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| Ceylon |
I might not be over Rhain giving into Emme's request, but no one pushes my friend down a hill and laughs about it. Serves the shuck right that she's eating sand right now, all the build up anger was slowly getting out of my system.
Newt leans with his arm on my shoulder with a smirk, "nice push, love" he tells me, he looks around if anyone is looking before I feel how he presses a light kiss on my cheek.
I feel my cheeks turning red, quickly I remove his arm from my shoulder before I go 'sledding' down the hill with my jacket. If it was any other situation I would have been having fun, but with the heat of the sun and never knowing when a crank will come out was a killjoy.
When I came to a stop, I looked behind me. The other's were already going down hill.
Suddenly there's someone standing in front of me, creating shade. "Hi" I hear a soft voice say.
I look up and see Rhain standing in front of me, she looks uncertain about approaching me, but somehow I'm glad she did. She offers her hand for me to stand up. But before I can accept it, someone lifts me up to my feet.
"Having trouble standing up, love" I hear a male voice say, even though Newt just called me 'love', it was not him this time.
Confused I turn around and see Aris smiling at me, "yeah sorry, I saw what happened up there" the younger boy says- he's suddenly so happy and giddy, it's freaking me out. "Don't worry love I will keep my mouth shut".
With those words he walks over to Frypan to help the boy stand up.
I raise my eyebrow as I lock eyes with Newt, he simply smiles as he's cleaning his jacket.
"Anyway, I know you're still upset and it takes time. I just wanted to thank you for pushing Jessica down that hill" Rhain says.
I turn back to face her, looking into her eyes for just a second before avoiding her gaze. It's still hard for me, when I look at her I'm reminded of what she did. That's probably the burden of being the leader of a group, that's why I'm glad I'm not a leader.
"No problem" I tell her as I give her a small smile.
"Are you fine" Thomas asks as he rushes passed me towards Rhain, he holds her shoulders as he's looking deeply into her eyes. "what she just did was evil".
I raise my eyebrow, there was something going on between the two of them. Something must have happened when I had my breakdown and when he looked for her to comfort her.
The way she reacted to his touch was differently from when the other's touched her.
"I'm fine, at least she got what she deserves right back" Rhain says with a small chuckle as the two of them looked at the still whining Jessica.
She was dramatically wiping off the sand off her clothes, spitting out sand while cursing very colorful words. At one point she noticed the staring, giving both Rhain and me a death glare.
Well as if I wasn't used to that by now.
As keeper of the runners I was strict, I always made sure they did everything according to plan. That sometimes I drove them crazy and they cursed at me. It didn't care back then and I still don't.
"Jessica drink some water" I deadpan told her as I put on my jacket again.
She glared at me, flipping her hair over her shoulder, "I'll do whatever I want, Ceylon" she says while looking the other way.
Well sure ignore the advice of the only person who's willing to give you any. Well only this time since we are stuck with each other until the mission is completed, after we finish it we can all go our own way.
Although I wonder what direction mine would be as I look at Newt from the corner of my eyes- if I would survive all of this of course. Maybe I shouldn't be thinking too far ahead.
"Well if everyone is okay, then let's go. We are wasting daylight and I don't know about you guys, but I do not want my face bitten off by a cranky crank" Thomas jokes as he signals the guys to follow him.
I simply shrug as Aaliyah and I lock eyes, she has a smile on her face before running towards Frypan.
"Let's go love" a familiar voice says.
I roll my eyes before giving him a push, "not funny Aris".
The younger boy only smiles before wrapping his arm around my shoulders, purely platonic of course. If anything this child was more like a younger brother- especially of how quiet he was when we first met him and now he feels comfortable enough to tease me.
"I'm warning you Aris" I tell him as I point my finger at him.
But all he does in return is chuckle softly, pushing my finger out of his face, "with a face like that you are soooo scary, not".
I roll my eyes once again.
He's an idiot.
"Guys where's Jessica" Aaliyah suddenly asks, she probably noticed that is was a little too quiet without any nagging and huffing from the older girl.
I look behind us and see Jessica calmly packing her bag, seriously? Thomas just mentioned not wanting to waste daylight and what is she doing? Waisting daylight.
Sometimes I wonder where her brain was located. Was it even in her head or stuffed into her butt?
With a sigh I drop my head, not understanding how someone can behave like such a child while being the oldest in the group. Was she not embarrassed that everyone treated her like a child?
She doesn't have any shame as she picks up her bag before slowly walking towards us.
I glare at her, "next time we will leave you behind" I tell her as I squeeze my eyes into slits.
An arrogant chuckle escapes her mouth, "you shouldn't squeeze your eyes like that, if you do that you can't see anything" she replies smugly.
"Racist" I mutter.
Aris pats my head, "don't listen to her".
I simply nod before we can finally resume our way. However I know why Jessica was acting like that, she was getting back at me for pushing her down- no regrets in doing that.
