"I am working late tonight." He stated gruffly before demanding "Come to the garage."

I hummed before telling him "Say please and I will consider it."

"Come to the garage." He ordered again.

"Fine. If I must, demanding ass." I let out after a second or two "Just know that I'm not happy about it."

Stone chuckled before uttering lowly "Get your hand out of your hair and stop being such a little liar."

My green hair was wrapped around my middle finger, so I dropped my left hand to my side.

I let out an aggravated noise before I said a quick bye and hung up on him.

Lana closed her locker and turned to me while asking "Who were you on the phone to?"

"Nobody." I muttered quickly.

"So, you are just beaming ear to ear for no reason?" She replied, unconvinced.

A slam on the lockers made us both jump.

I swivelled to face the noise and found the blonde quarterback leaning against my locker.

Offering the intruder, a polite smile, I greeted him "Hey Chase."

He nodded at Lana before he spoke to me "I just wanted to tell you that I might not be able to take you to the fall ball next week."

"Oh no," I sarcastically remarked because there was no way I wanted to go anyway "How come?"

The quarterback revealed dramatically "Litora Bello is having its biggest night yet."

I could tell he was saying something in Latin, but I had no idea what he was talking about, so I gave him a confused look.

"Litora Bello?" I repeated, "It sounds like a cheese festival."

"It is the beach fight club as you like to call it." Chase replied, "The big fight night is on the same date as the fall ball."

His jock buddy Kyle appeared from nowhere and butted into the conversation "There is also a big fight happening right now instead of tonight. I can't believe we are missing it—"

"The local fighters are shit." Chase scoffed "Even the almighty Vulcan got a blow to the face on Sunday night."

Kyle shook his head and corrected him with a look of admiration on his face "Vulcan still won. He always does. His opponent was one of the best fighters in Nevada, but Vulcan still destroyed him."

Their talking became background noise. I was too busy rolling my eyes and making funny faces at Lana to listen to their conversation.

Lana glanced between them and acted as if she was interested "So the Litora Bello thing happens at our beach every night? This whole big fight club thing that everyone is raving about happens so near to home?"

Both of the boys nodded, and Kyle appeared like he was going to say more but he could not as the warning bell rang out among the halls.

The noise signalling the start of the period made them say their goodbyes and saunter away.