CHAPTER 17

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
-Winnie the Pooh

A wave of force hit me, a cold and wet feeling setting over me making me lose my senses for a few minutes.

As I stood there covered in white foam, I remembered why Evans was the pain in my existence. He stared at me wide eyed, holding the fire extinguisher in his hands with a black haired boy beside him who was stifling a laugh. His light brown hair fell in his eyes and his lips pulled up in to a grin. I glared at both of them hard. They pulled on a serious face.

"What?" Evans said defensively. "You looked extremely hot. I thought you needed to cool down a little." He winked and they both started laughing again.

"Aarrghhh" No words came out, instead I shrieked, my nostrils flared and I stomped my foot.

And laughing he ran off, aiming the hose towards other people in the halls with the black haired boy following, I heard a teacher blow a whistle and a few screams from other students.

Zoey, still dying from laughter, grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the washroom. "Let's get you c-cleaned up." She said between laughs.

"Zoey. You're not supposed to be laughing." I whined.

"You two will never grow up, will ya?"

"Him. He will never grow up." I say coldly.

"Alexander Evans and Tom Parker to the office please. Report to the office right now. Alexander and Tom." The P.A system went off.

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"Hey, it's the girl on fire." A guy walked past me pointing, I recognized him as the black haired boy from earlier.

"You." I narrowed my eyes at him.

"Me." He grinned sheepishly. "I'm Tom, someone this guy follows around." He pointed to Evans who was walked up to us.

"More like the other way around." Evans retorted, hitting Tom's back.

"No hard feelings about earlier?" Tom asked smiling.

"Oh I'm not letting you guys off the hook that easy? What sort of joy do you get from drenching me in foam?" I asked

"Oh all sorts of joy Dev, all sorts." Evans snorted and I resisted the urge to punch him.

"Let me make it up to you, what do you say? A date?" Tom asks casually. Smooth Tom, smooth.

"Sorry I don't date. I think I'll stay single for the rest of my life." I shrug, giving him a nice try look.

"Tom, she only dates respectable guys- like me." Evans smirked.

"Shut up Evans, we've never dated." We exit the school doors. "Anyways, I hope you learnt your lesson and got punished. I heard the announcement."

"Oh Scarlett, put thy faith in us. We had Matty boy to cover for us." Retorted Evans.

I raised my eyebrows, "My cousin. The chubby one, you've met him before."

"Ah yes... I thought that was part of the lie. The cousin who's got the worst role model on earth."

"Yeah! What- no!" Evans said and Tom laughed at him. 

"Alright c'mon, how about you join us, we were just heading out for some McDonald's." Tom offered.

I hesitated and Tom noticed then sang out, "My treat."

Who could refuse free food?

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My stomach was full with fries and ice cream but those brownies were just sitting there waiting for me. And anyways, Evans and Tom left me alone in the kitchen. Bored, I picked one of the chocolate drizzled chewy brownie and plopped it in my mouth.

It was really rich, chocolatey and the PERFECT amount of chewy- ooh. I moaned and picked up another one.

When I was on the sixth brownie I felt like exploding in to bits of happiness and floating away in to the light. But I heard someone shuffling right outside the kitchen. Immediately I thought of a thief and picked up a pan.

With my half eaten brownie in one hand and the pan steady in the other, I cautiously looked out of the kitchen. Seeing no one, I slightly lowered the pan.

Someone tapped on my shoulder and I spun around my pan smacking the person's face.

'Aaaahhhh!' I screamed and the person screamed with me.

"What the actual fuckin fuckity is going on down here?" Evans floated down the staircase. Floated? How is he floating?

I gasped loudly, "Ghost man?"

I looked down at the lump moaning in pain by my feet. "Dude, she just hit me with the pan! On. My. Face!"

"Angel?" I whispered, still in wonder.

Evans walked closer to me and held me by the shoulder, his jaw was clenched and he looked straight in to my eyes.

"What'd you do?" He asked quietly. He looked serious and scary and pretty all at once.

I giggled. "You're funny, you should like totally be president." Then I plopped the rest of my brownie in my mouth and chewed slowly right in front of his face.

"She ate the brownies?" Tom exclaimed, looking tense all of a sudden, still rubbing his cheek which looked swollen. "You ate the brownies?" He yelled at me.

"Hey BUDDY, don't yell at me and rub that ugly cheek or I'll give ya another one son!" I yelled, raising the pan, threateningly. Tom winced and pouted like a child. I heard him whisper 'meanie'.

I gasped and pointed to Evans, "You're a baallloooonnn!"

Then I frowned again and Evans watched me, frowning as well. "Tell me Hulk ... what makes you float? What's your secret?" I poked at Evans' chest in question.

Evans sighed loudly and stared at the ceiling for like ten minutes. I shrugged and walked away from him.

I picked up another brownie from the tray when someone hit my hand and the brownie fell on to the counter. The brownie broke as it fell, crumbling to its death.

"My brownie." I sniffled. I looked up at Evans who'd hit my hand and glared at him. "You jerkface! You killed it!" I yelled. "You killed Dumbledore!"

"Okay you need to listen to me, we need to sober you up, I can't deal with this right now." Evans shook my shoulders.

"Hey, Scarlett, how about you come with me while Alex here makes you some lemonade or something?" Tom wrapped his arm around me, grinning.

I immediately pushed him away, making a disgusted face. "UGH! As if!"

"Okay Tom, you leave. She's not liking you right now." Evans said.

"Rude." Tom said, putting his hand up in the air and left the kitchen.

"And Dev-" Evans started holding the bridge of his nose.

I put my hands to the sides of his faces, holding it close to mine. "You have pretty eyes. I like your pretty eyes. You pretty person." I mumble lightly and Evans froze.

I stare deeply in to his eyes, his face is so close, our noses are almost touching. Inhaling his light scent of cinnamon and mint, I lean in closer to his face. He leans in, looking at my lips. He closed his eyes ....

"Avada Kedavra bitch!" I smack both my hands on his cheeks hard and run away.

"Fucking hell!" I heard Evans curse behind me and I giggled. I shrieked as I heard his feet thumping after me on the stairs and I ran in one of the rooms upstairs and locked the room.

I turned around and recognized Evans' messy room. I stepped around all the clothes on the floor and saw a painting peaking out from under his bed. I pulled it out in curiosity.

It was a pair of eyes, a pair of hazel eyes. There were strands of hair loose in the painting, slight freckles covering underneath the eyes and grayish hazel eyes sparkled with a touch of blue.

In the bottom left corner, it was signed Alexander, dated three years ago. I think I felt denial at first, it is what comes after shock.

"Scarlett..." Evans walked in slowly, looking at the painting in my hand.

"This is..." I breathed out. "Borderline creepy. Damn Daniel! Back at it with the creepies."

"Shut up!" Evans snapped pulling the painting out of my hand and I laughed, smacking his shoulder.

Evans put the painting back under his bed and I stopped laughing. "I'm kidding. Uh-it's beautiful. Is it... is it me?"

"Nope." I raised my eyebrow. "Maybe, yes."

"From three years ago?"

"Um- I tend to paint significant things in my life." He paused.

"When we met, you know, everything else literally just stopped for me. You were the most beautiful person and your eyes mesmerized me. I just didn't know what I was feeling so I .... I just insulted you, I guess." He explained softly, not looking at me. I looked over at his shy face and my heart swelled.

"AWW ALEXANDER YOU ADORABLE TEDDY BEAR C'MERE." I feel like buzzed me is ruining the moment.

Evans sighed. "Okay, so maybe this wasn't the best time to get with the touchy feely crap."

I threw my arms around Evans and snuggled my head in to his neck. "Dude, you smell like cinnabuns. Mmmm."

Stiffly Evans just stood there then tapped my back, "Uh- Scarlett? Want to get off now?" I heard his voice but it was far away, my entire weight was leaning against his body.

Soon, I was eating a cinnabun with Dumbledore in a ball room filled with balloons.

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A/N SO CLOSE UGHH OK I LOVE HIGH SCARLETT
AND ALSO EVANS CONFESSED A LITTLE EEK :) :)
POOR TOM LOOL! HOPE U ENJOYED IT!

P.S beautiful britt robertson on top as Scarlett <3 <3