“What did you just throw at me?” Chastity said.
“Who, moi?” Nigel pointed to himself. “Why would I throw something at you? I don’t even know who you are.”
Nigel was so good at sick burns.
Diablofinallymade it back to the starting line. Isadora was all ready to go with her egg and spoon. Despite her lack of a sports bra, she was awesome at it. In fact, not only was she awesome at it, but her very bouncy display distracted the blue runner enough to make him drop his egg and have to go back to the start again. Cole and Chastity both yelled obscenities at him like they were dads at a six-year-old’s soccer match.
We had a nice lead by the time it was my turn to run. I took off at a cautious but respectable pace. There was no need to hurry. Thanks to Nigel or Tanner somehow making that egg explode, we were a full runner ahead of them. I had plenty of time…
Where did she come from?!
Chastity sped past me.
Gah!
I hated her ridiculously long legs. It wasn’t fair that they looked so goodandwere so fast. And why was she so good at balancing that egg on a spoon?
I picked up the pace, but there was no way I could match her speed. It was going to be up to Tanner to make up my lost time on the final leg against Cole.
But Tanner was busy jotting something down in a notebook.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“Nothing,” he said and quickly put his notebook back in his pocket.
“Tanner, focus. I need you to do whatever it takes to catch him,” I panted as I made it back to the starting line.
Tanner snapped his fingers and Cole’s egg rolled off his spoon.
“How’d you do that?” I asked.
“Magic,” he said with a wink. And then he took off.
I didn’t have time to be annoyed with him for messing with me. I was too busy watching the photo finish.
“Come on, Ryder!” I yelled as Tanner and Cole both leaned forward.
Everyone standing around the field looked to Ocelot in his ridiculous referee outfit.
“That one was too close to call. I’m gonna have to check the photo…” He glanced down at his phone. And zoomed in. “And the winner is…red team!”
“Yes!” I screamed and high-fived Tanner way harder than I should have. I turned to Cole. “Take that, sucker!”
Instead of coming back with a snarky comment, he just laughed. “Well played, guys. Well played.” He shook hands with Tanner and patted him on the back. “That was one hell of a race. It’s nice to finally have some real competition here.” He flashed me his cocky smile and walked back over to his team.
Well that was rather sporting of him.It was really quite shocking. I expected him to be the sorest of losers. But instead he took it like a man. It almost made me feel bad about Nigel cheating with that slingshot. Or was it magic?No. Magic doesn’t exist.
Ocelot called us back over to the giant wheel.
This time it was Chastity’s turn to spin. Her boobs came dangerously close to popping out of her cut-off T-shirt, but somehow she managed to keep them covered as she spun. Round and round the wheel went until it landed on…Salmon ladder?
All the girls in the crowd cheered.
I turned to Tanner. “So what’s happening here? Do we have to carry a bunch of salmon up a ladder? And more importantly…is it raw? Or cooked? Or alive?! And why are all the girls so excitedabout any of that?” Incorporating salmon into a race was a worse idea than using raw eggs, and that was really saying something.
“Just wait and see,” said Isadora. “You’re gonna love it.”
Am I?
