"Hey," he said, pulling out a cigarette and lighting it. Jolie coughed when he blew smoke in her direction.

"I'm sure you aren't allowed to be smoking here," she said as she fanned the smoke away with her hand.

"Do you always follow arbitrary rules like that?" he asked, taking another drag off his cigarette.

She looked at him with his squinty smoldering eyes and pushed up hair and the cigarette hanging loosely from his lip.

"Yes I follow rules like that," she laughed.

"How boring," he scoffed.

"They don't just make up rules for no reason. If we didn't have rules there would be chaos," she said defensively.

"Yeah well it would also be a lot more fun," he replied, blowing a perfect smoke ring with his mouth.

"What do you want Blaze?" she finally asked impatiently.

"What makes you think I want something? Maybe I'm just trying to get to know the new girl a little better. It's not very often we get new people here from a big city, let alone New York City."

"I'm from upstate New York not New York City and I have a feeling you have ulterior motives. What do you really want?" she asked suspiciously.

"Who says I have to want something?" he laughed, trying to sound innocent. "You big city people are cynical aren't you?"

She glared at him and crossed her arms. "I'm not an idiot."

"Ok fine. I underestimated you Jolie. You're smarter than you look," he laughed, rubbing the cigarette out on the bleacher next to him. She didn't know whether to take that as an insult or a compliment.

"I'll cut to the chase. I've got a proposition for you. A business proposal," he stated.

"If this has anything to do with drugs or something illegal I'm not interested. You're barking up the wrong tree."

"No," he shook his head. "Nothing like that. I was actually thinking that we could place a huge bet under my name on the website and then you have sex with me and we split all the prize money. It's brilliant. We make money plus you get to experience the pleasure of being with this," he smirked, pointing to himself.

She laughed and shook her head.

"Wow. You really are full of yourself."

He smiled and said, "With good reason."

"Yeah well I'm not sleeping with anyone so you can just give it up right now. Your bad boy act might work on other girls but it won't work on me."

"We'll see," he said quietly under his breath.

She watched as Austin and the rest of the team came out onto the field in their football uniforms to warm up. When he looked up into the stands and saw Blaze talking to Jolie he jogged over to the fence and pulled his helmet off. He's so unrealistically gorgeous and looked so good in his football uniform that it made her stomach do a flip.

"Is he bothering you?" Austin shouted up into the stands, glaring at Blaze with look that told her if she said yes he'd hop the fence and tear him apart.

"No we're just talking but thanks for worrying about me Austin," she said smiling at him.

"Ok," he said, starting to walk away before he changed his mind and came back. "You keep your hands to yourself Blaze. You hurt her and I hurt you. I mean it," he ordered before putting his helmet back on and joining the team for jumping jacks and stretches.

"It looks like the husband doesn't like you talking to me. Afraid I might corrupt you or something," he smirked, pulling a bottle of brown liquor out of his inside jacket pocket and taking the lid off, tipping it back. "You want some?" he asked, holding it out to her.

"No thanks," she said, wrinkling her nose up at it and pushing it away.

"Oh I bet Miss Precious Perfect has never even tasted whiskey before," he laughed. "Come on. Live a little," he said shoving it towards her.

She laughed. "So is this what you always do to get girls to do what you want? Use your psychological mind games to manipulate them?"

She used a high pitched dumb valley girl voice and said sarcastically, "Oh my gosh Blaze. I'm like totally NOT Miss Precious Perfect. Let me prove how bad I can be by drinking your whiskey and getting wasted so you can seduce me!" She laughed. "Do girls actually fall for that crap?"

"You'd be surprised," he laughed with a smile. "Obviously it's not working on you though. I might have to switch up my game for a New Yorker. You're too smart for my small town tricks."

"If the women you hang out with fall for that, then you seriously need to find smarter women," she said and he laughed.

"I guess you're right. They always fall for it but then again I've never claimed to pick them for their brains. I'm more interested in their other parts," he smirked, getting a smack and a laugh from Jolie.

"Or maybe you're just too intimidated by smart women to go after them."

"No I don't think so. Every girl here that I've ever wanted has fallen for my tricks, smart or not, except you."

"Well I'm not that gullible. Maybe you're right about New Yorkers being more cynical," she said, smiling before looking back to the field and watching Austin throw a ball perfectly across the field to his teammate.

"I'm finding that out," Blaze said. "I'm not used to the humiliation of defeat and I don't like it. I've never been rejected like this before. I'm hurt."

She laughed. "More like your ego is hurt!"

"Well you enjoy the game Jolie. I'm out," he said, standing up and throwing his hoodie cap up over his head, shoving his hands in his pockets. "Just so you know, I don't give up that easy," he said before turning around and walking away down the bleachers. She watched as he went over to a motorcycle parked nearby, started it up with a loud rumble and sped away through the parking lot.

'He really is cute,' she thought but she remembered Austin's warning that Blaze was bad news. She wondered if he was really as bad as everybody thought.

The bleachers started to fill up with a lot of people Jolie didn't know but then she saw Katherine, Austin's Mom and her Mom walking up carrying their bleacher chairs and snacks and drinks. She was so happy to see them so she wouldn't have to watch the game alone.

"Hey!" she waved smiling and they made their way over to her climbing through all the people.

"Hi!" Katherine smiled. "Is it ok if we sit here? We don't want to cramp your style."

"Yeah it's ok! I was going to be watching alone so I could use the company," she smiled.

"I'm sure you'll make lots of friends in no time. You're such a sweetheart!" Katherine said, putting an arm around her shoulder and squeezing

"Thanks Mrs. Fox. I hope so."

"Call me Katherine. Mrs. Fox just sounds so formal," she laughed.

"Ok Katherine."

"Your Mom was just telling me about the website and I was so shocked. I think it's just terrible what they're doing to you and that the police won't do anything. I'm so sorry that happened."

"Thank you, but I'm gonna be OK. I'm just going to ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist."

"Good for you," she said with a smile.

The game finally started and they watched as Austin threw a pass that went directly into the hands of the receiver, who ran all the way down the field for a touchdown. The crowd went wild.

Mandy came out with the other cheerleaders and led a touchdown cheer and Jolie couldn't help but notice that she was shooting daggers at her with her eyes. She wasn't even trying to hide it either.

Her Mom said, "Honey why is that girl looking at you like that?"

"That's Mandy, Austin's ex-girlfriend and she hates me for no reason at all," Jolie said, feeling a shiver down her spine.

Katherine said, "Yeah. She didn't take their break up well at all. She cheated on him so he broke up with her, but she just couldn't accept that it was over. She wouldn't stop calling his phone and coming over to the house to see him."

"How long ago was that?" Jolie asked.

"That was at the beginning of the summer. It's been almost 4 months and I think she's still not over it."

Jolie had never enjoyed football before but watching Austin play and cheering him on with his Mom was so exciting that she actually started enjoying herself. His Mom knew a lot about football and she explained everything that was going on and she stood up and screamed loudly and raised up a sign that said "Austin Fox is #1" whenever he had a good play, which was really often.

He was so good at throwing the ball right where he wanted it to go that it made it easy to catch and they scored several touchdowns. When the game was over their team had won by a lot, and the entire student section went wild.

"Jolie!" she heard a deep voice shout and she looked around before noticing that Austin was down at the fence in front of the bleachers motioning for her to come down to him.