I woke up the first night in New York with one objective in mind: to find Angela and stop her from attacking Sky again.

Justin was on the bed next to mine, groaning loudly at the sunlight peering through the white curtains. Clearly he was hungover from last night, seeing that he came in the bed hours after I did, stumbling and falling while walking to his bed.

"Please don't tell me we have a game today." Justin groaned.

"We have practice. First game is tomorrow." I got up from the bed and texted back my mother from last night.

He groaned again. "Elena is going to be so fucking pissed at me."

"Why?"

"I drank like crazy last night and did some dumb shit." He said. "Nothing with a girl. . . Just acted like a dumbass."

"Good luck, man." I said before going to shower.

While in the shower, I was thinking about Justin's and Elena's relationship. They had been together since freshman year, without any cheating or anything else to break them apart. A relationship in high school wasn't something I ever thought about.

My mind involuntarily went to Sky and what it would be like to have her as a girlfriend. Oh, how good it would fucking feel to claim her and chase away the guys at the school. To have her jump up for me and kiss me after a game I dominated and to finally make my dreams come true by undressing her and plunging myself between her thighs.

Here we go again.

I looked down at my shaft and saw that I was hard for her again. I had my phone on the sink that I could take to text some other girl to fuck. Perhaps Angela, or some other girl that was always so willing. The thought of it surprisingly didn't appeal to me, so instead, I dealt with it with my own hand, my mind swimming around with Sky in it.

After my shower, I went downstairs to get breakfast in the hotel cafeteria like everyone else. I spotted Elena and Justin sitting at a table with a few other cheerleaders and my teammates, but didn't see Sky.

I sat down next to Justin, who was clearly quiet after most likely getting an ear load from Elena. She not being discreet about showing her anger, giving him the cold shoulder and not talking much.

"Where's Sky?" I asked them, pouring the small box of cereal into my plastic bowl before pouring the milk.

"No sé." Judging shrugged.

Elena overheard me and spoke up. "She's not feeling well after last night."

I got up immediately to go see her but Elena stopped me.

"She told me to tell you not to go see her. She just wants rest." Elena explained and I sat back down.

I would be lying if I said that it didn't hurt a little. Perhaps she was angry about last night or even mad at me that I didn't defend her yesterday.

Fuck!

My eyes looked around the room and landed to Angela sitting across the room in the same table as Eric along with other guys from the team. She caught my gaze and waved at me.

I sent her a text to meet me outside and then got up to meet her there right outside the doors. As I waited for her, I started to think about Sky laying in bed mad at me or hungover. Either or, I wanted to go see her so badly to make her feel better.

"Hey," I heard Angela's voice say sweetly behind me. It was as if she was a stranger. I hadn't talked to her in a while, so seeing her made me feel really weird.

"I need to talk to you." I said.

"Okay. . ."

"Stop being fucking jealous and leave Sky alone. " I started.

"What? I didn't say anything." She smirked.

"Why the fuck would you even ask her that?" I asked. I never once thought her hair was fake, not that I was an expert in girl's hair. I had no idea why the question hurt her, but it very much visibly did, so I was not going to let her do that again.

Angela's lips parted. "You're dating her or something?"

I noticed that her hair was different. Possibly a little darker and shorter.

"No I'm not, but she's my friend and if you keep messing with her, we're going to have a problem." I told her.

"All I was saying was the truth!"

I started to get agitated again. How the hell was I ever even attracted to her. I mean, she was pretty and she was a good time in bed, but that attitude was so damn annoying.

"Just leave her alone, okay?" I told her one last time.

"Look at what happened yesterday! That's the kind of girl you want?" She said.

I shrugged, not giving her any attention.

"I mean, she's not even your type!" She exclaimed. "What the hell do you see in her?"

I stared at her in silence, not wanting to get into this with her.

"It's the virginity isn't it?" She smiled sadistically. "You're using her like every other girl in school. You're going to have sex with her and leave her, then have all of those guys fight over her to be the second one to fuck her. It's always just a game for you, Alex!"

I stared at her blankly. She and I both knew it was far from the truth and that she only said it to make her feel better about herself.

"You done?"

"Fuck you, Alex. Go fuck that Sky Williams whore all you want. I'm done with you." She pushed past me and walked back to the cafeteria.

I walked to the bathroom, and while I was walking, I was thinking about her words. It really was some type of game to me, to fuck a virgin and then leave her. All of the time, the guys at the school played this game of who would get that girl second.

It wasn't like I was searching for virgins. My friends just introduced me to girls and if I thought she was hot, then I would fuck her. I didn't always know they were virgins until after the fact, when Eric or some other guy would tell me and then play this game at who would get her after since her heart was all broken and shit.

What would happen if I did have sex with her?

I could try my hardest to keep guys away from Sky but sooner or later, she would get tired of my anger issues and leave me for the next guy in line.

And I could not let that happen.

Without thinking it further, I headed to practice along with everyone else.

* * *

Coach was being extra fucking hard on us today. We spent the whole day practicing for the game tomorrow. He said we were against a hard team to beat but that it would only get worse from now on.

All throughout the week, there would be college varsity basketball coaches, so I had to be at the top of my game because if I didn't get recruited by one I didn't know what the fuck I would do with my life.

It was around six pm and I was drained as fuck. The cheerleading team suddenly came into the gym to practice along with us.

My eyes searched until they landed on Sky's small figure. She yawned and adjusted the strap of her big gym bag on her shoulder.

She was wearing these pink leggings that were really tight, hugging her perfectly shaped thighs and her ass. I noticed one of my teammates looking at her as well and threw a ball at him.

He fell to the floor and looked up at me with a shocked face.

"My bad!" I said to him and waved at him.

He shrugged me off and thankfully didn't look at Sky again. Now that I was alone at lusting over her, I stayed quiet and watched her walk away.

I then walked to the wall closer where they were stretching and dribbled my hall alone, waiting for her to notice me.

Her eyes looked around as she was touching her toes until they landed on me and she smiled. She got up and jogged over to me.

I let go of the ball as soon as I saw her arms open up. She wrapped her small arms around my neck. Her hair smelled like coconut, filling up my nose like heaven. I lost myself in the smell of her hair for a moment until she pulled away from me.

She wasn't mad at me.

"Hi." Sky smiled up at me, her smile lifting me up from an annoying day. A sudden image of me pounding into her appeared in my mind, but quickly left.

"Hey. You feeling better?" I asked her, pulling down her small white shirt that raised a little when she hugged me.

"Yes. A lot better. I'm never drinking like that again." She shook her head. I was glad she said that because her drinking around a bunch of guys was not something I wanted ever again.

"Good." I poked her sides, earning that cute laugh from her.

"You'll like the cheer we have prepared for tomorrow." She rolled her eyes like she was annoyed and looked around the gym.

"Why?"

"We have a cheer just for the captain, aka you."
She said, annoyed. "It was Angela's idea as a way to like, get you back or something. I don't know what happened but she doesn't want to be lead anymore so Coach is having me do it."

Intrigued, I smiled down at her. "Show me."

"No!"

"Please?" I begged her.

Sky blinked her big eyes at me for a moment, her lips parting.

"Fine." She rolled her eyes before putting on a forced smile. Sky started off with clapping her hands quietly. "S-C-O-T-T,"

I backed away a little and admired her as she continued, her hands now on her hips as she swayed them.

". . . The best player on the team. You've got skills, you've got the fight, and woo, you're mighty fine." She said, fanning her face flirtatiously. Then she started clapping a little faster, changing her beat. "Give our school, lots a pride and win the game for Summerside!"

"Damn. . ."

Sky sneered at me, clearly not enjoying doing this. "If I do this for you, you better win."

"Oh I will." I pulled her wrists to pull her in for another hug, in hopes to smell her agin and so she wouldn't see that tent on my lap caused by her little dance.

"Williams!" We heard Angela call out for her, her face angry. "Come on!"

Sky kissed me on the cheek, her kiss so abrupt and unlike anything we'd ever done. We've hugged, she's sat on my lap but she had never kissed my cheek like that.

I watched her jog away and then jogged away to my own team. My whole team was talking to Coach so I joined them.

The whole time he was talking, I could not even concentrate on anything other than Sky. Her coconut smell and that little cheer she did was engraved in my mind, torturing me in the most brutal way because there was no way I could calm my desire for her in this gym.

I would sneak a peak at her from time to time, seduced by her flexibility and the torturous sway of her hips.

"Now Scott, we need you for the game tomorrow. So get your act together." Coach reeled me in by saying my name.

I nodded, dribbling my ball. I heard Eric scoff at what Coach said. I ignored him and joined the others as we played a game.

As I was running to the other side of the court, I heard Sky Williams laugh loudly with Elena. I looked over at her to see her smiling bright.

"Focus on the game, Scott!" Coach shouted and I rolled my eyes before running off to the other side of the court.

Soon enough, practice ended and I went to the showers and to take a short shower.

When I got out, with a towel hooked around my neck and my hair dripping, Sky was right outside of the gym surrounded by a few guys.

I should have known that the stunt she pulled yesterday would have gotten her more attention so I really regretted not making her stay in that hotel room.

Daniel went behind her and pretended to grab her ass with his hands, causing the guys to laugh. She looked back, completely unaware of what he was doing because he played innocent before she turned back to keep talking.

It angered me more than words could say.

I didn't want to drag her out of here, because then they would just talk and talk about my jealousy, and I would never hear the end of it. So I motioned to the door with my head when me and Sky's eyes connected.

It thankfully didn't take long for Sky to appear behind me near the entrance of the gym with a black sweater on because of the cold.

I was so pissed off again, and if I could kill someone right now, I would.

"What's wrong?" She asked, her hand reaching for my shoulder but I shrugged it off. "Alex?"

"I told you to fucking stay away from the guys on the team, didn't I?" I spat, not looking at her.

She breathed. "They came up to me. They were being nice."

I scoffed at her ignorance and felt her leave my side. When I turned towards her, she was walking towards the hotel along with the rest of them.

"And where are you going?" I called out.

"Back to the hotel..? You're obviously mad, so I'll let you be." She waved me off, her back facing me.

I grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her the other way from the hotel. She giggled because she knew I would do this. She knew by now that I needed her to calm my anger.

"Where are we going?" She walked next to me, biting her lip.

Something about Sky's lips got to me. They matched perfectly how she was feeling. When she was happy, the corners of her lips lifted slightly. When she was really fucking happy, that's when she gifted me with her teeth.

Her lips were so plump, with the outline brown and pink the rest of them. She applied that lip balm every five minutes, and I wondered what her lips would taste like.

I wondered what everything about her tasted like.

Sky made me go fucking crazy. I think it was because she was so different that I wanted to get to know all of her.

It was clear that Sky only saw me as a friend, and I didn't want to ruin this.

"Mhm?" She pressed. I almost forgot that I was walking while staring at her lips that were now forming into a small smile.

"I think I saw a McDonald's down the street." I responded.

Of course, she took out her lip balm that smelled like watermelon and spread it out over her full lips.

"Okay, I'm buying this time!" She exclaimed and ran off before I could protest.

* * *

We finished eating our food quickly and she was groaning about how she was so full and couldn't get up.

As I was about to wash my hands in the washroom, my mother called my phone and I picked it up.

"Hey mom." I greeted her into the phone, putting the phone in between my shoulder and my ear so I could wash my hands. "I was just about to call to ask you something."

"What is it?" She asked. She sounded sad and tired, but I just assumed it was just because she just came back from work.

"Sky is coming to spend Christmas with us." I told her more than asked, while I wiped my wet hands on my jeans.

"Really? That's amazing! I really love that girl." She said. Her voice was still sad and I heard her sniff into the phone.

"What's wrong, mom?" I asked, concerned as fuck now.

"Your dad came last night again, I got him away but he wasn't drunk this time. He was saying he wanted to see you and Layla." She explained.

My concern turned into anger and I hung up the phone, not being able to hear any more.

Now my father wanted to see me, after years of abandonment and only coming to see me when he was drunk.

I was mad because I also wasn't there to protect my sister and my mom, and he could've possibly done something to hurt them.

When I got out of the bathroom, she was sitting there on her phone, and I couldn't even look at her because of how pissed I was.

"What's wrong?" She questioned, her face full of concern. Her eyebrows were furrowed and her eyes looked like she was piercing my soul.

"Nothing."

"Obviously something is wrong."

"Stop fucking asking, I said nothing. How many times do I have to tell you to stop prying?" I shouted, loud enough for her to look down and stay quiet.

I instantly regretted snapping at her.

Instead of apologizing, I took all of my stuff and walked out, expecting her to follow.

When I looked back she was still sitting down in our booth and had her hood of her pink hoodie on, her face hiding from me.

I walked back in quickly. There was no way I could possibly let her in here alone while it was so dark out, and make her walk back to the hotel those leggings.

Her big eyes were glossy because of my outburst, and I concluded that maybe she was a bit more emotional than she put off.

"Are you crying?" I took a seat beside her and tried to make her face me by grabbing her chin but she smacked my hand off.

"Just leave me alone." She moved further away from me, and I felt empty somehow.

"I'm not letting you walk back alone." I informed her, my voice angry but I was hurt more than anything.

She tried to push me out of the way so she could get out of the booth, so I moved away so I could save her the energy. She led the way out and I followed her.

Sky didn't stomp or grumble, but I could feel her being angry. It was so different because I was so used to seeing her all happy, and I didn't want her to feel what I felt ninety percent of the time.

"That way." I pointed to the opposite direction that she was going, and she turned around and walked the right way.

I was expecting to see a smile but it was erased from her face because of me.

We got into the hotel and she was so quiet, it was hurting me. I would rather her lash out on me instead of being silent.

I walked her up to her room and tried to go in with her so I could apologize, but she closed the door in my face.

Sighing, I walked into my room.

Justin looked up from the tv when he saw me walk in. "You good man?" He asked.

I ignored him and took off my jeans along with my shirt and got in bed for the night.

The light and the noise from the television only made me even more fucking pissed.

I was barely able to be a friend to Sky when she had been such a good friend to me. This was exactly the reason why I didn't get involved with girls like that, but I didn't know how to shut off those strong feelings I had for her.

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