dogfight-e.d

fourteen

monday morning, the kids of parkwood high are gathering to start the day, forming in their cliques and gossiping about the events of their weekends. the popular jocks are meeting up outside of the school, their eyes start to scan for the twins who have yet to arrive. soon enough, ethan dolan's signature truck drives up to his usual parking spot, catching the attention of his friends who await for his appearance with smirks on their faces, "yo eth! gray!" nate calls to the twins as they step out of the truck, gray donning his infamous snapback on backwards and ethan dressed in a red baseball jacket, the boys look up to their friends and make their way to them.

"s'up guys" gray says to the group, bumping fists with all of them as their normal greeting, "i'm guessing you two had very interesting weekends" jake puts forward, more towards ethan than grayson, the younger dolan twin nods with a mischievous look while the older one pokes the inside of his cheek with his tongue and looks away, less keen to give a response. "yeah, hooked up with hannah andrews" gray smirks with pride at his summary of his weekend, happy with himself for getting some action with a complete babe....unlike his brother. "nice g" nate approves before averting his gaze to ethan, who stands back with his hands in his jogger pockets, "what about you ethan? score with wideload at all?".

ethan doesn't reply instantly, instead rolls his eyes and rubs the back of his neck, he isn't willing to explain his and rey's little clashing. "obviously I didn't " he eventually mumbles, his brother and friends all look around, amused expressions plastered on their faces. "really man?" there's an overflow of sarcasm in jack's voice "and there we were thinking you were gagging for it with the girl". that somehow earns a ripple of laughter among his brother and friends, ethan shakes his head at them, already over with their immature behaviour. he's always gotten irked by them easily but still chooses to hang around with them, his need to have a high social status in school is the culprit of that decision. "hey, why the long face dolan?" jake suddenly asks, noticing ethan's low persona today.

ethan just shrugs, "my 'date' with rey didn't go all too well this weekend". his friends' eyes widen, instantly intrigued to hear the full story, mostly because they sense some major comical value in it. "well, don't keep us waiting in suspense lover boy, tell all" nate pushes impatiently, ethan opens his mouth to explain the awkward situation when grayson suddenly smacks his arm, signalling him to stop. ethan shoots him a glare and then looks behind him to see rey walking towards the entrance, her head low with her hair covering her face and her books close to her chest. the boys all stay quiet, watching the poor girl slowly approach them with disapproving expressions on their faces. rey then reaches them, walking past ethan without looking at him even though she's breathing quite deeply. she takes two steps up but comes face to face with jake, nate and jack who are blocking her way, she just simply looks at them blankly, "excuse me" she says as firmly as she can however her voice shakes a little.

the boys all exchange looks and then look to ethan, its quite clear to him that they're debating insulting rey or just letting her pass and its obvious which option they want to vouch for. ethan stares back at them intensely and with his jaw clenched, he shakes his head slowly to tell them not to try it. no matter what he thinks of rey he doesn't want to have to see his friends rip the girl apart anymore. his friends purse their lips and step aside, making room for rey who simply walks past them all, whispering a "thank you". ethan notices how polite she always is, even to people who are rude to her. "who the fuck does that bitch think she is?" jake scoffs, a look of disgust on his face, ethan stares back at him with narrow eyes and a tight lip, rey still on his mind. "yeah, she hangs out with our man eth for like....three days and suddenly she thinks she can talk to us like that? someone should put her in her place" jack adds and ethan takes a step closer to him so their faces are inches apart. jack swallows dryly, he's always felt intimidated by ethan since he's always had an edge to him and also because ethan could quite easily beat the shit out of jack with one hand tied behind his back.