Chapter 6: Everybody Talks

"Hi."

"Hi, Doc." They said awkwardly to each other, but their smiles never faded. It was Monday in the morning and they stood at their lockers. "How was your weekend?"

"It was good, especially Sunday morning." She said sheepishly while Wade flushed when he remembered that incident, and it was the best moment in his entire life.

"I have something to ask you, Doc." He walked closer to her locker.

"Sure, go on." She liked that nickname, maybe nickname could be 'our thing'.

"Would you like…." Before Wade could finish his question. George came into the view from behind and patted Wade's back a couple times.

"Hey, man. Lavon wants us to try out the football, he said that the coach wants to have more substitute. Do you want to?" George asked excitedly with the news, he didn't even know that Zoe was here before then.

"Yeah, sure."

"Okay, I will let Lavon knows. The tryout starts today at 5 in the field."

"I'll be there." George walked away and suddenly remembered something else.

"Oh, and by the way, you lucky bastard! You kissed Zoe Wilkes but didn't tell me. I'm your friend and right now, Lavon is feeling offended by it." George laughed and then, Zoe stepped away from Wade which made George saw her and stopped laughing immediately. He almost choked on his own saliva.

"How did you know that?" Zoe's eyes widened.

"H..Hi Zoe, I didn't see you there." George stuttered.

"I will ask you again, George Tucker. How did you know that Wade and I kissed?" Zoe started to scurry.

"Fr..From Dash Dewitt's Blog. He just published on his blog this morning."

"What?! The whole town will know by now." Zoe paced and her hands went to different directions like she didn't know what to do with her hands. "What did he say about it?"

"He only said that he was on a morning run when he saw you two in front of your porch literally 'eat each other faces'. His words not mine." George said to Zoe.

Wade grabbed her hands and locked it with his. Something in her head just snapped and panicked beginning to overwhelm. She knew that only way to stop it was to have something else take her mind off and the only that she could think of was Wade. He could stop it before her brain burned itself.

"Kiss me." She whispered to him. Wade was taken back by that but obeyed her without questions anyway. He let go of her hands and brought his hands to her face. He cupped her cheeks and leaned down toward her face. She closed her eyes waiting for him to free her. When he saw her closing her eyes, he closed his eyes too. His lips were touching hers and he swore that he could hear fireworks in his head, so loud that his heart beat too fast and he thought he was gonna pass out soon. She slightly bit his lower lip and he opened his mouth. She moaned softly only him could hear and in that moment, Wade was a goner. They went on for a minute until the air became necessary.

"Would you like to go out sometime with me? Like on a date?" Wade asked her. The question was on his mind before George even came to him and he couldn't keep it inside any longer. His hands were all sweaty and his forehead started to form a sweat.

"Yeah, I would like that." She blushed hard.

"I will let you know the details later then." He ran his fingers through his hair like he always did when he was nervous. The bell rang which broke their trances.

"I should really get going. I don't want to be late for the first class." 'But I don't want to leave you either.' She really wanted to say it.

"Do you want me to walk with you to your class?" 'Please say yes. Say yes.' He pleaded with his eyes.

"It would be an honor to be escorted by you, kind sir."

"Nah…I just want to, doc." They walked away together to her class and their hands entwined. They didn't even know that all of the students in the hallway of lockers were watching them like watching television series.

When he came to his class, almost…no…entire class stopped speaking and looking at him. Some even whistled at him, he only gave them a look of confusion but never thought of anything. He sat on his seat and waited for the teacher to come in.

"Psst! Wade! Psst!" A girl in front of him whispered to him.

"What Lemon?" Wade whispered back.

After the prom, Lemon started to hang out with a few times because she was officially dating Lavon and Lavon hanged out with him all the time if he had a spare time, but she also prepared to be the next Belles' leader so she didn't get time to play with him much. He couldn't really understand what Lavon saw in her except her cooking skills.

"Your face."

"My face? What's wrong with my face?"

"Nothing is wrong with your face, Wade. It just your lips are…" A girl who sitting next to Lemon said.

That girl was Annabeth, she was also officially dating golden boy after the prom too and best friend with Lemon since they were toddlers. She wanted to be one of a belle too. Before she could finish her sentence, the teacher came in and started to begin the lesson. Lemon and Annabeth turned their heads toward the board in front of the class. 'What the hell.' Wade thought. The teacher continued to teach until he saw something.

" . I suggest you should go the restroom and wash your face." His classmates laughed which only confused Wade more than anything. He went to the restroom and looked at himself in the mirror.

"Shit!" He cursed when he saw that his lips were over by pink lipgloss from Zoe. He washed it off not before he smiled to himself when he remembered every detail he kissed her. She kissed him hard like she didn't want the kiss to stop and then she made his lips hurt. He got back to the classroom with his red face and continued his day.

In the evening, at 5 Wade, George, and a couple of dudes were waiting for a coach to call them for a tryout. Wade was called by the coach before George because of their last name. After the tryout, the coach let all of us had a fifteen minutes break before he came back with a result.

"Dude. That was awesome." George complimented Wade. They sat together with Lavon on a bleacher.

"You will be a really good blocker if the coach chooses you." Lavon said afterward.

"You think?"

"I know so." Lavon stated. "And you, George, you really have a good throw."

"Yeah? Cool. I want to play football, but my pop wants me to be a lawyer like him." George complained. They talked about other things including the kiss in the hallway between Wade Kinsella and Zoe Wilkes to kill the time. George and Lavon teased Wade until his face turned pink. Before it got further, the coach blew his whistle to get attention from everybody.

"All right, everybody!" Everyone was standing up from their seats, running to the field, and standing in a line of troops. "I have chosen two boys to join my team because those two have a particular aspect that I'm looking for….I choose Kinsella and Tucker!" Other students groaned in despair. "Kinsella! Tucker! I hope I will see you next Friday for a practice after school. And others, I hope you come again next year for the tryout." All of them spread into different directions to collect their bags and walked home.

Next couple days later, everywhere Wade had walked into, there will always start with a whisper. People talked and most of them that Wade caught, he could hear his name and Zoe's name and the word 'kiss'. Wade and Zoe still talked to each other every day in the morning before class started at their lockers.

"I can hear the chitchat every time I walk since that day." Zoe said. They both knew what day she was talking about.

"Everybody talks, doc." Wade smirked.

"Yeah, everybody talks."