Alice's POV

It's almost 9 Saturday evening and I am standing with Vanessa in front of the movie theatre. It's the closest to the campus(15 minutes driving) and it does a fair student discount. I was lucky to find a parking spot quite easily, so all we have to do is wait for Vanessa's high school friends, Sophie and Joseph.

As we were coming Vanessa was raving about her History classmate slash douche,who ruined her first day, Nathan. That jackass said to her face that he was going to ditch her on the group project and that he didn't care about it. Hearing that made me really angry to the level that I would like to show him a piece of my mind, but Vanessa told me that it wasn't worth to get in trouble because of that. I tried to change the subject, in order to take her mind off of it. I asked her about the people we are going to meet and her mood started to get better.

She told me the basics, that I needed to know. Sophie is in our age, they were classmates and she studies pre-law. She told me she is not the chatty kind of person, but the only one she can talk to non-stop is her best friend Joseph. He is two years older, a Computer science student and very likeable. There's not a single person who doesn't get along with Joseph she confided. Very popular in his high school days.

I trust Vanessa that I probably like them. I need to know people as a freshman and the more the merrier. The first week went really well, as I got to know people from my classes and from the campus in general. The luck was on my side, since I didn't run into the king of vanity and arrogance, who manages to make me from 0 to 60 in 1.2 seconds.

Unlike me, Vanessa will always find something nice to say about everyone, except that Nathan guy, who wants to make her his minion in a history project. How can he be such a dickhead to such a lovely person as her?

She looks so cute wearing her light blue jeans with a pale pink top and ballerinas right now. Her hair is in loose curls.

I asked her if I should pay him a warning visit. Not something too serious like broken ribs and stuff, but something to intimidate him like burning his desk. She bursted out laughing, thanked me for the willingness and said she would deal with it in her own way. I hope she succeeds. I'll be her backup if she needs me.

"I am so excited that we are going to watch Captain America: The Civil War. It's been ages since the last Marvel movie" I say enthusiastically to Vanessa.

"I am too! Such a Steve Rogers groupie!" she gets excited.

"Team Iron Man all the way!" I tell her with pride and she laughs a bit.

Then something catches her glance and raises her hand.

"Hey! We're right here!" she shouts.

I turn around to see her friends and suddenly I stopped breathing.

NOT THIS AGAIN! I see two people approaching us, a brunette girl and a light browned haired guy. And this guy is the person I don't want to see for the rest of my life. And in my other lives too! If I believed in reincarnation.

How on earth does he manage to do that? Appearing on the most unexpected places the most unexpected time! He has to do it on purpose. I can't think of any other explanation. Or I did something really bad and the universe punishes me for that!

When they approached us Vanessa went for the introduction.

"Hey guys. This is-"

"Really? You again? Your obsession with me is endless, isn't it?" he interrupts Vanessa, since the introduction was unnecessary. He raises his eyebrow and that stupid smirk makes its appearance.

"Don't overestimate yourself. It looks like you're the one stalking me. If I had a dime for every encounter with you I'd be a millionaire." I spit at him as I cross my arms.

Vanessa and Sophie are standing with a confusing look in their faces.

"Do you know each other?" Vanessa chimes in pointing first to me and then to Joseph.

"Unfortunately yes!" I growl and I throw a bitter look at him.

"Well, we are in the state of the relationship that we call each other names" he adds.

"There is no kind of relationship between us. Nor there will ever be."

"Do you deny the intimate moments we shared my dear?" he says and that cocky smile spreads all over his face.

"We? There's no WE here! You just appear out of nowhere with an only purpose. Trying to ruin my day. I thought our last meeting must have taught you a lesson, but I guess you are one of those people who learn by revision." I shoot at him, trying to erase that smile that I really hate.

"Don't tell me this is the elevator girl" Sophie barges in pointing her index at me.

He talked about me? I must have made an impression. I don't know why, but the thought made the edges of my lips rise a little.

Joseph looks at her in exasperation.

"May I present to you her royal Highness Big Mouth. Her life goal is to torture me" he says with an ironic tone as his hands make a presentation of me.

"I happen to be given a name bonehead. It's Alice. I deserve the credits, when you piss and moan to your friends about me."

"Why all the hurricanes come with a cute name?" he shots back and he chucks my chin. "Mine is Joseph. You know now, what name you should complete to your love letters"

Seriously? He's taking it too far again! But I just can't stop. I want to shot back any word he throws to me. It's like a contest that I am willing to win.

"Great! It'd be better to insult you by using your name next to the variety of offensive words, that I've thought for you. I've even created new ones, because I've found a shortage in the english vocabulary" I sassy to him and I take a step closer. Our eyes are locked to each other.

"That's enough!" Vanessa chimes in,putting her hand between us to drive us away from each other. "Maybe you didn't meet under the best circumstances, but since we are here all together we should better call it a truce and start all over."

I want to object, because I can't imagine myself calling a truce with this twirp. Joseph is about to do the same as his eyes move anxiously between me and Vanessa. I glance at Sophie rolling her eyes in despair or boredom. I can't really read her face. She didn't seem quite fond of the whole situation even before the quarrel between me and Joseph.

But I should be the mature one here. I can't ruin the night, like a spoiled brat. I don't want to hang out with him, but I can't be the party pooper. It's only a movie night. We don't have to talk to each other. Just watch the movie and then go straight back home.

"Fine! I call it a truce for everyone's sake! But I have terms! 3 seats at least between him and me." I announce and I spit the word him, like it's a cursed one.

"The little princess here has demands. Do you want me to sign a contract?" he quips. His whole attitude is so jeering.

I go to answer back, but Vanessa gets in the way again. It's really awkward for her doing the negotiator and keeping the spirits calm.

"Done! Me and Sophie will sit in the middle, while you both take the edges." she tells us with a serious expression on her face.

When Sophie hears those words, she turns to Vanessa with an annoying look pinned on her face, like she couldn't believe in her ears. Then she turns to Joseph with an angry one. Joseph gives her a 'we'll talk about this later' look and Vanessa speaks again.

"Let's go buy the tickets now"

After a while we find ourselves in the project room, not a very big one, which is half full. I sit next to Vanessa, while Joseph sits next to Sophie. We bought popcorn from the canteen, while Vanessa bought marshmallows. As the movie starts I try very hard to concentrate on it and not at my surroundings. I hope to get this evening over with, without any casualties.

The movie begins with a chase between the Black Widow, Captain America and some of the Avengers with a bunch of terrorists. As I see Black Widow's kick ass moves I turn immediately to Vanessa for a comment.

"She's such a badass! I love her! She got them with just a flip of her hair"

"Shhh! Some of us try to watch the movie" an irritated voice echoes in my ears. It's his irritated voice.

"When you say movie do you mean Black Widow's ass? Because that's as high as your intellect can get!" I spit at him, annoyed by his interruption.

Sophie and Vanessa give us the eye, but that doesn't stop him from shooting back.

"I am fully aware of the Marvel universe, so don't test me! Johansson's ass is just an added pleasure to this masterpiece." he quips.

I know it's dark, but I can sense his smirk from where I am sitting. I must have grown detectors for it.

"You just miss the big picture here. Black Widow is much more than a piece of meat for your hungry eyes. She's a role model! A girl can kick ass and stand for herself like a man can. She doesn't need a man's back-up." I answer back to his misogynist comments.

"Hey! Silent please! We want to watch" an angry voice said from behind. I can distinguish the annoyance underneath the scolding.

I growl and keep watching the movie, but he can't restrain himself from quipping back. He just has to say the last word, hasn't he?

"Yeah, that's why she couldn't decide between Captain and Bruce in the previous movies. Body or brains? That's a dilemma! You can't have both! If I played in the movie I would have solved her problem, since I combine both elements." he replies turning himself to see me and then he winks.

I huff loudly. My exasperation has reached its limits and without thinking I take handful of popcorn and I toss it to his face. Sophie and Vanessa didn't see this coming.

"Hey knock it off" Sophie scolds me, but before she finishes her sentence another wave of popcorn falls on my head.

"Ok that's it! I am done listening to you two 6-year-olds bickering like the freaking minions. Adios. " Sophie hisses angrily and gets up to find another seat a few rows ahead.

"I will join you" Vanessa adds and follows her.

"So you managed to isolate me after all" he brags, giving me a fake flirtatious look and he gets up to sit next to me.

I roll my eyes in despair and I don't even bother to send him away. He wouldn't have listened to me anyway.

"Our friends just bailed on us. Not even that touches you?"

"Well, it wasn't me who started the popcorn war" he says innocently and gives me a puppy look.

"Why do you always have to make everything like it's is my fault?" I shout and more people start scolding us.

"Because you're the one who freaks out, out of nowhere" he answers back like he's stating something obvious, a fact. "Are you PMSing or something on our every encounter?" he adds with fake impression.

That guy has his life goal to piss me off. Every snarky comment he makes pushes me a little further, but I must be a masochist, because somewhere in the way I started enjoying answer to his quips. I have made it a mission to erase this idiotic smirk, that I think will haunt my dreams.

"And are you delusional? Or do you have selective memory?" I raise my eyebrow. "I freak out, because you always do or say something that put my nose out of joint".

"It seems like everything I do or say is wrong to your royal ass" he smirks.

"Your whole existence is a pain in the ass" I shoot back with a small smirk.

"FYI you're the only one who thinks that. My existence is giving pleasure to people. Especially to the girls!" he winks and I really want to punch his eye so I stop it from winking again. This time he will get more than a slap, but I am still impressed with my self control.

"If by girls you mean like the one that you were ready to devour in the elevator, your bragging is invalid."

"And what girls should I mean? Girls like you? Believe me, as desperate as you are, I don't do charity. I have standards and you're not even close to those."

That's it! He crossed the line again. He does that in a millisecond. And there it is that haughty smile again.

"Those standards of yours are so low. I don't think you've ever tried to engage yourself in a high level conversation with a girl, because your brain doesn't even reach the basic levels. Homo sapiens would be so proud of his son" I spit.

"Hey you two! SHUT THE FUCK UP!" a guy from behind yells at us.

I give him an angry glare, I get off my seat saying "Let's not ruin other people's evening, since you've already ruined mine!" I am moving forward to find Vanessa and Sophie. Then I try to concentrate in the rest of the movie which is impossible. He did it again. Infuriate me once more. But despite all my anger I can't get rid of the satisfaction I took when I dodged his comments and shot them back at him.

After the end of the movie we didn't exchange a single word, although I could feel his eyes staring me intensely. Vanessa gave her farewells to Sophie and him with a goodnight and we left to go back to the campus.

Joseph's POV

I am in my car, driving back home, with Sophie sitting silent on the passenger seat, returning from the movie theatre. I keep my eyes on the road, but in my mind I keep repeating the events that have been proceeded. Especially the quips that me and her exchanged for a quite some time, ignoring the place we were and the people around us.

It's really funny how I end up running into her all the time. Since our last dispute at the cafeteria, I knew that sooner or later we would meet again. I didn't assume that it would be sooner. My fucking luck!

When we arrived at the cinema and I saw her I thought that that my eyes played a trick on me, but of course I couldn't be wrong. Her image has been stuck in my head, since the first day that I saw her in this fucking elevator. I thought that was the first and the last time, but life has a weird sense of humor and somehow we end up meeting at the most unexpected places.

Everytime I see her I can't hold myself. I just want to provoke her the same way she does. I infuriate and enjoy in the same time watching her shooting back my quips. I think I must be crazy. Or better, she drives me crazy.

"You have passed the speed limit moron, slow down! Are you trying to kill us?" Sophie snaps me out of my thoughts.

"Don't worry! I have driven this road a thousand times and I am an expert driver" I smirk at her, but I keep the speed in the same level.

"Well I haven't and I do not trust you! I swear to God, Joss, if I die because of you, my spirit will haunt you forever. Plus daddy will put you to jail. So slow down for God's sake!" she groans.

"Fine, fine, you don't have to shout in my ear. I will go deaf." I shout to her. "Also, as a ghost, won't you have any better things to do? I would scare the shit out of everyone I know" I slow down a bit, because she's on the verge of having a heart attack.

"Are you seriously asking me what I would do as a ghost? Are you planning on killing me in my sleep? I am warning you, I have watched documentaries about ghosts. If you don't slow down, I will smash your hand." she high pitches the last sentence while showing the hand she's going to smash.

"That depends on whether I am included in your will. I know you have saved a fair amount of money over the years" I wink at her. "Also if I slow down even more, we will arrive home next semester" I quip passing another car.

"Better late than dead!...Idiot. Fyi, I had a terrible time and it's all your fault. If it was just us we would have enjoyed the movie, but NO, you had to invite my enemy!" she barks.

"I didn't see you having a problem with her, when you ditched me."

"I was being polite. She kept talking and commenting the movie so I had to answer! Which made me miss the plot. Now I have to watch it again." She sighs frustrated.

"Sophie don't be a stiff. You are a freshman in college! You need to socialise and that means meeting new people. Vanessa is such a lovely person. Also she's quite a hottie. I would hit on her, but she's too quiet and good girl material for my taste. However, she's a really nice person to hang out with. Her only disadvantage is that she's having as a friend that banshee Alice"

"Ok, a) I will admit that she is not awful, ok? She was polite although she distracted me with her questions, b) I know I have to socialise but you know I have a problem with that, c) if you dare date her I will never speak to you ever again and, d) you have no right scolding me about the Vanessa thing when you acted like a 6 year old along with Alice, which I find kinda rude, but amusing."

"Alice and amusing don't match in the same sentence. That girl's life goal is to piss me off, not only by her presence, but also opening that big mouth of hers. But two can play this game, and I don't go down that easily. Come to think of it, it is amusing when I make Alice furious. Have you seen how she frowns her eyebrows and do that funny grimace when I answer back to her comments?" I try to imitate her and I laugh.

"Umm,..no? I don't waste my time paying attention to your childish fights. Stop bothering her and she will leave you alone. You have been talking about her since last week. Enough!!" she puffs and opens the windows, looking outside.

"She keeps popping up out of the blue. When I saw her at the cinema tonight, I thought that Ashton Kutcher was pulling one of his pranks for his TV show"I exclaim changing the gear.

"Hold your horses, Kim Kardashian! Why would Ashton pull a prank on you? That show is for famous people? And I think it's not on tv now. Get updated bro." She jokes.

"Maybe he did a bonus episode just for me. I would look good on TV and I have many fans. It would be a high-rated episode." I smirk. I raise the speed as I get in a straight road, both my hands on the wheel. I just love the speed and it makes me feel complete freedom and calmness. I need it especially after that eventful night. I hope Sophie doesn't vomit. I washed the car a couple of days ago.

"A high-rated episode that would end with both of us in jail. You know where I don't look good on? Prison mugshots!...You just passed a stop sign! JOSS STOP RACING." She screams so loud that I believe that the car's windows will be shuttered.

"Can you just stop acting like you just saw the Game of Thrones' Red Wedding for the first time? We'll be there in fucking 5 minutes!" I yell at her, since I don't want to be deaf from my right ear.

Suddenly I see red and blue lights flashing behind us. Fuck! It's the cops. FML! I pull over and I take a glance of Sophie's furious face. I am not in the mood for her post-cops midnight lecture.

I lower my window and I see a policeman approaches my car.

"Hello there, pal. You have passed the speed limit. Licence and registration." She looks at me and Sophie. "Is there any alcohol involved?"

"Here you go officer! No, I am totally clean!" I exclaim.

"I am also totally clean sir. We just got back from the movies. I told him he was racing but he wouldn't listen to me. We are very sorry sir officer, it won't happen again. Please don't call our parents." Sophie has turned red and she spoke way too fast. She totally ratted me out!

"I did not ask you miss. So please don't speak without permission. License and registration look good but I will give you a ticket, young man." He writes down my personal information.

I look at the ticket and it's fucking 100$. There go my savings. I should find a way to earn that amount, because I don't want to ask any money from my folks. I promised myself I would pull all the college's years on my own. Can't stand my dad giving me a disapproving look and comparing me to Dan again. So fucking annoying.

"Good night sir."I say and I do a military salute to him.

"Good night and drive safely next time." He warns me.

When I turn around to put the fine in the car's glove box I find myself against Sophie's enraged look, which I totally try to ignore.

"I told you so you moron!" she spits.

"I know. Don't worry it's just a ticket. I will pay it and that's it! What was this freakshow before?" I question her. "We are so sorry! Please don't tell our parents!" I imitate her and then start the engine again. "We are not 5."

"I panicked ok? Now let's go home." She looks outside of the window.

As I turn back on the road I think again of tonight's events. I will never forget this night and it's not even Friday the 13th. First the whole charade with Alice at the cinema and now that. I just need a relaxing shower and a good sleep. That's all I want to do right now!

A/N: Thanks for reading, any feedback is welcome