<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<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong>Can’t Handle This<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Clothes (https://i.imgur.com/rH3tFvs.jpg)/Hair Style and Glasses (https://i.imgur.com/5vPZGY8.jpg)<br/><hr/><br/>Her brown eyes, hidden behind a pair of glasses, narrowed ever so slightly at the man currently towering above her. His words confused her, but as she listened, she couldn’t help but wonder what he was going on about. Too good for him? Too good for who?<br/><br/>Was he talking about Kevin? This guy knew him?<br/><br/>She knew that Kevin usually kept to himself at school, only really talking to others if they needed something from him; directions, questions on an assignment that he understood. Though she had noticed that more people began to talk him, or well, try to. He’d become quite good at sports, she’d noticed, and had caught the eye of the gym coach. Quick on his feet, easily flexible and agile, and reflexes like no one had ever seen, Kevin was slowly but surely gaining popularity that he didn’t even know he had. This guys though, Reckley, by the sound of it, he wasn’t too happy that Kevin was suddenly gaining popularity over this past year.<br/><br/>A frown came on her lips, momentarily pushing down her nerves.<br/><br/>“H-he doesn’t do it to show off. Kevin’s not like that.”  Knowing him all her life, Mallory knew this for a fact, even if this guy didn’t seem to believe her all that much. Even if she was beginning to shake, visibly showing her nerves getting the better of her, Mallory still tried to hold her ground. It didn’t seem to be working as she wished however, currently being caged between the man and her locker. Others were beginning to stare, and she looked back at the man above her; she didn’t like having too much attention on her...<br/><br/>“S-stay...” He got closer, and Mallory wanted nothing more then to be away from this guy. So desperate in this fact that she tried to move back ten more steps behind her, but only found herself pushing against the lockers; if anything, she would want nothing more than to be swallowed whole by them. “S-stay away, I don’t-”   The words he gave echoed in her ears, as her gaze broke away, turning to look anywhere other than at Reckley.<br/><br/><em>”You know we don’t have the money for this; don’t be such a spoiled brat!”<br/><br/>“Playing the little mouse act isn’t going to get you any sympathy from me.”</em><br/><br/>Her body began to give short trembles, trying to not show fear; if anything it wasn’t what this guy was doing that made her feel nervous, but the ugly emotions she felt from another source that only seemed to remind her. His other hand had come to cage her in, and now more than ever did she feel trapped, both her heart and her breath quickening with each passing moment. This guy, Reckley, was too close for comfort, and was only bringing back bad memories that she did not want to think about while her fellow peers looked onwards.<br/><br/>And then she heard footsteps; quiet, but coming towards them, behind Reckley. He hadn’t seemed to have noticed them right away, but the voice that came after nearly made the young girl cry tears of joy. Thank god Kevin was her friend, because surely there was no one on this Earth at the moment that she felt could handle all her emotional baggage like he did, and was a true friend even after knowing everything.<br/><br/>That tone that Kevin had, however, Mallory had not heard in a long time. Only once had she heard him become extremely angry, and now this would be the second.<br/><br/>Her gaze, originally looking away from Reckley in some attempt of that it would get him to leave her alone, turned to not look at the man towering above her, but to the man she knew and trusted for so long. Reckley was no longer on her radar, and for Mallory, that was a blessing; her best friend was here, and that was all that mattered. While his words said nothing directly at her, his eyes were on her; while Reckley’s were unwanted and roaming over her, Kevin’s were worried and showing nothing but comfort. He was worried, and she was equally willing for him to come to her rescue; this man needed to get away from her at any costs, because damn it, he was making her feel emotions that she<span class="bbc_u">did not</span>want to relive at school. Her eyes looked back into Kevins, and the emotions showing were quite clear;<span class="bbc_u"><em>‘Please help me, I need to get away now’.</em></span><br/><br/>She didn’t want to be caged against the lockers by Reckley. She didn’t want to be looked on and gawked at by all these students around watching. She didn’t even want to be at anywhere near the school right now.<br/><br/>She just wanted to get to Kevin, and run far away.<br/><br/>“<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">Kevin</span>...” She didn’t even know how she managed to call her friends name, nearly a whisper due to her nerves now nearly consuming her. Too many eyes in her and she almost felt like she was going to break down; this was not how she wanted her day at school to go.