I have too much time on my hands. Here's Chapter 3.
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"Jennifer, wake up!" Mrs. Mosely called for her daughter.
"That's okay mom, I've been up for about an hour now." Moze said, rather flatly.
"What have you been doing for an hour? It usually only takes you 30 minutes to get ready." Her mother said.
"Oh, just thinking." Moze told her mother, while putting her books in her backpack.
"You've been doing quite a lot of that lately. Is something wrong?" Mrs. Mosely asked, ever so motherly.
"Er, no. Everything's. . . fine." Moze lied.
"Are you sure, because you know we can always talk." Moze's mother gave her the look, the one all mom's use when their children aren't telling them something.
"I know, but I think I'm good for now."
"Alright, have fun in school."
"Bye." Moze waved to her mom as she set off to the bus stop.
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Moze had already been standing at the bus stop for a minute, she was always the first one there, when Ned came around the corner to the stop. Moze felt different today. She thought differently, especially as Ned came walking down. She was looking at him differently than she usually did. Everything was just, different.
"What are you looking?" Ned asked. "Do I have something on my face? Is there something stuck in my teeth? Oh no, it must be from last night, when my mom made me eat spinach!" Ned panicked.
"Oh, no. Nothing's wrong, there's nothing on you." Moze regained herself, as a slight blush crept upon her face.
"Stupid spinach!" Ned muttered to himself.
Moze just rolled her eyes. Ned could act so weird and immature sometimes.
The two of them were just standing there, kind of awkwardly.
"So, where's Cookie?" Moze asked, breaking their silence.
"He had to go to school early. He wants to ask Lisa to our movie night this Friday." Ned replied.
"Yeah, Lisa told me that Pride and Prejudice is one of her favorite movies."
Ned nodded, as the bus came up to the stop.
A lot of the seats were already filled, so Moze and Ned sat in the back. Moze shivered as the thought of what happened on the last day of school came to her. She hadn't really thought about the kiss since she started going out with Faymen. The two of them usually sat a bit closer, but now that Moze was sitting in the very spot where she and Ned kissed. . . It hadn't meant anything to them, or so they told each other.
"No, it didn't. I'm just reading too much into this." Moze thought. But lately, she has been thinking differently. Moze desperately needed to talk to someone about all of this, someone that she knows will definitely keep it as a secret. But who?
"Moze?" Ned asked, snapping her out of her trance.
"Wha- Oh, yeah?"
"You can get off the bus now." Ned gestured for her to get up.
"Oh, right." Moze sighed, and figured that she would just have to tell her mom. However, she thought that she might be able to ask someone first, just to get their opinion.
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"So, Lisa, how's it going?" Cookie asked, smoothly as he walked up to Lisa's locker.
"It's going good, how are you Simon?" She asked sweetly.
"I'm good, too. Actually, I was wondering if you would like to watch a movie with Ned, Moze and I on Friday." Cookie said, using his normal tone.
"Sure, but what movie?"
"Let's see, Moze picked it this time. . . I think it's called Pride and Prejudice." Cookie responded.
"I would love too, but I'm not sure if I can." Lisa said a little disappointingly.
"Oh. Okay." Cookie's face fell.
"I'd have to check my schedule, and ask my mom first. I'll get back to you tomorrow." Lisa smiled.
"Alright." Cookies shrugged. Hey, at least she didn't say no.
The bell rang, as Cookie headed off to study hall.
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Moze was a little nervous. Sure, she was friends with Lisa, but she didn't know whether or not the question she had to ask was something that you could ask anyone, or only your best friend. But, Moze was desperate, and she knew that she could trust Lisa.
"Lisa, can I ask you something?" Moze asked nervously during study hall.
"Um, sure." Lisa was a bit taken aback by Moze's nervousness.
Moze sighed, but continued on. "Do you, er, think it's possible for somebody to, erm, like two people at the same time?"
"You've been watching Grey's Anatomy, haven't you?" Lisa asked, chuckling.
"Uh. . . Yeah." Moze lied. Well, not exactly. does watch Grey's Anatomy, but that's not why she was asking.
"To tell you the truth, I don't really know. I guess it's possible, depending on how well you know the two people." She said.
In Moze's case, she knew both of the people pretty well.
"Well, let's say for instance, like in the show, you're already with someone, but you like another person too." Moze was eager for answers.
"In my opinion, you really just have to go with your heart. I know that's what most people say, but it's true." Lisa said. "Actually, I'm kind of in that same position as George. Half of the 8th grade boys want to be my boyfriend, so I use a schedule to let them all do something with me. But in truth, I don't like any of them. I just don't have the heart to tell them."
Moze smiled. She didn't really get the answer she was looking for, but she figured she could now help Lisa with her problems.
"I think you should just drop the schedule, and have some time to spend with your friends, and not just silly boys who want to carry your books." Moze told her.
"That's a good idea, because then I could actually go out with Simon." Lisa said, going red.
"Aha! I knew she liked him." Moze said to herself.
"Now you just have to tell them all." Moze said out loud.
"That's something I'm not very good at."
"You're going to have to do it someday."
"I know. But, can I ask you a question?" Lisa asked.
"Of course, what is it?" Moze said, closing her book from which she was supposed to be studying.
"What's with the whole 'liking two people' question? It's very unlike you, I mean, you are going out with Faymen." Lisa looked Moze in the eye.
"Oh, nothing, really. I've just been watching too much television." Moze lied. She smiled uneasily, knowing that Lisa could probably tell that she was lying.
"Okay. . ." Lisa nodded, and walked off to talk to Ned and Coconut Head.
"God, why does this have to be so hard?" Moze complained, hitting her head down on the table.
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Ned had been trying his best to stay calm, especially around Moze. Faymen was still visiting his grandmother, which could give Ned plenty of time to sort things out with Moze. He not only wanted to be like all of those movie characters that always fall for their best friend, but he didn't want to ruin a perfectly good relationship between Moze and Faymen, or ruin his friendship with Moze. The hardest part of all was trying to figure out whether Moze feels the same way. Confused and unsure. She had been acting weirder lately, especially around him. It was actually kind of funny how clueless Cookie was about all of this. But, Cookie had a lot on his plate too. Getting Evelyn away from him, trying to ask Lisa out, getting Evelyn away from, if only Cookies inventions worked. Then he could create a force field around him so Evelyn couldn't get within 10 feet.
Ned just hoped Faymen wasn't still mad at him for kissing Moze. He said he wasn't, but there was still that glint of anger in his eyes.
"That was actually when Moze really started acting weird." Ned thought to himself. "Right about when Spring came, and Missy was overly obsessed with me than usual."
Ned shook away the thoughts, as Mr. Sweeny was blabbering on about Photosynthesis.
". . . Now, the Sun gives plants their nutrients, but too much of it can dry them out, That's why they also need water. Every living organism needs water."
Ned always spaced off in science class, and ended up copying the notes from Moze. However, he had lately bee feeling guilty about spacing off in class, for his thoughts kept drifting off to Moze, like they just did before. Ned felt like that one girl doctor in that show his mother watches. The one that falls for her best friend who's already married.
You're the other person, and being in that position is very difficult. Some people in that position are selfish, and don't care. But Ned did, and he didn't want anything to go wrong.
Ned shouldn't have spaced off again, because Mr. Sweeny had called on him.
"Ned, do you know the answer?"
He snapped out of his thoughts, and said, "No."
"Well, then you should have been paying more attention, Mr. Bigby. . ." Mr. Sweeny's voice trailed off as Ned sighed.
He didn't know any of the answers.
I hope I'm not going too slow with this. A lot of people rush into things, and I always hate it when they do. I just don't want to go too far, and end up taking too much time with things. Also, do you think I'm leaving Cookie out too much?