"Go Alicia!" Marta cheered from the stands. Alicia was not only a backup singer for the band but during their hiatus, she had found that she really enjoyed basketball and was currently playing a game on the school's girls basketball team. Marta, being her best friend, was of course there for her. Gordon had come because Marta asked him too. Also at the game was...Marco? What was he doing here? Either way, he wasn't even paying attention to the game.

One of Alicia's teammates passed her the ball. She leaped into the air and SLAM DUNK! That's the end of the game. Their school's side was of course cheering wildly. "What's going on?" Marco asked, finally looking up.

"Alicia just won use the game!" Marta told him.

"Oh, cool?" He said confused knowing nothing about sports. Marta rolled her eyes before hugging Gordon in excitement. Gordon blushed but hugged her back. After the game, Alicia met up with her friends outside.

"You did such a great job out there A!" Marta told her.

"Thanks M! Anyone could've pulled that off though."

"Yeah, but you did it."

"I'm shocked you come to one of my games for your date." She said with a smirk.

"It's not a date!" They both yelled.

"I'm surprised Marco came along." She said after she stopped laughing.

"He didn't," Gordon told her. "He was just here when we showed up. So we brought him to the gym."

"Weird, is he still inside?" She asked them.

"Do you see him next to us?" Marta asked.

"No," Alicia replied.

"Then he's still inside." Gordon said.

"Ok, you guys go. I'll grab Carrot Top." She said heading back inside the building. When she walked back inside Marco had yet to leave the gym. He was vigorously jotting down equations in a notebook. Alicia cleared her throat causing him to turn around. "You probably want to go home now." She said.

"Oh shit, what time is it?" He asked.

"It's ten-thirty." She said, pulling out her phone.

"Crap, my mom's gonna kill me." He said, grabbing all his stuff. "I gotta jet."

"I'll walk home with you. You still live in the same place?" She asked.

"Uh, yeah. You remember where I live?" He said in confusion.

"Of course, I remember where all the cool people live." She told him.

"You think I'm cool?" He asked as they left the school.

"Of course I do. Remember back in middle school when Freddy had that party?"

"Oh yeah and they threw us in the closet." He said with a small laugh.

"I asked you not to make a move and you actually listened to me." She said smiling.

"Well yeah, how does that make me cool?" He asked.

"You knew you were gonna get made fun of if you didn't kiss me and yet, you still didn't."

"Why would I care what some guys say about me? You're actually my friend and you didn't want me to kiss you."

"That makes you cool." She told him. The two of them grew silent to listen to the sounds of the night. "Aight, here we are." She said as they came to his house.

"Are you sure you don't want me to see you home?" He asked.

"I think I can handle myself better than you." She said. He smiled and walked inside his place. Alicia waved before beginning her walk home.

The next morning, Zack was walking to school half asleep with his music blasting in his ears. Freddy skated up to him and considered for a second whether or not they were cool to talk. It had been over a week since they broke up and while they agreed to stay friends, they haven't spoken much since then. You know what? What the Hell? He thought before tapping Zack's shoulder.

Zack thought for a second before he pulled his headphones down. "Jones," He said in a tone that was difficult for Freddy to read. "I'm messing with you man, what's up?" He asked giggling.

"Oh, ok. How's it going?"

"Oh you know, sleep deprived, dehydrated and forgot money for lunch and it's too late to go back now." Zack told him.

"So like, the usual?" Freddy asked.

"Yeah, the usual. I also agreed to write songs for the spring musical." Zack told him.

"Wait, did they ask you or did you volunteer?"

"They asked and I said I'd do it." Zack explained.

"That's actually really cool dude."

"Yeah…" Zack said slowly spacing out.

"Is something wrong?" Freddy asked.

"No, it's just takes alot of time out of my day that's all."

"Makes sense. No time for guys huh?"

"Oh please, I couldn't get a date if I tried." Zack said with a laugh. "Besides, I'm not sure if I'm ready to date again yet after…"

"Oh, of course. Makes sense." Freddy said feeling everything coming back up.

"What about you? Anyone new guys or girls in your life?" Zack asked, moving away from their breakup.

"Oh me? No, I'm deciding to finally take a break and focus on myself. I clearly need to work things out." Freddy admitted.

Alicia sat in her math class barely awake. She was secretly texting Marta to try to stay up.

M: OMG! U and Marco would make such a cute couple!

A: I rly wish u would stop saying that. We're just friends M!

M: Then y did u walk him home last night?

A: Girl, have you seen him? He would not make it home in his neighborhood that late.

M: LOL! TRUTH XD

"Alicia!" The teacher yelled snapping her attention back to the classroom. "I'm sorry if my lecture is interrupting your conversation,"

"Sorry, I'll put it away." She said stuffing it into her bag. After the teacher went back to the board, Alicia heard chuckling behind her. She turned around to see Marco behind her snickering. "Something funny?" She whispered.

"No, nothing at all." He said still laughing a little.

"Laugh it up Ronald McDonald." She said.

"Oh wow, a read head joke. Never heard that one before." He said rolling his eyes.

"It's the easiest thing to go after." She told him.

"Simplicity at it's finest." He said before he went back to writing down notes.

"You calling me simple?" She asked.

"I'm not answering that." He said.

"I don't know Gordon, I don't really like horror movies." Marta told him as the two of them were together at lunch away from their usual groups.

"C'mon, it's a classic. It's Stephen King." He said, trying to get her to agree seeing a new movie with him.

"Ok, I'll go see it with you if we can bring someone else with us."

"Uh, no offense, but three's a crowd." He told her.

"I meant two others, like as a double date Gordon." She explained.

"Whoa, whoa, who's calling this a date?" He asked.

"I am Gordon. I'm calling a date. Can we stop saying everything we do isn't a date? Can't we just call it a date for once? I really like you and I thought you really liked me to." She said.

"I...I do Marta, I swear. I just…" He said. "It's complicated, ok? I'm complicated." He told her. "But, it's a date." He said, grabbing her hand. "And we can bring two more people with us." He agreed.

"Ok cool, so I was thinking we can bring Alicia and Marco."

"And why's that?" He asked her.

"Well, they're obviously into each other, I think they just need a push is all."

"Is that so?" She could feel the sarcasm in his voice and got annoyed so she kissed him on his cheek. "Yeah, I totally see it whenever they talk, we should something."

"Oh my god, thanks for agreeing with me, you really didn't have to." She said.

"No, no, it's a great idea." He told her, with a grin on his face.

"Hey," Freddy said, arriving at the table he usually sat at with everyone else.

"Hey," Zack responded awkwardly. Everyone else was silent looking back and forth between the two. "You wanna sit down or…?"

"Uh, yeah. Sorry." Freddy said taking a seat next to Frankie.

"What took you so long?" Tomika asked.

"And couldn't you have taken longer?" Katie asked under her breath, but still loud enough for Freddy to hear.

"Went to my locker first, huge mistake." He told them.

"Can't stop making them huh?" Katie mumbled again.

"Is there a problem Katie?" He asked her getting annoyed.

"Yeah, he's five feet tall and smells like cheap hair-gel." She told him.

"Bitch where?" He asked, taking his dad's hat off and running his fingers through his smooth, blond hair.

"Oh look, Freddy quit doing something, he'll back at it in a week." She said.

"Guys, cut it out." Zack said quietly.

"At least I'm consistently an asshole. Who're you gonna be tomorrow K?"

"Keep pushing me and I'll be a felon."

"Not the first time a girl's threatened to kill me, you're gonna have to do better."

"Well, it's only murder if they can find a body."

"Will you two just shut up?!" Zack yelled before he stormed off.

"Zack wait-" Katie tried to say.

"I'm sorry-" Freddy said at the same time.

"Nice job guys." Lawrence said before he walked after Zack.

"I cannot believe you right now." Tomika added, following Lawrence.

"Frankie, you're with me right?" Katie asked, latching onto one of his arms.

"Frank c'mon, we're bros." Freddy said from the other side. Frankie shook his arm loose from Katie's grasp.

"I can't be near either of you right now." He said, leaving his own way.

"I'm never watching a horror movie again." Marta said clinging to Gordon's arm as the four of them left the movie theater.

"I don't know, it was pretty tame." Alicia said with a yawn.

"I'm not sleeping tonight." She continued.

"I'm ready to go to sleep now." Alicia said.

"Stop it!" Marta whined.

"What'd you think dude?" Gordon asked Marco.

"It was ok I guess. I'm not much a movie person." He said.

"He's just upset because he couldn't do his homework during the movie." Alicia commented.

"I don't always think about homework." He told her. "Sometimes I think about cake."

"That it?" Gordon asked.

"Yeah, pretty much."

"Hey, me and Alicia need to use to restroom. We'll be right back." Marta said.

"We do?" Alicia asked as Marta grabbed her arm, pulling her inside. Once they were out of sight, Gordon pulled his phone out, using the reflection to fix his hair and straighten out his glasses.

"Nervous?" Marco asked.

"What? No, I'm cool, I'm cool. You?"

"What do I have to be nervous about?" He asked.

"Well, I mean, you and Alicia," Gordon began to say.

"Alicia and I...what? Wait do think I like her?" He asked.

"Well yeah, you two have been talking alot since her basketball game. Me and Marta figured you guys might've clicked or whatever." Gordon explained.

"Well, we may have started talking, but I don't like her that way. And I doubt she seriously thinks of me like that." He told him.

"We're back, did we keep you waiting long?" Marta asked as her and Alicia walked outside.

"No, not at all." Marco said. "Say Alicia, why don't we take our own way home?" He asked. She looked confused for a second but then saw the look in Marta's eyes and smiled.

"Sounds like a good idea to me." She said following Marco down the street.

"Told you we could get them Gordon." Marta said once they were out of earshot.

"Tonight wasn't about them Marta." He said to her confusion. "It was about us. Marta I really like you and from now on, let's go out more. Just the two of us. What do you say?" He asked.

"I'd love to." She said with a smile. Gordon took lifted her head up before he leaned down and planted a kiss on her lips. Marta draped her arms over his shoulders to deepen the kiss before the two broke apart.

"Wow." He said with a goofy smile. "That was...that was…"

"Incredible." Marta finished. After a second, they came back together for another kiss with Marco and Alicia looking for around the corner.

"Told you we'd get them." Alicia said.

"Pleasure doing business with you." Marco said as the two shook hands.

Zack was writing in his room. It was almost three in morning and he was barely awake when he heard a tap on the window. He looked up from his desk and saw Freddy outside. He stood up slowly and opened the window letting him inside. "What are you doing up?" Freddy asked.

"I told you I'm writing for the spring musical. And I have a paper due for English, a few assignments for math. Oh God, I forgot about History too. Wait, why are you here?"

"I was on my way home from seeing Jack and saw your light on. Zack, go to sleep." He told him.

"What? I just told you I have alot of work to do, I can't go to sleep yet."

"Zack, there's no way you're going to get anything done like this. You need rest."

"Are you sure?" He asked.

"Just go to sleep."

"Ok, I'll do it. Thanks Freddy."

"Hey, we're friends aren't we?" Freddy said, placing a hand on Zack's shoulder.

"Yeah, I guess we are." Zack said with a smile. Freddy stepped out of the room where he was greeted by Ashton who must've heard them and woken up.

"What are you doing here?" He asked.

"I saw Zack was up and I know he's been working really hard lately so I got him to go to sleep. Now I'm leaving, see you around." He said as he made his way for to the door. Ashton looked inside Zack's room and saw Zack was fast asleep. Something he hadn't seen in awhile with how busy Zack's been.

"Hey Jones," Ashton said before he left. "Thanks." He told him.

Freddy smiled and tipped his hat before he walked out into the night.

Sorry for another delay in updates, I've been having writers block lately especially now that I'm actively writing three stories. Until next time, bye y'all