"Come on, it'll be fun! I promise!"
"I dunno, Jackie…" Cody hesitated.
"You've been totally depressed since you went back home. It's been a week and a half already, this is just what you need to cheer up!" Jackie insisted.
"Fine," Cody sighed, following her out the door, "so who are these guys again?"
"They're a local band, The Ragging Lemurs," Jackie explained. At Cody's quirked eyebrow, she continued, "Hey, don't knock 'em 'til you try 'em." Cody shrugged and followed her out the door.
"Hey guys!" Jackie yelled as they approached her friends. "Cody you know Kaylie, Troy, and Meghan. And this is Evan," she gestured to a tall boy with chocolate-coloured hair.
"Cody Myers," Cody smiled, shaking his hand. She could practically hear Adena squealing, 'CUTECUTECUTE!' and had to stop herself from rolling her eyes. She personally thought he looked like a little bit of a pretty-boy.
The six walked to the nearest station, and then jumped on the subway.
"So, have you ever heard these guys?" Evan, who was sitting beside Cody, asked.
"No,"
"Me neither. But to be honest, I don't put much faith in a band named the Raging Lemurs," He said.
Cody laughed, "I know what you mean." She smiled at him. Admittedly, he was kind of cute…
"I'm going to grab a drink, you want something?" Evan called to Cody over the music.
"Mountain Dew would be nice," she smiled gratefully and he nodded, disappearing into the crowd.
The band wasn't a bad as Cody had thought. Applause signaled the end of their previous song, Dude, have you seen my boxers? They soon moved on to Hitting People's Cool Okay, scratch that, they were horrible. But at least she Evan to keep her company while Jackie and her friends dove into the mosh-pit. After talking, they had discovered that they shared a couple teachers, although their classes were at different times.
"Here you go," Evan said cheerfully, returning with the drinks.
"Thanks," Cody smiled.
"So, you never finished telling me about Mr. Jameson's class,"
"Oh that's right," Cody began, "where was I? Oh yeah! Well, Jackie and I were sitting near the back, and he was droning on about something totally unrelated to math, The Beatles I think it was…."
"Wasn't that awesome?" Jackie yelled.
"Someone stood a little to close to the speaker," Meghan laughed, the rest of the group joining in.
"You guys wanna go sneak into the kitchens or something? I'm not really tired," Troy suggested.
"Yes! I'm starving!" Kaylie agreed, soon followed but Meghan and Jackie.
"You coming?" Jackie asked Evan and Cody.
"No, I'm gonna head up back," Cody said.
"I'll walk you," Evan offered, and the two made their way inside.
"So, aside from the horrible music, tonight wasn't too bad," Evan laughed.
"Yeah, it was nice," Cody agreed.
"I don't want to sound creepy or anything, I mean, I know we just met, but…you're really awesome, a lot cooler than most of the people around here. I was wondering if you maybe wanted to grab a movie Friday?" Evan asked, suddenly very shy.
"Uh…" Cody stuttered.
"No, that's cool, I mean, there's no pressure," Evan said quickly, "I just thought you…"
"No," Cody interrupted, "I was just kind of surprised. But Friday sounds good. Very good. Great." She smiled.
Evan looked relieved, "Awesome, Friday it is." He smiled back.
"This is me," Cody spoke, pointing to her door.
"Alright, well, I'll hunt you down in the halls or something tomorrow, and we can pick a movie," he said.
"Okay," she smiled for what seemed like the hundredth time. Maybe Evan was just what she needed right now, "Thanks for walking me."
"No problem,"
Cody knew she should probably go inside, but she found herself frozen, standing in the hall with Evan. Suddenly, she realized that not only was he slowly leaning in, but also she was subconsciously rising to her tiptoes. He has brown eyes she thought as they moved continually closer. They were now so near to each other that she could see each individual eyelash, and count all the freckles on the bridge of his nose. She slowly closed her eyes…
"How was your night?" Jackie asked when she returned, throwing herself on the bed.
"Good," said Cody, marking her place in her book.
"Anything interesting happen?"
"No," Cody knew Jackie was fishing for details.
"Nothing at all?"
"We're going out Friday," Cody revealed.
"Awesome!" Jackie said, "So the night was a success after all?"
"Mmm hmm," Cody said.
"Anything else happen?"
"Not really,"
"Well then, I'm gonna crash. Good night," Jackie said.
"Oh, and we kissed. Good night." Cody flicked off her bedside lamp.
"CODY MEYERS YOU TURN THAT LIGHT BACK ON AND GIVE ME DETAILS RIGHT NOW!"
Cody hit the switch again, "There are no details."
"What do you mean?" Jackie sat up, "Like, three hours ago, you were moping about Squib, and now your kissing Evan! There must be details!"
"I dunno. We kissed, that's it. There's not much to tell,"
"But what about Squib?"
Cody felt a small pang of guilt, "I think Evan's good for me. He's so…normal. And we have the same interests. I really liked him."
"So, no more boy drama for Cody?"
"Not at the moment," she smiled, "no more tennis playing, indecisive, self-absorbed jerks for Cody!"
Jackie laughed, "Gee Cody, still angry?"
Cody smiled, "A little. Good night."
"Wait," Jackie said as Cody moved to turn off the lamp, "you promise there are no more details?"
"I promise."
"Okay then, good night."
Hanging out behind the club on the weekends
Acting stupid, getting drunk with my best friends
I couldn't wait for the summer and the warped tour
I remember that it's the first time that I saw her there
She's getting kicked out of school cause she's failing
I'm kinda nervous, cause I think all her friends hate me
She's the one, she'll always be there
She took my hand and I made it I swear
Because I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
She said what? and I told her that I didn't know
She's so cool, better sneak me through her window
Everything's better when she's around
Can't wait until her parents go out of town
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
When we said we were gonna move to vegas
I remember the look her mother gave us
17 without a purpose or direction
We don't owe anyone a fuckin explanation
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
She said what? and I told her that I didn't know
She's so cool, better sneak me through her window
Everything's better when she's around
Can't wait until her parents go out of town
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
Black and white picture of her on my wall
I waited for her call, she always kept me waiting
And if I ever got another chance I'd still ask her to dance
Because she kept me waiting
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
She said what? and I told her that I didn't know
She's so cool, better sneak me through her window
Everything's better when she's around
Can't wait until her parents go out of town
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
With the girl at the rock show
With the girl at the rock show
(I'll never forget tonight)
With the girl at the rock show...
-Blink-182 'The Rock Show'
Lol, Mr Jameson is actually based on my Gr7 math teacher. He used to get SOOOO off topic, like, every class! The ultimatelow point was when we spent an entire class talking about fat people...