HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHI! I'M SEVENTEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNN! (well, legally I am, but technically, I won't turn 17 until 12:30 tomorrow morning because I was born in Manitoba on April 4th at 11:30 PM (on the dot), but now I live in Ontario so with the differant time zones, technically, I turn 17 on the fifth, but w.e.) Wanna hear the sad part? I'm this hyper and I haven't even had cake yet! I'm pretty sure I'm getting a laptop though so the next chapter I write may be on my very own laptop. Exciting right? I wanted that dell one with the touch screen the flips around so it's like an ipod just cuz it's like the optimus prime of laptops, but it's pretty expensive so...:(

Okay, here's the chapter. Oh and I can't wait to see what u all got me for my birthday ;) haha jk, just having you guys read and review my stories is amazing...but if you did happen to get me something, i'd still accept it, ya know, just to be polite..

Oh and one more thing. I'm not entirely happy with this chapter and it actually took me forever to even get it finished (it was one of those ones i had labled 'unfinished' for like three weeks. So cut me some slack, k?


Zora's POV

I plucked the petals off the daisy I'd picked, tossing them onto the grass absently.

"Grady," I muttered, dropping a petal. "Wesley. Grady."

"What about me?" Grady asked, walking up behind me.

"Oh, hey," I said, spinning around. "I didn't hear you drive up."

"Whatcha doing?" he asked, gesturing to the mangled flower.

"Uh...just trying to decided who's house we should eat dinner at tonight," I lied, plucking off another petal. "Mine. Grady's. Mine. Grady's."

"I thought we already decided we were eating here," he said, holding up a bag of groceries. Thankfully, he always insisted on cooking, even when we ate at my place. So far, my cooking hadn't improved much.

"Right," I said, letting Grady help me up off the grass. I tossed the flower onto my lawn and headed for my front door. "So, umm...what's for dinner?" Grady started describing the casserole he planned to make, but I wasn't really listening. I was still a little shaken up over Grady almost findoug out my secret. I wanted to punch myself in the face for being such an idiot. How could I have let myself fall for Wesley when I was with Grady? Hadn't promised him I'd never do to him what Keira did? Hadn't I said Wesley and I were just friends? And yet, here I was, actually considering choosing Wesley over Grady. What the hell was wrong with me?

I sat down at the kitchen table and half-listened to Grady's endless stream of chatter while he cooked. The other half of my brain was thinking about how Wesley's hand had brushed up against mine while we were at the park together this morning. It was only for half a second, but it had filled my stomach with butterflies. (AN: Funny story. When I first wrote this, I was super tired and I accidentally wrote "it had filled my butterflies with stomach." haha wth?) I knew I should just tell Wesley that we couldn't be friends anymore, but there was just something about him that was so intoxicating. It would kill me to stop hanging out with him.

"So that's pretty much all there is to it," Grady finished, sliding the casserole into my oven."

"I bet it'll be delicious," I said, snapping out of my daydream. When Grady wasn't occupied with something else, he had an uncanny way of knowing when my mind was somewhere else. From now on, I'd have to focus on here and now.

"So..." Grady said, sitting down in the chair beside me. "What do you want to do while we're waiting?" I knew what he was getting at, but I wasn't really in the mood to make out right now, especially since every time I closed my eyes, all I saw was Wesley.

"We could play this new crystal ball game I have on my phone," I suggested, taking it out of my pocket.

"Oh," Grady said, obviously disappointed. "Ok. How does it work?"

"You ask it a yes or no question and it answers it," I explained.

"K," Grady said. "Umm...am I the greatest cook in the entire world?" I shook my phone and it made a whoosh noise.

"It is possible," a female voice answered. "But you must make some changes for these events to play out in your favour."

"Cool," Grady said. "Okay, your turn."

"Is Grady a giant loser," I asked, smirking.

"No," my phone answered. "Simply impossible." Grady grinned smugly.

"Hah!" he said. "Is Keira a skanky bitch?"

"Absolutely!" Grady and I burst out laughing.

"It totally works!" Grady exclaimed.

"Does not," I said. "It said you weren't a loser."

"Okay, let's ask it something ridiculous then and see what it says." Grady thought for a minute. "I know! Is Zora secretly in love with another man?" I stopped laughing and froze. Could he know?

"You're not going to like this, but I have seen it as the truth," Grady burst out laughing and I chuckled along with him.

"Okay, you were right," he said. "This app is bullshit." He may believe that now, but I was starting to think maybe it wasn't.


SHAME ON YOU ZORA! Haha, it's funny, this app is based on an actual ipod app i have and that's where I got the inspiration to finish the chapter. I love that app so much, not because it's true or THAT fun or anything, but because it's great for annoying your friends. I told my bff and her boyfriend to ask it questions for like half an hour and they would be like "Does Rachel have to put her gay-ass crystal ball app away now?" and it would be like "No. Simply impossible." and she'd be like "AUUUGHH! DAMMITT!"" gts. gts.

Anyway, my mommy's going to be home soon so i gotta go. Y'all (dammit. there's that word again) better review though cuz it's my birthday and if you don't I will be VERY dissapointed in you.

Peace out suckahs! :)