The boy next door

Derek oh Derek

I changed into my gym clothes and tied my hair in a slick-back ponytail. To be honest I didn't look that bad. When I walked in the gym everyone was already paired up with their friends. Lita wasn't in this class so I was all by myself.

Our teacher introduced him self. His name is Mr. Vander-Hoven, he's average height, a bit on the chubby side and he has blonde hair. He told us that our first activity was dodgeball. So I thought to myself 'obviously our first activity was going to be dodgeball! How obvious!' The teacher said, "There will be two teams; the red and the blue. When I call out your name I will give you your coloured penny-tee. And then you'll wait patiently with your team members until the game starts." When he finally got to my name he greeted me with a smile and said I was on the red team. Then he said, "Dustin blue team. Derek M. red team," he paused. "Try not to hurt anybody this time," he told Derek. "I make no promises," he said laughingly. I had no idea he was in this class with me. Great now, every time I get hit in the face with a ball he'll start making fun of me.

He walked over to the red side and walked up to me, "Hey Butterfly." And he walked away. He was wearing a tight dark grey t-shirt showing off his muscles. He wore black Adidas pants with white strips along the sides of his legs. He looked so attractive, his hair stood up but it was a little messy.

The game started and surprisingly I didn't get hit yet. A kid named Dustin ,on the other team, threw a ball towards me. I closed my eyes because I had no idea what to do, the next thing I knew there was two hands holding a purple ball right in front of me. "Wow you suck at dodge ball! I mean instead of moving out of the way when the ball came towards you. You just stood there and closed your eyes. Your lucky I was there to stop it or you would have been siting on the bench with all those other sluts, assholes, and losers checking me out," Derek said grinning. I looked at him emotionless and said, "Oh get over yourself! Thanks for 'saving' me but I would have been fine." And I walked away. I heard his voice behind me, "Oh really? We'll just see what you do about this." I turned around and said "About wh-" and he threw a ball straight into my stomach which cause me me to gag a little. He looked at me with one eyebrow lifted in amusement and started to slowly walk away. "What the hell! You surprise me every time I see you Derek. Well two can play at that game." So I threw a pink ball at the back of his neck slightly touching the bottom of his head.

He turned around and he was holding two dodgeballs and threw them at me one hitting my arm and the other I blocked with my hands causing my fingers to throb. But I wasn't going to let him win. So I ran and I picked up two balls and started to throw them at him. It turned out more violent then I thought. He got a couple in the face, I got a couple in the chest. We started laughing and for the first time there was actual happiness. Something I've never seen in Derek. But after that quick moment of laughter Derek went back to his non emotional self and Mr. Vander-Hoven blew his whistle walking angrily towards Derek and I.

"You two caused the other team to win because it's against the rules to hit your own team mates. So congratulations on making your team lose," he said yelling. I was so embarrassed and ashamed because I let some stupid, jerk make me do things I'm not supposed to. I let him get to me. Derek opened his mouth, "Sorry man, we were just trying to have fun because clearly this class sucks and its so boring I felt like poking my eyes out with a fork. All these kids kept missing their opponent so I decided to have a little fun," he said as if he didn't have a care in the world. I just kept looking down like a little puppy. Mr. Vander-Hoven took a moment to look at Derek and try to get under his skin. But Derek didn't let him so he looked at the teacher almost as if he was challenging him.

"Detention the both of you!" Mr Vander-Hoven yelled. "What?!" I said a little too loudly. "You heard me detention at lunch and if you don't show up there will be consequences!" Derek rolled his eyes and looked completely bored out of his mind.

The bell rang and Derek walked next to me. I looked at him and started freaking out. "Can you please calm the fuck down! You sound like a wack job. Besides its only at lunch, it's not like it's after school detention!" he replied, "Calm down? Calm down?! This I my first detention I have ever gotten. i
If my parents find out I'm grounded!" But he didn't seem surprised. He grabbed me by the shoulders and said, "Butterfly, relax everything will be fine." he said kindly. We looked at each other for at least seven seconds and then we snapped out of it right away. And he said in his normal self, "So quit yapping and chill." I closed my eyes for a second and then he said almost in a sweet voice "I'll see you later Butterfly." And he was gone.