The Last of the Ender Crystal by Danica Davidson

Author:Danica Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2018-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

At dinner that night, steve alexander was still sulking. After he told his wife all about it, she said, “It shouldn’t matter if you won the award or not. What matters is helping other people.”

“You’d think they’d be more grateful,” he said, stabbing at his beef. “A few years ago, everyone loved me and built statues of me. Now … this.”

“People still love you,” she said. “You shouldn’t listen to the mean voices out there. There are always going to be mean voices, but most people are nicer than that.”

“Hmph,” Yancy said next to me.

I had been so absorbed in what I was watching that I startled and looked at him. “What?” I asked.

“It’s just like Earth,” Yancy said. “Some people choose to be nicer, and some people choose to be meaner. And when you’re successful like Steve Alexander, there are going to be some people who get jealous of your success and take it out on you.”

“Do you think that’s what’s going on?” I asked. I’d been really shocked by so many people turning against Steve Alexander.

“Well, that’s part of it,” Yancy said. “His meltdown at the contest today was something, though. It’s like he needs their praise constantly or he can’t stand it.”

“Yeah,” Maison said. “Don’t you think the reward of helping people should be enough for him?”

Maybe it should have been, but I could also understand why Steve Alexander liked all the applause, and why he’d been frustrated when he did so much for the Overworld only to have people complain about him. I thought the guy complaining about the Nether seemed especially silly. Steve Alexander had found the Nether, but it had been the man’s own careless actions that made the zombie pigmen attack him. Maybe the man thought it would be easier to blame Steve Alexander than admit he’d made a mistake.

I thought about the times I’d gotten jealous of other kids because they seemed to have it better than me. Sometimes they had better things because they’d worked hard for them, and sometimes those things had just been given to them. Either way, I knew that feeling of jealousy, and it was never a good feeling.

This whole thing—Steve Alexander, Mick, and Drake—it seemed like all of them wanted to be the number one person out there, the person who always got praise and never messed up. And they didn’t seem very happy trying to get to be number one.

I watched Steve Alexander give a big sigh and glance toward Jean, who had just returned to her corner of the room. There was a fireplace nearby and the flames were dancing shadows along her large body. The fire also seemed to glow in her purple eyes.

“What do you think, Jean?” Steve Alexander asked her.

She looked away from the fire. “I think this reminds me of a long time ago, when the people turned against me,” she said. “I’d done nothing to deserve it, but being different was enough for people not to like me.”

Steve Alexander thumped his fist on the table, making his plate jump.

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