Looking for Nothing

Chapter 19✨

I'm here with the chapter of week people 🥳🤞. So sit back and ENJOYYY!!

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Isabella's pov

"You got this Cassie"
"Stop saying that! Ya making me nervous" Cassie said waving me off while walking back and forth aka pacing around the area we were in
"Okay. You're gonna crush them Cass"
"That's even worser" Cassie groaned flopping on the floor lying down with her face up to the ceiling

I sat down with my legs crossed over eachother
"Worser is not a word Cass" I said giggling
"I know! But it seems like the best thing to use for the sentence" I started laughing
"You laugh at my use of English" Cassie said feigning hurt while sitting up from her lying position
"No it's just a very interesting way to use it" I said trying to keep my laugh in but when I saw the look on her face I burst

I saw Cassie shake head head before joining me in my laughter. Just then a voice came from the speakers saying that the people with the orange wristbands should make their way to the starting line
We stood up quickly and I pulled her into a hug
"You'll do great" I said still hugging her. She pulled away keeping her hands on my shoulders
"You too Iz" We smiled at eachother again before Cassie ran out of the but not without shouting
"SEE YA LATER IZ!" I shook my head smiling

I sat down on the floor waiting for my colour to be called. The people with colour blue bands where called after Cassie's set finished. I was busy trying to calm myself when I heard
"People with purple bands, please make your way to the arena"
I let out a shaky breath before standing up and walking out of the room

I didn't know where to go so being the smart person I am, I just followed the purple arrows that were moving forward on the wall
Wow soo smart
I know right!
I heard footsteps behind me but I didn't bother turning around to check
It could be another person with a purple band
Or maybe a person that wants to kidnap you and hold you for ransom!
Seriously?
Seriously

I mentally rolled my eyes at myself before I focused on the double doors that were right in front of me
The doors opened by themselves as if they were waiting for me to arrive
When I walked in, I was expecting noise and cheers and all of those stuff but do you wanna know what I was met with?
I'm sure you do

Well, if you wanna know I was met with silence. Dead silence. I'm pretty sure everyone here can hear my breathing with how loud it is. A dude dressed like the one that told us about the rules led us to the starting line. Our footsteps echoed in the silent arena as we made our way to the starting line

I was starting to feel nervous and these people that were dressed in all black by the way weren't helping with the staring. I took a look at the obstacle course that practically covered the whole arena
There were tyres laid out on the floor. I'm pretty sure they were for stamina, like how well one can put their leg in each tyre and take it out without slowing down

The next one was like monkey bars leading to rope swinging like Tarzan. After the rope swinging there a little run before you see about three hurdles arranged from small to big to jump over
After that is wall climbing also involving a rope. You'll have to climb up and then cross over to the other sidd before climbing down

Then after that is like nothing. It was just a straight run before leading to the next obstacle. I have to keep my guard up at that point
The next one was a shooting exercise, shoot three targets and you're done. After that was knife throwing and I was just like the gun shooting exercise
And then there was a huge wall like bruh! How am I supposed to get over that? I couldn't see anymore from here so I think that was the end of the course

I tuned into in my surroundings when we reached the starting line. Another dude (yup, you guessed it! He was in all black too). Anyways another dude told us what to do and it was just like I analysed it
"Don't let you thoughts consume you okay?"
"Okay"
I won't let you down Dad
The whistle blew making my body start moving before my brain process the situation  and I was really thankful for that

I used about 45% of my full speed knowing I would need it later. As I was went through the tyres, I heard Matteo's voice in my head
"Keep those knees up Bella!"
You got it Matt
I passed through that one without my leg getting caught in anyone

I jumped up grabbing on to a monkey bar before propelling myself forward at a moderate pace. I reached the end of the monkey bars swinging a bit before I threw myself forward latching onto to the rope still keeping my momentum
I broke into a run as soon as my feet touched the floor knowing I would need speed to jump over the hurdles

I jumped over them with a little difficulty at the highest hurdle but I pushed through. I climbed up and down the wall with ease cause of my parkour lessons.
Thank God for Matteo
As I reached the long run area, I realized that there were really faint laser beams like a security system
Thank God for gymnastics

I huffed a breath out quickly putting my in a bun my extra hairband that always on my hand
I ran head first into the beam  doing a forward roll landing in a crouching position. I looked at the beams before moving from my position performing a flip

Time skip cause who said I know anything about gymnastics,

I did a back flip successfully landing outside the laser field quite gracefully I say.
I shook my head a bit to get rid of my dizziness before jogging towards the gun shooting exercise
By the time I reached there my dizziness had vanished so I just picked up a gun and fired at all three targets without thinking about it
Bullseye!!

All the bullets hit the center of each target. I dropped the gun running towards the knife throwing exercise and I obviously crushed that one too cause like why won't I?
After successfully throwing my last knife, I ran towards the wall remembering something that Matt told me

"When you see a wall don't slow down, run faster. And when you're about 3meters away from it you jump onto it, bend your foot and propel yourself up. The best part is that it only happens in the matter of 5 seconds so you gotta do it quick and fast"

I charged towards the wall passing one of the other contestants who was just staring at the wall probably wondering how the heck she was supposed to get over it
I totally forgot that I wasn't the  only one taking the test
I jumped onto the wall immediately using my right foot to propel myself up towards the left before switching to my left foot to do the same as my right before I successfully grabbed onto the ledge of the wall

I hoisted myself up onto the wall being careful cause it was pretty narrow. I looked at the floor, making sure the spot that I wanted to land on was safe to do so. I flipped off the wall going into a forward roll as I neared the ground to lessen the impact
I caught myself in a spiderman pose
I must look pretty cool right now
Focus!
Yeah, right!

I used my full speed charging towards the finish line. All I could hear were my footsteps and my heart beating. I don't think my heart is supposed to beat like that.
Just then everything was in slow motion, I saw the finish line right in front of me and started counting down

"5..."

"4..."

"3..."

"2..."

"1..."

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This chapter took soo long to write 🙂🤲. I got stuck so many times but it's finally done
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