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Jo's POV

Gabe and I haven't spoken to each other since 'the incident' and I'm starting to see it as some sort of a pattern. This month has been absolutely full of Juliette threats and arguments with Gabe so I'm not surprised that they've both been keeping their distance from me. To be completely honest I'm actually happy I don't have to deal with them anymore. Juliette is a complete and utter brat and Gabe is just plain stupid.

I mean, sure I do kind of miss crashing down on the couch and killing zombies on my game console with him, as well my constant breaking into his house and messing with his head, but besides all that, I'm completely happy. I've still my good friend (who sucks horribly at Die Zombies, Die) Maddi to keep me company.

Speaking of Maddi...

"Yo Jo!" she calls. "Check this out!"

I slowly make my way to the other end of the hallway, dodging all the Crush Day stands and doing my best at ignoring all those 'happy' couples staring dreamily into each other's eyes and kissing and other stupid stuff like that. This, by the way, is very hard to do when you have teens like Nikki and Trevor at your school. They've been together since sixth grade and I swear, I've never seem them do anything besides make out and eat lunch. Funny thing is, when they do each lunch they still manage to gross you out the exact same way.

"What?" I ask as I finally reach Maddi. She's wearing a pink and red tuque in honour of Crush Day week, which has finally started.

Maddi points across the hall and I squint, trying to make out what I'm seeing. There's Jake... standing by my locker... shoving something into it...

"What is he doing?"

Maddi shrugs. "I dunno. I think it's one of those Crush Day roses." She turns to me. "You don't think he likes you, do you?"

I feel my hands clench into to fists. "He better not. Besides, I thought he was still with Creepy Heather."

Maddi opens her mouth to say something, probably along the line of 'It's Annoying Heather,' but I ignore her. I stomp over to my locker and pick Jake up by the collar. He looks down at me and rolls his eyes.

"What do you want this time, Jo?"

"Just some answers!" I snap dropping him and grabbing the items out of his hands.

The first item is a rose. No, it's not a white 'you're my best friend' rose. It's not a pink 'I have a secret crush on you' rose either. It's a big, fat, red 'I'm madly in love with you' rose. I resist the urge to barf as I place it in my locker and look at the next item.

The next item is a big bag of candy hearts. I open it and pick out a purple heart.

'I like you' I read before shoving it into my mouth. The next one also says 'I like you,' as does the next one... and the next one...

"Wow," Maddi says grabbing the bag out of my hands a picking a handful of my candy hearts, "Jake must really like you."

"Shut up!" I yell before picking up the last item. The last is a small card with a heart on it. I open it and bite my lip. It's written in really fancy handwriting, which I happen to suck at reading.

Dear Jo,

You are the light to my darkness and happiness to my gloom.

You may not think about me at all but I always think about you.

Every moment of my life.

You are, and I quote, 'the very thing that I live for.'

Signed, your secret admirer

"What that heck!" I scream.

Why on earth would he write that? I will not be the very thing anyone lives for! If I was then I'd kill myself.

"Why the heck did you give this to me?" I yell, slamming Jake up against the locker. He squirms, making me tighten my grip.

"I didn't!" he defends himself.

"Then why did I spot you trying to put it in my locker?" I snap.

"Lucille told me too! She said she'd do it herself but she was late for science. I didn't want to do it!"

"Then why did you do it?" Maddi asks with her mouth full of pink candy hearts.

"Because she a girl. A pretty girl!" Jake says. "As a man I have to do what's right!"

I put Jake down and laugh. "A man? Ha! You're hardly a boy!"

"Yes, I did tell Jake to put it in my locker but I didn't write it," Lucille says putting her books in her locker.

"I know you didn't write it! I just came here because I thought you might know who did!"

Lucille shrugs. "Well Chance was the one who gave it to me."

"Yeah, I gave it to Lucille," Chance says, taking a basketball out of his locker. "Why?"

"Because I'm trying to figure out which punk at this school wrote!" I snap taking a step forward.

Chance takes a step back, slamming into his own locker. "Well, it wasn't me. I got the Crush Day stuff from Kit."

"Chance told me the stuff was for you," Kit sighs adjusting her pink messenger bag.

"Where'd you get it from?" I ask.

"Um…Zander? I dunno. I barely understood what he was saying. Something about wanting to see Violet again."

"Yeah I gave it to Kit because Violet gave it to me to give to you but I really wanted to see Violet again so I wanted to do it really fast but then I saw Kit and thought Kit might do it because she is really nice, well nicer than you (no offence) but anyways my point is that I gave it to Kit and told her to give it to you and then she asked where I got it and I told her I got it from Violet and then she said that she would give it to you if I went back to see Violet but she said it in a really nice way and—hey, where did you go?"

"I got rid of those stupid flowers, but only because A, They're way too happy for my liking and B, It got that crazy kid away from me for a few extra minutes."

"Cool," I lie. "Now who gave them to you?"

"Heather. 'Hot' Heather or whatever you freaks call her," Violet says before going back to the weird book she's reading. Trust me; you do not want to know what it's called.

"I gave it to Violet," Heather says, popping her gum. "But I got it from Brittney."

"I got it from Gary."

"I got it from Zoey."

"I got it from Ninja...in bed"

Ninja doesn't say anything. He just points at Gabe.

"This is pathetic," I sigh, sitting on the steps next to one of the Crush Day signs. "We've been running around the school for, like, an hour and we haven't figured out anything!"

"Except that all of your problems lead to Gabe," Maddi point out, munching on white candy heart. "Man, these candies are addictive!"

"Shut up," I say getting up and reaching into my pocket for a few dollars. Normally I anonymously buy a pink rose for Gabe to freak him out but this year it's different. This year he has an actual girlfriend (something no one ever would have guessed) so what's the point?

"Not all my problems lead to Gabe," I say pointing to a red rose.

The good thing about Maddi is that she's usually smart enough not to argue with me about things so she quickly drops the subject. "So…who's the red rose for?"

"My dad," I say filling out the card. I add smiley faces and hearts for emphasize on the 'I love you.'

"Are you sure?" Maddi asks I hand the order form to a blonde girl running the Crush Day stand. She puts the form in a box before closing up the stand.

"Yeah," I say eyeing Maddi suspiciously. "Why?"

"You didn't notice, did you?"

"Notice what?" I ask, getting very annoyed. What is her problem?

Suddenly her face goes pale. At first I think it's from all the candy heart powder until I realize that her eyes are bulging out as well. Then she takes off her tuque. Maddi never takes off her tuque. That chic wears the thing to bed every night for crying out loud!

"What's wrong?" I ask her slowly.

Maddi coughs. "Jo... don't freak out but... you didn't send that those roses or that card to your dad," she sighs. "You wrote Gabe's name on the card. The flowers are going to him."

"What?!" I shriek, punching her in the arm

Maddi screams and rubs her arm but I'm way too angry to apologize to her now. How stupid am I? If Gabe sees that rose he'll tell everyone and I'll be the laughing stock of the century. I've already been dancing on the line ever since I accidentally kissed him! Not to mention Juliette will freaking kill me! My life is ruined!

Oh, I am so screwed right now.

Let's just assume Jo was so distracted with all the stuff about Gabe that she accidently wrote his name.

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