(Chase's POV)
I was back in my room again. Doing what I do best strumming my guitarand just figuring out what I should play next then it came to me.
Open up the book you beat me with again
Read it off one sentence at a time
I'm tired of all the lines
Convictions and your lies
What right do you have to point at me
Well, I'm sitting alone thinking about it all over coffee
And still crowdin' my space are the things you still hold against me
You cannot save me…
Knock, knock, I was interrupted by the knocking at my door. I thought it was probably just my neighbor telling me that it was okay to use the washer and dryer now, or it was someone with a message or something of that nature.
"Come on in, the door's open" I called while continuing to strum.
Michael then came through the door. "Wow," he said, "You look worse than I did when I thought I struck out with Lisa."
"You're with Lisa, now," I responded, "So what's the big deal?"
"Maybe," He answered, "But it didn't come easy."
"What are you saying?" I asked.
"Dude, what's the matter with you?" He then exclaimed, "Are you seriously happy living like this?"
"Specify," I said.
"Going to class, coming home and picking up your guitar and wallowing in self pity?" He guess right on the money. Honest to God, at the time I wouldn't have admitted that that was the case.
"Lemme tell you something," I then answered slightly annoyed "you know how you've seen those stories of the guys that say how they feel about a girl and then the girl and guy kiss and then they live happily ever after?"
"I've seen it once or twice," answered Michael.
"Seen it? Dude, you're living it!" I nearly shouted, "Hell, even Logan is living it and he's a class-one jerk!"
"That may be true," Michael said, "But I had to fight to get Lisa, and in some crazy way Logan had to fight for Quinn. The fact of the matter is, love doesn't come easy it has to be worked for and if you love someone or something that much it should be worth fighting for! I guess the question is, Chase Matthews, when are you going to start fighting for your love?"
His words made a lot of sense, I had always hoped that if I waited long enough Zoey would finally take a chance on me. But maybe the only reason why she wasn't trying me was because I wasn't as aggressive as other guys were. Maybe I didn't fight hard enough.
"Right now!" I then said
"That's my boy!" Michael exclaimed.
We had then shared a, I'll call it a manly embrace, and as he went toward the door he then said, "Oh I almost forgot, you got a message." he then handed me a envelope and left.
"A message?" I thought grabbing the envelope. I had looked at the envelope did a sort of weighing gesture with it and tried to make heads or tails of it. Eventually, you're gonna have to open it, I thought. So with that thought I broke the seal and opened it. As I unfolded the paper, many thoughts rolled through my mind: Who could have sent this message? What did they want from me? Was this from a psycho? I was on the verge of finally reading it when I received another knock on my door. When I opened it, I realized who it was.
"Hmm, James Garrett, I presume?" I asked.
"How'd you guess?" He asked.
"Luck, I guess, " I answered as I showed him in. "So what brings you to my neck of the woods?"
"Well, I have some good news," he then said
"Uh frankly, I don't think I wanna hear too much about your-" I started.
"Good news," He interrupted, "For you".
"What are you getting at?" I asked suspiciously.
"Well," He started, "I've just talked to my parents yesterday about it. I'm being pulled from PCA."
"Wha-What?" I said shocked to say the least.
"Yeah," he answered, "I'm being transferred to a public school near home…in Cleveland"
"But, what about Zoey?" I asked, "I thought you two were happy together"
"Well, I like Zoey, but I've been away from my family here in California for about 6 years. And the way I see it," He continued, "this may be the only chance I could be with my family again. So I broke up with Zoey."
"So," I said, "Where does the good news come to play?"
"That means come the end of the week, there will be a vacancy in your old dorm room, in case you're interested." he said as he left.
Now this was a lot to hear, if I do say so myself. I mean I was just getting used to living without roommates, without pride, without…Zoey, but all that changed on a dime. Well two of those circumstances that is. I had then picked up the folded messages I had just received and opened it. It was a pasted message that read "Go online to chase's heart dot com." I complied with the note and a light back-grounded site came to me a message appeared across the site.
Whoa, I thought, This is total shades of Zoey's Balloon. The message then narrated to me.
"Hello, Chase Matthews," the voice said. "First of all, Welcome back to PCA. I'm sure you have been enjoying yourself. Run into any flagpoles lately?"
Oh no, I thought, Is this from who I think its from?
"Anyway, I'm delivering you this message so you will find me and in order to do that you must follow the clues. Won't this be fun?"
"Easy for you to say." I muttered
"Your first clue awaits you at the beach tonight at seven," the voice continued, "Ciao, Chase Matthews."
Then the transmission ended. Which left me deep in thought again, but then my cell phone went off. No, no one was calling me it was just reminding me that I had class in 10 minutes.
Oh crap, I thought running out of the dorm building. I had almost hit into many people. I think the only good thing that happened was that I had tripped did a complete flip and somehow landed on my feet.
Whoa, I thought, my time in England has made me a little LESS clumsy.
Either way I had made it to my first class with time to spare. But to my surprise and apparently the whole classes' as well, there wasn't a teacher today. An announcement then buzzed over an intercom.
"Attention all students," it said "Due to some unexplained circumstances and unresolved conflicts, all classes have been cancelled for the day."
It was clearly no surprise that all of us were very bewildered today. But acquiring the knowledge we received we all went doing what we wanted to do that day. Myself, it was me getting on my Jet-X and heading back to my dorm. No sooner than I returned to my room. I had received another message.
Hold it, I thought thinking that it was from my "mystery person", I haven't even gone to the beach yet. But I opened the envelope and it said "Go back to Chase's Heart dot com." I complied once again.
"Hello Chase Matthews," the voice said. "Enjoy your day at school?"
"Kinda hard to," I muttered, "Considering it was the shortest day at PCA that I ever been."
"I almost forgot to mention," The voice then said "Tonight at the beach you must wear a suit. Have a nice day, Chase Matthews."
Great, I thought, I never like wearing suits any secret admirer should know that. I went to my closet and was very glad that I had suits for days like this. Now I was in the very tough process…choosing one.
(Zoey's POV)
I was at lunch with Quinn and Lola when Michael and Logan sat down. We shared our own unusual greetings.
I then asked Michael, "Is everything in place for tonight?"
"Oh yeah, I've talked to everyone, well everyone we know and everything is in place," he said.
"Good," I then said, "Now all we need is one more piece to the puzzle"
And we all agreed that we knew what that piece was.
Author's Note: I thought it would be easier to make one huge final chapter but I figured this is better. In process of making the final chapter so until then Read and review, But no flames.
