Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
Lilian drops down and starts to run, Jeff runs to position on her right side, I follow up on her left.
Wyatt grunts like he got hit and I risk a look back and see someone barreling at Lilian’s back. I move to intercept him, but his momentum is too much and all three of us go toppling head over feet. The guy grabs both backpacks and takes off hooting and hollering to his friends. Lilian moves to get up and chase him, so does Wyatt.
“Let it go, let’s just get back to our side before time runs out, we only have 2 minutes.
“But, it doesn’t matter if we don’t have our flag.”
She whines as she stops moving.
I open my eyes wide and say again, “We should get back to our side before time runs out.
“Ah!”
Jeff says and jumps up to wrap a sympathetic arm around her gently guiding us to our corner, but she starts to dig her heels in. Then Jeff looks over his shoulder, “Would you please?
The next thing I know Wyatt has Lilian in a fireman’s carry and we are slowly jogging back to our side while the other team is still having a party in the center. | don’t even think they checked the bags yet. We all step over our line, just as the buzzer goes off. There are cheers and boos from the crowd.
Warrior Nickolas walks to the group holding our bags, while medical staff goes to tend to the injured people.
He held out his hand to the leader of the group. The leader opened one of the bags and rummaged around in it. Then he flips it over and dumps it out, no flag. He moves to the second bag, and you can see the looks on the faces of his teammates change to worry.
He wastes no time dumping the bag and finding no flag. Warrior Nickolas looks over at us and Jeff looks right at me smiling as does Wyatt who caught on.
Lilian looks confused, then I pull the flag out of my sports bra and wave it around. My team and the crowd goes nuts. I have never heard it this loud in the arena before. The vibrations of all of the voices are rumbling the ground we are standing on. My team all hugs and we are laughing, Lilian is pissed I didn’t tell her, but I had no way to and not give it away.
The medical team came to check on all of us and bring more water and food. Once everyone is cleared. We are all brought back to the sparring side of the arena and allowed to sit while we listen for instructions for tomorrow. I sit with my team and lose track of how many protein bars I smash as Nickolas talks, I’m so hungry. We have to be back again at 10am. That is the only information we really got, that and “
everyone did well today.’ Whatever the hell that is supposed to mean.
I move to get up to go find the guys and get real food.
“I thought they were going to do cuts today.”
Jeff mutters out.
Me too.”
Wyatt says, looking around.
“Maybe they will still announce that later or individually.”
Lilian shrugs.
“Or maybe anyone who didn’t make it to the capture the flag round is out.”
I say. “There weren’t many in the game, but I’m not sure if that was an injury thing oracut thing. We’ll find out tomorrow. I need to go get food, before I pass out from starvation.”
I wave to them as I turn and see my guys walking up to me, grinning from ear to ear.
I run straight at my brother and jump into his arms. “
You were incredible Shorty, I can’t believe you just did all that.”
He puts me down and I go to hug Sam who is giggling.
“Of course you got Capture the Flag as a test. That jump was epic!”
“The flag in the bra thing, seems’ to be your go-to.
You’re going to have to change it up now or people are going to figure you out and start digging in your clothes.”
Oliver teases me. I hugged him around the neck again. “…And I won’t be having any of that, you hear?”
He whispers in my ear and I’m sure I am blushing again.
I step in between the twins and smile up at them. “I need to eat and then! need to sleep, it took me too long to figure out what I needed to make me comfortable enough to sleep last night in my new home.”
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