I can't control it-a BFDI and inanimate insanity fan fiction

Chapter 15: Taco's tale

Le time skip:
We are all at a sleepover at OJs house. It's a little bit crowded, because his house isn't that big, but we are going to sleep in a huge tent in his garden, which is a bit bigger. The only reason we're inside now is because we are eating dinner, and we were watching tv until his parents came in and changed the channel to the lottery(they did make sure it's ok with us though).
"Tonight's prize for winning is $1000000000, so it's time to say the numbers," the man on the tv said. I got up and went to the kitchen to get myself some lemonade, and Pickle came with me. When we came back in we heard the man say "and the final number is 7."
OJs parents look at their ticket in disbelief, then look at each other, and then look at the ticket, starting to smile, before shouting "WE'RE RICH!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"WHAT?! No way!" OJ says
"Yeah! Come and look. We got all the right numbers!"
OJ looks and as soon as he does his face lights up. Now I wish I had waited to get some lemonade, or had gotten it before.
"How is that possible?! According to my calculations it's a 1 in 100000000000 chance of winning the lottery!" Exclaims Test Tube
"THAT DOESNT MATTER, IM RICH!!!!! WE CAN BUY A NEW HOUSE! AND A NEW CAR! AND TONS OF CANDY! And we can buy a huge hotel for all of us to live in!"
"No hotel. And we're not going to let you waste all of your pocket money on candy. But we probably will get a new house and car. And listen kids, we know this is all exciting, and you will want to tell people, but please don't. We don't mind you telling your parents, but don't tell people at school because if too many people find out they could try to get our money, and they could hurt us or you guys in order to get to it. There are a lot of messed up people in this world. And money is a very corrupting thing. Just be careful, kids." Says his mum.

Le time skip idk how long:
I can't believe I made it to the finale! I wish Pickle made it this far, but he did come pretty close. You're probably confused. Basically our school realised that pretty much every class has a YouTube channel, and has decided to do this thing that they call an 'object show'(mainly because all of our nicknames are object nicknames)(A/N obviously object shows were later given a new meaning XD), where basically each class in the last few weeks of the school year does a lot of challenges, which are recorded and put up on YouTube, and out of the people who lost the viewers vote out who they don't want to get far, and then when a winner is chosen from each class the viewers choose out of all of them who they want to win, and me and OJ just made it to the finale in our class(I also honestly have no clue how my parents don't know about this yet). The last challenge is a mix of all of the challenges put together. I was holding back the first time I did each of these challenges, but that was because I didn't think I would win. But now I'm so close, there's no way I'm holding back!

Le time skip:
I'm so close! I can see the finish line! OJ isn't too far behind me though! I've gotta run.
I start to run at top speed, and I then see Pickle on the bleachers, cheering for me. He's even holding up a sign with a picture of a taco on it, and wearing yellow, green, and red; my 3 favourite colours. He's the only one on my side of the bleachers. I know no one meant anything bad from it, but they all think that OJ will beat me. Pickle is the only 1 who thinks I can make it.
As I run past him I smile and look into his bright green eyes, and he looks into mine. I don't notice the rock in front of me. I trip up and graze my knee. I regret wearing shorts today so much now. Pickle quickly stands up to make sure I'm ok.
"I'm fine" I say, just before OJ passes me. I quickly stand up and start running at top speed, being careful not to trip over anything else. "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" I shout as I somehow run even faster. I just about pass him when I start to slow down a bit from the exhaustion. He catches up to me and passes me slightly and I slightly speed up and pass him before getting slower again. We continue like that for about a minute until the finish line us right in front of us. We both jump and I close my eyes, crossing my fingers. I then land on the floor with a huge thud. I open my eyes, smiling and thinking I've won before looking behind me and seeing OJ wasn't there and nor was the finish line. I look in front and see him starting to start up, smiling and shouting "IVE WON! I CANT BELIEVE IVE WON!!!!"
I then look up and see that I was so close to actually crossing but I didn't quite make it. Probably because I can't jump far due to my short legs. I hate how short I am, it always sets me back. I can't even go on half of the rides at the fair. The only person in class who is actually shorter that me is Bow, but over the last few years she's started wearing high heels so she seems taller, and because of that all of the rides I can't go on due to height restrictions, she can! I would probably try to wear high heels too, but I can't walk in them, let alone run around, which is something I love to do.
BUT WHY IS IT ALWAYS OJ???!!! First his parents win the lottery and now THIS!!!!! Not to mention he's always the best at carnival games, and always wins the most prizes at the fair, no matter how much the rest of us try! Plus when it comes to friends outside our closest friend group(s)(because Nickel has 2 friend groups), he's the most popular. I guess he was just built for winning at life, and I was built for never being good enough. I not good enough for my parents, they always told me to hide who I really was when I was younger, making me become someone completely different, I'm never good enough for my 'fans', half of them find me super annoying and want me to quit the iio, and I'm not good enough this school! I always act silly in class because that's what my parents want, and I never used to try in exams, but the school insisted that I should try, and are now complaining that I'm so smart but never do anything useful in class and that I should try more there, and I'm not even brave enough to tell Pickle how I really feel. Even my friends hold back for me, because they believe I can't do things and that they have to not try so hard so that I can catch up. There have only ever been 2 people who believe in me and that I've ever been good enough for; Pickle and Uncle Steve. But I haven't seen Steve in years, and I don't know why, and I've just failed Pickle,who believed with all of his heart I could do it. I can't do anything right no matter how hard I try. No matter how close I come to making everyone around me happy, I always fail at the last moment. The only things I'm truly good at are baking and throwing lemons everywhere.
WHY IS IT ALWAYS OJ WHO SUCSEEDS?????!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to yell at him! I want to show him who I really am! I want to fight him and win just to prove that I can do something! But I can't. I won't. There's no point even trying to be angry at him. After all, it isn't his fault that he was born perfectly and I was born a failure, and even if I did try to fight him, there would be no point because i have no physical upper body strength, and he could easily beat me in a fight. Anyone at this school could probably beat me in a fight. Even Woody could probably beat me in a fight. So instead of trying to cause trouble, I just lay there, face down on the floor, trying to hold back tears as I think about how much of a failure I am.
I hear everyone get up from the bleachers and run over to OJ to congratulate him on once again being the best at everything. But then I heard something unexpected. "Taco, are you ok?" I heard Pickle say.
"Yeah. Just tired from all the running" I lie.
"Yeah, I'm sure you are! You were so fast and so far ahead of me I thought you were going to beat me! Seriously, if you didn't trip you would of easily won! I can't believe how good you were at all of those challenges. I feel guilty just calling myself a winner because of how close you got!" OJ said. I could tell that he meant it. But even if he did, I don't believe it. How can he be so great at everything and be so oblivious to it, and then be oblivious to the worlds biggest failure.
I simply give him a thumbs up, not showing my face.
The school bell then went of, signalling the end of the school day.
"Hey, I've heard a new fast food place has opened up nearby. Why don't we go there to celebrate my win and Taco coming so close. Foods on me" says OJ
Everyone replies "yeah" or "ok" or "sure, let's go!"
"Taco?" OJ asks
"No thanks. I'm just gonna stay in here for a while"
"Since she's staying here, I might also stay to keep her company" I hear Pickle say.
"Ok then suit yourselves."
I then hear everyone leave.
After about a minute I hear him say "what's actually wrong?"
"Nothing"
"Tora, I've known you for years. You are my best friend. I always know when something's bothering you, so you might as well admit it and tell me what's wrong so that I can make you feel better about it quicker". He called me by my real name. There is no getting away from this conversation.
I sigh and say "I'm never good enough. I always fail at everything I do. No matter how hard I try. No matter how close I come I always mess up at the end. And then OJs just good at everything he does, even when he's not trying. I just don't understand how he can just be so good at everything without even trying when I can't do anything right no matter what I do. And because I'm so bad at everything I always disappoint everyone around me, even if they don't admit it. I'm just never good enough for anyone."
"Don't ever say that about yourself, Tora. You aren't a failure, you are a beautiful, funny, brave, optimistic, amazing girl, and no matter what happens, no matter what you say, or what other people say, or what you do, that will never change. Plus, you came in 2nd place, whereas I only came in 4th. Surely that alone says something about your physical ability"
"I only got to 2nd place because the views didn't vote for me, and that is only because they think I'm nothing more than a silly, crazy girl, and that's the only reason they like me. That's the only reason anyone likes me, and even then some people don't because of how annoying I am."
"You honestly think that the only reason I like you?! No! That's the reason I became friends with you. Because I thought you were funny and decided I wanted to get to know you better. And I'm so glad that I did every day of my life. I don't like you because you're silly. I like you because you're funny, because you're optimistic, because you're resilient, you know exactly how to make everyone around you feel better, you like to make others laugh, and you never let anyone feel like crap, you're always there for everyone. Sure, you're not the smartest, or the strongest, or the luckiest person out there, but nor am I, and yeah, it sucks sometimes, but at least I've got you, and you've got me, so stop acting like you're alone in this, ok. All that happened the was he had a little bit of good luck and you had a little bit of bad luck. If I had been in your position I would still be on the first challenge. So please stop feeling sad about yourself. I wish I could have done what you did today"
I smile and look at him.
"Why don't we get outta here." He then says
"Yeah."
So we walk out of the school. He then takes me back to the secret place at the park, and back into the cave in the waterfall.
"Like I said, this place is great if you want to be alone and get out all of your emotions."
"Thanks but I think you already helped me out with that."
"Even if I helped you let out your emotions and feel slightly better, I didn't make you feel 100% better, but this place can."
"What do you mean?"
He then walks over to the mini freezer and opens it up to reveal TONS of ice cream in all different flavours, from chocolate, to vanilla, to strawberry, banana, rocky-road, bubblegum, cookies and cream, sherbet lemon, very berry, mint, tutti fruity, honey comb, and loads of other flavours. He then got out cookies and cream and sherbet lemon, and then opened the mini fridge and got out 2 bottles of lemonade and 2 packets of Oreos and went into a secret compartment on the fridge to get out 2 chocolate bars and 2 spoons.
"People say laughter is the best medicine, but I personally think food is"(A/N my life motto XD)
I laugh as I take the sherbet lemon ice cream, and 1 of everything else from him.
We stay there for a while, talking and eating. My mum did text where I was and I said I was with Pickle and would be back later, so we have a while longer to spend together.
When we eventually move we pick up our rubbish to bring with us until we get to a bin(we don't want to leave it here and ruin this place).