Page 24 of Perfect Tragedy
“You’re really good.”
“Thank you.”
“I’m playing hockey in college. Got a scholarship actually,” he brags.
“That’s great.”
“You should come to one of my hockey games this year,” he invites. He’s attending Montana State - the whole school was talking about when he accepted, surprised he didn’t choose to leave the state instead.
Smiling I nod, “Maybe I will.”
“Awesome.”
He turns me and I look around at the couples around us as West tells me about the teams he’s excited to play against. I see Jack dancing with Amelia and when he bends down to kiss her I look away.
Next my gaze connects with Blake’s. He’s dancing with Hailey. She’s got her face shoved against his chest, eyes closed, body pressed against his tightly. She’s totally into it clearly, but I don’t know if I can say the same about him since he’s clearly zoned in on me. I quickly look away.
West’s hand moves down my arm and I can’t help but look Blake’s direction again and watch as his eyes track the movement before he looks back into my eyes. His lips are pressed in a firm line and if I didn’t know better I’d say he appears… jealous. That can’t be it though. I’m sure he’s just being overprotective after everything that happened earlier this year. I doubt he wants to clean up another Sienna mess.
I smile at him reassuringly, and he smiles back, but it looks forced.
“Don’t you think?” West asks and I have no idea what he was talking about.
“Um, sure.”
“Yeah, me too,” he says and I smile.
When the song ends I step away, “Thank you for the dance.” A fast song begins playing and he looks a bit annoyed. “I should go back to Vanessa,” I tell him pointing over my shoulder. As if on cue, Cece comes to his side to get his attention which facilitates my escape.
Vanessa is still where I left her, “West Jenkins asked you to dance!”
I smile, “It was… nice.”
“Nice? Just nice? I’m pretty sure there’s a bunch of girls that would die to dance with him and you just called itnice?”
I shrug. “Should we go take our prom photos?”
“I thought you’d never ask!”
We head to wait in line for the photo booth set up and discuss how we should pose, resulting in standing back to back giving sultry looks to the camera, before grabbing a bunch of props and laughing at ourselves the whole time. I have no idea how they are going to turn out, but I can’t wait to see them.
When another good song begins to play, we look at each other, smile and quickly head to the dance floor again. They play a favorite fast song, and then another and we once again break out all our best moves, laughing at each other as we try to one up each other. My feet start to hurt a bit and I point at them and gesture to the chairs. Vanessa nods her head, gives me a thumbs up and a huge smile, and keeps dancing.
Getting a fresh drink, I head to an empty table to rest my feet for a bit. I’m not alone long before West approaches me again but this time he’s got a few of his friends, Brian, Jeremy, and Mario with him. They all sit down with me.
“Look at Keith,” West points out to the dance floor and we all laugh when we see Keith, a regular class clown doing what he probably thinks is some cool break dance moves, but unfortunately, he just manages to look ridiculous.
“My brother doesn’t look much better,” I tease and everyone laughs when they see Jack really feeling himself on the dance floor. His moves are over the top and he’s gaining a lot of attention as people surround him laughing.
Looking away, once again my eyes collide with Blake’s. He’s on the dance floor, surrounded by people, but he’s standing still. He’s looking at my table and he keeps looking from person to person. The smile falls off my face surprised by how irritated he looks. Confused, I look away and paste a smile on my face as I listen to the guys talk about other people’s dance moves.
“Mine are better than all of theirs,” Mario says.
“Sure, they are,” I tease.
He looks at me, mirth in his eyes and he gets out of his seat to show me said moves. We’re all laughing at his thrusting and grinding when suddenly the music changes and he immediately starts looking around in confusion, which makes us all laugh again.
West looks at me and stands. I know he’s about to ask me to dance again. Should I? I still can’t help but feel like it’s not right considering he has a date here. He really should be dancing with her. Then again, I guess she’s not complaining.
