Such Great Heights
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Chapter 4: It is chapter 4, right?
And true, it may seem like a stretch
But it's thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
When I am missing you to death.
Chase sat on his bed while Michael and Logan were both typing frantically at their laptops, pinging simultaneously.
"Are you two talking about me in an im?" Chase asked.
"No of course not Chase! Why would you think that?" Michael replied instantly turning off his sound. Chase groaned.
"Ok Mr. Really Bad Liar, what do the two of you propose I do next then?" Chase asked.
Logan closed his laptop and swung his legs over the side of his bed.
"I don't know bro; you're the Casanova now, so act upon it." He said running his fingers through his hair.
"Should I do another song thing? Like, I don't know, "Just Like Heaven" by the Cure (Chase received a no here) or "Such Great Heights" by the Postal Service (Marked down as a possibility) or something else or not another song at all?" Chase asked.
"Another song may become overbearing. As cute-"
"And weird" Logan cut in.
"Right, as cute as the first one was, a second might be pushing it." Michael said.
"Poem?" Logan offered. Michael eyed him. "Why not the kid's great with words…. On paper, just… not speaking them."
"Gee, thanks." Chase muttered.
"Well let me just say goal number one is to not let Zoey Brooks get away from you kid. Hey, she updated her blog on the school's site." Michael said, clicking on his laptop. "Oh nothing good, well, nothing about you, that is." Chase sighed.
"Not even a shout out?" He asked hopefully.
"Nope, not this time. Oh hey I didn't know we were playing Westport this week in tennis, I would love to see those goody-two-shoes preps get beaten."
"Woah." Logan said.
"What?" Chase asked.
"I'm talking to Dana." He replied. "The song was a definite hit." Chase cheered and jumped up, hitting his head on Michael's bunk above him.
"Owwww." He groaned. He distinctly heard Michael mutter "idiot" above him. "What else is she saying? Read it out loud."
"Alright. So we listened to that cd. And, what did you think?" The breaks in sentences when Logan spoke indicated a change of person, it was slightly hard to follow so Chase and Michael listened closely. "We thought it was the cutest thing ever. Interested in an encore performance? Maaaybe. How about live outside your window?"
Chase interjected here with a rather loud "NO!" Logan ignored him and continued.
"That'd be pretty awesome; I bet Zoey would love it. Or think it's ridiculous. No, she's too nice to openly admit that though." Chase groaned. "Silence fool." Logan commanded before continuing. "So what do you say Miss Cruz? I say tomorrow Chase asks Zoey to a movie Friday at 8, she has no plans she'll say yes. A date it is then."
"Wait-- what?" Chase asked. "I have to ask her on a date? To the movies?"
"It's horror movie month, every week they're playing a different horror movie. This week is…" Logan quickly checked the schedule, "Amityville Horror, the new one."
"Oh man that was scary, I peed my pants." Michael said.
Chase and Logan both looked at him weirdly.
"I mean um… yeah anyways so, how about a movie and then you guys can get like PCA Pizza or something, and just chill. You can have it delivered here, and we'll go hang in 101 that night."
"Riiiight." Logan said. "Anyways yeah, that works. Ask her in media tomorrow morning." Chase sighed.
"Ok, yeah, I'll do it!" He replied.
Just then a dvd was slipped under the guys' door.
"Oh no…" Logan muttered.
"What could this be?" Michael asked, picking it up.
"Put it on." Chase said. Michael put the dvd in the player and turned on the tv. The dvd opened in the girls' lounge and then music started playing. It was the opening to "Hey Mickey," the version at the end of 'Bring it On.' All of a sudden, Zoey, Nicole, and Dana appeared in the picture laughing hysterically, in PCA cheerleading costumes.
Logan smacked his forehead with his hand. "ARE WE SUDDENLY IN 'BRING IT ON' OR SOMETHING? ARE THE WEST COMPTON CLOVERS GONNA WALK IN NEXT AND DO THEIR LITTLE ROUTINE?" He yelled out angrily. Chase laughed and Michael turned up the volume. The words to the song started and every time the song said the word Mickey the girls dubbed it over with "Chasey." Chase's face turned bright red and Logan and Michael began cracking up hysterically.
"Oh Chasey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind hey Chasey, hey Chasey. Oh Chasey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind hey Chasey, hey Chasey."
The guys were still laughing when Zoey stepped forward. Chase inched closer to the tv with his eyes wide.
"They could have at least used the original version, not the crappy remake from this movie." Logan interjected, to get a "shut up" and a pillow thrown at him from Chase.
"Hey Chasey, you've been around all night and that's a little long, you think you've got it right and I think you've got it wrong, can't you say goodnight, so you can take me home Chasey." Zoey sang dancing along with the song.
"They're pretty much mirroring the end of the movie." Logan said. "I don't know if it's flattering, or if they're making fun of you Chase."
"Zoey Brooks just shimmied at us." Michael said with his eyes wide. Zoey backed up and high-fived Dana who stepped forward. "Here's your girl Logan." He added. Logan turned his attention back to the tv.
"Cause when you say you will, it always means you won't, you're giving me the chills baby please baby don't every night you still leave me all alone-" The guys saw her mouth "Logan" instead of Mickey or Chasey. Logan's jaw dropped.
Nicole and Zoey joined Dana up front and the three did some silly cheerleading moves during the chorus.
"Oh Chasey what a pity you don't understand, you take my by the heart (they pretended to grab their hearts) when you take me by the hand (they held clasped hands up in the air). Oh Chasey you're so pretty can't you understand (Chase blushed) It's guys like you Chasey, oh what you do Chasey, do Chasey, don't break my heart Chasey."
"Chasey is forever sticking, you know that, right Matthews?" Logan said to him with a smirk. Chase groaned and nodded his head. Zoey and Dana stepped back and Nicole took her turn at the spotlight.
"Woah baby," Michael said whistling, "shake what your momma gave ya." Chase hit Michael with a pillow who quickly moved it out of the way.
"Hey Chasey, now when you take me by the hooves everyone will know, every time you move I let a little more show, there's something we can use, so don't say no Chasey." Chase's face was beat red at this point.
"Helloooo Nicole." Both Logan and Michael said.
Zoey jumped back up front again and Chase was gradually moving closer to the tv until he was almost on top of it.
"So come on and give it to me any way you can, any way you wanna do it, I'll take it like a man (Zoey put up her fists like she was boxing, and bounced. "Chase, drooling." Michael said). Oh please baby please don't leave me in the den Chasey."
The song continued with more dancing and cheerleader-esque moves. Towards the end, all three hormonally enraged males were practically on top of the tv. As the three girls did some form of kick line moves, they say Dana mouth to Zoey "Should we flash them?" Zoey laughed and shook her head no at which point all three boys screamed out "NO DO IT!" The interesting video ended and the guys groaned.
Logan immediately ran to his laptop and laughed hysterically.
"What?" Both Chase and Michael asked.
"Dana's away message: Don't forget, Friday at 8, and then it says CHASEY in big bold letters and an lmao for good measure." Chase groaned.
"This is going to haunt me forever."
"Why are you complaining? Girls. Hot girls. In cheerleading costumes. Shook their butts. FOR YOU! Go with it, pimp." Logan replied.
Chase stood up and pulled out his guitar from beneath his bed and left the room without saying a word.
"Hey Chase! Where are you going?" Michael called out after him.
"Yeah what're you gonna do with that thing?" Logan added on.
"I'm going to think about some stuff, I'll see you guys later." Chase replied, walking down the hallway.
Chase arrived at his secret rooftop location and pulled a notebook out from a broken slat underneath a part of the rooftop ledge. He quickly flipped through the pages stopping now and then to strum out some chords to songs that were already written down.
"I used to waste my time dreaming of being alive, now I only waste it dreaming of you." He sang, but then furrowed his brow and turned to a different page.
"Breathe in for luck, breathe in so deep, this air is blessed you share with me, this night is wild so calm and dull, these hearts they race from self control… it's a possibility…" He mused but continued to turn through the pages.
"Can't you see, that I wanna be, there with open arms, it's empty tonight and I'm all alone get me through this one- no." Chase ran his fingers through his mop of hair and sighed. "Why am I doing this? Do I really need another song to impress Zoey? God, are we all of a sudden in West Side Story or something like that?" Chase laughed to himself picturing himself in the midst of a big dance-off in the field of the school to win Zoey's heart.
He then flipped to the back of the book at lists of actual real songs that he had written down.
"Spinning on that dizzy edge, I kissed her face and kissed her head, and dreamed of all the different ways I had to make her glow… They were right; this song doesn't really fit in here. (He continued to scan the words) Dancing in the deepest ocean twisting in the water, you're just like a dream… Now that part is pretty." Chase sighed; he wasn't quite sure what he was doing at this exact moment to be honest.
"Hmm…" He mused, still turning pages. "Wonderwall? No, it's overdone. The Postal Service? Such Great Heights… I think I mentioned it before." He scanned the lyrics he had scratchily written down in his notebook. "I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned. I like that. Even though we haven't kissed. There is absolutely no guitar in this song." He noticed, placing his guitar on the ground next to him.
"Ok Chase Matthews, you spent this time picking a song, now what are you going to do with it? Serenade her outside her window? Grow up, this isn't a movie. It's not like the geeky best friend ever gets the girl either." Chase knew this was untrue; he was just psyching himself out. He slammed the notebook closed and put it back in its hiding spot, then slung his guitar strap over his shoulder and left his rooftop hideaway, achieving nothing.
Walking back through the courtyard he bumped into Zoey.
"Oh hey Chase." She said with a smile and then saw his guitar. "I thought you said you didn't play…"
"Yeah I um, just decided to learn today, so I-"
"Went out and bought an expensive electric guitar with money you don't have and then mastered it in minutes." She answered for him.
"Mmm yeah, I'd say that pretty much covers it." Chase replied with a smile.
"You're silly Chase, I'll catch you later, I'm going to go study." She said patting him on the arm before walking off past him towards the library.
"Yeah well, you look cute in a cheerleading skirt!" He called after her. He then realized what he said, smacked himself in the head, and blushed the reddest shade it was ever possible to blush in the history of all blushing.
Zoey turned around to face him and laughed. "Yeah well, I love you from my head to my toe-ey, Chasey." She yelled back, laughing again.
Chase's jaw dropped. Was she serious? Or just making fun of both of their idiotic performances?
"And since you're probably too nervous to ask me and I already know of Dana's plan, and whoever else is involved, do you want to go see a movie Friday at eight?" She added, still yelling to him from halfway across the courtyard.
"Sure! I'll pick you up at your dorm at 7.30!" He yelled back, now grinning madly.
"Make it seven! We can grab something to eat first!"
"Ok it's a date! Deal! I mean deal not date! Although it's probably a date but I meant that we had a deal and-"
"Hey Chase!" She yelled cutting him off. "Stop rambling before you yell yourself unconscious from lack of oxygen! And pick me up for breakfast tomorrow before class!"
"Ok!" He yelled back. At this point, everyone in the quad was staring at these two idiots who were just yelling back and forth at each other. Zoey laughed.
"Good night Chase!" She yelled one last time before walking off to the library.
"Good night!" He yelled back and then with the biggest grin on his face, walked back to his dorm.
"Back so soon?" Logan asked who was sitting on the couch iming on his laptop while Michael was completely engrossed in a vicious Halo 2 battle. "Don't you have the particle beam cannon? Use it!" He coached Michael.
"Dude, I got this, shut up!" Michael yelled
"You're using nothing but two assault rifles, you're going to die!" Logan yelled back. Chase laughed as his two friends argued over the video game.
"Throw two grenades and then follow up with all of your assault rifle bullets, and then you'll be done." Chase said, putting away his guitar and then sitting on the other side of Logan.
"So did you think of anything while you were up there?" Logan asked.
"Nope, not a thing. But I did run into Zoey in the quad." This caught the attention of both boys for Logan closed his laptop and Michael paused the game he was in.
"So what happened?" Michael asked. Chase then replayed the entire conversation in the quad and the two boys both cracked up.
"You told her she looked cute in the skirt. And you yelled it across the whole quad? Oh Chase, that's so freaking great." Logan said in between laughs. Just then his laptop pinged and he immediately opened it and began typing.
"Talking to Dana again?" Michael asked.
"Yeah, so what?" Logan replied.
"Go out with her already dude." Chase added.
"Yeah ok this coming from Mr. Let me love from afar. Besides, if I tie myself down to one girl I can't play with all the rest, and Dana definitely isn't one who would share."
"Yeah, but you like her." Michael said.
"Yeah well Chase likes Zoey, are they going out?" Logan replied.
"How about this, if Chase manages to ask out Zoey, then you have to ask out Dana." Michael said.
"AKA, I'll never date Dana." Logan replied matter-of-factly.
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean? Besides, I'm not going to bring Zoey into this game. Things will play out as they do and if they don't then oh well."
"No not oh well kiddo. If they don't, then you'll hang yourself from the ceiling from your guitar strings." Michael replied.
"Or burn himself at the stake and use his poetry to kindle the flames." Logan added.
"Or have Quinn make his Zoey cds into bombs so when he plays them they explode so he can die in a blazing inferno." Michael continued. The two exchanged a high-five
"HEY! Can we stop planning my Zoey-related suicides? Because it isn't going to happen. I love her. And-"
"And what Romeo?" Logan asked.
"And um... I don't know; let's just see how it works." Chase replied feeling slightly dumb. "I'm going to bed."
"Isn't it a bit early?" Michael asked.
"Yeah well, oh well." Chase kicked off his sneakers and then pulled off his shorts and t-shirt and left them in a pile on the floor before falling into his bed and curling up under his covers.
Fin
A/n: wow this chapter was getting long so I had to end it. Next chapter I'll fast forward to Zoey and Chase's date, maybe things will finally get moving between those two.
By the way: Hey Mickey belongs to BWitched, well at least their version does, because that's the one I was listening to when I wrote that part lol.
The three songs that were supposed to be Chase's… aren't lol. They belong to Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, and Finch, respectively.
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