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Amber knew something was wrong the moment she entered the lunch room. Instead of her normal invisibility, she got everyone in the room to look at her with a single footstep. Still being stared at, Amber, blushing furiously, walked to the lunch line and got herself some of the muck the school provided. Sandwiches, green beans, and a chocolate milk carton laid on the white styrofoam tray. Outside was just like any other, the sun shone while the wind from the morning died down a little and Amber sat alone on the double sided picnic table with her lunch and started eating.
"Hey! Amber!" cried out Brooke with glee.
Amber looked up to see her only friends in the entire school, Brooke and Jane. Brooke, with her slightly narrow face and brown flowing hair smiled brightly at her while Jane, the only blond haired girl in the school to be nice to her with lifeless grey eyes looked at her and nodded in acknowledgment.
"Hello Brooke." Amber nodded towards Jane, "Jane."
"Hey Amber." Jane said with the quiet and fragile voice Amber remembered her with.
"Hows the day been?" Brooke asked.
"Terrible."
"Care to explain?" Jane spoke.
"Danny…"
Brooke gasped "What happened?"
"He asked for my money, nothing else really happened after that."
"Well isn't that terrible." spoke up a new voice. Ambers head lifted as she stared into the face of Jake. He looked at Amber with pity, true pity.
"No." she said half-dazed by his perfect face, "I mean yes-well naturally-I mean."
"So he was wasn't he…?" Jake asked.
"... Yes." Amber said quietly.
"Well thats not nice.". Something was weird, Jake's normally calmed face looked anxious, almost nervous just by being there.
"Is something wrong?" Jane partially snapped.
"Uh-no" he stammered. Amber was amazed that such a popular guy with so many girls just chasing after him would still be nervous, especially around a girl like Amber.
"Jake?" Amber asked with concern.
"Yes?" .
"Is there something wrong?".
Jake looked back towards another of the tables with Bridget and her girls, Danny, and some of Jake's football friends; some of the boys raised their hands as if saying to him go ahead while the girls gossipped within themselves and occasionally looked in their direction. When he looked back he stared at Amber and finally said,
"Can we talk in private?"
"Sure." Amber said almost too quickly.
She stood up and walked with Jake to a tall tree with a thick stump and dying orange leaves, "What's wrong Jake?" she asked.
"Well, theres been a little problem…" he told her hesitantly.
"With me?"
"No! Well, yes."
"What have I done?" I asked politely
"You've not been on a date with me…"
"What…?"
"A date." he looked as if the weight of the world was off of his shoulders, but it seemed to transfer to mine, "You and I haven't been on one and I would want that to be changed.". I stood there, frozen, not sure what to do or say. I could feel my face burning.
"Would you like to?" he asked me.
The words were in my throat, my stomach was alive with butterflies, and my head was racing. Jake was staring at her with his intense blue eyes; Amber stared back and quickly got lost them.
She didn't even remember saying yes. Just in a flash of a second, his eyes were alight with joy. Amber snapped out of her daze and saw Jake, his elation glowing through every fiber of him.
"Great." he beamed, Amber could see his face getting hot too, "See you tomorrow?"
"Sure, what movie do you want to see?"
"Um…" he pondered for a second.
"The AristoCats is out, want to see that?"
"Yeah, that sounds wonderful." Amber just started to walk away when she realized one crucial detail.
"What time do you want to see it?"
"Well, I think there's a showing at 9, want to go to that one?"
"Nine sounds perfect." she told him dreamily. With a happy look in both of their eyes, they parted ways.
While the two talked, Jane looked onwards with jealousy. Jane was in love with Jake, but now Amber, Amber of all people get him. How is that fair? How come Jane, whose beauty outmatched Amber, didn't get the guy. How could life be so cruel. The more Jane watched the more angry she got. Brooke blabbered on, talking about how hard her Algebra class was, but she didn't notice, Jane was too focused on the pair behind the tree. Jake, with his dazzling smile, and Amber, obviously lost in the deep abyss of his eyes. With jealousy, Jane daydreamed about the day Jake may walk up to her and even utter a word. When he came to talk to Amber, he completely ignored the two girls sitting on either side of his target. Finally, a big laugher fit seemed to erupt from the two, smiles and nervous blush flustering their cheeks. Jane watched as Amber turned away from the tree and start to walk back, stopped, turned and talked to Jake again. After a minute or so, the two exchanged goodbyes and Amber headed back their way. Jane put on that fake smile she fooled Amber and Brooke with just around the time Amber was at the table, her eyes cast downward and an eternal smile on her face.
Back at the table, Brooke and Jane looked at her with anticipation.
"So…" Brooke said.
"So…?" Amber replied.
"What happened?" Brooke cried impatiently.
Hotness came back to her face, "He asked me out to the movie.". Amber saw Brooke's face light up.
"No way…" Jane said, shock on her face.
"Yeah way, the AristoCats at nine o'clock." Amber told her group. Jane looked at the table Jake sat at, and though her face seemed happy for Amber, she could tell a storm was brewing in her eyes.
"Jane?" Amber asked.
Jane snapped out of her daze, "What?"
"You okay?"
"Fine."
This can't be! This can't be! Jake and Amber! Going to see a movie I've been dying to see! Oh the agony! Jane's mind raced as she stared at her lost love. Jake, beautiful Jake, surrounded by his friends, friends who looked happy for him, genuinely happy. Jonathan, the quarterback and Jake's best friend clapped him on the back as he excitedly told the group of what happened behind the tree. Bridget, the head cheer captain, looked between Jake and Amber with anger.
It wasn't a secret that Bridget had liked Jake, kind of the cheer-captain-/football-player kind of relationship had always been her dream, but when Jonathan started dating one of the cheerleaders named Ashley, Bridget, in a fiery rage, publicly humiliated her and got her kicked off the cheer squad. No one except Amber, Jane, and Brooke knew the endeavor between Ashley and Bridget. But when Jonathan refused to give up Ashley, despite her unpopularity, Bridget knew now she had to go for the next-in-line, which was Jake.
Jane pondered what Bridget would do to Amber, or if she had learned her lesson with Ashley and Jonathan. Could I get an alliance to get Amber away from Jake? Jane thought to herself. Amber on her left went through each detail from when she left the table with Jake to when she came back, but Jane didn't pay attention, she was too busy thinking of a plan for the new pair.
