"Sure, you are." I say.

"Sure I'm not." she says.

I shake my head, "You are."

"Not." she says.

"Are."

"Not."

"Are."

"Not." she says smiling.

I look up at her in the eyes, "Are."

She doesn't say anything ,she just stares, "You have really intense eyes."

I wrinkle my brow because I'm a bit confused, "Um, where'd that come from?"

"My mouth or are you blind?" she says trying to funny.

I smile at her joke, "Nice."

"You're rubbing off on me." she says smiling at me.

"Is that a good thing?" I ask and she looks down at her food, sitting in her lap. I shake my head and unwrap my bacon cheddar sandwich, "So what are you doing after you leave here?"

She pops a chicken nugget in her mouth, "I don't know, I'll probably go home and wait around until work."

I look up at her before taking a bite of my sandwich, "I think you need a bit of Roxy time because your life sounds kinda boring." then a bite of my sandwich... heaven.

"I thought this was Roxy time." she says looking up at me.

I put down my sandwich and look at her, "No, not even close."

"So what do you have in mind?" she asks.

I look up at her car roof then back in her eyes, which are an amazing shade of green, "Um, wanna assists me in skipping the rest of school?"

She smirks and blinks slowly at me, "Hmm, I've never been an accessory to a crime before."

"Well, there's a first time for everything." I say smiling, all flirty like. And I guess she notices because she takes this moment to lean in to kiss me and I lean right back in to return the action. I close my eyes for at least three seconds before I open my eyes and see Ashley sitting in her car out of the corner of my eye. I stop kissing Erika then look at Ashley head on, she's giving me that i-hate-you glare again. "Shit." I say whispering but not really.

I guess Erika's blocking Ashley in, "I'm sorry." Erika says.

I stare at Ashley until it registers what Erika is talking to me, "Oh, no, I wasn't saying shit to that—us--the kiss or whatever." I look back at Ashley who is waving her hand around which, I guess, means tell Erika to move her car. "Um, Ashley wants you to move your car."

She looks from me to Ashley, "Oh sorry," she turns the car on then backs up for Ashley. Ashley zooms by in her car but not before rolling her eyes at me and flicking me off, sweet little lady.

Erika turns off her car then looks over at me and I look over at her and smile weakly, "Um, I'm sorry about that."

I shake my head at Ashley's action then look over at Erika, "What?" I ask.

"I'm sorry about kissing you." she says quietly.

I shake my head at her, "No, no, no, that's okay." I place my hand on hers, "It was absolutely okay." I smile at her and give her the signal to kiss me again by looking at her lips and licking mine.

She picks up on this so she smiles and leans in to kiss me. While we're kissing, I can't help but think what Ashley's gonna do with this information. I mean, I don't see why Ashley would tell Kyla. Kyla and I are not together but I don't want Kyla to know about this. Yeah, I'm doing it again because I'm horny but... ugh, I guess in my head I think I have a chance with Kyla and this little stunt would bring that down lower. I'm sure my chance is, like, one percent and this would bring it down to zero point sixty-two.

And what about Lily? It's not like I have to worry about her but I mean I'm still supposed to be in love with her.

We back off of each other and Erika smiles and blushes at me, "Good for a kid, right?" I ask.

She scoffs, "Maybe."

"Are you trying to play it cool? Because I think your cheeks are giving you away." I say staring at her fire engine red cheeks.

She places her hands over her cheeks, "I am playing it cool."

I smile, "I hate to say it but you're not doing a very good job at it."

She laughs, "Okay, well, maybe I'm not."

I continue to stare at her until the bell rings. I look over to the courtyard and see kids getting up to walk to class, "I guess I better head to class."

"I thought I was suppose to help you escape." she says.

"Well, you're too much of a goody two shoes for that." I say with a smirk on my face.

She rolls her eyes, "No, I'm not."

"So does this mean that you're gonna take me somewhere?" I ask.

She sighs, "Yeah, we're going back to my place."

I smile, "Okay, then let's go."

She turns on her car, "You have one last chance to back out."

I scoff and roll my eyes, "No, you're the one with the last chance." she looks at me and smiles, I think that's the first time I've seen a sinister smile come from her.

We drive around for a few hours an now it's two hours before I have to be at work, so it's two pm. We went to see a movie... actually more than one movie but we only paid for one, hey, who cares? We kiss a few more times but it doesn't feel right. I mean, she's a good kisser but there's no initial spark and that's what my life revolves around: sparks. But I did find out more stuff about her though, and I told her stuff about me. I updated her on the Lily situation and told her how she should be fine in a while. Erika seemed to stiffen up when I talked about her, well, not necessarily stiffen up. I don't know what to call it.

We park in front of my house and I don't see my mom or my dad's car so I assume there not here, "Wanna come up? I don't think my parents or my grandma's here."

She looks through the windshield at my house, "How could you tell, your house could fit six houses in there?"

I laugh, "Yeah, I get that all the time." I say, "So you wanna come up?

"Yeah, we have time before I have to go to school and you have to go to work." she says.

"You have to go to school?" I ask.

"Yep, my professor wasn't there this morning so he's doing a night class. I got a text from one of my classmates when we were watching Resident Evil: Extinction." she says.

"Oh, so are you still taking me to work?" I ask.

She nods, "Yeah, I have to be at school at five so I'll drop you at four."

"Darryl know?" I ask not trying to be nosy, just trying to figure out what's up considering I already have to ask for some time off. Tomorrow, for the stupid concert, which I don't know how I'm going to get through right now.

"Yeah, he understands. I texted him." she says.

"I was wondering because I need to ask for some time off tomorrow." I say.

"Why?" she asks.

"Because," I look at my house then back to her, "I'll tell you when we get inside." I say.

"Okay." she says then turns off her car.

We both get out of the car and walk up to my front door. I let her park in the front of the house because I don't care if mom and dad come home. I'm pretty sure they won't. I think mom will be home later because she has stuff to take care off with grandma. And dad... dad can do whatever he wants to, I couldn't care less.

I stick my key into the lock and I notice that my knuckles are still looking pretty bad. I haven't been wearing the bandage that Jeremy made me because I'd rather not draw attention to them. No one's asked about them since the bandage came off. I probably wouldn't tell them anyways. I shake my head and open the door.