Chapter 3

At the End of the day, Craig saw Manny over at her locker. He wondered what was going to happen between them, and he was pretty sure she felt the same way about him as he did her. Maybe I should go over and say hi. He wondered. I don't want her to think I'm desperate or anything though. Oh well. He wasn't going to go over- he was too nervous. But before he got to it, she came over. "Uh... Hey, Craig." She spoke shyly.

He hesitated for a second. "umm.. hey, Manny. How are you doing?" How are you doing??? what kind of greeting was that? Maybe "wassup?" would have been better.

"Well, nothing really. How 'bout you?"

"Well, I'm trying to ditch this stupid family meeting Joey's gonna have tonight, so a bunch of us are gonna go to the movies, Sean, and some others, I guess. You wanna come?"

"Yea, sure. Can Emma come too? I was gonna hang out with her tonight."

"Yea, that's fine. Invite Toby, J.T., and whoever else too." He said kind of dissapointed. The less would have been the better. More time with Manny. Oh well.

"Okay. See you there. What time?"

"Umm... I think we'll leave at 5:30 from Sean's house. Just in time to miss dinner. That good?"

"Yea, great! Bye, Craig."

"Bye, Manny." Craig said sorta in awe of what had just happened. Had she liked him, since she excepted the invite? Or had she not since she wanted to take others along? Oh well he was going to the movies tonight, and with her! He figured it would be fun.

So Craig went home, got dressed, ate dinner- by himself quickly so Joey wouldn't notice, and hopped out the door at 4:45 to hang out at Sean's a bit before everyone else came. He knocked on Sean's door. Sean opened it and let Craig in. "Hey." He said and gave Craig a high-five."

"Yo, Sean." Craig answered back. "I came by a little early because I wasn't sure what time dinner was."

Sean didn't look back, but lead Craig into the kitchen where he grabbed two Sodas. "Oh that's fine," he said as he was getting the ice, "We can play that new Blitz game I got for Game Cube. And I've been practicing for awhile so you better watch out."

"Your on." Craig answered back.

About 35 minutes later there was a knock on the door. Sean went to get it, and looked through the peep whole. He told Craig. "Its Manny. But don't get to excited, its everyone else too."

"By everyone else you mean the rest of the eighth graders, don't you? Have I sunken to some sort of a low level, hanging out with all the grade eights?"

"No dude, and hey, I'm not supposed to be in grade eight."

"Yeah, you know I'm never gonna let that go."

"Yeah, I know, but we better let them in." Sean said laughing as he opened the door to welcome Manny, Emma, J.T. and Toby.

"Well, maybe we should get going. We have a long walk ahead of us." Emma said as they were about to be let in.

"Yeah, I guess we should." Sean said to everyone. So all six of them left the house, and walked right, towards the movie theatre.