Yours Truly

Chapter 7

I'm fine. Eva wrote on the note and passed it back to George.

Her leg twitched in anticipation. She continuously looked up at the clock. She didn't know how she felt about someone watching her so intently. Her nerves seemed to grow wild within her at the thought of George and Rebecca.

George watched Evangeline curiously. When the bell rang releasing everyone for the day, Evangeline rushed out the room with the crowd. She searched for Micah in hopes of some kind of pointers in dropping the hint with Rebecca. When she couldn't find him in the halls, she went out to the bleachers.

She couldn't help her need to pace back and forth as she riddled her head with ideas. The plan seemed easier when discussing it, but putting it to action seemed like another story. George walked toward her.

"Micah so owes me for this." Eva grumbled to herself.

"Evangeline?" George asked hesitantly.

Eva nearly jumped out of her skin. "George!" She clutched her chest as she tried to even her breath.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you."

"It's fine. What are you doing here?" Eva brushed her hair behind her ear.

George looked down as he shuffled his foot back and forth. "I saw you and was curious to know what you were doing."

Eva was going to speak on how weird he was being, but an idea popped in her head stopping her. "Can you do me a favor?" She looked at him eagerly.

George gave her a worried look.

"Sure?"

"Will you sit with me until Micah gets done with practice?" she asked.

George shrugged. "Sure. Why not?"

They climbed up the bleachers and took a seat as Micah ran with the rest of his teammates out onto the field. Micah gazed over to at them. Eva waved. Micah's eyes narrowed in distrust. Eva shook her head at him.

"So, how was your first day?" Eva asked George.

"It was okay. Sorry for being your shadow today. I just don't know anybody else." George apologized. 

Eva nodded in understanding. But a part of herself wondered once he made friends, would he stop hanging out with her as much.

"So how long have you known Micah?"

The players out on the field stretched. Micah stood across from Evan and George, watching them intently.

Eva shrugged. "Practically all my life. He's my best friend."

"You guys don't hang out a lot."

Eva glanced at George. "We do outside of school. We don't really have the same type of friends inside of school."

"Why doesn't he hang out with you instead of his other friends if you guys are so close?"

Evangeline fidgeted. "We're fine with not spending every moment with each other." Eva defended.

George nodded and left the conversation alone. Eva was thankful that he stopped his interrogation about her friendship with Micah. He was beginning to make her second guess how they were. She knew that Micah would never be ashamed of her at school, but the little voice in the back of her head told her other ways. She shook her head from the dark thoughts and caught sight of Rebecca walking toward the bleachers. She wiggled her fingers toward Micah before finding herself a seat.

This was Eva's chance.

"So George, have you ever heard about the blogger everyone has been talking about?" Eva spoke louder than she ever had before, but she tried to make it seem like it wasn't intentional.