After All This Time

Chapter 3

I wake up later that night as I heard my phone start ringing. I look at the time before I answer and it's already passed 10 at night. I answer the call and I hear Mikayla's voice, "Where have you been?".

"I've been home, where I live. Why?" I reply.

"Oh, so that means you haven't heard about the fight?" She tells me.

"What fight? And when did it happen?" I ask out of curiosity.

"Mason said he could beat Ben in a fight that they agreed to do tonight at the football field." She explained.

"And who's Ben?" I also asked.

"Ben is another one of my friends that goes to a different school. I can introduce you to each other, just meet us here at the field." She finally hangs up.

I put on the closest hoodie I found and grabbed my bag and went out to the garage for my bike.

As soon as I arrived there at the field, I struggle to find Mikayla in a crowd of high schoolers, but she ended up finding me and guides me out to the side of the crowd by holding onto my arm.

"So you haven't heard about the fight at all?" She asks.

"No, I don't think so. What's the point of it again?" I ask her.

"The other day they ran into each other at the cafe and got into an argument and almost started fighting then but a worker told them to sit down or leave, so they scheduled a fight for tonight." Mikayla explained. The cafe is like the main place around here where a lot of teens go to hang out, chit chat and such.

"If this Ben guy takes out Mason I'd love him for life." I said jokingly as we both laughed a little.

"Come on, I'll introduce you." She then grabs my arm and guided me through the crowd once again.

"No, you don't have to, it's fine." I spoke nervously, that's because I was nervous. I didn't know the guy, I'm not good at talking to new people.

"Hey Ben!" Mikayla yelled to get a guys attention.

We stopped in front of a tall, I guess you could say a a good looking, guy. His appearance was nice to the eye and his presence was calming. He dressed casually but casual was a good look for him. He had soft looking and kind of fluffy brown hair, he wore glasses, a nice light brown sweatshirt along with dark blue jeans, and some converse.

"Everly, this is my good friend, Ben." Mikayla introduces me to the guy who turns out to be Ben.

"Ben, this is my amazing and beautiful friend Everly." She says as Ben looks at me, smiling and I blush a little with embarrassment so I stay quiet.

"Does she talk at all?" Ben says with a kind laugh in his voice.

"Everly, come on. Stop being shy, he's cool." Mikayla gives me a nudge.

"Uh yeah. Good luck with fighting Mason, not that you would need it though. Just thought I'd encourage you..." I started getting a bit more shy so got quiet as I spoke more.

"Well thanks, glad to know some people are on my side as well." Ben said.

"She doesn't like Mason, he stalks her and won't leave her alone so it's understandable why she encourages you." Mikayla informed Ben about Masons stalking issue.

"You didn't have to tell him that." I whispered over to Mikayla.

"Wow he shouldn't treat you like that. He just needs to give a girl her space. I'm going to bring him down to the ground so hard, teach him a lesson or two." Ben said caring and confident.

I think he's nice so I smiled at him.