Paige P.O.V.
"It was a hot day so the Coach decided to cancel practice. I didn't mind it, I got barely free time to spend with my friends. We laid down on the field, tanning and relaxing. We got our ice cream to cool us off. I scan the field to see Spencer looking at me before she gets approached by a tall guy. I watch the interaction carefully. She tries to talk to me through her eyes but the guy kind of blocks her view. I started frowning when the tall shirtless guy started to get touchy. Her eyes are telling me she doesn't want to give in. I got up and got closer, not too close but in perfect distance to hear a few words.
"Why's a beautiful woman like you standing here alone?" "Ehm I" "Do you want to go out sometime?" I saw how he took a step closer and started carresing Spencers arm. "I really don't think–" Spencer stopped mid sentence when she noticed me standing behind the guy, he didn't notice yet. I'm not sure what my plan here is, I could mess things up for Spencer but I sense she needs to be saved. My eyes were on this guy while I directed my question to Spencer. "Is he bothering you, baby?" The guy turned around, it felt like he was trying to burn a hole in my body.
"Excuse me?" The guy said. I looked at him and rolled my eyes. Seriously? I moved to Spencers side, cupping her face. "Sweetie, here you are I missed you." I made sure to look in her eyes before I placed a kiss on her neck. I heard a scoff and footsteps. Good. "Was he bothering you?" "He wouldn't do anything I know him." This caught me by surprise, I never saw Spencer so intimidated before. I motioned her to tell me more. Apparently his name is Toby Cavanaugh and used to go to this school. Never heard of him before.
I'm not sure what's going on between Spencer and I right now, its all innocent but always something. Knowing Spencer used to hate me and took every chance to attack me on the field makes me nervous. We both needed to warm up I guess. She smiled at me a lot during the day. She pays for her ice cream and moves so she's standing across from me and starts to lick her ice cream slowly, "I really like the way you called me earlier." She said. I smile nervously and she smiles back, unable to hold my gaze for longer than a second I looked away and internally cursed. How did I get in this again so quick? Unexpectedly she leans over and wipes my chin with her thumb, pulling it back and licking her thumb. I was in schock. I need to get out of here before my willpower surrenders. I try to describe the touch. Deadly. Betrayal. Energetic. Rough. Burning. Don't get me wrong, Spencer is amazing but she isn't anything like Emily. Gentle. Sensual. Relaxing. Trembling.
"Are you ready to go?" "Yeah." We make our way to the locker room to pick up our stuff, she takes my hand and continue to walk. We were walking slowly towards where her car was parked. She stops suddenly, taking a deep breath and turns towards me. I look up at her and she touches my cheeck. The same way I did when Toby was around. Only I didn't put my finger beneath her chin, I didn't pull her closer to kiss her briefly. I pulled back as quick as it happened, she smirked.
My heart stopped and I felt like every single person was watching us, no one seemed to pay attention. Still I felt eyes on me that weren't a Hastings. I took off with my bike, riding dangerously on the street, tears pouring down my face. How could she do that to me? How? I almost lost my balance, but I managed to stay upright. She doesn't know about Emily I thought. She acts this way because I must be doing something right. I need to stop doing something right. I kissed Emily yesterday and it felt good. While we were doing homework I got distracted by the thought of Spencer. She's the math genius. I went with what's real, not Spencer with her crazy signals. Toby was interested, they could've hit it off but no I had to be Batman.
"Paige? Are you okay?" Spencer was suddenly beside me. I jumped of my bike and sat on the nearest bench while she parked her car. I was still crying, I couldn't stop. How stuipid. "Paige? What's wrong? Did I do wrong? I'm sorry if I did so. I just thought you liked me. Please stop crying." "I'm sorry." I managed to whisper. "You shouldn't apologize. You did what you had to do. I just thought you liked me, I shouldn't have kissed you." "It's just..." I took a deep breath and told her about what happened friday at school with the rose, and the action I took yesterday. She looked like she was ready to kill the girl, who's name I left out after seeing her face turn into anger. She looked also hurt. Hurt that I wouldn't think of her like that, "I'm sorry for leading you on. I wanted to be sure I guess."
"So that's why I didn't get my kiss on saturday morning nor earlier? How can you be sure if you don't know how we feel like?" She kissed me again and this time I leaned into it, kissing her back slowly. It started to rain, we parted. I took the rain as a singal and stood up to take my bike of the ground. She took my unoccupied hand and lead me towards her car and put my bike in the trunk. "You're not driving in the rain like this." No arguing possible.