Rules of Dating (Under Construction)

I. A Forty-Five Minutes Chemistry

Chapter One: A Forty-Five Minutes Chemistry

                “Today I will be picking your partners,” said Mrs. Wright. We all groaned when she said that. Mrs. Wright has the worst seating chart out of the other entire teacher school board. Apparently her definition of picking partners is adding you and the person you strongly dislike put them together for the whole semester which doesn’t resolve anything. It just gives us a reason why we hated them in the first place.

                “Ben and Lauren, Jenny and Kim, Evan and Jamie, Luke an-”

                My neck turned so fast I heard a crack. Since freshmen year I’ve wished to never cross paths with Evan Perry. His not only plain mean, conceited or a well-known bad boy in our school, no I didn’t hate him for that, what I hate is that he took my first kiss. It was like taking my virginity away.

                *Flash back*

                “We need to break up,” Evan blurted out to his girlfriend causing a scene in the lunchroom. This was Evan’s first girlfriend in freshmen year and we never thought he would break up with Ashley, who is a sophomore. I mean of course she’s a year older or two older than him, but she’s the captain of the cheerleader. Who wouldn’t want to break up with her? I mean if I were a dude, I wouldn’t, but since I’m not – you know the idea of it. So going back to the breakup issue. Girls take the breakup thing way to serious – which is true even though I never had a boyfriend before. 75% of the girls do when their close to saying they love their boyfriend and want to be there for forever. 5% are getting there. And 20% of the girls don’t really care. [That’s me right there even though I’m a loner.] That 20% of the girls have brains unlike the other 80% - no offense. I mean girls do care about their relationships and all, but after that breakup they would cry but won’t forget about that guy. There still will be another guy that will always be better than the ex.

                But getting to the point, Ashley had a very huge crush on Evan since 5th grade. Is this April fool’s day? Because we never thought this day would come. After this breakup I am betting more guys would come up to Ashley to sweep her off her feet, but Evan – he never makes a second round with a girl in his life. Eh, he’ll learn the hard way that he lost something behind. [I wouldn’t call Ashley special. She’s born with a silver spoon in her mouth which doesn’t make her so special to me.]

                Ashley looked taken back. Apparently she hadn’t been prepared for this or never expected it to happen. “What?”

                “Well let’s face it Ash, I’m not dating material and you deserve better,” he said looking into her eyes. Evan was so calm keeping his face serious. I wonder how many times he played this part in his script of his mind and being prepared to tell Ashley he was going to break up with her – in public. Well this is unexpected. That dude has got some balls to confront her about it. No one turns Ashley down – ever. But I think the world is just slowly flipping.

                “Evan, you can’t do this to me,” she said trying to hold back the tears. “Give me another chance, I swear I’ll do much better,” she begged in front of Evan - which the whole students just witness. I, on the other hand just tried my best to enjoy the food laid in front of me, ignoring the drama behind me. But that couldn’t happen when most of the students are hovering at your table trying to see a new dramatic event to gossip in school. And to tell you the truth, my high school has the biggest gossip group and word travels faster around than phones do. And after this break up, it will be the new popular gossip to talk about around school and it’ll be over within a month or so if their still at it. The break up might take hours or so because rule number one of dating Ashley is that you can’t break up with her. No matter what the problem is, you can’t do it. She, the captain of the cheerleader could say it’s over. But Evan’s trying to change that as what we’re witnessing.