The girl in the picture is Carly btw. Enjoy the story!
Eryn POV
"Eryn, hurry up," my best friend, Carly, whined as she dragged me to school this morning.
"Ugh why do we even have to go today?" I asked her.
"Don't you remember? THE Tony Stark is speaking to us about job shadowing today!! Do you think the other avengers will show up? Do you think any of them found their mates yet?" She rambled on.
I rolled my apple green eyes and sighed as she quite literally dragged me to school this morning. Carly has always been obsessed with the avengers. She doesn't really want any of them as a mate per say, but she does like to keep tabs on them for some reason. I, on the other hand, don't care about them too much. Yeah I'm grateful that they help protect Earth and whatnot, but I'm not one to sit here and idolize them. Yeah I'm just getting on with my life and hope I'll have a good future.
Carly has always thought it ridiculous that I didn't care much about meeting my mates. I'm not too concerned with searching them out. Because of the marks on my skin I know I have way more than one. As a matter of fact, I have five. As you can probably tell by now, I'm more of a go-with-the-flow kind of person and I like to live in the present. If I meet my mates, just great, if I don't, oh well. Although I'm hoping more that I don't.
While Carly's favorite way to pass the time is thinking about her soulmate and thinking up her wedding plans, my favorite way to pass the time is pranking the bullies. Scott Trevors and his sidekick, Grant Thomas, act like they rule the school and constantly throw their weight around and push people, especially other guys, down. Scott's girlfriend, Brittany, and her friends think they're the queen bees of the school and do the same to other girls they consider are beneath them. No one has really tried to go against them except for me. I like to prank them a lot. It's extremely amusing to me, but sometimes they catch me and pummel me into the ground. Yesterday, they bullied some poor freshman for their lunch money, so today, I'm pranking the living hell out of them for it. At first I wasn't gonna bother today because I didn't want to get up for school, but then Carly barged in and dragged my ass up and out of bed.
Speaking of which, we arrived at school and sat in our first hour class. I already had a ton of pranking supplies hidden in my locker, so I spent the hour deciding which prank I wanted to pull on them this time.
After the hour ended, the principal came over the loud speaker and called us all to the gym where Tony Stark would talk to us about job shadowing. Every girl seemed to perk up immediately and rush to the gym, but I rolled my eyes at them and walked with Carly behind the crowd. The closer to the back we were, the closest to the doors we'd be. Carly started gushing to me about maybe finally being able to talk to him about a job at his tower and impress him with her being in the robotics club at school. I rolled my eyes again and pulled out a green apple flavored lollipop that I found in my jean pocket. Geez at this point my eyes might as well roll in the back of my head.
We sat down at the corner of the bleachers nearest to the exit and we saw the principal up on stage announcing Tony Stark. I didn't notice it before now, but I suddenly felt my right arm practically vibrating with how much it was tingling. I flinched out of surprise and Carly noticed.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"My whole arm is tingling really badly," I told her with the realization that it must mean one of my mates is nearby.
I felt my eyes widen even further when I realized it was Tony Stark himself that was one of my mates. And all of a sudden my whole body started tingling bad too.
And that's when I heard, "Oh yeah I have a surprise for you all too. The avengers agreed to answering any questions you might have today."
While he said this, I noticed that they were all searching for something and that's when it occurred to me that if I could feel the tingles, so could they. And that's also when it occurred to me that my other mates were the freaking avengers.
Damn you, universe. Why the hell are my mates famous and more likely to get hurt than anyone else??
Before their eyes could find me, I discreetly moved to under the bleachers. Carly followed me and threw me a look of confusion.
I hid from them because when I realized who they were, the whole mate thing just got a whole lot more real to me. They could feel my pain, and I didn't want that for anyone.
Carly didn't understand why I hid because I've always had that 'meh' attitude about mates. I quickly explained to her why I hid and she gives me a look of deep understanding and that's when I know the same thoughts crossed her mind too.
I looked through the gap in the bleachers to see the avengers all looking in our general direction and I swore.
"Damn! Now how are we gonna get outta here without them noticing?" I questioned.
"I understand your feelings, Eryn, but I really think you should at least meet them because it's not fair on them if you keep running out on them. You should at least explain to them why you're avoiding them," Carly told me.
"I know but I'm just not ready to tell them quite yet. I think I'll prank Scott, Brittany, and their crew before I stop avoiding them," I told her remembering my plan to prank them.
Pranking them should give me more time to avoid the Avengers and it'll take my mind off of them too.
"Promise?" She asked.
"Pinky promise," I promised while linking pinkies with her.
Yeah I'd stop avoiding them after the prank, but I won't seek them out. I smirked at the thought as the assembly finished up and the principal dismissed us.
I held Carly's hand so we wouldn't lose each other in the crowd and started crowd weaving with her, hopefully losing the avengers gaze in the crowd. We ran to our lockers, which were right next to each other.
"Okay so what's the plan?" Carly asked me referring to the prank.
I smirked mischievously before whispering the plan in her ear. Her eyes went wide with excitement and mischief and mimicked my smirk as we went to work.
It took us one class period to set up and another one waiting for the perfect timing to start the prank. Soon enough, Scott and Co. rounded the corner on their way to lunch and I pulled on the rope that would make the bucket of paint filled water balloons crash down on top of them. Then, they slid on the strategically placed water on the floor and Carly poured the bucket of honey on them. Lastly, the finishing touch was me pulling the rope with the bucket of feathers that was pulled upside down and gravity took hold of the feathers which scattered and stuck to them. The hallway stared in shock and laughed at them. Carly gave me a high five and we doubled over laughing. Brittany was screeching with her goons and Scott looked murderous. He started towards Carly and I and, before he could reach us, we sprinted to the lunch room.
It was quite the chase as everyone made their way into the lunchroom by then who weren't in the hallway so it made it a lot easier to run. The adrenaline overcame me and overpowered the tingling I felt all over my body as I grew closer to the lunchroom. Carly and I barreled through the double doors, sprinted to our table and hid behind our other friends.
"Quick hide us!!" We whisper yelled at them as we did our best to hide ourselves behind them.
They did their best to nonchalantly hide us behind their backs as Scott barreled through the doors as well. He stopped and looked around for us.
The whole lunchroom started bursting out laughing at him and he scowled further. He wiped some honey out of his eyes that dripped down from his hair and that just made us laugh harder.
"MAXWELL, YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!!" He screamed as he exited the lunchroom, presumably to the bathroom to wash up as best he could.
Carly and I sat down in our seats by our friends choking on our laughter and tears running down our faces.
"Woah you guys that one was awesome!" Brody told us giving us each a high five and grinning with mirth.
"You guys should've seen their faces when we poured honey over them though!" Carly exclaimed which set off another round of laughter.
With the adrenaline having died down, I felt the tingling all over my body and froze. Oh no. They're in here and saw all of that and now that the prank is over, I can't avoid them either. Shit.
I asked Carly, "the avengers are sitting at the back table in the corner behind me aren't they?"
She looked over my shoulder, smirked, and replied with a smug grin, "yup they sure are. And you can't avoid them now."
I groaned before hitting my forehead on the table.