So sorry that I haven't updated in a while. I've been busy with camp and friends. Also, I've been really addicted to one of Wendelin Van Draanen's books, Runaway. It's this amazing book about the life of Holly (Sammy's friend) before she came to Santa Martina. If you haven't read it, then read it right now because it's soooo awesome!

I decided to chose the most generic date idea ever: the movies. Casey was all up for the idea, and so was Billy. We'd go out to dinner first, then hit the movies. The showing was really early. 5.30. But I guess I was sort of desperate to have Marissa spend some "quality time" with her date, so I didn't pay an ounce of attention to the movie time.

At the restaurant (which was, now this may shock you, not burger hut), Marissa tried to stay as close to me as possible. I confronted her about this after a few annoying minutes.

"Marissa! You have a date, and it's not me! Go talk to him! Do something." I whispered when the guys had gone up to order food.

"I know! I just… I'm just nervous. I don't know what to say! It's sooo awkward!"

"Come on! It's just Billy! The same old Billy we've been friends with since forever."

"It may be the same Billy, but it's different! I… I don't know! I'll figure out something," she stumbled out.

"Ok! Now sit on that side." I pointed to the spot next to Billy's chair. She glared at me, then moved over. The glare was kinda weak though. And she did the McKenze dance as the guys came back with the food.

"Rations for the ladies." Billy said smoothly, in his signature British accent. Marissa smiled nervously. Casey slid in the booth next to me, and Billy sat across from him, next to Marissa, who looked like she needed to pee.

Casey leaned over and kissed me on the cheek. I looked at Marissa, who sent daggers to me with her eyes. I looked at Casey, and then at Marissa. These days, it seemed Casey and I had our own language that we didn't actually need to speak.

Marissa! She told me to keep the PDA to a minimum, I thought.

He sent me a puppy-dog face. I swear I almost melted right there. But I kept my eyes firm, and he reluctantly obliged.

So, throughout the whole dinner, I tried to get Marissa to be comfortable around Billy, Casey kept the conversation going, Marissa scooted to the wall side of the booth (away from Billy) and Billy acted like… Billy. There was really no other way to put it.

We finally went to the movies and saw this action-spy flick that actually turned out to be really good. While Billy prattled on and on about the awesome stunts he swears he could pull off, Marissa walked silently, looking at the ground. I was desperate to not let the date end.

"We've got time to kill, so do you guys want to hang out at the mall for a little while?"

"Sure!" Casey said. Apparently, he was trying to elongate the date, too.

Billy prattled on until we got to the mall. But when we passed the arcade, Marissa did something that shouldn't have surprised me, but considering the circumstances, it did.

She actually spoke.

And she didn't just speak, she yelled. And ran. And dragged me by my elbow.

"No way! They have it Sammy! The new game I've been waiting to play since I was in diapers!" By now, the guys had followed us into the arcade. I looked at the name of the game. Mafia Domination: Universe. It looked pretty lame to me, but I'm no video-game expert, so I'm not the one to ask. But, Marissa was jumping up and down, asking for change from me. I dug into my pockets and pulled out some leftover quarters from the movie ticket I bought earlier that night. She snatched them from me and threw it in the slot.

"Aw, man! It says I need someone else to play with!" She frowned. Casey and I looked, away, hoping that certain action would make us invisible enough so that Marissa would be forced to choose someone else.

Billy, of course.

Luckily, he was all up for it. "Me, me, pick me!" he yelped, bouncing up and down like a toddler.

Thankfully, Marissa noticed that Casey and I didn't really want to play and was forced to choose Billy. He grabbed the blue plastic gun and Marissa grabbed the red one. They began shooting at these creepy-looking dead soldier guys.

"I got you, now! Take that, ghosty dude!" Billy exclaimed.

"Awesome shot, Billy! We totally nailed those guys!" Marissa grinned.

Billy stopped was he was doing and smiled at Marissa's compliment. His brain seemed to be in some other universe as he beamed at Marissa.

"Billy! We still have to crush these freaks!" Marissa shouted. Billy's attention snapped back to Earth and he proceeded on to shoot like a maniac and make sounds as he went along. Basically, typical Billy behavior.

Casey and I shared a secret smile. "It turned out okay after all, didn't it.," he whispered in my ear.

"Look at that happy couple," I snickered, but in a good way.

For the first time that night, he kissed me on the lips. Marissa saw this, but she was to busy high-fiving Billy to care.

Casey smiled, his beautiful face close to mine. "That makes two happy couples in total." My heart flew.

It turned out that Marissa and Billy played that weird game for two hours! They let Casey and I play once, but of course I sucked and Casey had to do all of the monster-killing work. Inevitably, our "army" died because of me and Marissa and Billy eagerly returned to the controls to kill more savages.

I walked home with Marissa, and she gushed about Billy the whole time.

"You were right! I just needed to give him a chance," she raved, her eyes all twinkly.

I just nodded. I couldn't have said anything anyway, because she butted in and blabbered on about how funny she was, how wonderful and nice and kind he was.

At this point, I could have just spaced out and thrown in some "uh huh"s and "Really?"s and Marissa wouldn't have noticed if a volcano exploded right in front of her face.

So I got a lot of time to think.

I thought about the Great Double-Date, and how sweet Casey was and how cute of a couple Billy and Marissa make.

But mostly I thought about Thursday.

I thought about the much-deserved revenge Heather was going to receive. I thought about how this would settle the score once and for all.

Oh yes, it would.

Yay! So now that this Marissa/ Billy stuff is out of the way (btw, tell me what you thought about the pairing and how I decided to execute the date!) the next chapter is going to be totally devoted to the revenge. Yes, it's coming up! And yes it's going to be freaking EPIC.