//------------------------------// // after class // Story: The Gardener and the Swimmer // by CaioCoia //------------------------------// "Stupíd Pitagoras." Wallflower Blush cursed as she made sure to make good holes over the floor as she prepared to plant some cactuses over the area... As she was cursing and kicking a few rocks away from where she was digging, she felt a hand over her shoulder, while she was annoyed she didn't even look behind as she warned. "I told you, if you are not allowed to bring the machines, then give me my refund because I spent a lot of money on the company..." "Wallflower?" Then a voice which made her stop her tracks and turn around and see the boy who she have been used to talk during 2 days, but looking at him at the moment she could see clearly that he was in disbelief in what he was seeing. "What the heck is this?" Wallflower looked around, and then at the hole, she was digging... "It's a hole Spike, it's the absence of earth after you take from the garden. You use a shovel to do this service." Wallflower not noticing the rhetoric on his question answered innocently but found fun to witness Spike's eyes twitch from the answer. "I know what is a hole Wallflower, but I want to know, why are you digging a hole with an area of 2 meters?" Spike pinched his nose as he closed his eyes, but that question made Wallflower open her mouth in understanding. "Ahhhh. Well you see, I think the pound would become great if I make a marble fountain over the garden as well." Wallflower smiled as she casually talked making Spike not believe what he was hearing. "Are you going to make a fountain?" Spike's eyes showed different reactions, one eye went wide open as the other was twitching with half-open like he was not believing in what she said. "Yep. And now I'm waiting for the machines to help me to dig the deep holes and create a structure over the pound and make the water flow. This will take from here to here." Wallflower pointed to which place the start of the fountain would be to where the flow of the water would flow. As Spike was with his mouth open. "You are serious." Spike let out a sigh after knowing that the person in front of him was actually talking about changing the layout of the garden of the entire school, something like that wasn't legal. "Wallflower, you cannot do that without telling the principal and vice-principal." "Actually I already have their permission and I even sent the layout project to the city hall last year. It took this long because...'bureaucracy' as they said." Wallflower shrugged her arms as she casually told Spike the main concerns for him were actually done before even starting it. Making the boy at least sigh in relief. "Well, you are the first one to say that. Are you going to stand there, or are you going to help?" Wallflower for the first time felt the relief of doing something big using a coworker to help her out, more than that, a friend... "You are just lucky because I don't have training today." Spike sighed while he took off his shirt and took a shovel to start digging as well. Which Wallflower giggled and Spike made the same effort as her... As Spike took a shovel and started to dig, Wallflower took the opportunity to drink a water bottle and take a break. "What is the proportion of the hole again?" Spike said as he was looking over his shoulder, as Wallflower tapped her chin as she thoughts. "Well if the area it's 2 meters. I want to make a structure of 5x2x4. I already bought all the cement and the rocks we could make it work wonderful. Now dig Torpedo Fish. Dig." As Wallflower said that aloud, Spike stiffed as the nickname he had, and then looked coldly at her. "Who told you that nickname?" Spike looked deeply annoyed at the girl who started giggling at him. "Well, my partner of the project told me about your nickname, and she say she will pay us a visit. And I will not tell who was, and there is no way you will... " "It's Sunset isn't it?" Spike interrupted as he looked not amused by the way she tried to be mysterious, and the face of smug of her frozen from sudden interruption confirmed that Spike was right once again. "Dammit Garble, your fanatic card game made my sister become more annoying than ever." Spike mumbled as he started digging as Wallflower stomped her feet with a pout, she wanted to tease the swimmer more but Spike having a sister like Sunset and from all the talk they had about him, it was sure that sometimes he would know it was his own sister, but saying like that not even after a minute, it was indeed a joy killer. Spike stopped digging, and then looked at the president of the club he was in. "Are you going to be like a statue, or are you going to help me? I will not dig the whole area alone, even if you did a good headstart." Spike raised his eyebrow, as Wallflower's pout was indeed cute in his view. But he remained quiet until the same girl walked to his side, using her own shovel. "Alright Olympic champ, let me show you how to dig properly. And you are using the shovel wrong. Let the professional teach you something." As Wallflower spat on her hands and rubbed preparing herself, Spike gave a good space as she started using the shovel-like she was born with it. As he raised his eyebrow surprised. As he didn't have anything else to do, he started helping out by doing his part. About an hour of digging without rest, both of them were dirty and tired from all the effort they did at that moment. "Alright, I think the distance is ready, now tomorrow I will bring the machines." The excitement voice coming from Wallflower Blush didn't make the boy on her side worried, but from the sentence she said. "What kind of machines?" Spike raised his eyebrow in surprise, noticing that she actually mean it... "Machines of construction and gardening. I think I should hire someone to bring the cement machine." Wallflower waved her hand as Spike looked at her in disbelief, but since her stomach was groaning, she looked at Spike sheepishly. "Well, let's take a break and have something to eat." As Spike took his breath and heard his own stomach grumbling in agreement, he shrugged and got away from the hole they were. As he sat on the grass around. "So this is what we are going to do every day?" Spike raised his eyebrow as he then noticed a wrapped sandwich with a soda can beside him. Sitting next to him was Wallflower who was enjoying her own food. "It's strange to finally have a member into my own club, I didn't know if we would be starved after working on today, so I decided to make a sandwich for us. And since you cannot drink anything too cold, I didn't bring ice to drink these sodas." Wallflower said as she was enjoying the view of how the garden was becoming from her work of every day. As Spike hummed appreciating the gesture he received from his new friend. He opened his mouth but was interrupted. "Actually Spike can drink cold things, but he shouldn't make it a habit, or his bronchitis will attack when he less expected. " A voice was made which made both of them look behind themselves, noticing the orange teenager who approached the hole with her eyes wide open. "Wow, when mom told me that she allowed us to have a fountain over here, I thought she was joking. Are you two for real?" "Yeah, my reaction exactly. Anyway, what are you doing here Sunset?" Spike nodded his head as he glanced at his sister who decided to make a cover on the grass with a blanket. "Oh, today me and Wallflower became a group for the new project at Time Turner's class, so today we should prepare about what we are going to make the presentation." Sunset opened her notebook as she took a few pens and looked at both of them expectantly. "Hu... Neat. That means I can take a long break to lay down for a bit." Spike shrugged off, as he decided to lay on the grass and finally enjoy his rest. Making both Wallflower and Sunset raise their eyebrows and watch the boy being lazy for the first time. "All of this, just because you dig during one hour?" Wallflower couldn't help but ask aloud, as Spike turned his back to her. "Yeah, now I want my rest. Keep focusing on your project and then when you are done talking you can wake me up." He turned his back to the girls, who seemed to giggle from his exhaustive activity and deserved rest. "Anyway Wallflower, let's talk about the project. What kind of project do you want to make for the next 2 weeks?" Sunset asked as she started to look at one sandwich on the blanket. At the moment Wallflower was going to answer, she heard the grumbling from the stomach of the girl near to her, surprised by the sound, she looked at Spike who started chuckling with his eyes closed. Then she looked at Sunset who couldn't help but blush and smile nervously. "Did you forget to eat before coming here Sunset? Do you want some?" Wallflower who was raising her eyebrow, asked as the girl who was partner started to laugh nervously as she offered a sandwich for her. "Sorry about that, I forgot to bring my lunch at home today," Sunset said blushing furiously. As she heard Spike chuckling as he was still with his eyes closed. "No you didn't," Spike said it as he was most mumbling than actually speaking. "I brought it, but since you were busy and I was hungry, I decided to eat it." "SPIKE," Sunset shouted angrily, as the boy chuckled, as his own sister got up and attacked him. "WHY YOU." "OW, HEY, HEY, STOP IT. STOP IT. IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU FORGOT AT HOME." Both siblings started to wrestle leaving the green girl looking at them surprised and in disbelief. "Is this the way the siblings treat each and other?" Wallflower couldn't help but ask herself as she saw both Sunset giving a german suplex on her own brother and Spike giving her a leg scissor. "How did they learn all those wrestling moves?" "FROM INTERNET." Both Spike and Sunset shouted as they started wrestling once again, leaving the girl sigh exasperatedly. "GUYS." Wallflower shouted, making both of them stop and look at her seriously. "What?" They said in unison, leaving the girl to facepalm herself. "Can we just stop this and focus on the project?" Wallflower usually doesn't like to raise her voice, but she was having a migraine at that moment, firstly Pitagoras now had to deal with two kids who seemed to have 6 years old, but surprisingly both of them stopped and moved on to their places. "Okay." Sunset and Spike said in unison once again, as I sighed in relief and in gratitude, offering a sandwich at the girl who took her notebook and started writing. "I was thinking of maybe creating a project of a molecular module using today's class references." "That would be cool. Tell me your ideas." Wallflower started to drink soda until... "Well, I wasn't expecting my first date to be something like this," Spike said aloud as Wallflower spat all the liquid from soda in the face of Sunset Shimmer who dropped her notebook. "SPIKE," Sunset shouted angrily as she went to clean her face from the towel. While Wallflower Blush was blushing into a deep green color as she looked at him in shock. "W.. WHA... WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?" Wallflower was stuttering as she could hear Sunset grumbling and cursing Spike in some ways, but she was so focused on what the heck she heard a minute ago, trying to remain calm as she blushed nervously. But received a laugh from the green-haired boy, making her blush intensify with anger. "THAT WASN'T FUNNY." "For who? Watching my sister being covered to spat soda is a classic for me..." "I WILL DESTROY YOU SPIKE," Sunset shouted as she angrily went to wrestle with her own brother once again. Leaving Wallflower Blush, blushing furiously, and sighing in defeat. "So, this is how will be the afternoon of every day before the project is over. Great..." As the hours passed by, Sunset and Wallflower finally managed to talk about their project, while Spike against his will was taking a few weeds over the garden. After a few minutes of punishment, the trio finally got a consensus and started to have a good afternoon. Spike enjoyed the breeze of the wind, as the leaves crossed over the garden, flying to the air, as the clouds passed by. And the girls talking about their project... Everything seemed so in peace, that it looked finally comfortable to pass the entire afternoon talking. "I think that's decided then." Sunset looked satisfied with the sketches of their project, as Wallflower smiled at the results as well. "If we create a simple schedule, I think we can finish this, in 1 week at maximum." Wallflower was positive about the module, she didn't want to make something soo complicated, since she usually does most of her work alone, and it was her first time doing a group job, even it was a new colleague she have. Spike looked around, understanding the environment shared the deep orange color showing almost the sunset over the school, Spike understood that it was almost time to go home... "Okay, I think it's time for we go Sunset, mom maybe is finally finishing her paperwork, let's get ready for home," Spike said as he got his backpack and lead his head to make his own sister move. "Okay, okay. I know when you are moody to go home. It was a great time Wallflower, let's meet again tomorrow." Sunset said as she looked at her own brother with her eyebrow raised, and he glared at her leading his head away, it was a silent message. "Alright, alright, I know when I'm not wanted. Shesh." As Wallflower was taking all her materials, Spike approached her once again. "Sorry about my sister, she always tends to find a way to embarrass me," Spike said as he scratched his head, but he didn't notice Wallflower was glaring at him. "It was you who made all the mess. I can't believe I spat soda on Sunset, you did that on purpose didn't you?" Wallflower blushed angrily as Spike raised his both hands and started laughing. "Hahahaha, sorry... It was so good I couldn't have missed it. But... yeah, after all that mess a few days ago... I'm glad I found someone who gave me support at this difficult time. So I was thinking... What do you think about Sushi? I have an uncle who makes the best sushi over the town." Spike smiled nervously, as Wallflower opened her mouth in shock, and then her blush got even stronger, as she silently nodded her head. "I would love it." Wallflower looked away, as the green-haired boy smiled happily. "Okay, then. Tomorrow we can go there. My aunt always finds a way to create an excuse to go there, so we can use it to have our transport on there. Tomorrow after class?" Spike was happy with the girl who then nodded once again. "Well then, see you tomorrow." And before giving a reply, Spike then turned his back and started running away. Wallflower raised her hand to try to stop him, but he was so quick that she couldn't say something, leaving her alone with her garden again. The silence of the garden felt comfortable, and warm, even with the breezes of the wind crossing the entire garden... Wallflower couldn't help but smile sweetly at the great afternoon she had on that day.