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Chapter 11: Competition

"Josh. Where'd you come from?" I asked him. I was sorry I was causing him pain, but he had to get the fact that I liked Zach and not him.

"So are you going out with him? I mean I saw you guys earlier but I didn't think you guys were really going out," Josh explained to me. Oh, that did explain a lot.

"Well, earlier I wasn't," I said with a small smile thinking about Zach. He looked away.

"Oh. Well are you guys planning on going out?" Josh asked. I shrugged and tried to play it off.

"Maybe, I don't know for sure," I said partially lying. I knew that we were planning on it, I just didn't know when- if ever- we were going to go out.

"Okay, then Cammie. Although that doesn't mean I'll stop trying," Josh replied, with a barely noticeable smile. Then Josh walked away like he thought he could actually win.

"What was Jimmy whining about?" Zach asked coming up beside us smiling. Bex started smiling too.

"See you later Cammie," Bex said walking away from us. Zach and I walked to our lockers. We got our stuff. Then we went to biology.

"So are you ever going to answer my question?" Zach asked as we roamed through the halls.

"He wasn't really whining, more like complaining. He said he's not going to give up trying to win me," I told him while trying to gauge his reaction to that news.

"Oh that's all?" Zach asked with a smirk, "He doesn't stand a chance." I smiled back. I agreed with Zach. We walked into the classroom and sat in the back.

"'Hello class. I am Mrs. James. Please get out your notebooks. You are going to copy down the definitions that I am going to put on the board," Mrs. James said putting the words up on the over head. Zach and I copied the words. Mind numbingly boring.

"So, Gallagher girl, have you been thinking about when you want to go on a date?" Zach asked with a smile, but not his patented "I know something you don't" smirk.

"I have. Right in between classes and when Josh isn't bugging me. Oh, and don't forget that I also have to think about it when you're not bugging me," I replied sarcastically. He smiled at me. Mrs. James looked back at us with narrowed eyes.

"Excuse me. You two in the back. What are your names?" Mrs. James asked her glasses on the tip of her nose with glaring beady eyes.

"I'm Zach and this is Cammie," Zach informed her for the both of us.

"Okay, Zach, Cammie. Quit talking or you'll get detention," Mrs. James said before turning back to the words. Zach wrote a note and then passed it to me. I unfolded it discreetly.

Meet me later tonight at the Gazebo 11 o'clock.

See you then,

Zach

I looked up from reading the note and nodded. He smiled. I looked around the class, not a lot of people were finished copying the words. Josh was and watching Zach and I out of the corner of his eye.

"Once you finished copying the words, take a text book out of the desk and find the definitions. I will stop you in a few minutes so I can assign you a text book to take home," Mrs. James said. She then continued to look at the paperwork on her desk. I grabbed the textbook out of the desk and started on the definitions. It wasn't long before she told us to stop. I had finished about half of them.

"If you haven't finished all the definitions you will need to finish them for homework," Mrs. James explained, "Now I'm going to assign you a book. When I call your name come up, and I'll give you a book. Your book will have a number you must have the same book at the end of the year." She called us up by the order of our last names. Right after she finished the bell rang.

"What bus do you ride?" I asked Josh as I started for the door.

"Bus 137. Our stop is the fifth one," Josh informed me, "I'll save you a seat." Josh walked off.

"I think he's in love," Zach said in my ear. after he came up behind me. The way Zach said that made me smile. Zach and I walked out. We met up with Bex, Liz, and Macey on the front steps of the school.