Alli

After I was completely cleaned off of the vanilla shake everywhere except my poor hair, Manny let me borrow her cami that she had on underneath her velour top.
I looked a mess. But still, I laughed. I had to play this off really really well.
"So, Manny, what grade are you in?"
"Grade 9. And you are in Grade 10 right?"
"Yeah. How did you know?" I asked, curiously.
"Spinner said something about it."
"Oh. That's funny, he never mentioned you before," I said, matter-of- factly.
She tried to smile sweetly, but I could tell that she was annoyed by that comment. "Well, I think he will be mentioning me a little more."
"Oh, and why's that?" I asked, trying to sound like I wanted to be her friend.
"We're dating now. Exclusively."
"That's really cool!" I said, as enthusiastically as I could, but inside it hurt.
"Yeah. So what's going on with you and Jimmy?" she asked, curiously. I think she was warming up to me.
"Nothing exclusive. Just friends. For now. I do like him though. He is very cute, don't you think?"
"Yeah, I've always thought Jimmy was cute. But I have Spin now so I'm all good."
I laughed. "You're pretty cool, Manny. Do you wanna hang out this weekend? Or double date. You and GAVIN (I said this very snootily, because I wanted to see how she would react to this), and me and Jimmy?"
"Sure. Um, sweetie, Spinner doesn't like to be called Gavin."
I was rollin' inside. "Well, we had a little, altercation, today. He informed me that only his FRIENDS call him Spinner. And I'm not his friend."
She scrunched her face together. "Ugh. Boys. Well, don't you worry. I'll fix it. I'll tell Spinner to lay off. You're too cool for him to treat you like that. And whether he likes it or not, we're doubling this weekend.

Spinner
Me and Jimmy talked about sports and all sorts of other stuff for about an hour until the girls finally got out of the bathroom.
Alli came out first. She had on her same jeans, which were wet from where she scrubbed the vanilla shake out of them. And she had on Manny's cami. Even though her hair was still filled with shake, she still looked so pretty. Then Manny came out.
How could I even think that Manny could even compare to Alli? Sure, Manny's pretty. But she tries too hard. Look at Alli. She's acting just as casually as if she nothing happened. As if she didn't have vanilla shake in her hair? If that happened to Manny, she would already be home and showered and crying her eyes out over embarrassment. But not Alli. She doesn't even care.
"Spinner, I'd hate to pull you away from your thoughts, but guess what?" Manny said.
"What?" I asked.
"You and me, and Jimmy and Alli are doubling this weekend."
How was I going to pull this one off? I would no doubt be staring at Alli the entire night. "Uh sure. Sounds good."
Alli moved over and sat on Jimmy's lap. ON his LAP!
"Jimmy, before I got spilled on," she said laughing with so much confidence, "I was going to say that maybe you and I should, you know, date, exclusively."
Jimmy's eyes brightened. His face lifted. "SURE! I was going to ask you that tonight when before we went home. I'm so glad you asked."