Pike Fest Chapter 2

Authors Note: I decided to continue:) Oh, Yea, I know I called this tournament Pike Fest, because my brother played in a tournament called this. I know American schools the highest you can go is state, but I don't know how that works in England, so I think I'm just going to stick with this...

Disclaimer: I don't own Alex Rider and probable never will:(...

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Alex didn't respond. This was going to be a long weekend... He was going to need to try really hard, if he wasn't going to get his cover blown. He really hoped that another party wasn't going to get involved. After all, danger did seem to follow him.

By the time class started, Alex wasn't even close to paying attention.

There was no doubt in his mind that this weekend was going to be hell. It sickened him to think that as a little kid he had always dreamed of playing varsity football. Just the thought of being part of the team and traveling to tournaments had made him ecstatic. He never even that his school team would qualify to play in this stupid tournament. Heck, he didn't even think that he would be good enough to make varsity. About sixty kids always tried out and only twelve made it, with the rest playing on junior varsity, the freshman team, or not making it at all.

He kind of thought that it was funny how opposite everything was now. He could just walk onto Varsity whenever he wanted, while a ton of other kids had been working there whole lives for that spot. His teammates despised him, with the exception of Tom, who tore his ACL and would be out for the rest of the season. He was furious at the coach. But who could blame him? If they did not win this tournament he was probably going to lose his job. The only way they even made it this far in the season was because of Alex and Tom. Then all of a sudden, both of those players were ripped from his hands.

Alex snapped out of his thought as he heard his name being called.

He looked up and the room came back into focus, he was sitting in his seat at a table with four kids in it. The windows were at the front of the classroom as a reminder of the rain that was hammering at the ceiling. The teacher was at his desk, grading papers or test. Then he noticed the girl sitting across from him was holding out a piece of paper. He took it and whispered thanks, not wanting his voice to come out scratchy like it did earlier. She started to blush and he wanted to roll his eyes, but refrained.

Why did girls even like him? They all though he was a druggy. He was also never at school and whenever he was he looked like death warmed over.

The other people sitting at the table was a hot-headed boy named Kade who who took over Alex's position when he left the football team. It was obvious that he didn't know that Alex was back on the team yet, since he hadn't started throwing punches... Then the other person was a really nerdy kid named Ian, he had bright red hair and wore glasses. He thought he was the smartest kid in school and was always correcting people and answering the teachers questions.

Alex sighed and read the paper. Together as a group they were supposed to classify animals into their correct kingdoms. Before Alex could say the answer to the first question, Ian shouted that he was done. The rest of the group quickly copied down the answers, they were all done before the rest of the groups were even half-way through.

They were all sitting there awkwardly for a few minutes, before the girl from their table, Lauren, attempted to make small talk.

"So Alex, are you excited about that football tournament this weekend?" She asked innocently.

Kade responded for Alex. "Alex quit the team a month ago. He's not going this weekend."

"No, I overheard the coach talking to Alex this morning. He is going."

Alex could feel Kade's eyes drilling into his, waiting for answers.

"Yea, I guess I'm going this weekend..." Alex said, his face staying completely neutral.

Alex watched Kade's face drain of color. He was shooting glares of death to Alex, who ignored it not afraid of the kid it all. Alex could practically read his thoughts, which did not consist of anything good. After all, when Alex left Kade filled his position and became the star of the team, finally getting all the attention he wanted and now Alex was just going to take it away.

The dirty looks continued the rest of class. Kade looked like he was finally going to explode and beat the crap out of Alex when the bell rang. All he said was, watch your back Rider we will settle this later.

Alex cursed under his breath, just more drama to add to this weekend...

The rest of the day went by pretty fast, without much complications. Alex didn't see Tom, since they had no classes together this semester. When Alex got home he explained the situation to Jack and she reluctantly let him go knowing that Alex needed those A's. It probably helped that Alex left out the part about him being injured.

Before Alex knew it, it was five and he was at the school. The other kids were there they were all huddled in a small group, while Alex sat on the curb waiting for the coach to get there. He couldn't hear what the other boys were talking about, but based on the fact that they kept glancing over at him he had a pretty good idea that it was about him.

A couple of minutes later the coach had arrived and started reading out a list of names of the kids who would be rooming together.

Gale-C.J

Max-Jake

Cameron-Andrew

Keaton-Conner

Alex held his breath as the list of names continued, praying that he wouldn't be placed with Kade.

Collin-Jack

Alex cursed, knowing who the last pair was.

"Last, but not least, we have Alex and Kade."

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