Pet School: The Biggest and The Boldest

Chapter 6: Congrats!

Week 2 Friday
Bailey's POV
"We should walk together to school more often." Gypsy says to me. Gypsy stayed at my house last night. Her owners stayed overnight somewhere so they asked if she could stay the night with us. This time she mainly hung out with the girls - Cindy and Coco. Frankie also came over for a sleepover, even though she's our neighbor. I felt outnumbered. Frankie and Gypsy are best friends, Gypsy's apart of Nova's friend group, the one where all their names rhyme apart from Nova. Flossie, Frankie, Gypsy, Maggie and Nova. I've talked to them more now ever since Gypsy and I started dating last term. What I would've liked is if one of my friends could've come over. Like Atlas or Elton. Why only those two? Stewart and Zane live with other pets that I'm not sure would tag along or not. Paisley would definitely fit Zane were to come over, because Coco! Then Skye... would she come over? Ever since Monday I truly realized how awkward things between her and I actually were, before that, I thought we were cool and normal. Now it's getting awkward being friends with Stewart, her little brother. They're the same age but Skye's older than him. Well it's not awkward between him and I but it's just awkward in my mind. "Bailey, you there?" Oops I forgot I was with Gypsy, I sometimes get deep into my thoughts. "Oh yeah sorry." We're walking to school today because why not. Cindy and Coco are taking the car. My phone started to ring. It was... Skye. I forgot I still had her number. We haven't texted or called in a while. But why would she be ringing me. Gypsy saw the name on my screen. "Skye? Why's she calling you?" Gypsy asked me. Exactly what I'm wondering. "I-I don't know." I answered it though and put it to my ear. "Hey! My phone's dead so I got to call you on Skye's, you on your way to school yet? Mr Gareth is looking for you and he's freaking out." Stewart. Not Skye. "Oh yeah, I'm just walking to school with gypsy, I'll be there in a couple minutes, tell Mr Gareth he can stop worrying. See you soon." "Yeah see ya." I then hung up. "What was that?" Gypsy asked me. "It was actually Stewart calling from Skye's phone." Couldn't Stewart had used Atlas, Elton or Zane's phone? "Ohh okay. Makes more sense." Then my phone started to ring again. Skye's number... again. Probably Stewart. "Stewart's ringing again?" "Looks like it." I answered it. "Hey again, Stewart." I started. "Uhh it's actually Skye." "Oh..." Skye..? Wh-what?! "Can I talk to you? At recess maybe?" "Sure I guess..." "alright see you then." She then hung up. "Stewart again?" I shook my head. "Skye?" I nodded. "You know she likes you right?" What? Skye doesn't like me... at least I don't think she did or does. Everyone told me she did but I'm not  sure about now... Gypsy and I tried to distract our minds. In our last couple of minutes walking. "Wow you really do live close to DSP. Catch you later through!" When I came in Mr Gareth rushed to me and told me about swim practice at first period. But the swim practice was different, we weren't really practicing at least that's what he said. When I put my bag away, Atlas greeted me. Our lockers are next to each other. "Hey Atlas." We talked for a bit until the bell rang, he sprinted for the classroom. All of my best friends are on B2, except for Stewart. He's in C3 but he was in B2 last year. I went down to my homeroom, D4. Next year I'm going to be in E5, there's not a lot of students in E5, or I may not be continuing school next year. Once you're in E5 it's optional to take classes. Some do and some dont. I take my seat though. Mr Zeus does what he usually does and then dismisses us. I'm meant to be doing science class right now but instead I've got swimming. Mr Gareth rushed around telling the swim team to bring their swim gear. I almost forgot my swim bag but I brought it to school. I got it out of my locker and went down to the pool. Elton caught up with me. "You excited?" He asked me. "Excited for what?" "Mr Gareth told me something exciting's going to happen!"Mr Gareth's form of exciting and everyone else's is completely different, but I don't have the heart to burst Elton's bubble. Mr Gareth was directing us all where to go, we found ourselves standing in a straight line facing Mr Gareth. "Now you all may be wondering why you're here instead of doing whatever class for first period you had scheduled." We all agreed with him. "There's going to be an international swimming competition for cats and dogs. Each pet school around the world has to choose 2 cats and 2 dogs. Each cat and dog selected in their countries will then will compete against each other and the country will pick 2 cats and 2 dogs to compete against other countries for their own country, not for their school, for their country." Wow that's big. I wonder what countries will be competing. "So today, I will be selecting 2 cats  and 2 dogs to go and compete against other selected cats and dogs in Australia. Whoever is chosen will have to travel to another state though, but we have that all sorted." Travel to another state? That's crazy! I reckon I have a fair chance getting into it. "So everyone! Get ready to swim!" We ran to the change rooms and got ready. "I'm so excited! I really hope I get in!" Elton was getting so excited but I don't want him to get his hopes up too much, what he doesn't realize is that there are much better cats than him on the team, despite him being in the top 3 for cats on our swim team, he doesn't quite make the top 2 with Arthur and I. Not to brag but Arthur and I are probably the best on the team overall. Not just in cats. We got ready and got in the water. For those who don't dive. "First up, 25m freestyle, cats." All the dogs stepped away as us cats took the water. There's 10 swimmers on the team. 5 cats and 5 dogs it wasn't on purposely even like that. Mr Gareth selected us all particularly. As Mr Gareth says go, we shoot in the water. Arthur wins and I come second. We did some more swims, each time, it was Arthur and I always alternating between 1st and second. Except for butterfly, Elton won that and Arthur and I tied on second. Mr Gareth wrote some things down and then he got the dogs into the water. We knew Paisley would do the best out of the dogs. She's our best dog swimmer in the whole school. Mr Gareth said go! Pretty much she did the same thing with another swimmer with what Arthur and I did. But her very best was breaststroke. "Alright everyone! Get changed and I'll reveal those who are going to compete for a chance in the internationals." "I'm really confident I can get in to be honest!" Elton said. He's coming off to strong, too confident. Whenever he's like this it always ends bad. I dried myself and gave it a little brush and got changed into my uniform. I wear the shorts not the pants when it comes to the uniform. Boys get the choice of shorts or pants and Girls gets the choice of the dress or skirt. The cats are our first, now we were just waiting on the dogs, they always take longer. But they came out eventually. "I would like to announce those going to Sydney to have a chance being selected for internationals is.." Sydney?! You're kidding!? No way - we'll actually be going interstate. "For the cats we have... drum roll please." No one did the drum roll. "Arthur and Bailey." Arthur and I looked at each other and did a high five. It was expected. But I was really excited! "For the dogs we have... Paisley and Honey!" Oh yeah Honey, I forgot her name for a second. I don't know Honey that well, I haven't really talked to her before. Mr Gareth dismissed us and said he'd follow up further details with Arthur, Honey, Paisley and I a bit later. As we walked back, Elton looked upset. "I can't believe I didn't get in, I'm really good and thought I had a chance, but I'm happy for you Bailey." How did I comfort him? I know I'm meant to feel bad now because I got the chance and he didn't but I don't feel that bad.. is that supposed to be a bad thing. The recess bell rung. Skye. She wanted to talk to me.I didn't really want to leave Elton while he's in this state but I told Skye I would. "I got to go Elton, Mr Ajax needs a chat with me." I then went off. I found Skye near the boards. "Hi." I said. "Hi Bailey. I think it's best we have a chat." "Alright."