Popping by His Side

"I'm leaving daddy" I screamed as I went zooming out the front door. My dad said something after me but I wasn't able to hear it. I ran at full speed to the bus stop which was a couple of houses down from mine. I could see the bus standing at the stop from my front door.

I heard the Bus engine start once again as the driver prepared to take off.

"WAIT!!!!" I screamed after the bus. I pounded on its side as I ran up to the door. The driver opened the door for me, shaking his head.

"Late again Miss Skylar?" He asked and I just smiled sheepishly. I quickly took an empty seat right at the front. There were only two other kids on the bus. Most of the kids had cars but I was too afraid to drive and my daddy was afraid as well since my grandparents...but taking the bus was fine with me.

Even though it was technically a school holiday today since we had a match at school, the buses were still running thanks to our principal who wanted the stadium packed so we could cheer for our team. We sure did love our volleyball team...

I quickly put my headphones on and put my Spotify playlist on shuffle.

The bus stopped in front of the school gates in no time. The school, as usual, was packed, more than it was on school days to be honest since even parents come to watch the volleyball matches.

I pulled out my phone from my jeans pocket as I climbed off of the bus and texted my friend Jody who was supposed to meet me at the school entrance.

I went in through the main gates and saw Jody standing there, waving at me to get my attention.

Jody Lin, a 17 year old Chinese-American teenage boy. He was nothing special, just like me. Had great taste in music, was a literal Picasso and stood at a whopping 6 feet with black hair and baby blue eyes which were bigger than the moon and a blessing from his Caucasian father.

"Sup bitch" Jody asked and I elbowed him in the guts.

"Noone says "sup" anymore" I said and sighed. This boys might be a shit ton similar to me but it was hard for him to keep up with the youngster slangs.

"Well I said "yo" last time and you rejected that too." He said exasperated. I chuckled at how irritated he got, it was cute.

"Just say hi Jody, hi is the new sup" I said and put a hand on his shoulder as he sighed.

"I'm going to say whatever I want and you can't do anything about it cause hashtag love yourself" He said smirking. I just smiled at his antics and how cringy he could be sometimes.

"Where's Beth? You left her behind again? She is so gonna beat your ass this time" I said as I looked around. Elizabeth Merki is Jody's girlfriend. She a whopping 5'4 tall, chocolaty brown skin which literally glistens in the sun light, beautiful wavy black hair and the most gorgeous brown eyes I have ever seen! We three usually hung out together and have been friends ever since Elizabeth beat up Jody when he insulted my drawing in grade 1. If Jody wasn't dating her, I'd definitely date her.

"She's cheerleading today. Some girl couldn't make it and Beth had to fill in for her" Jody said as he pouted.

"So it's us two?!? God's you're going to annoy me to death" I said as I acted all bumped out. Jody flicked my forehead and I swatted at his arm.

"Actually for now, it's just you. I need to go and kiss my girlfriend good luck and take some pictures of my truly beautiful" he said as he held up the camera he always had hanging from his neck. I made a disgusted face but on the inside I also wanted someone who would be so obsessed with me. I turned away from him and made a cross with my fingers, jokingly casting away the unholy Jody.

He simple laughed and walked away but only after adding "with LOTS of tongue" for everybody around us to hear. I was sure I turned a deep shade of red because of his comment...

I quickly got out of there and ran straight to the gym which is what the indoor volleyball court was. It was quite big, had like two courts, one was usually used by the volleyball team while the other was used to conduct PE classes.

I went up to the balcony and broke through the crowd to the very front as I saw two empty seats there.

I quickly jumped on them, one foot on each seat. Making sure to stamp hard and leave a dirty footprint on em. This is how we save seats here and I was hungry and wanted to get something to drink and since Jody wasn't here I'll have to resort to dirty tricks.... literally.

I caught a couple of kids who were staring at me being crazy and raised an eyebrow at them. When they saw me looking, they turned their gaze away.

I quickly got down on the floor when I was satisfied with my handy work. I turned around towards the court to admire the view I had successfully secured.

As I looked down, I saw Atlas Burnam looking straight up in my direction. I made eye contact with him but he didn't look away...just kept on staring.

I averted my eyes and mumbled 'weirdo' under my breath. I quickly got out of there and went back down the stairs. The kids had now all went up to the balcony or were crowding the sideline behind the barricades as the game was about to begin.

There was a soda machine directly opposite to the gym and I walked towards it. Two people were standing there, one of them getting a drink and the other one waiting for their turn. So like a good citizen, I also stood behind em and waited for my turn.

The girl in front of me got her coke and walked away. I started fumbling in my pockets looking for money when suddenly a huge arm shot out from my right and put in a crisp bill and pressed the button for a mountain dew right above my head.

"Hey! I was here first" I said as I turned around and came face to face with Atlas Burnam who was looking at me with that same expression-less face of his.

Atlas Burnam was hot, like fuck me to death daddy hot. I would be a huge liar to say anything otherwise about his looks but the guy hardly talked. And he always wore that weird emotionless face, as if he never felt anything. It was creepy to be honest cause whenever he looked at you, it felt like he was judging you HARD on the inside.

On top of that he was built like a mountain, muscles all over. He stood extremely tall at a whopping 6'3 and had the most silkiest looking raven black hair and deep, forest green eyes. All of this combined made him utterly intimidating.

I looked at him with my eyes narrowed and a fierce glare decorating my face.

"You took too long" He said out of nowhere shocking me to the point I actually gaped.

"Did- did you just talk?!" I asked clearly shocked. His voice was just as everybody else described...deep and husky in that sexy kinda way.

I shook my head to get me out of the trance his voice put me in when I heard the sound of a can dropping down from the machine.

I quickly bent down and pulled it out of the slot thingy and waved it in his face.

"I'll be keeping this and you" I said as I tucked the bill I had previously fished out from my pocket with such difficulty, into his hand. "Keep that and get yourself another one" I finished and started walking away.

But then I felt Atlas grab the back of my t-shirt, really hard and I heard a slight rip.

"Ahh" I screamed as I turned around. I quickly tried to make sure my t-shirt wasn't ripped with my free hand but I felt it. HE TORE IT! I looked at him with flaming eyes.

"YOU ASSHOLE! What did you do?!?" I screamed out in panic.

"Give me my soda back, that's the only mountain dew left in the machine" Atlas said in that plain voice of his, completely ignoring the fact that HE JUST RIPPED MY T-SHIRT!

I breathed hard at his ignorance and at the fact that he didn't even apologize.

"You just ripped my t-shirt!" I said emphasizing each word but he just stood there with his blank face. He simply stretched his palm out for the drink but then the buzzer in the stadium went off indicating the game was about to start.

Atlas looked at the stadium and then back at my angry face and then at the can in my hand. He then sighed and proceeded to walk away towards the stadium.

It made me mad! He literally tore my t-shirt, didn't even acknowledge his mistake or say sorry and now he was just walking away and sighing like I'M THE PROBLEM HERE.

I felt so angry and I could feel it increasing at each step Atlas took to walk away from me. I don't know what came over me, I'm usually not this quick tempered but I cherished this t-shirt and this asshole...

I raised my hand and pulled back while holding the can and, against my better judgment, threw it at him.

"Take it if you want it that bad!!!" I screamed at him as I launched the can towards him but my shot of course missed cause I was not good at sports...any sports including catch. But Atlas turned around to look me because of my screaming, the can clattered a few paces ahead of him and since Atlas kept on walking while looking back....

He put his left foot down right on the Mountain dew can which was now leaking liquid because I threw it and Atlas tripped and went down with a huge grunt.

"Oh my god!!" I screamed as I watched him go down and ran towards him.

"F*ck f*ck f*ck are you okay?!? Oh god please tell me you're okay!!!??" I said as I bent down beside him my anger now completely replaced by fear.

He glared at me as he cradled his foot. I shook my head in a no repeatedly as I realized why he would be holding his foot like that.

"No no no no you have a match! The principal would expel me if he found out I hurt you!!" I said as I tried to look over his foot but he pulled away. I looked up at him, my face clearly showing worry and anxiety.

"Just walk it off man how the f*ck does a guy as huge as you get hurt so easily?!??!" I asked flustered. But then I heard a bunch of people calling out Atlas's name and realized his teammates were probably coming out to look for him.

I looked at him and then at his foot and then at the door to the Gym. My mind was running a 100 miles an hour and I was full on panicking at this point. So I did what I thought was right.

"I'm sorry!" I screamed as I quickly got up and ran to the left to hide behind the lockers that lined the west corridor.

I got behind one just in time as one of Atlas's teammates ran up to him asking him what happened. Suddenly the whole school seemed to be there, circling around their north star. I took the chance and sneaked out from behind the lockers using the guise of the crowd and ran out through the main doors thinking I had successfully gotten away.

But one thing I didn't know was all this time a pair of forest green eyes were following my every move and the owner of those eyes was going to get me in a shit ton of trouble tomorrow...