Note: Alright, MAJOR sorries for not updating in like centuries but I have reasons that I'm too tired to type...This chapter is okie-dokes I think..Probably the worst of the bunch. Either way read on :)
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Lilly moped around the kitchen. Oliver had left about half an hour ago, and their little date with Becca was in less than three hours. She was going insane.
Her mom stared at her, frowning, "You alright, hon?"
"Yeah…" Lilly paced back in forth.
"You sure?"
"You're not going to let me go unless I say something, are you?" Her mom shook her head. Lilly sighed, "Fine. You're right. I'm not alright. Matter of fact, I'm probably the exact opposite of alright, and no, I do not want to talk about it."
"Okay, well then why don't you talk to Teddy?"
"To who?" Lilly asked her mom. Which one of her friends' name was her mom messing up now?
"You don't remember Teddy?"
"Got a major headache mom, I'm surprised I can even remember my own name." Lilly sat down and drank the Tylenol pills her mom handed her with water.
"See, when you were, I think eight or nine, you had this adorable teddy bear you got for Christmas that you named Teddy."
"Teddy the teddy bear. That's some creative naming skills right there," Lilly smiled.
Mrs. Truscott chuckled, "Anyways, when you got angry you'd go and have these full on conversations with him. Quite amazing how relaxed you became—why, I almost started thinking he did talk back to you!"
Lilly shook her head and laughed. "Wow, hmm…ooh! Wait a minute, was he white and about this big?" Her mom nodded. Lilly gasped, "I think I saw him in my closet yesterday! Let's go see if Teddy still has his powers." She said as she ran upstairs. She opened her closet and immediately spotted the stuffed bear. She set it on her bed and sat cross-legged in front of it. Memories of doing so years ago came back to her.
"Well, hey Ted! It's been so long, wow, how bout an update?" Was she really going to talk to an inanimate object? Well if it calms me down, why not? "Well not much has changed. I have a new best friend named Miley Stewart. She moved here from Tennessee and she happens to be Hannah Montana! But that's another story. One person you already know is my good old BFFL Ollie. Except that things have gotten sort of…complicated between us in the last few days. Long story short: we go to a concert, we kiss, and then Becca—oops, wasn't supposed to say her name in this room—ahem, she shows up all crying and what not, Oliver becomes 'Father' Teresa, and I get mad. Now today he comes and kisses me, yet she calls and interrupts. Again. Now we have a three-some date thing in two and half hours." She exhaled, just retelling it all made her headache come back. She rubbed her temples, "I'm so confused! I think I like him—heck, I know I like him! But does he like me? Well, he has to at least like me; we're best friends for goodness sakes. But does he like like me? The way I feel for him? Did those kisses mean the same thing as they meant to me? Because I swear my heart was beating so hard that night I was sure I was going to have a heart attack or something, yet he seemed so calm…almost careless. I don't want to destroy our especially long friendship, but Teddy I need to figure this our or I'm gonna lose it!!" She sighed heavily and closed her eyes. This was the mayhem going on in her head.
She stared at Teddy, he stared back. She shook her head, "How the heck did I ever get answers out of you? That's probably how you ended up in the closet." She poked it down. Her cell phone rang with her general ringtone.
Startled, she picked up, "Hello?"
"Hi, is this Lilly?" A familiar girl's voice answered, but whose…?
"Yuh-huh." Lilly answered trying to figure out the mysterious voice.
"Great! Hi Lilly, this is Becca!" Lilly's eyes widened. How had she gotten her number?! Oliver? He wouldn't dare. Ooh, Lucas! He probably would. Another reason to hate that jerk. "I got your number from Miley, if that's alright."
Lilly dropped her mouth. Her own best friend had betrayed her. And no it was not alright! The nerves of that girl. "Oh..." she said after her little rant.
"I was calling about the dinner tonight..."
"Yuh-huh," Lilly really didn't feel like spending anymore time talking with Becca than needed.
"Well, I'm not going to make it."
"Yuh-huh—wait, what?" Lilly snapped back into the conversation. "What do you mean you're not going to be there, you're the one that planned the whole thing!"
"Truth is I was never planning on going. I only did this to set you and Oliver up on a date because the whole school's been waiting for you two to finally get together, and when it seemed like it was happening I had to come and ruin it all, and I really do feel bad for ruining your night yesterday." Lilly slowly closed her drooping mouth. The school had been talking about something that she'd only started to figure out? Talk about being out of the loop. "Look," Becca continued, "I feel like we started off on a bad foot because of Lucas and all, but I've realized what a perverted jerk he is and I hope that maybe we could eventually be friends." She waited for Lilly's response, but Lilly was still in shock mode. "…eventually. Anyways, Oliver didn't know about it either but I thought I should let you know. Well, have fun on your date! Bye."
Lilly slowly snapped her phone shut. She turned to Teddy, "What the heck just happened?" She sat down, put him in her lap, and took in a deep breath. Okay, so she was to go to diner with Oliver and Becca, but now Becca isn't coming because of some unwise plan, which meant that—she gasped – she was going on a date with Oliver tonight. Not just a having-some-lunch-at-Rico's type of date, but a date date. Awkward, much? A chill went down her body. She looked down at Teddy, "You, my dear bear, have some interesting powers!" She looked at the time; it read 6:30pm. She had one and half hours to get ready--mentally and physically--for her, ahem, date. Oh boy.
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Told ya it basically sucked. My friend's response when I read it to her didn't seem too great so let me know yours. Review )
PS. I'll let you know now, that the next chapter won't be up for a while because I only have a paragraph written, no idea where it's going, and in the middle of finals week. Sowy. Love, Camy.