The New Girl In Town

by laneybug318

Halfway through the school year, Melanie and Jamie's parents died in car crash, making them live with their Uncle Jeb. Melanie and Jamie barely made it out alive. Now she's starting at a new school and it's tough for her. She doesn't fit in, no one's nice to her, and she's behind in some of her classes. But what happens when she catches the eye of the school's quarterback.

6. Chapter 6

A/N: This is only going to be half of the date. You'll get the rest next time. I hope you like this chapter.

"Are you ready to go?" Jared asked me.

I smile and say "Yes." I've been waiting for this all day. I hope he likes my outfit. I don't usually wear dresses but since it was a special occasion I decided to. I wonder where we are going, hopefully someplace fun. My mind has so many thoughts like these circling around in it by the time we got to his car. It was a white jeep. Although it could really use a car wash, I didn't mind that much.

He opens the door for me as I climb in; the inside of the car is not nearly as dirty as the outside. He climbs in, starts the car, and off we go.

"So, where are we going tonight?" I question.

"Well I was thinking we could go bowling and get some ice cream. Is that okay with you?" he says. I could tell that he is so nervous but it's cute.

"Yeah, that sounds perfect to me. The only problem is I don't know how to bowl." I said.

"Don't worry I'll teach you." My heart beats a little faster when he says this. I can feel the butterflies in my stomach fluttering around. We continue talking for the rest of ride. When we arrive at the bowling alley, Jared hops out and opens my car door for me.

We end up bowling in lane number 18. I grab a 10 pound blue ball to use, while Jared grabs a 16 pound black ball. He goes first and, of course, gets a strike. Great, now I'm going to look terrible to him. I haven't played since I was about 6 or 7 so let's just say that I'm a little rusty.

As I grab my ball to get ready, Jared comes up rests his hands on my waist. "I said I would teach you." He whispers into my ear. He places hand on top of mine and leaves the other on my hip. While we take a couple of steps, he pulls my arm back and pushes it forward. "Let go." He tells me. I listen to him and my ball goes rolling down the lane and turns to meet the gutter.

"Hey, it's only your first time. You'll get better." Jared says. We do the same thing all over again and I actually knock down 6 pins. "Look at that! That's more than half." We do this for the rest of the game. I end up losing but that wasn't a big shocker. Jared ended up getting 5 strikes making his score well over 200. As for me, I was lucky if I even it one pin. I got a total of 58 points. I was terrible at it, but it would have been a lot worse if he wouldn't have helped me.

We return our shoes and head back for the car. On the walk back Jared reaches for my hand and I thought my heart melted. When we reach the car he opens my door again. When I climb in all I can think of is how his hand fit perfectly with mine and how it felt so good to be holding it. He starts the car and we drive off to go get ice cream.

A/N: I'm going on vacation for two weeks so I won't be able to update. But I promise I will as soon as I get back home. I hope you liked this part of the date and will like the next part even better. I think this story will be coming to an end pretty soon but not before Lacey has something to say about them dating. Please review if you want to, I would really appreciate it if you did.