The Darkest Point

His Teammate's

Tate's POV*

I run downstairs, tripping on a step as I sprinted. " hun, are you okay? " my mom yelled from the kitchen.

" yeah ... " I said briefly as I entered the large room. " ... morning " I greeted her as I grabbed my school bag from the stool beside the counter where I dumped it yesterday.

" Did you wake up your brother? " she asked sweetly adding sugar to her tea. " No I didn't, mom, I need to get going " I said hurriedly taking a bite from my toast. " why?, you don't have to leave for school yet, you have about thirty minutes and its a seventeen minute drive. " she asked and I nodded.

" I do, I have an early practice today in about four minutes. " I said as I walked to the front door opening it before waving a simple goodbye to her.

I shut the door and walked to my car, unlocked it and thew my bag in the back before racing to school.
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" Have you seen Stacey today? " Christopher, one of my best friends asked slinging his hand around my shoulders as we walked to our next class.

Practice was short since I was about twenty minutes late and I headed to class right after. Coach made us do a few drills and run around pitch a few times nothing to serious.

" no, why? " I asked honestly curious. " rumor has it, she was spotted with Nicholas at the festival yesterday. " he whispered.

" woah, the old physics guy " I asked to be sure, he nodded his head and patted my shoulder before branching off to the geometry room.

I walked quietly as I made my way to my class, dodging eye contact with the people meeting my gaze.

" Tate " somebody called and I was not surprised to see Alyssa trying to catch up to me. " I called you yesterday, why didn't you pick up? " she said grabbing hold of my hand as she stopped forcing me to do the same.

" I- uh, I didn't hear it ring " I said calmly. " well, I called like four times " she pushed on placing her hand on my chest slowly closing the needed space between us. " sorry, I didn't pick up " I said plucking them from my shirt.

" it's okay, I have an idea of how you can make it up to me. " she suggested and I rolled my eyes.

" babe, I'm gonna get to class, you should to " I smiled. " come on, it can be a quickie " she pleaded and I shook my head.

" I cannot get detention, I need to please coach or I'll be benched for the season " I said " I'll see you later " I pecked her lips before walking off.

I turned a corner and speed walked to my class, trying to reach there before the biology teacher got in because he was always in a bad mood.

I sat at my usual position in the back and placed my bag near my feet.

" Good morning, class, can I have your attention? " Mr. Owens said clapping his hands as he entered the room. " I don't want to ask twice " he said glaring at the girls who seemed to ignore him by the window.

" Great, who wants to explain what we covered on last time we met? " he asked as his eyes scan the room, landing on the ginger-haired girl with her hand up.

" yes, Miss. Olive " he said calling her upfront just as my missing neighbour decided to join the rest of us in class.

" uhm ... " Daniel stopped in his tracks and turned to the Mr. Owens.

" Sir, did you have something in your throat? " he asked earning a glare from the short man. " late again, twice in one week " Mr. Owens growled. " boy, make your way to the principal's office " he said pointing to the door.

Daniel is always late and by the look of his buttoned halfway buttoned shirt and his fly not zipped up he must have been in the janitor's closet with another friend to company him. He walked careless out of the classroom turning to me and sending me a small wink as I shook my head.

Weird that he's dad is the toughest among my friend's parents but he gets into the most trouble. He is the goofy one of the group, the one who fucks anything that moves, so him being sent to the principal's office was nothing new.
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" Bro, it was nothing, she came onto me " Daniel said trying to calm an angry Chris, " nothing. Dude, that's Derek's girlfriend and if he finds out your dead " Chris said slapping Daniels hand off his shoulder.

" guys, chill " Alyssa said stuffing a fork of salads in her mouth and I finally decided to butt in. " we don't want to light a fuse just before the game on Friday " I simply said letting out my opinion.

" so your suggesting we don't tell Derek? " Chris asked glaring at me. " no I'm not, I'm just saying ... tell him in a way he won't get angry and the team won't suffer " I said placing another french fry in my mouth.

" how do you tell a guy, 'his girlfriend, who he has been with for about two years now, cheated on him with his teammate not just any teammate, Daniel' with out making him angry or hurt? Chris asked facing me, expecting me to come up with another 'good idea'.

" okay. Yeah, you have a point. So what do we do? " I gave in. " let's just not tell him, I'm not the first guy " Daniel said earning a smack on his head from Chris. " you crazy, your just scared he'd beat you up " Chris laughed.

" of course, his gonna beat me up and I'm scared " Daniel whined. " you should thought about that before fucking Lacey " Alyssa said picking at her plate.

" I did that's why we didn't fuck, she just gave me head " Daniel said leaning back and nodding his head like he was going to get an applause for thinking about Derek before he almost skipped class with his bae.

" And I bet he won't miss her, she wasn't that good " Daniel said calmly earning another smack from Chris.
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After lunch, we headed for our last lessons and since we did practice earlier, we didn't have any later so decided to head home.