Standing in front of the long body mirror I descry at my outfit one last time. Unbuttoning the top three buttons of my long sleeve pink floral chiffon shirt I wore just about every day back home since the weather was so much cooler than it was here in Ipswich. Throwing over a blue cardigan I then tuck in my shirt into my blue skirt; I stop then reach for my black bloomers underneath my bottom drawer—I really didn't feel like having some weirdo lift my skirt up in attempt to see my panties so even if he tried he'd be real disappointed. I add some black stockings to my look and some ankle black boots with a buckle on the side. Messing with my bangs I brush through my hair and decide to leave it as is.

Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring! Reaching for my phone on the night stand I see the caller I.D and it reads: SARAH I swipe to the left and answer with a, "Hey, I'm ready." I say with a bit of zest in my voice. Hopefully she didn't notice, but I couldn't deny that I was excited—that part was inevitable.

"Great! I'll be at your house in five minutes," Sarah replied.

Sitting in the back seat of Sarah's car made me feel sick all over again, maybe it was the meeting new people that got to me, but surely this feeling of nervousness killed me inside…and no it wasn't little fluttering butterflies either. Biting my lip as we pull into the parking lot there was two things I noticed right away, number one: it was jammed packed and number two: there was a ton of kids from school here and I felt way underdressed. As Sarah parks I followed her and Kate as they made their way inside the busy joint called Nicky's.

Loud rock music played from the jukebox, people gambling from the pool table, and just a bunch of kids dancing on the dance floor. Approaching an empty table I hear Kate yelling my name.

"Mel, over here!" She motions for me to sit down so I follow and sit next to her. A waiter comes up and pulls out her note pad, she munches on her gum then smiles.

"Hey y'all what can I get for you!"

"I'll have an ice tea!" Kate shouts over the loud music as Sarah nods in agreement that she'll have one as well.

"For you sweetheart?" She looks at me now, waiting.

"Water with lemon." The waiter writes it down then rushes off to the back.

"Where are the guys?" Sarah asked?

"Probably playing pool or something," Kate says as she quickly sends a text.

"Hey babe," A voice says grabbing Kates attention. Kate smiles and looks up as a tall buff figure with long hair bends down and kisses her cheek.

"Sorry I'm late I was getting my bike fixed," he begins, "who's this?"

"Hey!" Sarah exclaims as she rushes into some guys arms to plant a big kiss. Two other guys behind come up and pull out chairs and sit down at our table.

"Just taking care of some family stuff babe don't worry," he said to Sarah as he sat down next to her.

"Guys this is Madelyn," Sarah pointed as she wrapped an arm around me, I couldn't help it but I probably flushed every shade of red known. "She just transferred from Jefferson so she's going to be hanging out with us."

"This is Caleb." Sarah said, "he's my boyfriend." She giggled.

"That's Reid, and Tyler." I wave as I purse my lips together and cross one leg over the other.

"Pogue," He says in a deep luring voice, the only one who introduced himself.

"My beau" Kate laughed a loud.

"Nice to meet you all, but Mel is fine." I remind.

"Madelyn is so beautiful why don't you use it?" Tyler asked. Everyone looked at him, including me and honestly there was a story behind why I shorten my name to my nickname and that reason was because of my father.

I faked a cough then fixed my posture, "when I was a little girl my father would call me Mel and unfortunately he developed pancreatic cancer and passed away before my fifth birthday so I prefer the name Mel than my full name." I gravely say.

"I'm very sorry to hear that," Caleb interjects.

"Mel it is!" Tyler added.

"Welcome to the group Mel," Reid said, "you know my grandmother's name was—"

"Shut up!" Everyone in union said.

"You play a little pool, Mel?" Reid comments.

"I dabble a little…"

"Come on leave her alone," Caleb said.

"Caleb let's play some foosball," Pogue said. He and Caleb walked off to the foosball table and Sarah followed behind.

"We'll go easy on her." Tyler laughs.

"Come on, girl's vs boys?" Kate challenged aloud.

"Team up with her Kate," Reid asks.

"Alright I will and when we kick your ass you have to be our slaves for the entire day!" Kate says, "We can take them Mel, what do you say? Me and you vs. Reid and Tyler?"

I don't know what possessed me but I nodded and grabbed a pool stick.

"You're on!"

Lining up the pool balls the boys so graciously let us go first, I guess to them chivalry wasn't dead after all. I take off my cardigan and take a deep breath before looking for my perfect shot. Before I find it I lean down and make my aim, I block out all the noise and in a single shot hit 5 balls in. I stand up and find another position before making my aim again and boom, knocking in 3 more balls. As I stood up and walked over to Kate who could barely control her laughter she high fived me and as the guys went next they were actually really impressive.

By the end of the game it was a close call, it was up to me now to win the game. The shot was almost an impossible shot and I probably wasn't going to make it in. Looking around at my options I find a spot that might work and lean down and slowly but steadily I shoot the ball and to my surprise it goes in!

"We WON!" Kate cheers!

I stand and rush over to her as we do a little victory dance.

"Damn girl I had no idea you were a boss at pool!?" Sarah asks from behind.

"I'm not really; I just like to play in my spare time." I admit.

"That was pretty impressive!" Reid says.

"Next time I want you on my team!" Tyler laughs.

"I'm going to use the bathroom I'll be right back," I say. Moving away from the crowd I follow the signs that say bathroom that lead to the back. Drinking a lot of water has really gone right through me. Once I find it I try to open the door but its locked so I assume someone is in there so I decide to wait until their done.

"That was pretty impressive," a voice says. In a whiplash I turn around to see Chase.

I smile, "you saw that?"

"Everyone in the bar did." He chuckles with a drink in his hand.

"You know I've been trying to find you all day," He admits coyly. He's been looking for me? I blush and can't help but feel the ping of flattery bouncing through my stomach.

"Well here I am," I titter softly.

"I'd like to take you out to dinner," he begins, "how does Friday sound?"

"Like a date?" I question.

"Yes Mel, like a date." He cheekily responded.

I bite my lip and let out a deep breath, "okay."

Chase smiles and takes a sip of his drink, "I'll need your number."

After I put my number into his phone I met back up with Sarah and Kate. I didn't feel like telling them about what just happened so I plan on telling them tomorrow during lunch. Something about Chase seemed dangerous and that scared me, but at the same time it was sexy and it turned me on…I wanted to tell my new found friends but what would they think?

And that's chapter three! Please leave a review, what do you like or don't like? What do you think will happen or not happen? Defiantly FEEDBACK! I'm going to try to get out a chapter at least every other day (: SO PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW I REALLY WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HOW I'M DOING OR HOW THE STORY IS DOING!

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