Littlest Pet Shop: High School AU

Chapter 33: Opportunity

"Ugh... Somebody please tell me that my eyes are just deceiving me and Tangier did not just walk through those gym doors," Russell groaned.

"Uhh... okay! Your eyes are deceiving you and Tangier didn't walk through those doors," Vinnie smiled reassuringly at his friend.

"I'm afraid he just did though, Russell," Sunil sighed softly, glaring at the model as he walked into the gym.

Before either of them could say anything else, the three of them suddenly got pelted by dodgeballs, and fell over.

"Hahaha! Wake up you three!" Pepper laughed and taunted.

"Gee thanks," Russell mumbled as he rubbed the back of his head. He walked over with the other two boys to sit down on the bench, then rose a brow as Tangier passed them. "What's he even doing here?"

"I don't know... We could ask him though!" Vinnie smiled and sat down on the bench beside Russell. "Hey Tangier!" He called out and waved.

Sunil and Russell immediately gave Vinnie a worried glance, covered his mouth, and watched as Tangier looked in their direction. The supermodel smirked slightly when he caught sight of the three, and began to make his way over.

"I thought I smelled losers on my way over here," Tangier spoke and crossed his arms as he approached.

"That's just the smell of sweat because we're in gym," Vinnie pointed out after removing his friends' hands from covering his mouth. Russell smacked a hand to his face and shook his head.

"What are you even doing here? Don't you have another class during this time?" Sunil asked curiously.

Tangier sighed dramatically at that question. "Unfortunately, no. I got put into this gym period because they found out I tried to pass 'modeling' as something to take care of my P.E. credit. So, I'm stuck here now," he huffed.

"Bwahaha! What kind of idiot would try to pull off something like that?" Russell grinned and rose a brow.

"Careful, Ferguson," Tangier leaned in and glared at the other. "It worked for a while, but they decided to change my schedule after the break."

"Whatever. Just don't bug me or my friends," Russell stood up, seeing that they had to get ready for another dodgeball match.

"Oh? You don't trust me?" Tangier batted his eyelids in an innocent manner and clasped his hands together. "I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing!"

Russell and Sunil rolled their eyes at him, and got in position to go against the girls again. Tangier placed his hands on his hips and grinned slightly.

"This is the first time I've ever seen you make an attempt to work out, Russell... If you could call this working out, that is. It's more like child's play!" Tangier snickered and taunted.

Russell simply ignored the other and did his best to dodge all the balls thrown their way. Vinnie was trying to catch a few, but he'd trip over his own feet each time. Sunil hid behind Russell, afraid of getting hit.

"You know, I would think at least one of you guys would be good at this game but you're all proving me very wrong. I don't know whether or not I should feel sad for you or be glad to see you all fail," Tangier continued, a smug grin on his face.

"Don't you have anything better to do than to stand there and harass us?" Russell hissed, looking right at Tangier.

"Nope. I'm just fine right here," the model chuckled in reply.

Just then, Tangier got absolutely pelted by four, very quick and painful, dodgeballs and got knocked over. Russell, Sunil, and Vinnie blinked a few times, and looked across the gym.