At last, Denis made up an excuse and they left. They were now on their way back to the hotel. They were walking side by side but Denis was staring straight ahead, not even sparing her a glance.She was curious about why he did what he did earlier, was this another one of the rules she didn’t know about? She had to ask.“Why did you do that? Earlier?”“Do what?” Denis asked still not looking at her.“Stop me from talking.”“Because I had to, it was for your own good.” Denis said hastily under his breath like he couldn’t wait to end the conversation.“You’re going to have to be a little more explicit.” Kelsey told him unconvinced that he’d do something just for her own good.“Listen, It’s a competition. Everyone is the enemy. You can’t go around giving people information they don’t deserve to know.” She certainly hadn’t thought about it like that.“But they asked for the game I’m participating in not my secret strategy.” She said stubbornly.“It doesn’t matter what you tell them, anythi
They all turned to look at her then they turned to look at each other, exchanging weird glances. Kelsey thought she might die of shame if they continued to stare at her without saying anything. “Uhhh. . . . I’m so happy for you.” Carla said the words were forced out of her throat on gun point.“You don’t exactly sound happy.” Kelsey told her and she chuckled nervously. “I am, I am, I promise. I’m happy, it’s just. . .” Carla turned to look at her friends for help.“It’s just really shocking. We didn’t expect news like this.” The beside her said and Carla quickly pitched in.“We're really happy. Congratulations!” she half yelled and all the other Lunas chorused it with her.“Congratulations!!”“You don’t have to drink with us, we’ll drink on behalf you and your baby.” Carla said with a determined look and waved at the bartender.“Bring everything we ordered for, there of each. We have a baby to celebrate.” Kelsey smiled, maybe they had no bad intentions after all. Maybe they just w
Kelsey made her way back to the hotel, still processing what had just happened. She danced with them, she talked with them — even though most of it were lies, but she still thought better of them. She saw light seeping through the door of their room, Denis must still be awake or maybe forgot to turn off the light. She took a deep breath before opening the door, she didn’t know why but she did.Denis was in the same position he was when she left. Had he not moved at all? She examined his body, he was wearing different clothes now so he definitely has not been in the same position for almost half the night.“How did it go?” He asked looking at her expectantly, he seemed to do that a lot these days.“You were right.” She said tiredly and she saw the look on his face go soft like he felt bad for her. She was expecting him to gloat and say I told you so but he didn’t, he just stared at her consoling her with his eyes.“Are you okay?” He asked and her eyes watered. “I'm fine.” She looked
“What?! You’re sparring? You?” Alina mocked. She looked up at Kelsey, tilts her head to the side and presses her hand on her chest where heart is.“They’re going to tear you to shreds, cupcake.” She let out her loud hysterical laugh that always seem to reel in everyone’s attention.Kelsey felt her heart leap out of her chest and into her mouth. Her lips quivered in fear, all the confidence she mustered vanished into thin air without a trace. Doubt sneaked into her mind and overrode her entire system.She’s right, what was I thinking? I don’t even have a wolf. How am I supposed to fight these vicious people that have been trained to kill their entire life? The voice in her head was loud and imposing. She tried not listen but it was impossible not to, it’s the only thing she heard.“You outdone yourself this time Kelsey.” Alina added.Denis could feel his veins throbbing at the side of his head. He was mad. He was really mad. He walked up to Alina resisting the urge to strangle her and
Kelsey couldn’t believe it. She actually did it, she defeated the big foot monster. She saw most of the crowd go nuts, the rest were Lunas glaring of course but she couldn’t care less about them. She won! She really won! She can’t believe she ever doubted herself in the first place. She saw Peter and Denis waving from afar. Peter was waving at her and yelling something she couldn’t quite make out. Denis was smiling, his white teeth was shining from under the sun like a diamond set on the mountain top. She remembered the kiss from earlier and her cheeks heated up. It might have been for show but it was still her first kiss. She ran towards them and Peter lifted her off the ground in one go.She was too happy to be annoyed at Peter for carrying her like a sack of rice.“Put her down Peter!!” Denis yelled and Kelsey just chuckled like an adrenaline junkie.“I said put her down.” He yelled again.“Okay, okay fine. I’ll put her down.” Peter put her down at scowled at Denis.“Here you go, sh
“I don’t have to give you a pep talk today right?”“No, you don’t. I’m completely fine and ready to compete.”“Someone’s pumped up.” Denis joked and Kelsey hit him on the shoulder playfully.Denis grabs her things and they head out of the hotel together.They meet Peter at the entrance of the backstage, he was turning his head everywhere looking for them, looks like he’s been waiting for a while. He waves when he sees them.“Morning.”“Morning.” Peter and Denis greet each other like co-workers.“Morning Kelsey.” Peter gave her a small hug.“Hope you slept well? You can’t afford to be anything but ready today.”“I’m ready.” Kelsey says confidently as Peter smiled at her.“She has to go change now.” Denis said disrupting their little chit chat.He grabs her hand and adjusted the bag on his shoulder that contained her clothes. He followed her to the locker room and stopped at the door.“Here, don’t take too much time.” He handed her the bag.“Why, will you be waiting here.” She took the
Kelsey hit the floor with so much force that it felt like her skull cracked open. She heard muffled screams, then whispers, then silence. Darkness. The crowd was confused. They counted to three but Kelsey was not getting back up. And the winner of the Luna games is. . . . she’s won three times in a row and she made this her fourth. Will we ever get enough of her? Give it up for. . . Luna Marianna!!Marianna glanced at Kelsey lying on the ground and she wanted to reach for her but Her feet became rooted to the ground like a cement pillar, balls of perspiration rolled down her cheeks. She was scared. Terrified.Denis and Peter ran towards Kelsey hitting everything and everyone in their way. Denis couldn’t say what he was feeling exactly. Was it fear that she was hurt? Was it anger that someone hurt her? Was it her pain, was he feeling her pain? He didn’t know. Adrenaline coursed through his veins as he ran, his heart was beating louder and faster than a drum. He surprised himself with
Denis could feel his heart rate slowing down and almost stopping. Pills? He’s never seen Kelsey swallow a pill on her own before. Is Kelsey secretly a drug addict? Someone did this to her right? Someone had to have done this, Kelsey is no drug addict and she certainly doesn’t have trouble sleeping seeing how quickly she fell asleep yesterday before the food even arrived.Denis was still in his own head so Peter continued the conversation with the doctor.“What do you mean by sleeping pills? Kelsey doesn’t take sleeping pills.”“Well, what we found in her system was definitely sleeping pills. A truck load.” The doctor handed Peter the test results. Peter stared at it for a while but he doesn’t even know what he was looking at. He has no idea how to read a medical report so he’s just going to have to take the doctor's word for it.“So you’re saying she fell asleep during the match?” Peter asked folding the paper in his hand.“I wouldn’t call it that but sure, that’s what happened.”“Ho