A couple of weeks passed, and Cypress finally found the courage to go to one of Ethan's soccer games. He went over the ticket station and waited until Jesse arrived.

"Yo! Cy you're here!" Jesse ran up to him, and they both went into the High-school stadium, where they sat at the bleachers.

"I thought may- maybe I should go." Cypress said quietly, Jesse nodded.

"Evelyn is apparently going to be singing the anthem."

"That's nice, is she cheering?" Cypress opened his phone to check the time, 10 minutes till the coin toss, people were going to start flooding in.

"Yeah, of course she is! She's like the best girl on the team."

10 minutes later, Evelyn was getting ready to sing, she wore her letterman jacket over her uniform, making the short skirt seem even smaller. Cypress just stared at Ethan, who was standing with his hand over his heart, he always had great posture... And he always looked amazing in his soccer uniform.

"Jeez, Ethan is totally staring at Evelyn." Jesse laughed, and suddenly Abigail sat next to him, "Jesus you scared the shit out of me!"

"Whoop, pardon me..." Mickey walked up the stairs behind Abigail with his girlfriend, Mavis, who held onto his shoulder.

"Mickey what is it with you and stairs?" She whispered, then they sat down next to Cypress after stumbling in front of Abigail and Jesse, "pardon us, my boyfriend is a fucking clutz..."

Cypress scooted towards Jesse, and Mavis gave him a weird look, which Abigail caught, and she mouthed "sorry".

"Jesse..." Abigail whispered.

"Huh?"

"Maybe you should tell Mavis this is Cypress...?"

"What? Why?"

"He's giving off "I don't like you vibes" and you know... Mavis can be a little... paranoid about those things..."

"Yeah sure." Jesse looked over at Mavis, "Yo, Mavis. This is Cypress-"

"Uh huh..." Mavis looked over at Cypress, "he seems very... observant."

"Cypress why don't you say hi to Mavis?" Jesse patted his shoulder, and Cypress looked up at Mavis, previously he was observing the ants on the lower bleacher.

"Hi."

"Yo Cy, you want some?" Mickey handed him some goldfish, "anyone want goldfish?" Abigail and Jesse shook their head.

"No thanks." Cypress looked back at Mavis, and she stared right back at him.

"You seem very observant of me..." she raised an eyebrow, "do I look weird?"

"You do, do I look weird?"

Abigail felt her heart pounding, she knew Mavis could get a little defensive, and it was very understandable. She needed to be defensive to even keep her room at her own house, she needed to be defensive to get a job, or even a car ride. Cypress didn't put the two together, he looked like he was resenting her because she was trans, but really he was just being himself, he would act like this to a cis person, to anyone.

"Yeah, you look like you're about to write a poem about how you wanna kill yourself." She smiled, "you look like those white, vitamin deficient grunge boys girls throw their panties at."

"Oh." Cypress nodded, "ok." He looked back down. Then he smiled slightly, he knew he was freaking Abigail out, and he also liked Mavis's comment, it was funny.

"Well, you throw something back?" Mavis gestured towards him, "cause clearly, you gotta problem with me."

Cypress looked back at her and shook his head, "no, I don't."

"Then why are you scooting away from me? Saying I look weird, do I look like a tranny? Is that what you mean?" She smirked.

"No... it's just that you're wear-wearing a track suit even though you're not playing the sport, you're watching it. I think that's weird." He shuffled in his seat and bounced his leg. "You don't look trans, I don't even really get what that me- means... and I don't have a problem wi- with trans people..." Cypress then tilted his head to the side and squeezed his eyes shut, his lanyard was bothering him.

"Huh, my bad then. You're just really fucking awkward." Mavis shrugged, then leaned against Mickey, who was so stoned that he didn't even notice Mavis was interrogating Cypress.

"Ok." Cypress looked back down at the ants, but they were gone.

Abigail sighed, Mavis didn't know about Cypress's condition, so it was understandable why she got offended. It was always uncomfortable for anyone to introduce someone to Cypress, he wasn't welcoming at all.

"That went well." Jesse scoffed and Abigail lightly hit his chest. Suddenly the lights dimmed down and Evelyn was in the spotlight in the middle of the field, which didn't look that intense since they were outside and there were only stadium lights.

She began to sing, and immediately Abigail felt her chest melt. Here was the most gorgeous girl in school, in a letter jacket and a short skirt, singing in the most beautiful voice, in the middle of the soccer field.

The stadium lights lit the dew on the grass, making it almost sparkle around Evelyn, and from the middle row where her friends were watching, it was far away enough to see the grass, and close enough to still see Evelyn's face.

Ethan watched from a few feet away, her voice seemed to glide in his head, it was so delicate but so powerful. It reminded him of Mama Cass, who his mother adored, and also Lorde, who Abigail worshipped.

She finished the song just as good as she started it, and everyone cheered, but she turned around to Ethan and felt the most accomplishment when she saw him clapping and smiling.

The game started and Cypress watched as Ethan ran and kicked, dodged and weaved, and then eventually score a goal. He clapped, but then covered his ears when everyone else celebrated.

Loud.

Ethan looked over a Cypress in the bleachers, and smiled at him, he smiled back which made Ethan less worried about him. He then looked at Jesse and Abigail, he quickly looked away.

"Ugh, He's still upset..." Abigail sighed, "I cant believe I did that- why the hell did I say that-"

"Abigail." Jesse gave her a look of don't say what you're about to say here and Abigail nodded. Ethan had confronted Abigail about telling Mickey what had happened to him, he seemed more hurt than upset, and he still seemed hurt. Jesse also knew about what had happened with Ethan and his ex, so Ethan ranted to him about Abigail.

Cypress didn't seem to notice the issue between Abigail and Ethan, which wasn't a surprise. He wasn't giving much attention to Abigail in general, he also didn't know about what happened to Ethan.

Mickey caught Ethan's attention by waving his arms in the air, "NICE ONE DUDE!!" He yelled, and Mavis gave her boyfriend a weird look. "What it was impressive." She nodded in a very uninterested fashion.

Ethan gave him a thumbs up, then waved kindly at Mavis, who waved back smiling.

"Such a nice guy, we should ask him if he wants to get down." She laughed, "you think he'd be into that? He's 18 right?"

"Yeah, he is. I don't think he's into that type of stuff though, like anatomy wise..." Mickey whispered.

"Even if that anatomy belongs to a woman...?" Mavis smirked.

"You could ask him, but I think he's got it bad for Evelyn." Mickey pointed to her, "the one that sang that song."

"The national anthem?" Abigail leaned over to look at Mickey, "you mean the national anthem?"

"Yeah that jam." Mickey snapped his fingers, "that's Evelyn!"

"Ooohh... yeah she's a very pretty girl. She looks like a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Dove Cameron. And like Dakota Schiffer."

"No idea who they are but cool!" Mickey smiled, "oh look the cheerleaders are coming out!"

Evelyn and about 10 other girls came out and did a very exciting routine. They all watched in amazement (Cypress more in interest) as Evelyn did splits and kart wheels on the grass, then join the other girls in holding up another girl, after that she did a couple flips with some girls, then they all posed at the end.

Everyone clapped and Cypress did as well, then covered his ears again.

The game ended with a victory, and the cheerleaders did a big routine at the end, which made everyone go wild. Cypress covered his ears and zoned out while staring at Ethan, who was breathing hard from the game and smiling with his team mates.

The group met up with Evelyn and Ethan at the exit of the stadium after the two had changed.

"You two killed it!" Jesse high-fived them both, "Abigail totally lost her shit when you were flipping around Evelyn, same with Ethan when you scored those goals."

"Aw, thanks Abby. I'm glad you guys liked it!" Evelyn smiled, "and it's nice to meet you two!" She waved at Mickey and Mavis, who were both staring at Evelyn in shock, they'd never seen such a... beautiful and genuinely happy person before.

"Holy shit you're like an angel..." Mickey laughed, "you're like... very pretty."

"Oh thanks Mickey I love you too." Mavis teased, then looked at Evelyn, "you were amazing out there! I always wanted to be a cheerleader."

"Well, you could definitely be one! You already look like you do some dancing, do you?"

"I actually do yoga!" Mavis laughed, "My parents are from Bali, it's where yoga was born."

"Wow! I heard it's beautiful over there... I do ballet and cheerleading so... those are similar! What's your name?" Evelyn brushed some hair back and smiled, and Ethan couldn't help but smile, she was so pretty and kind.

"Mavis! This weirdo is my boyfriend Mickey- you know the school drug dealer."

"Aw, you two are cute! I saw you guys in the bleachers sharing food, it was nice meeting you guys! Are you hanging out with us tonight?" Evelyn started to play with the zipper of her letter jacket, she could hear Terrance leaving the locker room yelling about something with his friends.

"Yeah! Ethan actually invited us." Mickey smiled.

"AYE!" Terrance yelled, and Evelyn turned around as well as Ethan.

He stormed over to them, then out of nowhere punched Ethan in the face. "YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH WHAT YOU DID IN THE COURTYARD?!"

Evelyn glared but quickly looked in fear when Terrance turned to her.

"I'm gonna make you pay later, ALONE."

Mickey casually walked up to Terrance, then quietly got out the beer bottle he snuck in and was drinking from during the game. It was empty now.

"You better watch your back you fucking pig slut!" Terrance yelled in Evelyn's face, making her cry.

Mickey then smashed the bottle on Terrance's head, knocking him out instantly. Evelyn yelled and backed up, feeling a small piece of glass cut her leg.

"Oh shit!" Jesse laughed, "damn!"

Cypress, very quietly walked up to Terrance's unconscious body while everyone else either celebrated or rushed over to Ethan. He looked down at him, then moved his head with his foot and looked at his face.

"Ugh..." he groaned, then looked up at Cypress, "the fuck you want faggot."

Cypress kicked his face, knocking him out again, and breaking his nose. No one saw Cypress do it, everyone was now helping Ethan collect himself, he wasn't hit too hard, just enough to daze him.

After about 5 minutes or so, the group split into Jesse and Mickeys vans, and drove over to the lake.