Oh, Dakota

14- Now Is The Start

*I had some stuff to do last night, so it's a little bit late, sorry 'bout that <3*

14-Now Is The Start

“Okay, so this is the day, huh?” Marnie grinned at me.

I shrugged and stepped up the bleachers, spinning my hair around one of my fingers- it was still damp from my after practice shower. “Yeah, I guess so.”

“You guess so?” She shrieked. “What does that mean?”

I laughed at her ridiculousness. “It means that I’m trying not to act too excited.”

She rolled her eyes at me. “Dakota Peters, when the last second has ticked down on this game and that team of unfairly attractive sweaty boys cheer in triumph, you will race down there and declare yourself as Miss. Todd’s Girlfriend. You should be bouncing with excitement.”

Truth be told: I was bouncing with excitement, but I was just trying to not let it show, and I guess I was obviously doing a good job with it since Marnie couldn’t even tell how excited I was. I mean, in less than twelve hours, I’d have a boyfriend. I wouldn’t be single anymore, and as much as that freaked me out, it was incredibly exciting. Not only would I have a boyfriend though, but Todd would be my boyfriend. That idea sounded incredibly bizarre to me, but it actually seemed really amazing at the same time. “I’m being civilized.” I mumbled in my defense.

We sat down in the bleachers and I immediately found Todd standing in center field as the game began. Owen threw the first ball and then everyone was cheering, bouncing around in the bleachers excitedly for the team. The team they were playing against, Hilliard Darby High School, was probably one of the worst schools sports-wise in like, all of Alabama, which was another reason why I was so confident that we were going to win this game. In fact, everyone was sure of it because everyone was at this game, the bleachers were suffocating with people.

“So what exactly are you going to do when they win?” Marnie asked me after a few pitches. “Because I totally think that you should just run onto the field and leap into his arms as they’re celebrating their victory. That’d be so romantic, don’t you think?”

I shrugged. “Maybe, but I’m not going to do that. I don’t know what I’ll do, but I’ll probably just wait until we meet the guys back at the car to see what he does and just go from there.”

She groaned. “That is so unromantic.”

I laughed softly at her dramatics and then answered her. “I’m not one for romanticism, Marnie.”

“I know, and it is just so boring. I mean, how can you live without romance?” She informed me and her mouth was practically watering as Braeden stood on third base and beat an opposing player to the base with the ball in his hand.

I shrugged. “I didn’t say that I want to live without romance, I just said that I’m not one for romanticism.”

“It’s. The. Same. Thing.” She deadpanned before sprouting to her feet and cheering loudly and adorably for Braeden even though he couldn’t hear her or see her or anything. She really had it so bad for that guy and I wasn’t even sure if he liked her back. I mean, he’s nice to her a lot but he’s nice to everybody so that’s not really saying much, so he wasn’t really giving anything away regarding his feelings for Marnie, and it was seriously killing her.

“Well, it’s not to me, I guess.” I sighed. “And by the way, stalking from a distance *cough* Braeden *cough* isn’t exactly the next Romeo and Juliet either.”

“I just need time.” She defended. “Just a little bit of time and then he will be my Romeo. I just need to know if he likes me or not. My life would be so much easier if I knew if he liked me back.”