Chapter 2

EVERYTHING I COULD ASK FOR

The bells rang and I started gathering my stuff. When I finally got up, I noticed I was alone in the classroom. I sighed and left the room. I walked from third floor to the yard, looked for Chelsea and guys. I saw them sitting on the grass in shadow. Josh was with his girlfriend, I actually didn't know her name or anything. So only singles in that group were me, John, Stephen and Jess. Sometimes it seemed like Stephen and Jess had something special, they were always on each others and used to talk their dating as in "what if". I found it kind of funny, but in the other hand, the idea of them dating was driving me crazy. Then there would be only me and John. And we hated each others.

"Heyyyyy Kelsey!" Stephen waved to me as I stood on the doorway. Jess, Josh and Brian who were sitting their backs towards me turned little bit and smiled, then Brian kissed Chelsea and they kept chatting. Stephen told John to go closer to Chelsea so they could make room for me. I sat down just to hear John.

"Yeah, room for the fat ass…" he hissed. I bet no one else heard because Stephen was already laughing at some joke Brian just told. But that had hurt. I put my bag on my lap and tried to get into the conversation. After little while I was in. John was pretty much quiet, but then he got in. Now I was quiet. As others had their conversation on, Stephen turned to me.

"Is there something with you and John? You guys never talk and you avoid each others. Have you been dating in the past and got nasty break-up or anything? This is just so stupid", he said smiling his crooked, little bit sad smile. I looked at his eyes, frowning little bit.

"No, no, no—like I would ever date him. We just hate each others. He annoys the crap out of me and I out of him so… It's like natural thing. We can handle it, I think", I shrugged and looked at guys sitting opposite us. John disgusted me. He was disgusting. I hated his hair, I hated his smile, I hated his laugh, I hated the way he dressed, I hated his moles on his neck… The most I hated how I still dreamed about him every single night since we had first talked. He was just so disgusting, gosh. I really hated myself for dreaming about him.

"Is there something with you and Jess?" I asked back. Stephen looked at me, blushing little bit, but then started laughing like he was nuts… I asked why he was laughing.

"Because Jessica is kind of taken… You know Roxie from my class?"

"That painter girl?"

"Yeah. I think Jess and her is… Friends with benefits", Stephen grinned.

"Oh…Oh!" I totally faked my surprised reaction. I knew that already. Gossips had spoken – I know pretty much everything about everyone but no one knows anything about me, except for Chelsea. I turned to look at guys, so did Stephen.

"So she's a lesbian?" I turned back after we had been quiet for a second or two. I never was sure if she was a total lesbian or bi-sexual. I needed to know that. I can't not know something.

"I'm not sure. She slept with a guy like two or three months ago, so I guess that makes her bi", he answered frowning little bit.

"How you know he slept with a guy? With who?" I kept asking. Stephen just looked away. He didn't answer, instead of answering he asked if he should throw a party on Friday evening. When everybody told him to do it, John asked if they even had their house free. Stephen made a wide grin and said he should invite everyone to have something exciting.

"Like someone would even come…" Brian uttered a laugh and lit a cigarette.

"You guys are the coolest kids around here", Chelsea stated taking the cig Brian had just lit. After she had blown the smoke away, she placed it in between Brian's lips again.

"What you mean?" Jess frowned a little bit.

"You, me, Jobe, Stevie and Dales are the most popular kids around here because we don't give a shit about what others think of us and because we are brave enough to be ourselves. And because we have a cool band. Right, Kelsey?" John answered and turned on his back. I swear I blushed. I had told that to Kennedy, the new kid in school.

"That is actually true. Ask from anyone", I smirked sarcastically blowing smoke on his face. He frowned, clearly annoyed, and took a deep sigh.

"Okay", John smirked and got into a sitting position back towards us.

"Hey you, redhead!" he yelled to a very good-looking girl. She was a sophomore if I remembered right. The girl looked at us, then at her friends. The other one of her friends pushed her towards us but instead of coming alone, those two friends of her came also.

"Uh… Yeah?" the redhead asked hiding a smile.

"Who are the coolest kids in this school?" John frowned like he was confused.

"Well, if anyone else asked, I would say the lacrosse team or the cheerleaders like everyone else says. But the truth is, everyone wants to hang out with you guys… But you're just so untouchable and—" the girl kept explaining as John was lying on his back again. Then he turned on his stomach and smirked to me.

"You won, Fletcher", he said to me, sounding little bit disappointed. I smiled sarcastically and nodded towards the girl who was still explaining – to John's back.

"Gosh, woman, shut up and leave!" John said as he noticed what I tried to say. The redhead jumped in the air – not literally – and left as fast as she could. Our group started laughing until Jess said that wasn't nicely done.

"Otherwise she would've thought that John wants her or something", Josh smirked and lit a cigarette also. John asked for one and Stephen offered his.

"Bro, I don't smoke weed, remember that, okay?" John frowned and took a cigarette behind Jessica's ear. She instantly started wrestling with John and finally both of them lit their cigarettes as I asked if I could have one of Stephen's. I had smoked weed for two times. I liked it actually.

"I could never ever date a weed smoker", John said as he noticed that I had lit my joint.

"So if I didn't smoke, you would date me?" I asked and decided to lie on my stomach. I got on my arms and watched John. I hoped he was going to blush or something. He didn't. But he didn't answer me, he stared at my eyes for a while, then said something to Jess and kept talking about some other stuff.

"I would date a weed smoker", Stephen shrugged next to me.

"Stephen, you're always so sweet", I smiled at him. He truly was. I'm pretty sure most of the people had already noticed I have a crush on him. Come on, who wouldn't like him?! He was lovely, his voice was so sexy, he was cute, his crooked smile was unbelievable knees-melting… Yes, Stephen Gomez was everything a girl could ask for.

NEXT CHAPTER OF PLAYING THE LOVE GAME:

"Jooooohn, I love you", I purred.

"Love you too", he smiled back. -- It made the others confused. Like now, it didn't take even a second when Dave dragged a chair in front of our desk asking what was going on.