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Chapter 5

Trent stood there completely petrified. What am I gonna do!? What am I gonna do!? He repeated in his head franticly. Finally he came to a decision, or rather his instincts did.

He turned in the other direction and ran, only to get one step away before Haru grabbed Trent's shoulder with his strong hand and turned him back around to face him.

"You know, you shouldn't run in a pool area, and you shouldn't. make. a scene!" But Haru's words did nothing to calm Trent down. He just stared up at Haru with terrified eyes. He would have screamed if he had remembered his voice.

Haru sighed. "Listen I'm not gonna hurt you. I just want to set the record strait."

This calmed Trent down enough for him to finally find his voice. It was broken and drenched in fear, but at least he could talk. "Y-y-you're not?"

"Naw, I'm not the jealous type. I used to be. The last time someone even tried to dance with her, I kicked the guy so hard, he was puking up starfish, But I like to think I've matured since then."

That made Trent a little confused was that an expression? He didn't voice his thoughts but Haru could see the perplexities on his face.

"Er… Never mind. You see, since I got here, Elie has done so much to try to show me how much she loves me that I know for a fact that she doesn't think about any other guy on earth in a romantic way. I'm the same way with her. For me there are only two girls on earth. Elie….and all the others. Everyone else is just white noise in the background to us. So all in all, I don't worry about competition, especially with you."

"Oh" Trent was now starting to sound more disappointed than anything else.

"Listen Trent, I'm not gonna tell Elie about this. It's not my place to be expressing another man's feelings."

Now Trent was getting a little ticked off. He would have already told Elie everything if it wasn't for him. Now he's standing there, preaching to him,. He didn't want to give her up, he didn't want to beat him up. The little teenage weakling was now feeling brave enough to go on the defensive.

"So what do you want from me?" Trent snapped at him.

Haru looked him straight in the eyes as he said this. "I want you to remember that you're her friend."

Trent was confused again, so Haru explained himself. "For the past few days, you have been tricking her and deceiving her, all to get what you want. Elie always trusts her friends, and she considers you one of them for some reason, stop taking advantage of that. The only thing I want from you is to think hard about what it truly means to be a friend to someone."

As Haru walked away, Trent stood right where he was, unmoving. He didn't want them to, but Haru's words were the only ones that were truly sticking to anyone that night.

Fifi groaned groggily as she heard a foreign noise coming from outside. Normally she would be curious as to what it could be, but right now it was too damn early for her. She was never a morning person and the fact that she stayed up late last night partying and that it was Sunday (Not a school day) did nothing to inspire her to arise from her very comfortable bed.

She blearily looked up from her mess of sheets to check her clock. Only 7:45 A.M., It's not like she had anything big planned for the day, Haru and Elie were the only one's she knew that were planning to go anywhere today.

That was the thought that made her eyes snap open and caused her to shoot up from her bed. Last night she remembered that Elie had told her that she and her boyfriend would be leaving early This morning for Garage Island to make up for not going last night. Something about them wanting to get home soon because they had already wasted a lot of time, and they didn't want to make Haru's sister wait any longer than she already had . Something like that. Fifi lost interest after a while.

She was more concerned about Trent anyway. Today was the day, now or never for Trent Davids. Would he go after his 'one true love' , she thought disdainfully, or would he finally have the gonads to act like the bigger man.

'The little Snow white' said they would be leaving early this morning. How early was early to them? Maybe they're already gone and Trent's decision would already be made for him. Maybe, he was crying as he watched Elie sail off right now. Maybe he needed her support as his friend right now. Maybe she shouldn't bother with him since he was acting like such a jerk recently. AND MAYBE SHE SHOULD CHECK OUT THAT NOISE OUTSIDE HER BEDROOM BEFORE SHE GETS A MIGRAIN!

Seriously, was somebody outside Fifi's house at this time? It sounded like somebody was in her family's pool area. The very aggravated girl put on her slippers, her robe and picked up her glasses off of the night stand and went to go check out who was out there.

She was more than a little shocked to see Trent himself in the pool area picking up empty soda cans and other trash left over from last night's party and throwing them in a garbage bag. "T-Trent?! What are you doing here? Don't you know what time it is?" She demanded.

He looked up at her nonchalantly "Hey Fifi, Did I wake ya?"

"YES!" She practically screeched.

'Yeah, I could tell. You look like you just puked up starfish" He teased.

"What does that even mean?" The girl asked

"I don't know, I think it's an expression. I heard it last night and I wanted to use it in a sentence."

" Grr. Well pardon me for not getting in my best Sunday dress, just to check out who the creep is sneaking around my house! And isn't there some place else you should be!?" She snapped. Remember, Fifi was not a morning person.

"I told you that I would take care of this whole party, and that means cleaning up afterwards." He explained.

"That's not what I'm talking about! Elie is leaving today. Are there any other plans from 'Operation Rescue Elie that you want to implement? For all you know she could be gone already."

"She is gone." Trent said without changing his expression at all. She left this morning at dawn. I saw her off."

Fifi's jaw almost dropped. "WHAT?! " She could only stare at Trent's change of character as if he had just sprouted a second head. "W-WELL, WHAT DID YOU TELL HER?"

The teenage boy sighed. "I said have a safe trip…And I hope that you'll have everything that you'll need to be happy." Trent remembered the look on Haru's face as he said this to Elie. Maybe Trent was mistaken but he almost thought he saw Haru give him a look of 'a job well done' as he stood beside the girl that they both admired so much..

Now Fifi was speechless.

Trent just laughed it off. "Well what are ya gonna do, huh? Another day, another hottie is lost to me. I don't know why I thought I could stand a chance with Elie when there are guys like Haru who will do so much more for her than I will. Ha ha, I mean let's face it, I'd just treat her like a prize that I won at a fair, and I need to work on the relationships I have with other people who are important to me before I go off and screw one up with her. I only thought I stood a chance because she was so nice to me. But there's a reason Snow white didn't fall for one of the dwarfs."

"When did you realize all of this?"

Right after I had a talk with Prince Charming."

Fifi didn't know why, maybe it was the lack of sleep, or the fact that she had never seen Trent act so mature, but she had never been so attracted to him like she was at this very moment. And the weirdest part of it was that she was not afraid to admit it.

She smiled at him. "Let me help you clean this place up. I mean it is my pool." She said as she picked up an old napkin off the ground.

"you know, I think it's best to just let her be with the man that makes her happy, and let's face it have you ever seen her that happy as she was with him? Man, someday I'm gonna make a beautiful honey that happy. But for now I think I'll stick with a girl whose more in my league. Like a 5...or a 6. Trent said as he looked at his best friend in a way he never had before.

It was all Fifi could take. She couldn't stop herself from smiling any more. "Hey Trent, There's this metal head concert next Friday. You wanna take me?"

You didn't really think I'd end the story with Trent and Elie getting together, Did you? Blasphemy! You see this story wasn't about Trent getting what he wanted, but learning to respect what he already had. And in the words of Crosby, stills, Nash, and Young, "If you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with!"

I always thought that people who like interfering with some one else's relationship, especially for selfish purposes , are scum, but maybe after seeing things through Trent's eyes you can see he's not all that bad of a guy. Or hate him forever and wish that Haru had chopped him up into little pieces, you're choice.

I got The title from that Dr Seuss book. Since it was a comedy I wanted to make it sound light hearted. I'm not good with titles. That's why I didn't name the chapters.

Anyway, This was my first story, so tell what you thought of it. Please.