The Next Day, 8:00 A.M, Cafeteria...
Shane was a happy camper to say the least. He still couldn't believe that Paige was now back in his life, after previously assuming that he was never going too see or hear from her again.
"I've gotta ask my dad if we could head back down to Arizona during Thanksgiving break so I could meet her again in person. That would be great!" He thought to himself.
"Yo, Cash. What are you smiling about?"
Shane looked up and saw Seth sitting at the table. He seemed a little happy himself.
"I could ask you the same thing, captain."
"I asked you first."
Shane chuckled.
"Well, if you must know, I reconnected with an old friend of mine from back in Arizona."
"Oh really? What's his name?"
"It's a girl, and her name is Paige."
"Oh. What is she, your old girlfriend?" Seth asked.
"Nah, she was like a big sister to me."
"That sounds like code for, "Hell no, she was ugly."
Shane raised his eyebrow at Seth.
"Believe me, Cap. She's nothing even close to ugly. Matter of fact, hold on, let me show you a picture of her."
He reached into his pocket and grabbed his phone. After a few seconds, he pulled up a picture of him and her posing in front of his old house back in Arizona. He had it has arm wrapped around her laughing while Paige had a small smirk on her face.
"Check this out." Shane boasted.
Seth looked at the picture and he nodded approvingly.
"Okay, wow. I stand corrected. She's a dime."
"And you wanna know something else? She's a Brit, straight from across the pond."
Seth shook his head.
"No way, man. You're fucking with me."
"Nah, I swear I'm not. She's from England. Moved to the U.S. last year." Shane said.
"Unless you show me proof, I don't believe you."
Shane sighed.
"Why is that so hard to believe?"
"Because! What English person randomly decides to move to fucking Arizona?! Like out of all of the places in America to move to, you choose there? Get the fuck outta here."
"That's what I thought at first, but come on. I'm telling you the God's honest truth. You know what, hold on."
Shane once again grabbed his phone and dialed her number. The other end, someone very annoyed answered.
"Shane! Do you have any idea what bloody time it is?! It's 5 in the morning! What do you want?!" Paige whisper yelled.
"Wait, what? No it isn't. It's 8."
"Aaah, we live in different time zones, dickhead! Remember?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot. Sorry, Midnight. I'm just trying to prove a point to my friend over here." He explainrd while laughing about his mistake.
He put the celly on speaker.
"You see, my friend Seth doesn't believe that you're British. Care to prove him wrong?"
Paige was furious at his reasoning for calling her so early in the morning.
"Are you serious right now?! You fuckin twat! You gotta be jokin me with this shit! I have a bloody exam today 1st period! Are you fuckin mental?! I swear if you were still here I'd go to your house and strangle the piss outta ya, ya daft bastard!"
Her rant was being heard by most of the kids in the cafateria. Seth couldn't believe his ears, and the rest of the students were confused by what they were hearing. Meanwhile, Shane had to try really hard not to laugh out loud at her outburst. He was shaking.
"Yo, Paige? I know you're angry, but I just thought I should let you know. You're on speaker phone. Seth heard everything."
Needless to say, the pale girl was embarrassed. You could practically see the blush she had through the phone.
"Oh, um... Seth, is it? Sorry you had to hear that, love. Shane's just very irritating, you probably already know that. But yes, I am indeed English. God save the queen and all."
She then turned her attention to Shane, who couldn't hold back anymore and was currently laughing like crazy.
"I'm so gonna yell at you later. You understand that, right?"
"Later? You just did it like 30 seconds ago."
"More. I'm gonna yell at you more."
Still laughing he responded.
"Okay, I'll prepare for it. Or at least try to. Bye Paige. Good luck on your test."
"Oh, piss off, tosser."
She hung up the phone and Shane continued to laugh his brains out.
"Wow, she's got a mouth on her doesn't she?" Seth said amused.
"To quote Dean when I met Alexa for the first time, "Brother, you have no frickin idea."
"And SHE'S like a big sister to you?"
Shane shrugged his shoulders.
"Hey man. She helped me out a lot back in Phoenix."
"You're crazy. She's definitely girlfriend material."
"Who is?"
The two boys looked behind them to see Bayley walking in their direction smiling per the usual.
"Oh hey, Bayley. Seth, you know what to do." Shane said knowingly.
Seth sighed.
"Yeah, yeah."
He outstretched his arms and braced himself for a hug.
"Come on. Let's do this."
Bayley gasped at Seth's invitation.
"You actually want a hug?"
"If this will stop you from calling me a damn meanie, then yeah. Yeah I do."
"Yay!" She yelled while pulling Seth into possibly one of the biggest hugs she's given. She continued to express her joy while in the act.
"I'm so happy! Seth, you're definitely not a meanie anymore!"
"G- Great. Now... Please... Let go of me... I'm gonna su- suffocate." He said trying to smile through the pain.
Bayley wasn't listening to him so Shane had to literally pry her off of him, which was way harder than he thought it was gonna be. Eventually, he got her off him.
"Jesus Christ where's Big E when you need him?" He thought to himself.
Bayley nervously giggled.
"Sorry, I got really excited."
Seth beat his chest a few times to try and get some air back into his lungs before speaking.
"It's okay. Just, take it easy next time."
"Can do! So... Who were you guys talking about?"
Shane was hesitant to explain but did anyway.
"Oh, uh. I was telling Seth about how I reconnected with an old friend from back home. Girl named Paige."
Bayley smirked.
"Oooh, Shane's got a secret old girlfriend."
"No, no. Why does everyone assume that? Like I told Seth, she's like the big sister I never had."
"Aww, she sounds like a nice person."
"She's not bad looking either." Seth chimed in.
"Can I see what she looks like?" Bayley asked Shane.
"Sure, give me a sec."
He showed her the same picture he showed Seth.
"She's pretty!"
Shane smiled.
"Yeah, I know she is."
"But... You guys look like a couple in this picture." She added, giving Shane an almost interrogating look.
"No, Smiles. I assure you, we're just friends. And we're reunited, sort of! I missed her a lot."
"That's good. I'm glad you're happy. Seth looks like he's smitten." She joked.
"I'm not. All I said was that she's attractive. It's not like I said I wanna marry the broad."
"Seth! What did I say before about calling girls broads? You know I don't like the way it sounds. It sounds trashy." Bayley said pouting cutely.
"Dude, I'm gonna say whatever the hell I want." Seth responded defiantly.
"You're acting like a-"
Seth cut her off.
"Don't say it."
She smirked.
"If you don't want me to say it, then you gotta hug me again."
He once again sighed.
"Fine. Let's go."
This time it felt even tighter and Seth was surely thought he was gonna die.
"C- Cash! Help... Me!"
Shane shrugged.
"Sorry, bro. You brought this on yourself. I'm not getting involved this time.
"Goddamnit... Shane!"
He walked away while Bayley continued her bubbly death grip on the poor two tone haired boy.
"Funny, Paige calls girls broads too. Maybe Seth and her are kind of alike." He thought.
