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Chapter 5

Aubrey was so glad it was Friday. It was lunch time and everyone was there. Aubrey was upset at the fact that Erik didn't really talk to her, and he did say something about her coming over during the weekend to hang out, but she still had another class with him, maybe he would ask her then.

As soon as she got to school, she noticed that Alice was right about Harry, everywhere Aubrey went, Harry seemed to pop up. Even now he was sitting next to her laughing at something Chad had said.

The bell sounded and Aubrey stood up to dump her tray. Harry followed her to the trash cans, and seemed nervous.

"Aubrey, can I ask you something?"

Aubrey smiled, "Of course Harry."

"Well I know Alice told you I liked you, and I was wondering if you would want to go out with me. Maybe tomorrow, we could go see a movie." Harry said quickly.

Aubrey had thought about this since last night when Alice told her. She really did like Erik, but he didn't seem interested, so maybe she should move on. Harry was a really nice guy after all, and they did get along well.

"Yeah, that would be nice."

Harry's face split into a smile. As they started walking back to the table he reached down and grasped her hand. She smiled at him and he returned the smile. Alice smiled at them as they reached the table. When Harry wasn't looking Alice winked at her.

Harry walked Aubrey to her next class, and as soon as he was out of earshot the girls pounced.

"So when did he ask you out!"

"You are so cute together."

"What are you going to do something this weekend?"

"Okay, okay calm down!" Aubrey shouted over the girls, with a huge grin on her face.

"He asked me out today at lunch, we are going to the movies tomorrow."

"Is he going to drive you home Aubrey?"

She shrugged, "Well he didn't say anything about it."

"Oh I'm sure he will, but if he doesn't I will." Jane said.

Just then the class started and the talking had to stop. When the class ended Aubrey walked out of the class in giggles when Aubrey spotted Harry leaning against the wall waiting for her. His face split up in a smile at her appearance.

She felt Harry slide his hand into hers and felt a small electric shock in her hand. He walked her all the way to the last class, "Do you want me to give you a ride home after school? Maybe we could hang out for a while after school."

Aubrey smiled "Yeah, that would be great, I'll see you after school then." She pulled her hand free from his and walked into the classroom.

She saw Erik sitting in the back, as usual, and she went to sit next to him.

"Hey Erik" Aubrey said sitting down next to him. "Have you had a good day today?"

"Hmph"

Aubrey's eyebrows scrunched up in confusion.

"It seems that you had a good day." Erik growled.

"Well I had a good day, but what's with the hmph" Aubrey said in an intimidation of Erik.

"I have heard that you are dating Harry Carter, and I can't believe that he would ask you out, he is only dating you because your hot, he doesn't want you for any reason, but to use you, I thought you were smarter than that." Erik said looking her in the face then turning away from her.

Aubrey was shocked to hear these words to bluntly. Could he be right? She was the new girl in town, and he really only did seem to like her based on appearance.

"Wow Erik, you can be really rude sometimes." Aubrey said roughly. She turned away from him, even though he was profoundly looking the other way, and tried to ignore him, but was thinking about what he had said.

It probably was true that the only way Harry asked her out was because of the way she looked, but they got along when they did hang out together. He was funny, and wasn't that important?

As the final bell rang Erik jumped out of his chair as if it was electrocuted and rushed out of the door before anyone else had even gotten up.

By the time that Aubrey was outside looking for Harry, Erik's black eclipse was missing from the other cars. Aubrey heard her name a few feet away and saw Harry walking towards her with a smile on his face.

"Are your parents going to be mad that you are bringing someone home?"

"No, they are really good about friends coming over." Aubrey said, but as she said this Harry's face seemed to crumple. Aubrey knew she had said the wrong thing and had to think for a second about what she said that could have offended him, and then Aubrey realized it was because she said friends coming over.

"Oh, I didn't mean you were just a friend." Aubrey said quickly reaching for his hand. Harry took it but the smile didn't to his face.

"So what are you driving?" Aubrey asked trying to change the subject.

"I drive the faded black Chevy Luv over there" Harry said pointing towards a horrible looking truck. The left door was dented in by what looked like a bat, and the hood was a bright yellow color that had apparently came from a different truck.

Aubrey gave a little giggle. "That's your car?!"

Harry gave you a small smile. "It's a veteran, and I would appreciate it if you didn't diss it." Harry said laughing along with Aubrey.

She just rolled her eyes but smiled along with him, "If you say so."

They talked about what they might see at the movies tomorrow on the way to her house. When Aubrey saw her house in the distance she started to get a little nervous. What would her parents say about her sudden boyfriend, so close to dating Lawrence?

When they walked to the house she made sure she was fidgeting with the strap on her bag so Harry wouldn't grab her hand and tip it off to her parents that they were dating. She took him into the front room where her mom was folding laundry.

"Mom, this is Harry Carter, Harry this is my mom Lacey Inmon"

He reached his hand forward and shook hands with Lacey. "It's very nice to meet you Lacey."

She smiled at him. "It's lovely to meet you Harry. It's so nice to meet some of Ruthie's friends."

Harry turned and looked at Aubrey and mouthed Ruthie with a grin on his face.

Aubrey was embarrassed at her mom's pet name for herself. "Were going to the den to watch T.V." Aubrey said grabbing his hand and pulling him out of the room where Harry started laughing.

"So why did your mom call you Ruthie?" Harry asked with laughter in his voice.

"It's my middle name." Aubrey grumbled as she heard the phone ringing. A second later her mom was shouting down the hall that it was for her. Aubrey rolled her eyes and picked up the extension in the den.

"Hello?"

"Aubrey I hate to bother you, since I'm sure your with your boyfriend but I was going to print out our report, and I can't seem to find it anywhere on my computer, you didn't put it on a disk did you?" Erik asked.

"Oh, no I didn't, are you sure you can't find it?"

"Yes, I have looked under everything on my computer, we are going to have to write it up all again, can you come over tonight and do it?"

"Well, yes I should, I'll have Harry give me a ride, then could you give me a ride back home when were done?"

"Yes that will be fine, I'll see you soon."

Aubrey hung up the phone. "Harry I'm so sorry, but our report for English has been deleted from Erik's computer and we really need to work on it before we forget what we had on it. Do you think you could drive me?"

Harry looked a little crestfallen. "You couldn't do it at school on Monday?"

"I'm just afraid we will completely forget what we had down, and we just finished it, I'm so sorry Harry. Maybe you can come over tomorrow before we go out to the movies?"

"Oh okay. Yeah I can drive you."

Aubrey went to ask her mom if she could go and when she said yes she grabbed her bag and walked out of the house with Harry. He reached down and grabbed her hand.

They drove to Erik's house in silence. "Thanks for the lift Harry. Call me tomorrow and we can hang out okay?"

"Yeah okay."

Aubrey walked up to Erik's door and rang the bell where Erik answered it after a couple seconds. He gave a scowl at the truck as it turned out of the driveway.

"How did you look our whole report?" Aubrey asked as she sat down in his family room where his laptop stood open.

"Yes, I have looked under every file on my computer and I can't find it."

They worked until 6 o'clock when some women Aubrey had never met brought in a box of pizza, two plates, and two can of Pepsi's. They took a break from their work and decided to eat. They were not getting far on their work.

"So what other kind of literature do you like?" Aubrey asked around a mouth of pizza.

"Oh I like the classics, and science fiction." Erik said as he swallowed his pizza.

"I like romance books."

"Of course." Erik said rolling his eyes. "That's typical of a girl"

"I like more that romance books, I like older books that are not really known. My favorite book is Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, I really like the book by Susan Kay, the Phantom one anyways."

Erik who had been taking a drink of his Pepsi started to choke. "Why are you so intrigued with Phantom of the Opera?" Erik asked when he got his breath back.

"You know it just speaks to me. I really just seem to connect to the story, to bad it isn't true, I would really love to get to know everything about it."

"How do you know it isn't real?"

Yes I know I hate leaving you on a cliff hanger, will Erik tell her if it is real or not? I would love to get your feedback on it. I'm so sorry it has taken me this long to update, I have had a lot going on in my life at the moment, but life goes on. I want to thank my wonderful readers to reviewing and reading my story!

Desiree'