Who Do I Choose?

CHAPTER 4

Zoey went back to her dorm room that night feeling great. Make that absolutely wonderful. She had just had a beautiful date with James plus she and Chase were friends again. Zoey felt like nothing could be wrong with the world ever again.

After she got back to her dorm room, she sat down on the bed and immediately fell asleep, after changing and brushing her teeth.

-Who Do I Choose?-

A week had gone by and things were going pretty well for Zoey and James. Chase, to her, seemed to be taking hers and James' relationship pretty well. Pretty soon, Chase and Zoey were hanging out and having conversations just like they used to. It just felt so natural.

The next Saturday, Zoey and Chase were hanging out in his own dorm room Author's Note: Remember that James now lives with Logan and Michael). It was raining unusually heavily for California during the spring Author's Note: I'm making up the season). Yet, the two friends didn't seem to mind and were just having fun, specifically playing on and off, "Would You Rather".

"OK, OK," Zoey said while laughing at something funny Chase had said. "Would you rather… eat eight pounds of spaghetti or… be locked in a cage with a wild tiger?"

"Can I tame the tiger?" Chase asked.

"No."

"I'd eat the eight pounds of spaghetti."

The game went on like that for a little bit until it was Chase's third turn since the spaghetti question and he asked a really uncomfortable question.

"Alright," Chase began. "Would you rather… marry James or… marry me?"

Zoey was stunned. She hoped he wasn't asking what he was asking.

"I'm sorry, come again?" she asked.

"Would you rather marry James or marry me?" he repeated.

Oh yeah, he was asking what she thought he was all right. She pretended to think long and hard about that one. Luckily, Chase's computer made a ding sound that happened when he got an e-mail marked urgent.

Sighing Chase got up and walked to his computer and opened the e-mail. He read it ad re-read it and then walked over to Zoey.

"I'm afraid I have some news you aren't going to like," he said.

"What?"

"It's raining outside so heavily that Dean Rivers has ordered all students to stay inside the buildings they are in until the rain subsides."

"WHAT?!" Zoey shrieked. "Chase, what time is it?"

"6:30 p.m. Why?"

"Oh my god! I'm supposed to meet James at the beach in half an hour!" she cried.

"Oh," Chase said pretending to be saddened but secretly happy Zoey was going to miss her date.

Zoey grabbed her cell phone and called James.

"Zoey?" he said after the second ring.

"James, I'm so sorry about our date."

"Hey, it's alright. I'm gonna stay inside the computer lab. How about you?"

"I'm in Chase's room."

"OK. Listen, cell phone reception might get cut off due to the storm. So in case it does, see you later Zoey. Love you."

"Love you too. Bye."

"Bye."

Chase cringed when he heard Zoey say the word, love, to James. He wished Zoey could say it to him like she had done a few weeks ago. A couple of seconds later, Zoey sat back down and sighed.

"Zoey?"

"Yeah?"

"How about we order a movie off the TV?"

Zoey smiled. "That sounds great… on one condition."

"What's that?"

"It has to be a chick flick."

Chase groaned, pretending to be devastated. "Fine."

"Yea! But wait… what about popcorn?"

"Got it right here," Chase said, getting up and showing Zoey a popcorn maker.

"Since when did you get a popcorn maker?" Zoey asked.

"Logan gave me his old one so he could make his dad buy him a fancy, shmancy, new one."

Zoey laughed. "Just like Logan. By the way, how come Logan and Michael haven't come to visit us?"

"They went to see a movie on campus and now are probably stuck inside the theatre."

Zoey smiled. "C'mon, make the popcorn. I want to see this movie before I'm 90."

Chase laughed as he began to make the popcorn. He wished every day could have moments like the ones he and Zoey were sharing right then and there.

-Who Do I Choose?-

The movie was almost towards the end. Chase had his arm wrapped around Zoey with Zoey's head leaning on his chest and he loved it.

The movie soon ended and Zoey looked out the window. The rain had not subsided at all. Zoey sighed.

"Guess I'm sleeping here tonight," Zoey said.

"Yea," Chase agreed.

He pulled out a couple of extra sheets and blankets from his closet and lined them on the floor for Zoey. He loaned her a T-shirt to sleep in that was very big on her.

A couple of hours later they were sitting by the window, talking. Well, Chase was talking and Zoey was listening. Actually, she was pretending to listen. She had never noticed how good Chase looked in the moonlight. His green eyes twinkled and his smile was dazzling and… he looked just so handsome.

"So the guy said to me-."

All of a sudden, Zoey found herself saying, "Kiss me."

Chase's eyes boggled. "What?"

"Kiss me."

"Zoey, I don't think that kissing you is the best idea considering the fact that you have a boyfriend who loves you and the fact that-."

"Damn it just kiss me Chase!"

Chase grabbed Zoey and kissed her passionately. Her arms found her way around his neck as he wrapped his arms around her waist. It took a while for both him and her to pull away, but they did. Chase looked at Zoey to see her staring, in a good way, at him with her big, beautiful brown eyes. He pulled her into a kiss again, and this time, neither resisted as Chase slowly lowered Zoey to the floor.

Author's Note: Big surprise huh? If not, oh well, I did my best. Plz, post any reviews. Voice your opinion. To all who reviewed, you will be especially thanked at then end of the story. An excerpt for Chapter 5 will be posted on my profile. Thnx and stay tuned!