team had arrived by noon. There was at least 30 teams here. We were just waiting for our competition to show themselves. They were actually a nice group of people. I believe that Vikk knew their leader since he was little. They are on good terms. We saw them across the main hall and walked up to them.

"Hey." Vikk said to there leader Simon.

"What's up Vikk?"

"Nothing much, just this crap."

"You can leave if you want to."

"I think we are good."

"Oh, Simon, we got a new member. This is Lachlan...my boyfriend." Vikk said pulling Lachlan to the front.

"Well, I have some questions for you then." he said pointing at Lachlan.

Lachlan just looked really confused.

"Oh,Lachlan you haven't met them yet."

"This is Simon, JJ, Josh, Ethan, Harry, and Tobi. Our rivals."

"Then aren't we supposed to be mean to them?" Lachlan asked.

We all laughed and Vikk continued on.

"Its more of a friendly competition."

"Okay."

"All right we better get going."I say.

We all say bye and walk back to our room. We had at least an hour before we had to go to the opening ceremony, so we went through everything we had and made sure it was all there. Time flew as it got closer and closer to game time. When it was ten before, we started towards the main hall. Everyone was freaking out.We all knew it was going to be really intense and crazy. We need both Jerome and me to keep everyone awake and going. We took our seats that are assigned to us.

The Pack- Reserved

We chose The Pack as our group name. Soon enough, a crowd was making their way into the hall and finding their seats. We were seating right ahead of Simon's group,The Sidemen. We chatted about random crap until it was time for it to start. The main guy that runs it, Brandon Adams, walked out onstage.

"Welcome ladies and gentlemen, to the 13th annual Minor Computer Programming Tournament." We all applauded at this.

" We have a total of 28 groups with us here today. And I bet you are all wondering what is this year task for you to program. This year you will have to program a robot to work at a grocery store." We all looked confused except Megan who looked extremely hopeful.

" Your robot will have to work like a Walmart employ and check and bag randomly selected items. You have to have it working for 60 minutes straight. You have twelve hours starting right..... Wait I forgot to say Good Luck. Right now."

Right after that it was a mad dash to people's rooms. We decided earlier that we would stay and talk it out. Megan looked so ready for this. There was a huge smile plastered across her face.

"All right, who gets what?"Jerome asked.

"I will take bagging and maybe politeness." Megan said.

"Poofless will take getting the robot to pick everything up without damage."

"Vikklan will get it to scan it."

"Merome will keep you up and alert."

"All right lets go." I said. We all walked to our room and they opened up the program they gave to us to use. Jerome and I got out everything that we may need to keep people out. It is our job to make sure no sabotage will happen. We are lucky because the bathrooms are right across the hall, so only for a short period of time will people bot program. We also have the nap schedule worked out. There is five people programming so about every two hours people get a 30 - min power nap. Jerome and I started booby trapping the outside of the door. We turned of the lights except for one lamp so it looks like no one is in here. We put saran wrap across the door frame and put a motion sensor by them so when ever someone entered or exited a small beeping would noise by the computers. We also have a baby monitor noise things around the door hidden so we can pick up sounds from outside while our door is closed. After about 25 minutes of setting every thing up, we took a small break Jerome and I sat down and watched everyone intensely staring at their screens. I looked at my phone and it had been an hour. I read study where looking away from your computer screen for at least 10 seconds will help eyesight.

"Hey guys," I said making sure everyone was looking at me " All right its been 10 seconds go back to typing."

"Jerome what are we going to do until one falls asleep or someone tries to get to us?"

"I don't know....Tic Tac Toe?"

"Why not?"

We ended up playing 57 games of tic tac toe. I won 32 while Jerome won 25. It had been two hours so Lachlan got first nap. He got up from programming and laid down for awhile. Not being able to sleep, we switched his and Rob's nap. When Rob's head hit the mattress, he started napping. Jerome knew he could do that, which is why we switched his and Lachlan's times. With two hours gone, we all figured out that the last four hours would be used for actually running it. It already knew how to find the barcodes on things and put them on the scanner and off to the side. The hardest would be make it choose what to put in bags. Megan was the main one in charge of this. She had a bunch of If-Thens for figuring that out. No one actually tried anything for sabotage with us, but some scouts came by.

~Time Skip to 4 hours later~

The speaker turned on and announced it.

" It is 11 p.m. And we are halfway through these years tournament."

We all looked around and started talking about what we have left.

" It knows barcodes and we are just working on helping bagging." Vikk said.

"Poofless is also done and helping Megan." Preston said. Everyone is working on bagging except Megan, who has five minutes left for nap.

" So.... Is it polite?" I asked

"Extremely." Lachlan said while yawning. Everyone was tired but not too badly tired. Jerome and I did not have to take any drastic measures, yet. We have two hours before we try it for real. Megan woke up after a few shakes and went back to programming. Jerome and I handed out food and small drinks every once and awhile. Other then that it was just Merome time. Jerome is my best and closest friend out of the pack. Over the past few months, I realized that being with him always brightens up my day. I saw a hand go across my face. I focused and saw Jerome pointing to the noise monitors. We turned up the volume and listened to someone conversation.

"We can't keep losing."

"Then what are we going to do about it."

"I don't know...we could try getting the papers for it."

"Do you mean cheat....no way....Frank Smith, in no way is this team cheating."

"But we suck at programming."

"And this is making us better."

"I don't care what you say we are not losing. Leave if you want but Team Crafted is winning."

"Then I am leaving. Go in without me. I do not care if we are brother and sister but we are not doing this."

We heard the girl storm off and the guy walk away. Jerome and I just looked at each other.

"They are planning to cheat?" Jerome asked

"How are we going to prove they are cheating?" I replied

"How about with this voice memo of them talking?"

"You recorded them?"

"Of course, Baccas are always prepared."

"Oh my god, I love you."

"What?"

Shit.

"N..Nothing.....just happy." I said looking at my feet.

"Guys....Preston's out." Rob said to us.

"Alright....Preston is water. Right?" Jerome asked me.

"Yeah." I said as I walked over and got a water bottle out of the fridge. We walk over to sleeping Preston and take of the cap. I raised the water above his head and began pouring it on his hair. As a good amount of poured, Preston awoke with a shock.

"Alright, alright I am up." He said and went back to his computer.Lachlan looked at us as we did this with a look of confusement and fear. I don't think he will fall asleep anytime soon.

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