Chapter 34: Losing all hope (1/2)

Scarlett knew she had no chance of beating Mac but she had one person who she might be able to rely on. That was Novis. She herself had never seen Novis play the game, but Scarlett knew Novis well. Without putting any effort into anything he was always quite good at everything. He wasn't exceptional but better than average.

Scarlett had seen Novis put more effort into the game than anything he had ever done before. So much that he even hired a professional coach. Even if Novis wasn't good at the game there was always a chance he could beat Mac. Maybe Novis style would just be awkward for him.

Novis was in the classroom busy away cleaning trying to get this one blue mark off the whiteboard.

”Why won't this bleeding mark come off, did they use a permanent marker or something?” Novis said as he wiped the bored back and forth with a rag.

”Why don't you try spitting on it,” Arthur suggested.

”You are disgusting you know that?”

”In our times we spat on many things.”

”Yeah well, now we have things like, cleaning liquid and soap.”

After scrubbing at the same spot for five minutes Novis was about to give up. He secretly spat on the rag and went to wipe the mark off the board. To his surprise, the mark came off.

”Did I not tell you to do that a while ago?” Arthur said.

Novis stayed quiet. He didn't wish to give Arthur the pleasure of being right.

With the cleaning finished Novis got his bag and was ready to go home. He began to smile and hum a song to himself as he left the classroom. Then he heard loud footsteps in the hallway.

”Wait!” Scarlett shouted.

Scarlett was huffing and panting away like she had just done a 100-meter sprint race.

”Woah calm down, what's wrong?”

”I'm.. so. Glad..I ….found…you.” Scarlett said taking a deep breath between each word.

She had sprinted from the clubroom as fast as she could. She knew Novis was on cleaning duty today so she might have just missed him if she didn't hurry.

”Novis is your coach letting you play the game yet?”

”Actually, I was going to go home and play my first game today,” Novis said while smiling.

”That's great, come with me,” Scarlett grabbed Novis by the wrist and started to lead him to the club room.

All the members were waiting patiently in the club room. Alex was currently sitting down in a chair. He was still unable to look anyone in the eye. But all hope was not lost. During the time Alex spent with Scarlett in the club together, he had come to learn how great she was at the game.

Her judgment skills, her fast learning pace was brilliant. Perhaps this person she would bring would be really good at the game. All Alex could do for now was hope. His future relied on this person after all.

The doors to the club room then slid open. Scarlett entered the room with a boy being led by the hand.