A/N : Here is chapter 4. It is longer than my previous chapters, and I hope you all enjoy it. I hope also, that I'm getting the characters right. I really should watch my video of Drive Me Crazy again soon, because it's been a while. Anyway, thanx to those you read and reviewed; Carly, SBGrl925, amaris, Kori, mandy. Please remember to review this chapter too!

(Disclaimer : see chapter 1)

Chapter 4 - The Reaction

"Hey Ray" Nicole smiled, and although he smiled back, Ray couldn't help but be suspicious. Nicole didn't usually come over to talk specifically to him. Sure, after Friday night when they had gone to the Centennial dance together, Ray had hoped that Nicole considered him as at least her friend, but he had assumed that was wishful thinking. When she suddenly came over to him in the school hall in front of everybody he was starting to think another scam was under way.

"Hey Nicole, what's up?" he greeted her.

"Oh nothing, er, have you seen my friend Jenny, y'know Jenny Jacobs?" she asked, pretending to look around for her 'friend'.

"No, can't say I have" Ray admitted.

"Oh well, never mind," the blonde girl shrugged, "Maybe you'll see her later" she said accidentally on purpose, "I mean, maybe I'll see her later" she corrected herself and Ray looked at her strangely.

"I have to go now" he told her, making a quick get-away. 'What is up with Nicole?' he thought to himself as he walked away. Suddenly, he saw Chase appear from around the corner.

"Hi Chase" he greeted his friend.

"Hey Ray" Chase grinned, "You haven't seen that girl - Jenny Jacobs - around, have you?" Now Ray really was suspicious.

"Nicole just asked me that" he told his friend, "What's the deal with this girl?"

Chase shrugged.

"I don't know, nothing I guess" It wasn't a particularly clever response, but then Chase was never at his most clever this early on a Monday morning, especially when he had been forced to spend most of his weekend with two girls and amongst a lot of clothes and make-up.

"Okay..." Ray was about to ask Chase for the real truth when the school bell shrilled into life.

"Well, I'll see you at lunch!" Chase called as he disappeared into the crowd of people in the halls.

"Yeah, see you later" Ray said to himself, as he adjusted the bag on his shoulder and moved down the hall to his locker. As usual, Ray's locker door jammed and he spent several minutes just trying to force the door open.

The halls quickly cleared, leaving Ray alone, now half inside his locker, trying to drag out the books he needed. He emerged from his locker, and started to stuff the books into his bag when he heard a loud noise. He turned to see a girl, sprawled on the floor, cursing her new high heeled shoes, with her books spread out in front of her.

"Need a hand?" he asked, and without waiting for an answer, he closed his locker door and started to help the girl pick up her belongings.

"Thanks" the girl said, picking up herself and her books, "It's just I'm not used to these shoes and..." she looked up and suddenly realised who she was talking to, "Hi Ray"

He looked at her again.

"Do I know you?" he asked, unsure as to who she was.

"It's Jenny - Jennifer Jacobs, I sit behind you in English" she explained.

"Wow, you look...different" he gaped, almost unable to believe this was the same girl. She looked taller in the high heels she wore and her short skirt showed off her legs. The entire outfit hugged the curves of her body and her hair had been cut and styled beautifully. Dark curls fell gracefully to just above her shoulders, and there was just something different and beautiful about every part of her.

"Oh yeah, I had my hair done at the weekend" Jenny giggled, trying to seem grateful for the compliment and yet cool about it, like Nicole had taught her. Her appearance made her more confident, even around the object of her affection. "What do you think?" she asked him.

"Well, I don't know, it's nice..." Ray really wasn't sure how to act around this girl. She was not the same Jenny he'd seen around school before, now she was way out of his league, and all he wanted to do was get out of this awkward situation.

"I'm really not the person to ask about style and fashion" he said, quickly, "I have to go" and with that he handed Jenny her last book and disappeared around the corner.

She smiled to herself as she watched his go.

'Well, he definitely noticed me'

It was lunch time and half the population of Time Zone High piled into the cafeteria.

"Hey Ray, Dave" Chase called to his two friends as they entered and gestured for them to come over and sit with him.

"Hey Chase" Dave said as he got to the table, "I guess Nicole's at the student council meeting thing that Dee's gone too"

"Yeah" Chase sighed, "So it looks like it's a 'guys only' lunch"

"Good" Ray said, which got a strange look from both Chase and Dave, "I need to talk to you guys about something" he started to explain. "Y'know that girl you were talking about this morning? Jenny?"

Chase nodded.

"I saw her in the halls earlier, and man, has she changed. Seriously guys, I think I'm in love"

Chase couldn't help but laugh. He thought the changes Nicole had made to Jenny were incredible, but he really hadn't been too confident that they would have the desired effect on Ray. Turned out he was wrong.

"Who's Jenny?" Dave couldn't place the name.

"Jennifer Jacobs" Chase said, still laughing, "She's in our Math class"

"Oh yeah, I know who you mean" Dave said, thinking about it "She can't have changed that much"

"Believe me, she has" Ray told him.

"And this is amusing to you because...?" Dave couldn't understand why Chase was laughing so hard.

"Nothing, no reason" he lied.

"Come on Chase, I've never seen you laugh so much for no reason" his friend was determined to know what was so funny about some girl getting a make-over.

"Okay, but don't tell Nicole I told you this because she would kill me, and Dave, that means you can't tell Dee" Chase said, suddenly serious.

"Deal, now tell us what's going on" Dave said, impatiently.

So Chase explained how Nicole had done a makeover on Jenny because she wanted Ray to notice her.

"She wants to date Ray?" Dave looked shocked, but all Ray could do was smile like an idiot.

"I know, it's crazy" Chase joked. "But seriously, the girl likes you Ray and she thought since Nicole did such a good job making me over, she could do the same for her" Ray didn't know what to say and Chase couldn't help but turn to Dave and ask, "Did you know a lot of girls wanted to go out with me after Nicole cut my hair and took over my wardrobe?"

Dave laughed, "Yeah, I heard"

"So, Ray, you think you're gonna go out with Jenny?" Chase asked, turning to his other friend, who was now staring off into space.

"I don't know, I guess" he said, coming back down to earth and the conversation at the table "but I mean, she is so out of my league now. She could date any guy she wanted"

"Ray, she did it for you! She wants to date you!" Chase persisted.

"God knows why" Dave mocked.

"Yeah, well, we'll see what happens" Ray said, thoughtfully, "We'll see what happens"

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