𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬

Chapter Six.

     

     LATER ON THAT afternoon, Romeo was in the weights room, lifting weights with Missy who groans. "I forgot my water." She said and he just nods as the girl heads back to the dressing room. He spots someone walk by and stop, he looks over to see Spider walking in. "SLTs run the oval now. Not gonna gloat?" He asked Romeo who crosses his arms.

"We won fair and square. What else is there to say?" He said and Spider shrugs. "Just surprised... Romeo Castillo is not gonna brag about it?" He asked and Romeo just looks away. "Yeah, whatever. It was just a game of footy." He said. It's quiet for a moment and when the Castillo looks back at him, the White was eyeing him up and down. "Hey, you were, uh... you were actually pretty good out there today." Spider says suddenly and Romeo just raised his eyebrows at him.

"Seriously." He says and Romeo shrugs. "Okay." He said, holding back his smile as Spider stood there, staring yet again. His eyes trailed down and then back up again. "Bye?" Romeo says, then waved his hand before turning away, back to the weights. Spider chuckles quietly, walking away as Romeo furrows his brows, a bit confused before smiling widely, lifting the weights he set up.

"Hey." Missy returns, water bottle in hand. "Hey." He says quietly, his smile going away. "Saw Spider. What did he want?" She asked as she goes back to lifting the weights that she set up before getting her water. "He just... said hey." Romeo shrugged and Missy rolls her eyes. "Sure." She's unconvinced.

"Okay, he might have said I was pretty good out there today." He can't help the grin that breaks out onto his face and she laughs. "You're so easily pleased." She said and he scoffs. "I bet if he said it, you'd let him do you right here right now." She added and he gasped. "Shut up, Miss." He says right away.

"He was surprised I didn't brag about the win... but honestly, I don't deserve any bragging rights, I was just helping you girls out, the guys are being totally unfair. Even Malakai, but I think that was just him and Amerie." He shrugged and Missy softly nods. "And you also want to impress him." She points at him.

"Shut up." He says quickly and she laughs. "Seriously though, don't... fall for it the second he's nice, okay? Make him work for you. Play hard to get." She tells the boy and he just nods, "I'm not easy." He says defensively and she laughs. "Yeah, totally not." She says, a bit sarcastically so he rolls his eyes.

The following week, Romeo was preparing for the fundraising event for the candidates, with Stevie's help of course. Well, whatever it was, she was doing. She was sitting there on the library table, both hands holding up her head and had a blank stare on her face. "I really just have to work in my charm with these ladies. But I also don't wanna flirt with them. Because that's disgusting." Romeo says, looking through all of his campaign notes.

He has a whole notebook dedicated to it, his campaign strategy is mostly that he's basically gonna promise students what they want, to get to get personal with them and find out whatever it was that they needed, and he's representing the debate club. Because it's truly all he has, Spider has CUMLORDS, Amerie has SLTs and Sasha has her environmental club.

"Maybe offer to sleep with one and she'll give you a fortune." Stevie says, sounding downright bored and Romeo glares at her. "Stevie, can you please be focused?" He asked the girl who just set down her hands. "Enya and I were finally dating, how did I manage to fuck this up?" She asked and Romeo sighs.

"Do I need to look for a new vice?" He asked her and she just frowns. "Romeo, can't you just be my best friend for like a minute?" She asked and he just covers his eyes, letting out a small sigh. "Stevie, you spent all year being obsessed with Enya, and being with her, you, like, barely made time for me... you didn't even notice that, you were too busy with her during the holidays to notice I've gone and hung out with other friends who listen to me and understand rather than pushing me to the side." He says, sounding upset and Stevie just stares at him, not saying a single word.

"So don't give me that shit. Don't act like all I'm being is some asshole who only cares about the school captaincy when you haven't even spared any of your time on me for the past month." He tells her and she just got up. "You can look for another vice." She walked away. "Stevie? Seriously, Stevie? What the fuck," he said, watching her leave the library.

Romeo now walks up to Enya, his arms crossed. "Hey." He says and the girl looks up from her phone. "Hi." She looked back down and Romeo sighs. "Your girlfriend kind of bailed, so I need a new vice. I don't trust anyone as much as I trust you and her." He says and she puts her phone into her pocket. "What's in it for me?" She asked her brother who just scoffs, before shaking hisnhead.

"Being my vice? You'll run campaigns for me." He tells her and she shrugs. "Don't really care about school captaincy, or politics." She says and he just crosses his arms. "Well, this is embarrassing... you and Stevie are my only friends." He frowned. "Yeah, but... you have the debate team, that's who you're representing too." She pointed at him.

"Yeah, but... why would I want some debate teammate over my sister?" He says and she just sighs. "You're trying to flatter me." She says and he nods. "You're a better pick than my debate teammates." He tells her and she rolls her eyes. "Fine, I'll be your vice." She shrugs. "Okay, perfect. We have the fundraiser event today, so let's go prepare." He says, before walking away. "Come on." He tells the girl who just sighs, following after the older.

In the library when they're going over his notes, the intercom goes off and Zoe begins her daily morning announcements. "Good morning Hartley High. Welcome to another day in paradise. I'm Zoe Clark with your election poll update. To no surprise, Amerie Wadia and her whore party are trailing the polls. Spencer White and the C-Lords party are sitting comfortably in the middle. And Romeo Castillo and his NSDA party and Sasha So and her QSM-whatever it is party are neck and neck at the top. This four-way race is anything but tight, but anything could change after today's fundraising competition. You stay deadly, Hartley High." Enya looks at Romeo, nodding. "I'm a vice for a party of debate nerds. That's awesome." She says sarcastically.

"Ignore that. Anyway, I have a really good plan for today's fundraiser plan." He says and she just sat there, blankly staring at him as he drones on and on about his plan to really get to know the person on a personal level and connect with the plans he has of being the best school captain he can be.

"Are you listening?" He looks away from his notebook. "I wish I wasn't but I was, yes. We talk to them, get to know them and then tell them about your campaign strategy?" She asked and he just softly nods his head, smiling. "Exactly. And my campaign strategy? Not about the environment or anything, it's about reaching the hearts and souls of everyone at this school and hearing what they want, it's really not to make myself look powerful like the other candidates." He sheepishly waves his hand and Enya just nods along to his words.

"Today's event... you're not gonna have a Spider relapse, right?" She asked and he furrows his brows. "Spider relapse?" He asked then laughed. "Yeah, like... you're always competing with him and you say you're done with him, but this is a fundraiser event with women. He's gonna be an asshole about it." She laughs and he just rolled his eyes.

"No. I'm not letting him have that power over me anymore." He insisted then sighed. "Is that seriously what you wore to school today?" He asked and she looks down. "What's wrong with it?" She asked, but it's a Nirvana shirt, so it has a pair of breasts on it. "Don't worry. I knew Stevie wasn't gonna dress so professional either." He picks up his bag and digged out the button up shirt he brought.

"Go get changed." He tells her, handing it over to her and she rolls her eyes. "Meet me outside the administrative office in ten. We're gonna have to go there soon." He calls after her as she was now walking away from him.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

authors note
the way i would probably be so bad at doing that in high school, i'd start crying in the middle of a debate with the other candidates

+ doing double updates from now on bc i wanna get every chapter of this fic out. and to also completely focus on my tsitp fic