Near Death Flirting

[Susie Clark]

Three days after Christmas and Susie was still coming down from her shopping high. The holidays were an important time for the girl, because she usually got what she needed without having to worry about how she got it. There was no need to be frightened about drying up her parents wallets by asking for things when they were already going to get her something. She wasn't use to asking for much because of this, she didn't want to convince her parents into getting her something just because she asked for it. Besides, having a little extra money from relatives after the big day was always fun. It was sort of a small thing she had done every year since she could drive, go down to the mall and treat herself to something nice with what money she had.

The drive from Pilot Ridge wasn't that demanding and she found herself pulling into a parking place in no time. "Merry Christmas to me." Said the teen playfully as she checked her hair in her rear view mirror, she was going into the mall of course and she wanted to look good doing it. After everything checked out, Susie opened up her car door and stepped out into the cool air. Winter, she loved the snow, but she didn't really like the chill. She made sure she was bundled up when she left the house, and pulled the coat she was wearing tighter to herself as she began walking towards the mall. It was only three days after Christmas and parking lots were still pretty packed, so she had to settle for a spot in the back of the lot. With it being freezing and all, Susie didn't really pay much attention to the movement around her, the girls focus stayed on the entrance to the mall.

So, of course, she never saw the motorcycle screeching toward her, but she sure as hell heard it. Her head snapped immediately to her right and she saw the metal death machine closing in on her. She was about to dive off into the slushy ground to get out of the way, but thankfully the driver noticed her at the last second and brought his bike to a stop, only about a foot or two away from her. Susie's heart was raising, and her temper flared toward the guy sitting on the bike. She didn't recognize him because of the silver helmet on his head, she felt like tearing it off. "Hey! Watch out for pedestrians!" Yelled the girl, still a bit shaken about almost getting hit by that thing.

[Chris White]

Winter break usually meant sleeping in, but no, not today for Chris. Two days ago he was just at the mall with Elina, and today he had to go back in order to pick up a coffee maker for his family because the one they had broke (that's what happens when you have a father with super strength). Chris was trusted to be the one to go pick up the device because his older brother Ethan was busy, his little sister couldn't drive, and his parents really needed a cup of coffee. He vehemently tried to get out of doing the chore, but he was threatened with having his phone taken away (which was basically a death sentence).

So, Chris put on on a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, and a gray zip-up jacket before grabbing his keys, his wallet, his phone, and his motorcycle helmet and walking out the door. He started up his motorcycle and hit the road, hoping the get the errand over with as quickly as possible. He also made sure to put the biggest motorcycle backpack he had onto his motorcycle to secure the coffee maker on the way back home.

In a matter of minutes he was down the road and only a few more minutes after that he arrived at the mall and drove through the parking lot to find the closest space he could. But as he drove through it, a girl walked out in front of him - a hot one. He squeezed on the break and barely stopped in time, nearly slipping on some slush on the way. "Shit," he muttered with his helmet on. He slipped it off and looked to the girl. He immediately recognized her as a cheerleader at Hammel. "Sorry babe," he said with a smirk.

Chris pulled his bike around into a parking spot and secure his helmet to the helmet lock before running to catch up with the girl. "Hey, you go to Hammel right?" he asked without even bringing up the whole motorcycle incident again. "I'm Chris White. I'm on the football team."

Oh yeah, the jock and the cheerleader. Chris had a happy ending in store for this high school fairytale.

[Susie Clark]

In hindsight, she should have just walked off after yelling at the guy who almost hit her with the motorcycle, but for lack of better judgment, she had stayed and stared him down. He almost hit her with that death trap for crying out loud, the least he could do was apologize for scaring the crap out of her before he went on his merry way into the mall. Besides, she wanted to know who the hell drove like that anyway so she could stay away from him next time. "Well?" She half asked half demanded. A quick mutter came from the helmeted guy before he pulled the silver head protector off. She recognized him immediately as one of the few football players at Hammel worth recognizing. That one Chris White guy, a really good player, but a classic Jock and there was no way she would give him the satisfaction of her recognizing him out loud. From that smirk on his face, Susie could tell she was already in his sights.

"Sorry babe." He offered with a smirk before starting up his bike again to fully park in a spot. Susie was still a bit stand-offish from the whole encounter.

"Sorry babe? Really?" She asked herself as she continued on toward the mall, but the heavy foot falls of what could only be a foot ball player were already catching up to her from behind.

"Hey, you go to Hammel right?" He asked, as if he didn't almost hit her with a motorcycle. "I'm Chris White. I'm on the football team." He said, introducing himself to her. He was hot, she had to admit that to herself, but he already seemed like the typical Jock, and maybe she could have some other fun with him.

"Oh, you are on the football team? Well, nice to meet you Chris." She replied in a casual tone, as if she had never seen him before in her life. "I am Susie Clark, I do cheerleading, funny how we haven't ran into each other before now." She added. She might as well introduce herself before taking advantage of him. "What are you here for?" She asked, right as the two of them passed through the front doors of the building and into the food court.

[Chris White]

"Oh, so you're that beautiful cheerleader I had my eye on at all the games?" he asked with a cocky grin. Chris knew that if he started the flirting and compliments early, it would mean he would start rounding the bases quicker. First base, second base, third base, and homerun, Chris wanted to touch them all (and he wasn't talking about the bases on the baseball field either). "There were a couple times where you distracted me you know," he said next. "I don't think they should allow cheerleaders to be as cute as you. It's really distracting for everyone."

Chris followed Susie inside, but he managed to stay slightly behind her so he could watch her ass as she walked. It didn't take him long to decide that he liked it... a lot. "My parents sent me to pick up a coffee maker. Ours broke," he explained quickly as they passed the food court. "That can wait though. I have plenty of time to spare." He really didn't. They wanted him to make the trip quick, but he was willing to waste some time for a pretty girl, especially a cheerleading one. He knew they were super flexible and that was super hot.

"What are you here for?" he asked sweetly. "I hope you're going to say lunch, because yes, I'd love to have lunch with you."

[Susie Clark]

"Oh, so you're that beautiful cheerleader I had my eye on at all the games?" He asked with a cocky grin, like she was a sex toy on a shelf or something. As if. You have had your eye on every attractive girl within 25 miles of Vermont. "There were a couple times where you distracted me you know, I don't think they should allow cheerleaders to be as cute as you. It's really distracting for everyone." He offered. Sure, Susie didn't mind the compliment, she would have been beaming under the praise of such a cute guy if she didn't already know what he wanted.

Once they were inside, Susie allowed herself to loosen up her coat. It was freezing outside and warm in here, but she wasn't going to take off her coat just yet. She was playing a game now, and to her, she was about to get ahead. Of course she knew as she walked that Chris was watching her behind, but she didn't care, it was part of the game."My parents sent me to pick up a coffee maker. Ours broke. That can wait though. I have plenty of time to spare." He explained why he was at the mall, but quickly added that he had time to spare. Susie was glad to hear that, she would have hated for him to leave to soon, things were about to get fun. "What are you here for? I hope you're going to say lunch, because yes, I'd love to have lunch with you."

Susie had to force herself to not laugh, this was going to be easy. He deserves this Susie, don't feel bad. She told herself, dismissing any thoughts of letting him go buy his coffee maker. "You know..." She began, turning so that she faced the boy, who was probably changing his gaze back to her face before he got caught looking at her rear. "I actually am hungry.." She continued, as if his offer was sounding pretty good. "Of course I'd love to have lunch with you! You do like Chinese, don't you? And I bet you will pay for the entire meal too, you are such a gentleman!" She beamed, putting all the steady excitement in her voice that she could without gagging. Free food and a cute guy, why not?

[Chris White]

Chris smiled when she said she was really hungry. His plan was working perfectly fine. He knew that a lot girls liked lunch dates. "Chinese it is then," he said before throwing in a wink. He was going to pay for her food anyway, but this time, he felt super inclined to. Almost like it was really important for him to buy her a meal.

"Let's go," Chris took the girls hand without asking and began walking toward the Chinese food restaurant in the food court. "Order whatever you want, babe," he said with a smile. "All you owe me in return is a kiss."

He added that stipulation in at the last second just to make things more interesting.

"I'll take the fried rice and the sesame chicken," he ordered first to one of the workers. Chris watched as they prepared the food and moved it down the line to the cashier. "I'm paying for the beautiful girl over there too," he said while pointing at Susie further down the line. He was going to tap that for sure.

[Susie Clark]

Her plan was going perfectly fine, Chris probably wouldn't have minded taking her to eat Chinese anyway. "Chinese it is then." He stated with a small wink towards her. On any other occasion, Susie would enjoy the flirting. His advances were much appreciated, but it was obvious that she didn't mean much to him. He wanted her for her body, so she was going to have fun messing around with him.

"Let's go." Said Chris before he grabbed her hand. She didn't expect the sudden contact, but she didn't mind it either. Besides, as least he was trying to be nice, even if it was just for show, she didn't mind it. As they approached the restaurant itself, Chris spoke again. "Order whatever you want, babe. All you owe me in return is a kiss." Stated Chris, and once again Susie found herself choking down blunt words that she would have otherwise thrown at him. ("Like, keep it in your pants jackass, I am a person, not a sex doll you can feed.") There was no way she was going to kiss him, unless he surprised her again of course.

As they walked through the food court, she had noticed some jealous glances from the many girls who were eating in the food court. Getting a meal payed for you by Chris White wasn't a hard thing to do, if you were attractive enough, but the glances were tossed her way anyway. "I'll take the fried rice and the sesame chicken. I'm paying for the beautiful girl over there too." He said as the two made it to the buffet line. She was faintly aware of Chris ordering his food and then telling the cashier he would pay for her too, but her focus was set on the menu boards on the upper wall behind the workers, she was of course looking for the most expensive thing to buy.

"I'll take the General Tso's Chicken." Ordered Susie after she was content that her choice was one of the more expensive dishes. Then she moved along down the line like Chris had done until she reached the cashier, she got all she needed for the rest of the meal there and then left the line. It took her only moments to find where Chris had gone, to a table not so far away from the place they had gotten their food, but still secluded enough from the rest of the court that flirting would go by pretty unnoticed. "Seems about right." She muttered to herself, before walking over toward the table. Hopefully the false smile on her face had gone unnoticed as she sat down at the table right across from Chris. "So a kiss for a meal?" She asked, feigning intrigue. "Oh but you wouldn't want to kiss me, right?" She asked. Depending on how he responded would gage how much she needed to crank it up before this encounter was over.

[Chris White]

Chris walked proudly to the table with his food. He knew everyone was watching, and he knew there were probably plenty of Hammel students in the crowd to see him with his newest catch, a beautiful, blonde-bombshell of a cheerleader. All the girls would want him and all the guys would want to be him. It was every cocky high school boy's dream.

"Why wouldn't I want to kiss you?" Chris asked with mock shock. "You're so beautiful. How could I resist?"

Chris opened his containers of food, but he didn't start eating yet. "Last chance before I take my first bite," he mentioned with a smile. "You might want to take it while my breath is still nice and fresh."

[Susie Clark]

Everything seemed to be going fine, she had her food and was sitting across from a cute guy. Again, the problem was that he had his head held a bit too high, he was showing her off, but not in a sweet way where a guy was happy to be with a girl. He was showing her off in the way a salesman might show off a particular pair of expensive shoes to women who window shop consistently but never went into the store. Her smile only cracked for a second, and she hid it by turning her gaze down to her food containers, which she began to systematically open as if she were a robot in a factory. Boys...

"Why wouldn't I want to kiss you? You're so beautiful. How could I resist?" He asked, the false shock in his voice saturated the sentence, but Susie held her ground and leveled her frosty greenish-grey eyes to his intent brown eyed gaze. "Last chance before I take my first bite. You might want to take it while my breath is still nice and fresh." He warned as he opened up his own food containers, the smile on his face made her blink a little, but she re-focused on him.

"Are you sure you want to kiss me now? I mean.. I could give you your kiss after we go window shopping." She offered, her voice strong and slightly seductive. It was like they already planned on going window shopping, and she hoped very much so that Chris would feel the same way. "Besides, is showing me off to everyone that important?" She couldn't help herself from asking that question. Once upon a time he was probably a really sweet kid.

[Chris White]

"Window shopping?" he asked with a smirk. "What do I look like, your gay best friend?" He laughed and sat back in his chair as he began eating with chopsticks. "And I guess," he said after swallowing some of his sesame chicken, "showing you off isn't that important." He then turned his head to look at the other tables in the food court. People were looking their way. "But you know, I'm doing you a favor as well," he noted. "I'm sure there are plenty of jealous girls out there envying you right now. They wish they could have a beautiful body like yours and the attention of a handsome guy like myself." Chris smirked at her. "We're both benefiting from this."

Once upon a time, Chris really was a sweet kid, but once he hit puberty, all that changed. Ah, the life of a teenage boy...

Chris took another bite of food and washed it down with his soda. "So, how about this," he offered, "I'll go window shopping with you if you help me find a coffee maker. I have no clue where to find them."

It was a good idea to Chris to get her help. Even if he didn't get a kiss in the end, he would at least get done what he came to the mall for in the first place. Besides, it was only a matter of time before his parents started blowing up his cellphone with calls asking where he was.

[Susie Clark]

"Window shopping? What do I look like, your gay best friend?" Damn, he must not like shopping. She thought with an inward grimace, maybe she could use him in some other fashion. "And I guess, showing you off isn't that important. But you know, I'm doing you a favor as well. I'm sure there are plenty of jealous girls out there envying you right now. They wish they could have a beautiful body like yours and the attention of a handsome guy like myself." Chris offered, smirking at her. It drove her insane, and not in a good way. Did he really think that she cared if other girls were jealous of her looks or not? She didn't, she also didn't like it either because it meant people didn't like her because she was pretty, and that is very cliche. "We're both benefiting from this." He stated, he probably meant that he benefited from it by being able to look at her body.

"I don't really care what people think about me Chris, yes you are handsome. But I am more then just a body you know." She stated, keeping her grey eyes locked with his until her hunger forced her to look toward her food. She started eating just as him, eating and swallowing small parts of food in random breaks as she talked to him. "I mean sure, I bet I do look fine, but I don't need anyone to be jealous of that." She added, taking a few more bites of chicken and rice.

"So, how about this, I'll go window shopping with you if you help me find a coffee maker. I have no clue where to find them." He offered, as if she had a clue where they had coffee makers were at. It would most likely be found somewhere in the mall though, maybe they could jack one from Starbucks if she asked nicely enough. She almost laughed at the idea. Her, a cheerleader, stealing a coffee maker from star bucks with a football player.

"Sounds like a plan..." She stated, finishing off her plate of food. It is not like it was a lot of food, besides, she could inhale an entire Chinese buffet in a minute, of course she wouldn't though. "You still might get that kiss anyway, if you can show me you are worthy of it." She added in a mock Chris impression, cockiness saturating her voice. Then she stood up with a bit of swagger and nodded toward a group of girls that were looking at her. She made a call me gesture with her right hand toward the group before she turned back at Chris and winked. "We could be twins." She stated with a smile, waiting for him to finish so they could be off.

[Chris White]

"I know that," Chris replied with a smile as she said she was more than just a body. He pretty much tuned out the rest of his speech though, he didn't really care too much about how she felt about herself and only people. It didn't matter to him. He didn't ONLY care about himself, but there were some things he just didn't care to hear. Girls sometimes bothered to much with feelings in his opinion anyway. He figured it was best to tune those kind of things out so he doesn't have to deal with all the emotions and crap like that. He would tell anyone that he was an athlete, not a psychologist.

With the knowledge that he still might get a kiss, Chris finished up his food quickly, drank some more soda, and threw his trash away before standing up and joining Susie. "Oh no, not twins," Chris replied with a bit of a laugh, "that's incest."

He looked around the mall. He knew the place pretty well since he frequented it a lot. "So, where are we heading to first?"

[Susie Clark]

"I know that." Replied Chris, but Susie had the aching impression that he really didn't care about what she had said after that. In fact it felt like he wasn't even really listening to what she had to say, it wasn't much, but it still bounced off of his skull and fell into oblivion. She probably wasn't going to pound anything about her personally into his head, because again, he probably didn't care about her. "Oh no, not twins, that's incest." Chris responded with a small laugh after her performance, she was glad he liked it, but his response was a little far fetched. What, did he expect to be banging her by tonight? She wouldn't put it past him.

"So, where are we heading to first?" He asked as Susie cleared away her trash and threw it away. The girl hardly had any idea where she wanted to go first. She had driven to the mall today to buy a little treat with her Christmas money, maybe some jeans or some shoes. But now that she had a window shopping buddy with spare cash on him, maybe she could get a little more.

"Well, now that you are here, I might actually go into a shop or two and try things on." She teased, playing out eeny-meeny-miney-moe in her head before going down a strip of shops that started at the left of the food court. As they walked, they passed sports equipment stores and a gamestop, Susie glanced back at him from time to time, he was probably watching her again from a back view, but maybe he would be interested in those shops too. Whether she caught something or not from him, she continued down the hallway until they reached a JC Penney. It was a couple shops over from Victoria's Secret. I bet he'd want to know my secret too. She thought as she glanced over towards the shop. "Anyway, we will go coffee maker shopping after a find a nice shirt, maybe some jeans. Sound good?" She asked, with a small smile on her face. "Besides, with your help I can get done twice as fast, I am sure you know what looks good on a girl." She added. It didn't really hurt to stroke a guys ego, right?

[Chris White]

"Ugh..." Chris said audibly. He wasn't in the mood for "girl" shopping... he wanted to get his coffee maker, flirt some more, maybe get laid, and then be on his way, but no, he couldn't. "Fine," he groaned, "but you owe me."

Chris followed her in JC Penny and looked around. He wouldn't be caught dead in there all by himself. Luckily, Susie was there to save him from any potential embarrassment.

"If you want a shirt that guys like, make sure it shows lots of skin," he grabbed a random one he saw off the rack, "like this one." He handed her the low cut shirt and then walked over to find some jeans. He didn't even bother asking her for her size. That would cause more issues than he was equipped to handle. "And for jeans, the tighter the better," he explained. "Guys like tight jeans that show off the legs and ass." It was blunt and brutally honest... but it was also the truth.

[Susie Clark]

"Ugh... Fine, but you owe me." Groaned the Jock as he followed her in the store. It was gold! She had a cute boy walking into a store with him, and he was going to buy her things. Of course he hadn't said that, and he didn't even know he was going to be buying her things yet, but it help her to get into the mood before actually amplifying her voice and in turn her hypnotic suggestion. Maybe she would get a shirt that had caught her eye multiple times, or hell, maybe the jock would pick out something nice and not too skimpy that she could wear out. If not, she might just use it to wear around the dorm.

"If you want a shirt that guys like, make sure it shows lots of skin, like this one."He told her in a matter-of-fact voice. This way, she could dig into how he felt about things related to girls. It was obvious he got a lot of tail, and a bit more obvious that he got it so much, it was all he wanted. It was kind of sad actually. "And for jeans, the tighter the better. Guys like tight jeans that show off the legs and ass." He answered in a blunt fashion. Susie already knew that a lot of guys liked that because hey, they were boys, and boys liked attractive women. It was though, going to be part of Chris' downfall.

The shirt he handed her was actually pretty nice, on the skimpy side, but nice just the same. Besides, her cheerleading outfit was pretty skimpy too, so why not. The jeans he pointed out were pretty nice, and she knew her size so she would not have to try anything on. Sure, that probably wasn't the best way to buy clothes, but they were free anyway, well for her, they were on sale for Chris. It only took her a small minute or two to pluck out a nice pair of jeans that were her size. Now holding that and the shirt Chris had handed her, she turned back to Chris. "Chris, you are going to buy these for me." She stated in a upbeat and thankful tone, gluing her gaze to his, there was definitely power behind her words. She waited for the words to sink in, to see if her spell hit right off the bat, hopefully it would because she felt a little dizzy.