A/N: Just to clarify, this story is set in the US, and in College, it's just Rugby because that's what I know.

Chapter 2: Props

Kirstie and Marley were leant against a wall outside the building their last shared class has been held in.
With her eyes closed Kirstie speaks, "This sun is great, that air con the teacher had going, and then the fan was right next to me, just about turned into a Kirstie-cle." She laughs turning to look up at her taller friend.
"Yeah it was cold, but I probably shouldn't be standing in the sun."
"You gonna react?"
"I'm already braking out," she pouts, lifting her arm up just slightly to show Kirstie the red spots.
"Let's get under a tree then?" Kirstie raises an eyebrow as she takes a couple of steps backwards, "You know you should really think about getting a parasol or something?" she takes another step backwards as Marley starts to follow her. She steps right into someone and whirls around, then almost smacks into Marley in her haste. "Oh," her shocked face falls for one of boredom, "It's only you," she half smiles, looking out the corner of her eye at her giddy friend beside her.
"Yeah, only me," he nods then leans in to kiss Marley quickly on the lips. Marley gives Beauden a closed-mouth goofy smile as he pulls away and he can't help but smile back.
"Can we please go under the tree now?" Marley asks as she lightly stars to scratch at her arms. Beauden reaches out to take both her hands to stop her then leads her over the trees, Kirstie follows behind them, glancing around a lot more than she usually would.
There were two options here, either Beauden hadn't seen the video, or he was pretending to be okay with everything because his girlfriend was present.

After a god half hour of third-wheeling the lovey couple Kirstie had decided that he didn't know. She was also surprised that Marley hadn't blurted anything out, she loved the girl to pieces but Marley Rose could not keep a secret. Kirstie glances at her best friend, that girl claimed to be up past her bed time last night, so maybe she didn't remember because for some reason Marley couldn't function after ten. It had been two past ten when Marley had agreed to go on the pitch with Kirstie and Esther, therefore she was already in za-za land.
Kirstie couldn't help but get lost in her own head as she thought about the time she'd had New Years with Marley, Beauden, Esther and Esther's brother (she could never remember his name, it was something weird and she hadn't clicked with it), and one of his friends had been there too, the one Esther has a major crush on, Kevin or something. Anyway Kevin and Esther's brother were on the rugby team with Beauden so they all knew each other and got along, but that wasn't the point either. Marley didn't make it to midnight, she never did, but this had been the closet she'd ever gotten, and the poor girl had almost seemed drunk being up so late for her. Marley and Beauden had been dating not quite a month at the point and Marley blurted out how much she loved him and well embarrassment ensued, luckily Marley didn't remember a thing like she had honestly been drunk, which would never happen because she is as sober as she is celibate. But to this point, as far as Kirstie knows Marley and Beauden hadn't said the three big words since Marley's outburst and it had been almost a year now.
Kirstie is thrown from her thoughts when Esther drops down beside her.
"How you doing?" she asks as she pushes her glasses up her nose. And she wasn't alone, her brother sat down beside her, where Kirstie could just see him, his hair was a lot longer than the last time she'd paid attention to him, it was tied up and now his beard had really come in… he was kind of hot.
"Quit staring at him you weirdo!" Esther laughs as she snaps her fingers in front of Kirstie's face.
He just smiles and looks down, and then anywhere but at Kirstie.
"So did you actually post it or not? Cause I don't think anyone saw," Esther asks.
Kirstie jumps up on her knees and covers Esther's mouth in such a haste that she almost knocks her over. Esther pushes her back out of shock and sends her into Avi's lap from which she immediately jumps up and steps right into another Rugby player, Jeremy this time.
"Well shit!" Kirstie says as she lets out a breath she didn't know she was holding.
Marley's head shoots up as she speaks to Kirstie, "Watch your language."
Kirstie rolls her eyes with a slight smile as she turns back to Jeremy. "What do you want Lewis?" she raises an eyebrow.
"Well I'm starting to think that Barrett set the whole thing up, which was stupid because it makes him look useless since a girl can do what he can't."
Esther leans closer to her brother, "Who's Barrett?" she whispers.
"Beauden," he answers.
Beauden stands up and takes a step closer to Jeremy and Kirstie, "What are you talking about."
Jeremy holds up his phone and Avi stands up to have a look too. "This," Jeremy says with a frustrated sigh as he presses play on the screen and holds it out so that the men either side of him could see.
"Uh-oh" Marley whispers under her breath. Esther reaches up to lightly grip Kirstie hand as best as she could manage as the video started and Kirstie's voice rang out.
"Hi, my name is Kirstin Maldonado and I … Am going to drop kick this ball … Right from the very spot that Captain Fantastic missed it this afternoon …"
Beauden slowly looks at Kirstie with the slightest look of hatred before he turned his gaze back down to watch her kick the ball through the posts. "And that Cobras is how it's done!"
Avi looks up at Kirstie with his head still down, and a smile playing at his lips, before he covers it with his fist and turns away from the scene.
Beauden, without spearing Kirstie, or anyone a glance, leans down beside Marley to pick up his backpack, then walks off with his fists clenched, one around the strap if his bag and the other by his side.
Marley jumps up, running after him, waving a quick sorry at Kirstie.
"Oi! Barrett!" Jeremy yells after him, "Don't you know that's how it's done!" he laughs out loud like he's the funniest person ever then casts a smirk at Kirstie before he gets slapped across the face.
Kirstie looks up at him, turned away from her, "Yeah, so we're officially done you jack-ass," she clenches her teeth as she talks and shoots him a death glare when he turns back to face her.
"Whatever, you're not even that hot anyways!" he yells after her as she walks away with Esther behind her.
"Don't tell lies," Avi points a warning finger at the taller man as he walks backwards to follow after his sister then turns around in a run.

A/N: What do you think? I'm trying to give a little back story and what not, do we want more of it? Is there any characters you'd like to know a bit more about? I have a skeleton for this story, but at this early stage I'd love to know what you guys want to see with this to keep you all coming back.

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