After taping the scenes with Gabby and Cate, I had gone home�leaving the two fanatics alone with the video to edit. The thought of leaving them with all the footage was a little bit frightening, and I was kinda afraid of what the outcome might be. The next day at school, they seemed extra satisfied and happy. I just couldn�t resist asking them: Me- �What did u guys put on the tape newayz?� Gabby- �It�s so great! It�s all set up to make it look like Eva was sick of Chris makin� eyes at all the other girls and how shez tired of him.� Cate- *smiling* �Yeah, we even edited sum of the lines together to make it look like she was saying all this bad stuff about Chris behind his back!� Gabby- �Oh and the kissing scene, priceless!� Me- �So when do u plan on giving this thing to Chris?� Cate- �Well, we�re gonna try to catch him before he walks home to his house from school. We�ll tell him that we were just playing around with my camera when we happened to catch Ryan and Eva together�this will be great!� Gabby- �If this don�t break the two of them up, then I give up, cause I can�t think of nething else better!� Me- �heh, well�um, good luck u guys.� All the sudden I felt a sharp pain run up through my stomach (%nah, not pms u guys%). I was guessing that it had come from the guilt of the whole Eva situation. What kind of a loser was I newayz? Gabby n Cate didn�t feel bad at all about this, so why should I? It was hard not to feel bad tho�Soon that sharp little pain changed, and then it felt as tho someone had pierced my stomach and then flipped it inside out�.Jesse noticed it too during study hall� Jesse- �Aww, Val whats the matter? U don�t look so good.� Me- �I feel horrible, Jesse, and guilty, and cruel, and *sigh* my tummy feels like jelly.� Jesse- *perkin� up* �Hey! Then ure a jelly belly! Like those tasty little jelly bean thingys! That�s ure new nickname!� *I managed to slip out a little laugh* Jesse- �But right, right, this is where I come in, u can tell me, I promise I won�t tell�..� Me- *sigh* �Yeah, that�s what I told them too�..� Jesse- �Them? Uh-oh, is one of �them� Gabby? Does this have to do with her �brilliant plan�?� Me- *hesitantly* �uh�.yes�*lookin him in the eyes* But Jesse, Please don�t tell! No one can know, please!� Jesse- �I won�t, I won�t, I�m not even sure that I understand, what happened?� I didn�t want to go into great detail to tell Jesse all of the mean specifics that we had really gone through. So I gave him a brief overture about the whole afternoon. Jesse- �Oh crap, maybe I shouldn�t have known about all this�� Me- �I know��.but what can we do?� Jesse- �Well lets c, if we tell Chris about the fake tape before he sees it, Gabby and Cate will probably hate us forever�On the flip side, if we don�t do nething then Eva will get dumped for no reason�� Me- �This isn�t sounding too appealing�� Jesse- �Why the hell do Cate and Gabby have to be so damn overprotective of Chris newayz? *sighs* Maybe I can just talk them out of giving Chris the tape�� Me- �Wait no! Then they�ll hate me for telling neone! This sux�� Jesse- �Yeah, ure right�.i can�t think of nething else to do tho�� Me- *playfully* �We could��makeout?� Jesse- �What a perfect solution!� *we start making out�again* That day after school, I got another phone call. Only this time it wasn�t Gabby, it was Jesse. He told me that he had called Chris, and that Chris had dumped Eva already. Jesse told me that although he was tempted to, he didn�t drop ne hints to Chris about what he knew. Jesse-*phone* �SoOoooOo�.I was thinkin��� Me- �Hurray! Good job Jester!� Jesse- �Why thank you, but newayz�.I was thinkin�, we want Chris to make his own decisions, right? And not to judge Eva by the tape, right?� Me- �Ri-------ght.� Jesse- �So, let�s go clubbin� and invite Chris, Eva, Cate, n Gabby! Then Chris can see who he really wants for his girlfriend�plus, u and me can have sum fun too�� Me- �Sounds great! But what club is open on a Wednesday? And where would they let little 14 year olds in?� Jesse- �23rd street, fourth building to the right. They�re open every night and its like 15 and up�we can hopefully at least pass for 15yrs�� Me- �aight, sure, Sounds like fun. What time?� Jesse- �How about 7?� Me- �k. I�ll call Gabby, Cate, and Eva. If u call Chris�� Jesse- �Right, and I�ll invite Ryan, Frankie, Greg, and Matt too. Oh, and if u want Val, I can come by ure house and pick u up�� Me- �great. alright, cya then! Bye Sweetie!� Jesse- �Byez Jelly Belly!� *we hang up* After making my three other phone calls, it looked as though everyone was coming. Cate & Gabby had been ecstatic over hearing about the club, knowing that this would be their chance to get their beloved one. Eva on the other hand, still sounded upset about being dumped. (and why wouldn�t she?) I guessed that Chris hadn�t told her why he dumped her, because she didn�t seem mad at me or neone else. She agreed to come but still sounded unhappy. Haha, getting ready for this date was far less stressful then our first one had been, thank god! And tonite, I was determined to have a good time. I figured that whatever happened with Chris would just have to happen�My main focus was on Jesse. Hehe, it was time to test out his tight dance moves again. They had looked pretty hott the other night at Greg�s Pizza Parlor. Jesse arrived on time at 7 like he said, so I waved goodbye to my overprotective mom, and hopped into his SUV. Lol, our chauffeur was his mother. Mrs. McCartney- �Hello Valerie, I�m Jesse�s Mom�� Me- �Hey Mrs. McCartney, its nice to finally meet you.� Mrs. McCartney- �Oh yes, and u too! Jesse has told me so much about u!� Me- *teasingly* �Really?� Mrs. McCartney- �Why yes, I think that-----� Jesse- �Mom, please not now!� Mrs. McCartney- �OoOooh! But Jesse! I wanna be part of ure social life too!� Jesse- �uh-uh, no!� Mrs. McCartney- �Well let me just say, I think u two look adorable together!� Me- *lightly hitting Jesse in the shoulder* �Come on Jesse! I wanna hear about sum old, embarrassing childhood stories! Pleasssssse?� Mrs. McCartney- �Oh, well I have plenty! I actually quite remember the time when Jesse was 3, and he had insisted to everyone that really wasn�t a human boy�.but a dog! *laughing* And then he paraded all around the house, eating all the puppy chow, crawling on all fours, wearing nothing but-----------� Jesse- �OK, Enough!!!!!!� Mrs. McCartney- �awww, but remember the time when---� Jesse- *groaning* �Next time I�m having dad drive�� Well, that car ride ended up being very enjoyable�for me that is�When we got to the club, Jesse practically pushed me out of the car, dragging my arm with him to the entrance. Entrance guy- �Names please?� Jesse- �Boris Rynfield and Molly Fitzgerald�� Entrance guy- �U may enter�� *together we walk inside* Me- *after getting away from the doors; laughing* �Boris and Molly?� Jesse- �What? Lol, it was all I could think of�I didn�t wanna give our real names incase we end up getting into ne trouble�� Me- *innocently* �What? Trouble? U and me?� Jesse- �That�s incase we get tempted into making ne trouble�� *winks at me* Me- �Guess we�ll have to see�.Well let�s go find the others�� The dance floor was surprisingly full that weekday night with tons of other ppl. I recognized a handful of the ppl from our school. Finding the others was a bit challenging for Jesse and I, but we eventually did. All eight of them were in a clump within the same area�.Eva was on one side of the group, and Chris was on the opposite. Frankie- �Hey u guys finally came!� Me- *lookin� down at my watch* �We aren�t that late, are we?� Jesse- �I couldve sworn that we had circled all of Westchester 3 whole times before my mom finally decided to drop us off�.Jeez! she was so wrapped up in tellin u about every little thing I did when I was younger!� Me- *grabbing Jessez cheek* �Awww�.but u were such a cute little boy-ee!� Gabby- �Yeah, what happened?� *turns to slap Cate a high-five* Jesse- �Shut up, Gabs�� *Gabby sticks her tongue out and then Jesse copies and does the same* Matt- *walking over with another girl who I hadn�t met* �Whoa whoa whoa u two! Put ure tongues back where they belong! No frenchin� for u two tonight!� Cate- *eyeing Matt�s dance partner* �Hey Matt, aren�t u gonna give us an introduction here?� Matt- �I was getting there! Now, everyone! This is Chyrsta, my new girlfriend.� Chris- *in Matt�s ear* �Nice choice dude.� The rest of us- �Hey Chrysta!� Greg- �Hi, I, I, uh�� Gabby- �I think what Junior is trying to ask here is how did u guys meet? lol� Chrysta- �Well, me and Matt have science class together at WHS, and we just recently started talkin, and just hit it off good I guess��� Matt- �Basically yup!� Frankie- �So u mean all this time uve gone to our school, been in Greg�s, Chris�s, Matt�s, and my grade, yet we�ve never met before? Weird�� Chris- �Big school�� Ryan- �small world�� Gabby- �Wait Ry, small world? U just so totally killed dat one�� Greg- �Hey! Don�t rack on my bud Ryan or else no more free pizza for u no more!� *Gabby unwillingly stops* Eva- �So how old are u Chrysta? 16 like them too?� Chrysta- �uh-huh, my birthday�s coming up in January�� Frankie- �January, a very good month!� Me- �OoOoh, so do u drive too?� Chrysta- �Just got sum new wheels, so, yup!� Jesse- *nudging Matt* �Looks like ure girlfriend will be driving YOU home, lol�� Matt- �Better that then my parents, haha�� Jesse- �Dammit, that�s true�� Cate- �Well enough questions u guys, lets dance like we came here to do�� Me- �Haha, that�s a good idea!� *A fast beat remix comes on and people start pairing off. Me & Jesse; Matt & Chrysta; Eva & a very happy Ryan; Cate, Gabby, & Chris, and Greg and Frankie kinda in the mix between people* It really hadn�t hit me before, but what were Cate and Gabby planning on doing newayz? They both wanted Chris to be THEIR boyfriend�how was that supposed to work? But wait, Jesse! I had to keep tellin myself, Jesse. Focus on URE boyfriend Val, leave them and their guy troubles alone. Right. So��Jesse! Hottie, hot, hot! Whew, was he good?! U could definitely tell that he was a professional. HAHA! ME, grinding with a professional?! I figured that I probably looked really gay, but oh well�I wasn�t that bad� Squished in tight, we had two other couples on our sides. Matt and Chrysta to our left, and Eva and Ryan to our right�I couldn�t help but notice how cute both groups looked together. Maybe Eva was moving on? I didn�t know for sure, but Ryan and she definitely clicked good together. And Chrysta! She definitely seemed like a cool person. She was older, so she knew more about guys then we did, plus, her personality seemed pretty funny, which was perfect for Matt! I could undoubtedly see her fitting in with our group of friends we had. *After a few songs Cate & Gabby come over to me and ask if I�ll come to the punch table with them. I tell Jesse that I�ll be rite back, then leave with my two friends* I had the feeling that they had discovered the same problem that I had recently detected also. Cate- *filling up her juice cup* �What are we supposed to do now?� Gabby- �Yeah, I mean, we made the tapes, got away with breaking him and his gf up, so now what? I think we shoulda thought this one thru betta�� Me- �Now this is getting complicated�*sigh* I dunno either u guys�� Cate- �We�ve both liked him for so long, yet an opportunity like this one has never come by before�� Gabby- �It�d be stupid not to take advantage of our position�� Me- �Ugh, I wanna help u guys out, but im feeling really brain dead bout solutions! Srry.� Cate- �That�s k, Val�� *~~After a little while of brain storming~~* Cate- *takes a deep breath* I know what we can do�� Gabby and I- �What?!� Cate- *speakin slowly* �U can have him Gabby, u came up with the plan�I mean, neither of us would�ve had a chance if u hadn�t come up with the idea�take him.� Gabby *tears formin�* �omg!�..Cate, no way! How could I?� Cate- *firmly* �I�m serious Gabby, Chris is ures�� Gabby- *wiping up her wet eyes* �Cate, Ca-aate! Cate Jones, u are one of the best buds ne one could ever ask for! Now get ure butt over here so I can hug ya!� Me- *tearing up too* �awwwww, u guys rock!� *I watch teary-eyed as the two exchange a long, tight hug�(%I�m so sappy%)�.a hug like the one me and Jana had shared b4 I had moved here�Seeing them made me miss Jana a lot�* Cate- �Aw, shit, now we hafta go into the bathroom�our mascara�s running, we look like wrecks!� Me- *looking down @ myself* �I�m such a loser, look at me, I�m crying too!� Gabby- �We better hurry before the others come looking for us�� *we all agree and hurry into the restrooms* |
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