All grown up

Dodgeball

It's tuesday and I'm tired as hell. I couldn't sleep. My mind was occupied with Brodie. I think I catched... No, I didn't.

"You look like shit." London says, once I'm at my locker.
"Geez, thank you very much. " I managed to say.
We make our way to spanish.
"I couldn't sleep yesterday." I murmur as I sit down on my seat.
"Well, we have gym today so." She laughs.
"Fuck my life." I say and close my eyes. Can't wait.

"Alright class. Today we are having a little quiz." The teacher says and I groan loudly. All eyes on me, again. I feel like I'm the center of attention these days.
"Detention after school." He growls and continues murmuring how disrespectful I am. I roll my eyes and lay my head on my desk.

***

"Okay class. Today we are playing dodgeball. Together with the boys. Team up and we can start." The coach says.
"No thank you." I whisper to London.
"Well at least your brother and his gang showed up." She says and I follow her eyes to see she's right.

"Don't stare at my boyfriend like that." Debra says and goes to Brodie's side. She gives him a kiss on his cheek and glares at me. Unaffected by her little whatever I look at Cole and give him a smile. He smiles back and I look at the rest of the guys. My brother still doesn't like Debra but manages to beam me a smile as well. Finally, I look at Brodie and see him staring right back at me. He gives me a smirk and continues talking with his girlfriend.

"Did they just all smile at you. I think your brother even looked at me." London fangirls, making me laugh.
"I guess. But let's not go to them, I don't want to spend more time with Debitch than necessary." I say and laugh.

Soon we are all teamed up. Unfortunately I'm in a team with Debra. But I still have Maria and Ashley. London is in a team with Halen, Brodie and Jason. The rest of their gang is in my team plus some irrelevant other students.

"Go." The coach yells and soon most of the team members are out. In my team is still Cole, Maria and me. In the other one is Brodie, Jared and London. I aim my first throw at Brodie, but he moves and unfortunately for Jared, the ball hits him right in his face. Brodie smirks and takes the ball.

He shoots it directly at Maria and it hits her in the stomach. Cole stays right next to me and hands me one ball. He shoots London and I attempt to shoot Brodie. He ducks. Now he's the only one in his team. I smirk at Cole and he looks at me. Brodie takes the opportunity and shoots him on the side of his face and I scream. It happened so fast. I look at Brodie and he smirks. I take the ball and hit him in his stomach. My team cheers, but I just frown at Brodie. That was way to easy. Did he let me win again?

"You were amazing, sister." My brother comes to my side.
"Hmm." I humm and side hug him. I turn around and look at Cole.
"How is your face?" I ask him.
"Fine. It wasn't that hard though." He laughs and hugs me.
"But you little one, you were amazing right there." He says and lifts me up.
"Thank you." I laugh.

***

"Here we go again." I murmur in front of the door with the big writing 'detention' on it. I step in and... well you know the rest. I sit down and listen to some music. After a while the teacher leaves and my right earphone is put into a strange ear. I look up to see Brodie sitting next to me smirking. I pull my earphone back and he opens his mouth to say something but gets interrupted by Cole.

"What are you listening to, princess?" He asks and takes the earphone, I just got back from Brodie, out of my hand. I roll my eyes and let him do whatever he wants.
"Why are you guys always here?" I ask Jason.
"We could ask you the same. But we are simply bad." He winks. I open my mouth to say something but again, Cole interrupts me.

"Hey Skylar can I talk to you for a sec." He stands up and I nod.
"What's up?" I ask once the guys can't hear us. He plays with my fingers and I bite my lip.
"I'm throwing a party on friday. Would you like to come. You can bring your friends if you want." He asks and looks at me excited.

"Sure. Is it like a birthday party or can I come without a present." I ask and he laughs, still playing with my fingers.
"Nah it's a normal one. With alc and sex and drugs." He laughs and I smile.
"So friday it is?" I ask.
"Yep. Give me your number and I'll send you the details." He demands and I do. We go back to the boys and most of them are smirking, basically all but Brodie.

"What did we miss?" I ask once I sat back down on my chair.
"We just talked about how cute your babies would look." My brother says and I frown.
"Or ugly." Brodie adds in a whisper, probably only for him and I roll my eyes.
"Ass." I push him and he rolls his eyes. My phone buzzes and I see a text from an unknown number.

Our babies would look beautiful. It says and I look at Cole who's smiling directly at me. I laugh.

I bet. I answer and smile. I save his number under 'Cole♥' and show it to him. His cheeks flush and he looks down.

"Awwwwww." I say and pinch his cheeks. The guys laugh and Cole blushes even more.
"Okay guys. Some of us are trying to have detention. Take a room." Mike says.
"You're just jealous." I say and he laughs.

***

"Wait." I yell after Brodie. He turns around, lifts his hands up and frowns, in a 'what the fuck do you want'-way.
"I wanted to ask you if I forgot my eyeliner at your place. I can't find it anywhere." I ask and he frowns.
"And you couldn't ask me that via text?"

"I also wanted to ask you why you didn't dodge the ball. You let me win again." I pout and for a second I can see the corner of his lips twitch upwards.
"No I didn't. I couldn't dodge it. As easy as it is." He says.
"As to your eyeliner, I thought it was my moms so I gave it to her." He adds.
"Are you serious?" I cry.

"I'll buy you a new one if you want." He says.
"Umm. No it's fine. I'll just have to ask my mom or so. Bye." I say and turn around.
"Wait. I just wanted to say Debra is invited to the party on friday as well, so you better don't show up." He says and I turn around.
"I don't care if she's around. I don't let her bully me and I really like to go to this party. Maybe we won't even see each other when there are a lot of people." I shrug.

"But I'm going to tell her that you show up." He says.
"And? Are you cooler now? Fuck you Brodie." I glare at him and turn to leave. This time I'm actually getting to take some steps.
"Damn it, Skylar. Just don't show up." He runs after me.
"Why? What have I done to you?" I yell at him.
"Me? No Sky you didn't do anything to me. Stay away from Cole. That's what I'm trying to say. He's bad news." He takes a hold of my arms.

"Oh. What a great friend you are. I don't tell you to stop seeing Debra just because she's a bitch. So you don't get to tell me to stop seeing Cole for absolutely no reason. He seems pretty nice and I like him. So just stop and leave me alone." I yell and finally turn around to leave, without him running after me.
Stupid Brodie.