A Change Of Mind

After Eddie closed the door behind him Raven sighed and lifted herself from off the couch. Tonya came in through the kitchen seeing Raven looking sad.

"What's the matter sweetie…things didn't go well at movie night?" Tonya said making Raven sit back down on the couch with her.

"No….not at all." Raven said shaking her head.

"What happened?" Tonya asked.

"Well…." Raven didn't want to tell her mom what happened.

"In the movie…there was this girl who wanted to get her ex boyfriend jealous to go back out with him so she pretend dates her best friend. But along the way she starts liking him but still likes her ex boyfriend and doesn't know who to choose. Then she decides that that all those feelings for her best friend were just in her head and wants to go with her ex boyfriend. But when they have movie night at her house her best friend kisses her and she likes it so much and feels like she loves him now. She's so afraid to love him because that could ruin everything they have together and that's too important and she still likes her ex boyfriend. So who should she pick mom?" Raven said leaving Tonya with a confused face.

"What movie where you watching?" Tonya asked with her arms crossed.

"Uhh….That's So Baven?" Raven said smiling.

"Well Rae, I think she should pick who her heart wants." Tonya smiled.

"But I….I mean she doesn't know who she wants." Raven said.

"The time will come when you…I mean she will know who to pick." Tonya winked.

"Thanks mom." Raven said hugging Tonya then got up and went to her room.

All night Raven thought about who to pick but she couldn't decide. She didn't think it would be this hard. Raven began to look through her cell phone when she saw she had a text message from Eddie.

"Hey Raven, just wanted to say I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable or anything. I got a little carried away. I would never make you do something you don't want to do." The text said.

Raven kinda smiled as she texted back, "I know Eddie, I'm not mad at you. I'm just a little confused. Why did you kiss me?"

A few minutes later Eddie wrote back, "Well…I don't know. I mean…I guess I kinda….like you a little."

Raven smiled when she read that and wrote' "Really? Wow…uh…hold on I'm gonna call you."

Raven called and Eddie answered.

"Hello." He said.

"Hey Eddie." Raven said a little shyly.

"Hey." Eddie also said shyly.

"So you were saying?" Raven giggled.

"I like you ok? That's why I kissed you." Eddie said seriously.

"Eddie…I don't know what to say." Raven said smiling on the other end of the phone.

"Don't say anything. I understand if you don't like me back." Eddie said.

Raven took a deep breath. This was her chance to tell Eddie she loves him. This was her chance to be his girlfriend.

"Rae?" Eddie said to a daydreaming Raven.

"Eddie…I'm…I'm sorry. I like Devon." Raven confused with herself bit her lip nervously.

"Oh…I see. Well I'll talk to you later." Eddie sound so disappointed.

Raven was upset with herself. Why did she say that? She likes Devon but not more than Eddie. Thinking those thoughts Raven dozed off to sleep.

At school the next day Raven walked up to Eddie at his locker.

"Hey Eddie." Raven said.

"Hey." Eddie said gloomily closing his locker.

"Eddie are you mad at me?" Raven said putting her hand on his shoulder.

"No, I'm mad at myself for ever liking you." Eddie said stomping away.

Raven felt like dirt standing there and watching Eddie madly walk away. Just then Devon came up.

"Hey Rae." Devon said.

"Hey." Raven said with a smile.

"Raven I realized that breaking up with you was the biggest mistake of my life." Devon said taking her hands.

Raven smiled and looked down at her feet. But then her smile faded as she thought about Eddie. He was always there for her and Devon…..wasn't. Just then Devon lifted up Raven's chin.

"Rae, I want you back." Devon said with a smile.

"My vision." Raven thought.

"Devon…." Raven started put her hands to her sides.

"Yeah?" Devon said.

"Breaking up with me could have been the biggest mistake of your life but it helped me. It helped me realize how much…I love Eddie." Raven said.

"Oh…" That's all Devon could say.

"But we can still be friends right?" Raven put her hand out for Devon to shake.

"Right." He sighed shaking her hand.

That when Raven went looking for Eddie. She soon spotted him at his locker.

"Eddie we need to talk." Raven said to him.

"No we don't." Eddie said as he slammed his locker closed.

"Eddie I know your mad but listen to me." Raven running up to him.

Eddie sighed. "I'm not mad at you Rae."

"You're acting like you are." Raven said.

"I know and I'm sorry….it's me you should be mad at." Eddie said.

"Why?" Raven said.

"Because…I was just mad because you didn't like me and that's not fair to you." Eddie said as he started to walk away.

"But Eddie I.." Raven began grabbing Eddie's hand.

Eddie looked at her as Raven gulped thinking about how she would say it.

"Eddie…I realized that I really do." She started being interrupted by the bell.

"Rae, we should talk after school at my place ok?" Eddie smiled.

"Yeah." Raven nodded smiling back.

For the rest of the day Raven was excited and nervous to tell Eddie her feelings for him. When the time came…Raven took a deep breath.

"Ok Raven…you can do this." She thought nodding as she knocked on Eddie's front door.

"Hey Rae, come on in." Eddie smiled as Raven walked in.

"Eddie this is gonna be really hard for me to say but I'm just gonna come out with it." Raven said sitting on his living room couch.

"Alright….what is it?" Eddie said as he sat down next to her.

"Ever since we started pretend dating…I've been getting these, you know, feelings." Raven said nervously playing with her fingers. Raven hoped he got the hint.

"What kind of feelings?" Eddie said.

Raven sighed, "The us, like, being more than, you know, friends one." She said putting her hair behind her ear.

"Oh." Eddie said with no eye contact.

"That's when I told myself that all those feelings were pretend and I believed it. But then when we kissed that night all those feelings came back and it made me so afraid." Raven said. She wiped a tear from her eye and sniffed.

"Rae, don't cry," Eddie put his arm around Raven and wiped some of her tears, "What were you so afraid of?"

"I was afraid….I was afraid that I was falling in love with my best friend." Raven said locking eye contact with Eddie.

"What." Eddie kinda smiled but you couldn't tell.

"Eddie….I think I love you." Raven said as she caressed Eddie's face.

Eddie grabbed the hand Raven caressed his face with and kissed it. Raven blushed with a smile and pulled him into a hug. "Rae….I think I love you too." Eddie whispered into her ear.

"Really?" Raven smiled.

"Really." Eddie said.

"So are we boyfriend and girlfriend now?" Raven asked getting up from off the couch.

"Yeah…I hope so." Eddie said as he got up and held Raven's hand.

Raven smiled. "Well I better be going…you wanna go out tonight?"

"That would be great." Eddie said letting go of Raven's hand.

"Pick me up at seven." Raven said walking towards the door.

"You got it boss." Eddie said opening the door for her.

Raven quickly kissed Eddie and walked out the door.

Who knew that would of Raven's plans would backfire into something good? From all of that drama and confusion became "The Start Of Something New"

THE END!