Chapter 8

People Using Other People

Three Weeks Later

I was excited that it was finally the day that I got to introduce my new boyfriend, Joey, to all the guys. Joey thought it was kind of weird at first that I lived with five other guys but then he got used to it. Thank god! He really is a great guy. He treats me like I am actually a person not just something new that he wants to try out for a few weeks. But after two weeks of being together I can say that I think I really know him. It feels great to be with someone that actually understands you even if you are a complete weirdo and you think that no one will ever understand you.

We walked to the door and I knew that they were all waiting two feet away to meet him, or at least Lance, Gary, Justin, and William would be waiting and that is only because I didn't tell Cameron about Joey. I turned the door knob then changed my mind. I turned around to look at Joey, my bottom lip was trembling. "You sure you want to do this?"

He looked at me with a surprised look on his face. "it is not like I am meeting your parents or anything." He laughed when he said that but I kept a straight face. When he heard that I wasn't laughing with him he stopped and looked at me.

"But there opinion counts just as much as my parents opinion would. Well at least it does to me." My hands felt like my hands were shaking.

"Don't' worry it will all be okay." He said to me and then smiled. He grabbed my hand and then opened the door for me.

There they were the four of them standing right there two feet away from the door just like I thought they would be. They stared Joey down and I glared at them to make them stop. I cleared my throat and all five guys looked at me at the same time.

"Everyone this is Joey." I pointed at Joey and he waved at everyone. "Joey this is Lance, Justin, Gary, and William." I pointed to everyone of them as I said there names. They all waved at him as I said there names.


Everything went smoothly. They all seemed to like him and to my convienence Cameron wasn't home so he didn't have to find out about Joey today. Lance and Justin thought he was okay but I could tell that they really liked him. Gary acted like a snob around him, and he claimed that he didn't like him at all, but I knew he did because he thought that Joey was better then him which made Gary hate him. GUYS! William was they only one who really acted like he liked him and said that he loved him and thought that we made a perfect match.

I was watching TV just dreaming about the day I had and how smooth it went. It had been a great day until Cameron had come home.

I had heard the door opened and didn't really care that it was Cameron coming home form where ever he had been. He walked into the living room with something I wasn't really expecting. His left hand was wrapped around someone else's hand. A women's hand! I wasn't expecting this.

When he noticed that the TV was on he looked directly at me with his eyes very wide. "Oh hi. I didn't know you were going to be here. I thought you were going to the library to study for you test." He seemed shock that I was here sitting on the coach.

"I already did that. I came home early because I just wanted to relax a little more before I hit the books again." I smiled and him and her.

"Oh well this is Alison." He finally introduced her to me. "Alison this is Capri my other roommate."

She smiled at me like she was happy about something. "So this is the girl roommate I have heard so much about. It is a pleasure to meet you." She came forward and shook my hand and then gave me a hug like we were really good friends instead of two people who just met like a second ago. "I am Cameron's girlfriend." Those four words made me feel very uncomfortable. My heart started beating faster and then suddenly it felt like it had just broke in two. What is wrong with me? I have never felt like this before. It's not like I like him. But wait what if I do? I can't though. It is just simply impossible. He has a girlfriend and I have a boyfriend. This can't be happening now. If we had wanted to be together we would have agreed that when we kissed three weeks ago. It was like I was completely frozen.

"Are you okay Capri?" I heard Cameron's voice ask me.

"What?" I had finally stepped out of that mood I was just in. "I am fine. Don't worry about me. I think I will go study now." I

I started to walk off to my bedroom. "Capri?"

"Yes!" I turned around so fast that I started seeing stars.

"Where are the other guys? I wanted to introduce them to Alison." He asked me.

"Would you believe that they went to the library?"

"Not really!"

"Me too! But that is where they said they were going." I walked off to my bedroom and closed the door behind me.


I had to cook dinner for us six that night. All I did was make some pasta so I didn't have to do much. Cameron seemed to appreciate it. When it was time to eat only Gary had come home for dinner he sad that the other three were going to go to Hooters. What perves!

"You missed it Gary." Cameron started to talk while we were eating. "I brought home Alison so you guys could meet her. But Capri was here so she met her."

Gary looked straight over to me when Cameron had said that. "Well what do you think of her Capri?"

I didn't know what to say. "'Oh I hate her because she is dating Cameron and I should be with Cameron.'" Oh yeah that works perfectly. "I thought she was very nice," was all I could seem to say. I couldn't think of anything else except that other option but that was not something I wanted to say in front of Gary let alone Cameron.

"Well that is good. Our Cameron here deserves someone good after all of the stuff he has been through with girls." Gary laughed when he said that and Cameron and I just stared at each other.

"What do you mean by that Gary?" I turned to him to ask him that.

"Cameron always used to have trouble with the ladies when we were younger. He wasn't the best guy on the block. I rememeber…." Gary was saying.

"Okay that is enough with that, I would rather Capri not know certin things." He interrupted Gary while looking at me. All I did was smile at him.

It was silent for a while at the dinner intill Gary decided to say something this time. "You should have been here to meet Capri's boyfriend. He's okay." When Gary said that my eyes opened wide and I stopped chewing my food and Cameron dropped his fork and it made a loud clatter on his plate. Gary had realized that he had said something wrong.

"Your boyfriend?" Cameron had said.

"Well yeah. His name is Joey. He is very very nice maybe you could learn a few things from him." I said and Gary laughed at that last part.

"I don't want to know anything about him!" Cameron had ordered.

"What is your problem?" I asked him.

"Nothing. I mean you couldn't have told me that you had a boyfriend named "Joey"." He did that little finger thing when he said Joey.

"You couldn't have told me that you had a girlfriend named Alison." I chose not to use the little finger thing.

"That is completely different!" He prompted.

"How is it any different. It is the same thing except that yours is a girlfriend and mine is a boyfriend." I argued with him. I was going to make him feel just as bad as he was making me feel.

"It just is different. Isn't it Gary?" We both turned to Gary.

"Please don't get me into this." He asked us.

We turned to face each other again. We sat there and glared at each other. "I think I am just going to finish my dinner in my room." Gary walked off after he had said that.

"How come you didn't tell me about Alison?" I asked Cameron hoping for a fare answer.

"I didn't think it was that important." He answered but it wasn't really what I wanted to hear.

"Well I didn't think it was important to tell you about Joey." He gave me a rude look. He stood up from the table to walk away. I got up to call after him. "We are not done with this conversation Cameron." I yelled after him.

"What else is there to say? I just don't feel like talking to you right now. So please just leave me alone and let me be."

"Cameron can we please just talk about this for a second. Please!" He turned around and walked back to me and stood one foot away from me. "Thank you."

"Why didn't you just tell me about Joey?" I had feared this question. "I thought you could open up to me and tell me anything that you wanted to tell me. But I guess that isn't true."

"I thought you could tell me anything too. But then you didn't tell me anything about Alison. So I feel the same way you feel." He stepped closer to me. "Why didn't you want to tell me about Alison? What is it that you are hiding from me." He paused and just stared at me, I waited for a second. "You can tell me you know that right?"

"I guess I didn't tell you because I thought that I was using Alison."

"Why did you feel like you were using Alison?"

"To make you feel jelouse. To impress you. To get you to notice me just a little more then the other guys in this house." His smile turned to a frown.

"Why would you want to make me jelouse?" I was starting to get a little nervous. I could feel the goose bumps starting to form on both of my arms.

"Gosh Capri put together all the clues. Don't you get it at all?" I could feel butterflies starting to fly all around in my stomach. "Gosh Capri, I'm in love with you. I have never felt this before. I knew it immedialty. But I had to do anything to make myself forget about you, but since you love with us that is kind of hard. I tired to date someone else to get my mind of you buy it didn't work so I decided to use her to make you jelouse, I just wasn't planning on you meeting her today. You just kind of shocked me when I saw you sitting on the coach. I had a feeling that I would have to tell you all of this tonight." He was done with his little speech.

I felt like I could barley even talk. I wasn't expecting anything like this. "Oh please say something Capri. You are making me very nervous."

I couldn't think what to say and then all the sudden I just started to talk. "I think I might have used Joey too to make you jelouse. To tell you the truth that kiss actually meant something to me but I only agreed with you so I wouldn't make you feel uncomfortable."

"I only told you that it meant nothing at all so I wouldn't make you fell uncomfortable. I thought that you would never even like me so I didn't even try."

"You shouldn't have done that."

"Why"

"Because I would have told you that I really loved you too." I saw Cameron's frown slowly turn into a smile and he slowly started to look at me.

"You love me too?"

"Are you crazy? I just can't believe that you didn't see it before especially when you introduced me to Alison."

"But you love me"

"Yes. I love you."

"Well Capri Morison, I love you too." We both smiled at each other and started inching towards each other. We both leaned in to kiss each other but just when our lips were going to touch we both backed away from each other.

"We can't do this yet." I explained to him.

"We have to break up with them first."

"I agree." And then we both walked away from each other.


So I hoped you guys liked that Chapter. It was my favorite chapter of the whole story well so far. I think I did a pretty good job on that chapter, I don't mean to sound stuck up or anything like that so please don't take it the wrong way. But you can be proud of some of the work you do sometimes right? Well I hope you guys liked that chapter. Please tell me if you liked it to or if it was your favorite chapter too. Or if you have any of ideas please tell me I would like to hear them and I will most likely use them. I like it when people that read my stories and then give me ideas. It helps me think of more ideas to build on top of those ideas, if you get what I mean. SO PLEASE KEEP REVIEWING I LOVE TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTS. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING. I LOVE YOU ALL.

-Pharanna