Loren's POV

I opened my eyes to a loud sound. I looked around to see where it came from, but then I realized it was my best friend, Melissa Sanders, snapping her fingers in front of my face. We were in 2nd period trig with Mr. Mort. "Daydreaming about Eddie Duran again, I see," she said in a mocking manner.

"What are you talking about Mel? I was not daydreaming about Eddie!"

"Uhm, Lo, your textbook begs to differ." I looked down and noticed there was a wet spot on my book, but I didn't want to admit that I saw it.

"What do you mean, 'my textbook begs to differ'?"

"Lo, does this give you a hint," and as she said this, she grabbed her book, put it to her lips, pretending to kiss it.

"Mel, I was not kissing my book," I said defensively.

"Right, Lo. And I can keep quiet for more than 5 minutes!" I could tell she was being sarcastic since Mel can barely keep quiet for 5 seconds, let alone 5 minutes. "C'mon, you were in full make out mode."

"Oh god," I whisper yelled, "did anyone see me?"

"No, and you're lucky I caught you before Adriana and her wannabe clones did!" Adriana is 'popular', mean, and the daughter of Dr. Don, the owner of the clinic in town. She is also dating Mel's older brother, Phil. "I still don't see what my brother see's in that!" Mel is not the biggest fan of Adriana, to put it bluntly.

"I have no idea." I had to admit, Phil was a pretty good looking guy. I mean, he was tall, sort of fit, and brown haired. But he was always into some kind of trouble. And the more Adriana was involved, the more trouble he got into.

Mel was getting ready to say something when she got interrupted. "Ms. Tate, Ms. Sanders, do you have something you would like to share to the class?"

"No sir," I replied.

"Well then, please quite talking and don't interrupt again," Mr. Mort said, and then walked back to the front of the class room. Mel and I were quite until the end of the period. Then, finally, the bell rang.

Mel walked with me to my locker. "So when are you and Adam going on that first date?" Mel and Adam have been flirting with each other for how many months now, but they were both too oblivious to realize it. Last week, when I dropped a little hint to Adam about it, he finally asked Mel out.

"Saturday."

"Where are you guys going?"

"He's taking me to the monster movie marathon up on the square! Then we're gonna go get some pizza! And hopefully, I'll get my first kiss!"

"Wait, you said you kissed Brandon Callum back in 7th grade."

"Yeah, well, I kinda lied. I've actually never had a kiss. Well, except for at that party in 8th grade when John Kriss ran into me and we accidently kissed, but that didn't count."

"Yeah, I remember that. Although, I don't think it was an accident to him. He had a major crush on you."

"Really?" Mel sounded really surprised.

"Yeah, I think everyone in the school knew it. Well, everyone but you."

"Hmm… maybe I should give him a call and…"

"Don't even think about it Mel, you and Adam are finally going on a date. Don't ruin that."

"I was kidding, Lo. So, how excited are you for the Eddie Duran concert?"

"Mel, do you even have to ask that? In just 2 days, we'll be sitting front row, listening to the one and only Eddie Duran, live and in person! I'm so excited!"

"Me too! And I'll be close enough to film it all!" Mel has always dreamed of being a big time producer. She filmed everything, from birthdays, to parties, to just about anything. There is hardly ever a time when I don't see Mel with a camera.

I was getting ready to say something, but Phil walked over to us. "Hey Mel, tell mom and dad I won't be home tonight. I've got some stuff to do."

"Stuff to do like what? Rob a bank or something?"

"Ha ha, very funny Mel. No, I've got some stuff to do with Adriana."

"Ugh. Why do you even like her? She's so… Adriana."

"Mel, why are you always on Aids case?"

"Because she's… Adriana. She's so horrible, I don't even have words for it. I think you should dump her and go out with Lo."

"MEL!" I slapped Mel's arm.

"What? I'm just stating the obvious. You too would be perfect together! And then, if you two got married, we'd be sisters!" I couldn't believe Mel. Was she really saying this with Phil standing right there?

"Mel, would you stop? Phil would never date me. Wait, that came out wrong." I looked over and Phil had a smirk on his face.

"So, Ms. Loren's got a crush on me, does she?" He was still smirking.

I felt a blush creep up. "What? No, I don't…" I am a horrible liar.

"You're lying." And Mel, just a bit of info, me and Aid broke up yesterday. We just have something we have to do."

Mel stood there in shock. "You two really broke up?"

"Yeah. So that means I'm available now." Is it just me, or when he said that, did he wink at me?

"Did you just wink at me?"

"Yeah, do you have a problem with it?"

"No, I just want to know why you did it."

Mel was faster than Phil, and answered for him. "And you said I was oblivious Lo. He obviously likes you." Phil just stood there and nodded when Mel said that.

"Do you?" I asked Phil.

"Well, yeah. I mean, you're cute, smart, and damn sexy. Why wouldn't I like you?" I just stood there in complete shock. Did he really just say what I thought he said? Did he just say he liked me… and that I'm Sexy?!

"Y-You think I'm sexy?"

"I'm gonna take that as my cue to leave," Mel said as she left my locker.

"Yeah. You're gorgeous Lo. Any guy would be lucky to have you."

"You really think so?"

"How many times do I have to say it Lo? Yes."

"It's just that I've always had a small crush on you and I never thought that you would like me back and…" before I could finish my ramble, Phil leaned down and kissed me. It was soft, yet passionate. I pulled back, my head spinning a million miles an hour. "Wow."

"Yeah, wow. Lo, I liked you too. But you were Mel's best friend, and I was her brother, so I never thought you would feel that way about me."

"I guess we both suck at guessing," I said with a giggle as I leaned in and kissed him again.

"I guess we are."

"So…"

"So…" he said dragging out the o and putting his hands in his pockets, "do you want to go out with me?"

"Hmm… I'll have to think about," I said with a smirk.

"Oh, you'll have to think about it," he said while wrapping his arms around my waist.

"Yup. Give me a second. Thinking, thinking, thinking, thought about it. Yes, Phil, I will go out with you."

"See, I knew you would say yes," he said he gave me a quick kiss on the lips.

"You know, Mel is going to have a field day with this. And by the end of this week, my ear will probably have fallen off by how much she will talk about it."

"Yeah, that sounds like Mel." The warning bell rang, signaling we had one minute left to get to class.

"I gotta get to Chem. See you later?"

"Yeah. Meet up after school?"

"Sure. I was coming over to your guy's house anyways because I'm helping Mel study for that trig test, so I'll see you there?"

"Sounds like a plan."

I leaned up and kissed his cheek, "Bye."

"See ya."