Chapter Five

The next morning Sami was standing at her locker when she felt Lucas come up behind her. She smiled half-heartedly and kissed him lightly on the lips. After they pulled away, Lucas spoke up.

"Hey, did you hear about the party their having at the beach for the seniors on Friday?"

"No I didn't, I don't know if I'll be able to go with this project our literature teacher is having us work on,"

"Oh, okay," Lucas, replied a little too cheerfully.

Sami gave Lucas a suspicious look.

"Uh…I better go,"

Lucas just nodded and headed towards his homeroom.

Sami watched until Lucas was out of her vision. He seemed a little too enthusiastic about her not going to the party. Maybe she would go to the party…Just to see what Lucas was up to.

Sami walked into her homeroom right as the warning bell rang. She quietly slipped into her seat and pulled out her phone so she could text EJ. She quickly typed a message and hit send. The message read: Did you know about the beach party for the seniors? Are you going to go?

EJ looked up in Sami's direction so she knew he got the text message.

He quickly replied:

I heard about it. Not sure if I'll go though. Why?

Sami sighed and quickly replied:

Lucas asked me if I was going. When I said, I probably wasn't going he seemed way too enthusiastic about it.

She waited a few minutes for a reply and finally a few minutes later she felt her cell phone vibrate. She opened it and read the text message:

Sami didn't type anything she just turned in his direction and nodded.

EJ hesitated and mouthed the word "fine".

Sami just smiled and turned around quickly since the teacher walked into the room.

Out in the hallway Lucas and Carrie slipped into one of the janitor closets and shut the door. Lucas leaned forward and gave Carrie a hard kiss on the lips as he ran his fingers through her hair.

"Lock the door," Carrie said pulling back slightly.

Lucas did as Carrie instructed not bothering to part his lips from hers. When Lucas finally broke the kiss, he spoke up.

"Hey you know about the beach party for the seniors don't you?"

Carrie nodded.

"Yeah, why?"

"I was thinking we could go together,"

Carrie gave Lucas a confused look.

"I thought you'd be going with Sami,"

"I asked her about and she said she probably couldn't go because of some class project. So do you want to go?"

"Yeah sure, I'll go,"

"We should get out of here before we get caught," Carrie advised.

Lucas reluctantly agreed.

After that, they straightened up a little and went back into the hallway.

Later that afternoon EJ and Sami walked into the gym after lunch and climbed up the packed bleachers until they finally found a place to sit.

"So you want me to go to the party with you,"

"Well, yeah,"

"Okay Samantha, you know I'll help you any way I can but how do I fit into all of this?" EJ asked.

"I don't know…Moral support I guess,"

"Well what do you think Lucas is doing exactly?"

"I think he might be cheating on me, I mean he was practically skipping down the hall after I told him I probably wasn't going to the party on Friday,"

EJ nodded.

"Okay I'll help you,"

Sami smiled.

"Thank you,"

"No problem,"

Once he was sure Sami wasn't paying attention EJ sighed. He didn't like Lucas----That was a known fact but he hoped Sami's suspicion was wrong because the last thing he wanted was for her to get hurt.