I looked at the half of a cigarette and frowned.
"Hey you know that's bad for you?" Davis asked as he walked up next to me and lit a cigarette of his own.
"Good job Sapphira I gotta go." Trent said. After the other day he began to be nice to me. I waved to him as he walked away.
"Yea good job you were great." Davis said blowing smoke out of his mouth.
"Thanks. I was really nervous." I said shifting my weight to my left foot. "So why did you guys come?" I asked curiously.
"Well I heard you were trying out, and I thought I would come for, well support I guess." He stuttered. "What was that the other day?" He asked like he was about to burst if he didn't ask.
"What the kiss?"
"Yea. I'm not complaining, at all. I guess I was just wondering." I could tell by the look on his face that he actually really enjoyed it.
"That prefect Max has been like, stalking me. Since you guys were the only guys that I actually talked to I figured it wouldn't be as weird. It was though wasn't it?" I asked flicking my cigarette over the tall stone wall.
"Not at all." He took the last two drags from his cigarette before doing the same. We started to walk.
"Oh. So how come you said yes before even hearing what I had to say?" I asked curiously. He looked at the ground and smiled.
"Well a pretty girl runs up and says 'please I need a favor' I'm not going to say no find someone else." I nodded liking his answer. There was an awkward silence for a few minutes.
"So…you came to see me try out? That's it?" I asked breaking the silence.
"Yea, I mean kind of. I wanted to talk to you about why you came off really defensive." I wondered if I should tell him the truth or lie through my teeth. I looked at him. He looked at me waiting for my answer. I stopped and went to the corner right after the stairs.
"I grew up with three brothers. Two older one younger. They picked on me a lot as a kid; they said it would 'toughen me up'. My oldest brother was about to graduate high school. It was like a month before, and he caught his girlfriend cheating on him with some kid. They planned on fighting in the local grocery store parking lot…" I trailed off. I didn't know if I could finish the story. I tear went down my cheek and dripped off of my chin. He must have noticed because he walked next to me and gently ran his fingers down my back.
"Another time." He said putting his arm around my side and started walking again. "You heard I beat some kid up and made him leave school. Like he quit because of me." He said trying to cheer me up. "I hit another kid with a pear." He pulled me closer to him. I forced a smile. He pulled me over to the side of the main building. "Listen whatever happened, you can tell me." He placed his hands on both of my shoulders.
"Davis I know you are just trying to be nice but really I just like being alone. I'm better off not being around people because then I fight. If I fight then I get caught. I get caught and I have to go to yet another school. Last school I beat up the schools biggest bully so bad that I broke his nose and he needed stitches on his chest." Davis stepped back.
"Really? But why?" He seemed genuine in wanting to know.
"He talked about my brother." I wished I never even stopped to talk to him that first day. I wished that when Trent called me a loser I just ignored it and kept walking. I looked at Davis's eyes. They made my heart melt and my body tingle.
"Please I want to know." He whispered. I sighed
"My brother showed up with my other two brothers'. They were just there for support, they weren't going to fight. But the guy brought six or seven other guys. So they all crowded around as my brother and this guy started throwing punches. One of the guys in the circle started talking shit to my younger brother and it got bad to the point where they started fighting. Both of the guys had knives and used them killing both of my brothers and leaving the other one with twenty stab wounds all over his body. The police never found the guys…" Davis cut me off by wrapping his arms around me and squeezing me tight.
"Just stop I'm sorry." He kissed the top of my head. I cried in his arms until the sun set and the Prefect Seth made us go to our dorms.