Nina Martin woke up to daylight streaming through her window. She felt a pair of strong arms wrapped tightly around her waist. She turned over to see who owned the pair of arms ready to strike. Eddie, she smiled. Suddenly, yesterday's events came flooding through her and she remembered how they had fallen asleep like this, Nina in Eddie's arms. They hadn't had sex or anything; they had just fallen asleep talking.
Nina had been having a mental breakdown. She was stressed about the mystery, all of her classes, and not to mention the fact that Fabian had just broken up with her for Joy. She had fed Fabian the classic, "I hope we can still be friends line", but she knew things would never be the same between them. She ran upstairs expecting to be disappointed, but oddly, she wasn't. Fabian and her were just meant to be friends. This fact made her relieved. This was due partly to the fact that she liked someone else, but despite all of Amber and Patricia's convincing, she doubted that he liked her back. As she lay on her bed relaxing after Eddie had left, she heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
"Amber, go away! I'm fine, just tired!" Nina called.
"Do I really sound like Amber?" said Nina's favorite voice in the world right now.
"Eddie!" she smiled.
"The one and only, I just came to give you some breakfast." he replied.
"Thanks."
As they ate their breakfast Nina said, "Thanks for yesterday. No one can make me calm like you."
"So does that mean you like me?" Eddie questioned.
"Uh. No. Not really. Well. I am not really sure," Nina stuttered, not wanting to admit her true feelings in case he said he didn't like her.
"Well, I like you," Eddie confessed knowing how awkward it would be if she said she didn't like him, but he took a chance.
"I like you too Eddie."
"Nina Martin, will you be my girlfriend?"
"Yes! Yes! I really like you Eddie." They smiled at each other for a little while and then headed downstairs. As Nina headed to school, she told her best friends Amber and Patricia what had happened.
"Guys, you were right about Eddie liking me," Nina said.
"What? How did you find out?" Patricia questioned. She was completely over Eddie now, but she was still good friends with him, so she wanted him to be happy with Nina.
"Well, he asked me to be his girlfriend," Nina smiled.
"Ahhhh! Yay! Score one Neddie! I've got to go get supplies for my Neddie scrapbook," Nina's peppy blonde friend Amber said. Nina noticed Fabian hanging nearby looking kind of sad, but she didn't feel bad, he was into Joy now.
Meanwhile, Eddie was telling his friends Fabian, Jerome, and Alfie about what had happened last night.
"So she was really depressed and all, nice going Fabian, and I was like, well if you ever need a shoulder to cry on, count me in. So then we just talked for a while and fell asleep. This morning, I asked her to be my girlfriend," Eddie explained.
"Nice going man!" Alfie exclaimed.
"Yeah Edison, I didn't think you had it in you," Jerome said.
"Thanks Jerry," Eddie replied. He noticed that Fabian was looking sort of sad, but hey, he had broken up with Nina not vice versa. He sauntered over to Nina.
"Miss Martin, shall we have our first date tonight?"