not a game - vinnie hacker ✔️

『IX』

dialogue:

kingsley walked into her class and sat in her not actually assigned but assigned seat. she followed her typical routine; she pulled out her journal and shoved her earbuds in her ears and started playing music before shoving her phone back in her backpack. 

she sat at her desk, drumming her pen lightly on her desk to the beat of the music. the door swung open and effiel stood there, scanning the room for a place to sit until she spotted kingsley and gave a huge grin. she practically skipped to the seat behind kingsley and stared at her until kingsley pulled out her right earbud. 

"hey, kingsley! i met your boyfriend yesterday!" she spat. 

"oh, cool." kingsley said confused. 

"he's super cute." she said keeping her random happiness.

"i think so."

"i'm surprised he chooses to be with you."

"excuse me?"

"i just wanted to ask you, kindly, to not spread any more rumors about me." effiel said. "i know it's hard because i'm the new girl and you're intimidated by me and all."

"effiel, i didn't say anything."

"you told your boyfriend i was a bitch." she glared as she hissed those words. 

"you were a bitch! and what would i be intimidated by?" kingsley sassed. 

"oh you know, my looks, my dancing, the fact that i have a few classes with vinnie."

"effiel, you didn't make the drill team. your technique wasn't good enough and go ahead and ask vinnie where he got that hickey on his neck from, k?" kingsley said as she flashed effiel a wink before she turned back around in her seat to face the front of the classroom. 

kingsley could hear effiel getting out of her seat and move to the other side of the room. kingsley slightly smiled to herself and opened her journal. 

* * * 

"thank you, have a nice weekend." kingsley said to her teacher as she slung her backpack over her shoulder and slowly filed out of the classroom into the rushing hallways filled with students racing to their next destination. 

kingsley shuffled through the teenagers with plenty of "excuse me"s and "pardon"s until she spotted maggie.

"mags!" kinsley called out. 

"hey, kingsleys! you ready to go?" maggie asked referring to the car ride home kingsley's been providing maggie ever since maggie failed her driver's test. 

"yeah, hang on. vinnie wanted to tell me something about his game tonight."

"that's fine." maggie said standing next to kingsley against the wall as the number of students in the hallways began to decrease. 

kingsley saw vinnie walk out of the door. his dirty blonde hair flopped perfectly on his forehead. 

"oh my god."  maggie gasped.

"what? what's the matter?" 

"look!" maggie said, still shocked. 

kingsley looked back over to vinnie to see effiel laughing with him, vinnie's arm draped over her shoulder. 

"you've got to be kidding me." kingsley whispered to maggie as vinnie and effiel approached.

"hey, kings!" vinnie smiled as he walked up to maggie and kingsley.