Yoga pants. Why did she have to wear yoga pants?

That was Jeff's main thought as he followed Annie through the hallways of Greendale. He knew there were more pressing matters to deal with. Paintball was particularly brutal this time, even by its usual insane standard. Many people fell in the minutes following everyone realizing exactly what could be done with the grand prize (though he'd never admit it out loud, if it wasn't for Annie's maps of every exit, strike point, and hiding spot of the school they would never had made it out of the gym unpainted.) Those who survived seemed to have formed war tribes to hunt everyone down. Everyone wanted the win the prize and be dean for a day, so they could get themselves to graduate and get the hell out of there. To Jeff it was his dream come true. Graduate early and go back to his old life as a lawyer. It made priority registration seem like a joke in comparison.

And yet Jeff couldn't help losing focus from those damn yoga pants she had on. He thought she looked sexy last year in those tiny shorts and tights. But this. She was already distracting enough in the tank top she wore. Especially with the cases of paintball rounds strapped around her. She looked like a tiny sexy version of Rambo. But those pants. She might has well have worn body paint, they were so form fitting on her.

"Did you have to wear those pants?" he whispered to her.

She stopped and looked at him, giving him a confused look. "They're my yoga pants. I wanted to be comfortable and be able to move easily."

"Sure, comfort. That's the reason."

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"You didn't think it'd be a bit distracting to wear those? You might have well have worn nothing."

She opened her mouth in shock before quickly closing it in annoyance. "Well what about you? You wasted no time losing your shirt and resurrecting your action hero sleeveless undershirt look."

"It got me far the last time, didn't it?

"Can we not dwell on our wardrobe choices and focus on getting me to the end."

"Sure. Let's go." As they walked down the hallway Jeff tried not to show how uncomfortable he felt at her last statement. Before today he had had every intention at making sure Annie won paintball this year. But after hearing what the prize was, he didn't think he had in him to not try to get it. Being able to immediately graduate and return to his former life was too enticing a prize.

Annie held up her hand as she stopped and peeked around a corner into another hallway. "Do you hear that?" She frowned as the sound of war cries sounded in the distance. Just as Jeff started to look around himself she pushed him back. "RUN!" Instinctively he listened to her and ran after her, which ended up saving him from what came running after them.

They fled as the drama club came charging after them. Going for realism they had ditched their guns and instead had made paintball blowguns and spears with paintballs tied to the ends. While Jeff and Annie had better weapons they couldn't take on the entire club without getting paint on themselves.

"COME ON!" Annie yelled as she ran towards a classroom. As she stopped to open the door Jeff ran right into her, causing both of them to crash headfirst into the empty room. He pulled himself and Annie up as they franticly looked around the classroom.

"Jeff, the vent. Get in there. I have a idea."

"I'm not hiding from some wanna be tribes men-"

"Jeff, please! Trust me."

Reluctantly Jeff pulled the grate off the vent and crawled inside of it. A few moments later Annie crawled in and pulled the grate back on. Just then the drama club burst into the room.

The two of them fearfully watched as they searched the room. After a few moments the one in a pink feather headdress pointed towards the window. "They went out the window!" He whistled and the group members ran out the room, yelling war cries as they ran towards the courtyard.

Once they were gone Annie crawled out of the vent, followed by an amazed Jeff. "How did you get them to think we went out the window?"

"I figured if I opened it they'd think we went out of it." She grinned as she pointed down towards her feet. "But I left a vital clue to help throw them off our trail."

Jeff looked down and noticed she was only wearing one sneaker. She went over and pulled her other sneaker from the window ledge, which had been placed to look like it had come off when someone crawled through it.

"Come on." She said as she put it back on her foot. As she led them out of the classroom Jeff felt guilt creeping up on him. He knew what he was doing was mean. The fairest thing to do would to immediately shoot Annie and get her out of the game. Dragging it out was just going to make it worse when it eventually happened. But she was a hell of a warrior. And, Jeff did promise her he'd get her to the end.

Jeff had truly reached a dilemma. Annie had to be taken out if he was to win paintball. But he wasn't sure that he actually had it in him to betray her like that. At this point the best play was to just stick with her and wait until the moment of truth to see what he did.

To be Continued.