I really wanted to get some more reviews on the 2nd chapter before I posted the third *makes pouty face & BEGS for reviews* ;-) but anyway....enjoy the third...

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"Beep beep beep beep."

I groaned as I heard the shrill beeping of my alarm clock that morning. I dragged myself out of bed and got dressed. I brushed my hair, and left it down, to fall freely in my face. I was to tired to fix it. I had only gotten a few hours of sleep last night. I was still upset about Guy. I walked down stairs to find my dad sitting at the kitchen table with the newspaper and a bowl full of cereal talking on his cell phone, that was dad, always working.

"Morning, Princess." He said covering the mouth piece of his phone, then he went back to talking to the person on the other line. I sat down and had some cereal.

"So what are you doing today?" He asked.

"Just hockey practice after school." I replied.

"That's good. Have a good day, sweet heart." He said getting up from the table to head to work. As you can tell Dad and I didn't really talk much. But things could be worse, I supposed. I had a lot to be thankful for.

I was on the way to school when Charlie and Fulton skated up on the other side of the street.

"Hey Connie." Charlie greeted me as they skated up.

"Hey." I replied.

"Um, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I'm sorry about the other day, It was just kind of a bad moment..."

"Yeah, I talked to Guy." He said, explaining it.

I sighed. "I guess your on his side, huh?"

"I'm not on a side, I just want to make sure that your okay."

"Yeah...what did he say about me?" I asked.

"Connie, I can't-"

"I know...it's just really bugging me, you know?"

"Yeah, don't worry. Things'll get better."

I just sighed. I guess I would have to take his word for it.

I was prepared to have a really bad day. And so far I was. But after lunch I was walking to my locker and the strangest thing happened. I really wasn't paying attention to where I was going, I was counting the wood planks on the floor to pass the time and I bumped into someone.

"Oh, wow!" I exclaimed. "I'm really sorry...here let me get that." I said bending down to pick up his books. When I looked up it turned out to be some guy that I had never seen before in my life. But he was really really cute. He had brown hair, and blue eyes, and a killer smile.

"Are you just gonna stay down there or what?" He asked, joking.

I smiled. "Sorry." I replied, standing up and handing him his books.

"No problem."

"I'm Connie Moreau." I said holding out my hand.

"Luke James." He said as he shook my hand. "Your that hockey chick, aren't you?"

I grinned, that was a new one on me. "Um, yeah."

"Sorry- that came out wrong."

"No, it's fine." I replied. It was then that it occurred to me that this was starting to get really awkward. Just then I looked to my left, Guy was walking to his locker at that very moment. He turned his head and looked at me, his cold stare making me shiver. As he passed us he continued to look back, then shook his head and continued on to his locker.

"You okay?" He asked.

"Yeah, I'm just having a really bad day." I replied.

"That sucks." He said shrugging.

"Yeah, pretty much." I smiled.

"Hey, listen. I think your really pretty and, well I was just hoping that I could get to know you better, maybe I could, call you or-"

Wow, no guy had ever been that straight forward with me before. It was kind of strange.

"Sure, um- let me write down my number." I said pulling a piece of paper out of my book bag and scribbling down my phone number.

"Thanks, I'll see you." He said walking off.

"Yeah, bye." I replied, but he had already walked away.

Had that just happened? Oh yeah, it had.

"Who was that?" Julie asked coming up to me.

"Luke." I said not bothering to turn and face her.

"What about Guy?" She asked.

"What ABOUT Guy?" I asked, raising my voice.

Julie just gave me a look. "No need to get all defensive."

I sighed. "Sorry, but where did you get the idea that I still like him?"

"Oh come on, Connie. I don't live on Mars. We all notice it; the way you look at him..."

Julie kept talking but I didn't hear it. Did everybody think that I still liked him? Was it that obvious? I mean, I couldn't even decide if I still liked him or not, and the whole team had speculations about it? What is wrong with this picture?

Practice was going to be interesting today....

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I hate this chapter...I think it's bad- but I have to have it in here for the sake of future chapters....PLEASE REVIEW PLEASE REVIEW PLEASE REVIEW PLEASE REVIEW PLEASE REVIEW PLEASE REVIEW PLEASE REVIEW PLEASE REVIEW PLEASE REVIEW PLEASE REVIEW PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!! -Kitten