Chapter 7: The Plan That Went Wrong

As Chase and Michael were debating over where Logan could possibly be Zoey suddenly came charging into their room.

"Chase!" Zoey screamed.

"What's wrong?" Chase asked, worried.

Zoey turned to Michael, ignoring Chase. "How dare you, Michael?"

"What'd I do?"

"You know exactly what you did!"

"Do I really now?" Michael asked, " 'Cause I don't think I do."

"Chase, did you know about this?" Zoey asked.

"I can honestly say I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Neither do I," Michael said.

"You know how Lola refuses to talk to me?"

"Yeah," Chase nodded.

Michael's expression changed for puzzled to shocked. He knew exactly what Zoey was talking about.

Zoey began explaining the whole story.

FLASHBACK

Zoey was about to enter her room when she noticed Logan was in there talking to Lola.

"Logan, there's something we need to tell you, but it's top secret!" Lola explained in her room.
Quinn was also sitting there nodding.

"So what's the big secret?" Logan asked.

"We're trying to set up Zoey and Chase," Quinn explained, "It was Michael's idea."

Zoey stood in the doorway shocked. Clearly they didn't know she was there.

"And we're trying to set them up because...?" Logan asked.

"Because they're perfect for each other!" Lola exclaimed, "We have the perfect plan and we've already put it into action, but there's just one little problem..."

"What's this have to do with me?"

"You're the problem, Logan. Zoey needs to realize how important Chase is to her. We figured that if everyone avoided her except Chase they'd start hanging out a lot more than usual because Zoey would have no one else to turn to or talk to then they she'd realize how much she likes him and not just as a friend."

"Yeah," Quinn nodded, "But there was just one problem. You started talking to Zoey at lunch today and now Zoey had someone else to turn to other than Chase."

"So basically you want me to avoid talking to Zoey?" Logan asked.

"YES!" Quinn and Lola said at the same time.

Quinn then noticed something. Zoey was standing in the doorway watching them.

END FLASHBACK

"So I came here," Zoey finished telling Chase.

"So was Bobby in on this too?" Chase asked.

"Yeah," Michael nodded, confessing. "He's not really Lola's boyfriend. Lola meant him at a summer drama camp. He's just an actor. We didn't really intend to get him expelled in the process though. We figured they'd just kick him off the basketball team or something, but hey, it happens."

"Then who's Lola been talking to on the phone every night?" Zoey asked.

"Me."

"No way? You're going out with Lola man?" Chase congratulated.

"Yeap," Michael nodded with a smile.

"Okay wait!" Zoey exclaimed, "Did you not hear me right Chase? They were trying to set us up."

Chase wasn't entirely sure what he should say. He pretended to be very mad at Michael and started yelling at him. "How could you do this Michael?"

"Lola's the one who thought up the plan."

"Chase and I are just friends," Zoey explained, "Why can't you people just accept that?"

"Yes, why can't you accept that Michael?" Chase asked, pretending that he didn't want to be more than friends with Zoey.

Suddenly Logan, Lola and Quinn came running into the room.

"Zoey, we're so sorry," Quinn apologized.

"How could you guys do that to me?" You treated me like dirt!"

"And we're really sorry about that, but it did bring you too guys closer together didn't it?" Lola asked hopeful.

"Chase and I are just friends!" Zoey said once again. With that she left the room.

Everyone stood in silence for a few moments before Lola spoke.

"I suppose you're mad at us too?" she asked, looking at Chase.

Chase simply shrugged, but said nothing.

"We just thought you guys would make the perfect couple."

"There's just one thing I don't get," Chase said, changing the subject. "If your plan was to avoid talking to Zoey so she'd have no one to talk to, but me then why was Quinn still talking to her?"

"I started to feel bad," Quinn admitted, "But I made sure whatever I said freaked her out so I could be nice to her, but make sure she wouldn't want to talk to me."

"So basically you just acted like yourself?" Logan asked.

"I don't always freak Zoey out, do I?"

"You're experiments freak everybody out," Logan responded.

Quinn gasped, slightly offended. "My Quinnventions are..."

"Quinn, just because Logan says something doesn't mean everybody else agrees," Chase said.

That made her stop talking which is exactly what Chase intended. He really did agree with Logan on this subject.

"So what are we going to do about Zoey?" Lola asked, changing the subject.

"Well, in a way your plan did sort of work," Chase shrugged.

"What are you talking about, man?" Michael asked.

"Well, now that Zoey's mad at all of you for creating this plan thing, once again I'm the only one who she's still talking to."

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