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These Hearts
Chapter 2
You could hear Bianca's party two blocks away from her house. Naturally the only music her DJ was playing were the top forty songs in the country, and of course she knew all the words to each and every song that played. I parked as close as I could (a block away) and walked up to her house. She and Corey found me first.
"You look great!" they said in unison.
"Really hot!" Corey added with a wink.
"Thanks, you guys look awesome. How many hours did you spend doing your hair Bianca?" I asked, teasing her.
"Two or three," she laughed, "The point is we all look great!" she squealed in excitement.
"I second that." Corey said, smiling and we all laughed. I noticed that Bianca had dyed her hair to brown. I raised my eyebrow at her.
"What's with the hair?" I asked, "I thought you weren't going to change from blonde." she reached up and twirled one of her perfect curls around her finger.
"Oh ya, I decided that I liked my original hair color better than blonde. I mean you can't really be a Valdez and be blonde, it just looks weird." She said in her matter of fact tone. She had a point, nobody in her family tree had ever had any hair color besides brown and she wasn't about to change that. She looks better with brown hair anyway.
Bianca was wearing what looked like a brand new outfit. It was light purple with the shirt having no straps. The skirt had a slanted cut with a wavy trim. With her hair down and expertly curved ever so slightly. She wasn't wearing that much jewelry, small diamond ear rings and a thin diamond choker, a typical amount for her.
Corey was wearing a short blood-red dress and black leather bracelets on both wrists. A black rose pendent hung from her neck.
I had on a soft black tank-top with small black pearl buttons down the front and a short black skirt. I had silver bracelets on each wrist that wound up a few inches on my arms, and a matching silver choker around my neck.
"It looks awesome," I told her, "so Corey, where's Blake?" her jerky pothead boyfriend didn't seem to be around. It was a good think in my opinion.
"He's grounded so he couldn't make it." she said. YAY! I had to physically stop myself from jumping for joy.
"Well that means it will be easier to check out the hotties that just moved here." Bianca said as she winked at Corey. Corey and I laughed at her.
"Speaking of hotties," Corey started, "weren't you planning on setting Mal up with one of those new boys?"
"Well not anymore, thanks a lot Corey!" Bianca said, slightly ticked off.
"Oops, sorry." Corey said, and then winked at me. I smiled back and snickered at Bianca's disappointed face.
"Ok well, I'm going to hit the food table, I'm starving." I said, wanting to get away before B could repair her damaged match-making plan.
"Well Corey," Bianca said, "shall we get on the dance floor?" Bianca held her hand out and Corey grabbed it and smiled.
"I thought you'd never ask." she said and they walked off to the dance floor, still holding hands while I headed towards the food. Bianca had put out her usual spread of chips, soda and various sandwiches and desserts. I licked my lips and dove in. I piled my plate high with junk food. As I reached for the last mint cookie, my favorite cookie of all time, a hand snatched it from the plate. I looked up and saw the most beautiful boy I had ever seen.
He had short black hair, olive skin and gray blue eyes that I could have stared into all night. He was gorgeous, absolutely breathtaking. It was then that I realized I was holding my breath. I let it out slowly and my brain started creating intelligent thought again.
"I believe that I mine." I said pointing at the cookie in his hand.
"I saw it first." he said, smiling down at me. He had to be at least five foot twelve tall, maybe more. That was good, I liked tall guys. I looked up at him from my five foot 6 inches and took another breath.
"You did not." I said, "Come on, its my favorite kind of cookie and I haven't had one in forever." I said, trying to convince him into handing it over. I hope this takes awhile, he's too cute to be interested in my, any way I could prolong my time with him was greatly appreciated.
"They're my favorite too you know," he said, "but I guess we could split it." Wow his favorite too, interesting….
"Sounds fair." I said, smiling up at him. He broke the cookie and placed one half in my hand, smiling back at me. Wow.
"My name is Shane Thorn, I just moved here along with my friends Aidan and Dawson." He said.
"I'm Mallory Storm, my friend Bianca is the one responsible for this party."
"Nice to meet you, Mallory." He said, holding his hand out for me to shake.
"Likewise, Shane." I said as I shook his hand. "You know, Bianca prides herself at being a great match-maker, if you or your friends need help finding a girl to ask out she'd be glad to help."
"What if I already found a girl I wanted to ask out?" he asked, blushing a little.
"Well, in my opinion I think you should go ask the lucky girl to a movie or something." I said and felt a blush creep across my own face.
"Well then, Mallory would you like to go to dinner with me tomorrow night?" he asked with an award winning smile on his face.
"You don't waste any time do you?" I said, my smile growing even wider, "yes Shane I would love to go to dinner with you."
"Great!" he said, a relieved expression covering his handsome face. Just then a commotion started outside and we both turned towards the noise. I looked through the sliding glass door he was standing in front of and saw Corey push some boy in Bianca's pool.
"Excuse me for a second." We said at the same time. Then we both rushed out to the pool.
"What a woman." the boy in the pool said with a big smile on his face.
"Dawson," Shane said, "what the hell man? What happened?" he grabbed the boys arm and helped him out of the water.
"Isn't it obvious?" Dawson replied, "I was pushed in there by that gorgeous creature." he smiled at Corey and she turned her back to him. Shane shook his friend and asked for the whole story while I went over to Corey. I tuned them out so I could hear her side of the story.
"Oh my god! Isn't that guy like insanely hot?" she said, out of breath, "oh wow I think I might be in love with him!" she was blushing scarlet red.
"I'm confused, if you're feeling this way then why did you push him in the pool?"
"I'm dating Blake!" she explained, "I can't be falling for Dawson, even if he is super cute, funny and the nicest guy I've ever met! I needed a get away and pushing him in the pool seemed like a good idea at the time."
" Whoa ok. slow down. How do you know all that about him?"
"We have been talking all night." She said, calming down. She had finally gotten control of her breathing.
"What happened to dancing with Bianca?" I asked, wondering where the party princess had wandered off to.
"She had to go fix something and Dawson came up and started dancing with me." she said with a smile that just screamed, 'I'm in love!'
"Wow you really went over the deep end didn't you." I said, happy for her. Shane came up to me with Dawson at his side.
"Hey, sorry but I have to find Aidan and get out of here." he said. Dawson winked at Corey. She giggled and looked away, a fresh blush on her face.
"It's ok, I'll see you tomorrow night." I smiled at him.
"I'll pick you up at eight, come hungry." he winked at me and dragged Dawson away in search of their lost friend.
"Oh mallory, what am I going to do!" she asked as she fell into my arms. "I have a boyfriend but I'm crazy about Dawson!"
"It'll be ok, don't worry, we'll figure it out. For now just enjoy yourself ok." I let her go as Bianca walked up to us with a big smile on her face.
"Where have you been?" I asked her.
"Oh just having the best kiss of my life with Aidan, he's one of the new guys. You know, the ones I wanted to set you up with." she giggled.
"So I have a date with Shane, Corey's in love with Dawson, and you and Aidan are already making out in a dark corner." her eyes opened a little wider and she gaped at Corey's blushing face.
"Whoa," she says and giggles again, "you miss a lot when you're off kissing cute boys." I shook my head, amazed at how fast all of this had happened. We huddled together, our hands on each others shoulders, and smiled.
"Best party ever." We said together.