Somewhere Between Florida And Heaven

13~ I'll only like the view if it's Francisco Lachowski I'm seeing

Reed and I were working on algebra and french productively.

He explained to me a lot of things my teacher couldn't and I showed him a couple of simple mnemonic aids to help him memorize the more difficult verb forms in french.

We kept learning and sometimes laughed at some stupid jokes Reed made, when I remembered something that bothered me since I first saw him.

"Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah, sure." He moved his body to fully face me and put the pen he was using behind his ears.

"What was this all about at Marco's party? You know, that girl and the fight with that guy?" I blew out.

He rubbed the back of his neck, seemingly uncomfortable with the confrontation.

He smiled "That girl wanted to hookup with me and I said no. I know she has a boyfriend and I wouldn't do that to him. She clearly wasn't used to rejection since she flipped out and poured her drink all over me. But you would know, since you apparently stalked me." He wiggled his brows playfully.

I was getting nervous at his words. I wasn't stalking him! I just watched him and that girl and after that again with the boyfriend. Is that considered as stalking?

I felt my face heat up.

"And what about her boyfriend?" I changed the subject. " Why did he attack you?"

"She told him I grabbed her ass."

I chuckled.

"Why would she do that?!"

"I don't know. But I have the feeling that no one will dare to fight me again after seeing how her boyfriend went down."

He was clearly enjoying himself. But what still bugged me was where he got those moves from to even knock out someone so easily.

After finishing homework, we headed outside to the football field and sat on the bleachers where Nathaniel, Emma and Joseph were already chatting. They were watching Marco play football, but I bet that wasn't the only reason Emma and Joseph were observing them attentively.

"I mean, Caine's a real snack" I picked up Joseph rave.

"More like a whole meal!" Emma corrected.

"Did you even look at him? He is exactly what Steve Buscemi's and Adam Sandler's love child would look like. Seriously." Nathaniel laughed.

Reed was sitting next to Nathaniel and they started talking about skating. They both seemed to share the same passion, since their faces were glowing from talking about which skate parks were the best.

"Are you free this Friday?" Joseph asked me. He was sitting on the other end, having to talk over Emma Nathaniel and Reed.

"Yeah, sure. Who's throwing a party?" I asked excitedly.

"Caine is. His house is huge and he even has a pool in his backyard. He said everyone is invited, which means nothing, since we're always on top of every guest list, duh."

I rolled my eyes.

"WATCH OUT!" Reed screamed, and before I knew what was happening, his muscular arm was in front of my face and caught a football.

"Nice catch, Adams!" Marco yelled from the field. "Sorry, Cam. Didn't know the ball would fly that far."

Reed stood up and threw the ball right into Marco's torso.

Marco stumbled back a little which made Reed smirk mischievously. I couldn't help but stare at him in awe. When Marco walked off joining the other footballers, Reed looked down to me, still smirking, and sat down. I then noticed how psychotic I must be looking, staring at him without blinking once and having my mouth wide open. He laughed.

"Why are you looking at me like that? See something you like?"

I blinked one too many times and laughed under my breath.

"I'll only like the view if it's Francisco Lachowski I'm seeing."

"You'd love the view if you'd just open your eyes." he winked.

Oh, so my knight in shining armor is clearly full of himself. I bet all those pretty girls telling him how good looking he was boosted his ego a bit over the top.

I rolled my eyes, "Dream on, Reed".