Tearing Us Apart
A/N: OK so this would be chapter two. As you could probably tell my first chapter was pretty long. Well that's how most of these chapters are going to be. So have fun with that. ANYWAY, I hope you like this chapter.
SHOUT OUTS:
schilling.klaus- Thanks so much for reviewing. And I totally agree Logan/Dana rocks. I mean C'mon that's all I write. And yes, I think that I'll just not use screen names. It's so hard trying to come up with them anyway.
T-Shiz224- Thank you for reviewing. Glad you liked it!
PAMElA 1994- Yay! Another review! Glad you liked it. And yeah, I'm going to be updating as much as possible. It's just with school and all it's hard to find time. Uhm, yeah. Lola and Dana don't really like each other and Dana and Logan are kind of like brother and sister, except as you can tell Logan kinda has a crush on her. (hah) Something like that. I don't want to give anything away so I'm not going to say anymore...
JoJoNot- I'm really glad that you liked the ending. That was my favorite part for 2 reasons. 1. I though it was a good way to keep the readers interested. and 2. I was finally done with the chapter.
Chapter 2
Dana's POV
I was stunned. Absolutely shocked. Suddenly leading me to confusion. What did this mean? Did Logan like me? No way, he has a girlfriend. But... I couldn't come up with anything else. I decided to put my thoughts to the back of my mine but they kept finding a way back to the front. Maybe if I just ignored Logan for the rest of the day... C'mon we all know that wouldn't be possible.
I then found myself at the entrance to the cafeteria. I saw Logan standing in line with Chase. What if he already knew that Logan liked me? Was it obvious? Was I as clueless as Zoey? Would I ever stop thinking of questions to torture myself with? But no. Logan seemed to be just find, no nervous eyes or shaky hands. I walked up to where they were and went in front of them, while cutting many other people in line, but nobody said anything, they new what I could do to them.
"Hey D," Logan greeted. By the tone of his voice I could tell he was acting as if nothing had happened. Maybe he didn't think that I saw what he wrote. Nah, he knew better than that.
"Hey," I muttered. Gosh I was acting like an idiot. C'mon Dana pull it together.
"Dana you look really pale right now. Are you feeling OK?" Zoey asked me. She could be such a mom sometimes.
"I'm fine Zoe, don't worry about me," I stated with a bit to much attitude. But she ended up not saying anything else to me so I guess that's good. Once we were all out of the line with our trays we went not to far out of the cafeteria to a table that we almost always sat at outside.
Logan's POV
Oh gosh. How much of an idiot am I? Who was I to think that I could have an actual girlfriend and try getting away with how I really feel about Dana. Wait… pause, rewind. What?? Did I seriously just say that? Wow, I'm starting to sound like one of those cheesy chick flick actors. Now I know why my dad doesn't produce those types of movies. Holy crap was that weird.
Anyway, after that whole thing with me telling Dana...well I'm not exactly going to repeat it. But basically I'm just trying to play it out like nothing happened. Which I personally think it going just fine. Except the fact that is once I do something I usually find myself stuck into it. So this must have some sort of backfire on me later. I'm going to regret it.
So we're all sitting at our usual spot on campus and eating lunch. Except Quinn isn't with us right now. Not that she left us or anything just that today she's sitting with Mark most likely. Really I have no idea. Honestly, I don't really care.
I ended up eating in silence while Nicole babbled on about going to the movies tonight, Chase and Michael talked about their next cartoon that they we're coming up with, Zoey patiently listening to Nicole, and Dana was just simply glaring at me. Oh gosh, I'm dead.
"Hey guys, I'm not feeling so well. I think I'm just gonna go up to my dorm and rest for a little while," I said while the rest of the gang either nodded their heads or just ignored me.
"I have to use the bathroom," Dana stated and she followed me to go dump our trays. As I headed to my dorm I saw Dana following me still.
"What do you want D?" I asked, knowing she would hear me even though she was a good 20 feet away. But she never answered. And that silence made me know that all she wanted to know was what was really going on earlier. This just might kill me if I tell her. Either that or her.
I walked all the way to room 32 at the guys dorm (A/N: Sorry I totally spaced on what the guy's dorm building was named. If you know could you tell me? Ohh and also I need to know the girls…) With Dana still in tow. Oh gosh. I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. Why did I have to write that to her?
I entered room 32 and quickly shut the door, pretending as if no one was following me. Although I knew that Dana was just outside my dorm, probably pissed off. Just then my door swung open and there was Dana shoving what appeared to be a bobby-pin back into her pocket. Oh man, I'm screwed.
"Logan, why?" Dana asked me with a confused expression.
"Why what?" I asked trying to play dumb.
"Logan, I'm not stupid. Why did you write that?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about Dana." Again with the playing dumb part.
"You know what Logan. You still own me 30 bucks." She stated.
"Uhm, random are we??" I asked a bit confused.
"Just saying." Was all she said. Then she turned around and walked down the hall with me standing in my dorm, alone. I hated being alone. Especially when I didn't want to be.
Dana's POV
Well that was a complete waste of my time. That didn't do me any good. Why was I following him anyway? And what was with me being so random about that 30 bucks comment? Oh well, I don't care at the moment.
I really didn't feel like going to class any more even though I still had Science, English, and Band to go to. (A/N: And yes I know what your thinking..."Band?!"...well yes, you correct. It'll come more into the fanfic later, you'll see.) So I pulled out my cell phone and texted Niki.
(A/N: Dana's bold. Nicole is italic.)
Not in the mood to go to class. Tell Mr. Klamp I'm no feeling well
A few seconds after I sent it Nicole replied...
Alright. You better tell me why you're skipping later.
I will.
Thanks! I own you.
After that I walked all the way to my dorm. Room 101. Once Getting there I took off my shoes and went over to the desk in the corner of the dorm. I logged onto AIM just for the heck of it. Katie was on. So was Logan and lord knows it's not gonna help me by talking to him. Nicole was on as well.
Dana: Hey Niki. How's English??
Nicole: Well, I'm sure you'd like it. We're beginning writing poems of what's on our minds.
She was right. I probably shouldn't have skipped. But oh well. I wasn't in the mood.
Dana: Ohh. Well, have you decided on what movie we're gonna see tonight?
Nicole: Well actually I'm deciding between Hancock and that one other movie with the panda.
Oh Geez…
Dana: Please can we see Hancock instead!
I really didn't want to have to sit through an hour and a half long movie about some panda doing Kong fu moves.
Nicole: Uhm, sure.
Dana: Thank you!!
Nicole: Uh Oh. Mr. Klamp is coming over here. I better go.
Nicole: Bye!!
Dana: Bye Niki.
Nicole has logged off.
Just then I got an IM from that one girl named Katie...
Katie: Hey. I know we don't really talk much but I just thought I'd let you know that my brother has a huge crush on you.
As soon as I saw this I came up with about 5 rude comments to that. But I decided to be nice. I really didn't want some one who I barely knew to get all mad about me and start a bunch of drama.
Dana: Oh really? Who's your brother?
Katie: His name is George. I think he's in your art class. I'm not entirely sure.
Dana: Oh him… Why are you telling me this anyway??
Katie: Well actually, he paid me 20 bucks to ask you out for him. So yeah.
Dana: Oh I see. Uhm, well I haven't actually met him so I'm not so sure I can do that...
Katie: If you want me to I can come over to your dorm with him.
Dana: Uhm, I'm not so sure.
Katie: Please, just give him a chance. You're all he ever talks about.
OK well I really didn't want to do this at all. I was seriously about to tell this girl to shut the heck up and leave me alone. But from me talking to her she seemed really nice and all. Crap Dana, you're getting to sentimental again.
I guess it couldn't hurt to at least meet the guy... But I really, really didn't want to. I'm not all to interested in meeting some one right now. Uhm, what to do? OK I better answer her quick, or else she's gonna think I'm scared.
Dana: Uhm, I'm still not so sure about this. But I guess. Come to my dorm with him right after school. I'll talk to him for 10 minutes.
Katie: Thanks so much. I'll make sure he knows.
Dana: You're welcome.
Katie: Well I better go, class is about to end.
Dana: mmmkay. Bye.
Katie has logged off.
Oh my gosh. What am I getting myself into? Why me? Where am I going with this? What one earth am I gonna say to him? Why did I do this? Oh great, now I feel stupid. I'm such an idiot. Why did I agree with this?
Even I couldn't figure out these answers. What's happening to me? I used to be this tough Dana "Danger" Cruz. Now I'm turning into Dana "Darling" Cruz. Uhhh. This sucks.
"Stupid, stupid." I said to myself while banging my head down on my keyboard. Then suddenly, my computer beeped, telling me that some one wanted to talk to me.
Logan...Oh joy.
Logan: Hey D.
Dana: What do you want Reese?
Logan: You.
Dana: Don't try any of that crap on me Logan. Why won't you just admit what you said?
Logan: Correction. Wrote.
Dana: Same difference...Wait. So you admit it?!
Logan: I never said that.
Dana: It was implied.
Logan: Says who?
Dana: My imaginary friend.
Logan: Who's that??...
Dana: Seriously?
Logan: Ohh, you mean...nvm.
Dana: Yeah. That's what I thought.
Logan: ...
Dana: But you admit, liking me?
Logan: No.
Dana: But that's what you said!
Logan: I admit loving you.
Logan has logged off.
"Oh, wow." I muttered to myself as my jaw dropped. What to do at this point. I've started noticing a pattern here. As long as he doesn't have to say it to my face he'll tell me he...loves...me.
Logan's POV
Alright. So now that Dana at least knows she might not kill me as painfully. After I got off of the computer I went to go walk around campus since everyone was in their classes and teachers were teaching that meant there wouldn't be anyone to see me.
As I made my way to the boy's lounge I decided that instead I'd just call for a limo and ride around downtown. So I grabbed my cell phone out of my pocket and called for my limo driver to come pick me up.
Once that was arranged I walked outside into the open air and went to got wait for my limo by the fountain at the front of PCA. (A/N: And of course all of you readers can guess who was there too, gesh.) When I arrived I saw someone sitting on the edge of the fountain staring off into space. The figure looked exactly like Dana's, her hair, and her curves where the same. So it must be her.
"Hey D," I said sitting next to her on the fountain.
"Hey Logan. You still own me 30 bucks." She stated flatly.
"Got it," I replied while pulling out my wallet and getting a 20 and a 10 out. Then I placed the bills on her lap. She grabbed them and then shoved the money into her pocket.
"Thanks," She said with no emotion what so ever. Was she mad at me?
"Hey Dana, is something wrong?" I asked.
"Actually, Logan, no nothing is wrong, it's just that you're to confusing." She spat my name out, which kinda hurt.
"What do you mean?"
"Can you not be so stupid for just 5 seconds?" Dana said finally turning her face towards me. But just as I was about to say something my driver pulled up to the curve in my limo. So I stood up and walked over to it. As soon as I opened the door I thought of something.
"Hey Dana, do you wanna come with me?" I said after I turned around to face her.
"Why should I?"
"Cuz you and me both know that this place is way to boring and that you are having this great urge to ride in a limo with Logan Reese."
"Riiight" She said but stood up and walked over to me by the car. So I took that as she would come. I held the door open and she stepped in. I walked around to the other side and got in as well.
We both strapped seat belts over us and Dana sat about as close as possible to the window as to not be near me. She was probably upset with me or something. I told the driver to take us to the mall, it was the first place that popped into my head where we could go.
"So do you always take random trips during school hours to go to the mall?" Dana asked me with humor in her voice.
"Only once or twice," I replied I said while smirking.
Dana's POV
OK so I'll admit, I never planned on going to the mall, with Logan in a big fancy limo. But it got me out of seeing George. I'll also never admit how amazing this limo is to Logan. He'll have to deal.
"So Dana what do you wanna do at the mall?" Logan asked but I could tell he was just trying to start a conversation. Logan never liked silence.
"Uhm, I don't know..." I trailed off.
"Do you want to go shopping? I mean after all I do have daddy's credit card." He said pulling out is wallet and giving it a wave.
"Why not," I replied giving in. I'm not in the mood to argue now. And if Logan is willing to buy me clothes…then sure.
Just then we pulled up to the curb of the mall. It wasn't anything to spectacular, it just looked like a regular mall. I unbuckled my seat belt and began to reach for the door handle when Logan stopped me.
"I'll get it," He said softly while getting out of the car. I thought that was code for something like, "Oh just sit there while I get out and I'll tell the driver to open the door for you." But I was wrong. Logan really did walk over to my side of the limo and opened the door for me. He held my hand to help me out and then suddenly dropped it.
"So..." I trailed off, "Where to?"
"Uhmm, how about we just go in the first store that catches our attention."
"OK"
We walked into the mall and the first store that Logan saw, he wanted to go into. We looked around the racks for a while. Logan had told me to get whatever I wanted. Only after 10 minutes in the store I had already picked out 3 pairs of skinny jeans, 2 tank tops, 1 black and 1 a deep purple, also along with a solid black belt. I didn't even bother trying them on because I knew they would fit.
"Did find everything you want from here?" Logan asked while carrying up his stuff. This consisted of a white wife beater, a black wife beater, 1 pair of jeans, 2 pairs of denim shorts, and a blue polo.
"Yeah, I'm good. You?"
"Yep," We put out things on the counter and cashier rung them up. Logan pulled out his dad's credit card before the lady could even tell him how much he owed. The cashier swiped the card and gave it back to Logan. She bagged the items and then gave the bags to us.
"So why again are you taking me shopping?" I asked out of curiosity.
"Can't two friends just go shopping together?"
"Well, I guess, but..."
"But, I know, I have a girlfriend," He answered knowing what I was going to say. "Have you ever thought that Lola doesn't really matter right now?" It was funny watching him say her name because he cringed. So I began to laugh.
"What?" Logan asked dumbfounded.
"You, really don't like her," I said still laughing.
"Nah, really?" I could tell he was being sarcastic, "What gave it away?"
""Well I already knew you didn't like her," I said more calmly, "But it was fun watching you say her name because you cringed.
"Oh, great."
"SHOES!!" I yelled, which scared Logan half to death. Immediately I ran to the shoe store just up a head. Logan tried to keep up with me.
As soon as we walked, more like ran, through the doors we began trying on shoes left and right. But in the end I ended up getting a new pair of blue and white Etnies, a pair of black Converses, a pair of orange Converses, a pair of red Converses, white flats, black flats with silver chains, and a pair of gold and white Red Rhinos. Logan bought 2 pairs of Converses, black and blue, a pair of Etnies that were while, gray, and black, and a pair of red and black Etnies.
"I never understood why girls are so interested in shoes." Logan said aloud as we walked out of the shoe store. That question didn't need to be answered.
"Are you hungry?" Logan asked
"A little, but don't you think you should be getting back? You still have a date with Lola" I cringed just like Logan had earlier.
"Oh, crap! Dana I forgot!"
"Again?"
"What time is it?" Logan asked impatiently.
"Uh, about 5:30," I said looking at a clock near by.
"Crap I'm supposed to pick her up at 6!" Logan was hectic.
"I though you didn't like her," There I go yapping on at a time like this…oh well.
"I don't, but I can't…I…ugh!" Logan stuttered, "It's too hard to explain right now."
"OK, fine," I said backing away a bit. "Just call you're driver and tell him we're-"Before I could even finish the sentence Logan had his cell phone whipped out. He spent about 10 seconds on it and then he shut it and dragged me and the bags with him as he headed out the nearest exit.
If anyone could make a world record of getting out of a crowded mall in less than 60 seconds then Logan won it hands down. As soon as we made it outside the limo was waiting for us, Logan ran to the door, I followed. He still opened it for me, but with haste. He quickly ran to the other side and got into himself into the seat just as the driver took off. We were speeding to get to PCA. It was 5:45 by now, but Logan didn't want to be late for some reason.
"Dana, how do you feel about getting onto Lola's bad side?" Logan asked me.
"Uh, I thought I was already there…" I replied.
"Not really, but still,"
"I guess, it depends on what I have to do,"
"I need you to "accidentally" run into us at the movie theater and make her miserable," Logan said using air quotes around the word accidentally.
"Sure why not, this should be fun," After that there was silence until we reached the entrance of PCA. Logan busted out of the car and told me to go find Zoey and Nicole and tell them what's going on. He ran off to go change and then pick up Lola. I took off in the other direction while carrying my shopping bags with me.
I finally reached my room and Zoey and Nicole were there getting ready for our girls night, Lola was probably already meeting Logan. Zoey and Niki both gave me questioning looks to why I had so many bags with me. I'll have to tell them later.
"OK, so there's a slight change of plans…" I trailed off while dumping the clothes out of the bags and onto my bed.
"What do you mean?" Zoey asked
"Well, we're still going to the movies; we're just going to have to postpone our girls night." I replied.
"Aw man, I was really excited!" Nicole complained.
"So was I, but Logan needs our help." I said.
"Since when does Logan want our help?" Zoey asked.
"Since when do you help Logan?" Nicole asked shocked.
"Since today, to both questions," I was starting to get annoyed, "But that's not the point."
"OK?" They were still confused.
"It's a long story, I'll just sum up, Logan wants up to crash his date with Lola," I stated.
"Why?" Zoey asked
"She'll get really mad at us," Nicole chimed in.
"You're point? Hello? We don't even like her!"
"OK, fine, I'm in," Nicole said with out any more hesitation.
"I don't want to get on her bad side," Zoey said innocently.
"Zoe, just about everyone is one her bad side." I told her plainly.
"Oh, right, well then I guess I'll help,"
"We need to get dressed and look amazing," I said going over and opening the closet, "We have to make Lola jealous and really upset that we're crashing this date. But we also have to hurry because we have to be there in half an hour, Logan picked Lola up at 5:30 to take her to dinner and the movie starts at 6:30."
"OK," Zoey and Nicole both agreed. Immediately we began throwing outfits together. Zoey ended up wearing a yellow babydoll shirt with Bermuda shorts and a pair of yellow flats. Her hair was straightened and she was wearing her key around her neck. Nicole was wearing a sky blue tank top with a mini skirt and her blue and white polka dotted high heel wedges. Her hair was up in a pony tail with spiraling curls down her back. I was in clothes that I had gotten at the mall, the black tank top with skinny jeans and the black flats with the silver chains on them. My hair was down in its normal curls.
Once we were all ready we headed out the door. Making it to the lounge and then out of the girl's dorms. We made our way to the PCA Theater. Off the back I spotted Logan with Lola. She was decently dressed, wearing a while sparkly tank top, short shorts and while flip flops. Hear hair was down and wavy. Ah, nothing to special.
We waited until Logan and Lola went into the theater before continuing to the entrance. Here we go, it's not like I had anything to fear right? I mean as far I was concerned Lola had no idea we were crashing her date. This was going to be easy.
A/N: OK that was chapter 2!! Hope you liked it ) Sorry it took me so long. I'll try to make the next chapter come sooner, hopefully. Review if you'd like.
Happy Readings!
Lana