Damage Control

Getting The Girl

"It's now or never, let me know how it goes!" I lowly said to Brianna while placing an encouraging hand on her shoulder. She gave me a nervous smile and briefly glanced at the boy fiddling with his locker before pulling her bag farther up her shoulder. 

"Thanks Mallory, wish me luck!" She whispered to me before letting out a deep breath. I watched as she quickly fixed her hair before turning and slowly walking towards Alex, a timid boy who she had a massive crush on. Typically, I would just advise people to start a friendship with their crush, or try introducing them to one another, but Brianna struggled with that seeing as she was the outgoing volleyball player and Alex was the computer tech genius who stuck with a small crowd.

She always thought that he and her wouldn't have anything in common, but after pulling a couple strings in class, I was able to get those two to sit together and low and behold, they became fast friends.

Cupid should honestly pay me for doing his job for him.

A smile broke onto my face as I watched Brianna and Alex laugh as they stood by his locker quietly chatting with one another. She was playing a tournament today at our school and wanted to ask him to come watch.Hopefully this would take their friendship to the next step because I knew how much Brianna liked him. Because it was lunch, the hallways were pretty much empty except for a couple students that were lingering around. I stood there creepily watching the two like a proud mom before I felt a hand grip my arm and pull me into a hard chest. 

"What's up hot stuff." I heard an obnoxiously familiar voice call out as my face was pushed farther into the hard chest.

"Get off me Easton." My muffled voice growled as I attempted to pull myself out of his grasp. 

For some reason he was always tugging me into him and it made me want to do very violent things to him. 

"Don't tell me you're going to run away from me again." Easton jokingly said after I finally pulled myself out of his hold. Brushing my now messy hair out of my face, I scowled up at him before shutting the door of my locker shut.

"Was that really necessary?" I asked, throwing my hands in the air to further emphasize my point.

"Very much so." Easton responded as he threw his arm over my shoulder and began dragging me over towards the doors of the cafeteria. I let out a loud sigh of frustration, but remained silent seeing as there was no winning in this situation.

After this morning, I felt more at ease about being seen with Easton. His reassurance comforted me and after a long hour of not paying attention in class, I realized it really shouldn't matter what people say anyways.

As soon as we entered through the doors of the cafeteria, my eyes immediately darted to where Sienna, Sebastian, Cole, and I typically sit. My eyes immediately connected with Sienna who raised her hands in the air and began waving to the two of us like a manic. I watched from the corner of my eye as people turned and whispered as Easton and I made our way across the cafeteria to the tables.

I felt myself shrink under everyones gaze, but tried my best to ignore it. Of course people were going to stare. Easton was on every girls radar at the moment and seeing another girl with him would no doubt attract attention our way. 

"You can let go now." I gritted through a fake smile as Easton pulled me closer to his side and continued walking beside me.