It's a Secret, Boy

Chapter 4

I V O R Y

Why are they here?
No. I need to calm down and win this fight for Paris, first. They're not important. I smiled again and restrapped my gloves.

Michael grinned at the cheer for me. He gave me a side look. "Looks like it is a good surprise." He turned back to the crowd. "And now, I give you number 3, 'Rain'!" He backed out as 'Rain' came out. He was a skinny, blue-haired (dyed, obviously) boy. He lunged at me, without any warning, and I skidded to the side.

I ducked under his high kick and his punch in the gut led me breathless. I jumped to the side and caught my breath. I glanced to the crowd, where Connor and his friends were there. Henry was winking at me and Logan was staring at me. I felt anger and irritation and dodged around 'Rain'.
He aimed for my right thigh and missed. I aims a low kick and hit on target. His weakness was his shin. We dodged each other, missing each other's targets. After several misses, I hit his ankle, and he made a deliberate mistake of falling before trying to get into position.

I took my chance and gave him the same three step as I gave "Paul Walker". He doubled back, and I lunged at him the same way he did to me. He backed up and I gave him a punch to the chest. He backed up more and slammed into the stage pole. I watched as he crumpled to the floor. The crowd cheered and I tried to catch my breath. Michael ran back out, grinning.

"Here is our winner," He shouted. The crowd went wild. He held my hand up high. "And 'the Ivory' becomes number 3!"

I grinned, and my eyes locked with Henry's. He gave me a flirty wink. I gave a twitch and I looked at Connor. He gave a grin and clapped along with a few others. I rolled my eyes and my eyes fell on Logan. He was looking at the my fallen opponent, then at me. I gave him a noncommittal look and grinned at the rest of the crowd.

I went back backstage and tugged off my mask. I sighed. Thalia came up behind me. "Hey, girlie," She pointed to the crowd outside behind her. "That was some fighting."

"Thanks," I pulled my hair down and shook my head to clear it.

" 'Rain' must have been hard, even for you," Thalia guessed. "He hit you first."
I sighed. "I'm going home to Paris, Thalia. Later."I turned and a voice jolted me. A familiar one. I turned completely and found Connor and the gang.

"Oh," Henry gave me a wink again. "Are you leaving?"

"How did they get in here?" I hissed to Thalia. Thalia shrugged and laughed. Connor and Logan turned to her.

"Oh! I know you," Logan pointed at Thalia.

"Yeah, she's Mason's girl," Connor laughed. I shot him a look and his laugh died. Thalia gave a snort.

"Mason's girl?" Thalia strutted over to Connor and put her arms around his neck. "I can crack your neck right here, soccer boy." The gang laughed and Thalia strutted away back to the desk. Connor chuckled nervously.

"What do you want?" I pushed my bag with my foot deeper behind the desk. Thalia helped me by pushing it by her foot.

"Well Henry here wanted to meet you," Isaac grinned and I rolled my eyes as I unstrapped my gloves.

"How did people like you find this place?" I asked.

"Hold on. 'People like you'?" Logan snorted. "We can find anything."

"Logan, dude, you saw this girl in action," Isaac nudged his arm. "Shut up before she attacks." I scoffed.

"We actually found our friend Mason walking by here and going in a couple times," Connor answered. "We didn't see him by today, so we figure he might be here." He gave me a winning smile and I almost gagged. "But the good thing is, we found you."

"Please," I walked over to him and flicked him in the forehead. He stared at me like I stripped in front of him. "Find another girl to try to pick up."

"You were trying to pick her up?" Henry gave Connor a look. "Dude!" I turned to him.

"I'm going to break you if you wink at me again, Henry," I gave him a burning look and picked up my bag. I gave Thalia an eye roll in their direction and she laughed. "Later, Thalia."

The boys cleared their way for me as I left. Right before I left the building, I muttered, "So annoying" and headed home.

L O G A N

I looked back at the door where the Ivory left from.

"Wow, she's damn amazing," Henry gave a lopsided grin. He turned to us. "I kind of want her to break me."

"Wow, a masochist," I rolled my eyes. Something about her flick to Connor's forehead whirred in my brain. "Hey, guys." I stopped suddenly.

"What?" Isaac looked at me weird.
"She flicks people just like Mason," I thought about it. Did she? I really think she did. "I think she flicked Connor the same way Mason did."

"That's true!" Connor snapped his fingers. "I had a total déjà vu!"

I heard Thalia give a chuckle. I turned to her. "Don't you think? You're friends with both of them."

"First of all," Thalia started laughing. "Mason's my cousin, and Ivory's like my sister. Or my brother." She started laughing harder at our faces. "Inside joke. Maybe you'll get it someday. Maybe not."

Henry started to talk excitedly. "Where is she going?"

"Go to Mason's house," Thalia said offhandedly. "Didn't you come here to hang out with him?"

"Yeah, let's go bother him then," I suggest.

Isaac shook his head and waved it off. "We don't know where he actually lives. He says that he has a younger brother, so he doesn't like us to hang out with his younger brother." Thalia chuckled and smiled.

"Well, Ivory's going home," Thalia said, and left the backstage.

"Wait!" Henry called out. "Ah, man, I wanted to find out where she lives."

"But you know her actual name's Ivory, now, instead of 'the Ivory'," Isaac proposed.

"That's true," Connor laughed. I ignored them and headed over to the roster, which was a paper pinned to a bulletin board.

"Look, guys," I waved them over. " 'the Ivory', she's up here. Wow, she climbed up fast."

"Wait, is that her number?" Henry pointed to a set of numbers.
"I think that's for recruiting her or challenging her," Isaac frowned.

"Well," Henry took a photo of the number. "I plan on recruiting her as my girlfriend."

I raised my eyebrows. This was going to be interesting.

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