Afterlife || irwin

[ 25 ] 2014

[ 25 ] 2014

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"The only way you'll ever get it open if if you two talk things out and get over your differences."

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Harley asked her parents for permission to stay over at Calum's and help him clean up. Everyone else had stayed as well, mostly because Cindy convinced Hazel and Dempsey to stay. With the cheerleading competition coming up that Friday, she was down two girls ever since they left Australia. The two girls decided to stay at least another week. They liked Cindy, but they also did it for Harley's sake. Cindy was her best friend and if it meant that much to her to at least try to win the competition, then they could give it a try as well.

Harley was overjoyed that they were staying for one more week. From there on out, there were only two more weeks of school left. That upcoming Thursday was the twelfth year amusement park trip. They would be leaving school early, around eleven in the morning and going to Luna Park. They would be staying there until three in the morning before coming back home at dawn, as was tradition for all twelfth year classes.

Friday was the big cheer competition in Campbelltown, which was chosen as the venue for the all star competition that year. The senior year students were not required to attend school after their amusement park trip. But the cheerleaders had to be there at mid day for a pep rally. Then they would be travelling an hour away and staying there over the weekend to do some sight seeing with their team and their coach. The week after competition was the big school picnic. Cindy explained to Harley that every year, the school went up to a beautiful park by the mountains, two hours away from Sydney. It was another weekend long trip, where the whole school was allowed to come. 

They had games, music, food, contests. They were to make the two hour trip on Friday afternoon, after classes were finished for the day. Since it was the last official day of school for them, it would be their day to take photos, get their yearbooks signed. That was a day for them to do essentially whatever they wanted. Saturday was the big picnic, and they would be coming back Sunday morning to rest up for the graduation ceremony the next morning.

Harley didn't realize just how tedious being a normal teenager was. There were so many pointless things to worry about. 

After getting the house cleaned with the help of everyone, most of them went their separate ways. Arthur still owned the house down the street from Harley, and authorized the hunters to use it while they stayed in Sydney. Michael was staying with them as well, but Arthur didn't yet know that his son was back in Sydney. Michael planned to keep that information that way, so that Arthur couldn't do anything to hurt Hazel and Jack. The six left nearing three in the morning, after helping to clean up the mess. Billy and Cindy were next. Since Cindy didn't want to go back to an empty house, Billy took her home with him. Both Harley and Billy knew Harleen wouldn't mind.

Niall and Andrea, drunkenly stumbled up the stairs to their bedroom, where they continued making some noise. The last to go were Calum and Harley. They went up to his room, he lent her a t-shirt to wear instead of that uncomfortable dress, and he changed into something better as well. Then they tiredly slid under the covers and drifted off to sleep almost instantly.

When she woke up next, her eyes blinked back against the morning light peeking through the black curtains in his bedroom. But what had been enough to wake her up was the tight grip around her body, it was starting to constrict her lungs and making it hard to breathe. As she looked down at her body, she saw it was Calum's mechanical arm. Though he was trying hard, he still hadn't fully gotten the hang of it, and it was worse right then that he was asleep. He didn't know how much strength he was really using.