Mallory came back up from her backpack and noticed the expression on my face, “Callie, what’s wrong?”
I was silent as I stared straight ahead at him.
Mallory followed my gaze and then saw him, too, “Oh my God.”
I swallowed hard and tried to remain calm.
Mallory turned back to me, “Okay, just pretend he isn’t there.”
I nodded to agree with her and I started to help her with the math homework.
But then his team started to walk over to near where we were sitting and I started to quietly panic to myself.
“Hey, I’m hungry,” Mallory said, “let’s go to the snackbar.”
We didn’t realize at the time that that was where he was heading, too. We made our way in front of them not even noticing they were right there.
After we got our food, we turned around and went to head back to the top of the bleachers.
But when I turned around, I walked right into him. I spilled my soda all over the front of his shirt.
I gasped and he stepped back a little.
But then he smiled…
It was Josh Porter.