Chapter 4: Friday Night Plans

"So what does the most beautiful girl in New York want to do tonight?" Nat yelled as he walked up Rosalina's stairs towards her room that Friday night. He entered her bedroom and found Rosalina curled up in bed with a bowl of popcorn and wearing pajama pants and one of Nat's t-shirts.

"This?" Rosalina smiled weakly.

"I thought we were going out tonight?" Nat laughed, leaning down and kissing her forehead.

"It's been a long week, I kind of just wanted to stay in tonight. Maybe watch some movies." Rosalina said. "Is that okay with you?"

"Of course it is, whatever you want to do babe." Nat smiled, crawling under the covers next to Rosalina. "So, what are we watching?"

"The Notebook." Rosalina smiled innocently at her boyfriend.

"Only because I love you." Nat kissed her forehead and she cuddled up next to him.

Meanwhile…

"Supertastic 6, unite!" Thomas yelled as he, Qaasim, and David barged into the recording studio. Cooper was sitting behind the desk while the State of Grace girls were in the booth. The boys all pumped their arms in the air and looked to their girlfriends to return the "secret handshake" they'd created. The girls rolled their eyes and lazily pumped their arms in the air.

"Hey guys," Cooper smiled, looking away from his computer towards his friends. "Come to watch some magic be made?"

"Well, we actually came to take our girlfriends out for the night." David said.

"You know, dinner and a movie?" Qaasim said.

"The girls didn't tell you?" Cooper asked them, making the boys look at him confused.

"Tell us what?" Thomas asked.

"We kind of have to cancel tonight," Ellie said.

"We just got really inspired on this song and Cooper doesn't want to lose the magic on it." Kylie explained.

"We can reschedule, right?" Emily asked hopefully.

"Well yeah, of course." David sighed. The girls gave their boyfriends hugs and kisses and headed back into the booth.

"We'll let you get back to work." Qaasim said, forcing a smile as he and the boys walked out of the studio.

Meanwhile…

"Damn, my girlfriend is gonna kill it tomorrow!" Alex called to Juanita as she landed another trick. They were spending their Friday night preparing for their skateboard competition the next morning. Bright flood lamps lit up the skate park, providing the two of them enough light to practice just the two of them.

"You bet I am, going to beat your butt for sure!" Juanita exclaimed, giving Alex a high five. The two sat down at the top of the half pipe, with their legs dangling over the side, to take a break. They heard wheels rolling not too far away from them.

"Do you hear that?" Alex asked. "I thought we had the whole park to ourselves for the night."

"I guess not." Juanita said. "Hello?!"

"Well well well, look who it is." A boy around Alex and Juanita's age said, dropping in the half pipe from the other side and jumping up to sit by the couple.

"No way, Mitchie Brusco?!" Alex exclaimed. The two exchanged a high five and a hug. "How have you been bro?"

"Pretty good, just getting ready for the X games, doing some competitions in the area." Mitchie said. "I'm doing the one here tomorrow, you competing?"

"Hell yeah I am, I'm gonna kick your butt!" Alex smiled. "And if I don't, Juanita sure as hell will."

"Hi, I'm Juanita, Alex's…girl…Alex's friend." Juanita stammered out, leaving Alex confused.

"Well it's nice to meet you cutie." Mitchie winked. "I'll see you guys tomorrow, prepare to get your ass kicked Wolff."

"Yeah whatever." Alex called after him.

"Well he was nice." Juanita smiled. "Wanna go get something to eat? I'm starving."

"Uhh, I gotta go, I'll…I'll see you tomorrow." Alex stuttered, grabbing his stuff and running away without saying another word. Once he was far enough away, he hopped on his board and started to skate and talk to himself. "I'm her boyfriend, why can't she just say it?!"

Back at Rosalina's house…

Nat and Rosalina had watched not only the Notebook, but the Last Song and Dear John as well. Rosalina had fallen asleep halfway through Dear John but Nat was too hooked on the movie to leave. Once the credits started to roll, he moved Rosalina's head off his shoulder and got up to clean up before he headed home. He moved the empty bowl of popcorn onto Rosalina's desk and saw college brochures sitting in a pile. Curious, he started to sort through them and saw the schools Rosalina had told him she was applying to: NYU, Syracuse, Brown, Yale, and Harvard. But then he stumbled upon a brochure for UCLA. Rosalina had obviously read through it a few times and she had taken notes all over it, even highlighting important dates about applying.

"Why hasn't she told me?" Nat asked himself quietly. He heard Rosalina move around in her sleep so he quickly put them back where he found them and left her house without even giving her a kiss goodbye.