Roses are Red
They sat in the car, him driving, and her staring out the passenger window trying to ignore the weight of the awkward silence settling around them. Cammie was begging to regret agreeing to take a lift to school from Jace. She hadn't expected it to be uncomfortable. It was meant to give them time to talk everything through, but she didn't want to be the one to stat the conversation. Jace's car was an old grey car. It had black leather interior and a grey metallic dash board. It was his brother's old car. Jace's older brother Daniel was from his father's first marriage so technically they were half brothers, but you would never know, they look so similar. Daniel was four years older than Jace though and had moved out of the house. Cammie had never been very close to Daniel, but she remembered him being very nice and respectful to her when she was young although she remembered Daniel teasing Cammie and Jace about how they would grow up and have babies together. It had always disturbed her, until Jace had kissed her, then it didn't seem too ludicrous anymore and then just like that it was again.
"Cammie, can you please just explain?" Jace said stealing a quick glance at her before retuning his eyes to the road. Her heart thumped louder in her chest at the sound of his voice, blood rushing around her head, sounding like a flooding river to her ears. Her cheeks turned pink for a split second before she gained control again. She bit her lip and shrugged her shoulders.
"I'm not sure what I have to explain." Jace laughed unable to believe that Cammie could be so blaze about the situation.
"Cammie you wrote me a love letter. And told me that you hate me. I don't know what to think. You're my best friend. I don't know how you want me to react to that. I'm dating Macey, but the thing is that if you feel that way, it changes-"
"Don't say it!" she shouted snapping her head around to look at his profile. He was griping the steering wheel shaking his head "This doesn't change anything. I can still be your friend! Macey and you don't need to worry. That letter is old. Very old! Really from middle school even, I don't hate you. Or love you! In that way I mean. It's a long story, but after you kissed me just before you and Macey started going out well that was when I wrote that letter before anything happened all that time ago. I really don't think there is that much to say about it." Her chest was heaving as she tried to catch her breath. Jace has a frown on his face. Was Cammie telling the truth? Was that really all there was to it? The letter was that old and out of date? For some reason he was slightly saddened by this, he wanted her to have written the letter yesterday or the day before. He wanted it to have been new and true and now. He sighed defeated.
"Fine Cam-Jam I believe you. Macey and I don't want anything to change nothing has to change..." Cammie breathed a sigh of relief
"Oh, good. Be sides, I'm dating Zach now." She twists her hands together "I think I really like him J." They seemed to slip back into the nick names they had since they were 8. Jace clenched his teeth together.
"Yeah about Goode, what's that all about? It seems kind'a sudden and random. I'm not sure he's good for you Cam. He always used to bully you didn't he? I specifically remember you crying to Mace about how he wouldn't even smile at you in the halls at school last year."
"Yeah well turns out he was just trying to avoid his feelings. And I always liked him even in middle school."
"But you said that's when you wrote my letter." He challenged and she grunted in frustration. She couldn't keep all this stuff straight and Jace didn't believe the parts that were actually true.
"Just drop it okay! I don't really think you have a say. Why should you care if Goode," she paused and cringed that she called him Goode "if Zach likes me." Jace shakes his head. He didn't really know what to say. He cared because... because he wanted to, because he could, who was she to say that he couldn't care?
"I care because I'm your best friend Cammie! Macey and I are your best friends and you never mentioned anything about this!"
"It was sudden." She fought weakly
"But you just said that you have always liked him?"
"Yes,"
"Cam I just can't even fathom what this story is. What your relationship with Goode is." If it was any other conversation Cammie would have complimented his use of the word fathom since he wasn't good at using fancy words but it wasn't so she just said
"Why do say 'relationship' like that?" They pulled through the gates to school and Jace shook his head again.
"I don't Cam-Jam. I really don't." He seemed tired of the argument. He didn't really seem like he could handle fighting with her. He didn't want to; he wanted to have the whole relationship that Cammie was in to be a dream. He didn't like the idea of Cammie being in a relationship. He had always said that he wanted her to find someone, be with someone like he was with Macey, but now that she was he wasn't sure if he liked it. But he also didn't want to fight with Cammie so he would drop the subject.
"Come on Cammie." He said with a tired smile "Let's go." He opens his door and heads round to hers then they link arms and go up to the school but it felt strange different slightly for Jace. Cammie had had her arm through Jace's many times before, but she had never been so happy to have it that way in her life. She was glad that she had gotten in the car with Jace, it had sorted everything out, almost not really but being with Jace made her insides light up and when they were in a fight or having a row that light would flicker Cammie would be in the dark and that was hard. So now, right then she was glowing.
Macey sat next to Cammie in homeroom. Jace sat with River one of his team mates off the lacrosse team. She drummed her fingers on the desk as she debated on what she was going to say to Cammie. She wanted to set things straight but she was still a little frustrated with her friend. Cammie had her noise in a book and was trying to avoid any questions Macey might ask. Macey looked at Cammie and cleared her throat. Cammie looked up from the off white pages like it was a struggle to pull away. The room was filled with chatter, the news of Cammie and Zach's relationship had died down a quite a bit, but people still whispered whenever she walked past.
"Cam? It's okay. I'm okay with the letter; I mean I'm more interested in Zachary and you. Curious, I don't like it when we fight. I haven't spoken to you all weekend! That's like sac-religious! So I'm fixing it Cam," She smiles "Not that I'm the only one who should be fixing it." She gave Cammie an appointed look and Cammie smiled coyly
"I missed you Mace." She said flinging her arms around her friend and squeezing her tightly. Macey chuckled
"Alright Cam, but I have to be sure," they parted and Cammie nodded her head
"Anything!" Cammie said with shaking hands.
"I have to know, you don't like Jace? Like that I mean?" she seemed hesitant to know the answer, and a little bit of aggravation was seeping back into her expression, but Cammie shook her head violently. This was going well, her friends though she was in a relationship with Zach; this meant that they believed her when she told them she had no feelings for Jace. Now all she had to do was play this charade with Zach a for a while and then they could have some dramatic breakup where there was no turning back.
"No Macey, I like Zach. I can't even imagine trying to take Jace from you. I'm your best friend." Macey smiled as the bell rang for lessons.
"Alright Cam, I believe you."
Cammie was walking down the hall to her locker. She was smiling because the day didn't seem like it could get any better. She had made up with Jace and Macey, not that it had been too serious a fall out to begin with, but still she was over the moon. Young freshman, sophomores and even her fellow junior girls were waving at her and smiling, they paid her compliments and asked where she got her clothes from. It was strange because Cammie didn't like being in the spotlight, she never had been, but she thought she was adjusting pretty well. She stopped in front of her locker and twisted the code into the lock before it popped open with a small metallic noise ringing out into the hall. The door opened and out slipped a red envelope. It was small and pocket sized and had her name written on it, whoever had written it had even dotted the 'I' with a little heart. Cammie picked up the envelope and ran her thumb over the smooth surface. She glanced to her left and to her right to see if anyone was watching her before she turned it over and opened it. She pulled out a small piece of white card.
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
I've never seen anyone
As pretty as
You.
She smiled as she read the note. Zach had written her a love note? Wow that was more commitment than she had expected. She felt something warm rising up through her body and she let out a giddy giggle. She read the note a few times before tucking it back into the envelope and sliding it into her jean pocket. Her fingers tingled where she had held the note. I guess her love letter had rubbed off a little on Zachary Goode. She collected her books and started down the hall again, she had a little spring in her step that wasn't there before. She could feel the note in her pocket. It seemed to be radiating heat and warmth. She could see the neat letters that the note was written in, in her mind. He had obviously taken the time to make sure it was perfect. She wanted to run up to him and thank him, but she didn't want to make a big deal about it, it was all part of the act, something to add to the whole atmosphere of the lie. She shivered when she thought of it like that. Cammie saw Zach emerge from a classroom with his friends and she smiled as she caught his eye.
"Whoop! Here she comes lads!" a tall boy, taller than Zach shouted down the hall at her. He had messy chocolate brown hair styled neatly into a quiff; his jaw line was so well defined and had this little freckle was under his eye. This was Nick, captain of the basket ball team, single, schools jokester, the class clown that every girl and probably a few guys wanted a piece of. Cammie blushed and giggled when they all started clapping. This was Zach's group, the crew filled with the most popular boys in school; if you want me to name them all, here I go:
Zach
Nick
Grant
Dylan
Mike
Cammie didn't know any of them very well, I mean of course she had seen them and knew about most of their lives, this was due to the fact that they were at the top of the social ladder and nothing they did went unnoticed. They of course had hardly any idea who she was, except they did because Zach used to talk about her when they were younger like she was a princess. Talked about her almost as much as he did Alana, and that was a lot, or it had been a lot.
She reached them and Zach immediately pulled her close to him by wrapping his arm around her waist and pressing her to his side. She knew he was breaking her rules, not that he actually was ever going to follow them, but she knew she had to put up with it and hesitantly knotted her hand up in the back of his shirt and leaned into him a little bit.
"So you're the girl who managed to snatch Zach up. Al's sloppy seconds." Mike said with a wink and Cammie laughed. Though after a few seconds she thought about it and cringed a little bit.
"Shut up Mikey!" he muttered. His tone was harsh and his expression was hard. It was clear he found little amusement in the remark and Mike raised his hands in surrender.
"Looks like you hit a soft spot there, Mike." Dylan said with a hissing laugh, they all chuckled.
"Looks like it." Mike said with a cheeky grin. Cammie had butterflies in her stomach, being near all these handsome boys, teasing and joking with her, it was like a dream, or a nightmare, which ever you prefer. Suddenly she's jerked away from Zach's embrace and an arm is flung over her shoulders. She looks up to see Mike has his arm around her,
"I think I want her." He says looking at Zach before giving her a quick wink. She laughs
"Have her." Zach says with a shrug and her head snaps up.
"What?" she says, her tone slightly more panicky than she intended. Mike squeezes her and spins her around to face him. Mike has an expression of mock hurt on his face
"You mean you won't kiss me like you did Goode?" Cammie blushes. That kiss was going to be the death of her. She shakes her head, looking up into his blue eyes and brushing his blonde hair out of his eyes.
"Sorry," she breaths and Mike pauses just looking at her with a goofy grin. Zach watches the two of them. He knows that Mike is messing with him, trying to get a rise out of him, and despite the fact that he knows that he isn't actually in a relationship with Cammie, he feels something bubbling up and he has the urge to pull him away from her. When they still don't move after a few moments and people in the corridor start to stare he clears his throat. They turn their heads and look at Zach
"Do you mind if I have my girlfriend back?" he says and Mike shrugs and spins her back in Zach's direction. Cammie laughed as Zach picked her up bridle style and nuzzled at her neck.
"Whoa, please get a room." Mike said doing gagging motion.
"Cam, please tell me how you two got together? Zach has never told me" Grant says shoving his hands into his pockets.
"Well Zach asked me on a date a few weeks ago and finally asked me to be his girlfriend last week. We had been on three date, but he finally found his nerve I guess." She said ruffling Zach's hair. He smirked down at her before taking a quick look at Grant. He wasn't sure he was going to buy it. Zach remembered telling him he had no feelings for Cammie. Even after the kiss in the hall he assured him he wasn't dating her and now...
"Really? Zach were you just lying to me the whole time then?" Grant asks in teasing, but curious voice. Cammie chuckled nervously not sure what was happening. Zach laughed
"No, I mean I didn't want to scare this little beauty away. I didn't want any of you sinking your teeth into her before I got her." He said still carrying Cammie like she was a feather all a hundred and ten pounds of her.
"You mean you didn't want Alana to sink her teeth into her." Nick corrects with a snigger. Truth was the boys didn't like Alana. She was always trying to pull Zach away from them, he would miss hanging out with them if she was 'in a bad state', and he believed what she said over what they said. Like last summer Dylan told Zach that he saw Alana with Kyle Henderson from Eastwood High school together, but he didn't believe him, like there was no reason for him to lie about that, but still Al could do no wrong. Zach frowned
"Ha. Ha. Very funny, but I don't think you should talk about Ally like that. She never did anything to you guys." He said defensively. They all exchanged a look that said she-has-never-done-anything-my-grass-hole. Cammie couldn't tell what Zach felt for Alana. Did he still have feelings for her? Did he really think she walked on water? Most likely yes, he did still have feelings for her, after all, she had broken it off with him not the other way around and from what she could remember from when they were younger Alana had a charm to her that made most people like, somehow though she had managed to turn Mike, Dylan, Grant and Nick against her. Cammie liked these guys. Zach was still carrying Cammie but he suddenly stopped and put her down. She felt the loss of his arms around her and was hurt that he put her down. She could tell he was thinking about Alana and the way he wasn't looking it at her...
"Now Cam," Dylan started see that she was distressed, she tore her eyes away from Zach who didn't seem to be paying much attention to her. He took this as a sign to keep going "I think you need to hang out with us sometime, sometime after school I mean." She nodded and as she really processed his words she smiled
"That would be great." She said and Nick laughed
"Any excuse to spend time with us right? Let's face it, you've been dying to date one of us your whole life." Cammie snorted
"You wish." She said with a smug smirk on her face.
"Wayyy" Mike howled and Cammie laughed and shoved her hands into her pockets. She felt the envelope and held in her palm. Her eyes darted back up to Zach. He was chatting with Grant.
"What do you think Zach?"
"What?"
"Cammie's going to spend some time with us more often." Zach smirked
"She can't get enough of me." he said grabbing her hand and twirling her around. Zach was a good actor.
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