One More Thing.
The next day, the girls cornered Harrison.
"Hi Harrison!" they said, almost in stereo.
"Hi" he answered, looking suspicious and almost scared. The girls weren't too surprised, remembering the last time they'd confronted him like this. Brooke inwardly winced, remembering suggesting their 'threesome' date that left her in a coma and more than one of them with a broken heart.
"We'd like you to come over tonight," Sam offered, nervously. "We're babysitting Mac and... well we'd like to talk to you about something."
"Haven't we had all those conversations by now?" He looked more amused than scared now.
"It's nothing bad," Brooke said. "We just wanted to tell you something."
"Well tell me now" he said, gesturing with his hand as if to motion them closer.
"Tonight's better," Sam answered. "We'll order pizza – our treat. It'll be fun." Brooke nodded, trying to convince him – and herself.
"Ooooo-kay" Harrison said, "I guess I'll see you... then."
"Great!" the girls were grinning, trying to hide how nervous they felt. "See you at seven!"
Afterwards, they looked at each other. Sam took Brooke's hand and squeezed it. "This is going to suck," she said.
"God, I hope not," Brooke sighed, then added, "We're probably overreacting, you know. I mean, we're not dating him, and the three of us have been fine since... Well, since he stopped trying to act like my boyfriend."
Sam smirked, remembering how hard it'd been to 'help' Harrison come to that conclusion 'on his own.' She almost let it slip to Brooke the afternoon when they'd finally confessed their feelings for each other. Thankfully, she'd only told her girlfriend how she and Harrison had agreed that he and Sam should never be together in 'that way.'
Realizing that Brooke was still talking, Sam decided to cover for her lack of attention in the best way she could.
"I love you," she said.
She'd said it before, and knew she'd say it many times more, but she was still surprised sometimes about how odd it seemed to be saying to Brooke after all the unkind things they'd said too each other in the past. She also realized that it's all she'd ever really wanted to say.
Brooke smiled, her eyes glistening. "I love you too Sam. I really do." Her eyes were starting to water just from thinking about how much she felt for this girl she's once claimed "not to like very much."
Sam smiled back at the blond. "Whatever happens tonight, just remember that."
"You too," was Brooke's answer as she let go of Sam's hand to get to her next class.
Elsewhere, the thing posing as Harrison John was grinning again.
"Well, this should be fun!" he shouted as he clapped his hands together.