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Chapter 15.

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"I have an idea..."

"Chey, are you sure that'll work?" I asked her.

"Michael, of course it will. Then she'll know how you really feel. I mean, you already told her that you love her, and this will prove it."

"Okay, thanks so much," I said, hugging her.

"No problem, Clifford," she said, smirking as we pulled away.

"Oh, now what," I whined.

"Nothing," she said grinning. "I still think it's funny that you asked me for advice."

"Well..?" I said. "Who else was I supposed to go to?"

She just shrugged, still laughing.

"We don't speak of this," I said in a low tone as we appoached our corner of the field, everyone else there.

"There's my baby," Ashton said, standing up to hug and snog Cheyenne.

"Ew, gross," I said as I sat next to Britney.

It was pretty embarrassing, being with my closest friends, who are all paired up some how. And me? Oh, I'm just drooling over a girl who's about to get her heart broken in a matter of weeks by a boy who never loved her in the first place.

I stared down the field in silence, watching the few birds fly by. I was in deep thought, and trailed off a bit, and I hadn't realized they were trying to talk to me.

"Michael!" Britney screamed, waving her hand in my face.

"Sorry, what?" I said.

"We were asking if you have a date for prom yet," Cassaundra said.

"Naaah, I'm not into all that dancing crap anyway," I replied.

Cheyenne fake coughed in the background, as she knew what I meant. "Totally," she retorted.

:............:

The rest of school was pretty boring. I kept thinking about what Cheyenne had told me, wondering if it'll work. Part of me think it will, but there's always a part of me that doubts everything.

After class, we all went home, grabbed our instruments and went over to Luke's house, Rachel with Jake. Ew.

After setting up in his large basement, we started band practice. The girls as our little trio audience, swaying and singing along to our songs.

"... Earthquakes won't wait for another day. Don't say, I know I never said it, I never said it.. One day, we can make it out alive," Calum sang, and we all chimed in for the last chorus.

"Hey, we're taking on the world.
I'll take you where you wanna go.
Pick you up if you fall to pieces,
let me be the one to save you.
Break the plans we had before,
let's be unpredictable.
Pick you up if you fall to pieces,
let me be the one to save you..
So let go, 'til we've lost control.
And we'll stumble through it all.
Let's do something new and unpredictable."

"Wooooo!!!!" Brit, Cass and Chey cheered. "You guys did so well!" Britney said in awe.

It must be nice having someone who appreciates you for who you are. Someone who knows the real you, not the mask you're hiding behind.

"Well I'm starving," Luke said, wiping sweat off of his face. "Anyone want pizza?"

"Yeah," we all said in unison.