"Boom! Seventh time in a row!" I yelled as I stood on my bed in victory while looking down on Zach.
"Whatever. I was just going easy on you," he replied while slowly folding his arms. He was looking to the side, his nose in the air as if in a snobbish way.
"Seven times?"
Zach hung his head in defeat and slowly raised his arms up.
"Fine. I admit it. I am not worthy of your gaming skills master. Not even I could beat you with all of the times I've played against you."
The way he had his arms up lifted his shirt just a bit showing off his muscles. His short brown hair looked soft as it almost covered his eyes with the way his head hung. He opened one eye as if to see what my reaction was, revealing his green eyes. A grin grew on his lips and I rolled my eyes.
I got down and gently nudged him laughing at his dumb comment.
"Oh shut up! You just haven't played in a while with all of that practicing you do for football."
"Still, you're better than me."
"I was trying to make you feel better," I said, rolling my eyes yet again.
"Well you failed."
We both laughed until Zach's phone buzzed. He pulled it out of his pocket and let his face drop.
"Let me guess, you need to leave?" I asked, already starting to feel upset with the idea.
Zach sighed and put his phone up. "Sadly, yes. My mom saw my grades and wants me to study. I can't just get into college with amazing football skills."
"That's what you get for being too busy with things besides homework."
His face scrunched up as he looked at me.
"You're one of those things you know."
I smiled just a little at those words. We've been friends since elementary school. Despite that, he was still the hottest guy at school and I was lucky to be his friend. But we were nothing more than that.
We've been together since the day he moved here but no one really liked that. So by middle school we made an agreement to keep things a secret. Despite it just being a friendship a lot of the girls were jealous and would say I used him and I got bullied big time for it. It was my idea to keep a low profile. Zach was upset at first but came to accept it.
We shared a quick smile and I just realized the real bond we shared. So many people wanted something like this, a true friendship. In high school it was all about using people. And yet we were best friends despite everything that's happened.
Zach got up and grabbed his book bag and set his controller down. He started heading out when he turned around and faced me.
"Wanna continue this tomorrow?"
I shook my head. "Sorry, can't. I've got my own practice."
"Really? Why does the gaming club even have practice? Can't you just play whenever or something?"
"Actually-"
"Yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before."
Zach waved his hand around as if to physically push the explanation away. He looked at me and flashed one of his smiles that most girls faint over. He raised his hand and placed it on my head ruffling my hair like he always does.
I groaned at the motion and shoved his hand off.
"Stop! you'll mess up my hair!"
He laughed and took a step back.
"Good luck at practice."
"Thanks."
With that he left, leaving me to clean things up. He always did that. I sighed and picked up his controller and turned off the game.
It was the beginning of November, a couple weeks away from Thanksgiving break and a month away from the second biggest school dance, The Winter Formal. I wasn't into dances and my friends in the gaming club weren't really either besides the leader. But that was only because she had a boyfriend who would ask her.
I sighed and fell to my bed.
"No one would ask me," I whispered to myself.
Zach was lucky being the hot quarterback of the school with his hot cheerleader caption for a girlfriend.
Emma Viar is the school's hottest girl. Zach Styles is the school's hottest guy.
Of course they would end up together.
Then there's me, Jessica Woods, the school's biggest freak. I had dark black hair that reached my waist and soft brown eyes. My figure was average with an okay waist and bust. My breasts were bigger than most but I didn't really care about that. The best way to describe my look was emo or even goth. Black everything. Heavy makeup, skirts, fishnet leggings, platform books and loads of bracelets and necklaces. Because of my looks I was still alone with no one to call my own in a way. Then again I kind of made a name for myself to get people not interested in me.
When I finished cleaning things up from Zach's visit I went to my bathroom next to my room and started taking off all my makeup. I looked up at my naked face and sighed.
"I really am a freak."
Once I was done with that I brushed my teeth and washed my face. I took out my septum piercing and the chain earring I had that went from the top of my ear to the earlobe. It dangled so I didn't want to keep it on while I slept. I hopped in the shower for a few minutes and put on some sweats and a tank top. Back in my room, I sat at my desk for a bit and checked my phone. I looked at the discord server I was in with the rest of the gaming club members and scanned through the random messages. Nothing important showed up so I turned off my phone and turned to my computer.
I roamed around random games before deciding on one and started to play for a bit. After about two hours I stopped playing and checked the time.
11:38 p.m.
It was still early. I could keep playing. But I had practice tomorrow and I needed my energy. I saved my game and logged off my computer before standing up. I stretched and turned off my light before crawling into my bed.
Sleep wasn't eager to come to me as if it had other plans. I waited and thought about what could happen tomorrow.
My mom was away on a flight and wouldn't be back for a bit so there's that. Being a flight attendant must be so nice. Always going somewhere new and whatnot. The uniforms were pretty cute too.
I rolled over and pulled up my phone seeing I had a message from Zach.
Zach- 'Finished some homework finally. You still up?'
I opened the message and started to type.
Me- 'Maybe'
Zach- 'Ha ha very funny. you wouldn't be able to answer if you weren't awake.'
I giggled a little at his reply.
Me- 'Says who?'
Zach- 'Says everyone'
I rolled over to my other side and texted Zach some more. After a few minutes though I felt my eyelids get heavy.
Me- 'I can't keep my eyes open. i'll text you when i wake up. laterz'
I sent the text and waited for Zach's response.
Zach- 'I should probably get some sleep too. good night, sleep well'
Me- 'u 2'
I turned off my phone and reached over the side of my bed to get the charger. I plugged it in and set it down before turning on 'do not disturb' mode. I laid back down and took a deep breath.
Tomorrow's going to be a long day.