Best Friends Forever?
Part One
CPOV
I was sat in English waiting for the bell to ring. I had been waiting not so patiently for lunch all morning. Derek called me last night and told me that he had a surprise for me and that he would meet me as usual at lunch. Derek Souza was my friend, has been ever since second grade when he stopped a bunch of kids from picking on me about my stutter. We had lunch together every day out by the old oak, partly because neither of us much liked crowds, and whenever he said he had a surprise for me it usually had funny consquences. Like the time he attempted to make me cherry scones as a good luck present for a test i had to sit, they were so hard that i nearly chipped a tooth.
When the bell rang i left the room so fast i barely heard tor shout, "Say hi to Derek for me" in that sarcastic way that only she can pull off. I just waved my hand over my shoulder in acknowlegement and hurried on to my locker to grab my lunch bag. I couldn't help it i really was excited.
When i got to the old oak Derek was already sat beneath it reading. Somehow Derek always managed to get here before me even though his class was all the way on the other side of the school, i blamed it on my much shorter legs and i normally would have grumbled a remark about that if i wasn't so curious about what derek had planned. When he looked up and saw me standing there he gave me this adorable goofy smile that he seemed to save just for me.
Derek was about 6"2 and built quite muscular, he had black hair that usually flopped in his face and bright green eyes. He was also very intelligent, he was doing twelth grade work in chemistry, physics and biology and college work in algebra and geometry, not to mention that he always has so experiment or other on the go. He was actually the hottest guy in school but most people were too intimidated by him, which was why i got alot of stick for spending so much time with him, mostly of girls.
I smiled back and went and sat down next to Derek. I held out my hands and said.
"Ok gimme"
He smirked at that and pulled something out of his bag. It was a black cap that had the word Directer on it in white.
"I couldn't resist it when i saw it and i know you've been hoping to get chosen for directer in film club" he sounded nervous when he said this like he was worried i wouldn't like it.
"I love it thank you so much" i said and threw my arms around him in a hug. He chuckled and hugged me back.
SPOV
Me and Tori were sat by the window in an empty classroom watching Chloe and Derek under the old oak out in the grounds. Tori and I are actually half siblings but very few people know of that fact. What can i say we just don't like each other, and that is one thing we don't keep secret, so we certanly don't want to advertise that we are related. To be honest, if it wasn't for Chloe and Derek being so close we probably wouldn't have anything to do with each other. Today however, we have decided to call a truce. You see there is one thing that we both agree on and that is that Chloe and Derek belong together. Actually anyone with half a brain cell could see that they are great together, the only ones who don't realise it are Chloe and Derek, probably just don't want to risk ruining their friendship but me and Tori agree that some things are worth the risk. So me and Tori have decided to take action and give them the good kick up the ass they need to be more than friends.
CPOV
The rest of that day was pretty normal except for one thing. Simon and Tori started acting weird after lunch. Simon was hanging around me alot more than usual, although he was always nice to me he normally only spent time with me when i was with Derek, not in a bad way or anything he just had his own circle of friends. As for Tori, and this was probably the creepiest thing that happened that day because she hates simon with a passion, more so since she found out he is her half-brother a couple of years ago, but she actually kept on encouraging me and simon to spend more time together.
By the time i got home though, i had forgotten about Simon and Tori's strangeness.
When i walked through the front door i was surprised to see my dad sat there on the sofa.
"Dad you're back, i thought you were gonna be in berlin another week" i exclaimed. I ran over and hugged him.
"Yeah everything got wrapped up quicker than expected so i thought i would come home early, and i missed you too" he chuckled as he hugged me back.
"How long will you be back this time?" i asked
"A while actually. There's a new project that has started here in Buffalo that i'm going to deal with personally So other than the occasional trip to New York for a day or two, i'm going to stick around for a few weeks at least."
I was so happy, it had been too long since i had got to spend some real time with my dad. Don't get me wrong, i loved my Aunt Lauren who mostly looked after me but it could get really lonely living in a penthouse with just a grouchy old housekeeper for company, and quite frankly sometimes a girl just needs her dad around.
That night Tori came round for dinner, which is something she did at least three times a week because she tried to spend as little time as possible at home especially when her mom was there.
We had a good time, until Tori started acting strange again and worse she did it right in front of my dad.
"You know i'm starting to think that simon is interested in you Chloe" Tori stated mater of factly, causing my dad to drop his fork and stare at us in shock.
"Are you talking about Simon Bae?" Dad asked and i could tell that he was wondering if he should get Aunt Lauren to do The Talk.
"Oh yeah" Tori said with a wink " Simon's been paying alot of attention to our little Chloe lately"
By this point i pretty much wanted to either throttle Tori or let the earth swallow me up, at the moment it was pretty much even.
"What about you Chloe, Do You like Simon" My dad asked me somewhat uncomfortably. In fact, by the look on his now red face, i would guess that he was almost as embarrased as me. Almost.
"w..well h..he's always been n..nice to me so yeah he's a good friend i guess" I stammered lamely. The truth is that like most girls at school i kinda had a crush on him but i wasn't about to tell my dad that.
About an hour later the phone rang, if i had been a suspicious person i might have thought that it was almost too well timed but as it was i didn't think much of it at the time. My dad answered it thinking it was someone from work for him but when i saw the look on his face when he handed me the phone and said "It's Simon Bae" i knew i was in for a lecture, dad wasn't used to guys, other than Derek, calling me at the house. When i saw the smirk on Tori's face i figured i was better taking this call in private so i took the phone to my room.
"Hey Simon, what's up?" i asked, grateful that my voice sounded more confident than i felt.
"Just the usual. Me and dad had a bet on whether or not Derek would blow up the basement with his new experiment." Simon mentioned casually.
i giggled at that. "Who won?"
"Dad, Derek didn't blow anything up but he did burn a big hole in the table"
That just made me laugh harder. Simon then went very quite for a moment like he was stealing himself for something.
"So i was wondering, do you want to go out tomorrow night maybe see a movie?" he asked so tentavely.
I couldn't believe it. Was Simon Bae actually asking me out on a date?
