You've Fallen For Me

Chapter 2

I couldn’t stop thinking about my revenge plan on Matt for the rest of the day.

I haven’t been this wound up about something since the last time we went to Schlitterbahn with my cousins. But that was like, six years ago.

Sure, I’ve come up with so many ideas for pranks and evil plans before, but this one is way different. It’s going to take lots of skills, which I’m totally lack off. Last year, I took my little cousin Julie to see a Rated- R romantic movie and in the middle of a kissing scene, she stood up and yelled, “Eww. This is so inappropriate!!” The securities came over and threw us out for disrupting the movie. I was so shocked I couldn’t even think of an excuse.

I’m sure my cousin did this on purpose; she’d seen so many make-out scenes worse than this on TV and she never said a thing.

Such such such a disgrace. Waste of an eight dollars.

So Isabel and I came up with a plan to get back at her. Actually, it was 100 percent my idea. Isabel's just there to remind me that this is not going to turn out well.  Since my cousin loves to read horror books, I took all of the books she haven’t read and wrote the spoilers on the front page and Isabel annotated the dialogues with lame-o sayings. Julie founded out the next day and immediately went up to my mom and told her I was behind all this without any proofs. To my ultimate surprise, my mom took Julie’s side and as a punishment, she made me buy all those books for Julie using my summer job money.

And there were like about 10 books in total.

It. Was. Maddening.

That was the reason why Isabel was always so mad whenever I told her I have an idea.

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“So what are you so excited about?” My mom asked from the other side of the couch, her eyes on the newspaper.

This is what my family does every single day after dinner: we have to watch something as a family and discuss about our day. My dad said we needed some closure in the family. 

And today my older brother, Derrick, picked this weird sport movie. I was just sitting here, watching the movie to kill time while waiting for Isabel to come over so we can continue talking about the plan.

“I’m sure ’excited’ isn’t right term for this, mom.” I insisted. “This is serious business here that I have to really concentrate on.”

My mom bit her bottom lip. “Oookay.” She was probably thinking that I’m thinking of a plan to get back at Julie. Ever since that day, she’d been on my case, always asking what I’m up to.

But puh-lease. I have better life than torturing my immature cousin.

“Thanks for the heads-up, Cait. I’d hate to be in one of your crazy ideas.” Derrick said. He was sitting right next to me.

“Hilarious.” I said. “No, Derrick. I’m not planning anything crazy.”

“That’s what she said.” Derrick sneered. He’s a senior at my High school. Just because he’s one year older than me, he thinks he’s better and sooo smarter than me. Darn annoying.

“Dad,” I said through gritted teeth. If I have to sit next to Derrick for another minute, I’m going to explode. “Can I be excuse? Isabel will be here soon. We have a project coming up for extra credit. I need to get ready.”

“Sure, honey.” My dad said.

My parents always loved it when I said ‘extra credit.’

I went upstairs to my room and sat on my desk, looking around for something to do. My eyes landed on the pink leather cover notebook on my desk. My mom gave it to me for my last birthday, she said that since I’m a sophomore, there’s going to be many dramas in life and it’s good for a teenage girl like me to keep her own diary.