Pointe Shoes & Poles

Blank Tiles|| Scout & Trevor

Scout couldn't breathe. Despite her attempts to draw air in and out of her lungs, there was simply no cooperation between her brain and body. But she didn't really mind it, she realized; the dizziness and breathlessness were pleasant as she knelt down on his soft carpet, her legs tucked underneath her as he spoke to her in that cool voice of his. She wondered why she'd waited this long to develop an infatuation like this one. When he spelled out his word,she felt her cheeks flush again, quickly reaching over to grab the little white notepad and stub of a pencil. She drew a t-chart with the upper segments reading 'Scout' and 'Trevor', marking down the points he received for his word. "Eleven points," she declared, looking back down to her tiles. She'd been too slow to go first, she realized, so her first word was now obsolete. Scout bit her bottom lip in contemplation, hearing Trevor shuffle through the silver bag of tiles. Her mind was on the game, or at least it was trying to be, when she heard him make the comment about the 'non-date' thing.She looked up at him in mild shock, hand that she had been propping herself up with nearly crumbling beneath her. He was about to tell her that it wasn't a date, that she'd been right all along, or that she should have never even thought it was a date. Did he have a girlfriend? Probably, knowing her luck. He probably thought she was weird and overbearing. "Mhmm..." Scout said in affirmation, tucking her hair behind her ear. Your move, he'd said. Maybe it was. Maybe she didn't have to wait for him to take the first step. Why couldn't it be her instead? Well, unless this wasn't a date and then she'd just be harassing him. No, it was safer and altogether more Scout-like to stick to the game beforehand, and play her next move there. She slid her letters above and below the 'U' he'd set down, spelling 'Queen'. "Thirteen points," she scrawled her number down on the notepad. Looking up at him meaningfully, Scout said, " Your turn."