Here's Chapter 3!

(Zander)

During the whole period in Mr. March's class, Justin and Stevie kept looking at each other and smiling and winking and smiling and winking and more winking and UGH! I sit directly behind Stevie and it didn't seem like she was paying attention to the notes we were supposed to be copying down. I leaned over to see what she was doing and surprise, surprise! Her entire page was filled with doodles and hearts with J+S, Justin + Stevie, and even Justin Cole and Stevie Cole. I mean, Stevie Cole doesn't even sound good! Stevie Robbins is more like it. The bell finally rang it thankfully, we had free period next. Kacey and Stevie left saying they were going to the mall to shop for her date. I guess Nelson and Kevin saw my clenched fists because they immediately started singing "Zander and Stevie sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" I just rolled my eyes and left the room. I walked over to locker, shoved in my books to the top shelf, took a quick glance at my plastic mirror, and slammed the door shut. That's when I saw what was wrong about Justin Cole.

Seven lockers down, was Justin and Molly. Her toes were on top of his, her hands tangled in his hair, and his hands playing with the bottom of her short dress. Oh, did I mention they were making out? I had to tell Stevie. It would break her heart, but she deserves to know. And I couldn't let her go on that date when he's cheating on her.

I ran as fast as I could down the hall and out of the school, giving a quick smile and my crowd of fangirls. I hopped into my truck and drove to the mall exceeding the speed limit just by a little. On my way, I was trying to think of the best way to tell Stevie with her getting too upset, but suddenly a thought stuck me. What if she doesn't believe me? What if she thinks I'm making it up? I brushed those thoughts aside knowing that I'm her best friend and she would believe me no matter what. Not wasting a single second, I parked my truck and dashed into the mall thinking of all the possibilities of where the two girls could be. I ran from store to store in all levels, through the food court, stopped by Danny Mangoes for a drink, asked people if they've seen them, but I had no luck. I tried calling both Stevie and Kacey, but it went straight to the answering machine. By this time, I was panting like my dog and had probably checked every shop...except one. I walked to the other side of the floor and peeked into the bra store. I saw Kacey's head at the very back so I started to make my way to the back.

(Stevie)

"Kacey, I'm all done. You ready to go?" I asked, holding a handful of bras in my hand.

"Hold on just a minute..." Kacey replied. "Uhh, Stevie? Is that Zander?"

"What?" I turned my head and sure enough, I saw Zander running towards us. He stopped in front us to catch his breath.

"What are you doing here?" Kacey asked with a confused look.

"And why are you panting?" I added.

"I-I ran o-over here," Zander said between breaths.

"Why? You interested in half-naked women that much?" I said with a smirk.

Weirdly, Zander ignored my tease. "Stevie. There's something I need to tell you and you're not going to like it."

I glanced over at Kacey who just shrugged. "Go on. What's wrong?"

"At school," he started, "I saw Justin Cole kissing Molly Garfunkel."

I raised my eyebrows. "Yeah right, Zander." I turned back to the rack of bras.

"No! I'm serious. They were kissing like crazy!"

I spun around with a mad expression. "Really Zander? Because it just sounds like you're trying to make Justin look bad! There's no way that he would be kissing Molly. He asked me out, okay? I can't believe you would actually make something up like that and expect me to believe it. That is so low!"

"What?! You think I'm making this up?" By this point, Zander and I were practically yelling at each other and I'm sure the whole store could hear us, but it didn't matter because Zander was the one being a jerk. "You think I rushed all the way here, ran around the entire mall looking for you, and even entered this stupid store just so I could tell you something made up? Stevie! I'm telling the truth!"

"Yeah? And I'm telling the truth, too. You are so jealous of Justin and you are so caught up on making him look bad. I know tons of people are jealous of him, but you, Zander? I really thought better of you!" One of the employees came to us and asked us if there was a problem. I tightened my grip on the bras and said, "No. Everything's fine. Come on, Kacey. Let's go." We quickly paid and rushed out of the store only to here Zander calling after us.

Kacey and I got into her car and started our drive back to school. I started the conversation, "I can't believe Zander did that. And more importantly, why would he do that?"

Kacey glanced over at me. "You really have no idea why?"

"Probably jealous that Justin is richer or something stupid."

"Or….." Kacey started as her face broke into a smile.

"Or what?" I asked, curious to know what this smile worthy reason was.

"Or…he's jealous."

"Kacey, I just said that!"

"Jealous that Justin is going out with you. Zander so wishes he was Justin."

"Are you hinting that Zander and I could be more than friends? Because we can't."

"Why not?" Kacey whined.

"Because…" I started off, not knowing what else to say. "Because we're just friends!"

"Riigghhhtt."

"Oh, shut up, Kacey!" I sighed, rolling my eyes. "Come on, we're back at school. Let's go."

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