MajorDanger productions presents:
Fearless.
Chapter 3: The Andrew Factor
"The world has finally given me a break!" Christopher cheered as he sat down at his lunch table with his band mates Bobby and Ryan. "Senor Year might actually be good all of the sudden."
"And why is that?" Ryan asked.
"Fearless is my project partner in American History," he glowed at the thought of working with her.
"Valerie, her name is Valerie!" Ryan rolled his eyes; he wasn't to supportive of the crush.
"And what about the Andrew factor, that's sort of in the way?" Bobby asked ignoring Ryan completely.
Christopher shrugged. He hadn't thought about that yet, "well maybe there won't be an Andrew factor if I put on the charm a bit?"
"History shows us that she doesn't like you or you're oh so great charm," Ryan snickered.
"Well maybe things have changed, I have." Christopher smiled; he figured he had some what of a chance.
Ryan rolled his eyes, to him the whole crush was stupid because Christopher could have any girl he wanted but he chose to chase the one girl that didn't want anything to do with him.
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Christopher sat at the computer lab waiting for fearless. He tapped his foot to the beat playing in his head when it was interrupted by a rolling sound, wheels rolling. Seconds later she rolled in on a skateboard, in a school building.
"Whoa fearless your in a school," he laughed, "skateboard prohibited."
"Yeah yeah yeah, cause you never break the rules," she rolled her eyes, got off the board, and pulled up a chair next to Christopher's. "Let's get to this."
"You creative?"
She nodded, "you act like you don't even know me at all, and well you do still call me fearless like you haven't learned my real name or something."
He chuckled, "my artistic ability went down the tubes way back when so I'll leave you to the poster, I'll take the report and the PowerPoint can be a joint thing," Christopher sighed.
"Well this is beyond strange your talking to me without hitting on me," she laughed, totally shocked.
"Yeah, I can do that you know, I'm not always flirting," he paused and Valerie looked at him. "Okay so I've been working on my ability to turn the flirting on and off."
She rolled her eyes.
"But is this okay? The division of labor?"
She nodded as someone entered the computer lab. Christopher and Valerie both looked up to see Andrew.
"Hey, I've been looking everywhere for you," he said insecurely, he knew how much of a flirt Christopher was.
"I've been here," she smiled at him.
"Did you forget about football tryouts?" Andrew asked.
"Oh shoot, I did," she picked up her backpack and skateboard and looked at Christopher. "I'm sorry we'll have to do this another time I've got to run."
"You're trying out for football?" Christopher laughed.
"She's actually my good luck charm," Andrew snickered. He seemed to be rubbing it in Christopher's face that she belonged to him. Secretly Valerie hated to be referred to as mine or something as if she were property.
"Ah," Christopher said. "Well can I get your number then?"
"Excuse me?" Andrew almost chocked on air. He thought Christopher was either crazy or had a death wish.
"Chill Andrew, Christopher's my partner in American History class we have a project on JFK, it's nothing," Valerie insisted as she grabbed Christopher's hand and wrote her number on it. Christopher just gave Andrew a big smile.