Eyes on Mark

The mood was a little more upbeat around campus later that evening. Despite having a chance to win the final game of the season, Mark felt a lot better with other teammates and students letting him know that he played well all night and not to worry about the final play.

It comforted him to hear that, making it easier to enjoy the company and sink drinks.

Shuffling through the crowd in the courtyards, Mark spotted two of his close friends from Weat Hall standing together, chatting.

“We’ve got good news!” Daniel exclaimed as Mark joined him and Maple.

“Good news?? What is it?” he asked, curiously.

Maple then spoke up for herself, already smiling, looking like she was in a much better mood than previous encounters, “I’m going to file a report against Dixon.”

“Oh my god Maple, that’s amazing, I’m so proud of you,” he said very excited, leaning in and hugging her tightly, “What made you change your mind?”

“Guess a couple of things, seeing the lengths that you two and everyone else were willing to go all to help and protect me really touches my heart,” she explained, “But I also have someone that’s prepared to testify with me, Z… he’s agreed to come with me next week, the day after the college prom.”

He was more than happy to hear that.

They were finally making some progress. The trio talked for a while more before Maple finally excused herself, needing to use the bathroom. Mark turned to Daniel, his eyebrows jumping, “At least we’ve done something right this year,” he told him, “Glad it all paid off.

Daniel smiled hard, “You have no idea how happy I am about that.”

“Did you ask her to the prom next week?” Mark then asked.

He shook his head, “Umm no, not yet… I was actually wanting to ask you something about that.”

“Ahh well, I appreciate the offer but no, no I don’t want to go with you,” Mark joked with him.

A nice shove in the shoulder and a smirk, Daniel quickly got things back on track, “No you moron! I just need some advice.”

“Shoot.”

“I think Ali really wants me to ask her,” Daniel said, “She keeps bringing the whole thing up whenever I’m around her but… I feel like I should be asking Maple to it… what I do, I can’t bring both.”

Mark could understand the conflicting choice and felt like he was entirely in the same boat too, unable to land on just one girl’s name to go with. He sighed, shrugging the shoulders, “I feel you man, I really do but I can’t make that decision for you, it’s up to you.”

He nodded, feeling like he was running out of time to make a decision. While they spoke, Daniel started to look to their right, noticing they were being closely watched. Mark finally picked up on that and tried to work out who he was looking back at.

Across the courtyards, he saw a group of three college cheerleaders, all still in their red cheerleading outfits they wore at the game. He didn’t know them well at all but the one in the middle was spending quite a particular amount of time staring at Mark.

As their eyes met each other, he quickly turned his back to Daniel, not wanting to make things awkward.

“Yep, she’s been staring at you for a while now,” Daniel told him.

“Fuck, who is that again?” he asked his friend.

Daniel shook his head, surprised he couldn’t name her, “Are you kidding? It’s Chrissy.”

Mark squinted his eyes, still not sure.

“Come on dude,” Daniel repeated, “Chrissy Templeton… freshman, she’s got ambitions to be the head cheerleader in a couple of years, smart, hot… I mean super hot. Always with those braids man.”

Mark peeked back at her again and right on cue, she was staring at him, smiling. He smiled back with hesitation, hoping to play this cool. Although he didn’t know her name, he had certainly seen her around on the cheerleading team. was hard not to recognise her, her blonde hair pulled back in those double Dutch braids.

Mark could feel her eyes darting in his direction now, every time he looked away.

“She’s got the hots for you I think,” Daniel added again.

“Think I should go and speak to her?” he asked.

Daniel scoffed, “You’re an idiot if you don’t.”

He glanced back over once more, noticing the way she was looking at him. The hair was one of the first things he noticed but he could see she had beautiful brown eyes, cute dimples and a seductive look on her face confirming she had her eyes on him.

She didn’t have the same type of curves of a Winter or Miranda but her figure was certainly one to admire, she appeared to have decently sized breasts underneath and thighs you would be more than excited to find your way in between.

“Well? What are you going to do?” Daniel asked him again.