Chapter 9:

"Bye John." Trish said and kissed her boyfriend goodnight.

"Yeah, bye. Love you." John said and kissed her back. They were standing in Trish's doorstep. John brought her home and now it was time to say goodnight.

"You better go." Trish said and smiled at him.

"Yeah, or your dad's gonna chase me with a shotgun! Take care and dream of me please." John said and hugged her.

"Uh-huh. Don't worry I will, just promise that you'll dream of me too." Trish said and went inside the house after giving John one last look.

"Good night Mr. G!" John said and saluted Trish's dad who was reading newspaper in the living room. He just nodded and smiled at John.

John walked back to his car humming to himself.

"I'm going upstairs!" Trish said to her folks and went to her room and went straight to her phone.

"Okay honey!" Trish's mom said but Trish had already slammed the door close. Her mom looked at her dad exasperatedly and her dad just shrugged his shoulders.

"So you got home safely without us huh? How's your head?" Trish asked Stacy over the phone, she's been meaning to talk to her all the time that night

"Yeah. I did. Thanks to David." She muttered and a small voice. She was pretty sure that Trish is gonna freak out when she hears that she's been walking home with David Flair.

"Really?" Trish said absently while filing her nails. Then she realized what Stacy just said. "You what?" Trish said in a more loud voice.

"See." Stacy thought. But she's her best friend so she can tell her anything.

"I walked home with David Flair." Stacy repeated.

"That kiss stealing idiot! I was gonna actually ask you this earlier but I was just stopping myself. What the hell were you thinking?" Trish kept rambling on an on.

"Trish what's wrong if I walk with Dave?" Stacy said exasperatedly.

"What's wrong is that you and David Flair should not be seen together because Randy would think that you two are back together! And that you two are done and when you're done you should not hang out with each other anymore. Especially in your case where… where… Urgh! The point is you should not see him again!" Trish told her in a very fast way. Stacy swore Trish was breathing real hard after she was finished talking!

"Calm down Trish! Dave's okay, you know that!" Stacy said slowly and sighed as she lies down on her bed with the phone still glued to her ear.

"Your headache must be more serious than I thought." Trish told her honestly.

"Huh?" Stacy asked in confusion, then she remembered that she told her that she was having a headache that night.

"Did I just hear you said that David Flair is okay? And I'm talking to this girl who repeatedly exclaimed to the world that she hates David Flair! God! What's wrong with you?" Trish asked wondering so much.

"Uh, I guess I should tell you the truth… I owe you an explanation. For two occasions." Stacy said slowly.

"What truth? You and Flair got back together? No! What about Randy?" she asked insanely.

"No! And what's up dragging Randy in this conversation?" Stacy said.

"Sorry, I'm still not used to the fact that I promised that I should stop pairing you up with Randy." Trish apologized.

"Whatever." Stacy answered back.

"So what's this truth that you're telling me?" Trish asked her again, she was getting more curious by the second.

"Okay, I'll tell you. We're not actually enemies. David and I, I mean. It's all front because he was gonna start dating Torrie Wilson and he knows how much Torrie hates me, you know my relationship with David was going nowhere so I finally decided to let him go, right?" Stacy asked her again.

"Uh-huh. So what happened?" Trish asked her further.

"David said that he really likes Torrie so I thought it was really pointless to work things out between us. So we broke up. I felt so bad at the beginning coz he left me for Torrie so I guess it's true that I hated him at first but I understood him and it sort of didn't work out between him and Torrie. It turns out that Mr. Flair doesn't like Torrie. So we became friends again. Secretly." Stacy finished.

"Well, his a selfish bastard you know?" Trish told her darkly.

"If you think you really love someone you'd do stupid things you know." Stacy said. "Enough about what happened to me. What about you?" Stacy shifted the conversation to her.

"Stace! Oh my God! I just had the most wonderful night of my life!" Trish exclaimed suddenly, forgetting about her small outburst earlier.

"Why? John proposed to you?" Stacy teased. She's slowly learning to accept that her best friend loves Randy's best friend very much.

"Whoa! No! But if he did, I'll surely say yes!" Trish laughed.

"Girls! No talking about getting married yet." The voice of Trish's dad came from an extension.

"Dad!" Trish said her face burning hotly.

"Hi Mr. G!" Stacy greeted him.

"Hello, Stacy." He greeted her back. "Now, it's time for bed ladies. It's way past your bedtime."

"Yes, Mr. G. Bye Trish!" Stacy said.

"Oh Stace, we're going to the mall tomorrow and you just hang out with the girls and some of the guys." Trish said and whispered the last bit. Stacy chuckled a bit.

"I heard that Trish. You haven't asked permission yet so don't count on your luck so much." Mr. G told her and smiled secretly.

"Yeah, see you then." Stacy just said and hung up.

"Dad!" Trish whined on the phone.

"What? You want me to tuck you in?" Her dad teased her.

"You know, for such a cool dad, you can also get dorky sometimes. " Trish said and laughed before hanging up.

Stacy just texted Trish later…

"Can David come with me?" Stacy typed.

"Yeah. Whatever." Trish replied. Stacy just smiled a bit.

"Might as well do it. He's already seen us hugging." Stacy said as a perfect plan came to her mind.