The Player and the Nobody

Chapter 13: Preparation

§Preparation§

~*~I'm getting good at updating huh?! How about that Ricky fella in the other chapter? God I love Austin Butler dontchya? Anyways to the chapter!

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"How'd you know it was me?" He smirks coming out of the shadows.

"Only you can come up with a comeback that good, that quickly." He chuckles.

"So what is it that caused her to hate your guts so much?"

"Me being myself?" I glance up hoping for him to believe my fib.

"When will you ever learn that you suck at lieing?"

"Hey! I just don't practice enough! I'm too busy learning, studying, and other stuff."

"Oh yeah that's right. I forgot you were a goody-goody." I punch him playfully on the arm and he chuckles, "So you and Ashton huh?"

"Yeah..." I reply dreamily, whenever he's mentioned its like a zoo trampled my stomach.

"Interesting."

"What's that supposed to mean?!" I say coming out of my trance.

"Oh nothing. I just thought you would go for some nerdy kid. You know someone just like you." My jaw drops and I stop to stare at him. How dare he?! I am in no way a- okay so maybe I am, but that doesn't mean I would date one.

"If I'm such a nerd why are you friends with me? I'm just bringing down your reputation." And with that I turned a corner and stormed away.

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        *knock, knock, knock*

"Who could that be?"

"I thought you said you were home alone."

"I am. I'm not sure who or why someone is here." I get up off Ashtons lap and walk to my door. I open it and I see Derek standing on the porch steps.

"Uh...hello?"

"Hi...ummm...my mom wanted me to bring this over...." He motions down to the tray of lasagna in his hands.

"Erm...I have pizza...but tell her I said thanks." I start to close the door, but his foot stops it.

"Wait. I also want to apologize-" I scoff rolling my eyes. Like I haven't heard that line before, "for being a douche." Wait what? Is he honestly apologizing? I stare at him wide eyed until he speaks again, "So Ima go...."

"Wait! Uhm...thank you...for-for apologizing. Actually apologizing."

He smirks, "Anything for you sweet cheeks."

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"So how was Ricky?"

"So sweet..." Jessi props her head up on her arm and sighs, " We talked and I found out that I have all of my classes with him!"

"Awe... So what else did you talk about?" I lay on my stomach propping my head on my hands.

"Oh you know normal stuff. He asked me my hobbies, dreams, if I would go on a date with him this Saturday, likes, dislikes, stuff like that...."

"Wait! Hold up! He asked you out?! AHHH!!! Jessi!!!"

"I know can you believe it?!" She gets off my bed and does her weird happy dance that I've been seeing too much of recently, "The thing is I have nothing to wear...." I hop of my bed a grab my keys.

"Leggo!"

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"OMG! It's gorgeous!!" Jessi steps out of the dressing room wearing a sweetheart top with a flowy overlapping train. The top section was black, while the bottom was beige. She had on black heals that made her even taller than she already was, "I have the perfect earnings and bracelet in mind also!"

"Well then of course we are getting it!" She squeals and goes back in the room to change out of the dress.

"Your turn." She hands me a dress that was a nice shade of bubblegum pink with a glittery belt-like design across the middle. It had a split strap on one shoulder. It was absolutely stunning.

"Wha-what do you mean?" I ask still staring at the beautiful fabric before me.

"Oh, right. Its a double date. You and Ashton are coming with us." I roll my eyes and grab the dress. When I try it on it fits perfectly accentuating my curves and landing a little above mid-thigh. I strut out to find Jessi holding a pair of black wedges with a mini strap that goes across the ankle. I pull them on and smile. I'm beginning to like heals and learning how to walk in them without stumbling. We pay for the outfits and walk to the food court. Jessi is craving a pretzel so I feed the poor child and get us a piece of pizza each. As she is scarfing down the greasy food Karla and her group of wannabe popular's sashay over to us.

"Do you ever stop eating fatty?!" She looks at Jessi with disgust.

She just rolls her eyes and replies "Do you ever stop being rude ?"

"Oooh. That one hurt. As if. At least guys show interest in me. All they show in you is disgust."

"At least I'm not just looking for a night of fun."

"At least I get laid."

"I bet all the guys enjoy it and immediately ask you to be their girlfriend. Oh wait the only people who would date you are hostages."

"Are you talking about Jack. The boy who figured out how much of losers you are and ditched you to be with me? So much for bros before hoes."

"Yea then why did he run away huh? Oh that's right because your a psycho maniac who can't let anyone slip from your fingers. Well guess what Hun. You drove him away not only from you, but from Maggie."

"Oh boo-hoo. You lost your damn friend. I lost my soul mate! And it's all because of you idiots!"

"No you lost your slave. And it was because you drove him away."

"Whatever. Lets go girls we have better things to deal with than these two losers."
By now I had tears built up in my eyes and no matter how hard I tried to fight them I couldn't anymore. They erupted from my eyes and I couldn't stop them. I ran off into the mall not turning back when I heard my name being called. I just needed to get away from here I had to get away from everything.

~*~ So I'm thinking of doing teasers from now on to give you a glimpse of what's to come in the next chapter

Teaser: Someone new from the past?~*~