Craig was sitting on a stool, with his shiny black acoustic guitar on his knee, as he strung the strings, trying to put music notes together for the lyrics he had started writing a few weeks ago. Just then, Spinner strolled through the garage door with his sticks in hand. Craig hadn't even noticed him he was too busy singing the song to see if the lyrics went with the notes.
Spinner came right up behind him, "Dude are you always at work?" amazed at his dedication to his music.
Craig turned around and looked at Spinner, "I just wrote a new song, I was trying to find the right chords to go with it."
"That's kewl," sitting in the near by couch.
"What brings you by so early?"
"I was bored, nothing else to do."
"Where's Paige?" knowing that they were always together.
"She and Hazel went shopping for school supplies. Then they she said they were having a girls night," he said rolling his eyes at the last part.
"That's nice I guess we'll have to have a guys night then."
"That's right. Where did you go after school, I mean I didn't see you after we went to homeroom."
"I went looking for someone, but I never found them before they left."
"Bummer. Who was it, Emma?"
"No, there's nothing going on with us. She's just a friend."
"Oh is that why you tried to avoid her all summer."
"I didn't try to avoid her, I had a job."
"That may be the case but you still wanted to avoid her. The question is why?"
"Okay, I had a thing for her, but she had a boyfriend and I wasn't about to be part of another love triangle. Anyway I don't think I want her anymore."
"Well anyways, you missed seeing this new girl in school. Boy she was a babe!"
As Spinner said that Craig began to wonder if it was Kelsie, he was talking about. The girl he went looking for. "What was her name?"
"Kelsie, why?" he questioned.
"That is who I was looking for."
"Why? How do you know her?" real confused why Craig would know her, when it was only the first day.
"I met her when headed to find out my homeroom. She was lost so I helped her find her classroom. I wanted to ask for her email address."
"Dude you should so go for her."
Putting down his guitar on its stand, "Spin like I said to Marco I'm just going to get to know her first. I don't want to do something stupid this time. Look where it gets me when I rush into things, and don't think them over."
"You got a point there."
"So how are things going with Paige, I didn't really get to ask you given that she was right there this morning."
"Great, let's just say that this summer will always be remembered."
"You scored didn't you?"
"That's right, but don't spread that around, Paige would kill me if she knew I said a thing."
"I wouldn't do that, I know what it's like when things get around the school. Besides that how are things going?"
"Fine I could do without her nagging once in a while," sinking into the couch.
"Then why are you still with her if you don't like her nagging?"
"I don't know anything else, we've together so long, and I do love her too. We'll just have to see if that's enough," he sighed.
They didn't even get to finish their conversation before Jimmy and Marco walked through the door.
"Craig I heard you have a thing for the new girl, Kelsie," Jimmy hollered.
"Who told you that?" he said looking at Marco.
"Marco, what's the big deal?" Jimmy asked, not seeing that there was a real reason to be angry about it.
"Nothing it's just I met her today and I don't even get to tell you about her before you find out."
"Well I wouldn't need to know what she looks like since she is in my English class with Spinner. All I have to say is she is FINE!"
"Can't disagree with you there, I don't think I've met such a beauty before," Craig said as remember how she looked as he first laid eyes on her.
"Well we should get practicing," Marco said.
They practices for over 3 hours, they had lost track of time. It had been a while since they felt like it was fun. It had seemed to be like a chore at times, but today was different.
"Wow, looked at the time. I think that it's about time that I got home," Spinner said as he looked at his watch.
"I can't believe it's that late!" Craig said, looking at the time.
"Neither can I." Jimmy said.
They all gathered their stuff up, "See you guys at school tomorrow," Craig said waving good-bye to them as they left in their cars, and he headed up the stairs into his house.