Collision by Alyx D. Vacca (e ink ebook reader TXT) 📖

The only problem was that all the windows were up the walls about thirty maybe thirty-five feet. And that was the only way in to the Gym now that the doors were off limits. "Feel free to split in to teams, but you can only have two people per team." I turned to Tobi, "Do you have any ideas?" He shrugged, than brightened. "Well we obviously have to use the windows. So we need to get to the roof right?" I nodded. He grinned. "I have an idea alright. Wait a second." He ran over to the coach (who's name is Agatha Bradley but everyone just calls her Aggy) they talked a little than he ran back over to me. "I had to check to make sure that there was not anymore rules." Tobi explained. "Now here is my idea. I am not yet strong enough to lift us to the roof magically, but I can make something to get us to the top." I yipped with joy. Nothing physically taxing! Yay! "I'll make a rope and get it to tie it's self to that furnace vent. Then we can climb up the rope!" My spirits sank as he talked. So much for the easy way up. I nodded and hoped that I could make it all the way up with out slipping and getting a rope burn or sliding all the way down and making a fool out of my self. I sighed. "OK," I said dully. Tobi turned to me and smiled. "Do you want me to make a rope ladder instead? In my opinion they are harder to climb and once I make one I wont have enough to make the other. It is your choice." I sighed again. "Do what ever. I just wish I had more arm strength." "OK," he laughed. "The rope it is!" I shot him a look that just made him laugh harder then turned my back feigning indifference. I had to look how ever when he started chanting in a strange language and moving his hands in complex forms. Suddenly there was an explosion and there, lying on the ground was...A rubber chicken? "A rubber chicken is going to help us get to the roof?" I asked drily. He blushed a dull red. "Shut up, I would like to see you try." "No thank you. I would rather not make a fool out of my self." I grinned. "Why did you make a chicken anyways?" "Well... The key to Magic is concentration and so whatever you are concentrating on will appear, that is, if you are trying to conjure something." He said, sounding very much like Moran at that moment. But it is not like I was going to tell him that. "The reason I made a chicken is that at the peak of my spell a car drove by with a rubber chicken dangling from the rear view mirror. There for making me think of rubber chickens." I stared at him for a moment then we both started laughing. "HEY!" I jumped so high I swear I could have reached the top of the big Ore Tree (Also known as the silver, gold and copper tree by me). Aggy had snuck up behind me unintentionally to see what the explosion was and, sadly for me, possesses a very loud voice. "So? What is going on here?" She demanded. "Tobi comes over and asks if there are any other rules besides not using the doors. Are you trying to make a door?" "Sorry Aggy," said Tobi, looking properly abashed. "I was just trying to conjure a rope," he held up the chicken. "As you can see, it did not work very well." Aggy looked at the chicken and we looked at the chicken, I think we were all slap happy today because, once again, we started laughing, including Aggy. "Tobi," Aggy said once the laughter had subsided. "Next time you are planning on doing something with an explosive out come, please tell me. I look forward to seeing others." She walked away chuckling. I turned to Tobi and asked him, "So are you going to try again or are we just going to use the rubber chicken to get to the top?" "I am so tired, we might have to." "Ugh." I groaned, I seemed to be doing that a lot. "What are the other people doing?" I said looking around. No one was really doing anything. Some boys were trying halfheartedly to climb the wall. Most had just given up. Wandering around, talking, if they were good students they were studying. "Well? Shall we join the others and give up?" "Hell no!" I said. "I will never give up! It is not my nature." Tobi shook his head. "You are crazy. You would not stop even if you were half dead." He shook his head again. "OK. I will try again." "YAY!" I yipped. He did the weird muttering thing and hand stuff again and BOOM! There was rope! He was now panting he was so tired. I ran over and hugged him. "Yes I did it," he said prying me off of him. "The only problem is that now I don't have enough energy to send the rope up to tie it's self, let alone climb it." I thought for a moment. "I do not know what to do about the climbing thing. but I have an idea about the tying." I started running toward the sports shed, calling over my shoulder to Tobi to, "Tie the rope to the chicken." When I got to the shed and opened it I soon found what I was looking for. A bow and an arrow. See? I am good for something! I can even shoot. I ran back to Tobi and explained my plan. "Sounds good, but what kind of shot are you?" I smiled. Eager to disprove his idea that I had zero physical abilities, I quickly strung the bow and asked for the rubber chicken. I tied it to the arrow and brought the bow up, sighting at the chimney from an angle and fired. The arrow and chicken flew up and over the roof and down the other side. I really hoped that he had made the rope long enough, or else we had just lost it and our rubber chicken. Me and Tobi ran to the other side of the gym to see the rope dangling just out of our reach. "Let me climb on to your shoulders." I said. "WHAT! Hell no." He said backing away from me, as if I was going to jump on him suddenly. "You are way to heavy." "I am not!" I said indignantly. "You are just to weak. I am perfectly light!" "Ugh, fine." He bent down and I clambered on to his shoulders. "Just try not to fall over." I told him. He grunted and I assumed that was his yes. He walked forward slowly and carefully. I could feel him going off balance here and there. I grabbed the rope just as he lost it completely. We both tumbled to the ground. "Hey Jayd." "Yeah?" I mumbled. He had landed on top of me and was squishing me in to the ground. "What was the point of tying the rubber chicken to the rope if we were not even going to use it as a grappling hook? If we wanted a weight we could have used something much heaver. Like you for example." "Ha ha," I said drily. "The point of the chicken was simply to see it fly through the air. It is not a sight you see every day you know." Tobi grinned and started walking back to the other side of the gym. "Stay here until I say to come. Other wise we might drag the other side of the rope up the wall and you would have to get on my shoulders again." "OK," I agreed. I waited until he said I could come over. I ran over to him. Gym was almost over and I was extremely competitive. Tobi had tied a strong slip knot in his end of the rope and threaded the other end through it and started to pull it taut. Once it was ready Tobi indicated that I should go first. "Are you crazy?" I asked him. "Yep. Now go. We are almost out of time." I started up the rope and surprisingly made it to the window ledge. "NOW COME UP!" I yelled down to him. Tobi went to the rope looked up, looked at the rope, looked up again and yelled back to me, "YOU ARE CRAZY! THERE IS NO WAY I WOULD OR COULD CLIMB THIS THING!" "COWARD!" I cried. "I MADE IT UP HERE!" He muttered something incoherent and started to climb. When he finally made it to the ledge and crowded on, I teased him heartlessly. "Shut up," he told me. "We still have to get inside." By now the other students had noticed what we were doing and were staring. When we tried to open the window we realized that it opened outward and since we were on a ledge with about a foot in which to sit on. "Crap," I said. Tobi swore so fluently and great that if I put them down on paper this book would never get read or published and be put as a banned book in most libraries and bookstores. "So how do we get it open?" I asked him when he was done cursing. "How the hell should I know?" He was obviously freaked out. I should not have made him come up here, he was completely afraid of heights. How was I supposed to know that? "Um... We could continue to climb until we get to the roof. There are windows up there and beams to tie the rope to." I suggested. He nodded. It might have been just me, but he looked a little green. I hoped he was not getting sick because of the pollution and just because of his fear of high places. Truth to tell, the "conversation" in Ms. Finrich's class freaked me out. Tobi is and was my only real friend as sappy as that sounds. "Let's go!" And up the rope I went, trying not to slip and fall. My palms were sweaty.
Some how we made it to the roof. We walked to the sky lights and looked in. The Gym was completely dark and empty. Looking in it like that creeped me out. It was looking in to a giant box, a box that was a void, absent of all noise and light. Complete and utter darkness. Nothing else. So now you know, or you should (are you stupid?) that my greatest fear is the dark. And if you mock me in anyway I