AVALON

Chapter 12 - miscalculation

A/N Decided to throw in a farm scene for you guys lol...forgive any mistakes I haven't bothered to reread it.... the video is of the you call that a knife scene from croc dundee :) incase you havent seen that movie

I look up to see my friends just staring at me. Actually gaping at me like they are all gold fish in a bowl.

            "What do I have something on my face?" I run my hand over it thinking Seth could have sneakily got me back for my little tampon tirade and I hadn't noticed. Although I'm sure that I would have noticed if he touched me.

            Jaime frowned, "Actually...there's point. Why don't you have something on your face?"

            "Oh crap, I meant tell you straight away but I was watching what Seth would do about his car. Mum soaked me in a bath of carrot juice and the blue stuff come off. I would have texted you but I didn't have your number," I hand my phone over to him, "here put it in."

He took it pressing buttons to put his name in, Wade bossing him to put his number in there as well.

            "I wasn't staring at you because of that, I was just ...you aren't going to do what I think you're gonna do ...are you?" Jaime leans further over the back of his seat.

            "Depends what you think I'm gonna do." I raise my eyebrows at them all as I slip my phone back in my pocket.

            "Duh like steal an excavator and put it in Seth's' front yard," Ruth whispers harshly.

            "Then yeah you are reading me correctly. Hey, I need to look extra innocent in the morning. I don't have pajamas, I normally sleep in my clothes so umm...what kind of pajamas would make someone look incapable of operating an excavator?" I turn to Ruth.

They are all just staring at me again.

            "I'm serious here people!" I throw my hands up in the air.

            Wade and Jaime start cracking up, "You are going to steal a bloody huge piece of machinery, drive it in the dark to park it on King of the Waves Campbell's lawn and all your worried about is looking extra innocent? You nuts kiddo...but hell I love it!" Jaime raises his hand for a high five.

            "Let's go shopping after school and get some!" Ruth squeals.

Shopping? Yuk. But I have to get some supplies for the cow plan anyway I guess.

            "Okay, but I will meet you there because Amber needs a ride out."

            "You're gonna ride your horse to the shopping centre?" Wade chuckles.

Looking out the window I see a beautiful sight, one that makes my heart fly then plummet with homesickness. On either side of the road is a fair sized cattle farm, it's slightly run down and there's definitely a fair bit of fence straining to do along the road. I wonder who owns it. The cattle look to be nicely bred and in good condition. I notice that there's a cow in the early stages of labor. I wonder if I will see her little calf on the way home.

            'Who own these places?" I ask them absorbed in the farm.

I notice they share a glance, "it's this old guy Harry, I think, his name is. He's a real so and so. Dad says he's a bloody hard ass and stubborn because so many people want to buy that land and develop it because where his house is back there, looks over the ocean. He won't sell it and he won't let anyone on his property. He's mega old too," Ruth says in a telling a ghost story type of voice.