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Chapter 2

Jamie slumped exhausted into a chair at the station. He had asked practically every girl he knew and not one of them had agreed to his plan. What am I going to do? Then it occurred to him, the one person he hadn't asked. He had to talk to Catie. Abruptly he got up and rushed over to the phone, quickly dialing Catie's number. It rang once, twice, three times...

"Hello" Catie's voice greeted him

"Hey Catie its me, I was wondering, can you come down to the station for awhile?"

"I guess, why...?"

"Great" Jamie interrupted "See you in a little while" then he hung up, leaving Catie wondering

When Catie arrived at the station half an hour later, she was immediately approached by Jamie

"What took you so long?"

"My mom forced me to clean my room if I wanted to go anywhere. So, what did you want?"

"Well remember that you owed me a favor cause I went out with you, Val, and Tyler so you didn't have to be the third wheel?"

"Yeah, so what do you want?"

"You to pretend to be my girlfriend when Eric gets here, Friday"

"What?!? No way!!"

"Please Catie! I promise I'll never ask you for anything else again! Please it would mean a lot to me! please Catie!!! For once I just want to show him that I can have a girlfriend that he can't!"

"No! I said I didn't want any part in this!" Jamie got down on his knees and began begging. "No...stop looking at me like that" Catie went silent, It'll only be for a couple of days! Jamie's done tons for me, I kinda owe him. How bad could it be? Catie sighed

"Fine but you owe me BIG time and boy do I mean big time!!"

"Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!" Jamie wrapped his arms around Catie giving her a tight hug. Then the strangest thing happened, Jamie didn't want to let go. He liked the feeling of Catie in his arms...a little to much. Wrong! A warning bell went off in Jamie's head, he abruptly let go of Catie.

"So what now?" Catie asked

Jamie's head was reeling. What had just happened? Nothing, it was nothing, I'm just happy she agreed to help me, that's all, he told himself

"We create a history" Jamie said finally finding his voice

TWO DAYS LATER

Jamie paced the hall, Where is she? Eric's going to be here any minute! Come on Catie! Jamie and Catie had spent the last two days getting their story straight. They decided to say that they had been dating for about seven months ago. Because they had been friends for so long they didn't have to learn anything about the other. The only people who knew what was going an were Val, Tyler, Hank and Brooke.

"Hey Jamie" Catie said casually as she walked through the station doors

"Catie! Finally you're here, do you know what time it is?"

"Yeah, he's not supposed be here for like five minutes" Catie said flinging her bag on the table and sitting down on the couch

"I'm going to watch for his car" Jamie said as he walked off

Catie rolled her eyes. Leaning her head back on the couch she began to think. This was going to be an introducing week, Jamie was really tense and filled with apprehension as to what Eric would think of his life now, but all Catie had been able to think about lately was when he had hugged her. Had something been different? The thought of Jamie wasn't actually making her skin tingle and her knees weaken was it? That thought scared her...a lot.

"Catie!" Val said suddenly appearing, startling Catie out of her musings "Jamie's friend is here" Both Val and Catie rushed to the window. "He's kinda cute, in a slacker sort of way" Val stated as the spied through the blinds at Jamie introducing Eric to Hank and Tyler. Eric was about Jamie's height, with spiky back hair that was bleached at the tips. All and all Catie thought he looked a lot like Jamie. He is sort of cute, she thought

"Oh my god, here they come! quick away from the windows!" Val urged. Quickly they ran over to the couch and sat down, trying to act normal.

"Here we go" Catie said as Jamie opened the door with Eric following

What do you think so far? I'm not sure if i like it! An ideas or coments to help make it better? An ideas for the next chapter? Review! Not sure when chapter 3 will be posted!