The 3rd Meets the Five (Quintessential Quintuplets Story)

Chapter 35

Third POV

[It's the next day. It's the final day of camp. We spent the first day stuck in the storm, Then we spent the second day prepare for today and I got sick. This is the last day. It's time to make the most of it. I get out of bed and head over to the ski slope. I'm not really a skier. I'm a snowboarder. I'm really good it. I've played plenty of video games. So I get dressed and head over to the slope. I walk over the slope when Yotsuba appears]

Yotsuba: Hey, Third! How's it going? You feeling better?

Third: Yeah. By the way, you can't leave a lock a room without checking first.

Yotsuba: That's something random to say. Anyway, want to have a race?

Third: I don't know.

Yotsuba: Come on! We used to race all the time! No matter what it was!

Third: Really?

Yotsuba: We'd race from eating to doing homework. I always won!

Third: You should take more time on your homework.

Yotsuba: That's probably true. Anyway, let's have a race!

Third: I don't know.

Yotsuba: Please?

[Yotsuba then gave me the puppiest of puppy dog eyes. Seriously, God would have caved in. I couldn't say no to that face]

Third: Fine.

Yotsuba: Yay! I'm excited!

Third: I'm probably going to just lose again.

[Yotsuba looked at me with a smile on her face]

Yotsuba: I know you got game! I want your very best!

[As if on cue, I had a flashback to a time when that girl was going to race me with bikes]

[Flashback]

Third: I'll beat you this time.

Girl: Whatever. I know you got game! I want your very best!

[End of flashback]

[I just smile. She's that girl alright]

Yotsuba: Want to make a bet?

Third: Go ahead. I'm listening.

Yotsuba: The winner makes the loser do one request.

Third: I feel like I've been in this situation before.

Yotsuba: You have. You lost last time and you will this time.

Third: Keep dreaming. I've gotten better.

[We got into our positions]

Yotsuba: The first one to the bottom. Okay?

Third: You're on. On three...What?

[I'm about to count when I see Yotsuba already head down hill]

Third: Hey!

Yotsuba: All is fair in love and war!

[I knew that I had already lost. She really wanted to win and I already know what she wanted me to do. I was going to give it my best effort though. I raced down the hill. I was doing very well. I dodged a bunch of people along the way. I even saw Futaro trying to ski down]

Third: Hey. Having fun?

Futaro: How do you stop?

Third: Didn't read it in a book?