First two class of the day: sport.
It was just what Sophia needed. Really, it was. After everything that Felix told her, those words that were still keeping her from sleeping, she really needed to blow off some steam. So, the punch bag was all hers today. Felix was in her class, but that didn't mean she had to interact with him. She simply ignored him, but that wasn't so hard when he didn't sought her out either. Guess she finally got through to him. He better leave her alone now than later, it was for the best.
A few minutes before the class ended she went to the bathroom, like she always did, and waited there until all the guys had finished changing. The chance that someone would catch her changing before the class ended was more risky than after, so that's why she decided on doing it this way.
As she waited, she wondered what animal she was going to be today at the café. Monday was cats, Tuesday was dogs, Wednesday was birds, and today… it could be anything. Hamster, ferret, turtle, you name it. Well, at least she was going to be pretty, because her manager and coworkers are shipping her way to hard with Felix. It got its ups and downs, she guessed.
After she was sure all the boys had left, Sophia came out of the toilets, and walked into the locker room. She was completely alone, perfect. She started humming to herself as she took off her wig and bun, letting her hair fall down her back. That was the best feeling, no matter how long she had worn the stupid wig.
"So that's where you hide, the toilets, smart," Felix said as he walked up to her from behind a row of lockers. Sophia sighed as she opened her locker, hanging her wig on the little hook on the locker door.
"What are you still doing here?" she said as she continued changing. It wasn't really as if she cared that he saw her change.
"I was curious where you hid," he said, slowly walking around her until he was on her left, and leaned against the lockers beside hers. "first I thought that you just change with the girls, but that would be rather strange if a guy suddenly went to change with the girls and then suddenly a girl is changing with them…"
He was rambling. Sophia smirked as she continued pulling her shirt over her head. She suddenly hear him stop talking and taking in a sharp breath. When she turned her head to look at him she saw his face completely red, even the tips of his ears. What also caught her attention were the feathers and beads that were still braided into his hair, reminding her of yesterday.
The smirk fell from her lips as she looked back to her locker, putting her shirt in it and grabbing her hoodie. "Maybe you should go. Just because you know I'm a girl doesn't mean you can watch me change."
She half expected him to protest and make some snarky remark, but instead, he just nodded and left the changing room. Why did she feel like crap so all of a sudden. It wasn't like she said anything wrong – she just told him she wanted her privacy while changing, nothing else. Then why did she still feel like her guts wanted to no longer be a part of her?
Sophia shook her head, dismissing the thoughts and ignoring the strange feeling in her stomach. She quickly changed her pants before putting her hair back in a bun, and putting her wig back in place. She grabbed her bag out of her locker before closing it. Swinging her bag over her shoulder, she made her way to the cafeteria. She sat down on her usual spot; in the little corner of the stairs where barely someone pays attention to. It was her perfect little spot where she was never disturbed.
Well, that was until Peter decided he wanted his neck broken.
"Sander Jones, or should I say, Coward Jones," he said before laughing, high-fiving some of the boys that stood behind him. Sophia rolled her eyes as she got her lunch out of her bag.
"Is that your Lost Boys group, Peter Pan?" she said as she unwrapped the wrappings around her sandwich. Well, if you can call a piece of lettuce and chees a sandwich, she didn't had the time to go shopping yesterday.
"Lost Boys, huh? I like the sound of that," Peter said, trying to be macho and all. Really, Sophia was going to roll her eyes out of her head one day. "Peter Pan and his Lost Boys, rulers of the halls."
"Sponsored by Disney," Sophia mumbled to herself before taking a bite of her cheese and lettuce sandwich.
"What did you say, Sander Trash?" Peter snatched her sandwich out of her hand, shaking it so that everything fell to the floor, and just dropped what he was still holding. "Look at that, the old Phoenix of the halls can't even pay for a normal lunch."
Sophia stood, rage piling up in her as she stepped closer to the asshole before her. "Watch out, buttface, you may think you're cooler because I didn't show up yesterday, but I'm stronger, I'm faster, and I can break your neck in a split second if I want to."
"Is that a treat?" Peter said with a smirk.
"It's a promise," she growled before taking her bag of the ground, and left the cafeteria. She wasn't going to let such an idiot at him get her down. Not today, not ever. She wasn't feeling that hungry anyway.
"A lizard?" Sophia said as she came back from the changing room. "Why in the world am I a lizard?"
"If you put on glasses and hold a stick you're a lizard wizard," Violet joked.
"You're a lizard, Harry," Belle quoted in a low voice. Sophia laughed with everyone else despite the bad joke. When the laughter died down, Sophia grabbed the face paint, doing it on her own today. She didn't do anything special like the others did to her yesterday, just a few blue and green spots on her face and hands to make it look as if she had scales. Her costume was a simple one as well; a blue scale like jacket, a simple light blue tank top and tight green-blue leather jeans. Don't even mention the tail that was hanging from her belt.
When she was done with the face paint she grabbed her trusty notepad, and walked into the café with her even more trusty fake smile on her lips. "Welcome to Storybrooke Cosplay Café, where would you like to sit?" she said as a mother with a little girl entered.
The little girl hid behind her mother's leg as she looked up at Sophia, seeming to be a bit scared by her lizard costume. The mother tugged at the little girls hand, whispering not to be rude. Sophia smiled at the mother before bending down to the height of the child.
"It's okay, I'm a very nice lizard," she said in a softer tone, holding out her hand. "do you like dragons?" The little girl nodded, looking between Sophia's face and her hand. "Did you know that lizard are actually family from the dragons, some even look very alike to them and some can even breath fire."
"Really?" the little girl said, her eyes lighting up.
"Yeah, really," Sophia said, nodding her head enthusiastically. The little stepped away from behind her mother's legs, hesitatingly reaching over to take Sophia's outstretched hand.
"Can you turn me into a dragon?" she asked. Her entire face lit up as Sophia nodded, and she looked back at her mother. "I'm going to be a dragon!"
The mother smiled at the little girl. "That's wonderful."
Sophia stood and let go of the little girls hand, turning back to the mother. "I'll lead you to your table and will be right back with the face paint if that's okay."
The mother nodded, smiling. "That would be great."
Sophia led them to an empty table for two, asking them if they wanted to drink something before disappearing to the back. She came back a moment later with the face paint and their drinks. She pulled out a chair from an empty table to sit down before the little girl who was practically jumping up and down her chair.
"Okay, sit still."
The girls stopped bouncing and went still. Sophia opened the paint, dipped the paintbrush into some water before putting a bit of red paint on the brush. She started painting on the little girls face, turning her from a princess into a dragon. The little girl giggled as the brush tickled her, causing Sophia's fake smile to turn into a real one.
"Done," she said as she painted the final line. "now you're a real dragon."
"Look Mamma! I'm a dragon! Rawr!" the little girl said as she looked at her mother. The woman laughed.
"And what do you say to the nice lady?"
The girl turned back to her, smiling brightly. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
Sophia laughed as well, already cleaning up the supplies. "You're welcome."
She then felt someone tap on her shoulder, so she looked behind her to see who it was. It was another woman with a little boy, smiling kindly. "Excuse me, but my son would like to get her face painted as well, is that possible."
Sophia nodded. "Of course."
She stood and took the chair from the table beside her back, placing the face pain, water and brush on the empty table as well. She sat down and gestured for the little boy to sit on the chair opposite of her. The mother lead her son to the chair, and he sat down.
"So, what do you want to be?" she asked the little boy.
"I want to be a tiger," the boy said a bit shy but none the less excited.
"Okay," Sophia laughed, taking her brush and started drawing on the little boys' face. The moment she was done another kid came, this one wanting to be a dog. After that there was a girl who wanted to be a cat, then another girl who wanted to be a butterfly. It went on for a while like that, more children coming with a plain face and leaving with an animal face on their snout.
When another kid was done, Sophia said, "Next." And to her surprise it was Felix who sat down in front of instead of a little kid. She raised her eyebrow at him, which he simple returned.
"I want to get my face painted as well," he said with a shrug.
"Okay, what animal?"
"A fox."
Sophia nodded and put some black paint on her brush, starting with his nose. She leaned closer as she had to reach up instead of down to get to his face. After painting his nose black she went for his eyes, outlining them so that they would look thinner and fiercer. As last she pained a thin black line from his nose to his lips, making only a tiny bit of his lips back. She then moved on to orange and started putting some spots here and there, blending it in with her finger. When she came to his scare she put a bit of paint on there as well, but she was a lot softer with blending it in there then she was on the other parts of his face.
"You don't ha-"
"Shut up," she cut him off, biting her lip as she concentrated. With a lighter orange she painted the bridge of his nose and the white outline around his mouth and jaw. After filling that in with white she sat back, looking at him as she tapped her paintbrush against her lips. "I'm missing something…"
Sophia suddenly stood, heading towards the back, but only later to return with gel and hairspray. She placed the pot and spray can on the table. She started with the gel, putting some on her hands before she took Felix blond locks, forming them until they were standing upright like ears. After having done both, she grabbed the hairspray, shaking it, and sprayed it on his hair.
With a satisfied grin she looked back at her handy work. She had to give it to herself, she turned Felix into a real fox. Sophia glanced around her, seeing if anyone else wanted, but noting that everyone had left already, and that it was completely dark outside.
"Wow, what time is it?" she said more to herself than anyone else. Felix stood from the chair, looking at his watch.
"Five for ten," Felix said, but the moment Sophia looked at him, she couldn't help the smile that spread across her lips. He looked freaking adorable. "What are you smiling about," he said with a teasing smirk of his own.
"Nothing, just your face."
"Hey Soph, are you finally do-" Belle started, but stopped when she saw Felix. She covered her mouth, immediately walking back before returning with the entire staff. They all looked at Felix in shock before bursting out in laughter. Tink came running forward with her phone, pushing it in Sophia's hands before turning to Felix.
"Would you mind taking a picture?" she asked.
"Uh… sure?" he said, and Tink immediately rushed to his side, hugging him. Sophia just snapped the photo, and handed back the mobile to Tink who squealed in delight. "Wait, can you take a picture of me and Sophia?"
Sophia raised her eyebrow at him, which he returned with a smirk. "I'm not taking a picture with you."
"Soph, he's our costumer, you can't so say no to him," Belle said, accepting when Felix handed his phone her. Sophia groaned, but went to stand beside Felix none the less. He suddenly wrapped his arms around her waist and lowered his head until it was resting on her shoulder. Sophia felt her cheeks heat up and her smile faded into surprise just when the photo was taken. "Soph, look a bit more cheerful."
"Let me see," Felix said, and Belle handed him back his phone. He was still way to close to her for her liking, still had one arm around her waist. "This one is fine, I like the flustered look on her face."
He turned his head to look at her, but she looked away, stepping out of his embrace. "I should go clean up this mess and get going."
"It's fine, we'll clean it. Just go home, you look tired," Belle said, waving her hand. Sophia smiled gratefully, nodding her head as she walked to the back to get changed. She was actually feeling pretty tired as well. Who knew painting children's faces was to draining.
Sophia quickly got changed, and washed the paint off her face before she went out the back door. Felix was waiting for her there, as usual, and casually started walking beside her when she started for the bus stop.
"Are you okay?" Felix asked, and if she wasn't mistaking she could have sworn she heard a bit of worry in his voice.
"I'm fine, just tired," she said with a shrug, running her hand through her hair.
"Shall I walk you home?"
She laughed a bit. "I'm taking the bus, idiot."
He hummed a laugh. "I can ride with you."
"Stalker."
"I like to use the term 'lightly obsessed'."
She looked up at him, seeing him already having his eyes fixed on her. "I can handle myself."
"I don't doubt that, but I just want to be sure you get home safely."
"Even after what I said to you yesterday?" she blurred out, not really meaning to say that. Felix looked down, smiling to himself.
"I'm not giving up on you, I never will," he said as he looked back at her, honesty shining in his eyes.
"Save your breath, I'm not worth it," she mumbled as she looked away, seeing the bus she needed to take just arrive at the stop. "Sorry, have to run. See you at school."
With that she started sprinting, stepping inside just before the doors closed. With a sigh she sat down, looking outside to see Felix with his stupid fox face and ears wave at her. She couldn't help but smile as she waved back. Okay, maybe hate was a strong word.
A/N: Thanks for reading! please review and check out my other stories :)