<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Trouble in Paradise</strong></span></div><hr/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/fgm5IMb.png)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Mallory Minato<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>May 6th, 2019<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>Mitsuhara Private School, School Gates<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Reckley Stiles, Kevin Finch (Mention)<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong>Sudden Confrontation?!<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Clothes (https://i.imgur.com/rH3tFvs.jpg)/Hair Style and Glasses (https://i.imgur.com/5vPZGY8.jpg)<br/><hr/><br/>The sheer suddenness of Reckley dividing Mallory from her usual spot of finding Kevin caused the girl to nearly shriek in surprise, instead only the shortest (and cutest) of squeaks coming from her lips. Her heart nearly jumped out of her chest as a rather large and tall body blocked her way from where Kevin would usually meet up with her, and looking up, noticed the man in front of her.<br/><br/>“E-excuse me...?”  Her tone of confusion came out quite clear, though her voice was still a bit breathless, mostly due to the scare of the man putting himself right in front of her. Nearly forgetting where she was, Mallory attempted to take a step back, only to realize her back was pressed against her own locker, inadvertently trapping herself between the metal lockers, and the man towering over her. Hands glued to the lockers behind her in order to find some grounding in what exactly was gong on, Mallory swallowed; unwittingly, she was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Though as her eyes took in the person towering over her, her look of fear turned to one of contemplation. “...wait a minute...”<br/><br/>She... she’s seen this guy around campus before.<br/><br/>Well, only briefly when she walked to classes, but he seemed like the stereotypical sort of guy. Good looking, tall, athletic; he seemed just like any other popular guy at the school. However, the way he dressed, the way he looked, Mallory was beginning to remember this guy;  “You’re...Reckley, right?”  Yeah, that was his name, now that she said it; Reckley Stiles. The talks and conversations about this guy came flooding back into her mind as she stood their, like a cute little deer in headlights, nearly consumed by the man’s height difference compared to hers.<br/><br/>He was well known for being a guy that wanted to get attention, simply because he was egotistical. Wanting to show he was the best, practically at anything (but most notably sports), he did whatever he could to one up and show that he was top dog at the school. He wasn’t the most popular guy in the school or anything, but he did have friends and notoriety, which made this encounter even more perplexing to the young girl.<br/><br/>Why... why was he talking to her?<br/><br/>They didn’t have any classes together that she knew of, and from having gone to school here for some time, Mallory knew she’d never spoken to him until now; we’ll, be<em>spoken to</em>.<br/><br/>“I’m just meeting with my friend.”  Her eyes averted his gaze, as the man nearly towered over her, leaning down closer into her personal space. He was so close, and poor seventeen year old Mallory was<em>not used</em>to this close of intimate contact with the opposite sex. It didn’t help that his words were quite loud and echoed in the hallways, attracting the attention of a few onlookers; no, please stop looking! Her hands instinctively came out to hover within the space between Mallory and Reckley’s bodies, trying to maintain some form of distance between them.<br/><br/>“A-and what do you mean ‘too good for you’?”  She’d never spoken to him ever, at least from what she remembered. “What would you even have to talk to me about?”  Her gaze turned back to Reckley when she asked this question, her face turning a shade of red when she noticed how<em>truly</em>close they were. That smile he held, and the way he had said his words made Mallory unwittingly redden; girls liked to have this kind of attention from guys, right?<br/><br/>Her heart felt like it was racing, but she wasn’t sure the smile on his face held any good intentions.