At school the next day, neon pink flyers were posted everywhere around the school. Blayne went to read one before going to lunch. She read it to herself.
" Degrassi's first annual Talent Show. Prizes in all grades. Show us your talent! Sign up is until after school Wednesday…." She thought for a minute. "Today is Wednesday."
"So if you're signing up, you better make a decision fast." Marco said, coming up and standing next to her.
"Hey, Marco. Don't forget we have rehearsal for the video today at Craig's for the band portion."
"Yeah. Ellie's coming, she wants to interview me for her video."
"Oh, cool. Hey, we should head to lunch."
"Yeah, let's go."
Marco and Blayne walked to lunch room, gossiping like school girls. That's what Blayne loved about Marco. She could do that with him, and still appreciate the fact that he was a guy. It didn't matter to her that he was gay, when she found out, nothing really changed between them. When they got to the table, not too many people were there yet. This made Blayne happy. Hopefully, she wouldn't get squished this time. She chose to sit on the outside and give herself lots of space. People seemed to come robotically. Soon the table was full. Blayne took out her chicken sandwich and took a bite of it.
"Before I forget," Jimmy said, "I'm having a….small….get to gether tonight."
"On a school night?" Blayne asked.
"Hun, it's okay to have a life during school." Paige said, laughing.
"Yeah, unless you know…you are a dork. Because you just sounded like a major dork." Spinner said.
"Your one to talk!" Blayne responded, defensively.
"It won't go too late." Jimmy explained. "Besides, you can leave whenever you want."
"Alright, whatever. I'll be there. Just make sure we have enough time after school for rehearsal."
She looked at Craig. He was sitting next to her, but hadn't said a thing.
"Craig? Something wrong?"
"No…" he said, as though staring off into space.
"Oh." Blayne figured it out. "Christine."
"Yeah…" Craig answered, as if she had asked a question.
"Let it go Craig." She told her best friend.
"No way. I got a shot. I do. I even talked to her today."
"Wow. About what?" Blayne enquired.
"Music. School play. Stuff like that."
"I see."
"I think she likes me."
Everyone burst out laughing. He looked offended.
"What?! Is that so hard to imagine?"
"Well…yeah, it is." Spin said.
"Spinner!" Blayne yelled, mildly angry, throwing food at him and watching him pick it up off the floor and eat it.
"Ew. Act human for once."
At Craig's house, Ellie had gotten there before everyone else.
"Hey Ellie." Blayne offered as her greeting.
"Hey." Ellie said in her calm-cool-collective way.
"I just want to thank you for helping us. And I know you are here for your documentary, but while the guys are practicing, I think we should go over video angles and stuff."
"Sure, whatever."
Everyone headed into the garage and the two girls stood in front of the band as they went to their instruments.
"One, two, one two three four!" Spinner yelled.
Blayne and Ellie had to talk loudly to hear each other.
"Okay, here is what I was thinking," Blayne began, "We both have cameras, okay? You film Jimmy and Spinner, get far away shots of both, some shots of just like, Jimmy's hand playing, sometimes Spinner's foot, artsy stuff, ya know? I'll take Craig and Marco, doing the same. We should both do a couple shots of everyone. How's that sound."
"Great! I think this is going to look really good."
"Yeah!"
Deciding to give up on yelling at each other, the girls sat on the couch and watched the practice. Craig was staring right at Blayne as he sang, smiling every now and then. It was cute, but kind of weird to her. After a couple of sets, Jimmy stopped.
"Guys, I gotta go. Get ready for the part and everything. See you guys in an hour or so!" He ran out the door. Ellie and Blayne stood up at the same time.
"Yeah, we both decided we were going to go, too. Girls, you know. Getting ready takes awhile!"
"Actually, I'm not going." Ellie said. "And Marco, since we didn't get around to the documentary, tomorrow. My house, after school. Okay?"
"Yeah, that's fine." He said.
"See you guys later!" Blayne called, turning around to leave. 'At least I was being honest about leaving early to go home,' She thought. She had no plans to see Sully that night. She was actually hoping to gradually end whatever was going on between them. Maybe she could even find a potential for a steady boyfriend at Jimmy's "small get together". 'Jimmy never has small get togethers.' When she got home, she went straight to her room to pick out a good outfit. As she ruffled through her closet and dresser, she finally settled on vintage low rise blue jeans and a light pink "Mary Is My Home Girl" t-shirt. She slipped on her shoes and went downstairs.
"Mom? Can you give me a ride to Jimmy's house?"
"Sure. What's going on at Jimmy's?"
"He's just having some people over."
"You aren't staying too late, are you?"
"Nah, I know it's a school night. I won't over do myself."
Her mom smiled and grabbed her purse.
"Alright then. How are you getting home?"
"I'll grab a ride with Craig if that's okay."
"It's fine."
"Okay, let's go then already!"
When Blayne's mom pulled up in front of Jimmy's apartment building, people were flooding inside. She hurried out of the car, saying a quick 'bye' so her mom wouldn't notice all the people. She watched as her mom drove off, and then turned to go in. the elevator ride up to Jimmy's penthouse apartment was very uncomfortable. She was jammed up against the side, everyone going to the same place. She was relieved when the doors open and people began exiting the elevator. When she got inside Jimmy's, she saw him trying to greet everyone. She stopped to say hi.
"Some advice, Jimmy? Don't greet everyone one at a time. Try five at a time. Or, have smaller parties." She smiled and walked away. There were a TON of people there. Jimmy's apartment may have been bigger than most houses, but it can only hold so many people. She went and looked in different rooms. In the den, a karaoke machine was set up on the loft and people were taking turns going up there and making fools of themselves. In the living room, music was blaring with people pushed together dancing to the hottest music. In the family room, Jimmy's x-box was set up with too many guys crowding around it People were stuffing there faces in the kitchen, and guzzling beers and tequila at Jimmy's parents' mini bar. After about ten minutes, Blayne finally stumbled across a familiar face.
"Hey Emma!"
"Hey! I was just gonna go dance, you wanna come?"
"Yeah, let's go shake it!" The girls ran into the living room and meshed with everyone already dancing. After a little while, Paige and Hazel appeared next to them, dancing too. It was too loud to talk, so Blayne just smiled as a hello, and they smiled back. Blayne felt someone grabbing her butt momentarily and turned around to see the backside of a tall blonde with slightly shaggy hair. She rolled her eyes and turned back to the girls. She leaned close to Hazel.
"I'll be right back!" She yelled.
"Okay!" Hazel yelled back to her.
Blayne pushed her way through the crowd of hormonal teens and into a less dense area. She reached in her back pocket and pulled out a piece of paper.
"Knew it." She said to herself. She read it. It said: 'Meet me in the guest bedroom, five minutes.' She sighed. 'Maybe I can break it off tonight', she thought. She headed to the guest room.
Just as Craig arrived, he saw Blayne walking through a hallway. 'I'll catch up with her in a minute', he thought, headed over to talk to Spinner for a second, who was guzzling spray cheese.
The door to the guest room was slightly ajar. She pushed it open and walked in. She didn't see anyone. She went in farther.
"Sully?"
She heard the door shut behind her and she jumped.
"Why so jumpy?"
"Don't be such a creep!" She said to him, scornfully.
He moved towards her and put a hand on her back. He leaned down to kiss her but she pushed him back and sat down on the bed.
"We need to talk." Blayne said in a serious tone.
"What? We aren't dating, I should never have to hear those words."
"I'm serious."
"So am I!" Sully said, sitting down next to her.
"I think we should stop….whatever it is we do."
"Why?"
"It's just…so wrong. Hiding from everyone."
"Since when did you get a conscience?"
"Come on Sully."
"Whatever. I hope you know what you're doing. You're never gonna kiss these lips again!" He said, mock pain. She laughed. Even though he was a jerk, he knew how to make her get off track.
"See, I know you don't want to stop." He said slyly, pushing her hair out of her face and kissing her neck.
"No…Sully…I…please…" She wanted to stop. But she didn't. But she did. But she didn't. 'I have needs too'. She thought, as if needing to give herself an explanation for her own actions. Sully moved from kissing her neck to kissing her lips. They shared a passionate kiss and Sully slowly leaned backwards, laying on the bed and Blayne laying on top of him. He had his arms wrapped around her waist as the kissed. She had her hands on the base of his neck. She gulped. She moved her hands down to his belt buckle and started to fiddle with it. Sully broke the kiss.
"What are you doing?"
She looked into his eyes.
"Are you sure your ready?" He asked, with a tone of care in his voice. She nodded. He smiled. So did she. 'Does he really care? Or is this another ploy? He's tricked me before…' She thought. She was going to question him, but then they heard someone call her name from the other side of the door. They panicked. Blayne rolled off of Sully and shooed him away.
"Closet! Go in the closet!" She said, shoving him towards it. He went in and slid the door shut. Someone knocked on the door.
"Blayne? I'm coming in…" She didn't know what to do. So she just stood there. The door opened slowly.
"Hey Craig.."
"What are you doing?"
"I wasn't feeling too hot, so I just came in here to lay down for a minute. I must have dosed off."
"Yeah. You have bed head." Craig laughed as she moved her hand to her hair, smoothing it.
"Are you feeling better?"
"Yeah, let's go back to the party."
"Okay."
As they left the room, Blayne looked back towards the closet and shrugged, quickly turning to look where she was walking. Sully beat his head against the wall in the closet many times in frustration. 'I was soooo close!' He thought. He came out of the closet and walked out of the room, thankful no one was paying close attention.
Blayne was aggravated as she pretended to listen to whatever Craig was saying to her. She was sitting up on the kitchen counter, looking right at him. Or so he thought. She was more…looking towards him. She wasn't looking at anything. Truth be told, her eyes had glazed over while she was in thought. 'This isn't working, sneaking behind people's backs isn't easy, and maybe it isn't worth it anymore. Besides, I almost had sex with Sully tonight! I don't even know what I was thing. I must be losing my mind. Well, obviously, since I'm still with him. Sort of.'
"Don't you think?" Craig said.
"Blayne? Blayne? Blaaaaayne!"
"What!" She snapped back into focus. "Yeah, whatever you said."
Hazel ran into the kitchen.
"Hey! We're having a HUGE game of truth or dare in the den. Come on!"
"Childs play." Blayne said.
"So what! It's fun." Hazel grabbed her arm and pulled her along. 'If, I have to play, so does Craig.' With that decision, Blayne grabbed Craig's arm and he got pulled along too. In the den, there wasn't much room, so they sat near the opening. Paige stood up.
"Okay, this is getting dull. Let's play….'hunny if you love me'."
"How do you play that?" Some grade 9 asked. Blayne wondered why a grade 9 was at a grade 11 party. Connections, she figured.
"Well," Paige began to explain, "Basically one person starts out as 'it'. Who ever is 'it' has to get someone to smile by doing pretty much anything. Whoever they get to smile is the new 'it'. I'll be 'it' first, so everyone gets what is going on." With that, Paige went over to Spinner and sat on his lap. She started petting his face.
"Honey if you love me, will you please, please smile?" She said. Spinner kept a straight face. Paige got up and went to some girl. She played with the girl's hair.
"Honey if you love me will you please, please smile?" The girl smiled. Paige sat in the girl's place. The girl got up and failed with the first couple of people, but got Hazel to smile by fluttering her eye lashes on Hazel's cheek.
"This is so lame." Craig said to Blayne, quietly. She shrugged. Hazel first went to Jimmy. It looked like she was going to get a smile, but she failed. She then came over to Craig and started petting him.
"Honey if you love me, will you please, please smile?" No smile from Craig. Hazel saw Sully standing over by the window. She went over to him and looked up at him with big eyes.
"Honey if you love me, will you please, please smile?" She then proceeded to whisper something in his ear, and he smiled. Hazel celebrated quickly. Sully started stalking across the room, like a hunter looking for his prey. And then he spotted her. 'Oh no'. Blayne thought. He was coming her way. He stood in front of her for a minute and then knelt down. He held her face in his hands and whispered.
"Honey if you love me, will you please please smile?" She turned away, giving him the side of her face. He blew in her ear. It tickled. She laughed, which counted as a smile.
"Yes!" Sully said, sitting next to Craig as she stood up, looking around. She was pissed that he would do that in front of everyone. She looked around the room and then found the easy choice. Craig. He was sitting with his legs outstretched in front of him. She got down on her hands and knees, and crawled up to his face, his legs under her torso. Once she got up to his face, she stopped crawling and straddled him. His big brown eyes got even bigger. He gave her a strange look.
"Honey, if you love me, will you please, please smile?" No smile. She went to his ear and sang to him in a low voice. No smile. She started tracing her fingers along his torso.
"Honey if you love me, will you please…" She began to tickle him, "Please smile?" He broke out in uncontrollable laughter.
"Got you!" Blayne said in victory. After a little bit more of that game, Blayne left the room. Craig followed after her.
"Your vicious." he said.
"I had to get you." She grinned ear to ear. She looked at her watch. It said 10:23.
"I should go home."
"Me too. Need a ride?"
"I was just about to ask you for one."
On the way to Blayne's house, she and Craig sat in the back seat laughing their heads off about stuff that happened at the party. They pulled up to the curb.
"Thanks Joey!"
"No problem."
"See you tomorrow Craig."
"Yeap, you too!"
Craig watched as she went to the door, turned around and waved good-bye. But to him, it didn't feel like a good-bye, it felt like she was telling him to go for it. 'Go for what'? He thought to himself. He honestly didn't know.
" Degrassi's first annual Talent Show. Prizes in all grades. Show us your talent! Sign up is until after school Wednesday…." She thought for a minute. "Today is Wednesday."
"So if you're signing up, you better make a decision fast." Marco said, coming up and standing next to her.
"Hey, Marco. Don't forget we have rehearsal for the video today at Craig's for the band portion."
"Yeah. Ellie's coming, she wants to interview me for her video."
"Oh, cool. Hey, we should head to lunch."
"Yeah, let's go."
Marco and Blayne walked to lunch room, gossiping like school girls. That's what Blayne loved about Marco. She could do that with him, and still appreciate the fact that he was a guy. It didn't matter to her that he was gay, when she found out, nothing really changed between them. When they got to the table, not too many people were there yet. This made Blayne happy. Hopefully, she wouldn't get squished this time. She chose to sit on the outside and give herself lots of space. People seemed to come robotically. Soon the table was full. Blayne took out her chicken sandwich and took a bite of it.
"Before I forget," Jimmy said, "I'm having a….small….get to gether tonight."
"On a school night?" Blayne asked.
"Hun, it's okay to have a life during school." Paige said, laughing.
"Yeah, unless you know…you are a dork. Because you just sounded like a major dork." Spinner said.
"Your one to talk!" Blayne responded, defensively.
"It won't go too late." Jimmy explained. "Besides, you can leave whenever you want."
"Alright, whatever. I'll be there. Just make sure we have enough time after school for rehearsal."
She looked at Craig. He was sitting next to her, but hadn't said a thing.
"Craig? Something wrong?"
"No…" he said, as though staring off into space.
"Oh." Blayne figured it out. "Christine."
"Yeah…" Craig answered, as if she had asked a question.
"Let it go Craig." She told her best friend.
"No way. I got a shot. I do. I even talked to her today."
"Wow. About what?" Blayne enquired.
"Music. School play. Stuff like that."
"I see."
"I think she likes me."
Everyone burst out laughing. He looked offended.
"What?! Is that so hard to imagine?"
"Well…yeah, it is." Spin said.
"Spinner!" Blayne yelled, mildly angry, throwing food at him and watching him pick it up off the floor and eat it.
"Ew. Act human for once."
At Craig's house, Ellie had gotten there before everyone else.
"Hey Ellie." Blayne offered as her greeting.
"Hey." Ellie said in her calm-cool-collective way.
"I just want to thank you for helping us. And I know you are here for your documentary, but while the guys are practicing, I think we should go over video angles and stuff."
"Sure, whatever."
Everyone headed into the garage and the two girls stood in front of the band as they went to their instruments.
"One, two, one two three four!" Spinner yelled.
Blayne and Ellie had to talk loudly to hear each other.
"Okay, here is what I was thinking," Blayne began, "We both have cameras, okay? You film Jimmy and Spinner, get far away shots of both, some shots of just like, Jimmy's hand playing, sometimes Spinner's foot, artsy stuff, ya know? I'll take Craig and Marco, doing the same. We should both do a couple shots of everyone. How's that sound."
"Great! I think this is going to look really good."
"Yeah!"
Deciding to give up on yelling at each other, the girls sat on the couch and watched the practice. Craig was staring right at Blayne as he sang, smiling every now and then. It was cute, but kind of weird to her. After a couple of sets, Jimmy stopped.
"Guys, I gotta go. Get ready for the part and everything. See you guys in an hour or so!" He ran out the door. Ellie and Blayne stood up at the same time.
"Yeah, we both decided we were going to go, too. Girls, you know. Getting ready takes awhile!"
"Actually, I'm not going." Ellie said. "And Marco, since we didn't get around to the documentary, tomorrow. My house, after school. Okay?"
"Yeah, that's fine." He said.
"See you guys later!" Blayne called, turning around to leave. 'At least I was being honest about leaving early to go home,' She thought. She had no plans to see Sully that night. She was actually hoping to gradually end whatever was going on between them. Maybe she could even find a potential for a steady boyfriend at Jimmy's "small get together". 'Jimmy never has small get togethers.' When she got home, she went straight to her room to pick out a good outfit. As she ruffled through her closet and dresser, she finally settled on vintage low rise blue jeans and a light pink "Mary Is My Home Girl" t-shirt. She slipped on her shoes and went downstairs.
"Mom? Can you give me a ride to Jimmy's house?"
"Sure. What's going on at Jimmy's?"
"He's just having some people over."
"You aren't staying too late, are you?"
"Nah, I know it's a school night. I won't over do myself."
Her mom smiled and grabbed her purse.
"Alright then. How are you getting home?"
"I'll grab a ride with Craig if that's okay."
"It's fine."
"Okay, let's go then already!"
When Blayne's mom pulled up in front of Jimmy's apartment building, people were flooding inside. She hurried out of the car, saying a quick 'bye' so her mom wouldn't notice all the people. She watched as her mom drove off, and then turned to go in. the elevator ride up to Jimmy's penthouse apartment was very uncomfortable. She was jammed up against the side, everyone going to the same place. She was relieved when the doors open and people began exiting the elevator. When she got inside Jimmy's, she saw him trying to greet everyone. She stopped to say hi.
"Some advice, Jimmy? Don't greet everyone one at a time. Try five at a time. Or, have smaller parties." She smiled and walked away. There were a TON of people there. Jimmy's apartment may have been bigger than most houses, but it can only hold so many people. She went and looked in different rooms. In the den, a karaoke machine was set up on the loft and people were taking turns going up there and making fools of themselves. In the living room, music was blaring with people pushed together dancing to the hottest music. In the family room, Jimmy's x-box was set up with too many guys crowding around it People were stuffing there faces in the kitchen, and guzzling beers and tequila at Jimmy's parents' mini bar. After about ten minutes, Blayne finally stumbled across a familiar face.
"Hey Emma!"
"Hey! I was just gonna go dance, you wanna come?"
"Yeah, let's go shake it!" The girls ran into the living room and meshed with everyone already dancing. After a little while, Paige and Hazel appeared next to them, dancing too. It was too loud to talk, so Blayne just smiled as a hello, and they smiled back. Blayne felt someone grabbing her butt momentarily and turned around to see the backside of a tall blonde with slightly shaggy hair. She rolled her eyes and turned back to the girls. She leaned close to Hazel.
"I'll be right back!" She yelled.
"Okay!" Hazel yelled back to her.
Blayne pushed her way through the crowd of hormonal teens and into a less dense area. She reached in her back pocket and pulled out a piece of paper.
"Knew it." She said to herself. She read it. It said: 'Meet me in the guest bedroom, five minutes.' She sighed. 'Maybe I can break it off tonight', she thought. She headed to the guest room.
Just as Craig arrived, he saw Blayne walking through a hallway. 'I'll catch up with her in a minute', he thought, headed over to talk to Spinner for a second, who was guzzling spray cheese.
The door to the guest room was slightly ajar. She pushed it open and walked in. She didn't see anyone. She went in farther.
"Sully?"
She heard the door shut behind her and she jumped.
"Why so jumpy?"
"Don't be such a creep!" She said to him, scornfully.
He moved towards her and put a hand on her back. He leaned down to kiss her but she pushed him back and sat down on the bed.
"We need to talk." Blayne said in a serious tone.
"What? We aren't dating, I should never have to hear those words."
"I'm serious."
"So am I!" Sully said, sitting down next to her.
"I think we should stop….whatever it is we do."
"Why?"
"It's just…so wrong. Hiding from everyone."
"Since when did you get a conscience?"
"Come on Sully."
"Whatever. I hope you know what you're doing. You're never gonna kiss these lips again!" He said, mock pain. She laughed. Even though he was a jerk, he knew how to make her get off track.
"See, I know you don't want to stop." He said slyly, pushing her hair out of her face and kissing her neck.
"No…Sully…I…please…" She wanted to stop. But she didn't. But she did. But she didn't. 'I have needs too'. She thought, as if needing to give herself an explanation for her own actions. Sully moved from kissing her neck to kissing her lips. They shared a passionate kiss and Sully slowly leaned backwards, laying on the bed and Blayne laying on top of him. He had his arms wrapped around her waist as the kissed. She had her hands on the base of his neck. She gulped. She moved her hands down to his belt buckle and started to fiddle with it. Sully broke the kiss.
"What are you doing?"
She looked into his eyes.
"Are you sure your ready?" He asked, with a tone of care in his voice. She nodded. He smiled. So did she. 'Does he really care? Or is this another ploy? He's tricked me before…' She thought. She was going to question him, but then they heard someone call her name from the other side of the door. They panicked. Blayne rolled off of Sully and shooed him away.
"Closet! Go in the closet!" She said, shoving him towards it. He went in and slid the door shut. Someone knocked on the door.
"Blayne? I'm coming in…" She didn't know what to do. So she just stood there. The door opened slowly.
"Hey Craig.."
"What are you doing?"
"I wasn't feeling too hot, so I just came in here to lay down for a minute. I must have dosed off."
"Yeah. You have bed head." Craig laughed as she moved her hand to her hair, smoothing it.
"Are you feeling better?"
"Yeah, let's go back to the party."
"Okay."
As they left the room, Blayne looked back towards the closet and shrugged, quickly turning to look where she was walking. Sully beat his head against the wall in the closet many times in frustration. 'I was soooo close!' He thought. He came out of the closet and walked out of the room, thankful no one was paying close attention.
Blayne was aggravated as she pretended to listen to whatever Craig was saying to her. She was sitting up on the kitchen counter, looking right at him. Or so he thought. She was more…looking towards him. She wasn't looking at anything. Truth be told, her eyes had glazed over while she was in thought. 'This isn't working, sneaking behind people's backs isn't easy, and maybe it isn't worth it anymore. Besides, I almost had sex with Sully tonight! I don't even know what I was thing. I must be losing my mind. Well, obviously, since I'm still with him. Sort of.'
"Don't you think?" Craig said.
"Blayne? Blayne? Blaaaaayne!"
"What!" She snapped back into focus. "Yeah, whatever you said."
Hazel ran into the kitchen.
"Hey! We're having a HUGE game of truth or dare in the den. Come on!"
"Childs play." Blayne said.
"So what! It's fun." Hazel grabbed her arm and pulled her along. 'If, I have to play, so does Craig.' With that decision, Blayne grabbed Craig's arm and he got pulled along too. In the den, there wasn't much room, so they sat near the opening. Paige stood up.
"Okay, this is getting dull. Let's play….'hunny if you love me'."
"How do you play that?" Some grade 9 asked. Blayne wondered why a grade 9 was at a grade 11 party. Connections, she figured.
"Well," Paige began to explain, "Basically one person starts out as 'it'. Who ever is 'it' has to get someone to smile by doing pretty much anything. Whoever they get to smile is the new 'it'. I'll be 'it' first, so everyone gets what is going on." With that, Paige went over to Spinner and sat on his lap. She started petting his face.
"Honey if you love me, will you please, please smile?" She said. Spinner kept a straight face. Paige got up and went to some girl. She played with the girl's hair.
"Honey if you love me will you please, please smile?" The girl smiled. Paige sat in the girl's place. The girl got up and failed with the first couple of people, but got Hazel to smile by fluttering her eye lashes on Hazel's cheek.
"This is so lame." Craig said to Blayne, quietly. She shrugged. Hazel first went to Jimmy. It looked like she was going to get a smile, but she failed. She then came over to Craig and started petting him.
"Honey if you love me, will you please, please smile?" No smile from Craig. Hazel saw Sully standing over by the window. She went over to him and looked up at him with big eyes.
"Honey if you love me, will you please, please smile?" She then proceeded to whisper something in his ear, and he smiled. Hazel celebrated quickly. Sully started stalking across the room, like a hunter looking for his prey. And then he spotted her. 'Oh no'. Blayne thought. He was coming her way. He stood in front of her for a minute and then knelt down. He held her face in his hands and whispered.
"Honey if you love me, will you please please smile?" She turned away, giving him the side of her face. He blew in her ear. It tickled. She laughed, which counted as a smile.
"Yes!" Sully said, sitting next to Craig as she stood up, looking around. She was pissed that he would do that in front of everyone. She looked around the room and then found the easy choice. Craig. He was sitting with his legs outstretched in front of him. She got down on her hands and knees, and crawled up to his face, his legs under her torso. Once she got up to his face, she stopped crawling and straddled him. His big brown eyes got even bigger. He gave her a strange look.
"Honey, if you love me, will you please, please smile?" No smile. She went to his ear and sang to him in a low voice. No smile. She started tracing her fingers along his torso.
"Honey if you love me, will you please…" She began to tickle him, "Please smile?" He broke out in uncontrollable laughter.
"Got you!" Blayne said in victory. After a little bit more of that game, Blayne left the room. Craig followed after her.
"Your vicious." he said.
"I had to get you." She grinned ear to ear. She looked at her watch. It said 10:23.
"I should go home."
"Me too. Need a ride?"
"I was just about to ask you for one."
On the way to Blayne's house, she and Craig sat in the back seat laughing their heads off about stuff that happened at the party. They pulled up to the curb.
"Thanks Joey!"
"No problem."
"See you tomorrow Craig."
"Yeap, you too!"
Craig watched as she went to the door, turned around and waved good-bye. But to him, it didn't feel like a good-bye, it felt like she was telling him to go for it. 'Go for what'? He thought to himself. He honestly didn't know.