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Chapter Eleven

Quietus had been a major asset to our team, especially with her magic and it was great having her on the team. Athelia started going to school to try and live a normal life and so far it was working well. She was topping her psychology and business classes and doing fairly well in her other subjects. She even started coming to my matches to bond better with us. Things just seemed to be going well. "Hey bro" said Ethan one day after scout meeting, "Did you hear the news?" I scratched my head racking my brains trying to figure out what he meant. "Our team made it to the semi finals of the regional cup automatically since we're the hosts. Oh and it's in a few months too." he said, noticing the confused look on my face. My initial response was an inhuman pitched shriek but after a while I managed to compose myself. "That's awesome" I replied, "Maybe there'll be international scouts there so we've got to play our hardest." I started packing up and was in the process of calling my other bros Jean-Michael and Simon when Ethan called me back. "You remember when I went that camp thing and met Jan? Well she asked to walk with us" he said from down the corridor. "Alright." I replied before going off to look for my bros. By the time I had returned with my bros Jan was sitting in the scout room talking to Ethan and Nathaniel. "Guys, this is Jan. Jan this is guys" said Ethan introducing everyone. We shook hands and proceeded to walk down the road talking to each other while still somewhat including Jan. Although she seemed a bit reserved she also kinda meshed with our group seemingly fitting like a new cog in our clock. Everything just seemed to be turning out really well of lately but knowing my luck.... Something would go wrong eventually.

For the duration of the week Jan and I chatted on Facebook because we all exchanged contacts. She seemed fun from our conversations. Things seemed to be all normal. I spent 2 months without relationships and continuously reminded myself that I didn't need it and tried to avoid anything close to it as possible. Jan and I started talking more frequently as she started attending swimming with us and coming scout meetings although she was a scout in another troop. We seemed to be getting closer and closer over the time we spent talking on Facebook. But the more we talked and saw each other in person the more fatigued I felt every time. Unfortunately the thing that I've been dreading after 2 relationship free months happened. "You have a What???!!!!!" shouted Ethan at the top of his voice, "On who???!!!!!" I waited for a while for him I explained how I felt. "Let's go talk to Jean-Michael about it, hopefully he saw about" said Ethan, much calmer. (Jean-Michael had the power of future sight through dreams, although he could only see fragments at a time.) Ethan and I took a quick stroll to the pool where Jean-Michael was training the scouts to swim, among the recruits was Jan, who tried to wave at me and thread water at the same time. When I told Jean-Michael my predicament, he hugged and said "Bro, you know I try to be honest with you because I care about you, but this isn't gonna work out. I saw the dream and I could tell even without the dream. And because I know you that well I know you're going to try anyway because not all my predictions have came true, am I right?" I nodded because Jean-Michael is one of the few people who knew me better than I know myself. I started towards the changing room to get ready to swim when Jean-Michael called out to me. "Hey Nico!" he shouted. "Yeah bro" I replied. "I'm sorry in advance" he said before turning to correct one of the recruits on their stroke.

After swimming Ethan, Jean-Michael and I sat on the bleachers waiting for Jan to change downstairs. "Hey bro" I said to Ethan, "Are you going the ceremony in school later?" "Of course not" he replied sarcastically, "It's not like we both have awards to collect or anything." As I was about to reply with one of my usual witty comebacks, Jan came from the change room and it was time to leave. The maxi took a while to get to school but that gave me enough time to make sure Athelia was still coming as well as Daniel and his girlfriend of 3 months and Nathaniel By the time I confirmed everyone was coming we had arrived in school. And by the time Ethan and i had changed into our uniforms, everyone was waiting for us by the Hall. All my teachers were sitting at a table when we walked in. Mr. Ruddy, Mr. Samuels, Mrs McKenzie, Miss Lanaster, Mrs. Fergusson (Whom I fondly called aunty) and of course Mlle Alexis. Ethan, Daniel, Nathaniel and I sat in our assigned seats while Athelia and the rest of our friends sat with the other families. Mr Rico, our dean began the ceremony with the national anthem and the school song before delving into the formalities. Halfway through the ceremony I got bored and started daydreaming about football until I heard applause which jarred me from my daydream. I looked up to see Daniel accepting an award for topping the school in art exams. I immediately started cheering and clapping loudly, almost as loud as his mother and his girlfriend. As the end of the night drew nearer and Ethan, Nathaniel and I had already collected our awards things got surprisingly exciting. As our school principal was about to speak several loud explosions went off behind him, causing several of the students to laugh and snicker as he wasn't liked much by the student population. I too found myself laughing until I noticed green flames caressing the backdrop of our stage. It seemed like great minds did think alike as through our mind like Ethan, Daniel, Nathaniel, Athelia and I all shouted "It's Greek fire!!!!"