Chapter 2 MOTHER NATURE

September 2016

We closed from school and I made my way to the basketball court. Ashton had practise and he was carpooling with me so I had to wait, also with destiny.

I sat on the bench as I watch destiny perform before the other girls joined her. I saw Naomi get thrown up and I wished for nothing but for her to miss a step and break her waist. That way she won't be able to move her legs again.

I'm not wicked, everyone has a wish and that wish either benefits everyone or benefits just the wisher and the latter fits my situation at the moment.

Their practise took few minutes before Ashton and the other players started theirs.

A message pooped up in my phone as I pressed my thumb to the home button to verify my finger print. The phone popped open as my home screen came to view.

It was a picture of I and Ashton, when we went to Disneyland, which drew a smile on my face. We had Mickey mouse hair bands on our heads with the widest smiles on.

"Hey, what you staring at?" I heard Ashton say from behind me.

"When did you guys finish?" I asked as I went to my messages to check.

"Not long ago." He replied sitting next to me as he drank from his water bottle.

Didn't even notice when they rounded off. It was my mom who messaged me.

Queen mother👑💎💖

: Hey baby, have you closed from school? Make sure to go for the check up.

My lady💐☄💞

: mom, it was just cramps.

Queen mother👑💎💖

: don't care if it's headache, make sure you go, oh and we have a new neighbour, so finish early and come home.

There was no need arguing with her, I had no choice but to go to the hospital.

"Aunty told me to make sure you go to the hospital." Ashton sighed as he shifted his weight on me.

"Ashton stop, you are sweaty." I tried to push him off.

"We all know you want this body secretly." He smiled wiggling his eyebrows.

"F**k off." I said as we burst out into laughter.

"We move." He whispered as He got up and stretched a hand out at me.

"My mom told me we got a new neighbour." I said as I used his outstretched hand as leverage to get up.

"Hope it's not another Mrs grave digger." He said muffling his laugh.

I couldn't help laughing, we gave that nickname to my previous neighbour.

It was this weird old lady you see in horror movies who is later found to be the villain.

She worked in the cemetery, was surprisingly rich and was always found with a shovel, so because of That, my parents restricted me from going past the house or going close to the fence because it was rumoured that she killed her husband and her children had to flee for their life.

She always had this red scarf around her neck with her grey hair in a perm and her crooked glasses, it was really frightening.

But one day, a delivery man found her dead in her courtyard and since then, I always feared going past the house, it was quite mysterious to everyone as to why none of her children came to claim her corpse or even check on the house.

"You gonna be Mr grave digger then." I laughed as Ashton scowled.

"I just hope the new person fortified that house before going in." I grimaced.

"Hope so too." He replied taking my car key as we saw destiny standing beside my car.

"What took you guys so long?" She whined as she got into the passenger seat, leaving me no other option but the back seat.

"Kim's got a new neighbour." Ashton hollered in a sing-song tone.

"No way." Destiny exclaimed as she turned to look at me. "I hope it's a hot guy." She squealed.

"What hot guy? Stop telling her those, she's too young for that kind of talk." Ashton said turning destiny's head to the front.

"Can you be less overprotective for once? She's a woman." Destiny sighed rolling her eyes.

"Why do you feel it's a hot guy? It could be some old weirdo who drinks beer through his ass." Ashton laughed.

"Eww, can never be." Destiny and I yelled as we made gagging sounds.

"Never say never." He said as he checked his visage in the side mirror.

"Haven't you heard of those book, where the girl falls in love with her next door neighbour?" Destiny scoffed pushing his head.

"Dream on baby, you are gonna fall in love with a grave digger, trust me." He laughed as destiny continuously hit his arm.

I would say they were a perfect match, they argued a lot, played a lot and did I forget to say hooked up sometime.

*We were drunk* was their usual phrase whenever you ask them about it, so I will advise you never to bring it up, or else you wanna see the red side of destiny.

*wiggles eyebrow* wink*

We got to the hospital quite faster due to Mr Ashton fast driving trying to make the tyre make friction with the ground and bring out fire sparks.

Who did ever I offend to give me such a stupid best friend?

I went straight to my doctor's office, destiny said she'll wait in the car while Ashton followed me.

"Aunty."

"Hey darling and Ashton." She smiled.

"Hey mom." He smiled back as he gave her a peck on her cheek.

"Your mom told me you had stomach ache all through out yesterday." She said as she took a seat, taking some few papers from her drawer.

"Uhhmmm...." I glanced at Ashton as I shuffled in my seat uncomfortably.

"Ashton, go out." She ordered suddenly.

"What, why?"

Just go out already Ashton, there's no way I'm talking about mother nature in front of you.

"I said leave, bye bye." She ordered again as she stood up to open the door.

"Fine whatever." He mumbled as he made his way out and Mrs Hart closed the door.

"So you were saying honey."