Chapter 5

A/N: Thanks for the reviews…I was thinking of giving up this fic already…I can't seem to be able to think and write/type anymore…so sorry for late update…here goes…enjoy!

"Wait up Katie!"

Katie rolled her eyes; she knew whom the voice belonged to. "What!"

Claudia, a popular girl in her school, walked towards Katie in a model-like way. She turned to Katie and whispered, "Who's this guy? He's cute….care to introduce him to me?"

Unfortunately, Alex heard them and turned to face away. Katie was quite fed up with this. For the past few days, there are many girls approached her and asked her this question over and over again.

Katie turned away and started to walk the other direction, not caring about Claudia at all.

"C'mon, I know he's not your type, right? You're just not interested in guys. So, c'mon…" Claudia nudged, "Or you like him?"

The last few words made Katie's faced turned red, with anger and embarrassment.

Katie walked towards Alex and pushed him to Claudia. She said through clenched teeth, "Introduce yourself, pretty boy."

Claudia beamed. She flipped her hair and said, "What's your name? I'm Claudia Pearl. Call me Claudia."

"Alex Rider." Alex answered shortly.

"Hi Katie!" They all turned to the source of voice. A good-looking brown-haired guy approached Katie.

"Chris…what!" Katie replied bluntly.

"Just wanna ask you whether you're free tomorrow. its Friday to I was wondering if…y' know…we could go for a movie?"

Alex was about to say something but Claudia was faster. "Yeah, we could go too, like a double date!" Claudia tugged Alex's arm.

"So it is settled. Friday, 7.30, in front of Leisura Cinema, okay?

On the way back home, Katie and Alex didn't speak to each other at all. They sat in total silence, the atmosphere was tense. Then, Katie spoke, "Are you going?"

"I can't possibly not go. I didn't reject her." Alex replied.

"Umm…so you can't possibly prevent yourself from going?" Katie said sarcastically.

"I didn't say that."

"But you won't deny it." Katie finished off.

Alex decided to play along with it. Since Katie was being very sarcastic with the 'Claudia incident'.

"How could I?" Alex turned to Katie and smirked. Katie remained calm but actually inside she was fuming. Seeing Katie's neutral face, Alex decided add the oil to the flame.

"So are you joining us this evening?"

"How could I miss the opportunity?" Katie smiled smugly and got off the limousine.

Alex clenched his teeth.

At 7.05

Knock knock…

"Alex! Alex!" Katie knocked on Alex's door impatiently.

"Wait!"

After 2 seconds, she decided to go in without any permission. After all, it's her house.

Katie opened the door to reveal a half-naked Alex wearing his t-shirt. Katie slammed the door shut and shouted, "Why didn't you say you weren't ready!"

After a few second, Alex opened the door, fully clothed, and glared annoyingly.

"I did say 'wait', so what do you want?" Alex asked while stepping out of the room and closed the door.

Katie was still blushing, "We can't go."

"Go where?"

"You know, the date?"

"Oh…why?"

"Why? Because we're supposed to be dating!" Katie shouted. After hearing what she had just said Alex sighed, "What a waste."

Alex wanted to go and watch the movie because it had been a long time since he'd watch a movie and was really looking forward to watch it.

"Why, disappointed that you can't go out with Claudia?" Katie asked.

She has an ear like radar thought Alex.

Alex didn't reply and tell her the truth because he liked to see her jealous.

"So who's going to call and cancel it?" Alex asked, not caring to answer Katie's question.

"You! Then you could tell her all the disappointments you have."

"I couldn't. I don't even know her well…you call her."

"It's not the excuse."

"Why should I have excuse for not calling her?" Alex shot an eyebrow up.

"Oh…sorry. I forgot, you would really love to call her." Katie hissed.

Alex sighed and put his arm around Katie's shoulder. He said, "C'mon, don't say this to your boyfriend."

Katie blushed and pushed Alex away.

"We're only known as!" Katie walked away while leaving a laughing Alex.

So it ended up that Katie called Chris and cancelled, saying that her father was down with fever and couldn't make it. For Alex, she said that he decided that he rather not go because there would be less people.