The Girl Who Can't Say No

Rivalry ♔

We arrived at school holding hands, happy with each other. We had to separate for our first period class, but we would see each other again.

And I couldn't wait until we do.

It was near the end of second period when I heard about the commotion. Apparently, there was a full-out fight during PE right now and when everyone got in the wind about it, no one could pay attention to the lesson taking place and even our teacher was feeling out of it, if a bit spooked as well.

That was when I figured this was a serious matter and that someone was bound to get hurt. Really hurt.

As soon as the bell rang, all my classmates rushed out as they couldn't stand the tension that only grew within the room.

Most of them were running out to watch the fight so I followed them behind. When we reached the side of the gym, there was already a ginormous circle surrounding what must be the presumed fight.

Just what in the world was going on?

I made a path through the large crowd and when I finally caught sight of what was happening, I couldn't believe my eyes. And for a possible minute there, I thought I was in some sort of awful nightmare and that I would wake up soon in the middle of class embarrassed.

Hell, it even felt like a nightmare right now, but nightmare or not, I was going to get to the bottom of this disaster.

I could see the rivalry between them, but I couldn't for the life of me think of a plausible excuse for their reckless behavior.

Despite the cliches, they were in different cliques and all as far as opposites could go. There was absolutely no reason for all this unnecessary pompous drama.

Without exactly knowing what I was doing, before long I had ended up right in front of them with my hands on my hip.

It became slightly awkward standing there like that so I took my hands off my hip and yelled at them, "Jaxson! Connor! What are you guys doing?!"

I don't know if they were purposely ignoring me or if they were too absorbed in their fight to hear me, but I made it my mission to stop this, whatever this is, and from now on, I refuse to back away from anything.

I'm not as stupid or naive as to actually interrupt their fight like last time, which seemed like forever ago and I learned my lesson, so I am not going to physically separate them.

I also don't want my butt on the floor again, but that was besides the point.

I am going to catch their attention and stop this without any more injuries.

"Jaxsoooooooooon! Connorrrrrrrrrrrr! Can you guys hear meeeeeeeeee?! Orrrrrrrrrrr are you guys completely deeeeeeeeeeeeeaf?!"

I was being so ridiculous, but it worked! I smiled cheerfully and the two boys who before were fighting stared at me like I became a psycho since the last time they saw me.

Hmm, maybe.

"Okay, now that you guys stopped whatever it was that you guys were doing, let's get ice cream!"

Yeah, I might've gone a little psycho. The heat must be getting to me, or whatever must be getting to me.

Jaxson was the first to speak after a lengthy super awkward silence, "Um... did something happen Avy?"

"No?" Did he mean besides witnessing the obvious?

They both stared at me even more weirdly than before.

To break the prolonging silence, I clapped my hands together and smiled sweetly, "So what were you guys doing? Please enlighten me."

I think I may have banged my head on the way here actually.