Chapter 8:

Conflicts

The Bratz were at the football game on Sunday. They were playing their rival school Mackerel High School. Cloe was on the field since the game hadn't started yet talking to Cameron as he warmed up.

"It's hot as hell out here," he said blocking his face from the sun.

"Can't be any worse than practicing in the rain," she pointed out.

He nodded. "Good point. Hand me my water bottle." She did and he took a long sip of it. "Thanks."

She kissed his lips. "You gonna win for me?"

"Of course. We aren't gonna lose to these bastards."

Cloe giggled.

Dylan came over to them. "You playing the game Cloe?"

Cloe shook her head. "Of course not!"

"Then you gotta get off the field. We're about to start."

Cloe gave him an insulted look. "Rude today aren't you? Geez, I just wanted to wish Cam good luck." She turned to her boyfriend. "Good luck."

"Thanks Cloe."

She walked off the field and went to go sit with her friends in the bleachers.

Jade kept looking around for Koby but apparently he wasn't there. She put her face in her hand and sighed.

"What's the matter?" Cloe asked as she sat down.

"Koby didn't come," Cade explained.

Jade glared at him. "So what if Koby's not here? I don't care!"

"Jade we all know you miss him, you don't need to hide it," Cade said. "Just call him already."

Cloe slapped his knee. "It's not that simple."

Cade rolled his eyes. "Don't tell me it's a pride thing. You girls…"

"Well then why won't he call Jade? I know you've said the same thing to him," Cloe said.

Cade stared at her for a moment but couldn't think of a good come back. "It's a pride thing."

Cloe nodded. "Exactly."

Yasmin noticed Sasha staring at a particular guy. "You see him?" Sasha had told her all about Alek and how he wanted her to come to the game today over webcam last night.

Sasha pointed to the center field. "He'd right there."

"Who?" Cloe asked.

"Sasha's crushing on Alek," Yasmin said.

"Oh really?" Cloe said getting interested. "Give me details."

"I left my textbook in Mr. Grime's class on Friday and he brought it to me. Then I asked him what he was doing this weekend and he said he had the football game and was like 'I'll see you there'."

Cloe squealed. "Ooh, he totally likes you!"

Sasha crossed her arms. "Well, if he likes me he'd better recognize that I'm free for the prom."

Suddenly Eithan came over to them. "Yo."

Cade high fived him. "Finally some male company. I'm getting tired of them talking about Alek and Koby."

"What about Koby? Did you two break up?" Eithan asked Jade.

All four of the girls glared at him.

"What?" Eithan said confused. "Did I say something wrong?"

"Koby's a touchy subject right now," Cade explained.

Eithan nodded finally understanding that Jade and Koby were having some problems. "I understand."

Finally the game started. It started out slow with Mackerel in the lead making all of the Styles High students disappointed. But after the second half, Styles High took the lead and finally won the game. After it was over Cloe went back down to congratulate Cam and the rest of them got off the bleachers.

Yasmin elbowed Sasha. "You should go talk to him."

Sasha looked over at Alek. "You think I should?"

"Si chica! You're not getting any younger!" Yasmin grabbed Cade as he came towards them. "Go talk to him, and don't come back until you've got something to say to me." She looked up at Cade. "Vamos mi amor." She kissed his lips ad they walked off.

Sasha went over to the field where Alek was talking to a guy named Michael. "Hey Alek!" she called as she came towards him.

Michael gave him a knowing look and said something to him that she couldn't hear then left. Alek turned to Sasha. "Hey Sasha."

"Great game," she said.

"Thanks. Gotta beat those Mackerel dude's."

She put her hands on her hips. "I was getting worried in the first half though. You guys almost had me cheering for the other team," she said with a playful smirk.

Alek laughed. "Nah Sasha, that was our strategy," he lied. "We made the other team think they were gonna win but we crushed them in the end."

"Nice strategy, did you plan that out before the game or did it just happen unexpectedly?"

He smirked. "As far as you know we planned it out before the game." They both laughed.

"You make me want to go to these games. The other guys aren't much to look at," she said knowing that was a bit forward.

He crossed his arms and smiled. "Well, it's nice to know I'm some eye candy for some chicks."

She tossed her hair. "Candy that melts in some chicks mouths."

"A Hershey's kiss?" he guessed.

"My thoughts exactly," she said nodding.

"Well, maybe we should test it out sometime and see if I melt in a chick's mouth."

She gave him another flirtatious look. "If you ever need a test subject, I'm your girl."

He picked up his football helmet. "I'll take it into consideration." With that he walked off to change out of his sweaty clothes.

Sasha watched him go feeling satisfied yet disappointed by the conversation. The fact that she got the chance to talk to him, and what they talked about, left her feeling good inside. But she was expecting a kiss and it didn't happen. Maybe she'd have to steal one next time.

The next morning as Jade came into the school; she didn't feel as fly as she normally did. She still looked good. She wore a short jean skirt, a long sleeved white blouse, thigh high black stockings, black pumps, and her black and silver sunglasses. But she was afraid Koby wouldn't talk to her that day. She was still very upset with him for calling her bitchy but she still wanted him to at least talk to her.

Her wish was granted when she heard him calling her. "Hey Jade!" he said coming towards her.

She turned around and saw him. "Hey."

"We're going to prom together right? We've got to get our tickets today."

She looked at him in disbelief. "What?"

He pointed to her and himself. "You, me, prom, ticket, today." He put his hand on her hip. "Did you forget?"

She pushed him away. "I didn't forget about the prom! You're not even going to apologize to me for what you said?"

He gave her a confused look. "What are you talking about?"

"Koby did you forget that you called me bitchy? Did that whole day just go over your head?"

He glared at her. "Hey wait a minute. I said I was sorry and I told you I didn't mean what I said. Did all of that go over your head?"

"Well then why haven't you spoken to me all weekend? I want an apology!"

"Alright then, I'm sorry, are you happy?" he said getting frustrated with her. "Anything else you want?"

She crossed her arms. "Well first I want you to stop yelling at me."

Koby glared at her. "What? You just…" He sighed. "You want to get our prom ticket today or what?"

Jade looked away from him. "Koby…I don't think I want to go to the prom."

Koby's face fell. "Well, okay, we don't have to go if that's what you want. We can do something else…"

She shook her head. "No…I don't think we should go together. I think we should just take a break and…see other people…" She was glad she had on sunglasses. She felt like she'd cry.

Koby was silent for a moment. "Oh…so you were serious when you said we were done."

"I just feel like things aren't working out right now."

"Jade, if it's about what I said…"

"I know, you 'didn't mean it'," she said with air quotes. She took off the silver necklace he'd gotten her for her birthday and put it in his hand.

He closed his hand around it and looked at her. "Jade, don't do this…"

She adjusted her sunglasses. "I'm sorry Koby." She turned and went into the school once again leaving him alone. She wiped the tears from her face as she walked. She went into the bathroom and took her sunglasses off. Her face was lined with tears and her eyes were already red. She took a paper towel and wiped her face then pulled herself together. She loved Koby but lately she just felt like they were fighting too much and she needed her space. She didn't know if they would ever be together again and she'd miss him a lot but after the things she said, she wouldn't be surprised if he didn't want her anymore.

As she was walking to her homeroom she found her friends sitting in Yasmin's homeroom class giggling about something. She went over to them. "Hey guys," she said, her voice was thick with sadness.

"What happened?" Sasha asked immediately sensing something was wrong.

"We're done," Jade said simply.

"You and Koby?" Cloe said in disbelief.

Jade nodded as a few more tears fell from her eyes.

Yasmin reached out and hugged her. "Jade I'm sorry. You gonna be okay?"

Jade nodded. "I'll live."

"Where's Koby?" Sasha said. "I've got some words for him…!"

"Sasha, don't go yelling at him. I ended it."

"Why?" Cloe nearly shouted.

"Because we've been arguing a lot and that's not the kind of relationship I want to be in. I told him it was best that we parted for a while."

"Don't worry, you'll find someone better than him," Yasmin said.

"Hey, you want to hear about the conversation I had with Alek yesterday?" Sasha said figuring that would make her feel better.

"Is that what you were laughing about when I came in here?"

"Yes," Cloe said starting to laugh again.

"Alright well, I went down to the field to talk to him. I told him he played a good game but I was about to start cheering for the other team in the first half. He said that was all their strategy and I was like did you plan that before the game or did it just happen. He was like as far as you know we planned it. Then I was like, you looked good out there and he said good to know I'm eye candy for some chicks. And I was like 'candy that melts in some chicks mouths'…"

Jade started laughing. "What?"

"That's not all," Yasmin said.

"Anyway he was like 'a Hershey's kiss?' and I was like 'my thoughts exactly'. And he said well maybe I should test it out sometime to see if I really melt in a chick's mouth. And I was like 'if you ever need a test subject, I'm free'. And he was like 'I'll take it into consideration'."

Jade was still laughing. "Wow. So he at least kissed you after that, right?"

Sasha shook her head. "No he didn't. Probably because there was so many people around. But don't worry. I'll get him to go to the prom with me."

"You should. He's really cute. You'd be perfect together," Yasmin said.

"For sure," Cloe said.

The bell rang. "See ya," they all said as they parted for class.

Dana stood in the front of the school with Aubrey and Krista that afternoon. Aubrey ran her hands through Krista's hair. "Are you sure this is your natural hair color? I've seen your family and they all have brown hair."

Krista laughed. "Yes, it's real. My grandmother used to have this hair color until it turned gray."

Dana saw Alek come out of the school with his earphones in his ears. "You guys, there he is."

"Go talk to him!" Aubrey said.

"What should I say to him?" Dana asked.

"Ask him about the game yesterday," Krista said.

"What game?"

Krista gave her a duh look. "The football game!" She straightened Dana's hair and luckily she'd been wearing the make up that day. Then she pushed her towards Alek.

"Um, hi," Dana said trying to sound confident.

He pulled one of his ear phones out. "Hey, uh, Dana right?"

She nodded. "Yeah."

"What's up?"

She twisted her hair around. "Oh you know, nothing much. What are you listening to?"

"Drake. You listen to him?"

"Um, yeah." Okay honestly, she didn't really listen to rap but it wasn't like she hadn't heard his songs before.

"What's your favorite?"

"I like Over." It was really the only one she actually remembered.

He handed her one of his ear phones. "Wanna listen?"

"Yeah sure." She put it in her ear and it was the song she said she liked.

"I know way too many people

Here right now that I didn't know last year.

Who the fuck are ya'll?

I swear it feels like the last few nights

We been everywhere back,

But I just can't remember it all.

What am I doing? What am I doing?

Oh yeah, that's right, I'm doing me

I'm doing me, living life right now man

And that's what imam do 'til it's over, 'til it's over

But it's far from over…"

God she hated rap.

"So how was your football game yesterday?" she asked remembering what Krysta said.

"It was tight. We played against Mackerel and won 35 to 19. You should have come."

"Maybe I'll be there next time," she said.

"Hey, my ride is here." She handed him back his ear phone. "You wanna call me?"

She was so surprised at first she didn't quite know what to say. "Yeah sure," she said after she recovered from her overall shock. They exchanged their phone numbers.

"Cool, I'll call you tonight. Bye."

"Bye," she said kind of dazed.

She wasn't aware of who was watching her.

At the top of the steps the Bratz had just walked outside. Sasha froze when she saw Dana talking to Alek with her phone out and his ear phone in her ear listening to his iPod! So she was this girl was getting his chocolate melting in her mouth! Complete anger and disbelief ran through Sasha. She would not stand for this! She turned around and pushed past the other's and stomped inside.

They glanced at each other and followed her. None of them were paying any attention to Dana and Alek and Sasha just all of a sudden got mad and stomped into the school leaving them confused.

"Yo! Chick, what's with you?" Cloe said.

"Did you even see that?" Sasha exclaimed.

They gave her blank looks.

"That Dana bitch was with Alek!"

They glanced back out the window and sure enough it seemed like Alek was saying good bye to her.

"Who does she think she is?"

"Sasha, she probably didn't know…" Yasmin said.

"That's not the point! She was with him!" Sasha was practically shouting now.

"Sasha think about it, if Alek really cared about you he wouldn't give a crap about Dana," Jade pointed out.

"Yeah, maybe they were just having a casual conversation," Yasmin said.

"I don't care if they were having a casual conversation or not. That girl is not going to come between me and Alek!" Sasha said. She walked past them and they followed her back outside to leave.

"Over" is by Drake.

Here's a word of advice: don't ever try to go with the guy Sasha likes. Bad consequences will follow.

I don't know if i mentioned that Alek is the twiin of Zack. I don't think i mentioned Zack in here at all. Well maybe I did...

Koby and Jade have broken up. Sasha thinks Dana is trying to go out with Alek. What kind of drama will happen now?