Zane's Pov
I looked at my phone, just praying she left a message but nope, it still said "No messages in inbox." Not too surprised, I threw my phone back on the coach as I looked back up onto the t.v. It was seriously coming to the point that this was killing me. What did i do wrong? Its not like she objected it.
Soon I heard my phone vibrate as my eyes widened in curiosity and excitement as I immediately jumped off the coach to grab my phone. I turned on my blue iphone as I quickly went to my inbox to see if there were any messages from Rikki.
My curious excited face expression turned into a frown as I saw it was a text message from my dad.
Great. The only person in the world who texts me is my dad, and he sometimes doesn't treat me like his own son. I was about to prove it right now.
Dad: Clean the pool. We have important guest coming over. Now!
Soon my frown turned into anger. It was already bad enough I had Rikki ignoring me and now I have to clean the stupid pool. Why was it that adults had to keep everything so clean. Its not like the guest will reject what he's selling or whatever business he's doing with them.
Maybe she blocked my number or something and she wasn't receiving any of my message but if it were true, it would say: "You may not be able to reach this number..." or something like that.
I looked at my inbox again as there were still no messages from her. At this point, I would just be happy if she sent something back saying "stop messaging me" so I know she's reading and listening to what I'm sending her.
I really thought I had another shot of getting back together with her after that night we "did it". It's like she had the best time ever. She never told me to stop or never rejected it, so her just leaving like that the next morning, was really strange.
Maybe she was resenting her feelings for me. Maybe she was scared to admit she liked me. Ether way I needed to find out. It's been a week since that night and the fact that she hasn't said a word to me, was driving me crazy.
She could of lost her phone, but i doubted it. I refreshed my inbox but still no messages back. Not even a simple text message.
I sighed as I prayed she would just answer he phone. I typed in her phone number as I listened to the little ringing that was going on in the phone, dedicating that I was calling her.
I paced back and fourth across the t.v, anxiously waiting as i kept hearing the little ringing of the phone.
After a few rings i heard someone pick up as i paused and stopped pacing across the room, shocked that she even answered the phone.
"Hello?" Rikki answered lazily, sounding like she didn't even know who she was talking to.
"Rikki, my gosh I really need to talk to you and I know what hap-"
"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep..." I heard her hang up as i clinched my fist trying not to get angry.
"Come on Rikki!" I yelled in the phone as I just wanted one minute to talk to her.
"Hey, it's Rikki. Obviously I'm not using my phone so just leave me a voice message or text message... Unless your Zane, then don't even bother." She said with an annoyed voice and I hung up before it went to voice message.
I've already left her like 10 voices messages, and she took the time to tell me not to leave her any so I guess at this point I would stop.
It was crazy the way she was avoiding me. That night must of been horrible for her if she took so much of her effort, not talking to me.
I angrily threw my phone on the table as i just put my arms on the counter and laid my head in my arms.
Why was this happening? I felt like such a loser right now. I remembered 3 years ago when I used to hate her and I thought she was the most annoying thing ever and now, I'm now desperately trying to get her to talk to me.
If myself from 3 years ago, came 3 years into the future and saw me like this, he would probably laugh at me from how stupid I was acting.
With out even caring I refreshed my inbox again to find one message. I jumped off the counter as i clicked on the message.
Dad: Im coming home. U better of started cleaning the pool.
Great, just another annoying message from dad. Getting Rikki back was definitely going to be a challenge, but not impossible...
Cleo's Pov
I was getting ready for my date with Lewis as I was supper nervous. What if Emma was right? What if he did break up with me? I fluffed up my hair as i applead mascara on my eye lashes. I looked into the mirror as I saw Rikki walk in the bathroom.
"Well you look good. Where are you going?" Rikki asked with a flirty smile as I angrily put my mascara on the counter.
"Oh, me and Lewis are going out. What do you think of the outfit?" I asked.
I was wearing a a jean skirt and a pink shirt. I was trying not to act all fancy. I didn't want to look great if he was gonna break up with me. It would be embarrassing if I dressed well and he just decided to randomly dump me.
"Hey, whats wrong?" Rikki asked me as she came into the bathroom and stood right next to me.
"Its just..." I paused as I looked at myself in the mirror. "I feel Lewis hasn't been happy in the relationship were in and..." I paused again. "I think he might break up with me." I mentioned with sad eyes.
Rikki frowned as she looked at the way I was dressed.
"Well first of all, don't wear mascara. You don't want it to smear when you start crying." Rikki said as she took the mascara from out of my hand.
"Oh! And that's all you can say to your friend who's about to get dumped by their boyfriend?" I angrily asked crossing my arms.
"Don't worry Cleo. You'll be fine. He's probably just had a bad week." She said, not really adding any feeling to her sentence.
"But he said he needed to have a serious talk about our relationship. SERIOUS talk." I said making serious louder than it was supposed to be.
Rikki frowned looking a bit stumped from the comment.
"Well if he does dump you, you need to change your clothes. You want to look hot. Make him regret he ever dumped you in the first place." Rikki mentioned as she grabbed me and pulled me to my closet.
"Hmmmm..." She started saying as she looked through my dresses.
"Oew! How about about this?" She pulled out this purple tight dress that had black on the outside and it looked a bit goth.
"Rikki, this isn't even my style. I was supposed to be a dark witch in this theater group once and I had to wear it. Its not even supposed to be something you wear when you go out on dates." I aggressively took the dress from out of her hand as I looked at it.
"Well we can make it look like something you would wear on a date. It would tell Lewis your hot, but to watch out cause if he breaks up with you, he'll get it!" Rikki said with a devious smile as I took one last look at the dress.
"Fine! Ill wear it." I gave up as Rikki smiled and pulled me into the bathroom.
"Ok this will be good. Ill make it look good. I promise." Rikki said holding the dress on me.
"And since when have you became a fashion designer?" I asked with a small smile as Rikki just stared at the dress.
"What? I sometimes like to dress up too." She said with a annoyed smile as I went into the bathroom and tryed on the dress.
When I came out, the dress was wrapped around me tightly as the edges of the dress fluffed out, and Rikki was right. It was hot but also dangerous kinda looking, though it wasn't really my style.
"Woah Cleo! You look great! Lewis might not be able to take his eye off of you all night." Rikki gave me a flirty look as she started messing with my hair.
"You should curl your hair, it would look great with the dress. And wear converse." She mentioned looking at my feet.
"Ok, the dress is already not matching my style. Converse would be over the top. Ill just wear my flat dressy shoes." I told her as I put on the shoes.
She took the curling iron and started making little curls on the front of my hair as I put on my blue crystal necklace. I know, it didn't match my dress but I wouldn't change it cause it still represented me Rikki, Bella's and Emma's friendship. Well, that's if we were all friends again.
"Ok, well I got to go on my date." I sighed as I looked at myself in the mirror.
"Dont worry Cleo. Being single is fun too. Not worrying about if he still likes you, the long distance relationships. The cheating..." Rikki mentioned, recalling when Zane cheated on her.
"Ok, well that's if he does dump me. Save the talking for later. I need to go." I grabbed my purse and started walking to the front door.
"Call if you need anything! And that include me slapping him in the face if you don't want to do it yourself." Rikki yelled across the house as I opened the door.
I rolled my eyes as she said that.
"Bye Rikki..." I annoyingly said as i started walking down to the little shops. It was only a 10 minute walk so I didn't need to take a car. It was weird Lewis didn't offer to pick me up, gives me more of the reason to think he's breaking up with me.
We were meeting at this small Italian restaurant, which would be an odd place if you wanted to break up with someone but maybe he didn't want to be mean about it.
I walked inside the restaurant, as I walked to the person at the front desk.
"Lewis McCartney...?" I asked as I patiently waited for him to scroll down the list of people on his clipboard.
"Ahhh, ok. Right around the corner." The man pointed to a certain direction as I nervously walked to the table.
I saw Lewis sitting there, looking a bit nervous as he was playing with his thumbs but the second he saw me, he jumped out of his chair and smiled.
"Cleo!" He mentioned as he looked quite nice.
He was wearing some long black silk pants, with nice looking polished shoes. With that he wore a white shirt that had selves that went up to his elbows with a nice red tie around his neck. It wasn't a suite but it was rather fancy for him.
"Wow, you look great. " He smiled as he pulled out a chair for me.
"Um, thanks. Dont look to bad your self." I slightly smiled as I sat on the chair and scooted up into the table.
His hair was combined out as he smelled like colone. Why was he acting so nice? Usually we have dates on beaches or in mako island but what was with the whole fancy dressy dinner thing? What if Rikki was right? He could of cheated on me and could be doing this whole fancy dinner to make it up to me. Or it could be that he was gonna break up with me and that he didn't want to seem rude about it. So many thoughts went through my head as Lewis grabbed a menu.
"You look nervous." Lewis mentioned as he kinda looked nervous himself.
"Me what? I'm not nervous! Why would I be nervous?" I asked with a bit of a slightly mad voice.
"I was just wondering... Hmm, what do you think if we ordered the red steak, it looks really-" He started saying but I couldn't take it anymore.
"If you just want to break up with me, just do it already!" I finally yelled as everyone in the restaurant went quite.
Lewis looked embarrassed as everyone awkwardly went back to eating.
"What? Why would I break up with you?" Lewis asked in a soft voice as he set down the menu on the table.
"Because the way you have been acting. It doesn't seem your interested in being with me anymore. You've been acting really strange lately." I said in a soft sad voice, a bit embarrassed from shouting at him at the restaurant.
Lewis sighed as he reached over to the table and grabbed my shaky hand.
"Cleo, these past few years with you... Have been one of the most amazing years of my life. you are such an amazing person and I do seriously care for you but... I just don't think we should be boyfriend and girlfriend anymore." He softly said as he looked down at the table.
I felt my eyes water as I tryed not to cry.
"What? So you really are breaking up with me?" I said with a weak voice as i felt tears running down my cheeks.
"I know this is hard to say and i don't want to ruin our relationship between us but..." Lewis started saying as he pulled out a black small box from out of his pocket and opened it, to reveal a small diamond ring.
"Cleo Setori, Will you marry me?"