"Jess, I tried calling Stacy to see if she wanted to do something and she said she had to help Laura study. Stacy never turns me down when I ask her to come over. I wonder what's wrong?" Matt questioned.

"Hmm, I don't know, but I asked Laura if she wanted to go out tonight and SHE said she had a lot of homework to do. Something isn't right," Jesse pondered.

"Well it's obvious something is bothering them. I say we go over to their house tomorrow after school and talk to them," Matt chimed in.

"Yeah, good idea," Jesse said, agreeing.

"Laura, I really need to talk to you," Jesse pleaded, the next day at school.

"Sorry Jess, I can't right now. I gotta get to class," she said walking off.

He just stood there stunned. Then Matt walked up to him.

"Why is she blowing me off like this?" he asked.

"I don't know, I just tried talking to Stacy and she said the same thing," Matt explained.

Laura and I hurried up and went to the parking lot after school so we didn't have to see Matt or Jesse. Just as we put our stuff in the car they came running up. Laura hurried up and started the car to leave about hitting Matt.

We went straight home as always. We got home and Frankie was there.

"Girls, I need to talk to you," he insisted.

Laura and I exchanged weird glances.

"Matt and Jesse came up to me today and said that you have been blowing them off, what's wrong?" he asked.

Laura and I hesitated to answer. He looked at us waiting for an answer. We still hesitated.

"Well... are you going to tell me or not?" Frankie questioned.

We knew that if we told Frankie why we had been ignoring them, he would want to kill them. I spoke up.

"I was walking to class yesterday, and I saw Jesse out in the hall talking to some girl, and she was all over him," I answered.

"What?!" Frankie yelled.

"But wait, it gets worse," I said swallowing the lump in my throat. "He didn't try and push her away."

"I saw the same thing," Laura confessed. "Except I saw some girl all over Matt."

"See! This is the exact reason why I didn't want you two dating them," Frankie protested.

Just then the door bell rang.