Vergrin High (on hold!)

XV

Humming a song I don't remember the name of, I reached over the ladder to hand the bright orange streamers. I had a basket full of streamers at the bottom of the ladder while John was on the other side of the gym putting up the same streamers as me.

Harper,Grace,Luka, John, Aaron, Blake, Jocylnn, a few seniors, and I were preparing for the Halloween party tonight. John, a senior with pink hair, Aaron who I haven't seen in a while, and I are on decorating duty. Which means smoke machines, streamers, painting the gym walls and windows and of course that also included the lighting.

Everything would be fine, but I don't know how to do lighting. I can do it in photoshop when editing a picture- hell anyone can do it, it's easy. But actual lighting for a party is not my thing. For starters you have to go on a ladder, I'm normally fine when it comes to ladders by walls. I can catch myself on a wall if I fall, but if I'm in the middle of the Gym and the ladder falls, I'm going down with it.

The thought of falling made me shiver. Goofing back down to the solid ground I went to the table for more streamers but only found an empty box.

"Blake! Where are the decorations?" I half yelled to Blake who was on the other side of the gym.

"I'm the supply closet by the freshman bathrooms!" He yelled before going back to making a playlist for the dance.

"Thanks!" I yelled before going out the gym to the freshman bathrooms.

I kept humming the song I didn't know the name of as I walked to the supply closet. I quickly got there and opened the door and found a panicked Aaron. I quickly ran over to him and took his hands and placed them in mine.

"Hey are you good?"

"No" he said before putting his face into my neck.

I played with his black curly hair, he hummed in satisfaction and I kept doing it.

I then sobered up from what trance I was in and pushed him away a little to create some distance. "What happened?" I asked.

"I got locked in the supply closet, duh." He said in a bored tone after rolling his eyes.

"Well you really didn't, I was able to open the door easily."

"It locks from the inside."

I sighed "of course it does."

We stared at each other awkwardly I cleared my throat and shuffled through boxes to find the streamers. I found them, in the top shelf of course. I moved some of the stuff off the shelf's and started to climb, until I fell luckily Aaron caught me in his arms.

I patted his chest awkwardly "uh thanks."

"You shouldn't be climbing shelf's, I can get it for you."

"And you shouldn't have been doing illegal things to get you stabbed in the shoulder."

"Touché."

This went on for about five more times, me climbing the shelf's loosing my footing and the falling into Aaron's air,s only for me try again.

"Your going to hurt yourself" he said while crossing his arms.

I mimicked him and crossed my arms. "And why do you care?"

"I never said I do."

"You act like it though."

His eyes widened as he got he box of streamers and gave them to me "oh shit I do."

"What's wrong with that?" I asked.

He scowled at me and pushed me with his shoulder and started to walk away.

"No wonder nobody likes you" I grumbled under my breath.

He apparently heard me and turned around walking back to me. "What did you say?"

"No wonder nobody likes you."

He laughed as if it was funny. "I don't care what other people think."

"You try so hard to be the big bad tuff guy, but your not. The only reason people talk to you is because their scared of you. Their scared to see what will happen if you snap."

His eyes flashed with fire. I found the fun, I found getting him angry fun, and I wanted to know what he would do next. So I decided to add more.

"Your not into to it are you though? It's not that hard to tell. You want people to actually like you, to care for you. Why? I don't know, and I might never know."

He raised his hand but brought it down, I smirked to myself. I was getting in his head.

"But once you decide to put down your walls and relise what you want. You know where to find me." And with that I walked off my box of streamers to the Gym to finish the decorations.