UNDER THE EYES ABOVE CHAPTER 2

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Tw: shipping Setting: a park ~PEARL~ Our step mother is taking us to the park today. She said it would be a nice time, and she would buy us lunch there. Now I’m sitting under a tree, eating a sandwich. Jimmy and Scott are teaching grian how to play a game called….basse bal? At least I think that’s what it’s called. Theres not a lot of kids here that are my age. That’s okay though, I’m used to only having Grian as a friend the kids back at where I lived thought of me as the favorite of the mentors, so they pretty much hated me. It’s fine though, I’m away from that horrid place, I can start ov- THWACK. OWIE! what in the world was that?! I notice that a small green ball is now lying by my side. “So your the thing that hit my head huh?” I looked at the small fuzzy ball in my hand, who does this belong to? “Hey! Could you toss my tennis ball back please?” I look up and see a red haired girl looking at me. She looks about my age- ....how come I didn't notice her earlier? "Are you going to give me the ball or not?" She said. When I realized it was still in my hand, I felt embarrassed. "Here...I was wondering where it came from. It hit my head!" I said. "Oh I'm sorry about that! My friend I'm playing with is kinda lousy at tennis." The girl replied, "say...do you want to play tennis with us?" I froze. I didn't know what to say...if I decline that might seem rude and I don't want to hurt her feelings. "S-sure!" I blurted. She then smiled, took my hand, and took me to the tennis “court”. at least…that’s what she called it. I didint know there were other types of courts other than the grand watcher court. “Here! Have this!” The girl said, handing me a stick with a net at the end of it. Just as I grab it, I hear a high pitched voice. “am I that bad that you’re playing with a stranger now gem?” I look to where the voice came from and I see a a girl with pink dyed hair covering half her face. “Ah! Sorry Lizzie! I just was trying to get the ball and it hit this nice girls head, she seemed alone, so I invited her to play!” Gem said. I felt my cheeks got hot from the compliment …..nobody called me nice in a while. Gem looked at me and said “Actually, I don’t think I caught your name! I’m Gemini Taylor, but my friends call me gem! And that’s Lizzie! She’s been my friend since 3rd grade!” “Hello!” Lizzie said. …Now it’s my turn to say my name- …do I say my full name? Or is it too elegant for humans?……a nick name! Maybe a nick name can work! “Pearl, my name is pearl” “That’s a wonderful name! “ Gem said. And my heart jumped. She is so sweet! Gem walked to the other side of the court. “I’ll make it easy for you two, so it will be 2 to 1 okey? “ she said. OH GOSH. I FORGOT ABOUT TENNIS. but I can’t just tell them! It would be awkward! Okay….ill just watch how Lizzie plays and then I’ll pitch in. As gem threw the ball into the air she said, “ Love, love! First serve! “ My heart skipped a beat, was she confessing her love to me? Or to Lizzie??? I’m so confused…. The tennis ball went over the net and headed straight towards me. Why Isint Lizzie moving an inch?! The tennis ball bounced infront of me and off the court. “ aw man! The ball is as coming to your side pearl! Why didn’t you hit it?” T-There’s sides!? So…,I do eventually have to hit it…. G r e a t. “15, love!” And so after a few rounds of flinging my limbs, accidentally smacking Lizzie in the arm with my net stick thingy, and missing the ball an embarrassing amount of times, Gem said “yippie! I won!” “Ah well,” Lizzie sighed, “good game gem!” I was sweaty, tired, and embarrassed. Gem looked at me a chuckled, “you do not know how to play the game don’t you?” “……no.” I said. My face turning pink. “Well that’s fine! Me and Lizzie can teach you!” “You can teach her, I promised Joel that we would go to the smoothie shop today.” Lizzie said. “Bye gem! Bye pearl! It was nice to meet you!” I smiled, and waved, happy to know I made 2 friends. “You ready to learn?” Gem said “Absolutely!” “Alright, so let’s start with the points, we start with love, which equals zero…….” ~GRIAN~ “Alright! So Scott! You can be the pitcher, Joel, you can be the first to bat, and me and grian will be on the outfield!” Gosh….jimmys rambling about nonsense…. I didint even want to be in this game! Now I’m in the outfield watching Joel getting ready to bat. I look around in the park and see something that caught my eye. a small robot near the patch of trees. I looked at the others, they are way too busy in the game to notice me. Quietly, I walked over to the small robot, and when i was one foot away, I took a good look at it. It had a small attenna wheels for feet, twig like arms, and on a small screen on its head, I saw two eyes, and a little moustache. I was about to pick it up when it started to scamper into the woods. ….Well, it can’t get away that easily! I ran into the woods, then, I tripped on a tree root and hit the ground. Hard. As I got up I heard a voice, “oh gosh! Are you okay?”