Radioactive: The Creations

Chapter 8

Tessa grabbed a racket and stood next to Chris. On the opposite side of the court were 2 more boys. One of the boys had curly, dark brown hair with freckles. His eyes were hazel, his skin was pale, and like almost every boy at the facility, he was muscular. Beside him appeared to be his, also muscular, friend. This boy had light brown hair that curved up neatly at the front. His eyes were a bluish-greenish color, which went almost perfectly with his hair and pale skin. He looked very different from his friend who looked like an active nerd with out glasses. This guy looked like an over confident bad-boy, which scares Tessa. His grip on the racket looked like he was about to kill someone with it and his smile was dangerous and made Tessa think this was Bella's long lost brother. Chris nudged Tessa, and made her jump a little.

"You ready?"

Tessa nodded, "Yes"

"Are you sure?" said the bad-boy.

Chris got out of position and rolled his eyes.

"Cuz girls who play with us aren't really as good as we are." That just irritated Tessa.

"Can you just shut up Ryder. She's new so you don't know what she's capable of," said Chris.

"Yeah, whatever," he said back.

They all got back into position and Chris served the ball. It went from him to Ryder, to him again, and back to Ryder. When the ball came to Tessa, she was determined to show him she was more and hit the ball so hard and accurately that it hit the ground inside the court, zoomed right pass Ryder who ducked, hit the net, and bounced back to hit Ryder in the back of the head. But the impact was small enough that it wouldn't cause damage.

"Ow!" whined Ryder.

He rubbed the back of his head. Tessa, Chris, and the nerdy guy all giggled.

"What are you laughing at?" They giggled even more. Ryder turned to the nerdy guy.

"At least I didn't trip over the tennis net."

"Yeah but at least I didn't fall because of a girl," he laughed.

"Oh shut up, Caleb." Ryder was clearly trying to hide his embarrassment. Tessa decided that she had as much fun at she wanted with him.

"Well, girls aren't that weak as you would see and they should be treated as equal as men. So it wouldn't matter which gender kicks his butt," Chris was smiling and looked down, impressed by her bravery to stand up to Ryder.

"He would obviously not own up to it." Ryder raised an eyebrow at her smiling a little bit.

"So, aren't we gonna play tennis?"

Ryder picked up the tennis ball, still looking, at her and served.

After playing tennis, Tessa followed Chris, Ryder, and Caleb inside. They went to the interacting room to eat, and Tessa finally found Mariah and Nicole.

"What the heck, where were you, Tessa?" Mariah asked.

"Yeah, we were scared you wandered off somewhere and got lost." Nicole sounded concerned.

Tessa laughed. "It was fine. I went to play tennis with 3 other guys."

"Oooooo," said Mariah like a girl.

"Who was it." Mariah and Nicole were acting like best friends interested in your love life.

"Their names were Chris, Ryder, and Caleb."

"Oh my god! Really!"

"Yeah, why?"

"They are the sweetest guys here," said Nicole.