I stood up quickly, startling Barbara who had been watching Tim play soccer. I think she was in a trance but I'm not sure.
"What's wrong?" She asked, looking up at me as I reached for my backpack.
"Uh.. um.. Nothing...I'll be back in a little bit..." I said and hurried down the bleachers, careful not to fall down them and cause a scene.
"Something's up with her...I haven't seen her like this before, hopefully she tells us tonight.." Alyss said as she moved up a row and continued watching the guys play soccer.
"Yeah.. I'm worried." Brooke said, watching me leave and head towards the school.
Kaida looked down at her arm, "Ow.." She looked up to where I was looking and noticed Clay with Alex and Whitney, catching on to what I was upset about. She didn't want to say anything until after tonight when I told them the problem.
Ten minutes passed and I finally had control over myself to go back out, I put my backpack over my shoulder and walked back towards the bleachers. I was still in thought and not really paying attention and jumped when I felt cold-water spray over me. Apparently, the guys got to hot in the weather so they turned on the sprinklers to cool off. The field was now muddy and so weren't the guys, but it cooled them off, I guess. By now I don't think that the guys were playing to win, I think they were just having fun playing in the mud.
I walked up the bleachers to where I was before and sat by Barbara, "Y'know..I want your damn bangs" I said, my mom wouldn't let me get them, She said that for field hockey they'd just get in the way.
"Well...I could do that for you but...I don't want to make a mistake and have you walk around with messed up hair." Barbara laughed, watching the game.
"Why don't we all go and play with them?" Kaida asked, looking at all of us.
I looked to make sure no one was wearing white, because it was gunna suck in the mud. But no one was.
"Yeah." Brooke said, having flashbacks to last time she jumped in for football.
We all set our stuff to the side and went down the bleachers and ran onto the field. Alyss ran ahead of the rest of us and stole the ball from Dillon, one of Clay's friends, and passed it to Kaida. Kaida looked down at the ball and then up at all the guys running toward her, she screamed and kicked the ball at Barbara who passed to Brooke who ran down the field a little ways and passed it to me. I began dribbling it down and wondered why I was even playing soccer because I hated it.
"Watch out!" Brooke Screamed, causing me to stop and get knocked over and get landed on.
I was scared to open my eyes but I had to, I looked up and saw Clay pushing himself up. He held out his hand to help me up and I cringed, but took his help. I got up and looked down at myself, my red shirt had mud splattered over it, and my jeans had a mixture of grass stains and mud. I frowned slightly and looked over to my friends who were either laughing, or staring in shock. I glared at the ground, "Thanks..." I muttered and walked away.
"Hey.. Wait.. Do you wanna ha-" Clay started to say something but was interrupted by my mom calling me and my friends over.
"Come on girls!" She yelled, making me groan and keep walking, I put on an upset face, but in the end, I was glad that she had interrupted.
I ran up the bleachers with Barbara and got everyone's stuff and went to my moms car and put everything in the back and getting in the front. My mom then began asking everyone what they wanted to eat.
"Um...Well, Pizza is fine. It's a normal thing to eat when we have a sleep over or something." Alyss said, answering for everyone, who would have said the same.
I nodded and looked out my window, my eyes getting huge as I watched Clay wave before we left the parking lot.
After we were settled in my living room with pizza on the coffee table everyone turned to face me.
"We've waited...Now we want to know whats wrong." Brooke said, eating a chip off her plate.
"I know where the pans are, Kate.." Barbara added, smirking.
"Okay...Fine...At lunch today with Justine, Alex walked over after hearing Justine tell me not to say who I liked around Alex because they were friends. So, She asked me who I liked out of her friends and I said Clay. But like you know, I've only seen him, but I didn't actually notice him or talk to him. I told her not to tell him I liked him, because I don't. The problem is.. She told him." I took the pillow from my lap and pushed it to my face letting out an in-audible scream.
Kaida thought for a moment, "Hm...I figured your problem had to do with him, after you dug my arm when he looked over." She said looking down at her arm.
"Yeah.. Sorry..." I mumbled
Alyss looked at the ceiling while talking to me, "It's simple...You can either, get to know him to see if you like him.. Or.. You could just tell him you don't like him. And it was someone else you liked."
I gaped at her, my eyes wide, "B-b-But.. I can't just tell him I don't like him, I can barely tell someone I do like them.. I guess I'll have to get to know him..." I frowned, putting the pillow back in my lap.
"It's okay...At least you told us, now we can go on to our fun-filled night." Kaida said, putting her plate on the coffee table and turning on the radio, that was playing Romanticide by nightwish. She almost fell over, "O.O YAY!" She said, pulling up Barbara and dancing.
I laughed, "How You are so hyper is beyond me...I haven't even broken out the skit-"
"Where are they!" Kaida cut me off, looking around the room quickly.
Brooke ran into the kitchen and came back with a big bag of skittles and danced around the room with them, "Right here Kaida."
Alyss got up and tackled Brooke to the floor for the skittles. "Mine now!" She said running to the backyard with them Kaida and Brooke following, with Barbara being Dragged by Kaida.
I got up, trying not to fall again from laughing and ran outside with them. We were all in our Pj's and you could see into our backyard easily even driving by but no one noticed. Not even when I car honked as Kaida jumped on Middy's back for the skittles. We also didn't know that my mom was video-taping the whole thing knowing we didn't even know what we were doing, and would show us in the morning. Being with my friends made me happy, and worry-free, and that's the way I would stay until They were gone, and I was alone.