When I'm not in a bad mood, I'm fine and goofy as ever.
OKAY!! Here's the next one!! We're almost to the 4th chapter!! WOOOT!! Ludey's coming!!! *bounces in chair excitedly*
Chapter Three: Substitute Leader
April ended fairly clear and warm and soon it was May. Amy decided that in the end she wouldn’t go to camp, for she didn’t want to be so far from the Club if an emergency came up. Kelly did the same. Their class was preparing for camp, while Amy and Brendan were trying to find out about the one who supposedly ‘started the earthquake’ according to Brendan.
“Are you sure it wasn’t nature?”
“I am! Amy, tidal waves occur when there’s an earthquake in the sea, not on land. Obviously, someone’s trying to either find you or hurt you......or maybe both.”
“But I still don’t think someone’s after me or the Race. We don’t have any enemies....yet.”
“Amy, you can never be too careful. Everyone has enemies; you have some at school....I mean, even I have some in my own world!”
“But maybe they want to meet us”
Brendan looked at her skeptically. “So you’re saying they’re trying to communicate with you like they’re from another parallel universe?”
“Maybe....”
“Amy, I think you read too many of those fantasy novels.”
“Aren’t you coming today?” Kelly called Amy at her house the next day. They were supposed to be at the Club.
“No, my parents want me to baby sit Matthew this weekend while they’re away.”
She was actually telling the truth; she didn’t live with her parents any more, but she kept in touch with them if they needed her.
There was now a problem at the Club; they didn’t have a substitute for Amy’s position. None of the Captains wanted to be the substitute Leader, and neither did Bree. The only one that seemed to want to do it was Kate, who had recently temporarily “joined” the Club last week to “try it out.”
“Fine, but if you try to mess anything up, then you’re out,” Kelly told her after she was chosen. Kate agreed and as soon as Kelly left the Main Room, a small smirk appeared on her face.
Things went well until two days later when Kate had changed something in their schedule. Kelly was with Bree when an alarm went off.
“What’s going on?!” she exclaimed
“It sounds like a drill that no one knew about,” Bree answered, “Apparently Kate is already messing things up….”
“She better not be!” Kelly snarled and headed towards the Main Room.
“Kate!”
Kate turned swiveled around in the chair as they came in. Kelly was looking ticked off by now. “I thought I told you not to mess anything up! No one told you to play around with the schedule!”
“I just thought we could use a little practice lately since Amy’s not returning.”
“Newsflash, Kate,” Aly replied sarcastically, “Amy’s just gone away for a while to baby sit her brother this weekend and will be back later tonight.”
“That doesn’t matter. She’s not the Leader from now on.”
“What?!?” Kelly exclaimed. “What are you talking about?!”
“The rest of the Race decided to give me her position.”
Kelly was outraged at this. “If they promoted you to Leader, then we would’ve known. But no one came to tell me they gave you the position!”
“Why would they tell you?! You’re just Amy’s co-leader!”
“Exactly! This means I should be substituting in her place because I’m second in command of the Club!”
“Then why aren’t you doing it? Why did you give me the position!?”
“I didn’t give you the position! I wanted to see if anyone wanted to try out substituting for once! Now that you’ve messed things up, it’s time for you to go!”
“You can’t dismiss me.”
“Says who?!”
“Says me, because I’m now the new Leader.”
Kelly was lost for words now.
“I-I….Forget you!”
And she stormed out of the room without another word.
Amy arrived back at her house later that night. Knowing that she was now back, Kelly contacted her at her house that same night.
“What’s up with you? You’re usually satisfied when I’m back,” Amy replied as soon as she walked in.
“I can’t believe we recruited her in.”
“Don’t tell me something went wrong at the Club. And it better not has involved Kate,” Amy said, now sensing bad news coming.
“Er....actually, it has involved her...”
“What did she do?”
Kelly told her how they had to make Kate substitute for her, but then Kate said that the Race had supposedly promoted Kate to her position as Leader.
“What?!” Amy exclaimed, “Why is she saying that they promoted her?! I didn’t receive anything saying that she’s taking my place! Plus, why would they want to demote me?! I’m supposed to be the Race’s most well-known and powerful member.”
“I told her that, but she wouldn’t listen”
“Did you expel her?! According to the rules, we are allowed to expel someone from the Race if the situation they caused was critical.”
“Duh, we’re the ones who made the rules,” Kelly answered ironically, “But she won’t listen to anyone, not even the rules......”
“Then we’ll have to make her get out”
The following day Amy, Kelly and Bree made their way to the Main Room. Amy stood in the back of the room in the shadows, not only to hear Kate give away her entire scheme, but to also make sure she could catch Kate by surprise.
“You’re back again?” Kate smirked as she turned around to greet them as they appeared.
“Kate, for the last time, you are not the Leader!” Aly said slowly to her. “You were supposed to be substituting!”
“You don’t get it, do you? I’m now the Leader because Amy isn’t coming back.”
“Oh really?” Amy spoke up coldly from behind them and stepped into the light, with her arms crossed. She glared angrily at Kate.
The color in Kate’s face drained away completely. “A-Amy! I thought y-you were still away!”
“Not anymore! As I came back yesterday, I heard that you were trying to take my position!”
“I-I wasn’t....”
“Didn’t you just say that you’re the Leader? Why are you doing this?”
Kate hesitated. “I-I was doing this under someone’s orders.”
“Whose orders?”
Kate just shook her head frantically, looking extremely worried now.
“Kate, whose orders? Tell us!”
But she didn’t respond; she had already left the room in hurry.
“I still don’t understand who gave her the orders,” Amy said later on. The following week, Kelly was made the Vice Leader of the Club, just in case Amy had to leave again.
“It is a little strange,” Kelly added, “Who do we know in the Race that would want her to take your position?”
“I think I found an answer to that,” Brendan said as he looked something up on the computer. “But it’s not someone who’s in the Race, but someone who I think is against the Race.”
He pointed to the screen. It was a small profile of a dark-haired boy who almost looked a year older than Amy;
Ludevec Durevic.
“Ludevec?!” Bree exclaimed.
“Now that’s definitely an uncommon name you don’t hear everyday,” Maggie added sarcastically. “Not to mention his hair makes him look like a girl!”
Kelly just giggled at this.
“Wait, how do you know that he’s the one?” Amy asked in confusion.
“He’s the only one I could find with the exact level of technology like the Race. He could be the one who started that earthquake a few weeks ago. There’s not that much info on him. ”
“And you think he could’ve been the one to tell Kate to take my position?”
“Uh-huh.”
“But if he’s the one who started the earthquake, why would he want me out of the Race?”
“I don’t know, but at the moment, I don’t think he’s with the Race.”
