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I wake up Saturday morning and shower quickly before going downstairs where my sister is making herself breakfast.
"Mom says put your hamper in the basement unless you plan on doing your own laundry." She tells me as she scrambles her eggs in the pan.
"Okay…" I say turning around and going back upstairs to grab my dirty clothes from my room.
"Cam, do you want any eggs?" she calls from the kitchen.
"Sure Lyd." I reply as I carry the halfway full hamper down the first set of stairs. As I pass her on my way to the finished basement she continues "Then you wouldn't mind taking my hamper down?"
I sigh loudly as I carry my hamper down the stairs. "I guess not" I call up.
"Could you kids stop screaming across the house? If you want to talk to each other please just be in the same room." My mom berates as she puts a load of clothes in the washer.
I go back up to the kitchen and Lydia smiles as I walk back up the stairs. "Thank you baby brother." she says as I make my way into her bedroom.
I find myself peeping out the window to see if Maya is in her room which she doesn't appear to be. Man, I'm a creep for even checking.
"Your eggs are done." Lydia comments with a smile on her face as she eats her eggs at the kitchen table.
"Thanks big sister!" I mock her sitting down and eating the eggs.
"How was your project thing?" I ask her curiously before taking another bite of the eggs.
"Fine I guess… I really dislike Mr. Perino, but we got it done." She smiles proudly.
"How was your night? I'm sure it was pretty quiet without Brady." She comments jokingly.
"It was… I watched TV, and did nothing else, well, other than get your computer." I add thinking about Maya dancing around like a crazy person.
"Why so smiley about getting my computer?" she asks confusedly.
"Um… Nothing" I reply taking another bite of eggs. "Tell me!" she demands curiously obviously trying to think of what it might be.
"No" I rebut annoyed… "So there is a reason that you're smiling?" she asks pushing her long dark blonde hair behind her ears as if getting ready to listen.
"Please tell me you didn't read my diary!" she says with wide eyes… "No. Why would reading your diary make me smile?" I ask trying to change the subject.
"Then what is it, punk?" she asks nudging my arm.
"You're gonna think I'm a creep."I say lowering my head in shame.
"Did you like look through my underwear drawer or something?" she asks looking at me with a shocked expression.
"What the crap, Lydia! Why would you even assume that? That's so gross!" I ask disgusted at her accusations.
"Did I not tell you that I found Brady and his friends with one of my bras?" she asks.
"No! And, gross. Brady is a little freak." I respond shaking my head.
"I know. I don't how he is our brother. What the hell is it?"She asks getting a bit aggravated.
I take a deep breath before telling her "When I was closing your window I saw Maya through the window dancing around her room, and I watched her."
"Yeah that is creepy… Why were you watching her, weirdo?" she asks accusingly.
"I don't know, Lydia. I guess because…I like her." I say shamefully never having admitted that to anyone.
"Oh… Awe!" she coos giving me a smile as she puts her hand over her heart. "I totally called it."
"Called what?" I ask her annoyed by how she is reacting.
"Don't you remember when you were like eight and hanging out with her and I teased you that you liked her, and you were always like 'No… I don't.' and I was like 'You think she's cute' and you were all 'I don't think she's cute.' And then she was all sad?" she asks rambling on and on about it.
"No. I don't remember that ever happening." I say glaring at her confusedly.
"Well it did. I should call Katie, and tell her we were right." She adds getting up excitedly.
"Don't!" I shout at my older sister angrily.
She stops and gives me an inquisitive look. "Why not?"
"I don't want everyone knowing, and I don't want this getting back to Maya. It's a stupid crush that's never going to go anywhere. She has a boyfriend, and he's my best friend. I can't like her, and I'm trying really hard not to." I tell her miserably.
She cocks her head to the side, and gives me a sympathetic look. "Cammy…" she coos walking back toward me.
"Just promise me that you won't tell anyone." I say in hopes that she will listen.
She nods at me obviously feeling bad for my stupid situation and goes upstairs.
I tidy up the kitchen knowing that my mom would flip at both me and Lydia if she came upstairs and the kitchen looked a mess.
After that I hear the doorbell ring, and go to the door to see Zig waiting with an excited smile.
"We're going on a double date!" he announces giddily.
"What are you talking about?" I ask him confused.
"I was talking to Maya, and she was telling me her friend Tori, you know hot Tori with a nice ass, thinks you're cute! I knew that you would be into it so I told her to set up a double date, and that's what we're doing today. Get your coat, Man; we're going to the mall."
"I don't know if I want to go on a date with Tori. She's kind of shallow." I tell him with a frown.
"Dude, are you a fag or something? She's super hot… Like legit, I would hit that if I had the chance." He says confused at what I am saying.
I give him a dirty look and he continues. "You have to go. I already told them you would."
"Whatever. I'll go, but next time could you ask me first?" I sigh angrily.
"Yeah, sure, whatever man. I'm getting a ride with Maya. Do you need a ride too?" he questions curiously.
"Nah. I'll ask my sister to drive me." I tell him pointing behind me at my house.
"Kay. We'll meet at the food court entrance at 2?" he asks me raising his eyebrows curiously.
"Yeah… sure. See you there." I say dejectedly closing the door. I really don't want to go on a date with Tori… I think to myself irritated.
I walk up the stairs to Lydia's room where she is laying on her bed with her laptop and headphones in.
I walk in the room without being noticed so I wave my hand in front of her screen to grab her attention.
"What?" she asks taking her headphones off.
"Could you give me a ride to the mall later? I'll give you gas money." I ask my sister curiously.
"You're lucky that I already planned on going shopping today. Why are you going to the mall? You hate shopping." She adds sitting up and interrogating me.
"If you must know… I have a date that I don't want to go on." I tell her taking a deep breath.
"Explain?" she asks confusedly.
"Zig and Maya set me up with Maya's friend, Tori." I groan annoyed.
"Oh… Do I know her?"
"I doubt it." I sigh sitting down on her desk chair.
"Okay… What time do you want to go?" she questions curiously.
"I'm meeting them at the food court at 2, so 1:30." I say getting up and walking out.
"Okay." She answers as I go across the hall to my room to get ready for my "date".
We pick up my sisters friend on the way to the mall, and I end up being a bit late. When I enter the food court I see Zig, Maya, and Tori sitting at a table waiting.
"Hey guys, sorry I'm late. Lydia had to get her friend." I say giving the group a simple smile.
"It's cool. So, we are thinking a movie and then dinner. You okay with that?" Zig asks me as the girls watch my expression.
"Why not?" I claim awkwardly as Zig grabs Maya's hand and Tori walks next to me toward the movie theater.
"So Cam, is there any movie you want to see right now?" Tori asks me sweetly.
"I don't really care. I'll go with whatever you guys want to see." I reply uncomfortably.
"Oh. That's sweet of you." She tells me with a flirty smile.
"Not really. I just don't care what we watch." I respond not wanting her to think that I am sweet, or nice in any way.
"How do you guys feel about 'Man of Steel'?" Zig asks the three of us, and we all agree pretty quickly considering I honestly didn't care.
When we get into the theater the previews are playing and we sit down. I sit in between Maya and Tori, and silently wish that I was on a date with Maya instead.
"Just a warning here, I get scared of everything so I apologize if I scream at anything." Tori utters smiling nervously.
"It's not a scary movie." I say a bit rudely knowing t is not how she wanted me to react.
Maya and Zig spend the entire move not watching the movie where as me and Tori actually do.
She tries to bury her head in my chest for one of the action scenes, and I just feel myself getting annoyed as she continues to make moves on me. Can she not see that I'm not into her?
After the movie while we are eating dinner at the food court everyone is talking while I move my Panda Express chicken around with a plastic fork.
"Cam, how did you like the movie?" Maya asks me trying to pull my attention from moving the food around the bowl. She doesn't know this, but I didn't focus on the movie. I was too busy feeling disgusted by her and Zig's PDA.
"It was fine I guess." I comment looking at her quickly and then back down at my bowl.
"How did you like it?" I continue asking her the same question that she had asked me.
"What I saw was cool." She says giving a flirty smile to her boyfriend and breaking my heart in the process. I know that he is the reason she wasn't watching, and I saw what they were doing instead of watching. It disgusts me.
I don't partake in conversation with any of them and for the most part keep my mouth closed as I try to contain my jealousy as well as my anger toward my best friend for setting me up with a girl I don't like.
At around 5, Tori's mom comes to pick her up and Maya, Zig, and I are left at the food court.
"What the hell, Cam?" Maya freaks out at me hitting me in the arm irritated.
"She likes you and you were a total jerk!" She continues angrily at me, and I start to get a bit aggravated by how she is acting.
"I don't like Tori. I don't like her as a person, and I don't like her as anything else." I respond in an annoyed tone.
"Well, why did you want to go on a date with her then?" she asks me with squinted eyes, and Zig sighs.
"I didn't actually ask him. I just told him he was going." Zig butts in stopping Maya from getting madder at me.
"Well, why would you do that? You told me he liked her!" Maya yells at the tall boy.
"Don't blame me for him being an asshole." He says pointing at me.
"I'm not blaming you for him being an ass. I'm blaming you for being an ass!" she tells him walking away from us in disbelief.
"I was not being an ass. I thought he would have fun!" he yells back at his angry girlfriend as she walks away.
"Wait, Maya" I call going to stop her as Zig stands there pouting like a child.
"What?" she asks turning around to face me with her arms crossed over her chest.
"I'll call Tori and say sorry for not talking to her. I'll let her down easy. Sorry…" I tell her apologetically with an awkward smile hoping she would forgive me.
"Okay… One question though… Why don't you like her?" she asks curiously.
"I just don't. She's not my type." I tell her shrugging.
"Oh… I guess I'm sorry for trying to set the two of you up. It sucks that you don't like her. She has liked you since freshman year." She adds sighing at Tori's her best friend's misfortune.
"Sorry… I just don't like her like that… or at all really. She's a ditz" I comment and she raises an eyebrow.
"Could you not talk shit on my best friend?" she asks me looking annoyed.
"Sorry…I'm gonna go find my sister. Have fun with your boyfriend." I say coldly, and I notice a puckered brow on the blonde girls face as I walk away.
That night I text Tori this message "I'm sorry that I was a bit of a jerk on our date, but the truth is I like someone else."
She didn't respond back so I figure she probably will just avoid me at all costs from now on which I am fine with. I don't like when she flirts with me anyway. It's awkward…
Why did she ever even like me? I mean I'm sure Tori can have any guy she wants… Well, any guy but me… I want a girl with a brain, preferably one who has blonde hair and lives next door.
Too bad it won't happen. I'm weird for even wanting it to.
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