263 Collecting the Winnings 2 (2/2)

Marie took an angry bite of the cookie, chewed, and swallowed. ”Happy?”

Dave grinned, and nodded. He took two more out of the container, handed me one and kept one for himself. ”Thanks for your hard work.”

I mindlessly accepted the cookie and ate it without hesitation. It was weird for that Dave was telling me thanks when it was him, who did most of the work.

”You all are welcomed to join us.” Kyle said benevolently. ”There's plenty of room and cookies to go around.”

The girls started to sit down, but most went to the other table with our seniors. Some glared at Kyle, still upset about the 'trash' comment from yesterday.

Dave looked up to Marie. ”You gonna just stand there and eat? Or do you want to sit down?” He wiggled closet to me, leaving her space on the end.I didn't understand what was going on anymore. There was obviously hate going on, yet Dave was showing off an oddly nice side of himself.

Marie snorted, and plopped down next to Dave. ”I'm only sitting here to prove that you guys winning yesterday had no effect on me. We made cookies like you asked. Now let's talk about the next game.”

The next one? They want to compete again?

”Isn't it better if we supported one another instead?” Dave suggested, sounding more and more not like himself.

”Sure! Let's do that!” A bag was flung down and someone squeezed next to me. ”In the next game, the one with worded stats has to cheer the other team on as cheerleaders. In skirts and everything.” Bailey had pushed in between me and Dave.

”No way! I'm not cross dressing for any reason!” Kyle blurted out.

”Oh, are you afraid?” Marie asked.

Kyle looked to the other table. ”Zeke. You said no more betting right? Or we would get in trouble with coach and the school?”

Zeke looked over here. ”No more means no more. We go to the same school. Stop trying to one up one another.”

”Always relying on Zeke to bail you out, huh?” Marie smirked.

Kyle glared at her. ”It's not like that and you know it. Zeke is our captain too. What would you do if your team didn't listen to you? Wouldn't that undermine your authority as a captain?”

The juniors all continued to bicker.

I went back to eating my giant sized lunch while munching on cookies in between.