The Notebook

-Chapter 11-

"Hey," Hannah walked into her room in a daze.Paige turned her head. She was even interested in how her date with Chase gone. Zoey, however, read old entries in the notebook with her headphones on softly so she could still hear what Hannah said. She looked at the entry where Chase told about the time a goat ate his pants and laughed a little too loud. She caught Hannah look at her reading the notebook. Zoey hoped she was jealous, Yeah that's right, you don't have a notebook with Chase! Do you? Do you? What now? she wanted to say to Hannah. But instead she just listened to what Hannah said.

"Oh my goodness, you guys it was amazing!" Hannah flopped on her bed like she was floating.

"Did you guys do it?" Paige asked with a smirk.

Hannah looked at her, completely shocked,"Of course not!"

"Than I don't really care," Paige changed into her pajamas.

Hannah ignored her and tried to catch Zoey's eye. She was dying to tell someone, anyone, how she felt. So she moved over to Zoey's bed and sat across from her indian style.

"So, how was it?" Zoey asked to be polite.

"It was wonderful," Hannah sighed happily,"Stupendous! Magnificent! Terrific!-"

"Ok, get to the point," Zoey said it with a little more bitterness than she exspected so she forced a fake laugh.

"Well, first we went to the beach and had a picnic dinner as we watched the sunset," Hannah started.

"Ah... Chase's picnics are nice aren't they?" Zoey asked.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I went on a picnic date with him once. A double date with Quinn and Mark a few years ago," Zoey said. Ok so that wasn't completely true. It was a fake date to get Mark and Quinn together. Plus the picnic was her idea.

"Oh..." Hannah looked confused and was quiet for a moment and than bounced right back to the excited, happy Hannah,"So we talked alot. It was never awkward. Everything came so easy, it wasn't like with other boys when I'm nervous and never seem to say the right thing. It was comfortable being with him. You know what I mean?"

Zoey closed her eyes for a moment, pleading with herself to not say something she would regret," Yep. How was the rest of the date? You guys went to see a movie right?"

Hannah nodded,"It was really dumb.We made fun of it most of the time."

"Movies can be dumb," Zoey said simply.

"So as we were walking back here, talking about something- I don't even remember what it was, elephants or something strange and random like that.He's very random, ya know?"

"I know."

"We said good-night and than he kissed me!"

Zoey's eyes stung with tears she was fighting back. Her voice came out far to squeaky,"Nice."

"The best part is that we're going out again tommorow!" Hannah said with excitement.

"That's wonderful, Hannah," Zoey said quietly,"I'm really happy for you both. Really."

"Thank you, Zoey, for listening to me ramble about how wonderful your best friend is. I'm sure you already know how great he is without me yapping about it forever."

Yapping?, Zoey thought. What kind of word is yapping? "It's alright. I know I'm lucky to have him."

"And now, so am I." Hannah was practicly bouncing up and down. She got up and put her pajamas on. Was it possible to hate someone that was so sweet?

"Alright," Hannah said," Well, I think I'm gonna try to go to bed. I have play practice with him in the morning."

"Good night," Zoey said softly and got under the covers. Hannah shut the light off and Zoey forced herself to lay in bed and try to sleep. I wish it could have been me, was her last thought before she drifted off to sleep.

"Here," Zoey handed Chase the notebook to Chase a little too hard, a few days later,"I didn't write in it."

Before Chase could say anything, Zoey was gone.

"Hey Zoey," Todd said as she entered her Pre-Calculas room.

"Hi, Todd," Zoey said absently. She didn't really care about him anymore. Even if he did want to get back togerther. It didn't matter. Nothing mattered anymore. It seemed like her friendship with Chase had been ripped from her grasp. So it didn't matter.

"So, I was thinking we could do something on Friday," Todd said.

"Sure."

Todd was surprised at how easy that was. A week ago he had practicly twisted her arm to even talk to him again after reading her and the bushy haired kid's notebook,"Cool. I'll meet you outside you're dorm at seven ok?"

"Whatever." Zoey was talking to Todd but her mind was somewhere else.

Novemeber 8, 2006

Zoey,

Did I do something wrong? Lately I have felt a little bit of the cold shoulder from you. Maybe it's all in my head. I don't know... but it's weird.

I hope you know how much I care about our friendship. It already has so many strikes against it now that we hardly see each other. I don't ever want to lose you as my friend. The way we haven't been able to write in here has much has sucked. I hate it. So, I resort to the cheesy writing ideas we used a few weeks ago. I'll start them later though. I have to go.

Sincerely,

Chase