Deal

Kim's POV

"Kim, Jack, Jerry, Milton, I got news for you!"

Eddie came screaming and running down the stairs. We looked at him in a weird way before he stopped right in front of us.

"What's up, Eddie?", Milton asked kindly, even if Eddie was interrupting our conversation. Well, it wasn't that interesting, though. Jack just told everyone about his skateboard trick, he did yesterday. It would have been interesting for me, if he hadn't already told me this like five times today. And yesterday when we talked to each other on the phone. And if I hadn't been with him. Milton and Jerry didn't even know how to skateboard, so I didn't think they had been interested in his story.

"I just got told that at the weekend after the upcoming one, there is going to be a ball for Valentine's Day. Isn't that great?", he asked us excited.

To be honest, it sounded pretty good.

"Well, we have to make sure to ask out hot girls for that. Or hot guys", Jerry added after looking at me. I just shook my head laughing.

"Jerry, you know just as well as me that I'll never go to the ball with some of those idiots at our school. And I'd never ask a guy. I mean, c'mon, if a guy wants me to be his girlfriend then he has to ask me."

"You're pretty old-fashioned", Jack said, grinning at me. I just shrugged.

"Maybe. But I got demands for boys who want to go out with me."

"For example that they can't be a Black Dragon?", Eddie joked slightly. I smiled at him.

"For example, yeah."

"Wait, we all know that out of us four boys will at most get one or two a date."

Eddie and Milton went on about how they were "totally the type of all school's girls". Uhm, yeah. Dream on.

"Well, I meant myself and Jerry, if he get to ask the right girl", Jack explained his way of thinking. Honestly, it was right. Jack was the hottest and most popular boy at the school and all the girls were falling for him because of his looks; except me. I was falling for him because of his personality. Okay, and maybe slightly because his looks. Well, I was a teenaged girl after all and Jack was H-O-T.

Geez, calm down girl and focus on the conversation.

"That makes more sense", Eddie said, nodding his head approvingly. Milton just did the same and I shook my head slightly, completely laughing silently about them.

"So… to continue my explanation-", Jack began again, but was cut off by a girl – Lindsay – who came down the stairs.

Shit, we shouldn't have been in school when we talk about that.

"Hi Jack, how are you?", Lindsay asked flirtatiously and flipped her hair behind her head. I wanted to punch her right away.

"Uhm, hi Lindsay. I'm fine, but you know- I'm kinda in a conversation", Jack said awkwardly. I smirked a bit. He was and has never been fine with girls flirting with him. And then I had to help him out. Pretty funny, am I right?

"But you wouldn't mind dumping them and walking with me to next class, right?"

Silence. Then I decided to help Jack.

"Since when are you going to class?"

She glared at me before she changed the glare to a silly smile again. "I have my reasons."

With that she winked at Jack who now gulped and took a step back. I grabbed his hand and gave him a look which practically screamed: "If you run away now, you're dead!"

He stayed at my side, but I wouldn't let go of his hand. And he wouldn't let go of mine, so it was fine.

"Lindsay, look, you're really smoking but we are in a conversation and Jack was speaking right now."

"Oh, I don't mind if she can hear it", Jack quickly said.

When I looked at him like he was crazy, he gave me a Trust-Me-look. I shrugged and let him go on.

"As I wanted to say. Maybe we five should go to the ball as friends and don't have dates. You know, maybe it'll be great with just the five of us." Jack smiled at us and we started smiling, too.

"But, but, but you should've go with me, Jackie-poo, not with these idiots!" Lindsay looked at my best friend with tears in her eyes. Oh c'mon girl, girl up!

"I would never ever go with you. Never. Ever. In my entire life. Got it?", Jack added and glared at her. "And never insult my friends again, you hear that?"

"I hate you. You're the worst person on the whole world!", Lindsay screamed. I rolled my eyes.

"Don't tell lies, Lindsay. You know, it's not true."

"You're right. YOU are the worst person ever!" With that she stomped away; Jack's mouth hung wide open.

"Has she said that you are the worst person ever?", Eddie asked, totally shocked.

"Yep."

"And you're not going to do something?", Milton added, shocked like Eddie.

"Yep."

"Why?", they all asked and made me smirk.

"C'mon guys, she isn't worth it. We should spend our time with planning on what we should wear to the Valentine's Day ball, you know? That would be more interesting than hunting her."

"You're right. Hey, maybe we can go shopping today?", Jack suggested and we all looked at him in a weird way. "What? I'm a guy, but can't I just buy some new clothes and call it 'shopping'?"

I shook my head, smiling slightly. "Back to the subject. If you don't act like Grace, I'll go shopping with you. But I won't go shopping with you when you'll say something like 'You should definitely buy that, it makes you look sooo hot' or 'We need to try that on'. Understood that?"

The four boys smirked. "You're distraught for life, hm?", Jerry asked and I nodded.

"You haven't been shopping with her. It is just hell."

The boys started chuckling and soon it turned to laughing. I just shook my head, but not without smiling. Sometimes they were just weird even if I loved them.

It was almost seven o'clock at Valentine's Day and let's just say… we had to go shopping twice because we couldn't find something to wear for everyone cause of the lack of time. But now it was like half an hour before the ball and we all were getting dressed at our own houses. We came together that the boys would go to my house at last because – and I quote from Jerry – 'the best comes at last'.

You know, we made the deal that if we go together, the boys will all get a dance with me. I was kind of nervous because of that, but they all said that I would be great. You know, I suck at dancing, but I can dance slowly pretty well. And they all knew that. Well, they were my best friends, so they were supposed to know that.

When I closed my lip-gloss, the doorbell rang. The boys were here.

"Kim! It's for you!", my mother shouted upstairs. I grabbed my bag and my sneakers. You know, even if it was a ball, I wanted to walk good enough so I could go to the toilet without falling on the ground. I just had to convince my mother to let me go in my sneakers.

"Hey boys!", I said cheerily. They all had their mouths hung open when they saw me. I just laughed.

Well, I couldn't blame them. When we were in the store, I fell for my dress quickly because it looked so naturally, not like those other dresses with all these fluffy-duffy here and there. It was just a simple, yellow knee-long dress. The four of them said, I looked beautiful when we were in the store. Now I had implied a little make-up and I curled my hair into locks. To complete it, I chose my black sneakers.

"You look like an angel", Jack said, his eyes sparkling. I felt my cheeks burn.

"Thanks", I whispered and got on my shoes. Then I took my jacket and looked at my mother.

"Please bring her back till te-"

"Mum!"

"Eleven?"

"Thanks, I love you, mum!" I kissed her cheek and walked outside, the boys following me.

"You look really stunning. Do we have to protect you from boys?"

"I think so, Jerry. Well, I hope not because let's be honest; these boys are just idiots." I laughed freely and soon enough, the boys were back to their normal state, back to being not-shocked by my 'beauty'.

After walking a little bit, Milton spoke up: "Kim, you don't seem to be taller. What shoes do you wear?"

"Sneakers."

When I said that, my friends turned to me and looked at me like 'Really, Kim?'. It was pretty amusing.

"C'mon, you guys know me. I'm not that typical girl who wears heels all the time. Well, I don't wear heels at all but that's not the point. I'm fine with wearing my loved sneakers."

Jack smiled at me and nodded. "You know, I'm fine with you wearing sneakers, too. I like it better when you're so much shorter than me."

"You're an idiot."

"And you like that."

"Kinda true", I answered, laughing along with Jack. Our friends just turned around and continued to walk.

"Hey Kim, can I speak to you for a second?", Jack asked while taking my hand and walking down the way.

"Sure."

"I wondered if you want to dance with me tonight."

"Jack, I promised all of you a dance, remember that?" I smiled at him, but that faded when I saw his serious expression.

"So you wouldn't dance with me if it weren't for this deal?"

"I would! Well, if you asked me, but I definitely wouldn't say no!", I defended myself. He sighed relieved. "What's the big deal, Jack?"

"I just wanted to dance with you, nothing more." He smiled at me before he increased his pace, dragging me with him.

That conversation was kind of awkward but hey, now I knew that Jack liked me at least enough to dance with me on Valentine's Day.

Right now, I was dancing with Eddie. And I had to say, he was pretty good for that he had been kicked out of a dance academy.

"You can dance pretty good, Eddie."

"Thanks, so do you."

He swiftly spun me around and placed his hands on my waist again just when the song ended.

"Thank you, milady", Eddie said, bowing jokingly. I laughed at his behavior and kissed his cheek lightly.

"Thank you too, Eddie. It was really relaxing, dancing with you." He smiled at me and we went to our friends who smiled at us.

The next one was Milton. Let's just say, he couldn't really dance, so I overtook the part of the man and leaded the whole dance.

"I think, I'm getting better", Milton exclaimed proudly and looked in my eyes with wide, sparkling eyes.

"You sure do." In my head, I was screaming 'No, no, no'.

When the song ended, I was relieved and took my hands immediately off him before starting to walk to our friends. "Thanks for the dance, Milton. It was… interesting and really new for me to take the lead."

The guys smirked at that, but Milton just smiled. "Thanks Kim."

I smiled at him and shook my head slightly.

"I'm going to dance with you now. You don't have to take the lead now", Jerry said, laughing about Milton's knowledge.

"Thank goodness", I mumbled. Milton fake-gasped.

"Kim. That hurt."

"I'm sorry. It's pretty awkward to take the lead as a girl, you know?"

"You're fine", Milton said and chuckled.

"So you like dancing with me?", Jerry asked nervously. I laughed slightly and nodded my head. It was more relaxing than with Eddie and especially more than with Milton. I had to do all the work with him.

"You know, I love you."

"Yeah, I love you too. You are my favorite sister, really. I think you're really amazing and I love you for loving me the way I was made."

"Same goes for you, Jer", I said and kissed his cheek gently. "And thanks for that wonderful dance. I really enjoyed it and enjoy it now."

"Thank you too. You know, I could've dance with Donna or someone like that, but I like you way more. You treat me with respect and I love it that way. Please don't ever be like them, promise?"

"Promise! I don't plan on being like them", I said and smiled at him.

Then the song ended and so did my dance with Jerry. My heart started racing when I realized, I would dance with Jack right now. Jerry knew my little 'crush' on my best friend – well, it was wayyyyy more than a crush now – and he smirked when he noticed Jack coming to us.

"Have fun." With that he winked at me and kissed my forehead lightly, before walking away. Right when he passed Jack, I saw him patting on his shoulder which caused Jack to smile.

"Hey."

"Hey. Are you ready, Kimmy?"

I rose my brow. "Yeah, I'm ready but what have we said about the 'Kimmy'-thingy? Oh gosh, why am I talking like that?!"

Jack laughed and took my hands. I already have danced with him before, so I knew his skills and I was ready to let me fall into his chest. Metaphorically spoken.

We danced a minute completely in silence, just enjoying each other's company and dancing skills, before Jack said something: "You know, I like dancing with you."

"Same goes for you", I answered, biting my lip and looking up at him. He spun me around carefully.

"Kim, I have something important to say." I nodded at him as a sign that I'd hear it. "Would you please be my date to the ball? Even if we're now here but you know… I've already spoken with the guys and they would be fine if we wanted to go al-"

"Jack, geez, calm down. Of course will I be your date. It would be an honor." I smiled at him and he responded with a smile.

"So, will you dance all night till you have to get home?"

"Of course! That would be totally awesome!"

And so we did. We danced all night, completely forgetting our friends till they said it was half past ten and they would be leaving. We let them left and went on with our dance. When we looked at the clock the next time it was already past eleven. My mum would kill me.

"Kim, just call her and tell her that you're on your way and that I'm with you, alright? And let's start walking."

I did as he said and he placed his arm around my torso. When I finished the call, we walked in completely silence till I started to shiver. Hey, don't judge me, I only got a light jacket and a dress without long pants. Oh, and it was February.

"You're cold?" I nodded. Jack took off his jacket and placed it over me.

"I can't accept it. You'll get ill."

"And without it, YOU will get ill. So don't discuss that, I won't let you get ill when I could help that."

"You're sweet", I said, smiling sweetly. The rest of the way, we talked only rare, but I enjoyed it really.

When we were at my front porch, he stopped me from getting inside.

"I'm sorry, but I have to do something before you can go inside." And with that he leaned in and kissed me on my lips a few seconds. It was the best feeling, I've ever had.

"I'll see you tomorrow", he whispered and kissed my cheek before turning around and walking to his own house which was only a few steps away from mine.

When I got inside, I didn't even realized the fact that my mother was practically screaming at me for coming home late.

Well, I guess, love don't only make blind, it makes you deaf, too.

Hello guys!

How are you? :)

Well, happy Valentine's Day! I hope you enjoyed it and yeah... I hope, you had a great day and maybe with a special person *wink, wink*

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Love, KIF2812