All my babes from 13RW

"I don't know, he hasn't tell me anything yet. But we have math together in a minute so maybe he'll tell me something", I said as I took book from my locker.

When I got to the class Monty was already there. We weren't sitting next to each other so I only smile and waved at him and sat down.

"I'm pissed about the weather", Montgomery said when we were leaving class together. "Maybe you want to reschedule?"

"What?", I stopped. "Because of the rain? No, I don't. Do you?"

"No, of course I don't. It's just... I have this thing planned and the rain is a problem".

"What thing?"

"You know I'm not gonna tell you. It's neither Crestmont nor Rosie's, that's all you got to know", he said while checking weather in his phone.

"Come on, Mont, you know how annoying I am when I need to know something", I moaned.

"No", he laughed.

"Please", I asked with a pout.

"No", he said with his head turned away from me. "I go to English, your pout and puppy eyes will not work on me", he added walking away from me.

Before lunch break started, it stopped raining and it even got sunny. After the break me and Monty left to chemistry together.

"It's not raining anymore", I said as we were walking down the hall.

"Yes, I noticed."

"Even the sun came out", I added. "Oh, come on."

"What?", he chuckled.

"Tell me what are we doing later."

“I’m picking you up at 7 and I’m not telling you anything else”, he sighed.

“I already knew that”, I mumbled. “But if weather didn’t change and you’d have to change plans, would you tell me?”

“No. Besides I had backup plan”, he shrugged.

“Aww, you’re really prepared”, I smiled.

“Yes, I am”, he said proudly as we were walking in to chemistry class.

Except for a date with Monty today was special also because it was first time since accident that I could do something more on practice than just watching. While other girls were training handsprings and other gymnastics staff I was mostly jogging and stretching - anything that didn’t make me use my wrist.

After practice I drove quickly straight home and went right to the bathroom and get into shower. When I was standing in front of my closet and realised I don;t know what to wear my phone started ringing.

“Hello?”, I answered without looking at screen.

“Hi”, I heard Montgomery. “I don’t know what you were planning on wearing but it’s quite chilly today so, you know, jeans and hoodie will be just fine.”

“Really?”, I said and put dress I was holding back in closet. “Are we going to sit outside?”, I asked.

“Y/N, I’m not telling anything”, he sighed.

“I swear I can hear you roll your eyes.”

“Jeans and hoodie, see you at seven”, he said and hung up before I got chance to say anything.

I took his suggestion, at least partly. I put on jeans and loose wool sweater.

Few minutes before 7 I walked downstairs.

"You're leaving?", mum asked.

"Umm, yes", I nodded.

Please, don't ask question. Please, don't ask question.

"On a week night?", dad said from living room.

"Is that a problem?", I asked.

Seriously, they never had problem with me going out on any day, any hour pretty much and now they're asking questions?

"No, of course not", mum said. "Who are you going out with?"

"With a friend", I mumbled.

"What friend?", she asked with a smirk.

"Montgomery", I mumbled.

"You're going out, on a week night, with a boy?", he suddenly sat up.

"Chill, it's Montgomery, you know him. He took me to a hospital, remember?"

"The one you don't find nice or anything? The one you're not spending time with?"

"Seriously, that was in November", I rolled my eyes.

Luckily, I heard a doorbell.

"Don't you dare to get up from that couch, both of you", I said as I was walking to door. "I'm leaving, bye”, I said and qucikly closed door when I left. “Hi”, I smiled at Monty.

“Hey”, he smiled at me and kissed me on the cheek. “You look beautiful”.

“I could look better, but you didn’t let me”, I said as we were walking to car.

“You still can’t take compliment”, he shook his head and opened door for me.

“Chivalry is not dead”, I said and got inside. “So were are we going?”

 “You’ll see”.

“You are very discreet about that.”

“I need to cover you eyes”, he said and took blinfold from compartment.

“Are you sex trafficking me?”, I asked but took blinfold and put it on my eyes.

“You know me, of course I am”, he laughed. 

“Cool, but do we have that date thing first or are you selling my right away?”

“Have you always been talking so much?”, he asked.

“Yeah, usually. But we were mostly doing other things so maybe you didn’t noticed”, I shrugged.

After about fifteen minutes car stopped.

“Can I take the blindfold off?”, I asked.

“Not yet, wait still”, Monty said and left the car. In few seconds he opened my door. “Take my hand and let’s go, slowly”, we walked few feet and he added, “Wait here literally for a minute”

“What? Don’t leave me here, God knows where with blindfold on”, I said and squizzed his hand harder.

“It’s okay”, he giggled and released his hand. “You can talk to me, I’m next to you.”

“Okay, so when will you take my blindfold off?”

“In a literal minute”, he said. I could heard he was doing something near me. “So I heard you were at practice today?”

“I was actually on every practice since I had broken my wrist but I was just sitting and watching and today I finally could work out. I mean I wasn’t doing any routines but yeah, I’m slowly getting back at it again.”

“Cool, haven’t see you in this little cute outfit in a while. Okay, take the blindfold off.”

“Finally...”, I mumbled.

I took it off my face, but because it was dark outside not much have changed. I blinked few times to adjust my vision and turned around. 

“Oh my God”, I whispered. 

We were near those old warehouses, Monty was standing next to me and there was blanket laid down and few candles. I also spotted pizza box, which was nice because I was a little hungry.

“Do you like it?”, he asked.

“Do I like it? I love it! When did you prepare it?”

“Before I picked  you up. There’s thermal blanket under normal one, so you wouldn’t get cold from the ground and I have another one in case you get cold and I got us pizza, I know you like the one with salami and coke from McDonald’s because it’s your favourite”, he said and gave me his hand for support when I was sitting down. “But the main reason why I took you here is that it’s good spot for looking at the stars”, he pointed at the sky.

I looked up and I was speechless.

“There is so many of them”, I whispered. Sure, I could look at the stars from my bedroom or any place in the city, but I would see much less of them because of street lights. 

“You run out of words for the first time since I know you so I’ll take that as a good thing”, Monty said and sat next to me. 

“It’s amazing”.

We ate pizza, then we laid down, I put my head on Monty’s arm and played with his fingers while looking at the stars. 

"Can I ask you something?", I asked. 

"Sure", he said and started playing with my hair.

"Last week you wouldn't even look in my direction, not to mention talking to me. What changed on Saturday?"

"After the game... You were the only person who knew where to look for me. And you didn't just tell guys where I might be, but you drove there by yourself, because you didn't want to show them that place. When you sat with me in my car I realized I need you. I need to keep you close to me”, he said caresing my arm with his fingers.

“You see, cool things happen when you let people in”.

“Looks who’s talking”, he chuckled.

“What?”, I looked at him surprised.

“Well, according to Jeff I was first person you let in since dickhead Sean, so I don’t think you’re right person to give lessons about letting people in...”, he raised his eyebrows.

“He said what?”, I sat up and shook my head. “Well, according to Justin I was begging you to get laid on halloween party. Come on, Monty”, I rolled my eyes.

“I mean... You were”, he said trying not to laugh.

“Excuse me?”

"Come on, you basically forced me into that room."

"Be serious, I could use all forces I have inside my body and still wouldn't be able to move you two inches if you didn't actually want to move."

"You called me daddy..."

"Monty! You were supposed to never mention that ever again!", I squealed.

"I know I'm sorry, I couldn't stop myself", he laughed. "You should see your face right now."

"Not funny", I said but also laughed a little.

“The thing itself isn’t funny, your reaction is”, he said as I laid back on his arm.

“Whatever... Another question. If it didn’t stop raining, what would we do?”

“It did. And clouds went away, so why do you need to know?”, he sighed.

“Because I like to know things”

“Well, I’m not telling you. I will use backup plan on another date.”

“Okay, mister misterious.”

I rested my chin on my hand that I put on his chest.

“Did you talk to your dad?”, I asked.

“Don’t go there, Y/N”, he sighed. 

“I want to know what is going on in your life. I want to be a part of it, okay?”, I said softly.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s literally shitshow”, Monty said and avoided my sight.

“Still, I would like you to let me in”.

He looked at me, tucked my hair behind my ear and sighed again.

“Well, I got home pretty late on Friday, I woke up late on Saturday, then went to the winter prom and again got home late, so I successfully avoided him until Sunday. He mentioned something about wasting Friday afternoon on me and that with game like this I can forget about sport scholarship...”

“Oh come on, you’re great player”, I sat up. “I honestly don’t understand why Bryce is captain when it should be you or Jeff.”

“His parents paid for new field.”

“Of course”, I rolled my eyes. “Okay, but what about your mum? I remeber, she was at the game last year, she saw how you play, why didn’t she stand up for you?”

“She usually doesn’t get between me and dad”, he shrugged.

I was watching him but I felt that he wasn’t going to say anything and I decided to not push him. We’ve got to time to say everything. At the same time he was looking at me and playing with my hair.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”, I asked.

“I’m just happy you’re here”.

“Me too”, I said quietly. “I hate to say this but we...”

“We should probably get back”, he finished.

We got up, collected everything and got to the car. 

“Listen...”, he said while we were driving. “I talked with Tina today.”

Just the sound of her name annoyed me, not to mention Montgomery and her talking. 

“Oh, what did you talk about?”, I asked, trying to sound as normal as I could.

“I apologised to her. For using her to make you jealous. And told her that she was right and that I’m sorry.”

“Oh... That’s really nice.”

“Yeah, I didn’t want to mention it earlier, because I know she’s not your favourite person in the world but because someone probably saw us talking I also didn’t want someone else to tell you tomorrow, so that’s why I’m telling you now”, he kept taking. 

“Hey, it’s okay, I mean, you only talk to her, you don’t have to explain yourself”, I assured. “And I think it’s really nice that you apologised to her”, I smiled. 

“Okay, good”, he said with relief.

I found it funny how stressed he was about telling my he was talking to Tina. Sure, I got mad as soon as I heard her name, but it’s not like I would make a scene because of that.

Monty stopped his car in front of my house. 

“Sooo, will you walk me to my front door or will you just wait until I get inside?”, I asked.

“If you haven’t already noticed, it was high class date, so of course I will walk you to front door”, he said.

“I had a great time, Monty”, I said as we were walking.

“I’m glad. Me too”.

“No, I mean, really. I would be happy if you took me to Cresmonty or Rosie’s but that was so great... I mean... No one has ever tried so hard for me”, I said looking down.

“Yeah, I wanted to do something special, for special girl”, he said also looking down.

“Okay, so according to your plan from Friday’s night in Rosie’s now I’m supposed to kiss you on a cheek and quickly hide inside”, I said when we got to my front door.

“You know, I changed a lot of details so we can also change that”, he said with a smirk. 

“Actually”, I took a step closer to him, “I’m more than sure my parents, or at least one of them is behind that door, overhearing everything, so we will stick to that part”, I whispered and gave him a kiss on the cheek. “See you tomorrow”, I said quietly.

“Bye”, he smiled.

I got inside and locked the door, my dad was sitting in living room, “reading” book.

“Oh, you’re home already?”, he said not taking his eyes off the book.

“It’s 10:30, you can stop pretending you’re not waiting here for me”, I said and walked closer to him.

“What do you mean, I’m reading.”

“Interesting, because yesterday you were and page 450 and know it’s page 200 of the same book. Or are you reading books from behind now?”, I asked. “Goodnight, dad”, I gave him kiss on a cheek and went upstairs. 

Jessica called me before I even had chance to finish my breakfast in peace.

“Hello?”, I answered.

“I’m just calling to make sure you didn’t change your mind and are still coming to a prom”, she said.

“Yea, I’m coming”, I sighed.

My mum gave me warning look. My dress was gorgeous, but was also very expensive and my mum agreed to pay only if I sweared I’ll go to the prom.

“Just Jess… Don’t have any expectations about tonight, okay? I don’t have. I’m in peace and I decided I’m going there to have fun with my friends”

“But…”

“Jess”, I said through my clenched teeth.

“Okay, I promise”, I could almost hear her rolling her eyes. “I will not say a word about Montgomery. I swear. Montgomery? I don’t know him”.

I laughed a little. 

“Bye, see you later”.

The day passed faster than usually. I barely blinked and was standing in front of tallest mirror in the house where mum, dad and I could look at me at the same time. I was wearing short, loose golden dress with spaghetti straps. I curled my hair in loose waves and had goldish-brown smoky eye. I also started counting hours until I will be able to take off the heels.

“Oh, sweetie…”, my mum whispered. “You look amazing”.

“Mum, I swear, if you’re gonna cry”, I roll my eyes. “It’s not even homecoming, it’s just winter prom.”

“I know, I know…”, she sighed. “Ugh, you’ll have your own child, you’ll understand.”

“Y/N”, my dad spoke, “you look beautiful”, he said with a smile.

“Thank you”, I smiled.

We heard honking on our driveway.

“It’s Jeff, I have to go”, I put on my leather jacket and went down the stairs.

“Have fun!”, Mum and dad said standing at the front door when I was walking to Jeff’s car.

He was waiting inside with, his girlfriend Leah. I felt like a massive third wheel and assured him I can drive on my own or ask mum or dad, but he was so stubborn about it.

“Hi, guys”, I said as I sat on backseat.

“Hey, you look great”, Jeff said.

“Watch your language, Atkins, your girlfriend is listening”, I joked.

“That dress is bomb”, Leah said.

“Thank you”, I smiled at her. “I love your braid”.

We got to school, but I decided I won’t be third wheeling with them walking to the dance, so instead I went to my locker to put my jacket in there.

I took deep breath and walked in to the dance. I was looking around trying to find someone familiar until I finally spotted Jess, waving at me like a crazy person.

“Oh my God, you look amazing”, she hugged me.

“Thanks”, I smiled.

“I know I promised not to say a word but… Turn around. But don’t make it obvious.”

“Okay, so umm, where’s Justin?”, I said while looking around.

I spotted Monty. He was standing with jocks, staring at me. Suddenly he realised I was looking at him and looked in different direction.

“Listen, the first moment he saw you, I swear, his knees got weak”, Jess said. I didn’t answer anything, just smiled at her.

“Wow, Y/N, I wouldn’t recognize you”, Justin came up with drinks.

“Is there something extra in it?”, I asked taking cup from him.

“Duh”, he chuckled.

***Monty’s POV***

I came to this stupid prom way too early. I was standing on the side with guys, they were commenting appearance of every girl that walked in. But I didn’t care. The only person I cared about was Y/N. I swore to myself that if see her today and I get that gut feeling again I will talk to her. I will tell her fucking everything even if once again it’ll end up with her telling me that I destroy everything and it won’t change. Jeff and his girlfriend came. But Y/N wasn’t with them. It didn’t make sense, he was picking her up on his way here for sure, why didn’t she came in with them? Did she ditch prom? No, impossible, Jessica was giving her so much crap about it, she would come here or Jess would never leave her alone.

“Wow, look at her, man, she won”, I heard one of the boys.

I looked in the same direction they were looking and there she was. She was looking liks a goddess. She always looked great in general, but that dress was doing her huge favour. She had a bit of some sparkly shit on top of her cheeks that made her look angelic. Llittle part of me that was bastard who had no right to be jealous, wanted to get her out of here only so other boys wouldn’t look at her. Y/N quickly walked to Jess, they hugged. Jessica said something, Y/N mumbled something back while looking down and putting hair behind her ear, so more than probably Jess complimented her and she couldn’t take it, as always. Y/N looked around, mentioning something about Justin (what I read from movements of her lips because now I apparently turned into psycho) and then her eyes met me. Jesus, she looked so beautiful it almost hurt. I should’ve walked up to her, take her away from Jessica and tell her whole fucking truth. Instead, she smiled a little at me and I quickly looked away with huge tangle in my stomach. Well played, Monty…

*** Y/N’s POV***

I drank whole drink at once, because apparently I was more nervous than I thought. I didn’t know I was nervous at all.

“I’m going for a refill”, I said.

“It’s in red bowl.”

“Just take it slow, Y/N”, Jess said.

“She’ll be fine”, I heard Justin talking to her as I was walking away.

I was pouring myself a drink when someone stood next to me.

“Hey, Y/N”.

I looked up.

“Oh, hey Scott”, Scott was one of the baseball jocks, we were familiar with each other but never really talked.

“Nice dress”, he said.

“Thanks”, I smiled nervously. Okay this was weird. We almost never talked to each other and suddenly he comes up to me, starts conversation and complements my dress.

“Umm… Would you like to dance?”

“Oh, well, no one is dancing, you know?”, I pointed at the back, where literally everyone was standing I small groups and just talking.

“Yeah, I don’t mean like now, but later?”

“Oh, okay, but why did you ask now and not later?”, I asked.

“I probably wasn’t suppose to tell, but I made a bet with Troy who will dance with you first, so… you know…”, as he was talking he started to realize it sounds bit silly.

“Okay”, I laughed a little.

Suddenly Monty walked up.

“Yo, Scotty, Bryce was looking for you. He and guys went behind the bleachers”, he said .

“Oh, cool, I’m going”, Scott nodded. “Y/N, we have a deal”, he pointed at me and walked away.

“You’re not going?”, I asked because Mintgomery still stood next to me but didn’t say a word.

“No, I don’t feel like smoking today.”

I nodded and looked around nervously.

“So, um, what’s the deal with Scott?”, he asked, looking around, trying to sound relaxed but I could see vein on his neck pulsing.

He was stressed. He was talking to me. About another guy. And was stressed about that. I bit my lips trying not to smile.

“He made a bet with Troy who will dance with me first”, I shrugged. “I don’t know why did they come up with that…”

“Yoo look beautiful”, he said suddenly.

“Thank you”, I smiled and I could feel I started blushed. “Well”, I cleared my throat, “you look good too. That suit? Nice one, de la Cruz.”

“Thanks”, he was looking down at his feet.

“Come oonnn! Y/N!!”, Jess came up, put my cup on the table and took my hand. “Come on, its our song, let’s daaanceeee”

I gave Monty apologising smile as she was pulling me away.

“What the hell, Jess?”

“We can’t give you to him on a golden plate”, she said.

“We? And besides what are you talking about?”, I shook my head. “He came up to me, he started talking to me, because he wanted to do so, what more do you want?”

“He walked up to you to make Scott go away”, she rolled her eyes. “He needs to try harder. Now, dance, he’s watching”

I sighed.

“Whatever”, I mumbled.

Me, Jess and Sheri dance a few songs, then Scott came up.

“Hey, do you remember?”, he asked.

“Yeah, sure”, I nodded.

We danced two songs together, then I remembered I left my phone in my jacket.

“It was really nice, thank you for not trying to put hands on my ass”, I said.

He laughed.

“Can I ask you something?”

I nodded.

“When I told you I made a bet with Troy, you could easily told me and him to go to hell but you agreed?”

“Well… First of all, because I’m quite naive I believed that dance means dance and not trying to having your hands all over my body, which was correct. Second of all, I still decided to dance with you, even though you kind of broke the rules of bet, because you didn’t make any comments when that stupid list came out. Unlike Troy.”

“Cool, thanks”, he smiled and nodded.

I went to my locker. Hall was a little bit scary, because it was dark outside, half of the lights were off and I was alone there. At least that’s what I thought.

“Well, well, well, look who’s here”, I heard Bryce when I was opening my locker.

I rolled my eyes before I turned to him.

“Hey”, I tried to sound neutral.

“Damn, Y/N, you look so hot”, he said standing way too close to me.

“Can you take a step back? I don’t know what the hell did you smoke but it stinks.”

“We were trying some new stuff”, he said but didn’t move. “I like you, you know? Good looks, sharp tongue, that’s good mix”, he said moving even closer.

“I wish I could tell the same about you. Now seriously take a step back, Bryce”

“Oh come”, he put my hair behind my ear. “Don’t be so tense.”

Okay, Bryce was annoying 99% of the time, but this time he was making me feel seriously uncomfortable and I needed to came up with something that would make me leave him alone. Risk was high, because I knew Monty told everything about us to Justin and Zach, but I wasn’t sure if he was talking to Bryce. 

“I would say one word about this to Montgomery and he would fucking kill you”, I said.

“You mean my best friend Montgomery?”, he chuckled. “

"Well, if he’s your best friend then you know I’m right”, I said giving him a daring look.

“Come on, we’re just messing around”, he laughed but took a step back.

“Well, find someone else to mess around”, I said as I shut my locker and quickly walked away.

I got my to the dance, Jeff walked up.

“Hey, you’re good?”, he asked concerned.

“Yeah, Bryce was just talking his shit. Nevermind.”

“Okay”, he nodded his head. “Do you know what haven’t happen yet today? We haven’t dance together”, he took my hand and pull me in the middle of the crowd.

“Come on, Atkins, where’s you girlfriend? Dance with her?”, I moaned.

“She’s in toilet. Stop talking. Dance”, he ordered.

And I did. Dancing with Jeff was pretty much like contest of weird dance moves and making silly faces and I loved it. We had the best time and we didn’t care if other people are watching. We hugged at the end and we heard voice saying, “May I?”

I turned and saw Montgomery.

“She’s yours”, Jeff smiled and walked away.

“Hi”, I said quietly. He smiled at me.

“And we sloooow dooown a little bit”, Tony, today also known as DJ, said and played slow song. As if it couldn’t get any more awkward.

Montgomery put his hands on my waist, I hold my breath for a second because of the feeling of his hands on my body. God, I missed it. I put my hands around his neck. We started dancing slowly.

“So…”, we both started talking at the same time.“

"You go first”, he said.

“Are you feeling better about yesterday?”, I asked. I needed to break the awkward silence and this was all that came up to my mind.

“Yeah, yeah, I am. You are right, it’s just one game”, he shrugged.

“Good”, I nodded.

“Listen… Remember on New year’s Eve when I told you you were the best friend I have ever had?”

“Yes”, I said.

I could swear my hands started sweating.

“Let’s go back to this. I liked having you around. I liked having a friend in you…”

No. I didn’t wanted to go down that road again. I didn’t want to have a friend in him. I mean, I wanted. But I wanted something more.

“I don’t want you like a best friend”, I interrupted him. “I was so stupid and I should do it long time ago… Instead of ending this thing between us and making this whole mess.”

He was looking at me confused.

“I don’t want you like a best friend. I want more…”, I was looking him deep in the eyes. “And I wanted more for so long, but I was coward and pushed you away over and over again”, I was talking when suddenly he put one of his hands in my hair, the other one that was still in my waist pulled me closer and he kissed me.

At first in shock, but I felt like some tension, I wasn’t even aware of, left my body, maybe I even sighed with relief. If we were in a movie that moment, camera would spin around the two of us.

This kiss was different than any kisses before when we were making out. It was soft, delicate and gentle almost as if Monty was careful.

“God, you’re silly”, he whispered after kiss and rested his forehead on mine.

“Huh?”, I mumbled with my eyes still closed.

“How could you not notice that I’m all about you? I’m crazy about you. I’m not great in those big words but… I feel vulnerable when I’m with you. You’re my safe place, Y/N”, he said looking me deep in the eyes.

“I… I…”, I stuttered. But I couldn’t find right words. Instead I tightened my hands hugging him and hid my face in crook of his neck.

“Do you want to get out from here?”, he said into my ear. I nodded.

Monty took my hand and led me through crowd towards the exit. Just before we left I spotted Jess and Sheri smiling at us. We took my jacket from locker, left the school and walked straight, holding hands for the whole time. We were walking in silence, but this silence was different. It felt good.

***