Friday, August 18, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
ONE ON ONE.
i owed sammie shing this story for ages, so here it is.
its not really fluffy but i tried.
The sun rose above the clouds dawn was finally here. The sun shone its unrelenting rays down on the crowds of people who had gathered to watch the one on one match between two people- Cassie and Seth. Both of them were equally well known and were expected to become the best of friends. However a series of misfortunate events proved otherwise. Thus the basketball match, a complete showdown between both of them. To end the prank war they had been having for almost the entire year.
A raven-haired boy stood at the middle of the court. His dark green eyes set off his tanned oval face. An aura of cool confidence radiated around him. His mouth slowly curved into a grim smile, obviously annoyed by the late arrival of his rival. Convinced that she wasn’t coming, he turned to leave when he caught sight of a figure coming towards him. Parking her bicycle, Cassie walked up to Seth oblivious to the fact that she was late. “You do know that its rude to keep someone waiting.” Seth snapped at her. Cassie merely looked at him and replied, “ it’s called being fashionably late, but it’s always nice to be missed.” Seth watched her, speechless as she picked up the orange ball which was at the edge of the court.
Watching her, he realized with mild interest that her choice of clothes- a black oversized men’s shirt over a white racer top and white jersey pants matched his which was a white jersey. Her blond hair whipped across his face, snapping him out of his trance. Cassie’s light blue eyes twinkled with mirth as she said, “I thought we knew each other well enough for you to stop doing that.” “Stop doing what? This?” Seth replied calmly hitting the ball out of her hands to emphasize his point.
Seeing him run across the court and score. “That wasn’t fair” Cassie accused Seth when he threw the ball at her. “Nothing in this world is fair sweetheart” was his reply. With that, the match started. Bound by no rules, the game was filled with tension and suspicion with each and every move that was made. Halfway through the game, a sudden idea formed in Cassie’s mind to break their nick to neck scores, Grinning, she caught the ball that was thrown to her and dribbled to where Seth was guarding, Sliding her arm around his neck. Shocked, by her action, Seth's gaze was easily caught and held while Cassie scored a point. “ Surprise.” She whispered in his ear, her breath lightly tickling his ear. Detaching herself from him she walked back to her side of the court.
Narrowing his eyes, Seth caught the ball on rebound, a revenge plan already beginning to form in his mind. Seth tore across the court, slowing down when he reached Cassie. He wrapped his arm around her waist pulling her downwards till she was almost parallel to the ground. Forcing her to watch him use her own trick against her and score. Pulling her upwards, he locked eyes with her and said, “Two can play your game.”
His face so near to hers that she could smell his fresh minty breath. Staring at her eyes, Seth wondered why he had never noticed that she had beautiful eyes. “ I wonder if she taste as good as she smells,” thought Seth as he lowered his face towards her. His fingers tilting her face upwards towards his, Cassie was in a daze when she felt his lips brush against hers. At that very moment, Seth lost his balance and sent them both crashing towards the floor. “I have this growing feeling that you like being in control.” Cassie commented. Seth just smiled not making any movement to get off her. “You do realize this is an inappropriate position to be in” Seeing his smile widen into a grin, her tone turned a bit accusatory “I’m starting to think you did all this on purpose.”