Being Noticed

Surpise Number 8

Wrong. Totally tubely wrong. When Coach Martinez comes into the gym she yells at everyone to put the basketballs away. Then she gives the worst news to any nerd.

"Now just cause we started off with basketball does not mean we will finish with basketball. We will play..."

Wait for it. Wait for it.

"Dodgeball."

All of the unathletic people, including me, groan. While all the athletic people cheer. Cheer for what you ask? Cheer to injure- wait let me rephrase that. Cheer to KILL all the unathletic people. Coach separates us by our last names. A through M are on one side while N through Z goes to the other. Since I have the last name of Diaz I get stuck with the first group. The group that only has five to 10 actual athletes while the rest are nerds. One of those five to ten people is Jace, who is cracking his knuckles and whispering to the other athletes.

I take a glace at Coach Martinez and she's smirking knowing that we're gonna lose, and that most of the nerds in my team will get sent to the nurse's office. She sits on this lifeguard looking chair and yells.

"In the count of three! One! Two!"

She blows her whistle.

"Three!"

Everyone runs to grab the balls in the middle, most people getting out and sitting on the side. Our team has all of the balls since we pushed them to our side leaving the other team on defense.

Yes. Yes. Yes. I know some sport terms even though I'm a nerd. A ball rushes to me and I move quickly to the side, grabbing the ball that was about to hit me. I throw it to someone that wouldn't pay attention to a nerd, getting them out. I look around and see that most of my teammates already got out but is more than the other team, who was only ten more people. I look around at whose still in and see that Jace is one of them.

Duh Jace is still in because he's athletic! Oh right... thanks brain!

I stay off in the corner and the other team doesn't see me and just keeps trying to get Jace and his friends out. When it's only Jace and I, I move away from my corner and grab a dodgeball throwing it at someone unexpectedly. They gasp at me and walk away sulking. Jace looks at me with a eyebrow raised and I smirk, getting dodgeballs and getting people out. Jace helps me out and when the whistle blows telling us that PE is over, our team won.

I walk back to the locker room and expect girls to high five me and cheer me. Hahaha hilarious. They all stood at the entrance of the door and when I looked in the back of me everyone was gone, even coach.

"Well it looks like the nerd is actually good at sports. The world's going to end!" Holly yells.

I roll my eyes at her dramatic effect and try to push her out of the way. Keyword TRY. Her and her Barbies kept standing tall while I cower back, a feet away from them.

"And where do you think your going?"

"To change," I reply in a duh voice.

Holly smiles evilly.

"Oh yea of course."

She steps away from the entrance and everyone else follows. I raise an eyebrow at her wanting to question her kindness but voted against it seeing this as a opportunity to get out early.

***
30 minutes and one long hot shower later I go to the place where I left my clothes to only see my bra and underwear there. And a note.

Did you think you would get away that easily? Hahaha try to go home with no clothes on. -Holly

Of course a stupid note! I yell in frustration and walk around the locker room with only my bra and underwear.

"Courtney?" Someone's voice that is definitely not a girl's calls out.

"What the fuck get away from me!" I yell.

Jace walks closer and closer to me and I hid behind some lockers.

"This is the girl's locker room!"

Jace inches closer and closer, putting his hands up in surrender.

"I'm just here to see if you're okay. Every girl left the locker room except you, so I came inside to look for you."

I look out from behind one of the lockers.

"She stole all of my stuff Jace."

He has a confused look.

"She?"

"Holly!" I yell, "she took all of my clothes and expects me to walk out of the locker room and home in my underwear and a bra!"

Jace ruffles his hair and exhales deeply. He goes into his duffel bag and throws me his clothes.

"Here wear these."

I nod and put them on as fast as I can. He wraps an arm around me.

"Let's get out of here now."

I nod and follow wherever he's going. He leads me to his car where Andrew and Blake were sitting in the back on their phones, waiting for Jace.

At the sound of footsteps Andrew says rudely, without looking up from his phone.

"It's about time! I was slowly dying here."

Jace rolls his eyes.

"Sorry I was helping someone out."

They both look up and have apologetic faces.

"Oh... Courtney! Sorry we didn't know that you here..."

I smile.

"It's okay. I got to get home first before the bus leaves, bye."

Jace grabs my arm and replies.

"No. Since your here I'll just give you ride home."

I look around parking lot nervously.

"No it's okay, I'll just wait for the bus."

"Nope," Jace says dragging me into his car, "I'll take you home."

I sigh, already in the seat next to the driver's.

"Fine."

All of them suddenly smile brightly that I had to put on sunglasses. Yea, that bright.

"Good."

Jace races to the driver's seat and starts the car, getting out of school.

AN: I LOVE GRACE!! HER SONGS ARE AWESOME!! Y'ALL SHOULD  LISTEN TO THEM! AND SOORY BOUT THE LATE UPDATE!! I'M REAL BUSY BUT I PROMISE TO UPDATE SOON AGAIN! HAPPY READING😙