Chapter Eleven

Addie backed away from him and looked at her pretty plain sneakers. " Um…I have to go."

She walked around him and practically ran down the hallway, grateful for the fact that it was almost completely empty. Why did she kiss him? Why? If that didn't scream 'I like you' nothing else could.

" Oh, God, what have I done?" she questioned as she banged her head onto her locker.

" Um…Addie, can you please stop banging your head into my locker?" Delia said quietly, standing to Addie's left.

Addie looked up at the locker number, and realized it said 325, not 425.

" Sorry." Addie said sadly.

" That's alright." Delia said as she opened the locker.

" Hey," Addie said with a small smile, " you know, I was just wondering, do you like Jordy? I mean, you don't have to answer if you don't want to, but I couldn't help but notice what went on at lunch."

Delia blushed as she pulled her Physics book out of her locker. " You won't tell him, will you?"

" No, of course not." Addie said, crossing her fingers behind her back.

" Yeah, I do like him. But he doesn't like me. He ignores me most of the time." Delia said quietly.

" Oh, well, I'm sure he doesn't mean to." the raven haired girl replied comfortingly.

" Maybe."

The bell rang.

" I'll see ya later." Addie said as she made a dash for her locker.

It wouldn't do her any good to be late for her next class, which was Spanish III.

Addie stood in front of her closet, wondering why on earth she was going through with this.

She pulled out a black lycra shirt and pulled it on, taking off her white button down shirt.

" Now, I just need some pants." she mumbled out loud.

" How about the olive cargo ones?"

Addie gasped and quickly turned around to see Gabby standing in the doorway.

" How long have you been there?" she asked as she pulled the jeans out of her dresser.

" Not long. Just after you said something about pants."

" Oh."

" We'll be waiting downstairs."

" Uh-huh." Addie said absentmindedly.

She pulled off her hip huggers and pulled the cargo pants on. She pulled on a clean pair of socks, left her curly hair down and grabbed her skates and black helmet. She jogged downstairs and found Jordy, Gabby, and Peter all sitting in the living room.

" Let's go."

They all headed outside, stopping on the large concrete porch to put their skates on.

Julie had readily agreed to watch Grace, saying the baby was her responsibility not the teenager's.

Of course, it had taken the others the better part of the walk home to get Addie to agree to even come down to the skate park. Brink hadn't joined them, saying something about catching up with them later.

" So," Addie said as she skated over to Jordy, " do you like Delia?"

Peter and Gabby were about ten feet ahead of them, talking about the X-Games.

" What?" Jordy said as he glanced at her. " Where'd that come from?"

" Look, I'm not supposed to tell, but she likes you." Addie said, biting her tongue to keep from saying man.

Peter's bad influence, yet again.

" No joke." Jordy said in disbelief.

" No joke." Addie said with a smile. " She told me before fifth period. Though, I wasn't supposed to tell you. She thinks you don't like her. You'll give her a chance, won't you?"

Jordy contemplated this for a moment as they continued skating down the sidewalk. " Yeah. Of course."

" Great!" the raven haired girl said with a happy squeal.

They continued the trip in silence. That was until they got into the skate park to find Brink.

With Molly Clemens.

Kissing Molly Clemens to be precise.

Jordy tried in vain to keep Addie from seeing, but the stubborn girl all but shoved him out of her way.

" What's going on…" her voice faltered as she saw the scene.

Molly let go of Brink, smirking when she laid eyes on Addie.

" Oh, hello, Allie."

" It's Addie." she snarled.

" I told you Andy's mine." she said gleefully.

" I don't see your name on him."

" Should I give you another demonstration?" she queried with another smile.

" You little witch!" Addie hissed as she pulled her skates off, throwing them to the pavement.

Molly followed her lead and kicked her platform sandals off.

Sure, Molly was a good five inches taller than she was, but she could take her.

" Addie…" Peter said warningly, torn between happiness and guilt.

On one hand, it would be great if Addie stomped Molly. On the other, their mom wouldn't be exactly thrilled with the threats of suing and jail time Molly's rich father would threaten them with.

" Stay out of this, Peter." Addie said as she stared at Molly.

" What is it? Afraid your brother can do a better job than you?"

Addie lunged at the blonde, but was jerked back by Jordy.

" Molly, get out of here." he said as Addie struggled in his grip.

" Oh, I will. Come on, Andy, let's leave your little friends alone. We have more important things to do."

Addie nearly broke out of Jordy's grip, but was grabbed by Peter and Gabby.

" Look, guys, can't we just get along." Brink said, speaking for the first time since the fight had started.

" Oh, we'll get along alright." Addie spat. " If you keep your little hussy away from me, she won't get her pretty little face clawed up."

Gabby let go of Addie, grabbing her skates as she followed the boys and the struggling girl out of the park.

A.N.- Okay, this chapter was a whole lot better when I first typed it up, but unfortunately for me, I couldn't remember all of it. I hope it's still a good chapter, and I'll have the next one up soon, I promise.