Here comes chapter four.

I don't own Kim or Jared, but I do own Cameron, Gina, Alex and Gina's and all of Alex's exes. They're all mine.

Cameron wasn't gorgeous at all.

He was… what's the word… an idiot.

Seriously, his mouth hang open almost all the time, and he always let out this foolish snickers with no apparent reason. His colorless hair was long and undone, and I would gladly have gambled my sneakers that he hadn't had a shower for at least two weeks. And I love those sneakers. He didn't dress pretty at all; his clothes were either too big or too small. Like right now, he was wearing huge jeans and a tight sweater revealing much more than I wanted to see.

Normally I wouldn't have been so mean. I had gone through a personality-swap after Jared, thought just in my head. I had to pretend everything was normal to Gina and Alex. They hadn't noticed anything. I guess Alex would have, if she hadn't been occupied with her oh-so-not-gorgeous Cameron. I mentally grimaced as I though his name.

I physically grimaced as I now watched him stuff his face full of ice cream. I'm so never eating vanilla ice cream again, I thought dryly.

He grinned at Alex, who was watching him in awe. Ew. I looked at Gina, and found her face mirroring mine. Great, so I was becoming Gina, now… Ew.

"I just remembered," Gina said suddenly, jumping to her feet. "I have a test tomorrow. Got to go," she said. I was panicking, trying to find an excuse to leave to. I came up with… nothing. Why did my brain have to fail now?

"I'll help you," I called hastily after Gina as she reached the door to the café.

"'Kay," Alex said in a dreamy voice. Ew.

I caught up with Gina on the parking lot.

"Never leave a soldier behind," I said accusingly.

"Hey! I'm taking care of me. You take care of yourself!" she snapped back. I rolled my eyes.

"It was still rotten," I muttered. Okay, this so wasn't me. I was never cranky. I was actually never mad at anyone. Alex used to say I had to learn to speak up for myself. Well, I was doing that now alright.

I sighed as I thought of Jared, but quickly disguised it as a yawn so Gina wouldn't be suspicious. She wasn't the most sympathetic friend, but she knew me well enough to know that when I sighed for no apparent reason, there was something wrong. If she thought it was something she didn't already know, she would nag until I spilled my guts.

"That guy was gross," I said to get her away from any possible suspicion of me not telling her something.

"Tell me about it," Gina said and wrinkled her nose. I stifled a relieved sigh. "And he isn't gorgeous at all!" she exclaimed, throwing her hands into the air.

"I know. Where did we go wrong with that girl? I thought we taught her the difference between hot and not," I said, purposely sounding like a parent.

"I guess it was somewhere between George the Gooey and Kim the male," Gina grinned. Kim the male. I'd been completely shocked to find that Alex had found herself a boyfriend who shared my name! I insisted that everyone called me Kimberly until she was done with the obnoxious guy. It didn't last very long, luckily.

"Probably. Or maybe it was that "Girls only"-camp she was on when we were thirteen. I mean, she must have grown pretty desperate after that, and maybe it just never wore off?" I suggested.

"Maybe. The other boys she have had the past three years hasn't exactly been very preferable either. Do you remember Andrew?"

"Shortest relationship ever. It took him thirty minutes to cheat on her with the shallow cheerleader."

"And William?"

"Ugh. What about M… something…"

"Marcilius! Of course, he was just downright strange."

"He was better than your Timian." I mumbled. Gina gasped.

"Was not!"

"Was too," I teased.

"Timian was great!"

"That, for you, is great? I'd take Cameron."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah."

"Over Jared, too?"

That stopped me. I bit my lip, frantically searching for a respond to that. I felt Gina's gaze on me all the time, waiting for me to answer. Come on, Kim, I thought. Don't mess this up!

I'd gone a whole week ignoring Jared. It had been very hard, seeing that he just kept staring at me. It made me very self-conscious and my face had gotten this constant red color, because I kept blushing.

To hear Gina say his name made a sharp pain shoot though my body, lingering where my heart was supposed to be. I pressed my voice through my lips, and, surprisingly:

"Um…"

I stared at me soaking sneakers where they clabbered forward on the wet, watery ground. Gina waited for my answer a little longer, and then she said in a low voice:

"I knew you weren't over him." I didn't have an answer for that either, so I didn't move my eyes. We walked in silence for a little while longer. When we reached Gina's house, I forced myself to speak words.

"Jared's an idiot," I said in an ice-cold voice. And it was true, every one of my three, honest words. Gina nodded approvingly at me.

"Good. Now you'll just have to teach your heart that too," she said. She hugged me lightly and then walked off into her house. I lingered at the way home, moving my feet slowly over the pavement. I was happy for the rain, for once. It soaked my hair and made raindrops fall down my face and body. I might have been crying, but I couldn't know for sure. And if I was, it would just make me a bigger fool. I'd said it myself. Jared's an idiot. He is.

Only too bad my heart can be very stubborn sometimes.

Very short, I know, but I'm hoping to have the next chapter up by tomorrow.

Maybe even later today if I get the time.

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