Savannah went to the competition and only made it to the semifinals. Savannah was sad but the whole neighborhood including Ryan encouraged her. Savannah continued to grow in knowledge and then one day went to a mathematics competition with Nicholas and Maya as her teammates. Nicholas and Maya answered the questions asked not giving Savannah the chance to talk and they made it to the final.
In the final, they were asked calculus questions all through but Nicholas and Maya weren't able to answer one of the questions. Their opponents were winning so Savannah stepped up and answered the rest of the questions that were mainly calculus.
Savannah later became the best in the school and now Maya's rival. She went to various poetry competitions and she always won. Ryan and the other neighbourhood's basketball players were winning every competition but Ryan shone the most.
One day, Savannah was taken by Dawn who was jealous of Savannah success and her teammates who had a dream of becoming great mafias. Dawn and everyone in that gang including their leader had once lived in Ryan's neighborhood before but they caused troubles all around the neighborhood so the people had a meeting and they told them to move out and since their parents agreed to move out of the neighborhood, they had no choice but to continue their hooligan attitude elsewhere.
Savannah was taken captive and was beaten almost to death when one of Savannah's female friend in the neighborhood found her on the night of the neighborhood's basketball finale. She called the attention of other people including Ryan.
Savannah was lucky because the strength she had remaining was what helped her to send a message help, 'I'm in the neighborhood' to Ryan during the time they were still playing in the fourth quarter. After the game ended, he checked his phone and called Savannah but she didn't pick up. So the whole neighborhood spread out and started looking for Savannah. After they found Savannah, they took her to the hospital. Savannah went into coma for good four weeks and some of her schoolmates came to visit her with flowers and gifts.
Savannah later woke up after those weeks and Ryan who was still as to who had the guts to beat up his best friend asked Savannah who beat her up and she said it was Dawn and her gang. Ryan waited for Savannah to sleep then he went to look for Dawn's hideout. When he later found out their hideout, he went there to fight and since it was what their leader wanted which was to lure Ryan to them so that they can fight him to test his strength.
They fought and even though Ryan won he went with wounds all over his body. Savannah heard about what he went to do that night and that got Savannah angry.
Savannah said he was not supposed to fight because he was an athlete and if got a permanent injury, he won't be able to play basketball for the rest of his life.
Savannah got discharged after a few days and lived her normal life.
There was a time that Richard Enzo bought a pack of lollipop for both of them and they started fighting on who had to take the biggest share. Mrs Enzo almost started crying because she remembered when Ryan and his late twin sister who passed away because of pneumonia always fought on who is meant to have the largest of the lollipops.
Ryan and Richard talked about how Savannah acts exactly like his late twin sister Racheal. Savannah later found about Racheal when she entered Ryan's room and saw pictures of Ryan and Racheal.
Few months later, Ryan was scouted by a coach who was a friend to the neighborhood's coach and Savannah applied for a poetry competition.
In the poetry competition, she got to the finals and she faced off with Maya. Savannah and Maya almost went crazy for weeks when they found out they will be participating in the competition. So Savannah won the competition and Maya was confronted by her parents.
They called Maya useless but this time Maya said her mind that she was tired of pleasing them all the time.
Maya became comfortable with her life when her parents stopped bugging her, she now talks to Savannah but they are still rivals when it comes to academics and not poetry.
Years later , Ryan and Savannah met again and they talked a lot. Savannah had already graduated college and has written her first poem out for the world to see. Her book was actually appreciated all around the world while Ryan was already getting paid in the NBA.
Maya on the other hand became a rich lawyer respected in her society.
It comes closer to the end of the story where there are two teenagers, a boy and a girl listening to their father who looks a little bit old telling this story to them.
And that's the end of Rivalry: Clash Of The Rivals, Lucas said. What the hell, you forced two teenagers to listen to a story but you decided to end it that way, Nick the boy said. Why didn't Ryan and Savannah fall in love?, Nichole said a little bit angered.
That's how I chose to write my story, so go and sleep and have sweet dreams, Lucas said and they reluctantly stood up and walked to their various rooms while grumbling.
This kid these days love a good romance story but it is too cringy for me so I prefer telling them a normal, casual story. That's the end.