Chapter 2 Free Popcorn
Outside Fenway Park, in the parking lot, the spectators who got off the bus walked to the entrance one after another, and the vendors pushing carts selling popcorn happily walked through the crowd. The clever vendor parked his cart in the area where the students gathered, posed a jar in front of the popcorn, and held a sign that said, '3 Dole = a bag of delicious popcorn, the flavor of your choice!'
The hawker expects his jar to be filled up soon. However, we know that high school students are a magical species, and they fundamentally reject the meaning of 'marking' existence.
"Hey, where did you get the popcorn?"
"Over there, it's free. ”
"Really?"
"Of course, you see, there's no one there. ”
"Great! Wait for me, I'll go get a bag too!"
Why is there no one guarding the cart? because the peddler has gone after the first bear child who won't pay. It's a sad story.
On the other side of the parking lot, Benjamin's van stands out among a row of clean cars.
"Alice, it's going to be fine, it's just a ball game. Benjamin propped up the door of the back seat, convincing the banshee who refused to get out of the car.
Alice shook her head, clasping her shoulders and moving further in. Benjer shrugged Zack and made a 'I told you earlier' expression.
Zach held out his right hand to Alice: "Alice, try at least once." If you don't like it, we'll leave right away. ”
Alice's eyelashes fluttered, and she looked hesitantly at the crowd outside the window, finally nodded and got out of the car with Benjamin's support. The two men breathed a sigh of relief and escorted Alice towards the entrance of the court.
"Would you like popcorn? It seems like there's a free one there. Benjamin used his height advantage to see the small cart surrounded by the students at a glance and asked Alice.
"Free?" Zach took off his sunglasses and raised an eyebrow, "Of course!"
It was a real trip, because Zach had listened to what Mrs. Quinn had to say about Alice. Being able to see the death of others is Alice's gift and a source of her fear. The end result is that Alice is afraid of human contact.
Zack wants Alice to overcome this fear, but he can't just throw the banshee on the street and force her to adapt. So the 'Barton High School Football League' that is now going on in the spring seems like a good opportunity. If Alice is in school and in high school, she should be exposed to some of the things that the average teenager should do at this age.
The three people who blended into the student team attracted the attention of many people. Especially the girls. The more dangerous the species of vampires and werewolves, the more attractive the appearance, and this appearance satisfies the most extreme fantasies of girls about men in two directions......
However, they are obviously not students, but ordinary spectators who come to watch the game, so the smart girl who wants to talk and needs to create opportunities will naturally set her eyes on the girl who is a little timid and protected by them in the middle.
"Hey, I've never seen you, are you a student at Reipt High School too?" A blonde girl who looked to be the same age as Alice cut through the crowd and walked up to the trio, smiling at Alice, who was a little scared.
Alice became nervous, subconsciously grabbed the two people beside her, and shook her head.
"I'm sorry! I'm not good! I see that we are the same age, I thought we were classmates!" The girl realized that her accosting made the other party feel uncomfortable, and apologized with a smile, but still persistently continued to ask: "Then you are here to watch the game, which team do you support?"
Zach and Benjamin put their hands on the banshee's back, soothing and encouraging her, and talking is the first step to human contact.
"The Beavers. Alice whispered, actually, before today, Alice didn't know what the Beavers were, she would just say that Zach liked Reipt High School. The girl in front of her seemed to be a very friendly person, and Alice tried to calm herself down.
"Really?!" the girl seemed pleased, flipping open the front of her coat to reveal the logo on the cheerleader uniform underneath, which was a small cartoon of a beaver: "Me too! I'm from Reipt High School!
Alice hesitated, looked at the two people beside her, and replied in a low voice: "I don't go to school, I study at home, it's home education." ”
"Cool!" the girl seemed happy: "I've never known anyone who was homeschooled, you don't need to see those verbose teachers every day, it's great!" The girl's eyes quietly glanced at Benjamin, and we now know what her persistence was about.
"My name is Lola, are these two your 'teachers'?"
Alice looked at the two of them uneasily, the girl's enthusiasm was hard to refuse, "My name is Alice." They were my older brothers, Zach and Benjamin. ”
"Alice! what a beautiful name!" the girl named Lola blinked, and Alice meant noble and beautiful. It could be seen that she really liked the name, so she temporarily put aside her attention to Benjamin and continued to ask Alice: "Where is your seat? My brother is a player, I have a seat in the front row, you can sit with us!"
"No, no, I'll just sit with my brothers. Alice refused, nervously, the banshee didn't want to get too far away from Zach and Benjamin.
"That's easy to do!" Lola smiled, ignoring Alice's refusal, reaching out and grabbing Alice's hand, and walked forward, not forgetting to turn around, "Hey, brothers!
Zach and Benjamin smiled and followed, apparently lucky, the first time they put Alice in contact with people their age, they met a nice girl.
Lola was a very efficient girl, she leaned her chin with her hands clenched into fists, her beautiful blue eyes made a pleading look, and her cherry-colored lips pursed slightly. In less than half a minute, she 'convinced' the three boys to switch seats with Alice.
The game hasn't started yet, and now the cheerleaders of the two teams are performing on the field, and Alice, encouraged by the two 'older brothers', is trying to find a topic.
"Lola, aren't you a cheerleader? Why didn't you perform?"
"Well, I am!" Lola looked at the cheerleaders in the arena and seemed to complain a little, "But I'm a junior and a newcomer, so I'm not qualified to perform yet." ”
It is true that hierarchy accompanies a person's whole life.
Lola's disappointed look flashed for a moment, and she immediately changed her tone: "But it's so cold now! I don't want to go!"
"Oh. Alice, who lacked communication experience, did not know how to answer, and fell silent after answering.
"Look, look!" Lola got excited when the show was over and the players entered! she pulled Alice next to her to stand up, lay on the guardrail of the stands, and pointed to the players in the middle of the field who were walking towards the center and waving to the spectators in the stands: "Look!
All the students around them stood up, and the loud sound of "Beaver, Beaver......" poured from the stands onto the field. Of course, on the other side of the stands, the same sound rolled in, "Goats, goats......"
The students, who were just here to set off the protagonists on the field, were aroused by a sense of collective honor, howling at the top of their throats, no one cared about what the referee in the center of the field said, and the game started first in the stands......
"Lolo, Lola. Alice trembled and pulled the excited girl beside her: "Who is the first person standing in the first place?"
"What?!" Lola put her ear to Alice and asked loudly, "What did you say?"
Alice repeats that her nervousness has caught the attention of vampires and werewolves.
"Oh!" Lola asked, "it's Connor, he's the captain, you like him, don't like him, he's not a nice guy!"
Obviously, this high school girl will be wrong, kindly reminding her new friend not to be interesting to scumbags. After all, that's what a sixteen-year-old girl should care about. However, Alice is not an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, she is a banshee who can see 'death'.
Alice looked nervously at the two 'brothers' who were watching her, and said in a voice that she hadn't even heard herself, "Connor, he's already dead once." ”