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Chapter Eight: Proof
"You sure about this, dude?" Hodgins asked Sweets as they walked briskly towards Seeley Booth's locker. "I mean, Seeley Booth...he could break your neck if you say the wrong thing."
Sweets grinned confidently. "Then I'll just say all the right things." Sweets conceded.
"Easier said than done, dude." Hodgins warned in a whisper as they stopped in front of Booth's locker. "Hey, dude." He greeted Booth. "What's up?" He put his hand up for a high-five, but awkwardly put it down when Booth just glared at him.
"What do you nerds want?" Booth growled.
Sweets, no longer feeling very confident, swallowed nervously. "We-well I-I w-was j-just thinking that m-maybe y-you c-could-"
"Spit it out, nerd!" Booth snapped, becoming annoyed.
"Um, s-sure. I was j-just w-wondering if-"
"He wants to know if you'll take out Temperance Brennan so he can take out her sister, Daisy." Hodgins interrupted and Sweets glared at him. "What? You were taking too long."
"What's up with this Daisy girl? She's not even that pretty!" Booth sighed. Her sister, though, is way hot! Booth thought on a whim, almost smiling.
Sweets's face got red at that. "Hey! She's gorgeous! And she's pure and sweet and-"
"Dude!" Hodgins said, patting his back. "Relax! Just breathe, man." Sweets nodded and took a few deep breaths. "Look, Booth, my man here just wants a chance at Daisy and he won't get that chance if her sister isn't dating somebody and Temperance Brennan is sort of a cold fish, if you know what I mean." Hodgins chuckled, but immediately shut up when Booth shot him a glare.
"So...you want me to take out Temperance Brennan so that you can have a shot with her sister?" Booth asked, just to clarify.
Hodgins and Sweets nodded. "Yes." Sweets said, "and to compensate for any money that you may spend, I'm willing to pay you-"
"Don't." Booth said, holding up his hand. "I don't want your money. She's a woman. Not just some...thing that I can buy. Got it?" Sweets and Hodgins nodded. "Good. I'll take her out, but if the date goes bad or something bad happens to either of us your ass is grass. Understand?" Both boys nodded. "Good. Now get out of here!" He barked.
Sweets and Hodgins turned and practically fell all the way down the hall. Booth just shook his head and went over his plan in his head as he headed to his next class.
"Hey! Over here!" Brennan yelled to Angela, who stepped around Rebecca Stinson to pass her the basketball, which she caught and shot into the basket, scoring three points for her team.
Her teammates cheered and she raised her arm in triumph, before lowering it in confusion as she heard a male voice cheering her on. She turned towards the stands to see the only male in the entire gymnasium; Seeley Booth.
Brennan sighed, and turned away in order to hide her smile, which quickly became a frown as she heard him cheering her name. Brennan blushed and tried to refocus herself on the game.
For the rest of the game she was barely able to focus on getting the ball in the hoop and dropped it at least twice because he was calling out her name the entire time.
"Whoo! Go Brennan! You get that basket, girl!"
Brennan had to laugh at that last one. She never would have imagined Seeley Booth could be so goofy. He always seemed so solemn and brooding.
Finally, it was the last thirty seconds of the game and Brennan's team was down by one point. They only needed one more shot to win.
Brennan had the ball and was being blocked by stick-like Peyton Perrotta, who, though shorter than Brennan, was much quicker and stealthy...
Or so she thought.
Brennan caught Angela's eye and Angela nodded, relaxing a little to trick Rebecca, who let down her guard as Brennan faked to the opposite side, causing Peyton to take off in that direction while she passed to Angela and ran towards the hoop, catching the ball and throwing it into the basket as the countdown got down to the last three seconds.
Everything was silent as the ball circled the hoop a couple of times before finally teetering on the edge a moment, before falling in to make the basket.
In a matter of seconds the entire gymnasium was up in thunderous applause, as much as about twenty or so people could be anyway.
Brennan smiled at the crowd, her eyes immediately finding Booth in it. He smiled widely at her and was about to walk towards her when Rebecca Stinson stepped in his way, so obviously flirting with him. Booth smiled politely at her and tried to go around her but she stepped in his way again. Booth sent an eye roll to Brennan, who shot him a look and turned to Angela, trying to start up a conversation, but Angela had turned her eyes toward another figure, just coming in the door.
Jack Hodgins was now leaning against the doorframe, reading some Sci-Fi book intently. "I'll see you later, Sweetie." Angela said, abandoning her friend to go talk to the 'cute' boy.
"Ange!" Brennan practically whined, but Angela either didn't hear her or ignored her as she didn't break her stride once.
Brennan sighed and turned around, surprised when she came face-to-face with Seeley Booth.
"Hey." Booth said, charmingly.
Brennan sighed again and rolled her eyes. "What do you want? I thought I told you-"
She was silenced when Booth held something up in front of her face and his smiled widened as her eyes did the same.
"You didn't!" Brennan gasped.
Booth chuckled. "Oh, but I did. Two tickets to see Pink in concert."
Brennan's smile vanished and she placed her hands on her hips as she looked up at him, suspiciously. "What's the catch?"
Booth grinned again. "There's no catch. I just want you to be happy."
"And you don't care if the person I choose to go with me is not you?"
"Not at all. Pink's music is cool and all, but I'm not really a fan. I figured you'd take Angela."
"So, you just spent how much on tickets to a concert that you weren't planning on going to just to make me happy?" Brennan didn't understand his reasoning at all.
"Well, yeah. And it was about two-hundred even, actually. They're good seats too. Look at the tickets."
Brennan did look and they were indeed good seats. Fourth row at least. "Oh my God. But I don't understand. Why?"
"So that maybe, if you liked the concert, I could pick you up afterwards and we could go bowling or something..." Booth felt like a complete tool. He'd never been this nervous while asking a girl out. But, then again, he'd really never liked anybody as much as Brennan and asking her out was becoming increasingly harder to do.
"Bowling? You spent two-hundred dollars to go bowling?"
Booth grinned. "Well, I really like to bowl. Plus, it helps if I have somebody with gorgeous blue eyes to cheer me on. Like you."
His smile charmed her and she smiled back. "That's nice, but I won't be cheering you on. I'll be kicking your ass."
"Oh really, now?" Booth's grin widened.
Brennan nodded. "Oh yeah. And, by the looks of it, Angela may have plans that night anyway, so if you're free..."
Booth's grin broadened even further, to the point where it was practically impossible. "Are you asking me to accompany you to a Pink concert, Miss Brennan?"
Brennan laughed. "I guess so, Mr. Booth. After all, you have proven quite well that you are the gentlemanly type that I was looking for by buying these tickets."
"So because I gave you proof, you're gonna go out with me?"
Brennan nodded. "The proof never lies, Booth."
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