The Boy Down the Street // Blake Gray

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Steph's POV
"What a dick" says Patrick. Gavin, Patrick and I are in the lobby of the arena, since all of our rides are late, and I had just told them about the backstory of my snap from earlier today. Patrick just lashed out on it but Gavin stayed quiet.

"I know, but what can we do." Both Gavin and Patrick shrug. A horn honks from outside and we all turn. "That's my ride, bye guys." Patrick gets up and walk to the car. I wave but Gavin just sits there in silence.

"Gavin are you okay?" He gets up and shakes his head. "It's just that, I don't know." I get up and turn Gavin around to face me. "Gavin, you can tell me." His eyes glance down to face mine, so our eyes are set on each other's.

"It's just that, you don't deserve to be treated this way. It makes me mad that someone mistreated you." I can't believe what I'm hearing. "Gavin it's fin-"
"No Steph it's not fine. Your such a cool, know nice girl and you out of all people shouldn't be treated like that!" He turns away from me to hide his face. "Sorry about that" he mutters. "Gavin don't be sorry. What you just said to me was the nicest thing a guy has said to me in a while." I walk to him and turn him around to face me.

We're super close to each other, our toes are touching and our bodies brush against each other. I look up at him and he looks down at me. "Steph I can back up if we're too clo-" I interrupt him by planting my lips on his. I don't know why, it was just  instinct.

Once we pull away both our faces heat up. My arms are still around his neck and his arms are still wrapped around my waist. "Sorry, umm I don't know what I  was doing and-"
"No no, it's fine." We're both whispering as were are still in shock about the situation.

"Thank god we came late today." Gavin and I quickly release each other and look see that Trent and Gavin's mom are here to pick us up. "Uh hi Trent, Mrs.Gudai" I say blushing as Gavin and I rush to get our stuff. "Bye Gavin" I say. "Bye Steph." He says and we both run to our cars.

"Moving on eh?" Jokes Trent. "Shut up." I nudge him before we get in the car.

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"OH MY GOSH YOU KISSED!" I take my shot against my garage and then signal for Sam to keep her voice down. "It's no big deal, really." She rolls her eyes then takes her shot. "Of course it's a big deal Steph." I brush off her comment and take another shot.

We hear a door slam shut and see where the source of the sound came from. We find that it's coming from Blake's house and that he's taking out the trash.

"That's what he looks like in person?" Sam is really shocked by Blake's appearance. "Uh yeah. Just a big walking mushroom." She chuckles at that. "But his bowl haircut is gone." She's still eyeing him down. "You got me there." I chuckle and then she goes on to talk about mine and Gavin's incident.

Blake's POV
"I got the trash mom!" I take the trash bags and bring them outside, since it's garbage day. As I step outside I see the person I want to see last, Steph. She's not alone though, she's with her friend who's exactly her height, but she's just a little darker than her and has dyed light blue hair. She's pretty, but I still have my heart set on someone else.

"So what's the deal with you two. You're definitely not 'just friends' anymore" I hear Steph's friend say. Our street is so quiet I can hear everything they say.

"I don't know what stage were at now. It's just that no one has ever treated me like that before." Is Steph talking about me? I treated her like no one has before, but not in a good way. And yes, we're not 'just friends' anymore, she despises me.

"What things did he say to you?" I can tell by Steph's body language that she feels a little uncomfortable sharing what I said about her. I don't blame her, I would feel the same.

"He's all like 'you don't deserve to be treated like that' and 'you're so cool and nice.' Then our bodies got all close together and then I kissed him." Her friend coves her mouth like she's gonna squeal or something. But me, my heart drops to the floor. How could Steph kiss another guy?

I guess I had it coming for me. But how could she move on so fast? If what we had was real, how could she be fine? Cause I'm not fine at all.