Thank you for the amazing suggestions and reviews, darlings! All of them are deeply appreciated. Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. I wrote this chapter a few days ago and have been dying to post it but I didn't have my laptop. Replies?
HighOffTheMusic: Yes, you do get bragging rights because of your awesome vocabulary.
XxMockingjay'sloveineveryoneXx: Funny yet true. Come on, if someone looked like Max Schneider they would have every reason to be cocky!
kibago: If Zevie get together in the show and you hear a very loud, high pitched scream along with a huge thud, that's me screaming my lungs out and jumping in my room.
Thanks again to everyone! If you thought Zander asking Stevie out by writing it on his face was cute, you're going to love this chapter. I got this idea by watching a bunch of prom-posals (proposals for prom). Anyways, I chose HighOffTheMusic and SuperboyRules's suggestion. Enjoy!
I don't own How To Rock or HighOffTheMusic and SuperboyRules's topic of W.
W: Will You Go Out With Me?
Chalk
[Stevie]
When Kacey and I reach the courtyard, there was a group of people with their backs turned to us crowded around something. Kacey grabs my wrist and guides me through everyone. When we finally reach the middle of the crowd, I widen my eyes at what's written in the middle of the area in chalk.
Stevie,
Will You Go
Out With Me?
-Zander
I turn to Zander who is standing behind the message. I see a purple chalk on the right and get an idea. I walk over to it, pick it up, kneel down next to Zander's name, and write something under it.
Yes!
Dive
[Kacey]
Where the heck is Zander? I sit down on the concrete while my feet were dangling in the school pool and look over to the other side where Kevin and Nelson were sitting on the bench. I give them a look and they shrug.
From inside the pool with her arms folded next to me, Stevie asks, "Kacey, are you okay? You keep looking over to Kevin and Nelson."
I turn to her and say, "Yeah, I'm fine."
Finally, Zander shows up. Kevin and Nelson point to the diving board. Zander shakes his head but they push him to the ladder. I give him a look making him groan and climb up. When he reaches the diving board, he walks further into it and yells, "Stevie!"
I tap Stevie on the shoulder and point to him. He repeats, "Stevie!"
Stevie shouts, "What?"
Zander yells, "Will you go out with me?"
Stevie shouts, "What?"
Zander shakes his head, turns around, and walks back to the ladder.
I shout, "Zander!"
When he's halfway down the diving board, Zander turns around, runs off it, and dives into the pool. I gasp while Stevie widens her eyes. Kevin and Nelson run to the edge of the pool as Zander pops up in the middle.
The guys and I command, "Swim!"
Zander takes a deep breath and goes underwater. You can see his clothes from above surface. When he gets closer to us, Stevie meets him halfway and swims closer to him.
She questions, "What the heck was that?"
Instead of answering, Zander asks, "Steves, will you go out with me?"
He pulls out a wet red rose from his back pocket and hands it to her.
I put my hand over my heart and exclaim, "Aw!"
Stevie laughs and answers, "Of course."
Fortune Cookie
[Kevin]
After the waitress arrives with our bill, Nelson and I dive into the fortune cookies she also drops off. Zander clears his throat and gives me a look. I nod and look for the cookie wrapper with the red stripe on it. Unfortunately, there were two of them. I picked up the second one and handed it to Stevie.
Across the table from me, Zander mouths, "Is that the one?"
I shrug and open mine with the red stripe. I cracked the cookie in half and read my fortune.
Will you go out with me? -Zander
I widen my eyes and shout, "Stevie, switch with me!"
Stevie, just as she was about to crack open her cookie, questions, "Why?"
I lie, "Um, I don't like my fortune."
"Kevin, you already opened it."
I whine, "Come on, please!"
Stevie sighs and hands me her cookie while I hand her mine. After receiving it, I say, "Okay, I want to go see the dead ducks hanging in the window. Kacey, want to come? Nelson?"
Nelson shakes his head saying, "I want to read my fortune."
I roll my eyes, grab his and Kacey's arms, and drag them away from the table. When we reach the giant plant and hide behind it, Kacey asks, "What the heck are we doing?"
I shush them and look at the table. Stevie reads the "fortune" and looks at Zander. She says something and Zander smiles. I'm assuming that's a yes.
Ping Pong
[Nelson]
I walk into the band room with Kevin and see Zander on the couch, writing stuff onto ping pong balls and putting them in a box. We walk over and I pick up one of the ping pong balls.
"A heart?"
Kevin digs his hands through the box saying, "All of these have hearts drawn on them. Dude, have you lost your mind?"
Continuing to write, Zander explains, "Kacey told me that if I'm going to ask Stevie out, I have to do it right. Apparently, even Stevie wants a big gesture."
I look beside the box and see 7 ping pong balls with writing on them instead of hearts. I kneel down in front of it and move them around so they make sense.
Will You Go Out With Me? -Zander
I put on my best girl voice and exclaim, "Of course I will, cutie!"
Zander laughs and throws one last ping pong ball into the box before standing and picking it up. Kevin and I take the 7 not in the box and follow him out the band room.
Kevin asks, "Do you expect Stevie to find 7 ping pong balls with words through a whole box of them with hearts?"
Zander replies, "I have a plan."
We reach the hall with Stevie's locker and walk down to it. Zander puts his hand around the combo lock and starts twisting it until we hear a click. He opens the locker, grabs the tape from inside it, and takes the Will ping pong ball out of my hand.
When the 7 ping pong balls our taped deep inside Stevie's locker, we help Zander take the heart ping pong balls out of the box and onto the top shelf, covering up the words. When all of that is done, he quickly shuts the locker as the bell rings and kids start coming in from lunch. Zander jogs to the other end of the hall while Kevin and I stay to get Stevie to go to her locker.
When she walks down the hall, I say, "Hey, Stevie. Where are you going?"
She awkwardly points down the hall and answers, "Chemistry."
Kevin questions, "Don't you want to go to your locker first?"
Stevie responds, "I got all my books before lunch so no."
I shout, "Just go to your locker!"
Her and Kevin widen their eyes at me. I add, "Please."
Stevie sighs and pushes pass us to get to her locker. When she unlocks her combo lock and opens it, all the ping pong balls with hearts fall out. Everyone turns to her since it wasn't exactly quiet. Kevin points to the inside her locker where the question is. When she's done reading it, Stevie turns to her left to see Zander walking toward her. She picks up a ping pong ball with a heart as he stops in front of her. Stevie pulls out a sharpie from her back pocket and writes something on the other side of the ping pong ball before giving it to Zander. Kevin and I walk behind him to read the message that made him smile.
I'd love to.
Scrabble
[Stevie]
After finishing my math homework in the band room, I shut my textbook and sigh. Zander enters into the room smirking wider than usual.
I question, "What's with the face?"
Instead of answering, he sits down beside the coffee table and sets a brown paper bag on it. I take the bag by the bottom and dump everything in it out. It was just cookies with frosting on them.
Zander randomly asks, "You like Scrabble right?"
I nod and he explains, "So, all you have to do is put the cookies with the same color frosting together and then unscramble them to get a word."
I sneer, "What is this, a game show?"
He chuckles and gestures to the cookies. I shrug and start flipping them over so I can see the frosting. I match up the blues (lilW), reds (oYu), greens (Go), yellows (utO), pinks (hWti), whites (e?M) and purples (-Z) then look at the cookies in the way I set them up.
lilW oYu Go
utO hWti e?M
-Z
I furrow my eyebrows and start unscrambling them. In the end, it turned out to be...
Will You Go
Out With Me?
-Z
I turn to Zander who is sitting there smirking. I look at the cookies and an idea forms in my mind. I take out the e, Z, and Y then place them in front of Zander.
"Your turn."
He chuckles and switches the cookies around.
YeZ
So, I hope you liked that! Did you have favorite one? Remember, July 21 is Zevie Day. Also, be sure to review your suggestions for X!(:
