Dear Lottie

Chapter 14

The next day, I got out of PE due to a note Mr. Jack had wrote me the day before. We were in the sports field for PE where I was initially going to do the long jump and hurdles. I walked at the back of the class with Louise and Jemmy. Louis had ginger hair that was constantly in plaits and the only time I had seen her hair styled differently was when Jemmy had given her french plaits at Leo's house...note to reader, she was bordering consciousness, so the fact she agreed to have her took out and restyled wasn't surprising. "I swear down, they will die." Growled Jemmy, aiming her promise at Evelyn, Myra and Trey. "We should all gang up on them or something. Like with chainsaws or axes." We all laughed in reply as Mrs Olson opened the gate to the field. "Did you know you can get triple oreo red velv-" And Jemmy was gone. Me and Louise desperately looked around. "Fuck!" We looked down and saw Jemmy half way down a manhole. We could see her upper arms tense as she gathered all her strength to pull herself out. Me and Louise stood panicked, it was safe to say we had no idea what to do so we just stood with our hands spread over our mouths. She heaved herself up to the ground and we could see her heavy breathing. Everyone in the class saw it and went to cover up the manhole. Mrs Olson jumped to Jemmy's help and me and Louise remained frozen with panic. We decided it was best to stay with Jemmy considering we were her closest friends in the PE class. Her upper thigh was all grazed and in some parts, it was bleeding. Her eyes were red as if she was fighting back tears, but Jemmy was a fighter, (as demonstrated in the manhole incident) and we knew she would fight them. "Jemmy, that was pretty badass." Louise jumped into conversation. Jemmy shot her a half-smile in return "Yeah, I guess it was just the shock. At least it wasn't both legs!"

Louise looked alarmed, I can imagine Jemmy was too, but I pushed against the negative flow and patted her on the back. "I salute you for your optimism." I must admit, her optimism was astounding. I would go as far as she could've died, or at most broken her pelvis and been stuck down a manhole, but she stayed strong and pulled herself up. It's something you would see on a final destination movie! So I guess you could say Jemmy cheated death... And that...that would make it sound ten million times more badass as it actually was! My friend Jemmy cheated death!

We proceeded with the lesson and Louis got 3.4m on the long jump and 17 seconds in the hurdles. Her long legs were an advantage. Surprisingly, Jemmy still participated in PE (11 million times more badass) and got a pretty awesome 2.4m in the long jump and 18 seconds in the hurdles (12 million times more badass). As me and Louise covered up the sand pit, Jemmy and the rest of the class headed out of the field. "Has anyone left anything behind?" Mrs Olson asked. Jemmy puffed her chest out and walked ahead. "My pride!"