Chapter 17: Chapter 17
Austin*
I kept checking my phone waiting for our practice to be over. Why is time so slow today? I huff wiping perspiration off my face. For the next forty-five minutes we trained tediously, winning the intra-state match was fun and joyful but that made us train harder for the state championship and as the captain of our team failing is not an option here. Blood, sweat and grass, I trained harder knowing coach is also on his toes about our next match. I hope Snoopy comes to watch me. I've never seen her at any of our games. I wonder if I ask her to come for me, maybe she will grace me with her presence and bring me good luck. Probably add a kiss to it. I smile at that thought.
Again with her, why does she invades my thoughts? I see something and think of her. I make a comment and her face appears. Everything she does, I have it stored in my head. The way she bites her lips when in deep thoughts, how she frowns when I annoy her or her face when she scowls at me for acting up, and then my favorite, her smiles. It scares me the way she occupies my mind and I have no restraints against it. Every day with her seems like a jolly ride of a rollercoaster. Scary but yet exciting.
These past weeks have been a rollercoaster for me, no parties, no hangouts with my teammates, or with different girls every week in my arms. I can't say I miss it because I don't. She waltzes right in to my life and fix the troubled puzzle. If only she knows how much she's helping me more than I am of her. I wish he were here to meet her, I'm sure he would have loved her.
"Ok gather around pussies, the next match is going to be..." that's the last I heard as my mind focused back on a pretty girl waiting for me. I wish she's by the bleachers waiting, which would nice. The memory of the last time and Lawrence made the smile disappear on my face. I know he has an eye out for her. He's what she needs, what she deserves. The perfect preppy boy, good looks, nice physique, perfect ambition for a bright future thanks to rich mom and dad, oh he's going worship her for the rest of his life. So why do I feel funny and got all defensive when she confessed she was waiting for him instead of me?
"Mahone?" all eyes on me. Shit.
"Yes coach." My focus on his stern face.
"Did you hear what I said?" he eyes me.
"Uh yes. Yeah, yeah. Crystal." That's a very big lie. He raises a brow at me seeing through my white lie. "Dismissed." Hurriedly, I packed up almost bolting for my car but screeched into a halt seeing who stood by my car waiting.
Casually I strode to my car in my usual suave steps. "Hey Kim." I said bored not in the mood for her talk.
"Austin boo. You've been so busy lately. You don't even have time for me anymore." Her face twist into an ugly frown while trying to look sexy with a pout tracing her fingers on me. I groan. Why can't she get it into her head I don't want her, though its harsh to say it but what we had was an honest fling, nothing more.
"I don't have time for this Kim." I need to get home so I can ask Snoopy to join me at the bonfire and hopefully ask her parent for a sleepover with her at my place since the whole of next week I'll be too busy with practice and will miss her. A lot, surprising.
"So it's true?"
"What's true?" my brows furrow in confusion.
"That you are with the pretty nerd." I growl.
"She's not a nerd." I defended. She folds her arms together smiling like she got the last pieces of the puzzle together.
"And he's getting defensive. When she gets to know the real you and not what you are showing her, she'll leave you calling you a monster and you'll be left alone. End whatever this is for her sake and yours. Be who you are and let her free. She deserves to be happy. She deserves Lawrence." She struts away with a satisfied smile on her face. I had the urge to pull her back and strangle her but I refrain taking a deep breath.
No she just playing with your head. You deserve Snoopy.
I may not be what she deserves but I bet I'm definitely what she needs and that's fine by me. I wave it off climbing into my car and pulling out of the school's driveway. But I know deep down my inner demons taunts me with her vile words.