The Chance

34 || A Chance

a/n — don't be silent this chapter guys istg i'll be so mad😡😡 JKK (no i'm not)

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Me and Your Mama - Childish Gambino
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Evie

I hate persuasive people.

Maybe it's because I'm partially gullible to what they have to say.

Or maybe it's the moment of realization I have when I recognize that I've done exactly what they wanted me to do.

That's exactly what happened to me this week. I don't know where the idea to go on a "road trip" came from, or why Reese was so persistent about it, but here I am, regretting it as we get ready to go out.

And when I mean going out, I mean going to watch a hockey game.

There's this weekend during the season where the team faces all of their best competition, whether that includes in-state rivals, or out of state teams.

Most of the school gets excited to watch these games, some of the seniors even make the trip down to Connecticut to watch one our bigger, league rivals.

Reese has this close friend in her art class, who's dating someone on the team and asked her to go. She accepted on one condition: to bring me.

I refused all week, but she was like a goddamn cockroach. She kept coming back to ask me about it, as if no wasn't good enough or it wasn't the answer she was looking for.

My unwillingness to go was the approaching Thanksgiving break where I would have to deal with some...problems. And secondly, it would be the farthest distance, physically, between Alex and I.

And with the recent encounters we've both had, I needed to keep my promise of staying away.

I didn't need to drive two and a half hours to Quinnipiac, spend an hour getting ready (like I cared), for a guy I needed to stay away from.

But I couldn't take Reese running her mouth to me any longer, so I agreed to go.

What I didn't expect when we arrived was to see the teams' bus parked outside.

She had booked a room in the same hotel as them.

I didn't want to believe it. I couldn't.

Not with the lack of willpower I wielded. Because if Alex wanted to, he could suck me right into his arms, and right back to where we were a few weeks ago.

He could look at me like he did weeks ago, be as close as he was, and I would just stand there a complete mess.

But I knew if that happened things would just repeat themselves.

I needed to make a change. And staying away was my best chance at making that happen.

So I'll go out tonight and root for the entire team, but deep down I know my eyes will betray me for one person, and one person only.

That, I can't control, I know that.

What I can control is not letting him know I'm here, watching him, or rather in the same goddamn hotel as him. I needed him to think I stayed at school.

It doesn't seem that hard, and it's not. There's a lot of people in this hotel for the weekend, and all I had to do was make sure I wasn't seen in the lobby.

I kept a watchful eye out as we left through the front exit. The bus hadn't left yet, but Reese wanted to meet up with her friend beforehand.

As one might expect, Reese always meets the nicest people. This one wasn't any different from what I could tell, but I'd be able to create a better description past that had I not zoned in and out of the conversation.