Duck In The Battlefield

Confrontation

Chapter 15

Mary seemed to be able to pick up that I was beginning to doubt my brilliant plan and so she asked the question that without a doubt had the silliest answer, "Why are you doing this anyways?"

"Ugh I-I-I'm doing this because-" frustrated I pull my hair, "SpongeBob can make fire underwater," I yell and then I dip it.

"Chaya!" I hear Mary yell after me and Luke simply ask, "Who the fudge is SpongeBob?"

I go against the need to slap him and continue running up the steps into the Amusement Park.

Oh how I love the ability to literally run away from my problems. Unfortunately though it got a lot of attention so it wasn't hard for Mike to find me.

"You're really cold hearted I hope you know that, leaving me all alone for more than 4 hours".

"Yes I'm the worst," I reply walking ahead of Mike but he pulled on the elephant backpack leash so I was beside him again.

"I'm not exaggerating I saw the cheating Amy with the stealer Blake."

I stare at him and let his choice of words playback. Deciding to let it go I speak.

"Oh.... Hey do you want to go on the Twister," I say to distract him, Mike gives me a small smile and we both head to the bright yellow coaster.

The entire ride Mike felt the need to squeal in my ears and when we came back to our room, he jumped on the bed and immediately fell asleep with roars of snores.

I sit on the edge of the bed and before I can turn on the TV I hear my phone go on. I reach down and look at the screen:

Hey this is Mary meet me by The Cooler

I let out a small whine and get up to open the door. I pull my hoodie up and wrap myself with my arms as I walk down the dark path to the roller coaster. When The Cooler comes in view I slow down at the sight of two people sitting on a bench.

My heart races when the two stand up and Mary makes her way towards me Chase slowly following behind.

"Hey," Mary starts off awkwardly.

"Uh whats up?"

"I wanted to apologize for prying before. I shouldn't have pushed you it's just that there is some bad blood between Drake and I," Mary explains.

But no matter how interested I was I couldn't stop my eyes from wandering towards Chase who stood far back enough that he wouldn't be overhearing. Mary seemed to notice and after looking back at him she rolls her eyes and turns to me.

"Luke left early and since I was going out late he sent Chase as my babysitter. Which honestly makes no sense because I'm completely capable of handling myself," Mary argues and I laugh.

"Well that's cute," I tease and Mary blushes waving her hand at me to shut up.

"Anyways I thought we could just hang out, since I'm on the council I haven't had the chance to actually befriend anyone," Mary says shyly.

"The council?" I think it over and then remember something, "Is that what you, Luke,and Al are? Huh I would have thought there would be more or something."

"There was um..." Mary looks uncomfortably back at Chase and I look back too to see that Chase is already looking at Mary.

I feel my chest tighten but ignore it.

"Hey Chase quit being a creeper and join us way up here in the clouds," I joke and he moves up to walk beside me.

"So about that council?"

"Uh yeah well there were originally seven of us but now they're only four," Mary answers.

"What happened to the other three?"

"I quit, one grew to old and moved on while the other one was hardly a member to begin with," Chase said in a case closed type of voice.

Being the nosy person I am I wanted to ask more but of course being the girl I am I didn't want Chase to be upset with me so I stayed quiet.

"So you said there are four left? Whose the fourth?" I ask instead.

"Victor," Mary answers this time.

"Oh, that makes sense and What exactly do you?"

"We oversee new recruits, rules, and locations of matches, oh and we also have two outer council members that take care of who vs who and what area," Mary replies as if she's asked a lot.

"Outer council members," I respond a little confused I mean you either are or you aren't, right.

"Yeah they have no authority but they play a bigger role than most in Victor Division," Mary explains and I decide that since I'm on vacation I don't want to learn anymore.

"Well if I wasn't sure before I'm sure now that I'll pass the pop quiz on V Division," I joke earning a chuckle from Chase.

"Okay since our study session is over I'll head back to my room. I leave early tomorrow and Victor's road trip singing with out a doubt won't let me fall asleep."

"Okay bye," I say a little sad that she had to leave, it has been a while since I spoke to my bestfriend so it was nice to talk with another human other than Mike.

"You coming?" Mary ask Chase and he looks to me then back at Mary.

"Not yet," he says meeting my eyes.

As he says that I immediately start to psychically beg Mary to stay but she waves bye leaving me and Chase alone.

Oh please don't let me try to kill him again, I chant in my head waving bye to Mary, my hand moving robotically.

He probably doesn't even remember, I try to convince myself but once Mary's gone and I hesitantly look back at Chase he's still staring at me.

"We need to talk," he says and I slightly ease up knowing that of all the conversations that could follow those words he wasn't breaking up with me considering that we're not even dating.