A/N: Hey to those who read! Um, after this part, the next 1 will probably take a week or two… sorry – but my school has successfully drowned me with homework already… Anyways, hope you guys would still continue to read my story… :)

Part 24: Oblivious…

After the Game - Restaurant

After the cheering and all, the four soccer stars got their friends to carry their unneeded bags to the car and walk down to the restaurant first. As their friends went ahead, they headed towards the locker room and took a quick shower. After making sure they weren't all sweaty, the four headed down towards the road to the little restaurant.

Table Seating (Round Table) - Left: Sam, Grace, Tad, Russell, Katie, Jessie, Becky

"Do you guys think two pizzas enough or three?" Sam asked with a victorious grin on her face, happy with the outcome of the game.

"Two, I'm sure is plenty…" Grace replied, calculating in her head how many slices each people would have.

"So two large pizzas… What topping?" queried Sam.

Katie was the first to reply, because her mind was set on what pizza she wanted before they even arrived. "I want a Hawaiian Pizza… You know the one with pineapple and ham."

"Er… that Supreme one…" Tad said, with his eyebrow scrunched up, trying to think if 'supreme' was the name of it.

"Supreme… what's in it?" Katie asked curiously.

"It has like… capsicum, some sort of minced meat or something…" Tad began.

Russell then butted in with, "Olives…"

"Yeah. Well basically it has a lot of crap in it." Tad said shrugging his shoulders.

"Crap?" Jessie teased, "nice uh… phrase to explain a pizza topping."

"Well you know what I mean."

"Alright then… So it was a Hawaiian and a Crap… I meant Supreme pizza?" Sam asked jokingly, causing everyone to laugh, and Tad to fake-pout.

"Oh my gosh… I so need to start hanging out with more guys." Tad said sighing.

"Eh hem… or you saying I'm not a guy?" Russell questioned half defensively and jokingly. Tad only responded with an eye-roll.

Sam, still laughing at the scene, waved her hands for assistance. Within seconds, a waitress with a name tag saying 'Jenny', whom just walked out of the kitchen, came to ask what they would like to order. This girl was around their age, couldn't be anymore than 16 or 17, with short milk chocolate brown that was tied up into a small ponytail. For some reason, the girl took a look around the table and her eyes stopped at Sam.

Sam began to order without looking up from the menu in her hand, therefore not realizing the other girl's staring, "Can we please have a large Supreme and a Hawaiian pizza… also three Coke and three Fanta thank you." Finally finishing, for the first time Sam looked up at the waitress and smiled one of her charming smiles, the other girl seemed to have melted. Grace looked at the two girls and then thought, 'hmm…interesting'.

After taking in the order, the waitress stood near the bar, every now and then she would take a look over at their table. Occasionally, Grace would catch the waitress staring in Sam's direction, but Sam seems to be totally oblivious to this girl's staring. Out of curiosity, Grace nudged Sam's side catching the older girl's attention, whilst the other's continued on their conversation.

"Yeah?"

"Do you know that girl?" Grace said, indicating towards the bar.

Following Grace's gaze, Sam looked towards the bar, for a short second, she and the anonymous waitress' eyes locked, before the other girl pulled away. "Who? The waitress?"

"Yep… You know her?"

"Uh… No, not that I can think of," Sam replied shifting her gaze back to Grace, "Why you ask?"

"Well, I swear she has been staring at you for the past ten minutes."

"Staring at me?" Sam asked incredulously, "You serious?"

Grace nodded in response, "that's why I asked whether you knew her." Then smiling mischievously, "Ooooh, Sam, you've got an admirer!" Grace said loud enough to catch everyone else on the table's attention.

"Who!" Becky asked excited.

Slapping Grace on the arm, Sam said "I do not."

"Yeah you do, that's why she's been staring at you for ten minutes!"

"Who's been staring?" Katie questioned.

"That waitress who took our order…"

Everyone looked in the waitress' direction, except for a totally embarrassed, blushing Sam.

"Damn… there goes another hottie…" Tad pouted, "I'll seriously never get any girl's hanging with you guys," indicating to Sam and Katie.

"You can have all the girls you want, because I've found mine," Katie said wrapping her left arm around Jessie's waist.

"Katie…that was so sweet" Jessie said, turning and giving Katie a hug.

"Aw… you guys are so cute." Becky said.

"Too cute really…" Grace said shivering, then going back to their original topic, "So Sam, you gonna make a move?"

"Who the heck said I was into girls?" Sam shot back.

"Hmm… weird, you're not into girls, but it seems that a lot of girls are falling head over heals for you… maybe too many." Russell said, rubbing his chin as he thought.

"It's not my fault. I don't know why that is…"

'Oblivious… just as oblivious as Jessie…' Grace thought.

"You kidding me?" Tad asked.

"No. I have no idea why okay!" Sam replied frustrated.

"All the girls I know are like, 'oh my god… Sam is so cool'" Tad said in a girly tone. "'Sam just smiled at me!', 'She's so nice, she opened the door for me.' And you're telling me you don't know why they fall for you?"

Still having no clue where her friends were getting at, "No…"

Sighing, Jessie replied to Sam in the most straight forward manner she could manage, "Sam… They think you're charming."

"Me? Charming? No way."

"Why else do you think you have that fan club in the crowd every time you play a game?" Grace asked.

"You know I over heard some girls in class saying that they did a mini research. The question asked was, 'Who's the most charming people in school?'" Becky stated, recalling her little eavesdrop. "Apparently Sam and Katie are on par so far," finished Becky matter-of-factly.

Katie and Sam looked at each other wide-eyed, surprised to hear they were voted to be charming.

"Me as well?" Katie asked incredulously.

Everyone except for Sam shook their head in disdain.

"Baby… Please tell me you know you're charming?" Jessie asked in a mock-pleading tone.

"Eh heh… I joke around about it, but…No, never thought I was." Katie said rubbing at the back of her head, smiling sheepishly.

Katie's reply was enough to get most of her friends to practically fall off their chairs.

"Gosh, what is it with people nowadays. They don't even realize they're charming anymore… even if it's like so obvious, even blind people could tell." Grace said annoyed. "Why on earth do you think the whole school is like dying to even get remotely close to either of you?" Grace asked, looking from Katie to Sam and back.

"I never really considered… I just thought people were really nice." Katie explained.

"And I never thought that people actually wanted to even get close to me." Sam explained.

Even the normally very oblivious Becky had to do some explaining, "Well, I don't see how you guys wouldn't know, I mean have you ever questioned why you always have a flock of people trying to talk to you?"

"For all I know, I sometimes see people float into the room, and they would tell their friends how Katie or Sam smiled at them. SMILED! Just a smile, you guys got them floating on cloud nine." Grace said exasperated.

"Same." Jessie agreed.

"Oh…" was all that Katie and Sam could mumble out.

"Amazing, the smartest girls ever didn't even realize they were this popular around school." Becky said amused.