Zander's POV

I've never met a girl like Stevie Baskara. She was my best friend in the world and she was definitely special. She could play the bass like nobody's business, she was tough, she was NOT all perfy-like, and to add to that, she was pretty, funny, beautiful, talented, and did I already say pretty? I never thought I would fall in love with her. But, life loves to surprise people.

One day while sitting at lunch listening to Kacey talk about how hot this guy in her biology class was. Stevie, as usual, had zoned out of the conversation and Nelson and Kevin were playing furious pigeons. I decided to strike up a whispering conversation with Stevie. "Do you know who she's talking about?" I asked "Not a clue. I don't speak 'girl'" she replied picking up the piece of pizza in front of her. "Finally, a girl who doesn't speak her own language!" I whisper to her and she does this discreet giggle before biting the pizza. "Stevie!" Kacey said turning to the girl "Yeah Kacey?" she asked "Don't you think Justin Cole is like TOTALY hot?" she asked smiling her Kacey smile "He's OK" she said turning her attention back to the pizza on her tray and our conversation "Did you hear about Kellie Hare's new dress Kacey?" Molly walked up to our table.

"Yes, and it's HIDEOUS Molly. Heidi Klum said so!" ugh. Project runway. NOT my thing. I turned back to Stevie and her half-eaten pizza. "Where are we having movie weekend this time?" I asked her "I think Kacey said it would be at her house, what movie are you bringing?" "Oh, OK. I'll probably bring Iron Man 2." I said. "Awesome! I love that movie! I'm bringing Apollo 13" she said smiling at me. "Cool. So you still coming over today?" "Yeah, my brothers have some big "event" tonight. In other words 4 girls were stupid enough to ask them out." I laughed at her remark. "Aw, aren't you 2 the CUTEST thing?" Molly snapped and Stevie scoffed at her.

"You know what Molly? Shut up! You think you can do whatever you want and slam whoever you want but you will NOT say anything like that about me and MY friends!" Stevie had gotten up and almost punched Molly's over-abundance of make-up off her face but, even though I would LOVE to see her do that but I couldn't let her "Stevie! DOWN." I said tugging on her arm, when she refused to back down I got up and grabbed her and pulled her out of the room and into the band room. "Stevie! It's OK! Calm down!" I said shaking her arms slightly

"Sorry. She just gets on my NERVES!" she turned and walked toward her bass, picked it up and sat down. "Stevie, are you OK?" I ask "No, not really." "What's wrong Stevie?" I ask sitting next to her on the couch. "There's this guy that I kinda have a crush on but I don't know what to do about it!" she said strumming a few chords on the bass. "Just be yourself Stevie. He'll love you." I had to catch myself from saying "He'll love you like I do" because, that WOULD be bad... right? "But you see, I'm not his usual you know, type." she said looking at the music in front of her.

"It'll be OK Stevie, it's not the end of the world if this ONE guy doesn't like you back." I say reassuringly "I know that!" she said lightly punching me in the arm. "Oh, come on you can do better than that!" I tease and she hits me harder. "That all you've got Baskara?" I ask in a teasing gesture. "Oh please Zander you haven't done ANYTHING but taunt me!" she retorted whacking my arm again in return I hit her arm. We continued like that until the bell rang and we went to class.