Chapter Six: Roxanne Tucker

During the time that I have graced my presence with this world, I have felt a great need to help people who can simply not help themselves. My forte of course had to be romance. Even though I completely agree with what some say about me in my school, that I'm nothing short of a boy-friend stealing slut; I just hope they realize that I try to do it out of the kindness of my heart and in the name of love.

Gia is the greatest person in the world and I am lucky to be friends with her. She really doesn't care about what people say about me, and she knows that somewhere inside of me is a caring and thinks-before-she acts kind of girl. Unbeknownst to her, for the past four years of my life, she has been my pet project. I have been trying so hard to get her to confess her undying love for Alexander Griffin. And it seems that because this may be the last chance, the last year that she has with him; she has really put some kind of effort in talking to him. All I can think of is how, right now, she could be making out with the Captain of the Lacrosse team, if it all goes according to plan.

After we watched Gia drive off, Lloyd and I stood in an uncomfortable silence in front of what we referred to as "Hell in a waffle cone." I really did not feel like going to work. After all, why should I when my best friend was trying to wrangle a husband-or a boyfriend at the very least. Suddenly, Lloyd read my mind.

"So, I really don't want to walk in there." Lloyd said as he kicked a pebble down the parking lot.

"So don't." I'm glad he came up with this idea and not me.

Lloyd gave me a quizzical look, "You know, when a friend says something like that to another friend, you're supposed to convince them other wise."

I looked down at my feet and thought, friends. That's what Lloyd and I am, friends. Nothing more, nothing less. I'm not saying I have this extreme desire to be his girlfriend or anything, but at times I think about how nice it would be. But it's me, Roxy, and I'm beginning to believe that I am afraid of commitment. But most of all, I'm afraid of hurting the one person I might actually love. I looked back at him defiantly.

"Fine, I really hope this guy isn't a pervert."

He groaned and said, "Okay I'm definitely going to work if you're going to continue talking about this guy. It makes me uncomfortable. Because you make me uncomfortable."

I felt that this comment deserved some kind of comeback, but I was too focused on how much Gia could screw up this moment she had with Alex. So the typical afraid to deal with confrontations Roxy said,

"I wonder what Gia is telling him right now."

Lloyd seemed to sigh in exhaustion, "It's not like we can go spy on her so just give up on it and let's go to work."

A smile lit up my face. Not just any smile, a completely devious, "I've got plans to take over the world" kind of smile. I looked at Lloyd and he looked back at me.

"Roxy, look at me. Forget I ever suggested what I just suggested. We don't have the plotting brains like Sean Connery, we can't go all mission impossible on this."

"Sean Connery was James Bond, dork."

"Either way, that doesn't matter. We can not meddle in Gias life more than you already fictionally have."

I became extremely confused. "What the heck does that mean?"

"That you're crazy, and we have to go to work." Lloyd said as he grabbed my arm and continued to pull me towards hell.

"You know Lloyd, I'm just trying to be a good friend and stand behind your decision of not going to work."

Lloyd stopped pulling my arm turned around and looked at me. "For some weird reason, that made a lot of sense."

I smiled and said, "That's how I do. So, are you in or are you out?"

He glanced at hell and said, "I guess I'm in."

So, in honor of Sean Connery and Mission Impossible, we snuck away from our shifts at hell and walked towards the copying place where Mr. Alexander Griffin worked. This would be a lot faster if I had a car. As we were walking by Gias family restaurant, we stumbled upon Leonardo smoking by the back where the kitchen entrance was. Oh, Leonardo. He is definitely the hotter of the Ramon brothers, but that's most likely because the other ones are married. There is one unattractive thing about him, besides the smoking; he's an avid womanizer.

I did not know this tidbit of information at Gias 16th birthday party when I made out with him. And I definitely didn't realize it during the two months I secretly dated him. Thank god it didn't last any longer. I'm sure Gia would have told me earlier, that is if she knew we were dating. She sort of discovered us making out in his room when she went to yell at him for taking her clothes out of the dryer before they were dry. She dragged me out of his room and explained it all to me.

"Look Roxy, I love my brother, and I love you. So I'm just going to say it straight out. You are more sensitive then you give yourself credit for. My brother's plans extend as far as each night, he's never been in a real relationship and I know you want one deep down in your heart; even if you are afraid of commitment. For your sake, stop all this. I couldn't bear to see you get hurt by my own flesh and blood."

Although I had an inkling to this information, and instead chose to ignore it and stay with him because he was a good kisser. I had never known she though so highly of me. I guess that was one of the reasons I stayed her friend where as some of the other people in my other "social circle" thought she was out there. She believed that under my long list of boy friends, was an actual person. I knew guys saw me as an easy lay, and girls saw me as a whore; but Gia stuck around long enough to discover the real me. So I would go to any lengths to see her protected.

But ah Leonardo, he still felt the need to tease me every time I saw him, and this was going to be unfortunate because Lloyd was with me. He noticed us walking towards him and he threw his cigarette down. At least he was considerate. As he stepped on it he said,

"Looking good Roxy; what's up Lloyd?"

Lloyd graciously informed him that we were skipping work and when that ended, he turned to me and asked, "So you break any guys' hearts lately?"

I rolled my eyes and said, "Yeah quite a few."

He chuckled and said, "Let's hope they didn't get any farther than I did."

Lloyd opened his mouth to say something. He looked at Leonardo and then at me. He said, "Actually, I don't think I want to know."

"Good answer. So where are you planning to go on your skip day?"

It was then Lloyd rolled his eyes and said, "Well, Roxy here is obsessed with getting Gia a boy-"

I quickly clasped my hand over Lloyd's mouth and said, "A bouquet of flowers! We should really get there before it closes, come on Lloyd."

I grabbed Lloyd and tried to pull him away until Leonardo grabbed my arm and said, "Now, wait just a minute. Why would Gia, of all girls, have a boyfriend?"

I narrowed my eyes and gritted through my teeth, "Of course! It's you, Leonardo, the brother who cares nothing about his sister. I can't believe I was worried that you would freak out and go murder whoever it is Gia is talking to at this very moment."

He grabbed my arm and moved me closer and said, "You know nothing about me."

I was about to scream, "Let go of me." when a crash louder than any noise I could ever make happened.

Leonardo let go of my arm, looked down the street and said, "Was that a car crash?"

"Holy crap, I think it was. That must be the first one we've had in a decade!" Lloyd exclaimed.

"It sounds like it's coming from 7th street." I said.

Lloyd got excited and exclaimed, "This is our chance to prove that the American public loves carnage. Come on Roxy, let's go!"

"Isn't that copy place that the Griffin kid works at on 7th street?" Leonardo asked.

"Yeah, yeah! That means that Gia must have seen this crash. She can tell us all about it. Come on Roxy, let's go!"

As Lloyd was pulling on my hand, I realized something and looked back at Leonardo. How did he know Alex worked there?

He looked at me and said, "Have fun," And turned to walk back into the kitchen. Gia would be very interested to hear about this.

Unfortunately, we didn't know Gia had had a first hand experience in the crash.

I know you probably think I'm killing you with all the POV's but trust me, I'm putting these chapters out a lot faster than I should be considering I'm still not as far ahead in the story as I wish I was. Sigh. But this semester is almost over, so maybe on break I'll have more time. MAYBE. We shall see. So anyway, is anyone as in love with the movie "Enchanted" as I am? I ADORE that movie, I love Giselle! I have already seen it twice and I plan on seeing it more. I bought the soundtrack and I pretty much have every song memorize. Can you tell I love it? It is so cute, romantic, and funny. If you haven't seen it, then you should. Go now! Now I'm off to procrastinate doing some HW. xoxoChel (PS Sorry the chapter is so short!)