Chapter 5: Don't Stop Me
On Monday, Eitan looked around the lunch courtyard to see if he could possibly find Yasmin. The thought of asking her out was bugging him, he need to get this over with. He needed to tell her with enthusiasm, but not too much enthusiasm. He needed closure. He looked around again hoping to succeed in his findings. Dylan came into his view and sat down at the table with his tray of food. "Sup." He said.
"Oh, um… god, hey, bro. I need some last minute advice." Eitan said while glaring out over the crowd of people.
"For what?" Dylan asked and took in a forkful of macaroni.
"To ask Yasmin out." Eitan said and faced him.
"Um… shit, impress her or something, I don't know." Dylan shrugged.
"Right, you don't give good advice, where's Koby." Eitan asked.
"I don't know." Dylan said glumly and looked down at his plate of unfinished macaroni.
Eitan looked at Dylan, "Are you okay? You don't seem too smiley and annoying." Eitan said reading his facial expression.
Dylan looked up to Eitan while chewing on some macaroni. He swallowed the food, "Well, Sasha and I made out Friday night and that afternoon, but I just don't understand why I feel so bad that she just wants to stay friends with me after I saved her life." Dylan vented.
"What happened to her?" Eitan asked frowning.
"She passed out while trying to tell me something," Dylan gulped down some Vitamin Water. "And I was scared too. I didn't know what to do. So I gave her CPR. Then she woke up."
Eitan nodded his head, "I'm guessing she kissed you to thank you, huh?" Eitan asked.
"Yeah, that's what she told me that night." Dylan said, "But she just doesn't want me to be her boyfriend, I see, but I sort of like her. A lot." Dylan said.
"Oh, wow, well you can't just rush in a relationship dude, she recently got out of that break up with Cameron and it was a messy one, you know it." Eitan said. "I suggest you just wait a while, date other girls like you normally do and besides, girls do that kind of random shit, kiss us guys in thinking we're in a relationship immediately. You get my drift?"
"Well, not now, I need to get over this sudden change in relationships." Dylan looked down to his plate.
"Hey, don't worry about, as guys, we need to just throw the past under the bus and move on to bigger and better things, simple as ABCs."
"Yeah, I guess you're right, and guess I don't want to have relationship issues you know? You have do all kinds of annoying shit and you tend to forget and blah, blah, blah." Dylan said.
"That's the spirit." Eitan smiled. He looked back out to the crowd and finally seen Yasmin walking with Sasha and Jade. "Ooh, there she is! What do I do now?" Eitan said and looked at Dylan.
"Um…" Dylan sighed and looked up. "What would Koby tell you?"
"Oh, damn, I'm nervous, bro." Koby then came to their table of now three and sat next to Dylan.
"Hello bastards." Koby greeted.
"Koby, I need some last minute advice." Eitan exclaimed. Koby looked at Dylan and back to Eitan.
"You're sexy and you know it, so impress her with your sexiness." Koby smiled.
"What?" Eitan raised and eyebrow.
"C'mon." Dylan said. "You gave me good advice, now use your words of wisdom onto yourself and make a move, bro!"
He and Koby stood you and started pulling Eitan toward the girls' table to talk to Yasmin.
"Hey, dude, maybe later, I don't think I ready today." Eitan said trying to pull away.
"Hey, it's just Yasmin, it'll be easy to talk to her." Koby said pulling her left arm. Eitan tried pushing all his weight down on Dylan who was pushing him forward, but that was unsuccessful.
"No it won't be easy." Eitan said.
"Now stand up straight and go for it." Dylan stopped pushing him and gave him one hard and forceful push. He and Koby watched as Eitan walked toward Yasmin.
He sat next to her and spoke to the girls. "Hey ladies." He said a bit quietly.
"Eitan hi!" Jade said.
"What a surprise. We weren't expecting you to come." Sasha said in a sarcastic manner.
"Hey, Sasha." Jade said.
"What Jade?" Sasha shook her head and laughed.
"I'm thirsty, want to come get a drink with me?" Jade said slowly and loudly.
"Sure, let's go." The two hurried up and walked away. Yasmin scoffed seeing as Jade and Sasha knew what they were doing to her.
"Uh… haha sorry, them."Yasmin said and chuckled.
"Yeah." Eitan chuckled quietly and flashed a shy smile to Yasmin. There was an awkward silence between them. Yasmin didn't know what to say. Neither did Eitan. They looked down at the table not knowing what to say at all. Yasmin thought that Eitan was just too cute and she was without words for him. Why was it so awkward for them to talk to each other when their friends aren't around? Eitan decided to make the first move eventually. "So," he started and smiled to Yasmin scratching the back of his head. "I um… have this huge crush on you and I was wondering if we can you know hang out or something?" Eitan's heart pounded rapidly. Yasmin blushed ad looked up from the table and stared into his gray eyes. She smiled.
"Sure, I would love to." She said. "It's funny because I've had this huge crush on you too." She looked down at her beige platform sandals.
"Really?" Eitan looked at her.
"Yeah." Yasmin blushed.
"Oh," Eitan smiled and snickered. "Cool."
"Yeah, I know." Yasmin said. From a far Sasha, Jade, Koby, and Dylan watched them and was proud of them.
"Aw, they are so cute together."Jade said.
"I agree." Sasha smiled. Dylan threw her an amusing stare, speaking of the irony that he thought he and Sasha would be cute together. "Aaww, they are so shy." Sasha said in awe.
"Yeah, I can see them now, blushing into red roses." Koby crossed his arms.
"Well, I guess I'll see you around then." Eitan stood up.
"Um… sure." Yasmin said in a mousy voice. Eitan gave her a sly demeaning glance.
"So, can I get a hug?" Eitan asked.
Yasmin laughed and stood up to give him a hug like he asked. He smelled so good like Hervé Leger Homme. Yasmin let go and looked up to him. He was so sexy and smelled so good. She never wanted to let him go. "Bye, Eitan."
"Bye." He smiled as he walked away. Koby and Dylan met him halfway and wanted in on what just happened.
"So!" Dylan yelled.
"She agreed to a date." Eitan said.
"Cool." Koby said.
"So, I'm picking on where you should go." Koby and Dylan said at the same time.
"What?" They said again but with shock at the same time.
"Hey, I'll take her to a simple movie and then we'll grab something to eat, no big deal right?" Eitan said.
"Why can't you take her some place special?" Dylan asked.
"With the amount of money that I get at the Smoothie Bar, no thanks. A movie sounds affordable and original." Eitan said.
"But maybe we can pitch in and pay for something ourselves, you know to help you with the cause, you need something special for this 'first date'." Koby said quoting.
"For once, I actually agree with him." Dylan nodded his head. He crossed his arms and so did Koby giving Eitan similar rigor expressions. Eitan rolled his eyes and walked in between them starting for the double doors.
"Hey, so you want us to prepare a date?" Dylan asked. He and Koby started following him.
Eitan turned around to face them. "If I put a monkey in the same room with you two morons on seeing who can give great selections on anything, I have dibs on the monkey." Eitan teased. "Two can't even think for each other."
The two boys glanced at each other, "Okay, so we may have our heads screwed on a bit too tight, but we can at least try to put something together." Dylan admitted.
"You mean you have your head screwed on too tight, I assume that I'm the smarter one and look what happened when I got a friend a date, what." Koby looked at Dylan.
"Me? To hell, you know what assume means, huh? You make and ass out of you and me, so I'll say that I have this in the bag this time, nothing over the top." Dylan said.
"Nothing over the—"Koby shook his head, "you can't even think for yourself."
"Try me." Dylan pressed.
"Okay, what two plus two?" Koby snapped his finger.
"F—"Dylan breathed until Koby spoke right over him.
"Four, too slow dammit." Koby said.
"You didn't even give me time to speak, damn!" Dylan said.
"See this is what I'm talking about." Eitan shook his head and walked inside as the two started bickering.
After school, Eitan shoved his left hand in the pocked of his dark denim jeans in search for his keys. Rattling around loose change and knick knacks of such sort, he finally found his keys. He pressed the alarm button and opened the trunk of his car. He literally tossed his books and his backpack in and slammed the trunk closed. Eitan is typically tired throughout the week. He works at the Smoothie Bar on weekdays as well as balancing school. However, he tries to make time with his friends. He took his LG Thrill out of his pocket and shot a quick text to Bryce who was covering his shift. He wasn't anticipating on noticing, but Cameron seems to be walking in his direction. What the hell did he want? Eitan looked down to his phone pretending to get a text. Luckily it was an actual text from Bryce who Okayed his last text. Eitan couldn't reply to an okayed text. There was no getting out of the Cameron Show now. "Cameron?" Eitan said playing it off easy.
"Eitan… look… "Cameron paused.
"Cameron, I would love to stay and chat but I have to leave, I have Bryce covering my shift and I don't deserve to get fired." Eitan explained cautiously.
Cameron raised a brow and felt like an annoying fly to Eitan. "Dude can we just make amends and call it a truce?" Cameron held out his hand.
"For what? I was told that you basically fucked over a good relationship, I don't think I deserve to be in such drama." Eitan started to get a little agitated with him.
Cameron rolled his eyes; I guess I'm thought of as the school's bastard of the year. He thought to himself. "Okay, so I messed up a relationship, but that doesn't change the fact that I would want a decent friendship back." He pleaded.
"Sorry, I know I have good friends, but I don't think I deserve a friend like you back." Eitan said. Cameron really was a little upset that this is happening, but he's trying to put the pieces of his life back together that he's missed forever.
"Well will an 'I'm sorry' do the trick?" Cameron asked. "I'm sorry E-man. I don't see how you got mixed up into this drama anyway." He said, "So you wanna call a truce or what?"
Eitan sighed and was really short on time, well this couldn't hurt, and he did apologize. "Sure dude, cool?" he held out his hand.
"Cool." Cameron shook it. "Thanks man, you're awesome."
"Yeah, whatever man, look I got to go, my shift starts in a few." Eitan said and climbed into his car. He started the engine and the radio immediately popped on playing 'Ladi Dadi' by Steve Aoki featuring Wynter Gordon. Cameron watched as his Nissan Xterra drive out of the student parking lot.
Cameron started for his car and drove away feeling a sudden strange mix of emotions.
At the Smoothie Bar, Eitan quickly threw on his apron and immediately started cleaning the countertop.
"Dude, you were late by about 5 minutes, I'm so not covering for you afterwards, and you know the owner of this place is a complete asshole about time." Bryce said with irritation, flipping his dirty blonde hair from his eyes while wiping his hands with his rag.
"I know, I know and I owe you one big time." Eitan said.
"Yeah, but now you can start taking my place and by the way, it's not like you to be late dude. What's up?" Bryce asked wiping his ray ban eye glasses with a paper towel.
"Nothing really, but I did get… a girl." Eitan said looking down at the counter and presumed with polishing it.
"Oh, unacceptable bro." Bryce propped up against the counter. "But is she cute?"
"Hey, who made you boss?" Eitan frowned. "But, yes she is not only that, but she has a great personality and she sweet." Eitan sighed and wished he could see Yasmin now.
"Interesting, keep that up and you'll be broke and not buy your girl an anniversary present." Eitan rolled his eyes. "Anyway, I'm leaving, seeya later. Oh, and no daydreaming" Bryce tossed his apron underneath the compartment under the counter and walked away. Eitan shook his head while finishing the final polish and began to serve people.
After work, Eitan felt extremely exhausted. It's 8: 30 pm and he has to finish up some homework. Ugh, I hate my weeks. Eitan thought. He placed his apron underneath the counter and locked up the place. He started his car and begun to dive home, despite feeling sleepy and exhausted, he managed and was actually almost home.
He walked inside the house and it was dark, he flicked on the lights and his mom was lying on the sofa asleep. "Hola mama? Estoy en casa, mama." Eitan dropped his bag on the sofa next to him. His mom, Carina Collins, yawned at glanced up to see he son standing over her. Her moved her dark brown away from her eyes.
"Ah, Eitan, honey? Oh, cariño te extrañé. Donde estabas?" She said hastily.
"Había un turno esta noche, lo siento no haberte llamado antes, mama." Eitan said.
"Oh, Eitan you had me worried sick all night." She said.
"Sorry, momma." Eitan said and founded himself in an embrace from his mother. "Well, I have homework to finish and them I'm gonna just go to bed.
"Okay son." Carina nodded her head.
Eitan kissed his mom's forehead and felt his face become hot. He felt really sorry for worrying his mom in her condition. "Now mom you rest some more and I'll come check on you later." Eitan picked up his backpack and headed to his room down the burnt orange colored hallway. He went into his room and lied flat onto his bed with his face into a pillow. He was very exhausted and needed sleep ASAP.
So this chapter was too short, but I couldn't think of nothing else, sadly. However, what do you think? Isn't it sweet how shy people just fall for each other, reminds me of myself a bit. Well, Next chapter is all about Cloe and the nerd so be ready!
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