C O L I N

I mistakingly looked up from my salad at the cafeteria to peak a glance at Wonder and her nose but to my own horror she was already glaring at me.

Though, as I held the gaze long enough to inspect her nose I was glad to find out I just caused a bloody nose, no broken bones or fractures.

"Oh damn, Conny boy, what did you do?" Aron, a kid, a year younger than me that I trained with the year before nudged my shoulder. "Did you bang her and she didn't—"

He closed his mouth with a bite of pizza when I glared at him. He gave me an innocent thumbs up and a cheek filled grin.

Poking the lettuce with my fork I turned to him with a worried expression, "I accidentally hit in the face with a football..."

Aron chocked on his water, the liquid spraying out across the table and onto a few of my senior friends who gave stood up angrily, warning him they wouldn't hesitate to beat him up.

Alexander learnt forward on table, his eyes locked on mine. I gave him a weary look as my brows creased, he'd been in a grumpy all morning due to the TryOuts results.

"Did you bang her?" He asked seriously, eyes looking at me with either anger and sickening pride, I couldn't tell.

"No! Of course not." I said hastily, all eyes were one me with curiosity, ears peaked for the information I looked like I was holding, "Why? Did you?"

The question had only been to diverge the attention away from me but to my surprise Alexander nodded, a small grin tugging on his lips. Aron held his hand up for a high five and Alexander rolled his eyes but eventually returned the motion as I watched silently.

"Nice!" Alexander best friend, George grinned at his friend with pride before asking, "Was she good?"

"Hell, yes."

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We stood in neat line as the PE teacher scanned our faces, talking with a rough accent about the activity we would be taking part in.

Dodgeball was a personal favourite for the Senior boy PE class, pelting each other with ball was surprisingly fun. It was kiddish game but it was something that occurred that randomly at the start of a lesson to warm us up.

"Today, I want no black eyes because," he flicked the page in his notepad and read the names and then looked at his watch, "The girl class will joining us today due their teacher being on sick leave," he added with a mumbled, "Why they didn't get a substitute I will never know..."

As if on cue, the doors to the gym busted open as about thirty females walked towards us.

"I'm going to give you a number. One's are on the far side and twos stay here." Mr Derrick, a man who worked too much on his legs than arms numbered his students until we were all faces each other, a net dividing us.

I never knew Wonder Parker took PE until the moment she hit me the face with a dodgeball.

"Out!" Derrick called from the side lines before stating cheerfully, "Nice shot, Wonder."

I stared at her momentarily to see the small smirk curve around her lips before she did a small bow. Rolling my eyes, I walked off the court only to watch her get out a few balls later.

To my own surprise she plopped her butt down next to me and lent her head against the wall.

"You have a red mark on your face, if you wanted to know." She commented, a small laugh on lips as she stared out at the court.

I looked at her with astonishment, "Oh, No don't apologise, it's okay."

"Wasn't planning to but that's for confirming that." Her grinned turned into a smile as she turned to me with laughing yet challenging eyes.

"You're a pain in my ass," I shook my head and turned to the court when she scoffed, "If you wanted confirmation."

"At least I'm a pain?" The way Wonder spoke made me look her. Her position hadn't changed, hands still resting on her knees which were tucked up, but maybe it was the challenge that had left her eyes.

I ran a hand through my hair and changed the subject not knowing how to answer, "Hey, I never got to say apologise for hitting you in the nose this morning, it honestly was an accident."

She shrugged, "Didn't need my nose, anyways."

I laughed, throwing my head back to laugh only to hit on the wall painfully. I gripped my skull and winced but the silence was filled by Wonder's giggle, which was the most hideous giggle I'd ever heard, kinda of like a pig dying but it made me laugh harder.

A boy I didn't recognise walked up to us, his shadow casting over our faces enough to draw our attention. The sweet giggle stopped as she stared up at the dark skinned male.

"You can come over tonight." It wasn't a question or offer but rather an order. He looked at her calmly but without emotion. Ignoring me completely, his full attention on his black haired girl, my own stare was drawn to Wonder.

She was looking up at him with a blank expression, her eyes the faintly furious. Her licked her pump lips and jerked her chin as a 'yes' and with that, he left.

Wonder bit her bottom lip as she stared at the ground before she looked at the count then the side of the gym. All the while, my dumb ass watched her stupidly.

She finally looked at me with an heated expression, her nails dragging along her skull l until it reach the hair tie.

"We have to study together." Wonder held whatever act she wanted me to see masterfully, the strong tone enough for me not question out allowed.

"Chemistry?" I offered to ease her tension stricken filled face.

She turned to meet my gaze and nodded gently, "Yeah, Chemistry."

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