Chapter Two: Zack and His Girlfriends
I was in the seventh grade when I realized I was invisible. Not, "She's disappeared!" invisible more like-
We're at a spelling bee. Courtney walks up to the microphone.
"Anonymous. A-N-O-N-I-M-O-U-S. Anonymous."
"Sorry. That is wrong." the announcer said. "W-O-R-O-N-G. Wrong."
I mean it's not like I was a real-
"Loser." a girl said. "L-O-S-E-R. Loser."
Of course when it came to love…that sucked. S-U-C-K-E-D. Sucked.
But another thing stood in my way. That was my mom.
It's not that she didn't have any trouble landing guys, just keeping them. I used to keep track of them but I found it exhausting. So I just call 'em all Skip.
"I am going to be your new father." one of her step dads said.
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves there now Skip." Courtney said with a glare.
"Actually it's Steve kiddo. Why do you keep calling me Skip?" he asked.
Because eventually that's what they all did.
But enough about me. This story isn't even about me. It's about him.
Zack ran down the court for a slam dunk. He sinks it and the crowd goes wild.
Zack Martin.
Face it, he is the man. Captain of the basketball team, his parents are loaded…like I said, he's the man.
"Another Buckner win thanks to the one and only Zack Martin," the school reporter said into a camera.
I remember the first time I talked to Zack. I was totally cool.
Courtney walked up to Zack at a restaurant. "Hey do you um, are you, like-"
"I'm not ready to order yet." Zack said with a smile.
"Great." Courtney said and curtsied. She walked away a horrified look on her face.
Please God tell me I did not curtsy.
Ashleigh walked inside the restaurant and sat next to Zack.
Figures a guy like him has a girlfriend.
That's Ashleigh Schaefer. Ashleigh is your basic chronic overachiever who spends her life in extracurricular clubs and working on her college application. She's on the honor roll, student council, runs the school TV broadcasts, she's apart of Big Sisters, Adopt-A-Shut-In, and…I think that's it.
Ashleigh looked at the menu and started speaking French.
"You are so sexy when you speak French." Zack says to her.
They start making out.
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Zack is now making out with Julie
Ok, he's got two girlfriends…?
That's Julie Davies. She's the sassy, aggressive head cheerleader.
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Zack is now making out with Sara.
Whoa, scratch that- three girlfriends?!
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"How do those three girls not know Zack's cheating on all of them?" Courtney asked her mom as she scrubbed the dishes in the back of the restaurant.
"He dates girls from different cliques at his school so that they never interact and convinces the girls who he dates to keep their affairs secret from his father by telling them that he is not allowed to date during basketball season." her mom-Rosalina- said.
"How do you know all this?" Courtney asked confused.
"I don't know. Just a hunch." Rosalina sobbed. She turned and walked away. Courtney shuddered and went back to washing dishes.
