The Valentine's Day dance is in three days and I am livid. I literally feel like I'm about to explode.

All of the girls in school are going crazy over what they should wear to the dance, and I've heard one-too-many comments from guys saying who they're "gonna nail" afterwards. Disgusting pervs.

This is another reason why I hate Valentine's Day. Guys think that just because they serenade you with chocolates, poems, love songs and other random gifts that they can get into your pants. It's ridiculous; I never want to get myself into one of those situations. It's probably also why nobody wants to become an official couple with me anymore, because I won't give them what they want.

Ugh. Why are guys so frustrating? And I'm not just talking about Valentine's Day month, either.

Sigh. Anyway, my close friend Misty finally got the guts to ask out my other childhood friend, Ash, to the dance. He's as dense as a box of rocks, so of course he thinks that they're going "as friends" but what he doesn't know won't hurt him, I guess. Misty's a bit of a feisty one, but she still has a very kind heart and is probably the coolest girl in school, even if she's not too popular.

And my other sort-of friend Dawn somehow managed to get the Ice King, Paul, to defrost a little. Enough that he accepted her offer to the dance! It's practically a phenomenon around here, considering he is called the "Ice King" for a reason.

Dawn and I haven't always seen eye-to-eye. In fact, we used to be enemies until May came along. You know my hate for Valentine's Day? (I've said it so many times that I'm pretty sure it's drilled into your brain by now.) Well, Dawn is the exact opposite. She loves Valentine's Day. Like everything about it. There isn't one thing that she finds uninteresting.

But when May moved to town about a year ago, she taught us that it's all right to have different opinions about things and still be friends. That's how she became a great friend to both of us, because she sits right in-between loving and hating Valentine's Day.

"Yo, Green!" someone calls behind me, startling me out of my thoughts.

I whip around. "Yeah?" I ask, searching for the person that the voice belongs to.

I am so surprised to see Drew walking over that I almost don't hear what he's saying to me. "Gary says to tell you to leave your window unlocked tonight." Drew smirks and winks at me. "You guys doing something 'gross', as May calls it?"

My cheeks start to burn. "N-no! Ewwwwwwwwwwww," I say loudly, cringing. "Oh my Arceus, I think I'll have that image burned in my brain forever now. Thanks a lot, Drew!" Smacking him upside the head, I turn around and stomp away. Drew starts laughing hysterically. "Oh, and make sure to tell Gary I said, 'No way in hell, perv!'"

By the time I get far enough away so that I can't hear Drew's laughing anymore, I suddenly recall what he had said.

I am going to have a brain malfunction if this image does not go away by the end of class.