Chapter 4- And the Answer is…
"This is prolly gonna sound bad at this point but I was wondering… if you wanted to go to prom with me?" Parker said slowly.
"I can't, my foster parents wont buy me a dress, your memory can't be that bad." Aderyn said, trying to hide the fact that she wanted to say 'yes'.
"No I asked if you WANTED to go with me, do you?" Parker clarified.
"Well, yeah I do but,"
"Okay then, here's what we can do," Parker was talking really fast, as he tired to keep her from interrupting, "my step-mom was a foster child, and she went through the same thing, and she is now a world renowned author, who has had multiple books atop the best sellers list. She, and my Aunt Angela, want to take you dress shopping, and now that you have said that you want to go with me if you say no now, Tempe will kidnap you." Parker said the last part in all seriousness. "I know that you aren't looking for a hand out, and that is not what this is, Tempe just knows what its like and wants to help."
"I don't know…"
"She WILL kidnap you."
Aderyn laughed, "I doubt she will kidnap me to take me dress shopping, I.."
"You have never met Temperance Brennan-Booth and Angela Hodgins have you?"
Aderyn laughed again, "Well no, but, I don't know, I really want to go with you, I will just feel bad. I mean I don't want to take up their time or their money for something stupid."
Parker laughed this time, "You don't understand. Of the many things that Ange loves to do shopping is third, only to drawling and Hodgins. As for the money part, I said before Tempe has written many books, that she has profited from greatly, and Ange," Parker leaned close and whispered," well she is married to a multimillionaire."
"Really?"
"Yeah and her father is Billy Gibbons." When Aderyn had a blank look on her face, "One of the three members of ZZ Top."
"Oh, okay! That's kind of cool."
"Yeah so what do ya say?" Parker asked hopefully.
She thought for a minute, "Okay. Are you sure you want to go with me though?"
Parker smiled, "Yeah, I have wanted to ask you to go for awhile, I just didn't know how. So… do you uh, want to, uh go out before prom, you know, uh have a first date or something?"
"Um, yeah that sounds good, what do you want to do?"
"Is this conversation more interesting than chemistry, Mr. Booth and Miss Sanders?" Mr. Wilson said looking down on them.
"Sorry, Mr. Wilson!" Parker and Aderyn said together. Aderyn pulled out a piece of paper and wrote him a note, then slid it toward him.
'Do you want to meet after school to decide?'
'I can't my dad is picking me up to get my stuff form my mom's, how about I call you?' Parker wrote in his untidy scrawl then slid it back to her.
'Okay call my cell phone number is 555-1234.' She slid it back to him again.
'Okay I don't know what time it will be though. There is a bunch of stuff going on tonight and I don't think it will be pretty.'
'Okay, just call whenever you can, what's your number so I can put it into my phone.'
'My mom took my cell phone away a few weeks ago, but my dad's house number is 555-9876.'
Parker could not stop smiling, 'She said yes! She said yes!' Trey walked up to him as he is putting his books into his locker, and getting ready for lunch.
"So I heard that you weren't paying attention in chem., well you were paying attention to a certain hot lab partner?!" Trey said smiling.
"What?" Parker was not paying attention, he was to busy trying to think of something that they could do on their date.
"Parker, Parker," Trey said in a singsong voice. "You may want to pay attention, Candi is on her way over here."
"Shit, I do NOT want to deal with her and her asking me to prom right now."
Trey smiled, "Then why don't you tell her that you are already going with someone."
Parker narrowed his eyes, "What?"
"Well, you not paying attention in chem., and the small fact that your lab partner is hot, and that you have liked her for a long time now. I'm thinking that you asked her to prom, I know you wanted to."
When Parker did not say anything and he looked away Trey knew that he was right. "Come on man, blink once for yes and twice for no! I know that I am right."
Parker looked at him and blinks, and Trey smiled and pumped his fist in the air. "Yes! It is about time man! But now you have to break the news to Candi." Just then she walked up and smiled at them.
"Hey guys, anything new going on?" she asked in pseudo sweetness.
"Nothing really new for me," Trey said with a sly smile and looked pointedly at Parker.
"So Parker do you think we could talk now? I really want to ask you something."
"Uh, no I am kind of busy, I need to go talk to, uh, Mrs. Osman, I don't have the homework that is due today."
"I could walk with you!"
"Uh, Okay, I guess."
Trey smiled and raised an eyebrow and, "Behave," is all he said as he walked toward the cafeteria.
Parker got up and walked towards the Family and Consumer Sciences department to find Mrs. Osman. "Okay so I was wondering if you wanted to go to Prom with me?" Candi said with a confidant smile.
"No," is all Parker said.
"What?" Candi said "What do you mean 'no'?"
"Well lets see, we broke up almost 2 months ago. Now, why did we break up again do you remember?" When Candi did not say anything he kept going. "So you don't remember cheating on me?" She still did not say anything, "What made you think that I would want to go to prom with you? What makes you think I want anything to do with you anymore?"
"I told you I was sorry for that, I really care about you," She said angrily.
"Oh yeah you were real sorry! You cheated on me for 6 months! And we only dated for 7! You have a really funny way of showing that you care about someone." Parker said.
"You said you forgave me!"
"Ha, yeah I forgave you but I don't want to date you again, or go to prom with you. Now I have to go talk to Mrs. Osman. Bye" Parker said and he walked into a classroom.
When Candi walked back into the cafeteria Trey could tell that she had been crying, he leant over and nudged Parkers other best friend Brett. "Looks like Parker finally told her off."
"It's about time! I can't believe she though he would actually go with her. How stupid can one person be?" Brett laughed.
About 5 minutes later Parker walked back into the cafeteria and saw Trey and Brett talking and he walked over to them. Brett looked up he nodded toward her, "What did you say? It looked like she had been crying when she walked back in here."
"I had to remind her of why we broke up, and she tired the 'I said I was sorry' and the 'I really care about you'. I told her that she had a funny why of showing it, 6 of the 7 months that we were together you cheated one me. I told her that I don't really want anything to do with her anymore." He said with a smile, "I feel relived, I don' have to keep trying to subtly tell her to fuck off."
"I said it before and I will say in now, 'it's about time!' So anyway what about Aderyn? You decide to ask her out yet?"
"What, how do you even know that I like her?" Parker asked slowly.
"We are your best friends, and we are not stupid!" Trey said with a smirk.
"Nor are we blind my friend." Brett said smiling. "So did you ask her out yet or not?"
"Yeah I did," He said nodding.
"And what did she say?" Brett said with a knowing look in his eye. "Or do I need to have you blink once for yes and twice for no too?"
Parker laughed, "She said yes."
"Yes! This is awesome! We a. don't have to pretend that we like or ever liked Candi and 2. you finally found someone who I think I could stand, she most likely has more on her mind then what celebrity is dating who." Brett said.
"And Aderyn should get along with Becca and Ema. Something Candi never did, or tried to do." Trey added. "Not to mention when I told Becca that I though that you liked her she said that she talked her a few times and she seems really nice."
"I thought you guys liked Candi, well up until she cheated on me anyways." Parker said.
"Uh, no. Your dad even tried to get me to convince you that she was stupid." Brett said.
"Wow, I knew that my dad didn't like her, but I thought you guys did. Why didn't you tell me that you didn't like her?"
"Well, you seemed to be really into her, and if you were happy we could put up with it for the most part." Trey said. "We new that you liked Aderyn the minute that she started to go to school here. I was almost happy that she cheated on you, not that she actually cheated on you but that she fucked up so that you would break up with her."
"So, uh you guys are okay with Aderyn?" They both nodded, "Okay well then maybe you could help me decide what we should do on our first date because I have no clue. I don't want it just to be dinner and a movie."
"Well, do you know what kind of things she likes? I mean you could take her to the batting cages or mini golf?" Trey said.
"What about go-cart racking, Ema loves to do that, especially when I let her win." Brett said trying to be helpful.
"Or you could take her on a double/triple date" Ema said as she walked up and sat on Bretts lap, and kissed him on the cheek. "I could talk to Becca and she if she would be up to it, and I'm sure she would be, I think it would be fun."
"What would I be up to?" Becca said as she sat next to Trey and put her hand on his leg.
"A triple date with Parker and Aderyn." Ema said casually.
"Whoa, I still have to talk to her to see if she will be okay with it!" Parker said.
"Yeah but when you do tell her that if she wants we can make it a triple date." Becca said. "She is really nice, she is funny too."
"Okay well I will ask her tonight. Hey, I'm gunna go, I'll talk to you later." Parker said as he walked out of the cafeteria and heads to class.