Wanna: Berri doesn't own original w.i.t.c.h.
Chapter Seven
Dream Study Date
You hit the bullseye baby
You hit the bullseye baby
Now I'm into you crazy
You know you hit the mark
Don't know how you got me started
I'm not an easy target
You hit the bullseye
You hit my heart
-Aly and AJ, Bullseye
Wanna paced back and forth outside the library waiting for Darien to appear. She was nervous just waiting for him, she had no idea what she was going to do when he got here, so far she had three options.
The first one would be squeal and scream like an idiot. Nope, that's not good.
The second option would be to pinch herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming. And the third option would be melt in a puddle of happiness.
Knowing herself, it would be a combination of all three, a pinching, jumping puddle of idiot.
'Yup, I'm a loony,' Wanna decided.
"Chill princess, we're 10 minutes early. He'll be here soon!" Carina giggled, cheerfully sitting on the stone steps that lead up to the library eating an ice cream cone. She'd offered to buy one for Wanna but she wasn't too sure on the idea. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
"But, this is like my first time out with a boy," Wanna said, squealing. Wait, is that bad? I'm fourteen… is that late? Ooh, everything in Lommer happened so quickly!
Shocking. Back in Fadden Hills she only had one crush, and he was going out with Wanna's bully, Tracey.
She pulled her hands into fists, and remembered the time she found out. It felt awful… 'I ran home and all I did was cry and cry… What a load of wasted tears! If only I knew that things can change for the better!' Wanna thought, unclenching her fists.
"It's a study date, relax, everything will be fine." Carina said, standing up and throwing her rubbish in the bin. She walked over to Wanna, and fixed up one of Wanna's strawberry curls.
"But… I'm nervous, and what will you say about being here?" Wanna asked, panicking again.
"Oh, Wanna, don't be silly. I'll tell him I came to get a book and saw you outside and joined you for a while," Carina smiled. Wanna let her shoulders drop and relax a little. Truth was that as soon as Wanna found out that Darien wanted to the project this afternoon, she ran to Carina for help.
They'd been together all afternoon, Carina telling Wanna what she could and could not do.
Wanna had to admit Carina made it seem so simple and kindly explained that the 'head games' magazines talked about were a waste of time. She told Wanna to be herself, and smile naturally because smiling makes you happy and it makes people around you smile, which makes them happy which means you'll have a good time. Wanna thought that was reasonable and honest. 'Now what else did she say, oh a study date is not a date.'
'And to act intelligent, not like a babbling fool.' Wanna nodded as she remembered that, 'I'm not an idiot,' she thought 'Most of the time' she added truthfully.
'But everyone makes mistakes like Harrison… I still can't believe I wasted my time on him.'
Wanna smoothed down her top, which Carina had chosen for her. It was just a plain brown tank top, but Carina had let Wanna borrow her cream long sleeved crop jacket, Wanna had never worn designer stuff before but it felt nice and elegant. Wanna felt lucky that Carina knew these things, otherwise she'd be going down hill and he still wasn't there!
"Where is he?" Wanna asked, looking across the street.
"Relax, haven't you heard of fashionably late before? If we had it my way, we wouldn't be here either!" Carina said, looking at Wanna sternly.
"Well, how late is fashionably late?" She asked, sitting next to Carina on the limestone steps.
"Seven to ten minutes, anything after and you are actually late," Carina joked, trying to help Wanna lighten up.
"Ha ha, okay, so how much longer than?" Wanna looked at her shoes, again borrowed from Carina, after she discovered Wanna didn't have any brown shoes. She was wearing brown sandals with gold beading. They sparkled in the sunlight when Wanna moved her feet. Wanna had finally found something better than whining- sparkles! She was rudely interrupted by Carina grabbing her arm and pulling her up.
"Ow! Wow, has anyone told you that your stronger than you look?" Wanna rubbed her arm, where it hurt.
"Grin and bare it, Mr. knight-in-shining-amour is here," Carina hissed back at Wanna. Instantly Wanna went onto nervous mode, 'what if I look weird what if I become an idiot?' She thought but then her eyes landed on Darien and she felt her head clear up.
"Now just relax, and be yourself!" Carina said, giving Wanna the correct amount of support without telling her what to do.
"Hi Wanna, hey Carina, good too see you both," Darien said, smiling.
"Hi, Darien," Wanna felt the blood rushing into her face.
"Don't get used to me, I'm leaving. See you around Darien," Carina grinned.
"Bye Wanna," She taunted. As Carina walked away, Wanna finally realized she was alone with Darien. No Carina for help.
"No," She whispered.
"What was that?" Darien asked. Wanna realized what happened and turned to face Darien. Remember what Carina said.
"Um, nothing, honest! So, should we get started?" Wanna asked.
"Sure," Darien said, grinning as they headed into the library.
Wanna looked up from the thick book she was reading, only slightly. She didn't want Darien to know she was spying on him. She tried hard not to sigh at him. 'Why is Cupid so cruel?' Wanna thought painfully. She gazed at his dark, sort of messy locks. 'Oh, hey, he has slightly wavy hair! Wanna thought, I didn't notice that before! She thought, wait why does it look clumpy… hair gel? Okay, that seems… creepy Is it? Oh, think of smart things, She remembered what Carina told her. Well, Darien looks so smart when he's reading a book. Oh, isn't that what I'm meant to do? Right, Wanna stuck her eyes to the page and tried to focus but every word made her want to look up more.
'Calm it's just a study date, I mean, if it does well… then maybe I'll think about aiming for a date, however now is now and it's important I don't goof!' She nodded and started writing notes, before long she had written about a page and a half more.
Happy with them she looked up and stretched. Her movements made Darien look up.
"Heh, your back hurting too?" He asked, grinning.
"Yeah, I just needed to stretch and get moving," Wanna smiled back.
"How much did you get?" He asked. Wanna passed her book, to him. "Two and half, you?" She asked, keeping calm.
"About the same, hey these are really good!" He said, looking up.
"I don't think I can write anymore," Wanna looked around for a clock. "Do you have the time?" She asked.
"Um, yeah! It's 5:30. Wow, that went quickly," He said, looking shocked. 'You mean it's over?' Wanna thought.
"Do you want to get going?" Darien asked, pushing his chair back.
"Okay, I think we did pretty well with the notes!" Wanna said, smiling proudly.
"That's good, Mr. San always checks our work in class. Now we have something to show him," Darien stood up.
"Oh, he does?" Wanna looked confused.
"That's right, you haven't been here long, whoops," Darien blushed. 'Oh, he goofed there!' Wanna thought amused. 'Wait does that mean he's nervous?'
"Which way do you go?" Darien asked as they exited the library.
"Um, I live, uh, down that way," Wanna pointed in the direction. 'Good thing I know the way to my street from here,' she smiled to herself proudly.
"I'll walk you home then!" Darien said. Wanna instantly went red. 'WHAT?' She wanted to scream. 'NOT meant to say that. Or is he? I'm so confused.'
"Oh, you don't have to, really," She said, trying to hid her red face.
"No problem, I live that way anyways," Darien said, rolling his sleeves down.
"Oh, alright," Wanna agreed.
"Plus it'll be dark soon," He said, Wanna looked up to the sky. Already the sun was setting! Time flies when your having fun she thought.
Berri: So what do you think will happen next??? Mwahahahahaha! Review or The Blue Fuzzy Monkies will attack... okay that was random...
