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Mac had needed some time to calm herself after she talked to Dick. She had been furious with him. Who the hell did this guy think he was? She had felt also somewhat relieved that she had stood up to him and told him her opinion. She had definitely shown him off. And that felt great.

Until it struck her. She had yelled at Dick Casablancas about his sex thoughts about her. OMG! That didn't happen! It couldn't. There was no way she said that. No freaking way!

Back to the embarrassing-stage. She had already been there four days ago. And now it was totally her fault. How could she ever look into his eyes again? How could she ever face him? How could she ever face anybody again? She would have to stay in her room for the rest of her life. No way she would go into the world knowing that she got angry at Dick for having a sexual reaction toward her.

Goodbye Hearst!

She had planned on going to Hearst in two weeks when college started. Not that she would still be able to actually go there now. She had planned on having a new life. Go back and have a new start after high-school.

Goodbye new life!

No leaving from home. No living at the campus. No sharing rooms with a complete stranger. She had already thought about who the person could be she would have been sharing her room with. Not that it still mattered now.

Goodbye friends!

Well that wouldn't be that much of a problem since there weren't many people Mac could call a friend. Life wouldn't change that much. And she still had her computer. The one thing she was good at. Her refuge when she needed one. Her distraction if something had went wrong. After all, she had just told Dick that she was a nerd. Time to act like one.

She went to sit in front of her pc and turned it on. She wanted to distract her with some work. Maybe do the homepage for this guy who had asked her for help. She had met him at some of her favorite internet-sites,which was all about computers and stuff. He needed help to make a homepage for his new founded company and Mac had offered to help. She hadn't had that much to do anyway for the last four days, except for avoiding Dick, and she always liked to do something like that. People couldn't understand how much fun this work could be. It was more of a hobby than a work anyway.

She thought about the last time that she made a homepage like this. It had been the one for Cassidy and his FBLA-project. That was about the time when the two of them got together. But hadn't she told herself that she wouldn't be the girl anymore that she had been with him? That girl would do exactly what she was doing right now. Hide and pretend nothing was wrong.

But that's not what she wanted. She wanted to go to Hearst. She wanted a new start. She wanted to leave home and live at campus. She didn't want to abandon the friends she had. And she definitely wanted to see Dick again. Maybe not for the next week but sometime.

She knew she needed to apologize. It wasn't enough that she admitted to herself that she had been completely wrong. Well maybe not completely but mostly. Dick didn't deserve this. He had tried to call her so many times and she had rejected him on every single on of them.

It was time to make amends.

But with that came the next problem: How?

How was she going to apologize to him? How could she reasonably explain her outburst? And most importantly: How would he react? Did he even want to see her again after this?

Dick was totally confused now. If he had been confused before the weird phone call then he definitely was ueber confused now. What the hell was Mac talking about? She hadn't given him much information about why she was so angry at him but he was quite sure about the angry-part itself. The yelling and insults had been enough indications. Even Dick wasn't that dumb.

But he was dumb enough to not know what was going on. Mac had been angry at him for - what was it again?Him getting turned on by the nerd or something like that. What the fuck? What should that mean? After all, he was just a boy, a teenage boy with his hormones in overdrive. He surely wasn't gay so he had to react. He was Dick Casablancas after all. Even if he changed he still liked the ladies a lot. And Mac was one of them, a hot one to be precisely. She wasn't the type of girl he had preferred before, but he couldn't deny that she was his type now.

He had to do something about this. There had to be a reason for Macs behavior and he was determined to figure it out.

Dick knew he couldn't call her. She would just not answer it again so this was not an option. The only other way he could think of was to drive to her, hope that she was at home and make her tell him. He wasn't going to give up. The other Dick would have done that and just searched for another girl to get laid and forget about the other one.

But not now.Not him.

Now was the time that he showed Mac that he was different. That he could be different.

He went to his car and set off.

Mac came to the conclusion that she couldn't just call him again. Even if he did pick up -what she doubted – what was she going to say anyway? Hey Dick, I'm sorry! I don't now what's gotten into me. Forgive and forget?Yeah, that would so do it.

No she had to do something else. She had to see him in person after this. She had to face him even if this was the last thing she wanted to do right now. But she had to. If she waited just a little longer she would make it all worse. If it actually could get much worse than it already was. She knew that it was pretty awful at the moment.

She would have to drive to him, face him and talk to him. She just hoped that he was at home when she arrived.

Dick was standing on the porch of Macs house. For the last five minutes.

He had thought about what he was going to say throughout the whole car-drive. He had thought about how she could react and how he could make her understand. How he could make her trust him to tell him what was wrong.

But now his mind was blank. He hadn't knocked because all of his words were gone. Nothing left in his mind. Blank.

His mind didn't even notice that he was standing in front of a door looking rather stupid. Not only hadn't he knocked before, but he just stand there his gaze stuck on the door. Like some idiot. If somebody had watched him standing there he would have probably thought that Dick was crazy.

He finally got out of his stupor when he saw the door opening and the person standing in front of him looking rather confused.

Mac was standing in front of the door, confused. She hadn't expected that. Of course she had thought about it before but she didn't really consider it. Dick had been at home just minutes ago. She was sure. What was she going to do now?