"Don't prolong the agony…come on, just tell me when and where and we'll go on with the date." Zach looked at me intently. It was the first time ever that he was speaking really serious, which was totally weird. Zach was never serious about anything. Maybe he was, for a change. He was serious about making me look like a fool again.

"You seriously think I'll go out with you again? Well technically, not again because we never really went out and—"

"Could you stop babbling?" he placed his hand to cover my mouth. "You're talking nonsense, you know that?"

I frowned and just rolled my eyes, removing his hand on my mouth. I wanted to come up with bad things about his hand but nothing really came up because even his hand felt so smooth and smelled so good. DAMN. Any imperfections?

"Whatever," I shrugged indifferently. "I'm still not going wherever. Well anyways, bye. I gotta go."

"Wwaiiit!" The usual STOP WALKING OUT yell from him again.

"Okay, I know what you're gonna say, stop walking out, hear me first, blablablablabla. Okay. Now I'm gonna answer you. NO." I said to his face and he just looked at me blankly, then a smile started to spread across his face.

"Wow," he grinned. "I like it. Hard-to-get."

I frowned, feeling really disgusted. Hard-to-get? What the fuck was wrong with this guy? I was actually telling him to STOP bothering me. I wasn't playing hard-to-get.

"Whatever. Just. Leave me alone, alright?"

"I won't do that." He smirked.

I rolled my eyes. "End of conversation. Bye."

He blocked my way.

"Just one date." He said firmly. And if I didn't know him that well, I would've said yes because he looked like a Greek god who just went down to earth for you. But no.

"No, seriously. I don't want to go out with you. Sorry." I bit my lip and of course he just smiled.

"Last chance?" he bit his lip. THAT WAS JUST..

Why was I even hesitating?

"I know you want to go out with me, and I do too, so just say yes to keep it short." He said when he noticed I wasn't going to say anything.

There was long silence. You know the feeling of hanging on one end of something…like you knew there was something you really needed to do, and you were just afraid? Or uncertain?

And there I made my decision.

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"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Liz and Bex yelled at me.

"You cannot go out with him, please please please, it's suicide." Liz had this weird funny look on her face.

"Uh…can you guys just support me? And it's not the usual date. I'm just giving him a chance or something…whatever," I shrugged. "Maybe I've had too much of prejudice, don't you think?"

Bex coughed. "Support? Not happening. If it's Zach Goode, I'd have nothing to do with it. Unless…" she wiggled her eyebrows.

I rolled my eyes. "What?"

"Unless you're into him…well…I could consid—"

"NO!"

Liz and Bex just laughed at me.

"Of course you're not." They said sarcastically.

"Seriously guys! If you're not supporting me with this, can we just talk about other things? And why is the topic always about me? Why not Liz' love life or Bex' bitterness towards Zach?"

Bex threw a pillow at me. "Bitterness? No. I do hate Zach but I'm not bitter."

Liz nodded sarcastically.

"Okay," Bex breathed. "To prove I'm not bitter or still into Zach whatever…I'm gonna tell you that I'm liking a guy. Not ZACH."

"Who?" my mouth opened involuntarily. It was one of those rare moments.

"A guy in my class."

Liz screamed and threw a pillow at her. "My goodness, I don't care if he's in your class or not, WHO?"

"I don't know, Preston? Yeah I guess that's his name."

"OH MY GOSH." Liz muttered under her breath.

Please Liz! Don't say you like him too!

"Macey likes him too!"

Now I know why she said a huge OH MY GOSH. It was Macey McHenry versus Rebecca Bexter. I'm not saying Macey would sure win, but she was just…Macey was just so fierce and cunning. And manipulative.

"Well…" Bex looked perplexed. Nobody should've mentioned Macey. "May the best girl win?"

That was the Bex I knew.

"You go girl!" I told her, but I could still see the trace of fear on her face. It was fear. But hullo, who cared if they both liked this Preston guy?

"Chill, Liz," Bex let out a breath. "I didn't say I'd marry him and spend the rest of my life with him, I just said I liked him. Crush? You know, the short-term things."

Liz rolled her eyes. "Macey likes him."

"Who cares?" I said.

"Just sayin." Liz shrugged. "We all know how Macey is, right?"

I nodded. We all knew how Macey was. She was just…

"Don't worry," Bex swallowed. "He's just a crush. I mean, I'll get over him and Macey won't even know."

Liz and I just looked at each other. Macey was kind of a witch you know? She knew all the girls who liked the same guy as her so…

"Okay." Liz shrugged.

"Let's get you dressed properly for your daateee." Bex pulled my wrist and pushed me into the closet where we had debates about the clothes I'd wear. Even the bra.

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"If you wear the same clothes to school, I could bet…everybody would be like woaahh." Zach said to his plate.

This date was so weird. Just plain weird. I mean, we barely looked at each other, and all we had to talk about was lame things, and we weren't actually eating our dinner, we were just staring at our food.

Pathetic, to be brief.

"Yeah, 'cause I wear shit to school." I faced him but his head was bowed down to the plate.

"No, not really," he looked at me and scratched his head. Okay, his cheeks were pink. "Whatever. Never mind."

I rolled my eyes secretly. He just sucked at these things.

"So…" we finally made eye contact. "I honestly thought you were gonna ditch me. I actually prepared for it already."

Okay, what was I supposed to answer to that? He was so stupid. Why couldn't he stop asking rhetoric questions? His statements were basically nonsense, if you'll ask me.

"Can you answer me straight?" I put down the utensils I was holding and just fixed my eyes on him. "Why did you even ask me to go out and have dinner in this stupid restaurant? I don't even know what these foods are. And that suit you're wearing? That—I don't know why you're doing this. If you're thinking about me being one of your victims and all that shit, you could stop dreaming now."

He grinned. "See? That's why I asked you out."

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