Zoey finished colouring in the shirt and placed down her red pencil, closing the notebook that had 'Fashion 101 – Zoey 101' written on the front. She'd been working on the fashion show since her meeting with Dean Rivers. She'd finished her initial designs for her line, but she wasn't looking forward to actually making it. Her notebook lay beside three others, one named 'Fashion 101 – Nicole 101' and the other 'Fashion 101 – Rebecca 101.' The last notebook was unnamed. She had decided to hold a competition for a guest designer, though she didn't suspect she'd get much talent coming in.
"Can I sit down?" Chase pulled back the seat and sat anyway, taking Zoey's warm smile as a 'yes.'
"What're they?" he asked, nodding towards the pile of notebooks.
"They're fashion designs for Zoey 101," she told him, "and Rebecca 101 and Nicole 101. And a Guest-Designer-101 too."
"Guest designer?" Chase swung back on his chair, "A lot of people will be interested in that Zoey, it'll be a good fundraiser. So, what else are you doing to raise money for the trip?"
"A dance," she groaned, flicking absent-mindedly through the Zoey 101 book. "Dean Rivers suggested it and Becca was all for it. She was abseloutely ecstatic."
Chase bit his lip. The last PCA dance, hadn't been good news for him. Not only had he not succeeded in asking Zoey to the dance in the first place, but she had also kissed Art Sinclair, after kissing him. The previous dance, Michael set fire to his trousers by accident and Zoey ended up escorting him to the hospital, and the other dances…well, they hadn't exactly been a picnic. He had a feeling, that this dance, wasn't going to break the pattern.
"Well she's not ecstatic anymore," Chase said, "you should've seen her face in life science when she got paired with Logan."
Zoey laughed lightly, imagining Rebecca's smile disappear and a well practiced and intimidating scowl taking place.
"I thought she'd swing out at Jerome," he continued, "but she sat there with her face tripping her. She looked so angry, it was quite funny. The two spent the last ten minutes of the class threatening each other in low hisses."
"Well that'll be an easy 'A'," Zoey commented, "'The Complete Constant Conflicts of Rebecca and Logan,' by Rebecca and Logan.'"
"The project would be a million pages long if they did that," Chase reached for Zoey's notebook and began looking through it.
The clothes were good. Very casual, a lot like what Zoey wore already. The main selling point of the clothes really was the accessories, and each outfit looked unique and custom-made, with pins and badges, sewn sequins and hanging rosettes. He noticed on a few pages were boy/girl pairings.
"Are you going to audition for models?" He asked.
"Each line designer will cast their own models," Zoey explained, chewing on the end of her pencil, "I'll have Nic and Becca in it of course, and you. Maybe, if you behave."
Glen slid into the empty seat beside Rebecca at the back table at the library. She looked up at him from the book she was reading, entitled 'How to Deal With Those Annoying Idiots who Just Won't Go Away.'
"Hey," he nodded his head casually.
"Hi," she replied uncertainly, looking back down at her book. The two stayed silent. Eventually, she looked back up again.
"I'm sorry at the risk of being rude, but do you want something?"
Glen took out a book from his bag and waved it in front of her face.
"No, I just wanted to sit and read," he said.
"Here?" She asked.
"Yep, here." He opened the book and began reading, glancing at Rebecca out of the corner of his eye. He could tell she was caving, because he could see her eyes losing place on the page and she kept shifting about in her seat uncomfortably. She looked up again.
"I'm really sorry," she said, pushing a wave behind her ear, "but why?"
"I need your help," he said in a low voice, closing his book and pushing it aside. Rebecca, looking startled, blinked at him.
"Sorry, do I know you?"
"Glen Davis," he told her, "and you're Rebecca Sinclair. And you, are going to help me."
"Okay…" she looked around uncertainly, "what do you need help on? Math? Geography? Life Science?" she paused to shudder, "Art? Well, you should ask Michael about art, he is the master of the pencil."
"It's not an academic thing," he said.
"Uh…okay…" said Rebecca, clearly puzzled, "P.E? Uh…manners? Clarity of your point of talking to me? Cause I could certainly do with a lesson in that."
"Do you fancy me?" He said so quickly, that it caught Rebecca off guard, who stared blankly for a few seconds before shaking herself out of it.
"I uh – what – uh…you're nice and all but you're not really my, uh –"
"Good, it would've been difficult in this mission if you had," he interrupted, "though I wouldn't mind a bit. Well, more than a bit."
Rebecca seriously hoped he was talking about cake.
"You should know," he continued, "that you have debuted on the 'Top 20 PCA Babes' List at number one. You're hot property."
"I'm what?" Rebecca pulled a face, "I'm sorry, you're going kinda fast and darting from subject to subject so I have no idea what you're tal –"
"The point is, I need you to get me hot property," he interrupted again.
"And why, sorry, how could I, of all people, make you hot property?"
"Because you're the hottest girl at PCA," he mused, "the first girl to debut at number one, the first girl to knock off Adrienne House since she joined."
"Adrienne House? No way, no way, did I knock her off," Rebecca shook her head, "she's stunning."
"And so are you baby doll," Glen knocked her lightly on the chin.
"I'm sorry, but I don't really know how to get about whatever you're asking me here," Rebecca picked up her book, swung her bag on her shoulder and stood up, "I apologize, but I really don't see what I could do to help you."
Glen stood to face her. She never realized he was actually a centimeter or so taller as her, a rare feat in boys when Rebecca was concerned.
"Oh I have something planned," he said. Rebecca raised an eyebrow.
"Oh yeah, and what's that?"
MrsLoganReese, Starburst87 I would love to read your stories, I will do so once I have finished editing this chapter, Starburst87 Rebecca is rougly 5'8/9 while the guys are roughly 5'6/7 and the other girls (Dana, Zoey, Nicole etc) are about 5'4/5/6, so she's definately taller than everyone else. The only girls she isn't taller than are Adrienne House (who will have a bigger part coming up) who's the same height as her and so will the other character being introduced, the 'Love to Hate' character...oh and zxxbsmsgirl3148, thanks for the cookies!
