When will this school stop threatening to fail people if they don't participate! To be fair, they did end up failing some people who didn't have a good enough reason not to be there, so I guess they weren't joking. That was the only reason that, at the end of the school year, Paul once again found himself being blackmailed into attending a school event. For some godforsaken reason, everyone loves softball. 'Join the softball league, Paul.' 'Do it for charity, Paul.' wHy! nO! What is so great about running and sports anyway? In Paul's limited experience, all sports did was tire you out and injure you. No point. No point whatsoever. And, the worst thing of all, Hatchetfield High are here. Ugh. And another thing! So many opportunities for injury. That would never work for him. To try and get away from all the madness, the accident-prone teen decided to just sit and eat for the rest of the game. As he strolled over to the food cart, he spotted a familiar face, unsurprisingly looking like they were heading to the same place he was.
"Hello?"
"What? Oh, heyyyyyyy. It's you! From after that god awful play."
"It's me. And it wasn't that bad"
"Don't bother. Good god man, you really are the most awkward person I have ever met."
"Thank you? So, um, what's your name?"
"Really?"
"I-"
"Nah, I'm kidding man. I'm Emma."
"Ok, I'm Paul."
"Hiya Paul. You hate softball too?"
"Yea."
He then proceeded to launch into a whole explanation of my disdain for the sport, along with the number of injuries you could get from it, the stupidness of having to do it at school, and, probably most unsurprisingly, why did they have to play it against the worst school in the world, with both of them expressing their detest for both their and the other school. To the surprise of the now-friends, what seemed like thousands of people started filing out of the stadium and surrounded them as they escaped the caged hell of high school sports. When he went to look back at Emma, he discovered that she had completely disappeared. He looked all around for her, but it had seemed like she had just vanished into thin air. Well, as this was right towards the end of his torturous time as Sycamore, he figured that he would never see her again.
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Repeated Encounters
FanfictionA teenage Paul Matthews is forced by his school to watch a musical. While there he meets a girl who is equally annoyed about being there. See how their friendship grows after a few fated encounters. AU until about chapter 5 when it merges with the m...
