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Author's Note: Chapter 7 can you believe it!
Ch. 7 Green with Envy
I've never considered myself to be a jealous person. Jealous, my dad said, is not an attractive trait to a lady. I do envy people, certainly, but never jealous. I had to admit, I was jealous now.
"So, what do you say Annie?" Mark said. I groaned. It was bad enough she was friends with him, but he still flirted with her.
"I don't think so Mark," She said sternly. Mark looked disappointed. He was standing way to close to my girlfriend for my liking. I knew Annie wasn't interested, which made me feel a lot better.
"Why, not?" He asked as if no girl ever said no to him. Annie did, I smirked satisfied.
"Mark, I have a boyfriend," She said. I was so shocked that I almost dropped my books. What was she saying?
"You do? Who?" He asked.
"You don't know him. He is in college," Annie responded. I smirked. Mark looked like he was kicked in the chest.
"What's he like?" Mark asked curiously.
"He's great. He's really sweet, smart, and not bad looking either. I met him a long time ago," She said sweetly. I wonder how he would react when he found out who her boyfriend really was. Mark looked a furious. I had to laugh at his expense. To see him get rejected is one thing, but him getting rejected because of me was hilarious. Annie winked at me and I smirked back. That was one of the things I loved about her. She could be damn hilarious when she wants to be. Though it irked me a little bit that she made up her boyfriend. I shook off the thought and went to class.
"Did you hear about Annie," a girl that sat too desk in front of me said. I pretended to be look at an equation but was listen.
"What a slut," her friend said. I curled my fist. How dare they? Annie was not a slut.
"You know, I heard she did the whole football team," The girl said giggling. I glared. I knew for a fact that it wasn't true. Girls here were vicious.
"You know I saw her with a guy at the pier," The one girl said. My stomach dropped. Someone did see us.
"Did you recognize him?" The other girl asked.
"No," The girl said disappointed. I sighed with relief, but then what should I feel relieved about? Maybe Annie didn't care as much as I thought she did
Now that Adam wasn't talking to me, it became a lot harder to spy on Charley's neighbor. I could understand why he was mad at me but this was getting ridiculous. Even when we were around each other.
"What do we do when we get enough evidence?" Adam asking one of his rare questions.
"Go talk to Peter Vincent, "I told him. Adam nodded but said nothing. I was beginning to get tired of the cold shoulder routine.
"You know. You ignoring me isn't going to change what happened," I said. He looked at me.
"I don't want to talk about it now. I just want to go home," Adam said. I sighed in defeat. He wasn't going to make this easy. We walked back to his house. The whole time he didn't say a word.
"You know. If you're going to lie, at least make it a good lie," He said. I couldn't help it I laughed. He frowned. Before I knew it, we were on the ground fighting. We looked at each other and started laughing.
"You are such a douche," Adam chuckled.
"Me who was the one acting like a two year old," I laughed. We picked ourselves off the ground.
"I'm really sorry," He apologized.
"No, I'm sorry. All of this is my fault," I said. Adam nodded his head, no.
"I was an ass. You should date whoever you want to," Adam said.
"What's with the change of heart," I asked him. Adam shrugged.
"You seem happy. At least, you don't completely ignore me," Adam said sighing. I nodded in understanding. I was glad that things were getting back to normal between us. I don't know what I would do if Adam didn't believe me.
"You know I think we should tell Charley," Adam said. I looked him strangely. He must be getting really freaked out to agree to this.
"I'll try to call him," I said. Adam nodded. He turned up the street then turned around.
"Why?" Adam asked.
"Why what?" I asked him.
"Why Annie Walsh?" He asked.
"She is different when were together," I said shrugged. Adam nodded. I was glad that everything was getting back to normal. I just hoped that nothing bad was going to happen.
Things were definitely looking up. I even forgot about the vampire living next to Charley. Adam seemed to have too. It seemed that he was finally forgiving me. Things with Annie were also getting better too.
"Ed," Adam called. I was up in my room. I was doing Chemistry homework that was assigned last minute.
"Yeah?" I called. A few minutes later, he was knocking on the door.
"Hey," I greeted. He sat down. It was Friday night. I was glad it was the weekend. I had a lot of exams last week. There was still two months before graduating.
"We're going Vampire watching tonight?" He asked. I turned to him. I didn't promise him but I had a date with Annie.
"I can't. Annie and I are hanging out tonight," I said. Adam looked annoyed for the briefest of moments.
"Oh ok, another time then," He said. I looked at him curiously.
"Are you sure?" I asked him. He nodded. I wasn't sure whether or not to believe him. Adam is the type of person you never know if there really upset or not. He was so easy going that it was difficult to argue with him.
"Yeah, of course I'm sure," He said. I looked at him with disbelief. He just shrugged. We talked a little bit and agreed to meet the next night. I couldn't help but feel bad as he left. I tried to shake that feeling off, but I didn't. I decided that I would make it up to him.
Annie met me at the movie theater. We agreed to see a horror movie. On the first Friday of every month our movie theater played classic horror movies. Being the classic movie guy I was, it was good time to go to the movies. Back when we were friends, Charley and I use to go every month.
"So did you tell your parents about Columbia?" Annie asked.
"Are you kidding, my mom called every single family member we could think of," I said laughing. She laughed too. Like usually there were not many people in the movie theater.
"So guess what I did yesterday," Annie said.
"What? Invented the cure for diabetes?" I guessed. She giggled.
"No guess again?" I she said laughing.
"Did you finally meet Johnny Depp?" I asked smirking. I knew that Annie watched every single Johnny Depp movie twice.
"No silly. I hung out with Charley and Amy yesterday," She told me. I looked at her interested. I tried to avoid the subject of Charley as much as I could, but curiosity got the better of me.
"You did," I said.
"It was hard to not laugh. I had to bite my lip from calling him Squid Boy," She said laughing. I laughed too.
"Well at least he's happy," I shrugged. She looked at me. We got our seats in the middle of the theater.
"You know. She does care about him," she told me. I nodded.
"I know that. Adam sure doesn't think so," I said thinking about our fight a few weeks back. I had been thinking about it for a while. Annie nodded.
"What does he say about us?" She asked. I closed my eyes. She had to ask that question.
"Pretty much the same thing," I said. I expected a blow up or maybe a small rant.
"I understand why he would think that," She said. I looked at her. This was not what I expected.
"Because you refuse to let people know about us," I said. She nodded.
"You know. I don't get what you see in me," She said. This was a definite first. What was going on. What brought this up?
"I don't understand," I said.
"Teachers love you and I'm not exactly on the honor roll. You're funny and smart . The only thing, I am going for me is people think I'm pretty," She said rolling her eyes at the last bit. I smirked at that. That was one of the first things, I learned about Annie. She didn't think she was pretty, but she was so oblivious.
"Hey you're popular," I said.
"I got lucky," She shrugged.
"For being born pretty?" I asked her.
"No being popular," She said.
"Must make a life a hell of a lot easier," I said. She nodded, no.
"Nope. Popular kids still have their problems. You know Mark," She said.
"What about him?" I asked.
"His dad is in jail. Has been for three years," She said. I looked at her shocked. I suddenly felt pity for the guy that had made High School hell for me.
"I didn't know that," I said.
"You know Mark just hates you because you're smart. You know on his last Trig test he got a 30 percent," She said smirking. I practically spit out my coke.
"It was only thirty questions," I said laughing.
"Hey, Mark was never accused of being the brightest bulb in the bunch," She shrugged. I laughed.
"Why did you go out with him?" I asked her.
"I thought he was the person I should be with," She shrugged.
"Then you met me," I said smirking
"Of course. Plus you looked like the guy from Superbad," She said smiling evilly. She knew what my action would be.
"I do not!" I said pretending to sound offended. It was something that she always brought up. She saw the movie one day her friends and called me afterwards. I strongly disagreed that I looked like the guy from Superbad.
"Sure you don't McLovin," She said smirking. I mocked glared at her and the movie started. Ironically it was a classic Dracula movie. While watching the movie, I thought Charley's vampire neighbor. I hoped Adam remembered to tell his parents not to invite him into their house.
Next Chapter: Meeting Peter Vincent.