Chapter 5- Birth

I grabbed Spinner's hand. "Now, watch." I whisper, leaning on Spinner's locker as I watch Paige flounce up to Craig. Spinner and I had been 'going out' for 3 days now and now Paige was about to make her move.

"Hey Craig." She says.

"Hey." Craig shuts his locker.

"How ya doin'?"

"Good." Craig looks at her strangely.

She runs her finger up and down his chest. "So, I was wondering if maybe you and I could..." She pauses. "Hang out sometime, you know."

"Uh... sure, Paige."

"Okay. I'll call you!" she flounces away.

I use that time to pass by with Spinner and say, "Sloppy seconds, eh Craig?"

Paige spent the whole day flirting with Craig. Ashley is the only other person who knows about our plan, and she thinks it's amazing. In English, Mrs. Kwan assigned a huge project.

"For the next 8 weeks, this project will be your life. It must be an 8-10 minute skit, and each person must speak at least twice. You will not be choosing your groups," the class groans. "But I have placed you with people I noticed you get along with. So you got lucky." She starts rolling off the groups. "Group 3: Jimmy Brooks, Ashley Kerwin, Craig Manning, Gavin Mason, Paige Michalchuk, Ellie Nash, and Leigh Valentine." Ashley, Paige and I all look at each other. "You all may get into your groups."

Paige, Ashley, and Jimmy all bring chairs across the table to where Ellie, Spinner and I were sitting. Craig sits down next to Ellie.

"So what are your ideas?" Craig says.

"I'm blank." Spinner says as I hold his hand and put it on the table. I look at Craig and see a slight look of jealousy, and then it fades. Everyone else nods their head.

"Actually, I have an idea." I say. "Well, we could take selections from classic love movies and make them all work together."

"That sounds like it would actually work." Jimmy says, smiling at me.

"So what movies could we use?" Paige asks.

"Let's brainstorm." We talk and argue and by the time the class is over, we've chosen 4 movies- Jerry McGuire, When Harry Met Sally, Romeo Juliet, and Sleepless in Seattle.

"So we're meeting Saturday at Leigh's, right?" Ashley says, and the group nods.

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"I'll never leave you behind,

Or treat you unkind

I know you understand

And with a tear in my eye

Give me the sweetest goodbye

That I ever did receive

Pushing forward and arching back

Bring me closer to heart attack

Say goodbye and just fly away

When you come back,

I have some things to say

How does it feel to know you'll never have to be alone

When you get home?

There must be someplace here that only you and I could go

So I can show you how I feel." I sing along (badly) with Adam Levine in my bedroom. It's Saturday, and I was waiting for everyone to get here.

"Leigh?" I turn around to see Craig and Paige in the doorway trying as hard not to laugh at me.

"Shut up." I looked at them and started to laugh. "Come on." I take them downstairs. "Who let you in?"

"Your sister." Craig says.

'Oh my lord.' I think. "I don't have a sister." I bite my lip.

"OH MY GOD that was your mom?" Paige exclaims. "You've got to be kidding me."

I shush her and say, "Yeah that's my mom." I say as Jimmy and Spinner come downstairs.

"Sweetie, don't take this the wrong way, but your sister is a BABE." Spinner says to me, wrapping his arms around me.

The 3 of us start cracking up.

"What's so funny?" I whisper in Spinner's ear and he blushes.

Once allseven of us have assembled, I hand out the scripts I had written the night before.

"There's only one problem." Ellie says.

"What?" I ask.

"It's really confusing. I mean, there's no way of telling when the stories end and they begin."

"Yeah... that was one of the things I wanted to discuss with you guys. I was thinking we could put a few lines of a song in there."

"I know you're going to kill me for saying this, Leigh, but we could put the chorus of the song you were singing earlier in there." Craig says.

"That would work." I glare at Paige. "Don't give me that look. It would."

I go upstairs to grab my Maroon5 CD and turn on Track 12. Everyone decides to use that song as the transitions.

By the time we're done, everyone has one or two parts so they can begin memorizing. Ashley and Spinner are Sam Baldwin and Annie Reed from Sleepless in Seattle with Craig playing Jonah, Jimmy and Ellie are Jerry McGuire and Dorothy Boyd, Paige and Spinner as Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague, and Craig and I are Harry Burns and Sally Albright from When Harry Met Sally.

After they've all left, I close the door and scream.