Hey You

12

"He sent her home that night shortly after we left" Roxanne said into my ear "Matt said he’s never done that before."

I looked from Roxanne and the girl, who sat down a few rows away.

She was killing me with daggers, “That seems hard to believe. I mean look at her.” I replied to Roxanne. 

Roxanne turned her head as I took in a sharp breath “STOP!” I whisper-yelled at her.

“What? You told me to look at her!”

“I was being rhetorical...now she’s going to know we’re talking about her!” I said through my teeth as I noticed the girl give me a dirty look. Followed by her friends turning their heads toward me than laughing. 

I shook my head and turned my attention back to the game as a whistle blew signaling the start of the second half

Steven was amazing, he charged and slammed into the opposite team. Scoring the winning goal. We all jumped up & screamed, cheering for their victory.

I heard the girl scream for Steven. I glanced to her then back to the field to see him look at her with a smile. Jealousy oozed out of me.

His next move surprised me, and made the jealousy fade away.

Throwing his helmet to the bench, he walked over to the stands. Climbing up the front of it, right where I was standing. He stood on the railing, inches away from me. 

“Hey you” He said with a smirk.

I smiled, “Hi.” I breathed.

He leaned in and kissed my lips softly before jumping back down the ground and went back to the bench with the rest of the team.

“Oh s**t!” Roxanne squealed beside me.

I turned to her with a big smile on my face, seeing the girl standing behind her with daggers in her eyes. I gave her a faint smile and turned my attention back to Roxanne.

“She looks like she wants to kill me.” I stated.

“That’s because she does, and she thinks Steven is hers.” Mike said standing on the other side of me with his arms wrapped around Katie.

I turned my head again and saw the girl’s friends staring at our group. I gave them a quick wave, letting them know I saw them staring.

The sun had completely set, but from all of the cheering and jumping up and down I started to become too hot to keep wearing Steven’s sweatshirt. Not wanting to become all sweaty & gross, I decided to pull it off. I was fixing the sleeves when Craig came up to us.

It was at that moment I saw her eyes. They were shining bright and her smile was huge as she congratulated him on the win.

Katie had her eyes set on another boy...already.

Steven wasn’t far behind him. When he got closer I realized he had a cut over his eye with already dried blood on his cheek.

"Oh, wow are you ok? You have a cut." My hand was reaching up to it, I stopped when I realized that it would be incredibly awkward if I touched his cut. He wasn’t even my boyfriend, nor was I giving him first aid.

He shot me his half smile, and casually took my hand midair keeping hold of it. "Son of a b***h shoved his stick into my helmet. He’s lucky I don’t kick his ass.”

Seconds later, a boy with a camera hanging around his neck asked if he could take a picture. 

“We aren't from this school.” Roxanne replied.

“Oh, well that's okay. I can leave that out and just write local fans.” He said with a smile while he grabbed for the camera.

Steven dropped my hand and slung his arm around my shoulders.

"If you still had my sweatshirt on, I wouldn’t be getting sweat all over you," he said with a smile.

"It’s ok, I’m not worried about it." My brain was in overdrive and before I could stop myself "Your sweat smells good" left my lips and left me wanting to die of embarrassment as my face turned red.

He smiled down at me, as I heard the others laugh.

"She likes sweat" Roxanne stated as she poked me in the ribcage and stepped closer to me. Craig squeezed himself between Roxanne and Katie as Matt wrapped his arm around Katie's waist.

I wrapped my arm around Steven’s back and his hand squeezed my upper arm as he got even closer to me. He let his hand hang loose, right above my left breast. I started to blush as I could feel the heat from his hand.

I looked in his direction, and found him staring at me. Our eyes locked and I couldn’t look away.

"Everyone smile" the kid yelled over to us and at that split second Steven bent down and placed his lips on top of mine.

It took me a moment to realize what was happening before I kissed him back, making a fist in his jersey pulling him closer to me.

"Woooooo" I heard Craig say as Steven pulled back from me, his eyes sparkled in the post lights overhead. 

The kid coughed  "um, over here please. Look this way"

I smiled up to him and turned my head towards the camera.

“Okay, great. Do you think you could do one more pose?” He asked from behind the lense.

After a few different poses, from us standing side by side to each girl getting on the back of each guy, he was satisfied with what he got.

Roxanne gave him our names while Steven, Craig, and Matt ran into the locker room. So they could shower before we left for food.

“Who the hell are you?!” came a female’s voice from behind us.