2 Bryan

"WALTER!" Sadie shouted for her boyfriend’s name while running to hug him.

"Hey beauty, oh hey Hailie, so good to see you. I would hug you or at least shake your hand, but currently, I’m having no empty hands to do so."Walter said as he pointed to his girlfriend in his embrace.

Hailie laughed and shook her head: "it's ok, honestly I don’t know how you handle her so well all the time, she is so annoying sometimes"

"HEY, I'M YOUR BEST FRIEND YOU ASS HOLE!" Sadie screamed and hit Hailie’s head.

Hailie chuckled as she looked around. It was an illegal car race. With groups of people and gangs around their cars here and there. One of the groups got her attention. They were gathering around a very expensive car and a boy sitting on the hood. She couldn’t see them clearly. But they all had these strange bandanas and colours on their hands. They had blue, green, gold and white. But the boy on the hood of the car didn’t have any bandanas or colours on him. He wore a black hoodie with a white bird on it with some black jeans. She was pushed out of her thoughts by Sadie’s scream: " Hailie where the hell are you ?"

"what? I’m right here. Walter, Sadie said you’re bringing a friend. Where is he?"

Walter laughed: "well it's only appropriate to say he is the one bringing us here. And to answer your question, you were stalking him earlier and he is coming this way, right behind you."

"I didn’t stalk any-"

"hey old man, I see you brought these young beautiful ladies."

Hailie turned around and saw the boy with a black hoodie and a bird on it.

"Jesus Bryan, I told you to stop calling me that. You’re older than me for god’s sake!"

The boy, Bryan as Walter said, laughed. And Hailie could swear she had heard it before somewhere.

"One year older is not that much, and your name is the name of an old man in his late 90s, not a young 17 years old boy buddy. Anyways, who are these beautiful ladies?"

"This is my girlfriend Sadie."

Bryan smiled at her and said: "a pleasure to finally meet you, thanks for being his Girlfriend, he was so annoying before." And winked at Sadie. he returned to Hailie and smiled even bigger. "And who is this little strawberry?"

Hailie blushed at the nickname and said: "I’m Hailie, Sadie’s friend."

Bryan bowed a little and answered: "so nice to meet you, ma’am. I’m Bryan. And also THANK GOD IM NOT THIRDWHEELING ALONE."

They all laughed at him shouting the last part.

"okaaaay. Now that everyone knows each other, let's get s.th to eat and I’ll lead you to our seats." he turned to Hailie and whispered: "you are sitting with me strawberry." and with a wink, he started walking and they all went to get some snacks.

Hailie couldn’t focus on the race. Not that she didn’t want to or didn’t like car racing. She just couldn’t focus when Bryan was sitting next to her with that gorgeous face. She also couldn’t stop thinking. Bryan had brought them to the first row, with personal screens to watch the whole race. But he was only 18, according to Walter, and there was no way in hell he could afford the money for these sits. When she asked how much he paid, he simply answered by “ I don’t pay for many things strawberry” and Hailie was dying to know what he meant by that.

And was it legal to look this hot? He had these beautiful blue eyes like the sea, brunt hair. He was tall and now that he was sitting with his plain blue shirt, Hailie could see some beautifully carved abs.

"like what you see ?" Bryan said with a smirk.

Hailie realised she was staring for a long time and she wasn’t as smooth as she thought she was. But how did he find out? He wasn’t even looking at her.

"that’s my superpower hun"

"WHAT?"

"finding people who look at me, that’s my superpower," Bryan said and turned to face her.

"reading people minds is also your superpower?" Hailie said with crossed arms.

Bryan shrugged: "no, you think out loud a lot."

She almost choked when she heard that. Did he hear her talking about him?

"and you stare a lot, before, in the parking lot," he said with a smirk.

Hailie was so pissed at that smirk. She didn’t know if she wants to punch it or kis… what?

She flipped her black hair back and said: "I’m actually glad you mentioned it. Were those people your gang or something? and let me guess, you’re the boss of them ?"

Bryan’s face went still. And Hailie was glad she took that smirk away. Until he started to turn around saying: "that’s something little strawberry should never ask." he was silent for a good 5 minutes after he turned around and looked at her with serious eyes. Hailie was shocked that he could change this fast to a serious and rather scary guy.

"you know strawberry, if you wanna know, I’ll show you. But you have to come with me after the game. And maybe then you could pay for the information ."

If Hailie was not so nosey, she would have said no, but she was nosey and had a really good potential for getting in trouble, so all she said was: "it's Hailie. And you’ll get paid if the info is worth it."

Bryan smirked and said: "We have a deal then strawberry"

"Don’t call me that."

Bryan rolled his eyes: "come on strawberry, don’t be so sour. You will be picked if you’re sweet."

"I don’t need to-"

"Hey, Hailie is that Josh driving that car?" Hailie was cut with Sadie’s shout. she turned from Bryan so she could see the person Sadie was pointing to. She saw a boy getting out of the car. He was tall and had some good muscles. He had black hair which was grey at the very end. He was wearing a leather jacket with leather boots and a pair of black skinny jeans.

"I can’t see his face but from his style I would he is n-" she stopped talking when the boy turned around. "Josh. He is Josh."

Hailie gasped: "but how is this possible? The last time we saw him he was a total nerd."

Sadie smirked: "well that’s an improvement I would say."

Hailie simply nodded and continued looking at him. She mumbled mostly to herself: "He looks great now "

Bryan arched an eyebrow at her comment.: "You know him ?"

Sadie laughed and answered: "Yeah, he used to have a crush on Hailie since 3rd grade, and when he asked her out 2 years ago she simply made him believe he didn’t want her anymore."

Bryan smirked: "And she did that by being a little sour strawberry ?"

Hailie rolled her eyes and hit his arm." stop it already"

Sadie simply dulled her eyes and said: "No. she talked to him. She can be really persuasive. You really don’t want to know about it."

"how come ?"

Sadie started to play with her blonde hair: "Well it's like she walks into your mind and simply changes it by placing other phrases instead of yours. I don’t really know though. It's like she owes your mind."

Hailie huffed. This wasn’t the conversation she wanted to have right now. She knew what would come next. Lots of questions and in the end, she would be called a weirdo and had to erase everything. She prepared herself for Bryan questions.

"oh okay. That sounds interesting. You’re just good at talking I assume."Bryan said with a knowing smile. Hailie’s heart dropped. Did he know? Could it be? If not why didn’t he asked anything?

She simply watched him waiting for his next move. She was shocked when he looked at Walter and Sadie like he was going to make sure they weren’t paying attention – which they weren’t and leaned toward her." if I show you s.th cool will you show me yours?"

"What? What are you talking about" Hailie tried to play dumb, just in case Bryan wasn’t talking about “it” and was talking about some really not good teenage stuff. She really hoped he didn’t know.

Bryan just smiled at her and with another glance toward those lovers, placed the bag of popcorn in Hailie’s lap. Hailie froze. He knew.

She looked over Sadie and Walter to see if they saw what just happened, but they were so busy with each other. They didn’t see it. They didn’t see Bryan moving the bag without touching it.