Chapter#5: Phone Matters
The next day, Drake couldn't wait until the classes were over, so he could see Charlotte again. He was walking with Josh towards his locker when he received a big surprise. Charlotte was placing her books on her locker just next to his. She looked even more beautiful than yesterday, thought Drake and he proceeded to talk to her.
"Hi Charlotte." He said. "How's it going?"
"Oh Hi Drake!" she said smiling shyly as he smiled back at her.
"Did you practice the exercises I left for you to do?"
"What exercises?" Drake asked and suddenly remembered she had left him like 8 questions on lecture comprehension for him to practice.
"Oh yeah, I did them." He lied.
"Really…" she was too smart to believe him. "I don't believe you."
"Come on… Okay, I didn't do them." Said Drake looking at the floor.
"Well, you must do them before I get to your house."
"Okay." He said. "And another thing…" started Drake.
"I'm not going out with you." She said interrupting Drake in the middle of his question.
"oh man… but… but why?" he asked. "I'm not your student out of my house, why don't you go out with me?"
"Look, I don't want to, I mean its not like every girl you ask out is going to say yes."
"Well. They do." Said Josh meddling himself into the conversation.
"Well, I guess I'm the first to say no." She said and walking away from the two of them.
When Drake and Josh returned to their house, the door bell rang immediately after they closed the door. Charlotte was already there and Josh went to open the door for her. Drake had run to the living room couch, took the telephone and started making an imaginary conversation. He thought that way Charlotte would get jealous.
"Oh hi Carly!" he said as Charlotte entered the door.
"So tell me, how was the date last week? Do you think we can go out again tomorrow?"
Charlotte placed her things in the dinning table and sat down. Drake's conversation didn't move her at all, but she was beginning to feel impatient because today she was not going to stay the 3 full hours and they had to start right away. So she got up from the chair and walked towards the couch.
"Drake we don't have much time. Stop talking to imaginary people and please come to study."
"I am not talking to imaginary people, I'm talking to Maria"
"Oh yes? I thought you were talking to Carly, not Maria, and how can you possibly be talking to somebody if your dad is using the phone in the kitchen." She said and Drake hung up and went to study.