Again we have dialogue as the majority of a short chapter. Whatever, right?
The days after that were exactly the same. Eleanor followed Simon like a lovesick puppy. She giggled at everything he said, even if it wasn't funny. She insisted on sitting next to him at lunch. She took any chance she could to look helpless, which sucked Simon into helping her.
"I can't believe it!" Brittney said as Simon helped Eleanor with her locker for the fourth time that day, "Little Eleanor in love with…Simon!"
"It's a love potion." Alvin explained to her, "I wanted him to use it on Jeanette but he said no. When I tried, he tackled me and the potion flew into the air and landed in Eleanor's water glass-"
"That's what that junk was?!" Brittney asked.
"Yeah, so, anyway," he continued, "now Eleanor's in love with him. And Jeanette stilldoesn't know." The two walked to their Science glass. The teacher told them to pick partners for the day's project. Eleanor was about to run towards the back of the room to Simon, but Brittney pushed Jeanette next to him first. Disappointed, the blonde Chipette sat at a table next to Theodore. Alvin flashed Brittney a "Good thinking" smile. She just waved her hand in a no-biggie fashion.
"Okay, class," the teacher said, "I want you to inspect the slides on your microscope and write out notes describing them. Begin." Jeanette put the first slide in and adjusted the microscope for herself. Simon took his turn while she wrote her description.
"So, it seems Eleanor kind of…likes you." Jeanette said. Simon felt the heat rise to his cheeks.
"Y-yeah, I g-g-guess so." he answered. He grabbed his pen and wrote unsteadily.
"She talks an awful lot about you." Jeanette continued.
"Oh…yeah?"
"Yeah, she thinks you're really nice and stuff." There was a small silence as she changed another slide.
"So, you're probably going to ask her to the dance, right?" she asked. Startled, Simon poked a hole through the paper.
"Well, um…" he said, wiping the sweat off his forehead, "Uh, you see, er…"
"Simon, it's okay." Jeanette reassured, "It is a little weird for friends to date their friends' siblings, but I'm okay with it."
"Oh." he said, disappointed. The class went on in silence. At the end, Eleanor tugged Simon to her microscope.
"Look at this, Simon!" she said, practically shoving his face on the microscope, "It's frog's blood. Isn't it cool how their blood cells are a blackish-brown?"
"Fat lot she knows," Theodore muttered irritably as he walked out into the hall with Brittney and Alvin, "Those are my brownie bits."
Uh-oh, looks like li'l Theo has been bitten by the green-eyed monster! And now Jeanette seems to be pulling away from Simon! Ay yi yi! Just wait a little while, the next installment's coming up!