Wednesday morning, I sat in class with my eyes closed. I hadn’t gotten much sleep the night before. No, it wasn’t from dream stuff with Valerie- which would have been cool. Instead, it was a case of insomnia. I watched late night TV until I finally fell asleep sometime after midnight.
I had texted Valerie a few times. After she didn’t respond to my third text, I sent a fourth that read “if you’re going to ignore me, then you can forget about me asking you to prom.” Oddly enough, she called me a minute later. I told her I’d give her my money for a ticket when I saw her at lunch today. We had talked briefly about other stuff before she told me she needed to get some sleep. She wanted to be well-rested for another day of prom work.
Too bad I didn’t fall asleep right after our phone call. Nor could I make it up in class. Instead, Mr. Akers’s voice droned on and on, keeping me conscious.
Therefore, as usual, I daydreamed about Valerie. I imagined her in the red prom dress she had mentioned the other day. I pictured us twirling around the dance floor and laughing the night away. Maybe we would even win Cutest Couple as a write-in.
“You look mad,” a voice said.
My eyes refocused on the face in front of me.
“I’m not. I was daydreaming about… something.”
Oddly enough, people had been saying for years that whenever I daydreamed, I looked like I was mad.
Charlie grinned. “About Valerie?”
“She is my girlfriend,” I reminded him.
“And your Prom date. Congratulations.”
I just asked her last night. How does he find out this stuff?
“Was there ever any doubt?” I asked, uncharacteristically cocky.
“Possibly.”
I narrowed my eyes.
Charlie leaned forward and lowered his voice. “Rumor has it,” I leaned forward to hear him better, “Tyler had asked her a few times to go with him.”
“You’re lying,” I said instinctively.
His eyes grew wide, as if he was offended. “I swear.”
I shook my head. No way that had happened. No way that jerk was still trying to get with Valerie.
“But she’s mine. We’ve been together for weeks now,” I said.
“Like that matters to a guy like Tyler.”
No, it probably wouldn’t. There were plenty of girls for which “boyfriend” was a useless moniker. Valerie wasn’t one of them. No boyfriend had ever accused her of cheating before. Was I pathetic enough that she would possibly cheat on me and Tyler wants to take advantage of that? Should I do something about this, like fight Tyler?
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Lamia's Dream
UpířiMiles Ward finally has a chance with his long time crush Valerie Wingfield after saving her life from a masked man. Sure, there are things about Valerie he can’t explain. Her fangs and claws- he must have imagined them. She’s showing up in his dr...
