The Good Girl and her Gun

Chapter 7

Ruth's POV

Are you kidding me? His brother?
What the hell....

'By brother I mean S.T.E.P brother.'

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I really cant shake that feeling of surprise.
I was in awe knowing that it was Lucas all this time. Never would I have imagined seeing him again. But the real question is, if Jill's in singapore, why isnt he? Well of course he cant just show himself infront of Jill's papa. Thats just rediculous.

I understand a little know...

But right now, thats not the issue. The issue right now is getting my assignment done as soon as possible. Its saturday. October 11. I know that there's still a sunday but I wont have time tommorow. I know that after the festivities, I'll get exhosted and end up not doing any of my homeworks. It sucks but I ain't got a choice. The good part is , is that I get to see Jill tommorow for the festivities.

Just so you know, Every year, there's always festivities that are open to everyone and is held at the school. It takes up for three days and consist of different activities. Like having a rave on the third day, rappeling and wall climbing, haunted house and more. Its one of the most awaited events. But we only started joining last year. When we were old enough to come by ourselves.

Going back, it's been 10 minutes and I've only answered 3 items. I don't really understand geometery much. It was my fault for sleeping in class awhile ago. Wellp, guess im just gonna answer this tommorow with some help from my smart ass seatmate. Math follows after lunch anyways. So I'm just gonaa lay down on ma bed. I'll try and chat with Jill on messenger. Tell her about the upcoming featival.To be honest, we haven't talked to Jill in a week. She's not being active lately. Wonder why.

I layed on my bed with my phone on my right hand. I unlocked it and went into messenger. "Hm. She's not active again." I said to particularly no one but myself. Knowing that she wasn't active, I went and turned my phone off. Hopefuly she's doing alright. I checked my phone again and showed the time, 10:47 pm. I was sleepy. I dont know why but I dont usualy sleep this early.

But I stood up, turned off the lights and snuggled in my blanket. Before I closed my eyes, I was thinking about the things that happend a few weeks ago. Like being curious about Jill, going in to an authorised territory, seeing Jill's brother after 4 years and more. All those left questions on my head. Who the hell is Jill? I shouldnt let that bother me. I should just close my eyes and fall asleep. In wich case, I did.

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I woke up noticing that the sun was up, now shinning down my window. Looking at the time made me jump out of bed. I'll definately miss the the one thing we waited the most during the festivities. Deli's Delight. Its an eatery that opens at the first day of  festivities and by tye 3rd day, they close at about 10. Right after breakfast. And its currently 9:27 a.m. it'll take about 30 minuyes to ride there because of traffic. I mean come on, Most people would show up so that would mean many cars would go along the streets. I took a quick shower to start the day and quickly ate biscuits that was on the table. Changed my clothes; a plain blue shirt and some grayish leggings.

With the dorm keys now on my hands, I was ready to go. I took off with a fast pace since I didn't want to trigger Jill's patience. She's not the type you would want to mess with. Once she's mad, she'll go all out, giving you silence that means defeat. Thats one of the worst feelings I keep on feeling. I never once won over her philosophies in an argument. But that aside, I am currently waiting a jeepny to school. A few minutes after, the ride I am supposed to be on arrived. I went on and sat at the very end of the jeepny. I was always comfortable at that side. I took my phone out since I had nothong to do. I scrolled through facebook, looking at people's posts and moast of them were about the featival.

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9:48 was the time shown on my phone as I went out the jeep. I directly went to the school gates where me and Jill were supposed to meet. Thankfuly, she was'nt there yet. Or maybe I could'nt see her... I waited at the spot I was on. But instead, I was greeted by Mechaila with a surprise. "Ey you scared me... what'ya doin here?"  I asked first but recieved a direct reply. "I decided to stroll around the area since I have nothing to do today. Wabayu?" She threw back a question which made me remember what I was supposed to do here. "Oh yeah. Im supossed to go with Jill but today but she ain't showin up yet."

"Let's just go... it wont be our fault if she ain't showin up. Let's just get her when she texts us that she's here." I couldnt agree more to her statement. We went in without Jill and just wait for her text instead. I checked the time only to see a dissappointment. I was hoping that we could still catch up to that delisious eatery but its currently 10:02. To bad. So we decided to start at the freedome wall that was just near the entrance. We paid for the fee since it was for charity and we were given different colors of chalks. From there, we wrote random stuff until we ean out of chalk. We then went to the cafeteria to buy some snacks since we were pretty hungry.

We bought some cold drinks and waffles to fill in our empty stomachs. All we talk about is about the things that happend along time ago even though we cant relate to some of it. After eating, we decided to try some temporary tatoos. Hena in other words. Its what we call it here. We placed the number 5 in our wrist to represent our sqaud. Even though tatoos are not allowed in our school. If your confused, the school where we are in right now is the school for college. There are five different schools. 2 for middle school, 1 for junior high--which Im currently in, 1 building for senior high--which is still under construction and 1 for college. And because the college building is one of the biggest and where anyone can get it with mature people, then it is obvious that the festivities must be held here.

And since we are in a college school, we decided to give my mother a visit. She does work here as a science teacher in this school. Her office is on the 5th floor so we had to climb up some high stairs. It was pretty tiering to be honest. Once we reached there, our efforts in forcing our legs to take the next step on the stairs were wasted. My mother was not even at the office. With nothing to do, we went back down with some regrets. Before we even came up there, we argued if ever we should go up there or not. I should have listened to Mechaila's desicion. "Has the text arrived?" Mechaila broke the silence that was present as we sat at the bench after going up then down back again. I checked my phone and noticed that I have'nt recieved any messege yet.

"Nope... well Im guessing she ain't coming at this rate." I replied with grief. Well at least we did something. We did other activities until the time told us to go home. Me and Mechaila parted ways. I rode a vehicle home where I was seated on the window seat with no one beside me. I walked across the street since the ride home was parked there. I looked out the window and was observing the people that were walking around the area. I waited for how many minutes for the vehicle to go. To be honest, it was frustrating to wait this long. Well at least now I know how Jill feels. Just then and there, I saw a familiar face walking along the sidewalk near the school gates. "Is that Jill??" I locked on my sight to her every movement. But I had unfortunate times like how the vehicle then accelerated after seeing something surprising.

Killjoy.

Did she even plan on coming?
Where the hell is she going?
Was that Jill?

~Hushee