you're the best around - (daniel larusso x oc)

ch.4

--class ends--

[The bell rings and the students exit the classroom. Scarlette and Daniel gather their things to head to their next period, which they also had the same class] "So, you met Ali." [Scarlette says as she gathers her books for her next class, she sounded the smallest bit of rude in her tone- perhaps even jealous. Daniel nods]

"Yeah.. that's right," [Daniel said in an off tone, he feels Scarlette is acting strange. Although, he doesn't know her very well, so he won't bring attention to it. Daniel changes the subject] "C-can you help me find my next class?" [Daniel asked, stuttering as he squinted at his schedule once more, his sunglasses still over his black eye] "It's Italian, Mr. Moore."

"Yeah, follow me." [Scarlette says in a somewhat serious tone as she stands up and leads the way to Mr. Moore's classroom and Daniel follows. They arrive at the classroom but before they enter, Ali walks by, spotting Scarlette's black eye, reminded by what happened at the beach party last night. She never got to thank Scarlette, so she catches up to do so. Daniel stood near the door and leaning on the wall beside it as he waited for Scarlette and watched the interaction]

"Scarlette, wait-" [Ali says as she walks up to Scarlette and taps her on the shoulder of Scarlette's jean jacket. Scarlette turns around, still looking serious] "I never got to thank you about last night-" [Ali began, Scarlette's negative expression became more neutral and friendly]

"I-It's nothing, really." [Scarlette said as she waved her hand in denial, but it felt strange that she was just feeling somewhat jealous of Ali and now Ali was thanking her]

"I'm sorry about your eye-" [Ali looks up at Scarlette's shiner, which she didn't even bother hiding- Scarlette didn't care much of what others thought about her. Daniel squints in confusion as he crosses his arms, listening to the conversation between Scarlette and Ali]

"What does Ali have to do with Scarlette's black eye?" [Daniel thought]

"I'm sorry about your radio." [Scarlette replied, she didn't care much for "battle wounds", she was more concerned/confused about how she felt recently. She felt guilt after she hurt Daniel, an emotion that she wasn't familiar with]

"You should've just let him have it-" [Ali said as she clenched her books to her chest, but Scarlette interrupts]

"Well it wasn't his." [Scarlette smirks and crosses her arms, making Ali smile and laugh. The smirk on Scarlette's face made Daniel blush, he uncrossed his arms and hid his smile by biting his lip and tilting his head down slightly. Scarlette looks over Ali's shoulder and makes eye-contact with Daniel, still smirking. Scarlette looks back at Ali as Ali responds]

"That's right, it wasn't-" [the late bell rings and Ali backs away towards her classroom] "Well, I'll see you around, Scarlette." [Ali waved as she walked off]

"Bye, Ali." [Scarlette waved back as she walked into her classroom, Daniel followed behind her]

"That's so brave of her, to stand for Ali like that." [Daniel thought as he and Scarlette just looked at eachother with no words as class began. Smiles just grew on their faces. Scarlette broke eye-contact with Daniel and looked back down at her desk and opened her italian book- Daniel did the same actions. He smiles and chuckles at the butterflies in his stomach which made Scarlette have a big smile on her face, the last sound before the teacher begins to speak and the class begins]

--after school--

[Daniel removes his sunglasses from his face and places them beside his backpack, he wasn't allowed to wear glasses during his soccer tryouts. He enters the soccer field and waits for his turn to play, his head slightly down as he tries to keep his black eye hidden. Scarlette Sevem stands near her friends Bobby, Dutch, and Tommy- She wasn't trying out for any teams, she was only hanging out with her friends. Johnny is across from them, he keeps looking over at Scarlette, they still hadn't made up]