She stirs the pudding with her spoon. "I think I'm gonna throw up."
"Why? What'd I do now?"
"Not you. Him." She nods toward something behind me.
I look back and see her brother standing in line with Christina. He's smiling and whispering in her ear.
"Guess their date went well," I say, looking back at Eve.
"Yeah, he didn't get home until after midnight, an hour past curfew. My mom was on a date so she couldn't even yell at him for it, and when I told her she didn't believe me."
"Why didn't she believe you?"
"Because it's Evan, Mr. Never-Gets-In-Trouble. I'm the one always breaking the rules." She shrugs. "Whatever. I don't really care. It's just annoying he gets away with stuff and I don't." She glances at him with Christina. "Why would a cheerleader want to date a geek like Evan? It's like me dating a football player."
"You wouldn't date a football player?"
"I'm not saying I wouldn't. It just wouldn't happen. I have too much personality for those guys. They couldn't handle it."
"I'M dating one. Are you saying I don't have a personality?"
"No. I'm saying that mine is different. I have a loud, out-there personality that a lot of guys can't handle. I say what I want, dress like I want, do my hair like I want. Football guys tend to like girls that do everything possible to please them. That's not me."
"I don't do what Dean wants."
"And yet you're considering leaving school for him." She licks the pudding off her spoon.
"I thought we weren't talking about that."
"That's right. I forgot." She looks behind me. "What do you want, shithead?"
"Shithead?" Kendrick sits beside me, looking across the table at Eve. "What the hell's that supposed to mean?"
"You got me in trouble in class," Eve says.
"No, I didn't."
She leans across the table, glaring at him. "She thought we were cheating on the test because you kept staring at me."
"I wasn't staring," he insists, but he doesn't sound convincing. I swear he likes Eve but when I tell her that, she doesn't believe me.
She eats her pudding, ignoring Kendrick. I look over and see him staring at her, the way you'd stare at someone you're attracted to. I look over at Eve. She's not even paying attention to him, her focus on getting the last of her pudding from the cup.
"Did you need something?" I say to Kendrick.
He's still staring at Eve, his gaze dropping to her chest. She's wearing a black t-shirt with a hot pink skull printed on it. It's so tight on her boobs it's hard to tell it's a skull unless she's standing up and you're far away.
"Kendrick?" I say, nudging him.
"What?" he asks, his head slowly turning toward me.
"Did you need something or are you just here to look at Eve?"
Eve looks up from her pudding. "What did you say?"
"Nothing. I just wondered why Kendrick is here."
"Yeah, what do you want?" Eve says, sounding annoyed.
