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Unluckily, however, Art was taught by Ms. Hetrick; the math teacher. As I walked into the room, breathing heavily and sweating at an alarming rate, I looked up to meet the unsatisfied gleam of the teacher. I tried to hide behind the crowd of chatting students the covered the back row (who awaiting for further instruction from the teacher). Alas, this tactic didn’t work.
“What took you so long? Weren’t you just outside?”
“Umm yeah, I went to the bathroom.”
“For 5 minutes?” she said, as she looked down at her silver watch.
“Yeah, I’d rather not talk about it if you don’t mind,” I said in an overly defensive
tone.
"Prepare for class! We have a fun and interesting project for today.”
I’ll skip to when something fun and interesting happens:
As the final bell rang, disbanding a wave of loud children, I suddenly remembered what Buck had told me.
It had become my mission to make it to the park, eager to find out what Buck meant by “army.” Who were they fighting? Wizards hadn’t been cool since Harry Potter, and even that was ruined when they killed Dobby. Why?! Why Dobby?!
I power walked to the park, increasing speed with every other step that took me closer to Buck. Eventually after about 5 minutes (4 minutes and 48 seconds to be exact) I found myself sprinting in anticipation.
Sweat dripped down my brow (I sweat a lot in this story… California’s a hot state…) when I ran past the breezy January air, stopping for no one… Although there was no one to really stop for; the park was only like 10 minutes away, and not many people live in Cloverdale. I did brush past a 3rd grader, and looking back at that, I do feel kind of bad about it… Poor little confused 3rd grader!
At last, I had made it to the park. I leaned against the chain fences that surrounded the park. I was finally there and ready to unveil the vagueness that lead to my curiosity. I looked beyond the fence to look for Buck, only to realize I had rushed all the way to the park, even before Buck had left school.
CHAPTER 2: The First Chapter, Part 2
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So there I was… out of breath and waiting for Buck to arrive at the park. So I waited… And waited… And waited… And waited… And waited… And waited… And waite- okay, I think you get the picture.
I waited a total of ten minutes, but I was counting every second that I waited for Buck’s “army” to illuminate what exactly I was even waiting for. Buck’s vagueness and suspense never worked so well… that and the magic squirrel thing (that phrase must sound so weird out of context). Ten minutes of waiting finally amounted to the anticipated arrival of Buck and Luke.
Luke was tall, standing at 5’’7, and bore straight, golden hair, barely reaching down to his ears. His eyes were an icy blue, and his skin was whiter than… a piece of printer paper. Printer paper’s pretty white.. That’s a pretty good analogy.
Luke was Buck’s cousin, along
with pretty much half of the town. Cloverdale was Hunt-Territory, and if you
messed with any of them, the whole town was against you. This gave Buck a sort
of diplomatic immunity when it came to adventuring; if we just so happened to
step on private property, we’d get off Scott Free, and wouldn’t have to sneak
around like spies (however, we did some times ‘cause playing spy is fun!). Once
a landowner saw the trademark Hunt blonde hair, he knew he mustn't mess with
this group of trespassers.
The two walked down the street
to the park, both with amazingly serious expressions. Buck was holding the
Spell Book in one arm, and a notebook in the other. The two wore matching
sunglasses, which may sound kinda tacky, but Buck could pull of sunglasses and
he knew it. As the two slowly strutted down Clark Ave. to the meeting place, I
couldn't help but gaze at the total bad-ass looking duo.
I wiped off the sweat of my
forehead and fixed my hair in the camera of my phone. I coolly walked over to
the two, slyly saying,“Oh yeah, we’re doing that meeting thing today, aren’t we?” I couldn’t let Buck know that his tactic of anticipation worked on me.
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