Being an author is super hard! I don't own Pokemon!
Chapter 3: The Football Game
Monday, September 15
Mitchell Balan should be arrested for excessive staring and possibly stalking. He spent an entire week forcing me to talk about everything with him, and also staring at me a lot. My friends had basically no idea of what was going on, probably because I was hiding Mitchell from them. They would get the wrong idea, and then it would never leave their permanently destroyed brains. P.S, the wrong idea is what permanently destroyed their brains.
I was exhausted from all this, and just wanted one stinkin' half hour, called lunch, to myself. It was still warm enough outside that we were being allowed to eat either outside or inside. I found a plastic green picnic table, same as the others, far enough away from the others that I could sit at and relax all by myself. I'd been just about to sink my oversized canines into a sloppy joe, when someone nearly made me jump out of my own skin, the freakin' ninja.
"Hello beautiful."
"What do you want?" I asked with an attitude, after regaining my composure.
"Why the sour Subaki?"
"Why the stalking Mitchell?" I sneered back sarcastically in a mocking tone. The Lucario raised an eyebrow at me. I rolled my eyes. "I just want to be alone, to relax for the first time in a week."
"Can't relax with your friends?"
"Don't you know the meaning of 'alone'?"
"Why are you hiding me from them?" I once again had to stop from biting into my sloppy joe, taken slightly aback by his sudden bluntness.
"What do you mean?" I asked, lying badly for the first time in my life after clearing my throat.
"If you're going to start a game, Subaki, just know that you'll lose against me." It was my turn to raise an eyebrow at him, having absolutely no clue of what Mitchell was talking about.
"The shoving me around corners whenever your friends are around? Changing the subject whenever my name, or anything remotely similar to it comes up? I'm actually quite smart Subaki." I huffed at him.
"I just don't want any of them getting the wrong idea. They all think you're super hot or cute, something like that." I was finally able to take a bite of my sandwich, taking way more than I probably should have, but I was beginning to get annoyed. No one prevents me from eating. In the process I got a bunch of sauce on my face. What a mistake that was.
"Maybe they should be getting the wrong idea." Mitchell suggested in his flirty voice, that worked on seemingly every girl but me. He took a napkin from the table, licked it, then proceeded to dab it across my face. I was barely able to swallow my food.
"Get your paws off me you perv!" Mitchell began laughing, my face completely red.
"You shouldn't be so loud Subaki, who knows? Someone might think somethings wrong and call the cops."
"Something is wrong." I replied.
"And what would that be?" I wanted to burn that amused smirk right off of his stupid face.
"For some reason we've been hanging out." The insult only made Mitchell laugh more. I huffed and crossed my arms.
"Are you going to the game on Friday?" It'd be our first home football game so far this year, and my friends had basically begged me to go.
"Yeah."
"Perfect." Mitchell smirked slightly.
"Ohh, please don't bother me and my friends while we're there!"
"My friends and I."
"Whatever!"
"Well, I'm your friend right?"
"Barely."
"Then I should at least meet your other good friends."
"Maybe." And by maybe, I meant never. The rest of the week went by in a blur, probably because I was hoping Friday would never come. Thanks universe. My friends, Rocky, Felicity, Athena, and V.V. and I, went out to eat at Bisharp Corner, which is only about a mile from our school. It's pretty much the best locally owned restaurant in town, the only thing I don't like about is that it's owned by Aaron Duncan's parents. Aaron is a cool Pawniard, and I hang out with him sometimes, but his best friend that we met earlier, Cole Airiko, is also there a lot. He'd be okay too, if he hadn't been crushing on me, hard, for the past three years. Hopefully he wouldn't be there today, though I really doubted that with a game going on tonight.
"So have you guys seen that super cute Lucario?" Felicity asked. My cheeks immediately started to heat up, I knew who they were talking about.
"The sophomore?"
"Yeah! What's his name?"
"I believe that Subaki and him have fifth period together." Thanks Athena.
"Really!? Oh isn't he the hottest! What's his name Subaki?"
"I think it's Michael or something like that..." I lied.
"Mitchell!" V.V. suddenly yelled, just like the child she was at heart.
"Yeah, that's it."
"Sooo, have you guys talked at all?" Rocky inquired. I opened my mouth to answer, but someone else beat me to it.
"You've been hanging out with Mitchell?" I looked up from our crowded booth to see Cole, with Aaron standing behind him, looking down at me with a pained look on his face. He obviously thought that something was going on between us, that guy had a reputation for girls falling for him, easy. Of course I never would, but I wasn't even planning on telling him about us hanging out.
"I never said that." I stubbornly replied.
"But you think he's cute." This is why Cole and I would never work. He doesn't even know me well enough to realize that I rarely admit that a guy is cute. Especially people like Mitchell.
"You're kidding right? Subaki would never come close to saying that." Felicity told him.
"She doesn't even take cuteness into consideration when she talks about guys." Rocky added. Cole couldn't hide the grin that creeped onto his face after that.
"Great!"
"You guys want to eat with us at a bigger table?" Aaron suggested.
"I don't know..." I knew that Aaron was really only suggesting this because Cole liked me.
"I can get you guys desserts on the house."
"...Fine." My weakness of free food forced me to give in. We sat down at a table in the middle of the room, Cole sitting to the right of me and Felicity to my left. We talked and laughed and ate for another hour, Cole uncomfortably trying to have a conversation with just me. Eventually my friends and I decided to leave to get to the game early.
"You guys coming with us?" I cursed Felicity's kindness.
"Nah, my parents want us to help them out before we go." Thank Arceus. Cole mumbled a good-bye to me, and then we were gone, walking through the lovely downtown area back towards school.
"You know Subaki, Cole is pretty cool. He's good looking too, you guys might make a good couple." I snorted.
"Yeah right, when Steelix fly." At the game, we were practically the first people there besides the coaches and players. We watched as the rival team started practicing.
"What team is that?" V.V. asked.
"The Ryland Zebstrikas." Rocky answered. She knew all about football, her brother being on the varsity team as a senior. An hour later, the place was bustling with people. My friends and I were enjoying some amazing french fries, a lot of them too, bought before the game became so busy. Hundreds of cheers burst from the crowd as kickoff took place. The cheerleaders did their thing, something about our team, the Woodland Shiftrys, and everyone cheered again. I was leaning of the railing on the bleachers, watching the game, while my friends chat away.
"You okay Subaki?" Felicity asked. I mentally swore at myself for acting so depressed. I only had a vague idea of what was going to happen in the span of two hours during this football game, and that was what upset me most.
"She has an impending sense of doom." Athena announced. I then mentally cursed and kicked myself for not remembering that Athena, as a Kirlia, can sense these kinds of things. All of my friends looked at me like 'what is wrong with you'. I rolled my eyes and turned my vision back towards the game.
"Well you're wrong Athena. I'm fine. Just tired I guess." They all nodded, knowing Athena was never wrong about these things, just that I didn't feel like talking about it then. That was one thing I really hated about Mitchell. When my friends know I don't want to talk about something, they know I won't, and leave the subject alone. Mitchell on the other hand keeps prying and prying, and somehow cracks me open like no one else can.
"Guys, guys! They have candy!" V.V suddenly squealed, jumping up and down while clapping her hands. V.V's childness gave us all a quick laugh, and I was thankful for that.
"Let's go get you some then." Athena, Rocky, Felicity, and V.V all proceeded to head back towards the now extremely crowded concession stands.
"You coming?" Felicity asked me.
"No, I'll catch up with you guys later." Felicity nodded, a worried expression painted across her face. I prayed to Arceus, hoping that Mitchell wouldn't suddenly appear besides me at any moment, even though I knew he would. I decided that it'd be better if he did somewhere besides here, where everyone could see. I made my way around the bleachers. Not under them, just behind, and just as I had predicted, Mitchell Balan suddenly appeared out of thin air.
"You know you can be quite the loner sometimes Subaki." He said, peering around my shoulder with that ridiculous half smirk half smile. I pushed his face away.
"Yeah well I like my space, especially in places like this."
"So where are they?" I knew he was talking about my friends.
"Not here, obviously." Mitchell looked at me, so silent that after a minute I had to say something myself. "What are you looking at?!"
"You really don't want them to meet me." I scoffed.
"Thanks a lot, captain obvious."
"Tell you what-"
"I'm not very big on compromises." I informed him. Mitchell nodded, his blue punch bag thingys on his head flopping around with the motion.
"How about this. During half time, they're doing the Football Fallout, you know what that is?" I nodded.
"It's when the captain of the football team battles with whoever volunteers."
"Right. You battle him and win, and I won't make eye contact with any of your friends." My hopes were lifted into space, a smirk quickly spreading across my face.
"Deal!" Mitchell raised an eyebrow.
"You sure? You do know who the captain is, right?"
"Yeah, but no one's better at battling than me!" Mitchell laughed, placing a hand on my fluffy head and petting it.
"Right Subaki. Just don't get hurt, kay?" I felt my cheeks heat up a little staring into Mitchell's smile. Then he walked off, back into the crowd. I couldn't wait till half time. Reunited with my friends, they were extremely confused as to my sudden mood change.
"Why are you so happy now?" Felicity asked.
"She is full of impatience and excitement." Athena added.
"Like that's new." Rocky mumbled teasingly. I ignored the comment.
"You'll find out at halftime!" I told them. Finally, halftime was here. The marching band and color guard team did their thing, then, the announcement I had been waiting for was here.
"And now, time for our annual Football Fallout! For you misinformed freshmen out there, Football Fallout happens once every football season when one volunteer from the audience gets to battle our very own football captain! Brandon Crandoll, where are you?" The MC finished up, and everyone started cheering as Brandon, a senior, Bran as everyone calls him, took off his brown, green, and white helmet, revealing a head of short, tightly curled brown hair. He waved to the audience. Brandon is actually the grandson of the principal, and is also a Shiftry like the principal. I wonder how he got the position of football captain?
"Just one volunteer everyone, just one!" Multiple people actually raised their hands, practically all of them extreme jokesters willing to get their butts kicked for a good laugh. That's what Football Fallout was seen as, some random student willing to get their butt kicked for a laugh. That's all that ever happened. But not this time. This time, the football captain was who was going to get his butt beaten in. I used my Pokemon abilities to jump the fence around the field, and trust me, I am a really good jumper. I cleared the cheerleading team and landing right in Bran's face, hand raised.
"I'll do it." I said, feeling overly confident and it showed.
"You sure girly? I mean, we all know how this turns out every year." Bran replied, evoking laughter from the crowd.
"I'm sure." He smirked in my face. Not like Mitchell's smirk, an overly confident one just like mine.
"Looks like we've got our challenger everyone." There were some confused cheers, but most of them were wild, excited with the fact that a girl was challenging Bran. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Mitchell standing in isolation at the fence. Then I left to change into my battle suit, the MC continuing with his talk.
"Get ready folks, in five minutes we're going to have our first football captain versus freshmen girl Football Fallout match! Brandon Crandoll Vs. Subaki DeCosta!"
Friday, September 19
Cliffhanger! I love it when the readers are on the other side of the cliffhanger and I'm not. 8D