I tried to make this chapter longer but I'm not sure if it worked. Well, please keep reviewing! Oh and, I know it's pretty stupid that Marco likes Craig, but oh well.

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"So, where should we go?" asked Craig.

"Well, we could always check out the pool downstairs. It's pretty hot so maybe we could dip our feet in or something," Manny suggested.

"Sounds good," Craig said. They began walking in silence. Neither of them wanted to say something stupid and be humiliated. Craig realized, though, that he'd better say something or Manny would find him completely boring and hate him, which he really didn't want.

"Um, who-who's staying in your room with you?" he asked her.

"Emma, Liberty, and Jessica," she answered. She wanted to say something about how horrible it was to have to share a room with Liberty, but she thought that she would sound rude. "I know Marco's in your room. Who else?"

"Spinner and Jimmy," replied Craig. "They're cool. So, were you getting bored of your roommates or something?" he joked.

"Well, actually, Emma was watching the Discovery Channel, Liberty was in the bathroom crying, and I just don't know Jessica that well," she said.

"Liberty was crying?" he questioned. "What happened?"

"Well, I don't really know," Manny said. "She just arrived at our room and then went into the bathroom and locked the door behind her. I asked her what was wrong and she wouldn't tell me."

"How strange," Craig commented. "Maybe she's homesick or something."

Manny bit her lip. "She could be. I thought maybe she had gotten a bad grade on her report card or something, but I sort of doubt it."

"Who knows?" Craig asserted. The two of them waved to JT and Toby as they walked by.

"Craig?" Manny was fiddling with her hair nervously. "I, uh, I know we broke up and all a few months ago, but, well, I like you still." She felt like she was having deja vu. The last time she had told Craig that she liked him, though, it hadn't resulted very well in the long run.

Craig blinked. "You-you do?" Manny half-smiled. Craig muttered something and ran back through the hotel doors. Great. Once again, Manny had completely screwed up any chances she ever had of being with Craig.

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Marco laughed nervously as Spinner told one of his stupid jokes. Having just found out he was gay a few months ago, it was pretty hard to have to stay in a room with a bunch of hot guys his own age. Fortunately, Craig had left. For some reason, lately, he had been really nervous anytime he saw Craig. His crush on Sean had also been lessening. Could he now have a crush on Craig? Wow. This gay stuff was pretty confusing.

"Spinner, man, that joke was totally lame," said Jimmy.

"Dude, are you, like, dissing me or something?" Spinner retorted.

"So what if I am?" Jimmy challenged.

"You are going down!" Spinner shouted. He suddenly jumped on top of Jimmy and started tackling him on to the bed. Marco watched the two in awe. Jimmy started attacking Spinner with pillows. Spinner smothered Jimmy with the blanket. For a couple of minutes, the sounds of shouting and the sights of wrestling could be seen and heard. Wouldn't that be fun to do with Craig? Marco thought. Wait - why was he thinking these thoughts? He didn't even like Craig. Or so he thought.

Craig threw open the door with a stunned look on his face.

"Craig, what's wrong?" Marco asked with a little too much emotion.

"Uh, nothing," he replied moodily. "Just, uh, girl troubles." All of Marco's fantasies evaporated in an instant. He hadn't even thought about the fact that Craig was straight and he could never have him. Then again, he himself at one point had thought that he had liked Ellie, but obviously he didn't really. Perhaps Craig was the same way. At least he could hope.

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Paige pulled out the slip of paper with Aaron's number on it from her purse and turned on her cell phone. She eagerly dialed it, thinking about what she would say to him.

"Colman resident," an adult male voice said.

Paige put on her sweetest voice. "Hello Mr. Colman. May I kindly speak with your wonderful son, Aaron?"

"Uh, okay," he grumbled. "May I ask who's calling?"

She obviously couldn't tell him that she was some random stranger that his son met at an airport. "Um, I'm a friend of his from school."

"Okay. I'll get him," he told her.

"Why thank you, Mr. Colman. Pleasure speaking to you!" A few seconds later, Aaron picked up the phone. Paige's tone of voice completely changed into what she thought was a sexy, husky tone. "Hello Aaron. It's Paige from the airport."

"Oh hey!" he said, surprised. "How have you been? How's California so far?"

"Great," she responded. "So, I was wondering. Tonight, we aren't doing anything. Would you like to meet up or something?"

"Sure. Sounds good," said Aaron. "Costa Mesa is like twenty minutes from Anaheim. I could take a bus there, or you could come here. Whatever."

"Well," Paige explained, "I already looked into this. In half an hour, there's going to be a bus leaving from my hotel that's going to Costa Mesa. I could easily sneak out and meet you somewhere. No one would notice."

"Cool," he said. "So, uh, where do you want to meet? There's a Mexican restaurant pretty near my house called Don Jose's. It's pretty good. Do you want to go there?"

"If you say it's good!" Paige flirted. "Meet you at seven?"

Paige could hear a smile in Aaron's voice. "See you then!" he said.