*Gabriella's POV*
Marc arrived at Chase's house within two minutes. Yeah, that's how close we live. Shoot me. As we pulled up, I saw Hayley in her front yard with Frankie playing tetherball.
"OH, SO YOU'RE GONNA PLAY TETHERBALL WITHOUT ME, HUH?" I shouted out my window.
"YEP, PRETTY MUCH!" Frankie screams back. I give her a 'screw you' look and get out of the car.
I'm about 10 steps away from Marc's black Jeep (I know, Taylor anyone?) when Chase opens the door. "GET YOUR ARSE OVER HERE, WOULD YOU MORENO?" he yells.
"No thanks," I reply, shrugging. I walk even slower to his door just to annoy him. He groans and slams the door when I'm about 4 steps from it. But I open it myself and walk inside. His mom is sitting in the living room to my right. She looks at me and smiles.
"I think Chase is in his room sweetie. It's so great that you said yes."
"Said yes to what?" I ask, suddenly curious.
There's an awkward silence in the room. "Oh, um... To being Chase's partner. None of his friends are in that class besides you and it really means a lot to me that you would volunteer to be his partner," she finally says.
"Yeah, it was um, no problem," I smile. "But it's not like I had a choice," I whisper under my breath. I run upstairs to his room and knock on the door.
"WHAT?" he shouts, obviously annoyed. I can hear cursing being murmured.
"Um, it's me, Gabriella. I'm here to work on our project, remember? You literally just shut to door on me," I reply.
He opens the door roughly. "Who let you in?" he asks rudely, widening the door so that I could enter.
"Um, your mom," I say is a 'duh' tone, sitting down on the beanbag chair on the floor he had kicked towards me. "Now, can we get started on our project?"
"Yeah, whatever," he growls.
***
"Okay, we finally finished. I'm going over to Hayley's," I say to Chase, putting all my stuff in my bag. "You're gonna bring it into school tomorrow?"
"Yeah I will. Um, can I walk you to Hayley's?" Chase asks, biting his lip.
"If you must," I say unsurely, wondering why in the world he would want to walk me to Hayley's. Unless he likes her...
"Let's go!" he says, pushing me down the stairs. I run out the door quickly and into Hayley's yard.
"Yo, mi amiga!" Hayley shouts at me. "Come on, we have a lot to talk about!" I looked back at Chase who was going through Hayley's fence. I wonder if he wants to talk to her or something. They would be such a cute couple.
Hayley pulls my arm, dragging the rest of me with it. Wait, that would have been weird if the rest of me hadn't followed.
"Stop...(insert pant here) pulling... me! I can... walk by... myself!" Wow, I should really start exercising more. We weren't even running.
"Come on! I need to tell you something!"
"Ugh!" Suddenly, I feel a huge hand grab mine, tugging me the other way.
"Um, Gaby? Can I speak to you?"
"What do you want, Parks?" Hayley growls.
Wow, she's really good at hiding her love for him. How she loves him in the first place, I have no idea.
Chase glares at her before continuing. "So, um, we've been friends for a while-"
"Friends! More like friendly, if even that!" Hayley scoffs.
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XO - Hayes Grier
Фанфик"You know you're in love when all you can think about is seeing their face again... and again... and again... and that's how I felt about her." *** A book about a girl, and...
