Moving on

36. It's Not A Date

"I can't believe we're doing this." I say, stifling giggles. Dominic simply laces his skates on after helping me stand up.

"What if we get caught? I've never done anything like this without properly planning out all the bad possibilities." I admit.

"Too much time spent thinking and not enough having fun." He points out wisely. His words held some truth, but I'd still rather plan everything out.

"Dom's got a good point Skylar. We gotta live in the now!" Reese says excitedly, struggling to stand up. I jumped slightly at his voice and noticed that Dominic did as well. The punk rocker had his usual black earrings and lip ring, but this time he was also wearing black clothes and black skates. It made him look scarier than usual. Hotter too, not that I was looking or anything.

"Nice job Recess's pieces, you ruined their moment." Zain said, rolling his eyes. For someone who shamelessly flirted a lot, Zain seemed to care about mine and Dominic's relationship...or lack of rather. We weren't together.

"Are you children done talking so we can get this show on the road?" Dominic pipes up, steadying himself on his skates.

"Melanie, Kenny, you guys too?" He asks, not getting an answer from them.

"Yup. Sure. Never skated before, let alone inside school, but we'll try." Kenny calls. Darrin and I meet each other's gaze and smirk. We used to skate all the time with Piper when we were younger, so this game should be easy.

"Alright, Aaron's it first because I say so. Ready, set, go!" Dylan calls, skating off into the science hallway. Zain is the first to process the words as he skates into the algebra hallway. Reese clumsily takes the bio hall while Dominic chooses English. They all picked halls that lead into the commons so I figure it's best if I go for th-

"Tag, you're it Skye." Aaron says victoriously, skating off into the bio hall where Zain went. Probably to scare him. I groan because I spent too long thinking like Dominic pointed out earlier. Well, time to start doing then. I race after Melanie who's struggling to skate as it is and she shrieks when I approach her. I feel bad, so I choose not to tag her after all.

"Where'd Darrin go?" I ask instead. Relieved that I wasn't going to tag her, she pointed toward the café and I thanked her, skating fast pace to it.

I found him skating toward the door that led to the commons and smiled, getting an idea. I text Melanie and Kenny and Freddie to help me out in exchange for not tagging them. Then I skate over to where Darrin is. Before I can tag him, he sees me and skates off faster than ever, laughing all the way as did I.

"Gotcha." I say smugly when we're in the commons. Like I hoped, Zain, Dylan, Dominic, Reese, and Aaron were there too.

"You didn't tag me." Darrin says, confused.

"Nope, but you're all stuck here now." I say, shutting the door we skated through and locking it. Sure he could unlock it, but it'd take a while and I'd tag him by then.

"There are other exi-oh hell no. Mel, Kenny! Stop. Oy, Freddie, stop!" He shouts as my accomplices shut the other exits. It suddenly hits the other guys that they can't skate away and I smile victoriously.

"Better run." I wink to Darrin who heeds my advice and skates away toward the others. I decide to go for Dylan just for kicks and he breathes heavily, trying to get away from me.

"You were smart to lock those doors." He compliments.

"Flattery will get you nowhere." I inform him just as my hand hits his back. "Tag."

"Damn." He mutters and I skate away, knocking for Freddie to open the door. He obliges and I skate out, heading for the bio hall. It was the longest one, therefore my best bet. The other's will probably have left the commons by now.

I'm just rolling around slowly when a hand reaches for mine and scares the shit out of me, causing me to fall on my butt when I lose my footing. Luckily the person who reached for my hand didn't fall on me. At first, I was afraid it was Dylan, but the lip ring catching my eye told me it was Dominic.