Bowling! Woo-hoo! – Evan, open

[Mal Harper]

"Hey Lissa." Mal greeted with an enthusiastic wave,"Lissa this is JJ, JJ this is Lissa. She is the girl I met this morning." Mal introduced them both. She then turned her attention back to the fight. Mal leaned over to ask Lissa, "Any idea why Ian punched Evan?" Mal was at a loss. The only reason she could think Ian would have to punch Evan was over Brit. But that implied something happened and Mal had no idea what could have happened.

She was busy scratching her head as some blonde chick walked over. She screamed cheerleader. Mal of course hated cheerleaders, but she was usually nice to ones she had never met. Always give people he benefit of the doubt. That was some words Mal lived by. She was still waiting for the cheerleaders that were not like the Tyrant Aly Durrand. So Mal opened her mouth to introduce herself to Hannah only to have Hannah bark an order at her and call her Mel. "Do I know you?" Mal asked Hannah nicely with a smile, cause she could and it was fun. Especially when Evan corrected her.

"Thank you Evan. Yes, I am Mal...not Mel." She corrected Hannah as well in a nice tone. Mal was always friendly to new people. Unless they gave her the wrong impression. Now calling her by the wrong name could give the wrong impression,but something in side told Mal to shower the girl with kindness. Mal was good at being nice and friendly.

Mal was irritated Hannah got her name wrong, but really could she blame Hannah.. It was understandable Hannah would get it wrong. She was a cheerleader and there fore did not know Mal. Cause Hannah would not know any cool people like them.So Mal let it go and continued to be nice...for now.

"I shall be right back." Mal's voice was in an uppity tone. She was being nice. She had no reason to be mean...yet.

Mal passed by Brit and whispered in a ton so no one else could head, "Whats with the punch and the blonde?" Mal was just curious. "You stay here and take care of your boyfriend I will get the ice." Mal was just trying to be nice. After all how could Brit go get ice. That mean leaving Ian to fight Evan again cause right now Mal was sure only Brit was stopping Ian.

A few minutes later Mal returned with some ice. She did not work there but JJ did. Mal handed Brit the ice, "One cold ice berg coming up. At least I did not miss bowling." Mal said laughing hoping that worked to diffuse some of the tension.

[Brittany Barnes]

Evan was still annoyed...that much was clear. Okay, and maybe he sort of had the right to be a bit annoyed but it wasn't like it was Brittany's fault...not really. She hadn't told Ian that they'd made up. Yes, Evan had gotten hit in the face, but it was hardly anyone's fault. It was just a giant misunderstanding...that's all...

However, then Evan snapped at her...something she'd never heard him do before and Brittany was left quite speechless for a split second as she stared him down. It was very clear that the girl with multi-colored hair was more than a little perturbed by the way Evan was reacting. "I mean obviously it was a mistake since I just hadn't gotten a chance to talk to Ian at all and he didn't know we made up. But yeah, I do think it's sweet that my best friend had my back when he thought I was still upset," Brittany snapped back. None of this would have even happened is Evan hadn't gone and been an idiot with Syn anyway. There was no way he was going to act like this wasn't still all his fault...

Evan seemed to agree with this though, calming down a bit. Brittany was still a little annoyed, but figured it would be better to just let it go. They'd been through enough drama lately and there was no need to stir up more. If Evan was going to let it go, than she should to. But then Hannah had to butt in. And what was that...a smile? Evan was actually smiling at the arrival of Hannah?!

No. This was not happening. He was not going to be happy about Hannah being there and then look at her like she was the bad guy for not rushing to get ice. Until 5 seconds ago, she'd been the only thing stopping Evan from getting punched again and if she'd gotten ice instead of stopping the fight, he probably would have!

Brittany shook her head. She was feeling a mixture of anger, desperation, and sheer disbelief. How could this be happening all over again...after mere hours of making up with one another? Brittany didn't know exactly how it was possible for everything to all fall apart all over again...but either way, Brittany was fuming. She turned to Hannah and shook her head again. "Fine. You win." she said, "You win." She looked back at Evan. "You said you wouldn't be friends with her...you said I could trust you, but clearly that's not going to happen. So go ahead, go and kiss Hannah, just like you kissed Syn!" she snapped. She didn't exactly scream it but she said it loudly enough for anyone in the immediate area to hear her. "Whatever, I'm out of here," she said with a sigh, her voice softer now. She turned around and walked away. She walked straight out the door, the tears hitting her the moment she reached the parking lot. She wiped them away with the sleeves of her sweatshirt as she made her way to the bus stop, sitting down on the empty wooden bench and taking a deep breath. She put her hood up in an attempt to hide her face although she supposed she didn't care that much anyway. All she really wanted right now was to go home and forget that tonight ever happened.



...And Dramatic Exit for Brittany Wrapped for her unless someone finds her at the bus stop.

[Evan Hughes]

He did snap at Brittany first, so he shouldn’t have been surprised when she snapped back at him. But still, Evan was. They had never spoken to each other like this before, all fighty and angry, and he didn’t like it in the slightest. It was a lot, lot better when they were all nice and gropey and kissy and happy. They weren’t happy now. This wasn’t fun. And Evan really wasn’t enjoying it.

And then the panic set in, Evan having no idea what he did to set Brit off again. Hannah won? Won what? He wondered, but before he could come up with any idea, Brit set on him, and he had a feeling he wouldn’t like whatever she said. He didn’t. And he got angry. She could trust him! Wasn’t he the one who told her about the whole thing with Syn?! Wasn’t he the one who told her he loved her first?! Wasn’t he the one who came to her house this morning to try to save their relationship?! Him! And now she just wanted to turn it all on him! He was the one who worked so hard to keep them together in the first place. Made him wonder just why now.

“Fine.” he snapped again, hoping she thought he meant about kissing Hannah, something he wasn’t intending to do, no matter how angry he was. He didn’t mind his girlfriend, well, maybe still girlfriend, thinking otherwise. Evan folded his arms around his chest, angrily watching Brit leave, intending to stay mad at her. He even ignored the ice Mal held out, though it would have felt good against his face, it would have ruined his angry look.

And he managed to keep it up for about twenty seconds, before coming to his senses. He was an idiot. “Sorry Lexi, raincheck! Anytime, I’ll beat you, just bring it on!” he yelled out to the girl he was really starting to like. “See you too Dare!” He then turned to those around him, though he ignored Ian. “Um, I’ve gotta go. Sorry to leave so early. Have fun without me. Well, I know that’ll be impossible, but try.” he rushed. “Hannah, you’re really cool, but Brit’s not comfortable with us being friends, so sorry. We shouldn’t be friends then. Ok, gotta go, bye!” He felt bad, Hannah really was a cool girl, but he was smart enough to know his girlfriend came first. “See you Patch! Talk to you tonight!” he yelled in his rush out.

He figured she went to the bus stop so that was where he first went, and he was more than a little glad to see he was right. Evan plonked himself down next to her, moving his arm around her shoulders, even if she didn’t want him to. “I’ve been a stupid idiot a lot today. I deserve the black eyes.” he admitted. “I’m really, really sorry babe. But you do know I didn’t kiss Syn, right? You believe me about that? I don’t want anyone but you, I promise. I just told Hannah then about us not being friends, and I meant that. You can trust me. Please Brit, you’ve gotta forgive me. That’s the only way we’re still going to work, and I really want us to. I’ll do anything to make you forgive me and trust me again. Really, anything. I’ll even let Ian punch on me some more.”


OOC: You didn't think Evan would let Brit get away that easily now, did you? He loves a damsel in distress! Even if technically she's in distress because of him. lol

[Alexia Dashwood-Dune]

Grinning at Lissa's choice of name, she shrugged and put it down. "So Captain Noodlehead and Princess is on the board. "Ev! Brit! What names do you wanna put on the screen?" She yelled but shrugged when they seemed to be too caught up with fight. She just put on Balla for Evan and Redhots for Brittany just for fun. Lexi was just about to ask Hannah for her choice of name when someone practically unrecognisable approached her and started talking old speak. It took her awhile to get past the wig and costume to see that it Was Wynn, the boy she had cheered up and whom had cheered her up in return from the other day.

The dramatic pose he displayed made her crack up before closing her mouth to stop herself from bursting out any louder. When she finally trusted her voice again, she put down her mouth and showed Wynn a huge grin. "Wynn? Who are you supposed to be?" She asked. "Wait lemme guess...Captain Jack Sparrow. No wait...he had a lot of eye liner and loads of beads in his hair. Okay I give up...who are you?"

Lissa's departure suddenly made Lexi feel a bit awkward being with Wynn alone. The others were too preoccupied and she just wanted to bowl. "Dang, I want to bowl but people keep getting into fights and disappearing." She chuckled with a shrug before asking Wynn to sit. "So you want a nickname up on the screen? I'm Captain Noodlehead." She motioned to the screen.

[felipe]

(OOC: A slight confrontation in the Jess/Fel thread that sort of affects Evan and Patch >.<)

[Vasilisa Remington]

Lissa waited till Mal came back to tell her. "Well from what I can tell Hannah was flirting with Even, it is clear she likes him. Then Britany came in and they started having a war of word of sorts over Even. And his brother pulled him away and next thing you know they are fighting in the office." She had explained this after Even had left. And she gave the guy credit he was a man that valued his girlfriend and the relationship. "Britany is very lucky" she told Mal. "Some guys would not run out to get her."

She glanced over and saw Lexi still talking to the guy. "Want to still come play bowling with us. I mean we might as well since we are all here. And Evan did want us to carry on". She turned to JJ with a smile. "And it is nice to meet you JJ" she shook his hand. "I have heard a lot about you" she said honestly. "Did you two enjoy your breakfast?" she asked with a smile at them. She looked over at Lexi with a smile. "Be right over" she shouted to her. She was going to have fun today, she felt she could get along with these people and planned on making more friends.

"Some come bowl" she smiled at Mall and JJ. She also had a feeling that it could be trouble if Hannah started to speak around Mal. She could already tell Mal would not stand for it and figured it would be away to avoid another fight.

[Hannah Bell]

“Oh gosh!” The mistake Hannah made caused her to feel slightly embarrassed. She was sure she had remember that girl's name. “I'm sorry, Mal. I just got a little confused!” She seemed pleasant enough about the mistake, however, so Hannah didn't worry. Anyway, she was much too focused on Evan's bruised face. The boy foolishly poked at at, and as he hissed and withdrew his arm, Hannah placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. “Hey there tough guy, be more careful!”

Mal returned with the ice, handing it to Brit. It seemed as if this girl was a friend of Hannah's current nemesis, so perhaps it wouldn't be a good idea to trust her too much. The ice was quickly forgotten as Brit finally exploded, the tension in the room boiling over to a point where someone could no longer take it. Luckily for Hannah, she wasn't the one to explode.

“I win?” She murmured innocently. Inside she was smiling, but for the time being she knew better than to show such joy. She did feel slightly bad for Brittany, but the girl had been rude to her from the start so Hannah didn't worry too much about her opponent. Still, something bothered her about what the orange haired girl had said. Hannah turned to Evan, confusion evident on her face. “You said you weren't gonna be my friend?”

Evan quickly explained and disappeared, and Hannah was left standing sad and confused in a room full of people that were most likely against her. It was not a comfortable situation, and Hannah wasn't sure what to do. Most of these people were friends of Evan, so if she ever dated the boy she'd no doubt run into them again. It would behoove her to make nice, but after the whole meltdown Hannah wasn't sure that would ever happen. Instead she did what her instincts normally told her to do when she was uncomfortable: run.

She walked over to the chairs where she had left her purse and her shoes, picked them up, and quickly and quietly made her way to the exit. She hoped no one would notice that she was leaving, or at least that no one would care. As she left the building she looked around to see if perhaps Evan was returning, but he was long gone. She quickly sent a text to her mom asking for a ride home, then found a bench and sat, waiting. The day had not turned out like she had hoped, and she was quite disappointed.

[Lia Juarez]

Lia saw the other blonde leaving and felt a bit badly for her. She whispered an excuse to Christophe and followed her out. "hey! Rough afternoon,huh?" she asked as she sat beside her on the bench. "Listen I know you're really into popularity and stuff, but that wasn't the way to go about it. In this crowd, Evan and Brit are very popular and it's not just because Evan is the life of the party, Brit is plenty popular on her own. Trying to mess them up just isn't wise. Really though... no one likes a homewrecker. We all sit here and wonder if our boyfriend just might be next. I am not trying to rag on you when you're already hurting, I am just trying to pass on a bit of advice in hopes you can recover from this. I know how you feel actually. I'm in love with someone dating one of my friends. I am friendly, but touching is out no matter how innocent it is meant to be. Sometimes things just don't seem fair, but I have to respect myself no matter what. When you're about to do something say to yourself 'Would I like someone to act like this towards my boyfriend?' If you can honestly say yes then go for it, otherwise back off," Lia advised, patting one of Hannah's hands. "Oh I am Lia by the way."

[Brittany Barnes]

Brittany was crying pretty hard when she sensed someone had sat down next to her. Her hood was up though, hiding her face, so she couldn't see who it was. Ian maybe? Mal? JJ? The thought that it would be Evan didn't really cross her mind because he had said "fine" she'd heard it loud and clear. He was probably off making out with Hannah now. It was over...it was really over. She and Evan had broken up and Brittany was devastated. Because she really had loved him...and he'd said he loved her...but obviously had hadn't meant that. Obviously he was just holding out for someone better, and he had decided that Brittany was better than Syn, but Brittany wasn't better than Hannah. Apparently the cheerleaders always did win out in the end.

She felt an arm go over her shoulders and she shrugged it off instinctively. Then she heard Evan speak. "Well...you let her get that close to you," Brit replied, not looking at him. "You have to be pretty close to someone for them to kiss you." She wiped her eyes with her sleeves. The bus pulled up and stopped but Brit shook her head at the driver to signal that she wasn't getting on. She didn't know when the next bus would come and she wasn't planning to stay, but she wanted to at least hear Evan out. He had chased her down after all, even if he'd made out with Hannah first.

"You also said that you were going to kiss Hannah," she pointed out, looking at him for the first time. Her eyes were red and a little puffy and there was some mascara smeared across her eyes. "Wait...what? You want me? I...thought you said..." She trailed off. She let out little laugh when he mentioned letting Ian hit him again. "You don't have to do that," she said, shaking her head. "I didn't even want him to hit you...he had said something about it the other night and I was mad and I didn't really give him an answer about it. I didn't think he'd actually do it or anything...and I wasn't taking his side. I just thought it was nice that he was willing to do that for me, even though he soooo didn't have to," she explained. "But you totally took Hannah's side! You got all happy when she walked over and then you got all snappy with me! You've never yelled at me before...I didn't like it," she said, pouting as she folded her arms across her chest, looking all cross.

Brittany let out another sigh. "And I'm sorry I got all jealous but I wouldn't have had any reason to be jealous of stupid Hannah if it hadn't been for Syn!" she said accusingly.

[Evan Hughes]

“Yeah, pretty close.” Evan admitted, begrudgingly. The long Brittany spoke, the worse Evan felt. He thought he had been doing okay with this whole boyfriend thing, especially seeing how he’d never done it really seriously before. But he guessed he was wrong, seeing how he did let Syn kiss him, well, maybe not let exactly, but he could have done a much better job at stopping her from even trying it. And now Brit was crying, even he could tell that making your girlfriend cry was a far from good thing. He really had to start doing better. “And that was really stupid of me. But I know now, right? I won’t let anything like that happen again, I promise. You believe me, right? You know that’s not like me.” At least, he really hoped she knew that. Anytime he saw Syn now he was sure he was going to be antsy, and he’d be more careful around any girls who seemed too friendly now. Which was hard, cause he was probably too friendly to everyone and that didn’t mean he was crushing on them, so telling the difference was going to be really hard.

“I didn’t exactly say I was going to kiss her.” Evan defended himself, before sighing. “But yeah, I didn’t exactly say I wouldn’t. Sorry about that. But I wouldn’t do anything like that, really! I mean, I’m dating you! I would never kiss another girl. And especially not a cheerleader. They’re like, the spawn of Satan, I mean, Aly, right? You know me better than that.”

He still couldn’t believe that Brit found it so hard to comprehend that he was only interested in her. “Well, I was kinda mad, and I’m a bit stupid, if you haven’t noticed by now, so when I’m mad and stupid, I say stupid things that I end up regretting later. Or, like right now.” He glanced over to her, and she wasn’t crying anymore. But her eyes looked really red, and there was some black stuff running down her blotchy face. She looked totally hot.

“Okay, cool. Good, cause I really don’t want him to hit me again either. That guy is stronger than he looks. It really hurt.” he grinned a little, resisting the urge to poke at his face again. “He was right though, to hit me. I was really bad to you, I know I was, and I deserved the punches. But I’m gonna be better, if you let me. If you like, I’ll talk to him later, I think I might have landed on him kinda heavy. I can, um, apologise to him.” It was obvious that that was something he really, really didn’t want to do, Ian had totally started it after all. But, if it meant keeping Brit, well, he would do anything. Even run buck naked through the school at lunchtime on Wednesday. Though, he didn’t see how that would help him and Brit, even if it would be funny, so he would try the whole saying sorry to Ian thing first.

“I didn’t take her side! I was just glad to see someone friendly and who wasn’t going to hit me. But I’m sorry.” Evan apologised, again. He was really getting into the habit of that lately. “I don’t like yelling at you either. I won’t anymore, ok? It’s not fun. And I like it when we’re happy with each other. So let’s be happy ok?” he repeated, frowning a little when she seemed like she was still annoyed. He liked cheery Brit, not grumpy Brit. Though he was still more than happy to jump on both.

He wrapped his arm around her shoulders again, making sure she wouldn’t shrug away from him again. “I know, it’s all my fault.” he admitted. “I really should be smarter, you know. It’s just, well, when I was single, I never would have thought about making a move on a girl who wasn’t. So I just didn’t expect anyone to make a move on me. And especially when I haven’t exactly made it a secret about how crazy I am about you. But I will be more careful, and less stupid, and a better boyfriend. If, you know, you still want me around.”

Two really serious conversations in one day. Two more than he would have preferred. “If you want to dump me, you can. I won’t stop you. I’ll whinge, and I’ll complain, and I’ll bug you for a really long time about it, but I can’t exactly stop you. Don’t though, break up with me. Please. But, if you don’t, you have to be able to at least try to forgive me. Cause I know I was really bad, but it doesn’t help you know, you bringing it up all the time, the Syn thing. I need to know if you can forgive me for this, and not get paranoid when I talk to a girl. Cause I would never cheat on you, and I would never do anything to risk us. I love you, and I’d rather, um, getting rid of all my DVDs before I’d even think about kissing another girl. You’re my girl Brit.”

He sighed and stood, looking more than a little nervous. "My house is empty. Do you want to maybe come back with me, watch a movie, eat candy?" he offered, holding out his hand.