Space Between

Chapter Three.

Evie packs her bag up and heads straight out of class, her eyes scanning the nearby hallway for her purple haired friend. A frown forms on her face as she can't see her.

"You good Evie?" Audrey asks and Evie nods.

"Do you want to spend break with us?" She adds and Evie shakes her head.

"I'm good, thanks for asking though" She smiles. Audrey shrugs her shoulders and head off, Ben looking over in concern. Evie flashes a nod to indicate she's good.

"Waiting for me?" A voice calls from behind her, and happiness floods her as she turns around.

"Yeah, I just gave up a good invitation so you best be worth it" She jokes, causing Mal to raise her eyebrow and smirk.

"Oh its like that, is it?" She states suggestively, and Evie's face reddens as her brain scrambles to come up with a reply, but she couldn't. "I'm joking, chill" Mal finally says, and Evie playfully smacks her arm.

"Don't do that!" She pouts and Mal shrugs.

"You're cute when you're all flustered" And Evie's face reddens even more as she hides her face behind her hands. Causing Mal to laugh. "Oh you are too easy, E" Mal says as she pulls Evie's hands away, leaving her own hand in Evie's. And the two fell silent for a moment, but it felt much longer. And Evie feels a warmness swell through her body, something she hadn't felt before. And she wasn't against the feeling.

"So, you got a cool place to show me?" Evie asks as she carefully pulls her hands away, to ensure that Mal knows  she didn't do anything bad.

"Depends on your definition of cool" She replies as the two head down the hall to the back of school.

"Oh I dunno, somewhere unique" Evie explains.

"Then you might like my little hang out" Mal answers as they head towards the edge of school grounds, where three tree's were perfectly placed to create a shaded area between them.

"That's... Definitely cool" Evie laughs softly as she walks over. The grass was perfect there, not too long nor short that it irritates your legs. And as she entered the covered area, it was a perfect temperature.

"This is amazing" Evie admits as she turns to face Mal, who had a soft smile on her face as she watched Evie.

"Yeah, It's somewhere out of the way. I dunno, I like it here" She shrugs and Evie returns the smile.

"Thank you for sharing it with me" She says as she sits down on the grass, running her hands over the legs of her black skinny jeans, and shrugging off her blue jacket revealing a Star Wars T-shirt.

"Star Wars fan, huh?" Mal asks as she sits beside Evie.

"Oh yeah, I basically breathe it. I know anything about it, go on ask me." She brags with a small smirk.

"Okay, Challenge accepted." Mal laughs lightly. "Who betrayed the Empire and became Fulcron?" She questions.

"Agent Kallus. Aka THE best Rebels character. And I don't say that lightly" Evie says.

"I prefer Sabine." Mal shrugs.

"Dye your hair more colours and you're a Rebellious Mandalorian" Evie laughs.

"Yeah, yeah I've heard it before" Mal chuckles as her hand runs gently over the blades of gras, tickling the palm of her skin.

"So Ben mentioned in Bio that you normally don't do friends. How come?" Evie asks gently, carefully tredding this route. The thought had been bugging her, so she wanted to ask.