Flaming Hearts - Fourth Wing

Chapter 7

It's been a couple of hours since they have been in the gym, the girls were sitting in the courtyard, their history books laying in between them. Rhiannon looks up, and see's someone walking towards them. "Tall, dark and handsome, twelve o'clock."

Ace, who sits directly opposite of Rhi, looks over her shoulder and sees Bodhi walking their way, before turning back. "Nah, that's his cousin." The girls burst out, laughing.

"Ace, Xaden wants to see you." Bodhi crouches down next to her. Ace turns her head into his direction. "I'm a little busy as you can see." She gestures towards the history book in her lap.

"He said it's important."

"Well, I don't really care. I want to finish this, so please leave."

"C'mon Ace, don't be like this." Ace narrows her eyes at Bodhi.

"Bodhi, I'm busy right now. Tell the wingleader, if he wants to see me, he'll have to come talk to me himself."

Bodhi grins amused, before getting up. "Alright, I'll go tell him that."

Rhiannon and Violet are watching her, jaws dropped. Rhi repeatedly hitting Violet's leg.

"Why'd you do that, Ace? He's already out to kill me, now he'll be after you too." Violet whines. "Stop hitting me, Rhi!" - "I can't help it!"- "Then hit her, not me!"

"Let's focus back on history, please?" Ace asks, but both Violet and Rhiannon shake their heads.

"Oh, no no no! We're going to talk, young lady." Rhiannon points her finger accusingly at Ace. "What was that?"

"What do you mean, "what was that?"?" Ace scrunches her eyebrows, confused. "Do you, dear Riri, need to go see a healer by any chance, to fix your hearing?"

"To fix my.... You got to be fucking kidding me Ace!" Rhiannon exclaims and throws her book towards the raven-haired girl, who dodges.

"What?" Ace whines, Rhiannon now grabbing Ace's book from her hands, before throwing it after the same girl, who dodges again. And then, Violet's book follows. "Stop throwing books my way, Rhi!"

"But you're so aggravating Ace!" – "But I didn't even do anything!" – "Didn't do anything? Do you actually not see what you did?"

"I told Bodhi too leave. You want me to tell him to fuck off next time?" - "No! Just.... argh!"

During their argument, Violet's eyes got bigger and bigger, looking between them at first, but focus on something behind Ace afterwards. Ace knew exactly who was standing behind her now. She let out an annoyed huff.

"Dear wingleader of mine, to what do I owe the pleasure?"

Xaden just looks down at her. "Get up, you're coming with me."

"As I told Bodhi already, I'm busy." She grabs her history book again, waving the book around.

"Yeah, I don't care. Get up." He demands.

"No! I'm busy. Leave." Ace move her hands in "shoo" gesture.

"Okay. You asked for this."

Rhiannon and Violet glance between the two but have not said a word since Xaden arrived. But their eyes go big as they see their wingleader stepping closer towards their friend, before picking her up by the waist and throwing her over his shoulder like a potato sack. Xaden looks at the girls, still sitting on the floor, looking up at him with huge eyes.

"Take care of her things, will you?"

With that, he turns and starts walking towards the general area of the gym, completely ignoring Ace's complaining and hits.