The Precocious

Chapter 15 (Coyote)

Chapter 15 

Coyote POV: Levi

       Most of the time when I was sketching or painting or doing anything else art related, it took a lot to distract me from it. Unless someone actually spoke to me, I could completely tune out everything that was happening around me.

       Except for right now.

       I was constantly hearing the basketball hit the backboard of the hoop and not go in. I glanced up from my sketch, seeing Uriah get more and more frustrated with each miss.

       This was very unlike Uriah. He may have missed the shot once in a while but never this frequently. I didn't even think he made a single shot at all.

       Uriah got too frustrated and ended up throwing the basketball across the gymnasium, letting it hit the wall before he trudged over to the bleachers and sat down on the first bench.

       I placed my sketchbook down on the bench I was on before walking down the bleachers to sit down beside Uriah. "Are you okay?" I asked.

       Uriah sighed. "Sort of. It's just the whole election thing in the Tiger house is actually stressing me out and I don't get stressed out. I've been trying my hardest to talk to Nevaeh but she's either always with Wayne and the others or she ignores me."

       "And you're worried you won't be able to get the majority of the vote," I said.

       "Yeah," Uriah said. "Don't get me wrong, it's not going to be the end of the world if I lose the election but I'm tired of the way Wayne acts. He thinks he's basically the ruler of the of the whole school, not just the Tigers."

       "You still have time to try to talk to Nevaeh," I said. 

       "But it probably won't happen if she just keeps ignoring me," Uriah said. "If I don't convince her to vote for me then Wayne is probably just going to stay being captain until he graduates."

       "Or he gets kicked out of the school," I said. "Ooh, we should try that. Getting him kicked out of the school. That way, he can't torment anyone any longer."

       Uriah chuckled. "As much as I would love that, I'm pretty sure it takes a lot to get kicked out of the school. You know, since we're a school for the gifted."

       "Okay, but can we torment him instead?" I asked. "We do everything he does to us, but worse."

       "No. Well... No, we shouldn't."

       "I sensed some doubt there."

       Uriah hesitated for a bit before saying, "Here's the deal. If he wins the election and continues being the captain, we'll torment him then."

       "Deal," I said. "I really hope you do win the election, though."

       "I'm normally a confident person but I'm actually doubting it right now," Uriah said. "Not unless I can find something that would really prove how much of a horrible captain Wayne is. But even then, I doubt his friends will care. He pretty much has this in the bag."

       I wanted to try to convince Uriah that he could win the election if he tried but he was right. Wayne's friends weren't going to care if there was a reason why Wayne absolutely shouldn't be captain.

       Uriah gently held my hand in his when he noticed I wasn't saying anything. "I know we just started out and you're not really keen on keeping it a secret because you want to brag about how amazing I am..."