Damn You Charlie
"I already have two of them hooked, and it took me a total of ten minutes to do it. As soon as I get the other two, they will be head over heels in love with me." Roxanne lying on her bed.
"Your very sure of yourself." Lori said.
"Yea Roxanne, don't get too confident." Alexis said.
"You guys are just a little shaken up that I might actually pull this off." Roxanne said getting up from the bed.
"We're gonna get caught." Lori said.
Roxanne shot her an ugly glare.
"Why would you say something like that? Besides I would be the one getting caught, not you guys." she said.
Lori mumbled "I-I don't know I just have this feeling."
"Oh shutup," Roxanne said lying back down.
"Roxanne calm down, Lori's just a little nervous," Alexis said.
"People, we have gone two days into this, and you're already backing out?" Roxanne asked.
The other girls stayed quiet.
"This is stupid. The bet is still on, you can't back out of a bet." Roxanne said.
"Who says?" Lori asked.
"It's the rules!" Roxanne said.
"What rules?" Alexis asked.
"My rules! This bet is still on!" Roxanne said making it final.
The team was on the bus heading to another school to play a game. Everyone chatting about different things. Guy and Luis happened to be sitting next to each other.
"I met this girl yesterday. She was beautiful," Luis said.
"I met a girl yesterday too, she was pretty. What was her name?" Guy asked.
"Candice, or Candy something like that." Luis said. Then a smile came to his face thinking about those legs...
"Are you sure it wasn't Kayla?" Guy asked.
"No it was Candy." Luis said.
"How did she look like?" Guy asked.
"She has brown hair, and she was wearing a short little skirt, with a short little blouse. She was very sexy." Luis repeated.
"She wasn't wearing a jersey? A hockey kind of gal?" Guy asked.
"Hell no." Luis said.
"That's weird, oh well I guess it's not the same girl." Guy said.
"Who are you talking about?" Charlie asked sneaking into the conversation.
"These girls we met yesterday. By the way you don't know anyone named Kayla?" Guy asked.
"Or Candy?" Luis added.
Charlie shook his head.
"What happened with Connie?" Charlie asked Guy in a whispering voice.
Guy shrugged "I don't know, we just aren't the same I guess."
"How long have you been talking to this new girl?" Charlie asked.
"Well I didn't really talk to her, we just bumped into each other talked for two seconds, and left." Guy said.
"Yea that's how it was for me." Luis said day dreaming.
"Wow thats true love." Charlie said rolling his eyes.
"Anyways did any of you start on the history paper?" he asked.
"Uh ha yea right." Luis said.
"Well I'm going to the school library, if any of you guys wanna come with me." he said.
"Your doing your homework?" Luis asked. But his question was ignored.
"I'll go, but I gotta do some other stuff first." Guy said.
"Like what?" he asked.
"Find this girl," Guy said.
"I'll help you, I need to find mine too." Luis said.
She heard Charlie's name a lot from the entire Varsity team. That kid's a delinquent, he doesn't belong in this school. Also there was that incident with the entire cafeteria trampling over each other because of some horse crap, that was done by him I'm sure. The ant bites the Varsity had to endure was planned especially by him. He was just not a favorite person of Rick's.
Close to the end of class no one was paying attention, just a bunch of blah blah blah. She grabbed the paper again, and wrote Charlie Conway's name then a big question mark next to it. She didn't know what he liked in a girl, maybe another trouble maker? Well that sounded like her.
"You like Charlie Conway?" the girl next to her asked. This girl was quiet, and all but a pain in Roxanne's ass. Who petitions to change the name of a hockey team from Warriors to Ducks? Warriors sounds mean, and victorious! The Mighty Ducks was just a stupid name.
"Not really." Roxanne said, putting away her paper. "He's an ass." she added.
"I used to go out with him." she said sighing. That caught her attention and Roxanne turned to talk to her.
"He's really not all that bad, just has a loose temper." she said fixing her flower clip in her hair.
"How did you meet him?" Roxanne asked curiously. The bell rang, and everyone got up from the seats rushing to the door.
"He just started telling me that he liked pizza, and R.E.M and all that, and we just hit it off. Oh yea and something about he's allergic to nuts. It was funny, but you know hockey got in the way, so we really don't talk like before. "
"That's a pity." Roxanne said rushing towards the door also, and leaving Linda hanging in the middle of a sentence
How could he like a girl that was a total opposite from him! She wanted to change the name of the hockey team because it was "demeaning?" what the freak! And he, he wanted to rip off the heads of any opposing team! That was not a healthy relationship, no wonder he doesn't "really talk" to her anymore.
"Do you still need those books?" she asked. He didn't look up, but answered
"The ones to the left no, the ones to the right yea." he said writing furiously as if in a rush. She grabbed the books, there was atleast five heavy ones. He noticed she needed help, so he finally looked up.
She didn't work much on her hair, sorta like bed head, with some flower clips. She tossed on a hippy sweat shirt, voila! Charlie's kind of girl. She was pretending to be one of those library helper people. Atleast that's what she thinks they were called. She never went to the library.
"Are you new here?" he asked.
"Yea," she answered.
"Is your name Kayla?" he asked. Her heart skipped two beats. She was caught.
"Uh no, why do you ask?" she said. He stopped what he was doing, and helped her carry some books.
"What about Candice?" he asked again.
"Nope, wrong girl." she said nervously.
"Sorry it's just my friends are looking for some mysterious girls. What's your name by the way?" he asked. They walked towards some book shelves.
"Hmm umm Lin- no wait that's the other girls name." she said mumbling to herself.
"What was that?" he asked putting some books back on the shelves not exactly where they belonged.
"Eliz- no that's too long." she mumbled again.
"I'm sorry I can't hear you." he said.
"Nicole!" she scared him with her outburst.
"Well Nicole," grabbing the books in her hand, and putting them on the shelf aswell.
"I have a history paper to finish." he said sitting back down and picking up his pen.
Damn you Charlie Conway.
She inched her way back to the table, and cracked her knuckles.
"Thats too bad," she said disappointed.
"Why is that?" he asked.
"I was gonna ask if you wanted to get some pizza sometime," she said grinning because he stopped writing.
"That sounds good actually," he said looking up. Damn she was acting like a guy asking a girl out, she hated that.
"Good, and we could listen to music? Umm like R.E.M maybe?" she said.
"That sounds perfect, where do I meet you?" he asked.
"By the bus bench tomorrow." she said walking away.
She walked past the library doors laughing to herself. Thanks Linda, she thought.
As soon as she left the libary, Guy had passed her not noticing her in her new form. He went inside the library, and to Charlie.
She heard someone behind her shouting some names.
"Candice!" he kept shouting. Shit she thought, don't turn around, keep walking, but it was too late he caught up with her, and was catching his breath.
"Hey Charlie," Guy said sitting down.
Charlie had a smile planted on his face. "Did you find her yet?" he asked Guy.
"No, I asked some people if they knew a girl named Kayla. There was two of them, checked them out, and neither one was her." he said.
"What about Luis?" Charlie asked.
"Couldn't find her either."
"Oh yea, I want you to see this girl. Her name is Nicole." Charlie said but then noticed that she had left.
"Nevermind, she was here a second ago." he said.
She put on a smile, and took out the clips in her hair.
"Hey there," she said.
"Candice, you look...different." he said confused.
"Oh...this..." she said pointing to her outfit "I had something else on just for you, but these assholes told me to change." she said.
He liked her excuse, if they told her to change it was probably because she was naked he thought.
"By the way, did you remember your name?" she asked.
"Oh yea...it's Luis...Luis Mendoza." he said popping his collar.
"Well Luis..." she said taking off her sweater.
"What are you doing?" Guy asked looking at Charlie's paper.
"I'm writing the history paper." he said.
"But your writing more than needed," he said.
Charlie looked at his paper and realized it was true.
"C'mon," Guy said "Let's get out of here."
She held the sweater in her hand, her undershirt was barely a shirt, he couldn't concentrate on what to say. She stood there, until she noticed that Guy and Charlie were walking slowly out of the library.
"Listen, I'm busy tonight, but I'll see you tomorrow." she said really fast and preparing to sprint away.
"Wait," he said "Where will you be?" he asked like a sick puppy. She ran fast out of the building before he got an answer, he turned around and saw Charlie and Guy walking in the other direction and caught up with them a sad look on his face.
"What happened?" Charlie asked
"I saw her, and she left." Luis said
"Are you serious? Damn we missed it."
"She's so beautiful..." he said talking to himself
"Well boys, I gotta date too." Charlie said.
She was out of the building, away from all three of them. This is really hard.. she thought. She went back to her room to change to her regular clothes.