Improvisus (probably not updating again)

Chapter 6

“No, there’s no cheerleading anything anymore. We’re both down cheerleading for our school. We actually came here to ask you a favour.” Nat said.

“Okay, name it! I’ll try to help.” I was surprised by how nice and helpful she was being so far, but I guess none of her cheerleading friends were around so it was okay to be nice to the ‘uncool’ people like Nat and I.

“Well we were wondering if we could borrow your car.” Nat said nervously.

Brooke didn’t look surprised at all. “Sure, but I have only one condition.”

“Okay, say it!” I said happily. I didn’t think that would be as easy as it had been, but of course there was a catch.

“I have to go with you. I don’t have anything to do this summer and I want to go somewhere. So wherever you’re going I can tell you’re trying to sneak away and I want to go somewhere cool.”

“Wait, how do you know we’re trying to sneak away? Maybe we’re not at all! And you don’t even know where we’re going, maybe we just wanted to test drive your car since maybe we were looking into buying a car like yours!” I shot at her.

“Well you are trying to sneak away, because you’re asking all these questions. If you were just going for a drive then you would be fine with me coming, and if you were going to test drive my car, then you would’ve just told me that you wanted to do that because that’s the easy way out. Then there’s the fact that you’re trying to hide where you’re going, so I know you’re trying to sneak away and you seem to want to go somewhere far and you need a car. So I will let you use my car, but I need to come along.” Brooke sure was smart, I’d give her that. She had somehow figured that all out as if she had known right away.

“Okay, so maybe you’re smarter than I thought, but can we talk about it for a minute?” I asked.

“Yeah sure that’s fine, but you guys look really tired. Do you want a drink?”

“Uh sure I’ll have some water.” My mouth was watering and I was really thirsty.

“Me too.” Nat said.

“I’ll have a coffee please.” Brent said and I rolled my eyes. Brent never had coffee, and he actually hated it. He was obviously trying to impress Brooke.

“Okay, I’ll be back soon.” Brooke shut the door behind her and I turned to Nat and Brent.

“Who knew she would be so smart!” I exclaimed.

“Yeah I know she actually is really smart.” Nat replied.

“Well what do you guys want to do?” I asked. I figured we wouldn’t have very much time and we needed to decide.  “We can’t take her because she can’t know about magic, and she can’t go on the mission because it’s way too dangerous for her.”

“Well I think we should take her! She’s our driver and our ticket to going places for free. Who knows how far we’re supposed to drive, we need her.” Brent said, and I wasn’t surprised that he was defending Brooke.

“We can only go so far with a car, Brent. I have a feeling we’re going to be going much further than just the Olympics, and you’re just in love with her. This is why I don’t like anyone! You get all emotional and then when you need to make a decision about the person, then you do it to benefit them and not you and you don’t think right! We can’t have people risking their lives for us just so we could use their car!”

“I don’t like her!” Brent pretty much spat.

“You’re right, you love her. Sorry, my mistake!”

“Guys, who cares who Brent likes! We have to decide now, because she’ll be back soon.” Nat broke in. She normally stopped our arguments which was good, or else we’d waste so much time!

“I say no. We don’t want innocent lives being involved in magic.” I said.

“Yes, she is our free way to getting places.” Of course Brent said. So Brent and I turned to Nat who looked confused and unable to decide.

“I think we should take her. If we do we have to tell her to stay in the car and we can’t talk about magic when she’s by us.” Nat said. Of course Nat would side with Brent. The thing was it wouldn’t work. We needed to go on our mission and we needed to start. We couldn’t plan with Brooke there because she couldn’t know about magic and then we’d just be delayed by not knowing anything, and of course she would ask questions sooner or later.

“That’s a great plan Nat! She could just look out the window and be like oh what’s that? Is that magic?” I said sarcastically.

“I won’t say anything about it!” Brent said, completely ignoring my comment as usual.

I sighed and I knew I had lost the fight. We always agreed by majority and Nat and Brent would just have to see for themselves how bad their plan was. “Fine, I suppose I won’t either, but if something happens to Brooke it’s not my fault. I’m not responsible for her.”

“Sorry Candace, but we really need a ride and soon. It’s getting dark out and we have no idea where to go. A car is the quickest and cheapest way around.” Nat said. “After the Olympics she can go home and we can find some other way around, but we need to get started.”

“If you say anything about magic, then you two are done!” I threatened.

“Did you guys notice something by her eyes?” Brent asked.

I sighed again. “I know her eyes are real pretty aren’t they?”

“No, well yes, but there was a little tattoo there. It was a word.”

“Brooke has a tattoo on her leg and by her eye. It’s a weird spot, but it’s a word.” Nat said.

“No it was like one of the words you guys said when doing spells earlier.” Brent said again.

“Well you must’ve really looked at her eyes to see that! Her hair was down. I didn’t even notice that.” I said to Brent and he blushed.

“No, it was a weird word, it wasn’t English. I couldn’t quite make sense of it, but it looked weird enough to be a magic word.”

“Well if you’re so sure we might as well ask her to do some magic for us and see what she does.” I said sarcastically, which wasn’t a good idea.

“Thanks for the idea Candace, I’ll do that.” Brent said.

“Brent, she can’t be one of us. I’ve known Brooke for four years, and have been her captain all year long. There’s not something right about her, but she’s no magician.”

“Fine, I’ll just prove you both wrong and ask her to show us a spell or two and we can see what she does!” Of course Brent would be stubborn and wanted to get his way!

“Brent you better not!” I warned. “If you do-” I was interrupted by Brooke opening the door with a tray of drinks.

“Here you go.” She handed us each a drink.

“Thanks.” I mumbled. I wasn’t very happy with the decision.

“Brooke can you do a spell or two for us?” Brent randomly asked.

At first Brooke looked very shocked. “You’re like me? How did you know I was a magician?”

“You mean you are a magician too? Like you really are?” Brooke nodded.

“How did you know?”

“Well, I saw the tattoo by your eye and thought it was a magical word.” Brent said quietly.

She blushed. “Yeah, well you were right.” And all the tension that had been there earlier drifted away and I finally felt happy about getting help. We’d have another magician with us. We had found the fourth member for our mission.