•Sour Attraction•

3: •dodgeball•

Dodgeball in my last school was just a chance for the popular people to hurt me. The worse thing is that I let them all hurt me during that game. Even though I am good at throwing hard and aiming. But I won't let them take advantage of me this time. I won't let them hurt me.

The coach parts us into 2 teams, blue and red. I am on the red team. Lita got chosen to be on the blue team with Ty. Jessi and Anthony are on the red team with me.

The game begins and I am the second one to grab a ball. I am also a fast runner, but so is Ty. He beat me by a second to running to the middle.

I run to the back of our side and turn towards the blue team. I see some random guy and chuck the ball at him. It hits him straight on the chest and he walks out.

Someone throws a ball at me and I quickly catch it. Sending the person out.

"Nice! Only 8 people left!" The coach yells. I look around the room. Lita and Ty are still in the game, along with 2 other boys on the blue team. On my team it is me, Jessi, Anthony and a guy.

I quickly pick up a ball and chuck it at one of the boys. It hits him on the leg and he's out.

"Ow my nuts!" I hear a guy yell from the right of me. I look over and see Jessi moving around on the floor cradling his crotch like a fish out of water.

"Dude, I hit you on the shoulder!" Ty yells from across the gym. Everyone laughs while Jessi pouts and walks over to the bleachers, where everyone that is out goes.

Anthony picks up a ball and throws it at Lita. Catching her off guard and hitting her on the boob.

"Ah shit! That hurts ya know!" She yells at Anthony. He just shrugs as she grumbles to herself and walks over to the bleachers.

I dodge a ball that the last unknown guy on the blue team throws and pick up a different one. I aim and throw it at him. Hitting him on the arm.

I hear someone next to me groan. I look over and see Anthony walking away frustrated. I then notice it's only me and Ty left.

"You got this z!" Lita yells as she stands on the bleachers.

I smile and pick up a ball. Ty stares straight at me with a ball in his hands. He takes a step closer to the middle and so do I, as if trying to challenge him.

He chucks the ball at me and I move out of the way just in time before it hits me. I chuck my ball at him in which he dodges it.

"That all you got princess?" Ty says as he takes another step closer to the middle. I try to pretend that the nickname doesn't send butterflies swarming around in my stomach.

"I've got more skill than you think." I reply back and step forward. I quickly pick up another ball and chuck it at him. He slips out of the way and throws one at me. I bend down as the ball flys over my head.

I stand back up with a new ball in my hand. We both step closer so now we are only about 15 feet apart. We both stare at each other and the world seems to melt away.

The way his hair is messed up and how his deep blue eyes stare into mine. The way his white gym t-shirt clings to his muscled upper body.

I smile in his direction and he shows a small one back at me. I chew on my bottom lip, a bad habit I have when I'm nervous or concentrated.

Apparently I can use it to my advantage too because when I chew on my bottom lip he looks at them instead of my eyes. So I take the chance and chuck the ball at him.

It hits him straight in his chest and bounces off of him.

"And we have a winner!" The teacher yells. Lita cheers and runs towards me. She crushes me in a hug. The bell soon rings and everyone goes to the locker rooms to change.

"Good game." Ty says to me as Lita and I walk out of the locker room.

"Oh, uhm thanks." I say. I'm back to my awkward and anti-social self. Yay..

"Where did you learn to throw that hard and run that fast?" He says. I stop walking and look at Lita. She smirks at me and walks ahead. Dang her.

"I-I guess I just taught myself.." I look up at him. The way he looks into my eyes makes my legs feel like jell-O. He nods his head, some of his hair falling onto his forehead in the process.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you yesterday. But thank you for the sour strips... you really didn't have to do that." I chew on my bottom lip and mess with my hands. He looks down at my lips and I can see in his eyes that he is battling something. But I have no clue what.

"I could tell you wanted them more." He shrugs and puts his hands in his jeans pockets.

"Well, I still thank you." I smile a little.

"Anytime."

He sighs. "Well, I'll see you around." I nod and he turns and walks the opposite direction than me.

I take a deep breath and walk towards Lita.

"Okay, so I'm going to ask now. What was all of that in gym? Why didn't you tell me you could run that fast and throw so hard and perfect? Also what is with the sexual tension with Mr. McHottie back there?!" She bursts out. I look at her shocked before I start talking.

"Well in the gym, I may or may not have bit my lip and he got distracted. So I threw the ball at him and won. I didn't tell you because you didn't ask. And we don't have any sexual tension!" I explain as we walk down towards our next class which is English.

"I don't get it. Girls are going after Ty left and right. Yet he doesn't pay any attention to them. But then you show up on the first day of school and he asks you if your okay after you ran into him." She shakes her head with furrowed eye brows as she spoke.

She's right. It really doesn't make sense. I wondered why he has been nice to me, but I thought that maybe this could be how normal people act and I just never experienced it because people in my last school were just mean.

The thought of other girls going after him also makes my anger go up. I don't know why.

What is happening to me..?

"Do you know him? Like have you guys met before?" Lita then asks, making me stop walking. We are probably going to be late now.

Do I tell her? It's surprising how much trust I am putting into Lita even though we just met yesterday. Especially with everything I went through in my last school.

"Uhm.. well, the day before yesterday when my mom and I moved here. My mom sent me to go to the store. I grabbed the groceries and whatever but when I went to the candy isle and I reached out to grab my favorite candy. His hand reached out too and our hands touched. I grabbed gummy bears instead because I didn't want to fight him over the sour strips and he asked why I grabbed the gummy bears if I wanted the sour strips. So I told him why. After that I went over to the self checkout and I noticed that he had switched the gummy bears with the sour strips that he had." I take a deep breath when I finish talking.

"Wow." She says almost like she's in a trance.

"That's a lot. I mean good for you. But that's a lot." She looks at me and we continue walking.

"I've never been in this situation before. I have never had guys talk to me before." I say and we enter the classroom literally a few seconds before the bell rings.

We find seats at the back of the class because all of the others are taken.

"Honestly, I would just wait it out. If he likes you he will do something. But if all it is between you is sexual tension. Maybe nothing will happen." Lita says as she takes out some supplies.

Do I want Ty to like me?

Do we have sexual tension?

Do I want us to have more than just sexual tension?

I don't know!! This is confusing.