Morph

Chapter Fifteen: Bigger Complications

Dinner the next day was an excited and nervous hour for Lauren, because the coach had promised to announce who made the volleyball team during the meal.

"Lauren, I know you're nervous, but you've got to eat your food." I told her as I watched Lauren play with her mashed potatoes some more. "Although it really is impressive how you've made your mashed potatoes look like a volleyball."

Lauren smiled at me and took a bite out of her mashed potatoes masterpiece. 

"I'm sure you made the team." Megan said.

"Thanks, Megan," Lauren said and began stacking her peas on top of each other to make a pyramid.

At 6:45 exactly, the coach, a stern woman with her brown hair in a high ponytail, came up to the front of the mess hall. She had a brown clipboard in one hand. A pen was dangling by a string tied to the metal part of the clipboard, and there were papers clipped onto the clipboard. I believed her name was Coach Cita, but I wasn't too sure.

"That's Coach Cita." Lauren whispered. 

Now I'm sure.

Lauren had pronounced the word "see-tuh" like the word "see" plus the "tuh" sound.

Anyways, Coach Cita looked at the tables and said, "I expect you all are waiting to hear the results. Well, here we go."

I didn't catch all of the names as she read off the list, but I caught a few, including Lauren's name.

Megan and I turned to the beaming Lauren just as she turned to us. 

"Good job!" We congratulated her. "We knew you could do it!"

Lauren blushed and grinned.

The last name that Coach Cita called was "And Victoria Dale."

"Ugh, I'm gonna be on a team with her?" Lauren asked, disgusted, but she was still smiling from the news.

"Don't worry, just try not to interact with her." I said. "Ignore any trouble she causes."

"Yeah. I've known her for a while and I've learned that her strength is attention. If no one pays attention to her, then she's harmless." Megan said. "So go have fun and pretend you haven't even heard the name Victoria Dale."

"Got it." Lauren smiled and began wolfing down her food, starting with her mashed potato volleyball.

"Attention, everyone." A voice said. We all turned to look at who it was.

Victoria.

She was standing on a chair at her table, and she seemed to be addressing the whole mess hall.

"I would just like to make a quick announcement." Victoria said in a girly innocent tone. "Someone at this school has two Morph forms." 

Everyone looked at her like she was crazy.

"Miss Dale, get off that chair. No one here has two Morph forms, that's impossible. Sit down." One of the teachers scolded.

"If you don't believe me, I have proof." Victoria said. "I caught it on video."

Video! Oh no, oh no, this is very, very bad. I thought inside my head.

I tried to look surprised and skeptical, like everyone else. 

Take a deep breath. Don't worry, you told everyone you're a fox Morph. Neither one of the Morphs she saw was a fox. They won't suspect you. 

"Miss Dale, we will not be wasting our time with this nonsense! Get off that chair and continue eating your dinner before I give you detention." The same teacher scolded.

Reluctantly, Victoria got down and sat down normally.

Saved!

Soon, dinner was over and Lauren, Megan, and I were walking together to our dorm.

"I wonder if Victoria was telling the truth." Lauren said.

Oh crap, not this again.

"Are you kidding me? She's Victoria." Megan shook her head.

Thank you.

"Yeah, the video she mentioned could be fake." I said.

"Right." Megan nodded.

"It was more than likely just an attempt to get attention." I added.

"Good point." Lauren said, and the subject dropped for now.

But Victoria sounded adamant, and I had a feeling I hadn't heard the end of this.