We're playing dodgeball in gym. Somehow Kena, Josh, Seth and Noah convinced me to play dodgeball. What the fuck.

So we're sitting on the bleachers waiting for Coach Jeremy to call out the captains.

"I made the mistake of letting Noah and Seth on the same team last year, so this year, you two are captains." Coach says.

"Ughhh! You're only doing this because we beat your team!" Seth groans, while Noah just smirks and walks down the bleachers.

He has a nice ass.

"He really does." I hear Kena say beside me.

"I really need to keep my thoughts to myself." I say chuckling and looking back at the front where Noah and Seth play rock paper scissors to see who goes first.

"Fuck Yes!" Seth exclaims. "C! You're on my team." Noah glares at him while I just get up and walk down to Seth.

"I'll have you know I suck at physical activities." I say laughing next to Seth.

"Girl you brought down a 300 lb dude on your first day here. I'm sure you can throw a ball." He says and I laugh causing most of the jocks in the corner to scowl at me. It's funny though, because some of them are trying to hold back smiles.

"Kena." Noah says smirking at me. I flip him off.

"Babe it's okay we'll be together next year!" Kena says going in for a kiss on me. I swerve.

"Bitch the fuck." I laugh. "Chill with that shit we wouldn't want them telling your little boy toy now would we?" I say to Kena but Seth heard me.

She mock salutes at me and walks over to Noah.

"Boy toy?" Seth asks obviously inquiring for his friend. I smirk at him.

"The girls been in love with your best friend since before she could walk."

"Noah?"

"Try again?"

"Dylan?!?!" He whispers yells.

"Yes! He's just a stubborn ass and won't ask her out." I cross my arms.

"He thinks she'll reject him."

"Why would she-"

"Seth! Pick!" Coach says.

"Right uh- Hunter" The boys pick the rest of the teams and we start the game I suck at running so I don't even attempt to get a ball, but Seth gets me one anyways. I see Kena by the front line. I throw the ball at her leg and it hits her because she's distracted trying to hit Seth I scurry back to the back of the court and see her glaring at me. I give her a sheepish smile and scan the rest of the court my eyes land on a boy aiming at me.

He throws it at me but not very hard. I catch it easily getting him out and one of our players back in. Seth comes over to me.

"You good back here?"

"Yep already got 2 people out."

"Atta Girl!" He says ruffling my hair throwing his arm around my shoulders. Just after he does this a ball hits his leg. He's out.

I look in the direction the ball came from to see Noah with a small victorious smirk on his face. I narrow my eyes at him and he finally meets my gaze and his smirk drops when he sees a smirk of my own plastered across my face.

He now looks worried.

Good.

I keep my smirk on my face and I see that most of the teams are out it's just me Hunter, and some girl in the corner who one of the jocks hits easily seeing as she has no one to protect her now. It's just Noah and the jock on the other team.

The jock throws the ball at Hunter and Hunter catches it calling him out, but at the same time another ball hits his legs. Now it's just me and Noah.

"Come on Carter!" Seth yells from the sidelines. I smirk at Noah who seems distracted. I have a plan to win. Because. I- Carter Miller- do not lose to arrogant asshats. Even if those asshats are insanely hot and kissed me just 2 hours prior.

I look over at one of the jocks who i've noticed staring at my legs and blow him a kiss and send him a wink. To which he smirks back at me but I don't really notice because my focus is back on Noah and I throw the ball in my hands at him while he glares at the guy who I winked at. It hits him right as his gaze snaps back to me. I smirk at him while my team runs onto the court and grabs my in a group hug.

"That was smart Carter. Playing dirty." Seth smirks at me. The guy from earlier comes up to me. And tries to grab my away from Seth but as soon as he does he's jerked back. I see Noah standing in between me and him.

"Keep your filthy little hands off her." He growls at the guy.

"Hey man, she fucking started it. I was just finishing it." He replies mad.

"Fuck you asshole touch her again and I'll kill you." By now there's a circle around them. None of these people have ever really heard him speak unless necessary and this is probably the most he's ever said to any of them.

"It'll be hard not to touch her when I'm inside her and she's screaming my name." He smirks at Noah.

Noah's about to step forward and beat the shit out of this guy when I grab his arm and pull him back.

"What even is your name? You know what, nevermind. I only winked at you to distract Noah so I could win the game. So if you would kindly fuck off and not ever talk to me or about me ever again, that would be lovely." I speak up pushing Noah behind me slightly so he doesn't kill this guy.

"Andrew was right... You are a bitch. Probably a daddy's money type of girl, huh?" He says smirking, trying to get a rise out of me. I feel Noah's hand slip into mine.

"You obviously didn't do you research," His smirk drops.

"What?"

"Daddy's dead." I say, slightly tilting my head to the side. My voice is calm but I know my eyes are filled with rage.

"Shit."

I step forward.

"Shit is right. Now I'd really suggest you listen to my earlier advice or I swear to god I hurt you worse then I hurt your little friend Andrew." I say again my voice calm. Noah squeezes my hand. And the has the nerve guy scoffs and mumbles 'psycho' under his breath. I grab his hand and forearm and push his wrist to the side, not causing it break but definitely causing damage enough so that he couldn't throw a football. He screams.

"I warned you." I say. He raises his fist to punch me. But Noah grabs it.

"What did I say. Touch her and your dead. Hit her I'll break every bone in your body." He warns. His voice is low and raspy. "Then I'll kill you."

That was hot. I think to myself. I'm glad to find out that I thought inside my head now.

The guy nods a lot of times. And Noah drops his fist. And with that he scurries away like a scared little bunny rabbit.

Seth throws his arm around us.

"Power couple." He says and I laugh while Noah just smiles a bit. "Hey Noah, by the way, Can I stay at yours for the next couple days?" He asks hopefully looking at Noah who's eyes darken, seemingly knowing somethings up. Noah nods and Carter exhales a breath.

"I'll be out after school on Monday, it's just, well... you know." He says trying to subtly gesture to his body. I'm left as confused as ever around these boys.

"Yeah. I know." He says quietly, looking angry and solemn at the same time. "Do you need to stop at yours or can we just all go to mine?"

"All?" Seth questions.

"Yeah Carter's staying there too so if you're coming I'll invite everyone over for a movie night."

"Yay!" I squeal and grab Kena's hand dragging her to the locker rooms so we can change quicker.

After we change we're done for the day, so we all head out to the hallways, where we look for our friends. Once we find them we tell them the plan and we figure out who's riding with who. I ride back with Noah jamming to music which I cranked all the way up. Despite his objections he's having fun, I can tell.

We get to Joe's where we buy a shit ton of popcorn, candy, drinks, and chips heading to the cashier.

"Hey, You're Carter Miller right?" The cashier asks eying me up.

"Yeah, who are you?" I ask ignoring his stare.

"Oh I'm Kent. I'm in your world history AP class." He says smiling at me. "Hey I was wondering if you were doing anything tonight?"

"She's busy." Noah says as I'm about to reply. He takes my hand in his. "Could you just do your job please?" He asks coldly.

"Yeah, sorry." He looks down and scans our items not saying anything else besides asking if we want a receipt to which I politely refuse because Noah just ignored him.

We get in the car. I turn to Noah.

"That was cute." I say.

"What are you talking about?"

"The way you got jealous in front of the cashier. That. That was cute." I gesture to Joe's to which he just shakes his head slightly smiling but not saying anything. "And back in the gym." He tenses a little at this but relaxes after he remembers that I probably ripped one of the poor guys tendons in his wrist.

We get back to his house and see all our friends sitting on the porch swing. I'm surprised it's not broken.

"Hey bitches! We got the goods!!" I scream holding up the grocery bags.

"DRUGS!" Kena yells and Noah pales.

"KENA! SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU KNOW WE HAVE 1) NO DRUGS AND 2) NEIGHBORS."

I yell back.

She just laughs and we all go inside.