Ria

And so the race came

Ria's POV

Eric was waiting for me at my locker, I knew I totally bailed on him,by it really wasn't my fault.
"Hey ria" Eric said
"Hey Eric" I smiled trying to be polite, there really wasn't anything particularly wrong with Eric, he just had the misfortune to be pitted against harry for my attention.
"It looks like I really don't have a chance with you"
"Emm yeah" I said with a grimace.
"You know if someone every told me I would be competing over a girls attention, with Harry Prescott over a year ago I would have laughed in the face of the person"
"Well I do guess things turn around, and there really wasn't any competition"
"You wound my ego, ria"he said with a mock heart attack
You know that's impossible, your ego is enormous "
"That is true, could we still be friends" he asked with a hand stretched forth towards me.
"Yes ,I would like that" I replied and shook his hand.
Before turning to walk away he said "my money's on you on the race" he winked and walked away.

Well that didn't go as bad as I thought it would be.I then sighted tyra talking to some guy, I waved and she waved back and walked over.
"Hey bae" she said
"Hey tyra, who was that you were talking to?" I asked
"Ohh, he's just some guy on the school website editorial team"
"Emmm, okay but why were you talking to him"
"Nothing really, so have you guys picked the race venue yet?" I knew when tyra was purposely ignoring a question and diverting the topic, but I decided to play her game, I would find out her secret later.
"Yeah we picked Farley's road and the finish point would be the pond."
"By what time?"
"2:30pm sharp."
"Isnt That road is kinda tricky"
" I know but I am an excellent driver"I said, I was confident in my ability as a driver.
"Of course you are"
And the bell went off signalling the end of our conversation.we were on our ways to our different classes when I remembered I haven't asked tyra if she would be there tomorrow.

"Tyra would you be at the race track tomorrow ?" I shouted the question to her from across the half.
"Yeah, I would" she shouted back as a response.
It felt nice knowing she would be rooting for me.

Hours later

As I got home my mind drifted towards the popularity contest coming up it was after our midterms, I needed to start studying especially in the arithmetic department, if you were below a certain average in your academic studies you wouldn't be able to actually enter the contest and compete, the mid terms starts a week from Monday and the contest forms were given out a week from that. Which gives me only two weeks of preparation, but I really wasn't worried ,I was born ready, and it gave me a kind of intense pleasure thinking of numerous ways to squash Brianna.

I decided to check the schools website to see if our elusive column author has written anything again.

DANGER OR HAZARD

Our own race contestants has chosen the venue to which the race it to take place, the beginning is the Farley's road and the finish line would be at the pond.you are all welcomed to come and give your support to the contestants and place huge bet .
The time is 2:30pm sharp.
note of caution:isn't that road a bit tricky and narrow? And where is miss Brianna ?
Check on back for more updates on the battle of the popular.

The words the writer wrote was kind of familiar and I tried to recollect where I heard it before, but to no avail the ,memory was just bit out of my grasp.

The next day

I woke up around noon, what can i say I love to sleep in,with butterflies in my stomach, I guess I was about nervous but I was confident in my skills so I knew I had little to worry about. I quickly showered and brushed my teeth, wantingto have a lot of time to pick out my outfit.

I decided to go with a tank top and skinny jeans,with that decided I went into the kitchen to look for what to munch, I went for cereals, with the bowl in hand I went to check if there was any voicemail left for me.
Click the machine sounded.