Hola people reading,

Well today I have a wrestling tournament (you heard it right, I wrestle, I'm not too sure why either but it's fun) and since that's a sport that comes from Ancient Greece amongst others, I thought it would be, you know, symbolic to post here...

Actually I'm not nostalgic, I just wanted to post, so enjoy!

No Love

Lani came out of the locker room sweaty and red in the face, her sports bag on her shoulder. She was pulling her hair back in a quick messy ponytail, and making her way out of the change room, but she was called.

"Lani," someone called. She turned around and saw Teddy Raneri. He was on the track team as well. He was tall, even taller than Lani- which was rare. He had a mop of shaggy brown hair, and bright green eyes like mint. Lani's heart started beating when she saw him calling to her. People had taken to calling him Flame, because he was always 'on fire'. Not Lani, she was one of the people who could call him Teddy and still get a reply, other than his mom.

"Hey Teddy," she said.

"Walk with me?" He asked.

"Yeah, umm, sure." They walked across the school, to the back. Lani guessed that that was where Teddy's mom was picking him up, at the bus drop-off. She didn't bother mentioning that her mom was going to be at the front of the school. She sort-of liked the way her heart beat out of control right now.

"Coach Chi is getting intense on us, eh?" Teddy commentated. Ron Chi was the school's coach for about every sport. He was the only gym teacher they bothered to hire; the school wasn't big on P.E. Which was too bad if you were like Teddy or Lani, and that gym was all you were good at. Lani even flunked in the 'behaviour' section of her report card.

"He thinks that if we win the next competition big time the school will invest more on P.E." Lani said, whipping sweat off her forehead. She felt filthy all of a sudden. Not proud of her hard work and accomplishments in practise, but filthy in front of Teddy. Ugh.

"I hope he's right," Teddy said. "It'd be nice to have some new equipment for some stuff. You know, actual wrestling matts, goal posts that aren't bended in the center, chronometers... And imagine us getting school jerseys, not Walmart t-shirts."

"You're getting carried away here." She said, pushing the back door. Teddy laughed.

"Probably. But if you keep it up like that Lani, we're for sure going to win. You're like a bullet." He said. Lani felt herself blush- as if she already weren't red enough.

"Thanks. You're really fast as well, and your endurance is better than everyone's."

"I was barely keeping up to you. I can never keep up with you but, well… Just so you remember that I'm always behind you…" He hesitated for a second and took the bull by the horns. He kissed Lani. It was short and sweet, but that was it for Lani. Sweet.

"I just… Really like you." Teddy said.

"I guessed," Lani breathed. "I…"

A car pulled into the bus drop-off and Lani swore internally. Now?

"Oh. Sorry, that's my mom. I'll talk to you later, Lani." He said.

"Yeah," she said. "Bye."

"Later."

He climbed into shotgun and the car disappeared from the school.

That's when Lani had her little freak-out moment.

Teddy Raneri had just kissed her! Oh man, she'd been waiting for that forever!

"What are you smiling about?" Mom asked when Lani got into the car, at the front of the school after walking back.

"Nothing," Lani said. "Just… A good practise."

Monday morning rolled in too slowly for Lani's liking. First period was Math, and although that usually spelled out 'doomsday', today it was a –wait for it- a good thing. Thanks to their last names, she and Teddy were always partners on the seating chart at the start of the year-when all the teachers put them in alphabetical order.

Mr de Patio had been the only one who hadn't changed his since the beginning of the year, and Lani was both dreadful and excited. What now? What if he avoided her? What if he'd just kissed her to kiss someone? Who cared- this was Teddy! And he was better than that.

Lani had called both Berry and Arty in the short timespan since the kiss. This was best friend's need-to-know bases. Arty had been happy for her, but Berry had had only one thing to say and that was 'but don't you remember what the psychic said?' It had taken Lani all of her patience and self-control not to hang up on Berry- but when she had hung up after a semi-normal conversation, that hadn't tainted her smile.

She sat down in math class, even before the first bell rung and waited. Was that stupid?

Either way; Teddy didn't come.

She stood up when the intercom turned on, sung the national anthem with the rest of her class and sat back down listening to the announcement. If you had to rewrite a test for Miss Pickram's class that was today, detentions postponed to tomorrow, chemistry club at 12:05, practise for the spelling bee team after school…

"And we'd like to have a special thought for our student Teddy Raneri who nearly lost his life in a car crash last night, and is now in a coma at the Atlanta General Hospital."

Lani felt her heart disappear as if a magician had waved his wand over it.

No way…

Berry turned around to look at Lani, her face completely distressed. She mouthed 'I'm so sorry' and Lani tried hard not to cry.

Berry had been right.

Lani had been wrong.

And now Teddy was hurt.