The Cubby Hole (IQ Testing Book 1) (14 page)

I grin and giggle with embarrassment, happiness, and relieve wiping the water from my wet face.

Rincon and I walk from the water onto the smooth white sand chuckling with happiness.

Duchie waddles across the sand shaking the water from her hair and waving the cat suit. “Got it. It’s all wet,” stops in front of us. “I saw ya’ll leap of the cliff edge. Wow! That was a performance, Rincon. Why didn’t ya wrap me around your biceps too, sugar?”

Rincon chuckles and cuddles Ketona winking. “I’m a one cuddle man, darling.”

Nephella shouts behind one of the tall rock boulders. “Help me, please! I need help over here. Someone come over, please.”

Rincon frowns with worry then dashes away to Nephella.

Duchie winks and blocks Ketona. “What has happened here, sugar? You and Rincon are leaping off a tall object in each other arms,” nods and smiles.

I exhale then view the waves of the sea then wipe the water from my hair. I view her frowning with disappointment. “Buffo, I saw him in another girl’s arms through the wall barrier of the orange color tone. You saw it too. I know you did. Thanks for not saying anything to me. My heart can’t take much more breakage of pain and suffering. He is there. I am here. Buffo is happy there riding horses, eating hotdogs, and dancing with the pretty girls. He failed again, Duchie. You’re right. The four questions are too difficult for some of the teens including Buffo. He can’t answer and pass with a 75 percent score. He’s stuck inside the orange color tone forever. He’ll become a farmer for the rest of his days and nights. He likes the farming life. He talked about it all the time with me when we visited Payne Mountain, the summer visits with his grandparents. I am not stopping or halting or dropping backwards for him. I wanna be a medical technician like my BPs. I can’t be that on a crop farm or have a cool career in the city of Colfax. Nephella is correct. If you’re lazy then you didn’t get rewarded. I’m going to finish and reach the gold color tone. I wish Buffo, good luck. But he doesn’t really need it. He got what he really wanted,” exhales then view my sandy feet. I wipe the wet from my hair and face.

Duchie pats Ketona on the forearm. “I am so sorry. I know that you loved him and were getting married…”

“…next week,” I view her, saying. “I am…heartbroken but Rincon is here for me.” I smile and watch the rock seeing one of Rincon’s arm or leg. “We lived on the same street and beside each other’s houses since birth. My mama and his mama are best friends. We drank from the same cup with our shared saliva until five years old,” giggles. “We bathed together until three years old. I remember him naked too,” giggles and nods.

Duchie giggles and nods. “Well, you’ve found true love. You’re doing the right thing. You’re smart like me, Ketona. And Rincon’s a very fine catch for a husband. He’ll be standing right next to you in the gold color tone along with me. Now I understand. We all can live our dreams, permanently. I wanted out of Dookie Town. The dookie girl has accomplished that goal. I wish you good luck with your dream job and your dream man too.”

I smile and nod to her. “Thanks.”

Nephella and Rincon waddle to us holding the objects.

Nephella smiles. “Good news, the sea mice survived the flight, the fall and the fishies in the ocean,” the mice crawls up her cat suit as she wrangles them around her body. She tosses one to me and Duchie. “Bad news, I need help carrying the six little creatures back up the cliff and dropping them back into their real home, the sea grass.”

I catch the mouse then cuddle it. It claws scratch into the suit as it whiskers brush into my face when I giggle.

Rincon pats the mice then winks at Ketona. “It is our time to leave here and go back into the Cubby Hole. All the kids are gone but us. I wanna finish this thing, since I’m in the lead,” swings and chuckles, running up the nature steps of the cliff face towards the top. He carries the mice towards home. “Don’t forget your boots for the me-chee chair…”

Duchie leans into Ketona winking. “Go and get him, honey!”

I gasp, smile then spin and yell. “I’m leader now,” dashing across the sand with the mouse then hit the steps, climbing after Rincon.

The Hubby Hold…is the second e-novel.