I would love to buy you some fries….
She stood outside the locker room waiting for him. The other guys who came out looked at her funny.
"What?!" She snapped at one of them when she'd had enough.
"Whoa!" the guy said as he held his hands up looking a little scared. He walked off and Kate smiled to herself.
Leroy came out of the locker room, he looked exhausted she thought.
"Hey, Quarterback," she said, smile beaming.
"Hey," he said, "Well…you didn't get to see me play so I guess you wasted your study period on nothing." he looked down at the floor.
"Actually I enjoyed watching you running."
He looked up at her "What do you mean?" he asked, slightly puzzled by her statement.
"Well…..you asked me if I wanted to come watch YOU. Right?"
"W…yeah. But I meant to watch me play, not running laps." he stated matter-of-factly.
"I can watch you play another time you know?" more of a statement than question.
"Yeah, you can. So…how was I at running laps?" he grinned cheekily at her.
"You were just great!!" she laughed.
"You hungry?"
"Very."
"Good. There's this diner I go to sometimes and I would love to buy you some fries." he said, his cheeks slightly turning red.
"Just fries?" she looked at him, pretending to think about it.
"A-a-and a milkshake of course!"
"What flavour?" she asked.
He looked lost for a second, pulled himself together and answered "Um…Strawberry?"
"I would love to eat fries and drink strawberry milkshake with you."
He was grinning like a fool, he had asked her out, kind of, and she had said 'Yes'.
Kates brother, on the other hand, was not grinning. He was quite the opposite. He was furious. 'How the hell can she just agree to go out with this moron? She doesn't even know him!' he thought. Well he had ways of ruining this. He hoped his sister had found out what this mysterious thing about him was……
Kate caught her brother before he left, "Hey Ben, can you tell mom and dad that I'm going out with a friend so I'll be back later?"
"Where you goin'?" he asked.
"To a diner."
"What diner?"
"Just a diner." she eyed him for a second, "You know….where you get food from?"
"I know what a diner is Kate!" he barked.
"Geez, what's with you?"
"Nothing! Who are you going with?" he asked, but he knew.
"With Leroy." she smiled at her brother.
"Why?"
"What's with the 20Q's Ben? You're acting like dad!"
"Nothing's wrong Kate, I just don't like you going off somewhere with some guy you don't even know." 'Paranoid!' she thought.
"That's the point." Leroy beeped the horn, "I'm getting to know him." she walked off leaving her brother to watch her get in the car, "Bye!" she said as she waved.
"Bye!" Ben said with venom. He didn't like this one bit. He will put an end to it.