Fall out

Tracy's POV 

"Tracy, wake up, you're going to be late" 

"Huh... What..."

It's Monday morning already?

I scrambled awake from the floor. Did I fall asleep on the cold hard ground while daydreaming about the sex I had?

Thank God for Mom's loud voice, it's already 7:00am and I have to report to the dorm by 7:30am before the first class at 8:00am.

"Damn I'm going to be late" I groaned as I hurried into the bathroom.

Mom was already making breakfast. I could tell by the smell of fried eggs and toast.

In less than fifteen minutes, I was done preparing and was wolfing down my breakfast like there was no tomorrow.

"Take it easy dear or you'll choke."

"Buh hum lach (but I'm late)" I mumbled as I hurriedly got up from my seat, gave my mom a brief hug before bolting out the door.

"See you next weekend honey" she called after me as I waved her goodbye.

"Jason, I'm leaving without you!" I called over as I passed my crush's house. 

I didn't get a response. He must have left when he couldn't get me on the phone because it had been switched off.

'What a traitor' I thought as I kept at my pace when someone suddenly grabbed my hand and turned me around. 

Like slow motion, I turned around only to see my best friend smiling down at me.

Tingles shot through my arm, making me snatch it away. He raised a confused eyebrow at that, but that didn't seem to last as he grabbed my hand again and ran towards the bus which was already slowly pulling away from the bus stop.

By the time we made it inside the bus, my breath was ragged and my heartbeat erratic. I really couldn't tell if it was because of the short run or because, even after sitting, Jason was still holding my hand and I felt abnormal heat pooling around the circumference of my hand where his fingers were wrapped around.

Why am I suddenly so sensitive to my body?

'Was it because of yesterday?' I thought, as I was about to draw my hand back when Jason pulled me gently towards himself while also leaning in closer to me until I could feel his breath on my face.

FUCK! TOO CLOSE

"Hey, what was that earlier?" He asked in a lowered voice as I pulled my face away from him as best as I could while letting out an awkward laugh.

"You startled me", I reasoned. "I thought you might have gone or something."

"Since when have I ever left you behind Trac?" He asked as he stared into my eyes with his honey-coloured eyes that always seemed to have a way of captivating me, even though right now he looked angry.

"Umm, I..."

He had never done that, so why did I think he had gone without me?

"Are you avoiding me?"

"What? No", an immediate answer always clears doubt between me and Jason, but this time he doesn't seem to buy it.

Was I avoiding him way too obviously? I mean, I did kind of made up excuses the whole of last week just so I couldn't hang out with him due to my feelings and I left for home without him for the first time since we started our boarding high school together.

"Are you hiding something from me then?" 

That I love you?

Yes, but how can I say that with no assurance of the future?

"No Jason" I said as I got his hand that was wrapped around my wrist in my hand, his palm was larger than mine and it looked so sexy close to mine.

I gulped as dirty thoughts ran through my mind.

This is Adrian's fault, his hands did dirty things to my body and now the image of them being Jason's hands instead is taking over my mind and my body suddenly feels hot.

"Trac. Trac are you okay?" He asked, concerned

"Huh, yeah I'm okay. It's just last week was pretty tight for me" I answered as I dropped his hands to make hand gestures. On purpose.

"It's our last year and you know academics is all I've got to get into uni unlike you who would get a scholarship because of your athletic skills." I bumped shoulders with him, making him chuckle.

"Might get the scholarship, you mean?" 

"Of course you will get it. You've stood undefeated when it comes to playing with balls and stuff" 

He snickered lowly, making me raise an eyebrow at him.

"Do you even realize how weird that sounds?" He asked slyly.

"What...?" Realization hit me. "eww not that kind of balls you perv."

"Shouldn't I be the one saying that?"

"Ugh I'm so done with you". The bus stopped at that moment and I wasted no second in rushing out, his footsteps fast on my trail.

"On another note, you can always come to me with your school work. You know I always get your back"

"Yeah, but that would get in the way of your free time and your training time."

"It's all going to be training time now, since Louis has got his game face on" he cheekily bumped my shoulder while snickering.

"Louis Percy again? I thought he has given up on the whole game thing."

"Nope he's back again like a pest" he smiled as we got closer to the school's gate.

"Such a loser"

"Anyway, Tracy" he stopped once we were at the door leading to the school building "I don't like how distant we were last week, so can you make some time for me like you usually do"

"Jason"

"Pleasssse~ you know you're the only true friend I have here"

That's unbelievable, not with how many girls always seem to surround you, your teammates, the teachers, everyone, they all seem to love you, yet you say these nice words to me and wonder why I keep falling head over heels for you even though time and time again you keep friend-zoing me.

"Sure thing". I didn't even get to finish when his body enveloped me in its warmth for a few nanoseconds. 

"See you later Trac" he said, and with that, he disappeared into the crowd of students all scrambling to class while I stood there gazing at his disappearing figure,

A silly smile on my face

"Uh I love you so much, I want to kiss you and have you pop my cherry. I want you to be the father of my children and we can live together forever and ever until death do us part"

That completely wiped the smile off my face as I rolled my eyes and turned around to see the skinny blond girl who had just uttered those mocking words.

"What the hell was that?" 

"Just what your face was saying, it was so fucking loud" she answered in a duh tone, making me roll my eyes again

"No it wasn't, you're just imagining things" I scoffed as I made my way into school and towards my first class with the blond girl next to me.

"Really? Denying are we?" She asked smugly, making me blush.

"Not exactly". I turned to face her, my turn to be smug. "My cherry..." I dramatically flipped my straight brown hair back "has already been popped" 

The gasp she let out had me smirking as I continued on my way until she was by my side again clutching my arms, an excited smile on her face.

"Rooftop now, I need all the juicy details!" She was jumpy, making me sigh.

"Reece, we have class right now, maybe later."

I made to leave but was pulled back to the grinning face of my, if you haven't noticed, friend.

"Mrs Johnson is on maternity leave and a replacement will not be here until Friday so..." she wiggled her eyebrows at me before biting her lips while teasingly pulling me slowly towards the opposite direction of our class.

"Well, you should have said that from the beginning."

"I actually wanted to punish you by having you go to class and receive a prep talk for missing roll call this morning from the hall admin" Reece shrugged as we climbed up the stairs to the rooftop.

"Oh my God Reece," 

"What? You deserved it for leaving me at school this weekend. Using your privilege of living nearby is annoying"

"Reece!" I yelled as I chased her up until we reached our destination. 

Our laughter mixed together with the wind as we bickered and chased ourselves for a while before settling down for a little girl's talk.

And that was how my week started and I hoped it would continue like that, but little did I know that my last school year was about to turn itself upside down.