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Chapter 6 – Boys

I couldn't concentrate in class. All I could think about was Max and our date on Saturday. At lunch, I went to sit with my usual friends, Anna, Prudence and Molly.

"Hey guys," I greeted as I sat down next to them.
They looked at me strangely.
"What?"
"So, you have a boyfriend now?" Prudence asked on behalf of everyone.
"Uh, yeah, kinda. How'd you know?"
"Facebook. Your page said that you were 'now in a relationship with Max Edison."
"Oh, right. Yeah, Maxwell's pretty great. Guess what!"
"What?"
"He's, like, the biggest Beatles fan, just like me!"
"Perfect!" Anna smiled.
"I swear his family is based off of them. I mean, he's Maxwell Edison from Maxwell's Silver Hammer, and his mum is Joan, another person from the song. And to top it all off, his dad is a doctor called Bob – Doctor Robert!"
"Okay, that's just creepy!" Molly commented.
"It's perfect!"
"Okay, you are officially the best couple ever!"
"So how'd you meet him?" asked Prudence.
"Our mums work together."
"Really? So have you been out yet?"
"No, we're going on Saturday."
"That's so awesome! Where?"
"Oh, we're just going to the movies."
"Are your parents okay with it?"
"They were there when he asked me! They said it was okay."
"That's great!"
After lunch, I had HPE – and that's what started it all…

"Hey, Sadie," the creepiest guy in our grade, Tim Grubb, said to me.
"What do you want, Tim?" I asked him rudely.
"Look, Sadie, you're cute and I wouldn't mind going out with you sometime…"
"Um, no, Tim, I don't think so. I've told you time and time again that I don't fancy slime like you."
"Please," he tried to grab my arm but I kicked him in the shin.
"Ow, that hurt!" he yelped whilst holding his leg, "Both the kick and the comment."
"I'm sorry," I shot very quickly with no sincerity at all.
"So it's still a no?"
I walked away from him, unable to bear talking to him any longer. It's complicated, but I don't like to have anything to do with him - the history goes way back.

"Hey Sadie," another male voice called out to me. I turned to see Patrick Donaldson, another boy in my class. Now this boy was nice, unlike Tim. I actually didn't mind him.
"Oh, hey Patrick," I greeted him.
"So, are you doing anything this weekend?"
He caught me off guard with his random question. Since when has he been interested in hanging out with me outside of school?
"No, sorry, I'm busy."
"Oh, that's okay. I just really like you, that's all."
He walked away, embarrassed. I was extremely flattered, but of course I was already with Max and Max was certainly one of a kind – a dream boy. Though, I have to admit, he was more like a man. He was mature. His Beatle-loving proved that. I felt sorry for Patrick, even though I would always choose Max over him.

Just when I thought my day couldn't get any weirder, a guy that catches the bus with me started flirting with me too! We were at the bus stop, like usual with a bunch of other people, including Prudence, and he started talking to me.
"So…" he dragged out the word, "What ya up to?"
"Waiting for the bus," I replied, not looking at him.
"Really? Me too! I'll wait with you."
"Don't you always, Daniel?"
He sat on the brick wall next to me. I just raised my eyebrows and still didn't look at him. I gave Prudence an SOS look. She smirked, not bothering to help me.
"Daniel, I know what you're doing and I'm sorry but I don't like you in that way. Please stop trying to crack on to me! You're the third guy to crack onto me today."
"Really? Who else has?"
"Tim, Patrick, you…"
"Oh my God!"
"What?"
"They told me they weren't going to try and-."
He cut himself off as he realised that he was revealing a secret plan to me.
"What?" I asked him suspiciously.
"Oh, it's nothing"
I decided to give up worming it out of him – it was probably some little crap thing they were doing. But everything involving those three boys today had annoyed me. What were they up to? What was this secret little 'deal' between them? I decided to investigate.

On the bus I told Prudence about my suspicions.
"What do you think they're up to?" she asked.
"I don't know, but I need you to help me with investigating."
"Okay, what do you need me to do?"
"We'll call this… Operation Boys – With a Little Help From My Friends!"
"Perfect!"
"Okay, we need to find out what they're up to. I know that I'm friends with all three on Facebook, though I don't know why I accepted Tim's friend request."
"That could have something to do with it. Maybe they Facebook stalked you and then discussed their 'plan' together on there."
"Yeah, probably. Can you question Daniel?"
He was sitting two rows behind us on the opposite side of the bus talking to another boy from our school, James Todd.
"Okay, what do I ask him?"
"Just stuff like is he friends with Tim and Patrick, and if he asks why just make up a reason. But whatever you do, don't mention that I want to know, okay?"
"Okay."
She got up to go and sit in the seat in front of him.
"Thank you girl!" I whispered after her.

"So, Daniel…" she started, "Are you by any chance friends with Tim and Patrick?"
"Uh, yeah, why?" he replied.
"Oh, it's just that in maths today they mentioned you…"
"What did they say?"
"Relax, all they said was that they were glad to have you as a friend."
"Oh, really?" he raised his eyebrow, not buying Prue's lie.
"So, since when have you been friends?" Prue asked.
"Since ages. We've been in the same grade for three years."
"So it has nothing to do with any girls that might be in our grade...?"
"Sadie put you up to this, didn't she?" Daniel accused, "I'm not telling you that we share mutual feelings-."
"What, you all like Sadie?" she asked them, quietly yelling.
"Shit," Daniel swore, realising what he had just revealed.
I had heard, even though my back was turned to them the whole time. I literally froze and my eyes went wide. Oh my God, I couldn't believe what I'd just heard – their friendship was based on their like of me. Me! What has this world come to? Prudence couldn't believe it either.
"You know that she has a boyfriend, don't you?" Prue asked.
"Yes, since Sunday. We really didn't know that each other liked her. The three of us had liked Sadie for a while now but neither of us was brave enough to make a move. So we all happened to be on Facebook at the same time and we all saw the 'Sadie is now in a relationship with blah blah' thing. Well, Tim started a group conversation with us, I don't know why. He said, 'hey guys, did you see that Sadie has a boyfriend.' Pat and I said yes, we saw, and then Pat surprised us by revealing that he liked Sadie, then Tim did too and I was shocked, so I decided to reveal that too. Well, the three of us were surprised, to say the least. We just happened to be in a conversation, revealing to each other that we all liked the same girl. We agreed not to make any moves since we discovered she had a boyfriend."

He finished his long-winded explanation. I was now looking at him with disgust. He didn't know that I had heard.
"No offense, Daniel, but I would probably never go out with either of you," I said to him, "Even if Max and I did break up. And especially Tim..."
I shuddered at the thought of ever dating Tim.
"I understand," Daniel said, "I'm sorry. But I think you need to look out for Tim. He's not gonna stop easily. As I understand it, he's liked you since primary school."
Tim and I went to the same primary school and happened to go to the same high school. I still think he followed me here. There was no chance in hell that I would ever accept his offer to go out with him. I think my family might disown me if I did. I sighed.
"Boys."