Chapter Six: Double Date
The night has past and day has risen. Tom and Bill were walking to school, after they quickly snuck out so their parents didn't see the collars upon their necks. Tom tried to hide the collar the best as they could; under a jacket that comes up to his neck. Bill on the other hand just wears his lettermen jacket; it hid the sides and back, but not the front.
"Morning Bill," says Tom as he watches his fiend rush out the front door.
Bill did not respond to his friend. He was too focused on the problem at hand; these damn collars. The walk to school was silent for them.
Meanwhile at Vlad's house.
Vlad walks out the door to see his good friend Henry and Joss. "Hey guys what's up?"
Henry quickly places his arm around Vlad. "So good to see you pal."
Vlad removes his arm away and, in a more of a harsh tone, says, "What do you want Henry?"
Henry gasps as if he is affined. "W-why would you think that I would want something. All I was doing is talking to my best friend; having a nice conversation on this nice day, just a little chit chat with my amigo. Is this so hard to ask for?"
Vlad gave a glare to his babbling friend. "Like I said, what do you want Henry?"
Henry huffed before speaking. "So I noticed that you and Jade are, you know, kind of together."
"Yeah, and your point?" Vlad raised his eyebrow.
"Well Jade's best friend is Sami and I was wondering if you could put in a good word for me." Henry gave his friend a big smile, trying to be charming.
Vlad opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted by a familiar voice. "Hey guys, what's going on?"
Vlad and his guy friends turn to the direction of the voices. There in the distance walking was Jade dressed in her usual punk rocker/Goth outfit of red skinny jeans, black tank top, open leather vest, boots, and a verity of bracelets that covered about half of both her lower arms and Sami in bright blue skinny jeans, white V-neck T-shirt, short leather jacket, and what looked like brand new black and blue shoes.
Henry turns back to his friend and gives him a look, the look of Please-Vlad- Help-A-Bro-Out. Vlad rolled his eyes and sighed. "I'll see what I can do." Henry's face became over flowing with joy.
Once Jade came into reaching distance of Vlad she held her arms out for a hug. Vlad realized it immediately and took her into his arms. She wraps her arms around his neck as he lifts her up. They started to gaze into each other's eyes and before they knew it they were only a hair away from kissing. But sadly for them they were rudely interrupted by the loud and unnecessary coughing from the dark haired friend with her hands on her hips and a blonde's arm around her shoulders.
Jade lets go of her bot toy and hides her blushing face with her hands. Sami rapidly plucked the young love struck boy's arm off of her. "We should get going before we are late," Sami suggests.
They all nodded and started their way to the high school. As they walk Vlad grabs the hand of his girl; intertwining his fingers with hers. Henry tries countless times to put his arm around Sami or grabbing her hand, but never is able to quite grasp her because of her constant moving. And then there was Joss, left out of the love pack in the back all alone.
He seems to be having no problem about this, but deep down inside he feels a little left out, alone, separate, different.
There was silence for a little while, but it was broken by the voice of Jade came out. "You know," she begun, "I was thinking."
"About what?" Vlad asks.
"Well I was wondering if we could go out on a date, you know." She looks to the ground shy like.
Henry perked up. "That sounds like a fantastic idea," he began to rabble, "you know what would make a good date?"
All of them just stared blankly at the babbling fool.
He continues, "A movie date. And do you know what would make it even better?" he looks to Vlad and gives him the Help-Me-Out-Bro look again.
Vlad caught on quickly. "A double date?" he asked with a little unknowing weather if that was what Henry wanted him to say.
Henry's, already large, smile grew greatly. "Yes that is exactly what I was thinking." He steps close to Jade. "There is a movie playing this weekend and I already scored some tickets, what do you say?"
Vlad looks to Jade. She has her thinking face on.
"It will be fun, I promise." He adds.
Jade glances at Henry then back at the ground. "Let me guess, this is your plan to go on a date with Sami, my best friend, the person that is like a little sister to me, the person that is not to fond of dates, or boys for that matter. And the way you do is quite clever at that. Guilt tripping your friend, who is my boyfriend, to help you out make double date arrangements, and a good way to make sure that I wouldn't say no is that you already got tickets to a movie, in a movie dark movie theater, where you can avoid anyone from seeing the things you might do. Things I might not approve of. That's your plan, isn't it?"
Henry rubs the back of his neck as he nods. He looks to the ground hiding his ashamed expression.
"You put a lot of thought in to it, didn't you?" Vlad was about to stop her from saying something that might hurt his friend even more, but he was too late. "Then let's do this."
Vlad, along with everyone else, were silenced with surprised, at least until Sami piped up with a few rude words.
Jade smirks at her now angry friend. "This is revenge for eating my cheesecake last night."
"What, your cheesecake?" Vlad questioned.
Jade looks to her boy, "Yes my cheesecake, it was the most amazing cheesecake in the world."
"It wasn't that good." Sami stated.
"Well I wouldn't know would, now would I?" Jade's voice became more angered.
"If it's such a big deal to you then I go and buy another one for you," Sami says with irritation in her voice.
Jade begins to ball her fists. "One cannot simply buy a cheesecake like this. It was the food of the gods. Every part of it was specially crafted by the hands' of the master. From the gently crushed gram cracker crust to the chocolate covered strawberries that delicately laid in the middle of the perfectly sweet cream cheese inners that were drizzled with heavenly dark chocolate."
Vlad found himself drooling for this cheesecake of the gods.
Sami crossed her arms. "Then why don't good make another one?"
"That is not the point here. You ate my beautifully made cheesecake, without even asking, so this calls for punishment." Jade looks to Henry. "We shall make arrangements for this date of tripling on this coming afternoon after schooling is over." Jade starts her way walking in the direction of the high school tugging Vlad behind her leaving the others in a state of awkwardness.
"That was weird." Henry paused for a moment realizing something Jade had said. "Hey," he calls, "Don't you mean 'date of doubling' not tripling?"
Jade stops her dragging of her boyfriend Vlad long enough to turn and say, "No I mean tripling, Joss is coming too. Aren't you Joss." When she's done she turns back and continues her dragging with a large smiling.
Joss, Henry, and Sami looked a confused, but after a moment Joss caught on and smiled as well.
"Okay, you remember the plan right?" Bill says to Tom looking out the janitor's closet.
Tom nodded. "Yeah."
In Bill's sights he can Jade closing her locker door and talking to Sami. Sami didn't seem too happy, but that wasn't important to Bill. He watches to two spit off in separate. Once Jade became close enough to the closet door he grabs her without warning and drags her in.
"What the Hell?" she says once the door closes. "What is the meaning of this?"
Bill violently grabs her arms. "We want answers, and we want the now," he demands.
Jade stares up at him with a dirty look. "First off, let me go." Without thinking Bill lets her go. "Second, don't ever touch me in that way again. And third, if you are talking about the collars, those are just to assure that you will do as I say like the good obedient dogs you are."
Anger took over Bill's face.
"Now listen closely, you two will stay silent about, and if anyone asks you about it you will tell them that you lost a bet and had to wear these collars. Understood?"
Both boys nodded slowly.
"Good, now get to class."
The two boys left the closet annoyed and angry. Soon following was Jade also annoyed.
It is night and the moons light flows through the open window of Cheshire's room onto her dark wooden floors. She sat there on the crimson sheets of her bed with her blonde hair hanging down against the back of her laced, charcoal black nightgown. She stared out the window to the half-moon. Only being half it was still plentifully bright.
She sighs as the door to her room opens. From the pitch black strolls in Shasa in a light blue tank top and matching shorts.
"Why did you do that?" she asks.
Cheshire does not turn to her irritated friend, but continues to look out the window. "If you mean the date," she starts, "then I was thinking I can't do this allow."
Shasa stands there, confused.
Chess continues, "You know as well as I do that dates are not really my thing."
"They aren't exactly mine, either," she snapped. "And you've been on plenty of dates before. Why should this one be any different?"
Chess sighs once more. "Because, so much is depended on this."
"On this date?"
"No, but it is the start of something. I just don't want anything to go wrong."
Shasa walks across the bedroom over to her friend and sets a comforting hand on her shoulder. "It's okay, nothing bad happen if this date turns out bad."
Chess looks to companion. "I hope that you are right my old friend."
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