Chapter Seven

Evangeline was resting her forehead on the cool glass window on the blue bus Monday morning when she felt someone sit down beside.

"Hi Gabriel." she said without looking at him.

"Good morning." he said, rather cheerfully. She groaned her responce. "What, don't like Mondays?"

"Not at all. It doesn't help that that storm kept me up all night." she said, taking her forehead of the window. "The stylings of Tancred Torsson, I'm guessing."

"Well, you don't know that. It might not have been him. But there did seem to be more lightning at the Thunder House than usual though."

"Whatever." Evangeline groaned.

"So how was Olivia's?" Gabriel asked.

"Exciting, we all got dresses and we discussed bad pick-up lines." she said, "I didn't know Tancred could be so vulgar. Are all guys like that?"

"You'd be surprised." Gabriel said.

"So, what's a vulgar pick-up line that you've used?" she asked Gabriel.

He smirked. "Nice legs, what time do they open?" Evangeline's jaw dropped.

"Gabriel Silk!" she said, astonished.

"Hey!" he said as she slapped him on the arm, though not hard.

"I can't believe you." she laughed. He shrugged.

"If you hadn't guessed it by now, I learned that from Tancred." he said.

"I should have known." she said as the bus stopped at the school.

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When Sapphire got onto the bus on Monday morning, Tancred was already on the bus as she plonked down beside him.

"Was that you last night?" she asked.

"What, the storm? No, that wasn't the Torssons for once." he smirked.

"So, how hard did that girl slap you last year?" she asked.

"Okay, lots of girls slapped me, you gotta be more specific." Tancred told her.

"The one that you said, oh, what was it. Oh, the 'you be the ice burg, I'll be the Titanic and I'll go down on you.' Yeah, that's the one."

"Oh, her." Tancred laughed. "Extremely hard. Left a red mark for hours."

"Idiot." she muttered.

"So, have you given it any thought?" he asked, obviously refering to the dance.

"Yes, I have."

"And?" he begged her to continue.

"I've decided that you're a perverted, low-life jerk! That's what!" she shouted.

"Is that a yes or a no?" he asked, still not knowing the answer.

"Of course it's a yes." she said sweetly. He blinked a few times as though to try and register that she had said yes.

"Did you girls get dresses?"

"Yes."

"What am I going to get to see?" he asked.

"Not telling. All I'll say, is that Olivia called me a knock-out." Tancred smiled.

"Nice to know that I'm going with the hottest girl in school." he said proudly.

"Up until two weeks ago, you thought my sister was the hottest girl in school." she scoffed.

"I thought she was the hottest girl in school. You are the hottest girl in school."

"You're just getting around, aren't you." she said shaking her head.