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Chapter 5

"I promise, I won't let you down if you take my hand tonight. I promise, we'll be just fine, this time, if you take my hand tonight."- Promise, Simple Plan.

Hayley's P.O.V.

"Hey!" I heard someone yell. Then I felt someone jumping on my bed.

"Wakey wakey!" the voice said again.

"Jack get off the bed." I heard Kori say.

I rolled over on my back and opened my eyes. Sure enough, Jack was there jumping on my bed.

"You guys slept in the same bed?" he said.

"That's the only way to do it, Jack." I said. He laid down in between Kori and I.

"Stop harassing us!" Kori said, as she rolled over on her stomach. I glanced at the clock.

"You wake me up before 11 on a Saturday again, you won't live to see Sunday." Kori said. Jack looked at me.

"Don't mess with her sleep." I said.

"Well, I woke you up now because we are going to race go karts! Now get up." he said.

"As if you're not childish enough." I said as I climbed out of bed. Kori did the same.

I grabbed a pair of dark purple shorts and two white wife-beaters out of my closet (I had to where two because they are see through) and grabbed a towel that was in the basket of clean clothes.

"Are we going to go shower now?" Jack asked. I thought about this before I answered.

"Yes we are." I said grabbing Kori's hand and walking to the door. Jack's eyes grew wide. Me and Kori laughed.

"Just kidding." I said, letting go of her hand. He frowned. I giggled.

On the way out, I opened the door only to find Alex on the other side.

"Shit!" I said, jumping back. "You scared me." I slapped him with my shorts.

"I'm sorry. He glanced around me. "Jack woke you up?" I nodded.

"Yeah and he was an ass about it." Kori said.

"Was not!" he said.

"Was too!"

"Wow you guys are like five year olds!" I said. I walked around Alex to the bathroom and set my clothes on the counter.

"Hurry up Hayley! They might kill me!" Kori yelled.

"I'll try!" I yelled back.

I made it a quick shower and got out. After getting dressed I blow dried my hair and did my make-up. I went back to my room only to find Kori not in there and Alex and Jack looking like they were about make out. I snapped a picture with my phone before I said, "Alex how could you?" I put my hand over my heart trying to look hurt. Their heads snapped in my direction.

"It's not what it looks like!" he said. I started laughing.

"Well, I would hope not or last night was a total waste of time." I replied.

"Way to make it not sound like you just went to the dance." Jack said.

I laughed harder. Of course, Kori decided she wanted to come back at that moment. She raised an eyebrow at me.

"I wouldn't question it." said Alex.

"I was to afraid to." she said before sitting down on my bed.

"It's your turn to take a shower and hurry up! I wanna drive a go cart!" Alex whined. I finally caught my breath. "Just hurry up." I said. She grabbed a pair of Jean shorts and a black t-shirt and left my room.

"Hey Hayley can I borrow your Blink-182 CD?" Abby said coming into my room. "Oh hey." she waved to Alex and Jack. Alex got up and put an arm around her shoulders. "How's it going Abby?" he asked. I smiled when I saw her blush.

"Okay, I guess. Just bored." she replied. Alex shared a look with Jack who looked at me. I shrugged.

"Want to come with us?" Alex asked. She nodded and smiled.

"Which CD do you want?" I asked her.

"Dude Ranch." she said. I got up and looked through my collection. I found it and gave it to her.

"Thanks." she said before taking it and walking across the hall to her room.

"For an eighth grader, she does not act or look like it at all." said Jack.

"I know, right?" I said. He nodded.

I felt my phone vibrate so I took it out of my pocket to see I had a text message. I started to reply to it when Alex sat down next to Jack. They were whispering to each other and I couldn't really tell what they were saying. Out of the corner of my eye I saw them looking at me. Dammit, what are they up to?

I put my phone down which was their signal to stop talking. Alex scooted over next to me. I raised an eyebrow at him. Next thing I know he is tickling me causing me to fall down onto my bed. I grabbed his hands.

"No, we don't tickle people on surprise attacks." I said.

"Yes we do." Alex said.

"Where'd Jack go?" I asked when I noticed he was gone. Alex shrugged, then started to tickle me again. I grabbed his wrists.

"We don't tickle people who went to a dance with you last night." I said.

"What about this?" he leaned down and kissed me, moving his hands to mine and intertwining our fingers.

When he pulled away, I didn't know what to do. I just stayed there, trying to figure out exactly what happened. I stared into his eyes for what seemed like minutes when it was actually just a few seconds.

I smiled after a while and kissed him again. I heard the water shut off so I pulled away and got up. Jack walked back into the room.

I walked out and waited outside the door. Kori came out about a minute later and I grabbed her arm and pulled her into Abby's room, knowing Abby would want to know too.

"What's going on?" Abby asked.

"Um, Alex kissed me." I said.

"Ah, knew it." said Kori. I chuckled.

"That's good, right?" said Abby. I nodded.

"I just felt the need to tell you, so you don't freak out." I turned to Abby. "I'm not ready to tell Mom yet because I don't know if this means we are dating or not." she nodded.

"Now I think it's time we go drive some go karts!" I said opening Abby's door. Jack heard me because he screamed, "Yay!" and ran down the stairs. Abby and Kori went next. I grabbed Alex's hand and lead him down the stairs.

We piled into Alex's Mom's car, which he was driving, and drove to the go kart place. On the way there, all I kept thinking about was Alex and what had just happened. Were we dating now? Was this how it was supposed to be?