Fighter { Book 3 }

Chapter 12 - The Descent

I wake up to someone knocking on the door. I groan getting out of bed, I open the door to see Jenna. "Hey, Jen." I greet her. "Any plans of waking up?" Jen asks. "I didn't have any but now I'm awake, so what can I help you with?" I ask her. "Nothing. It's almost 11, just thought you should know." Jen says. "Fine, guess its time to wake up. Lunch?" I ask her. "Yeah sure. I'm going to my room, I have a lot to catch up to." Jen says and I nod. "Okay, I'll bring it up for you," I tell her and she leaves.

I take a long shower before changing into black leggings and a white hoodie that had colorful patterns at the bottom. I go back to my room and hit Ty with a pillow, he groans but sits up with a yawn. "What the hell Ari? Let me sleep." Ty says before falling back on the bed. I sigh and roll my eyes, "Fine then, I guess you don't want to eat the risotto I'm making for lunch." I say and Ty sits up in the bed within a second. "Fine. I hate you just so you know." Ty says heading for the bathroom. "I know," I say shaking my head before making my bed and heading downstairs.

I see Mason sitting in the living room staring at his phone. "You okay?" I ask him. "Yeah. I'm just worried about lunch." Mason says as though that explains. "Great explanation. It seems like a disaster too." I tell him sarcastically. "Right, sorry. I uhh I was a part of this pack in Florida and now there's this pack member here and she wants to meet me." Mason explains. "Okay. So what's the problem?" I ask him. "She's going to want me to go back with her but I'm not ready to leave. I'm just worried about her reaction, the pack is my family too." Mason informs me. "Well if they're family then they'll understand. Don't worry too much." I tell him and he nods. "Will you come with me?" Mason asks and I shake my head. "No thanks. I'm fine, how about you take Jenna instead?" I ask him. "I thought she's studying," Mason says confused. "She is, she's also stressing herself out. If she goes with you, she'll be distracted for a few hours and have some fun too. So?" I ask him and he nods. "Yeah, that's a good idea. See you later." Mason says. "Yeah, have fun," I say and walk into the kitchen as he goes upstairs.

As I gather the ingredients I hear the front door open. Soon I see Jer and Vicki come in. "Hey, you guys are back early," I say knowing they were at school but it was barely noon. "Yeah, they weren't teaching anything since there's this barbecue thing today so we thought we could skip the rest of the day," Jer says and greets me with a kiss on my cheek. "Oh, right there's a barbecue coming up which is obviously more important than education. Anyways you guys want lunch?" I ask them and they nod. Ty comes into the kitchen after a minute. "Hey, guys. Need help, Ari?" Ty asks. "No Ty, I don't want my kitchen to burn down. Just sit, Jer will help me." I tell him and he rolls his eyes but nods sitting next to Vicki.

Jer helps me make lunch, a few minutes later Jenna and Mason come downstairs, Ty and Mason go to the living room to talk. Jenna glares at me and I give her a sheepish smile. She doesn't flatter so I just continue with my work instead. Mason comes back and he and Jenna leave after goodbyes. After making lunch we all settle around the table.

"So what's the plan?" Ty asks. "The plan is to clean up, watch a movie or two, eat dinner, and sleep," I tell Ty. He groans as Vicki and Jer chuckle. "You know Ari, sometimes I question how we became friends and how we're still friends," Ty says and I give him a smile, he just glares in return. "Fine, what do you wanna do? Jump off a cliff?" I ask him sarcastically. He smiles and I roll my eyes. "Well no, I thought we could go to school barbecue thing," Ty says. "Sure, sounds great." Vicki agrees and Jer nods too. They all look at me. "My plan is still the same," I inform them, and Jer and Ty groan. "Come on Ari, it'll be fun," Ty says. "Why would anything that requires me leaving my house and a relaxing day with Sam and Dean be fun?" I ask him. "Seriously?" Jer asks and I shrug. "This is my serious face," I tell Jer giving him a deadpan look. He rolls his eyes but sighs.

Even after a lot of arguments and a punch, I'm being dragged to the stupid barbecue. We are sitting in Ty's car. I and Vicki in the back white Ty drives and Jer is in the passenger seat. I put my phone in my bag after checking to see if Noah or Ares left any messages. "I hate you all so much," I tell them. They all just nod their heads, while Jer gives me a smile along with it. We reach and I look around, "This is what you made me give up my relaxing day for? Seriously?" I say frustrated. "Excuse me?" I hear Care's voice and groan internally.