5-New girl in the picture
Nick's pov
In the end, we won! I'm glad we did. This time around I give it my all. Every guy on the team played their best. The good thing is that everyone is happy we won!
I got to see the sour faces of the opposing team. It was all worth it. Hopefully beginning from now on we'll win consecutive wins.
We all get ready to head into the showers. As usual, I wait.
"Seriously, I still don't get why you don't get in the shower, Nick!"
"Yeah, we don't care if you jerk off in front of us."
"The f**k Yung? Why would I jerk off in front of you guys? You guys don't even do that in front of me or between you guys!"
"Don't be shy Nick, there's nothing to hide. We've all done it before."
"Keep it in your room, fools."
"Fools? Really Nick? How pathetic."
"Who cares, what you guys think? I'll do that in my room."
"Sure I'm sure you do it all the time too." I almost blush at the mention of the truth but I refrain from doing so.
"What? You guys don't jerk off in your room? I was sure you do. You say you've already done it before."
"Unlike you Nick, I have a girl that takes care of that." How low of him to say that.
"Ohhhh," The guys all say at the same time.
"Ohhhh, what a blow."
"Well, I don't care about that. At least I'm not dependent on a girl to make me release."
"Ohhhhh" Aaron glares at me.
"Sh*t is there something I'm missing or Arron really can't jerk off without his girlfriend?" Dominic laughs and the guys too.
"Shut up! He's lying! I've got no issue with that!"
"Sure you don't. You just won't admit it."
"Hey! What's wrong with you guys?"
"There's nothing wrong."
"Wait...I just realized, is it because Sydney doesn't let you do it as much as you want?"
"What no? For your information, we have sex at least 3 times a week."
"I wonder why I find it hard to believe you."
"Hey! I'm not kidding! How much time do you have sex with Maryka, Dominic?"
"Hah, at best one time per week."
"See told you there's nothing wrong with me!"
"Hm, don't be ashamed to admit that you don't even have sex with Sydney."
"What? What about you? When was the last time you had sex?"
Sh*t, how do I make him not suspicious of me? Why did Arron act like his dumb self and return the question to me? I should've seen this one coming.
"Don't worry about me, I'm fine. I have healthy sex life thank you."
"Oh yeah, how much?"
"As much as I want."
"How nice, you're single and you get to have all the girls you want, how unfair.."
"Aw, are you jealous Leo?"
"Nah, I'm not. I have Livia.."
"Let me guess it isn't working with her?"
"Yeah...she hasn't talked to me since the birthday party..."
"Sh*t bro, she doesn't like you. She still hung up on Nick." As usual, Dom killing hope.
"Yeah, dude why did you drop her off? She's so hot. The best girl you can have, she even likes you."
"Who are you to call Livia hot? Don't you have a girlfriend?"
"Eh? Since when aren't we allowed to call other girls hot?"
"Since you were in a relationship bro. It's common courtesy, besides your breaking my heart here." Leo mentions.
"Aw, boohoo. She doesn't like you." Leo glares at Aaron.
"Guys we better stop talking. Get in your showers, there's not a ton of time left."
"Yes, captain!"
"That's the spirit!"
They take their showers and then they all get dressed up. Then they get out.
As it's finally my turn to take my shower and the guys get out, they start bothering me.
"Nick go fast! A girl is waiting for you!"
Aaron screams from outside the changing room. I'm surprised I heard him but not so much knowing he's so loud.
Crap...I was hoping to jerk off...The pressure of the game and seeing Ezra...is just too much for me...So much so that I feel this need to get off but I guess I won't be able to do so. Argh, I guess I'll do it later it seems like as much as I hate to wait.
I take my shower faster than usual. Then I get dressed fast and get out. As I exit the changing room, I'm met with the guys and a blond girl. So the guys weren't kidding. There's really a girl there waiting for me.
She seems shy, I wonder what she wants. I wish I could talk to her in private but the guys are all looking at me curious.
I approach her. I feel uncomfortable with all the looks from the guys but it's not like I can get myself out of here. She didn't do anything wrong. I would rather go home right now and jerk off there or even worse talk to Ezra. Through I already know it's impossible.
"Hey" She blushes and she plays with her blond locks. If I liked girls, I would find her attractive but I can't really say more.
"H..hi..ah..uh.." She blushes even more.
The guys look at us even more curious. Of course, Leo and Aaron start laughing in the back. I glare back at them and they stop.
"Don't be shy, I don't bite." She awkwardly smiles.
"Yeah..sorry.."
"Nah it's fine." Well not really, I would like her to stop going around the bush but it's not like I can tell her that.
"Ah...I was wondering...if..if...you'd like to..hang out..?" She releases a breath she held on.
"Sure" I wink at her and then she leaves all flustered.
F**k, why did I agree to that? Guess I can't say no to such a pretty girl in front of the guys. Even if I'm gay, it kinda still gives me pride as a man.
"Who was that girl? I've never seen her before?"
"Oh, that girl is in my literature class and my history class with Maryka, Sydney and me." Of course, Dominic likes those kinds of classes just like his girlfriend does.
"Huh, I didn't strike her to be a literature and history lover."
"Well, I don't know. All I know is that she has a few friends and she's very shy."
"Shy? How could she? She's so hot?!"
"Aaron? I doubt Sydney would be happy if she heard you say that."
"Heard about what?" I turn to said person.
Oh, sh*t I didn't think the girls were coming to see us after our game. Oh, oh Aaron is in trouble."
"Nothing, we were talking about Nick's new girl."
"New girl?" Sydney says.
"Yeah, she's in your literature class and history class."
"How do you even know that? Besides what girl are you talking about?"
"Yeah, who is she?" Livia says a bit aggressively. Oh goodness, I totally forgot she's here too.
"She's.." Aaron is cut off by Dominic.
"Let him be. She's blond and shy. I think her name is Taylor?" Why does he say that information now? In front of the girls?
"Yeah her name is Taylor, Taylor Cassidy."
"What about her Maryka?"
"Ah, she's shy indeed but she's very passionate about literature and history but especially history. Good luck with her."
"Gosh, History?" I comment.
"Really? Literature? Sounds more like torture." Aaron comments on it too.
"There's no need to be like that Aaron. You have literature too anyways just not in my class." I'll never understand how Sydney deals with a guy like Arron.
"Literature is definitely torture." No one says something to Livia. Serves her right.
"She asked him to hang out, I bet it's a date."
"Hm, maybe not." Finally, Myung stopped being silent it was getting weird.
"I hope it does end up being one! That way Nick will finally have a girl and I can have Livia!"
Shoot he forgot Livia is here. She looks at him dumbfounded. Leo starts blushing in sheer embarrassment. Seems like he noticed.
"Oh..uh I didn't know you were here.." He laughs awkwardly.
"Yeah, I don't care." Seriously she had the nerve to say that in front of all of us?
"We should get out of here!"
"Yeah let's go party! We won after all!"
"Yeah let's go!"
We go outside in the parking lot and we head for our cars.
"You're lucky this time I have Syd."
"Yeah, yeah, as if you don't like being in my car." He sticks out his tongue like a kid and Sydney looks at him unamused. Then he stops being childish.
"So who needs a ride?"
"My dad is picking me up this time so I don't need one."
As much as Myung is nice, I'm glad that he doesn't need a ride. That only leaves me to Leo and...Livia.
"Ah, you don't have to worry about me I have my own car now." Oh yeah, I forgot Leo got a car for his 18th birthday.
"Hey! Livia wanna hop for a ride?"
"Nah I'm good I'll go with Nick." Omg, she didn't say that in front of him.
Leo glares at me and tries to understand why she wants to go with me. I try to look the most confused I possibly can and shrug so he doesn't understand it isn't my doing. I doubt it worked.
"Bye now!" He leaves with his car.
"What was that there?!"
"What is your deal with that Taylor girl?!"
"What? You did all that because you're jealous of me. Come on Livia, I don't even like you." We get in my car and we leave the school's parking lot.
"But I do!"
"I know you do! But what you did there was completely utter crap. Don't you understand Leo likes you!?"
"What's your deal with him? Why do you care about him that much? I thought you didn't?"
"Of course, I care about him, he's my teammate and my friend. He's been taking this very seriously. He wants you Livia. Don't you understand? If you really don't like him stop giving him hope. It will only hurt in the end.
Although if you still feel something for whatever happened that night between you two, go at him."
"I only did it to go back at you."
"I already know that, no need to admit it. All I'm saying is to give Leo a real chance. He likes you. You two would be perfect together."
"Why are you acting like Cupid right now? Why don't you treat me like you do for him?"
"Because I don't like you. You better fix your crap because I'm tired of it. You're hurting Leo's feelings. For once the guy likes a girl and she leads him on. Be honest with him at least it's better than nothing."
"He was only my backup."
"Well, that's pointless now. You won't ever get the chance to be with me. Move on and date him or lose everything. That's the closest you'll be to me."
"Geez you're mean when you want to."
"And you can be a sneaky b*tch."
"Hey! What's your problem?! What did I ever do to you to make me hate me?!" I scoff, choosing to completely ignore what she's just said.
"Now you better make it right with Leo in the next upcoming days or else I won't play nice to you."
"Fine" What good timing. We finally reached her house.
"Now get out!" She gets out pissed off without saying anything. Probably too ashamed to say anything else.
I wait for an annoying honey-blond girl to be out of reach to leave.
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Last night I had a blast at the party despite the talk with Livia. I've got no idea if she's making the effort but she better.
Ever since I talked to the blond girl, I think her name was Taylor, the guys have been bugging me with her. They made her stay around me all night long.
She's not as bad as I originally thought. If she wasn't in love with me I would like to be her friend.
We had fun last night. I got to know her despite the fact she's shy. She's nice but I wish she didn't have the pressure to confess to me. I noticed her friends pushing her too.
Regardless of all, I came to find out we're out of stock and as usual Dad and Mom aren't here. Neither Allyson nor Felix wanted to do it. So that only leaves me to go to the local supermarket.
Can't believe none of them wanted to. Well, Allyson said she'll hang out with her friends all evening and Felix doesn't want to. He has his permit. He could've taken my car but he had the nerve to say no!
I drive in the direction of the supermarket. It's not cool that I have to do it right after school but it's not like I can do anything about it.
I arrive smoothly and I go buy everything we need. I go to the checkout and I'm shocked to see Ezra of all people working as the cashier. What is he doing here?
He notices me and doesn't utter a word. He just does his job. I'm debating whether or not I should talk to him. I decide not to. It's so awkward between us. Seeing him wear the supermarket uniform instead of his usual clothes is so weird.
I get my things and I head out. Wow, I feel some sort of pride. I'm one of the only ones that knows he works there. Oh gosh, what should I do with this new interesting information?
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Ever since I found out Ezra works at the local supermarket, I can't stop thinking about him. I mean it's not rare for students to have a job but a supermarket isn't really the place for it.
I didn't take him for a guy that would work there. If the rest of the school knew he worked there they wouldn't let it go.
Here, working in a store is embarrassing because the people in our school have money and leverage. Sure some people are poor but not to the point of working in supermarkets.
Take my gang as an example, Leo's family is loaded. They have a well-known company. He lives in the most privileged neighbourhood. Not surprising we are in L.A after all.
Dominic's family isn't as loaded but they are living a comfortable life, almost a rich life. He does have his own car that his parents bought him. I think I overheard him say his dad is a scientist, so I get where he gets the cash. His dad is not a well-known scientist through.
As for Myung, his adoptive family is more than comfortable. They live in a sweet home. His mom is a nurse and his dad is a cop.
For the case of Aaron, I have no idea really. I never went to his house. I can't really tell if he has cash or not but I think he does. At least somewhat. He never talks about his family's wealth. He isn't loaded for sure because then I would've known who his family is.
Livia is part of a rich family for sure. She always has new devices, clothes basically everything but I couldn't care less.
The other girls seem to be living an ordinary life. It makes sense because they aren't from here anyways.
While for me, my family is not loaded but we live comfortably. We have a beautiful house. I made a deal with my parents that I could play basketball instead of working and they agreed.
They make enough money for all of us so I couldn't be happier. I got my car as soon as I got my permit. I know that Felix deep down wants his own car but I doubt dad and mom would buy him one.
Apparently, the fact that I have my own car is enough. Perks of being the oldest.
So after all, our school isn't a private school so it makes sense that people aren't all rich but most of them are. It's L.A after all I guess.
I thought it wasn't the case for Ezra but I guess you can't judge a book by its cover. This shows how much I don't know him. Now that I know where to find him, I wonder if I should go talk to him or not...Ugh, should I?
Hmm, I don't think talking to him at his job would work through. That's because he probably won't talk to me. He doesn't seem to care about me. What good would it make to try to talk to him at his job?
Probably not a lot but I still want to go, just because...It's rare for me to ditch my plans for that. It's Saturday so I can do what I want.
After a few minutes of debating whether I should or not, I get reminded that I promised to hang out with Taylor.
She's the blond girl, the one I got her number at the party. She's really nice and all but I don't really feel like hanging out with her...
Ugh, I can't ditch her either, she did nothing wrong. Oh well, guess I have to go hang out with her.
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