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Chapter Two: Desperate

Cafeteria terrace

"Zoey! I've looked everywhere for you!" Nicole said as she set her lunch down next to her friend.

"Hello to you, too," said Lola.

"Zoey! You're not going to believe this!" Nicole squealed, completely ignoring Lola. "Tessa just set me up for a blind date!"

"A blind date?" Zoey asked. "What if the guy's a jerk?"

Nicole thought for about two seconds, and answered, "Then I'll dump him. I could always just hang around Tessa. Her boyfriend, Kyle, is coming, too. So it's kind of a…double date…part blind."

"Ooookay…" Zoey said, unsure. "Do you know anything about your date?"

"Well, he's Kyle's friend…and he plays football," Nicole said. "Oh yes! And he's rich!"

Zoey raised an eyebrow and looked at Lola. Lola shrugged.

"So when is it?" Zoey asked.

"Tomorrow night," Nicole squealed again. "I'm sooo excited. I bet he's really hot, 'cause he plays football. But probably not as hot as Drake Bell. No one's hotter than Drake."

"Of course."

"So you guys gonna help me look my best for the date?" Nicole asked.

"Okay, sure."

"So Chase, who are you taking to Homecoming?" asked Michale.

"No one yet," Chase replied. "You?"

"Abby," Michale said, then turned to Jesse. "And I suppose you are taking Lola?"

"You got it," Jesse said. "I didn't know you and Abby were together."

"Yeah, me neither," Chase added.

"We're not," Michale said. "I don't even like her."

"Then why did you ask her?" Chase asked.

"I didn't. She asked me. What was I supposed to say? 'No, I won't go to Homecoming with you because I don't like you'?"

Chase and Jesse laughed.

"Michale, you are too nice," Jesse said.

Michale ignored him. "So Chase, who are you gonna ask?"

Chase opened his mouth to answer, but Jesse got there first.

"Zoey. Duh," Jesse said.

"Hey!" Chase said, taking a bite off his sandwich. "Am I that obvious?"

"Yeah, unless there's another meaning to the way you stare at Zoey's chest whenever you see her."

Chase choked on the half-chewed sandwich and started coughing everything up.

"I do?" Chase said when he finally stopped coughing (Michale helped by patting him on the back). Shit, Chase thought. Zoey probably noticed, too.

"C'mon, man, go on and ask her," Michale said. "I'm pretty sure she'll say yes."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"Okay…I'll give it a try," Chase said. "But if she laughs her head off and thinks I'm a loser, you are so dead."

Room 101

"Okay, so are you guys ready to make me pretty for my date?" Nicole asked.

Zoey smiled. "Sit," she told Nicole, and pointed to a chair in front of the mirror.

"Yay!" Nicole yipped, and obeyed.

Zoey got out her hair straitener and started to straiten Nicole's hair, while expertly combing it.

"Zo'?"

"Yes?"

"What should I wear?"

"Lola's getting it figured out," Zoey nodded towards Lola, who was already looking through Nicole's closet.

"Find anything Lo'?" Nicole asked, looking at Lola's reflection in the mirror in front of her.

"Of course," Lola answered, and held up a perfect outfit: a lime green halter top with a beaded butterfly on the right, and a pair of curve-hugging, paint spattered, white jean capris.

"Oh my gosh!" Nicole said. "I love that out fit. Thank you so much!"

"No problem."

"Zo', are you done with my hair yet?" Nicole asked. "I really want to try on that cute outfit."

"Be patient," Zoey said. "We have time."

After about twenty minutes (it seemed like hours for Nicole), Zoey finally finished prettifying Nicole.

"Tah-Dah!" Zoey said.

"Yay!" Nicole jumped up from her chair and sprinted across the room to try on her outfit. And she did all that in about ten seconds. "Soooo, how do I look?"

"Amazing," Zoey and Lola said together.

"Thank you guys so much!" Nicole suddenly saw the clock hanging on the wall. "Shit! Look at the time! I'm gonna be late!"

"I think you'll be able to make it to Tessa's room-which happens to be across the hall-in ten minutes," Zoey said.

"Oh. Yeah," Nicole said. "Right."

"Don't be nervous," Lola said. "You're going to have a great night."

Nicole merely nodded and walked out her dorm door, with her purse held tightly in her hand.

PCA Movie Theater

Nicole walked with Tessa to the place where they were told to meet their dates.

"Don't worry," Tessa said, seeing the nervous look on Nicole's face. "Your date's hot."

"Have you met him?" Nicole asked

"No," Tessa said. "But Kyle says that over half the girls at PCA are dying to get a date with him."

"Really?" Nicole's face lit up. "Is he that hot?"

"That's what I've heard," Tessa said, smiling.

"Huh. I wonder what' taking them so long."

"We're just early."

"Oh."

A few minutes passed in silence.

"Look, Nicole! There they are!"

Nicole saw Kyle first, mainly because he was well over six feet tall. Then she saw the person walking next to him.

"Hey Kyle."

"Hey Tes'," Kyle said, giving Tessa a kiss on the lips. "Hi Nicole. This is your date."

Nicole was already staring at her date, stunned. She could not believe it. Her date was—

"Logan?"

((A/N: Yay! Hope you liked it!

I deleted this chapter like two times because I had to edit it. Sorry!))