The Adventures of DJ Boy and Girl Trager
The Adventures of DJ Boy and Girl Trager
Chapter 1: Musings of the still high school girl
It had been a few days since the prom, a few days since Amanda Bloom had gone missing and mysteriously returned without being able to remember her caputerer. And also a few days since she had told Declan that she did not think this was the right time for them. She knew deep down that she had made the right decision but what plagued her was the reason that prompted that decision. She looked at her guitar and it clicked. But this wasn't the reason she had been hoping for, this wasn't the reason she had turned him down, was it? No! How could this have happened? How in the world could she have fallen for...him? She remembered the first time they met;
"You're arrogant."
She had called him arrogant. And he was. Arrogant and obnoxious. Who the hell did he think he was? Always preaching about how young she was, as if he was all filled with such sage wisdom, and then to find out that he was only nineteen. Nineteen! Why was that bothering her so much? Why did she let it? And why, when he told her that, did find herself trying to hide the smile that was forcing its way onto her face. But even if she did like him, did he like her? There was no way she could even fathom this kind of humiliation, as if she hadn't been hurt enough by Declan but to be turned down by Mark? Mark the DJ?
There were a few moments...she could have sworn, that would proved that perhaps his feeligns for her weren't quite as platonic as she thought. The way he looked at her when she had come into his booth during prom to ask if their song had lost. What he had said when he brought her notes to the Rack:
"You're a great lyricist...like rock my world poetic. And funny...and unexpected."
Unexpected? What did that mean? Also, the way he had looked after she had re-written her song. His look after she questioned his comment about future sessions. How he confided that he had missed his prom. She knew that Declan knew her well, but she couldn't deny that Mark had also managed to, how she did not know, figure her out within a few weeks of meeting her:
"You know Lori, you cut down everything and everyone around you. You tell yourself you're being alternative and edgy but you're not fooling anyone because everyone knows you're just jealous, because they've found something meaningful in their lives and you haven't."
Ouch. But it was true. Wasn't it? Oh my God. She totally had a thing for Mark! Even though she had denied it again and again:
"I'm not getting involved with Mark!"
Even though people kept telling her:
"I just don't want to see you blow off Declan for a piece of college-boy pie."
It was only now she realized, that they were trying to explain the inevitable. But now the problem was, what exactly was she going to do about it?