Geek - Boy Equals....

PART 3 ....Diva in Training....

CHAPTER 6

Camille….

A quick meeting with the principal about the school newsletter had turned into a long one, and had kept both Camille and Kaori from hanging out as usual at Kaori’s house after school.  In fact, it was going on five o’clock as she walked through the door of her house. 

“I’m home!” she called, taking care to wipe her feet on the mat.  Mrs. Holmes was very particular about dirt being tracked across her floors.  Camille didn’t have to faintest idea how her mom knew just exactly who messed up the floors and when, but she always did.

On her way to her room, she took a quick peek into the twins’ room to check if they were already home.  They were.  Camille passed without saying a word, and headed into her own room.

Camille sat at her laptop and logged into her mail.  A slow smile spread across her face as her inbox popped up.  Drake had answered back.

            Hey Tab,

Long time, no speak.  What’s up with this ‘alter ego?’  What does that mean?  And gorgeous?  Tab Holmes was always gorgeous, right?  Ha ha.  So really, why’d you guys do a makeover?  Something for school?  Project or something?

Anyway, I got a couple of problems I need you to help with.  Inbox me…

Drake

She smiled.   Wasn’t Drake sweet?  Tab Holmes was always gorgeous, he said.  It was great to find someone that would tell you these sort of encouraging things, even if it was your ‘fellow geeky pen pal twenty schools away’ that had never actually seen you in person.  Sweet compliments came but so often……actually never, in her case.

What would it be like to see Drake in person?  She’d dreamed of actually meeting him so many times, that she felt as if they’d already met.  What was the protocol for the actual meet-n-greet?  A hug?  A quick kiss on the cheek?

Camille’s heart jumped at the idea of another kiss with another guy so soon.  Kissing was number 1 in her book.  To think, this was what she had been missing out on all those high school years, she mused.  But would kissing Drake be the same as kissing Rio, or even Lew?

Drake was different that those guys.  They actually had something together, even if it was just friendship.  And that WAS right, they were friends.  Even without her private feelings out in the open, they still had friendship.  So she should be able to kiss him on the cheek without it being a scene or any embarrassment.  Friends could do that.  A hug just seemed too generic for the length of time that they had been friends and hadn’t met.

But…. what if she kissed him, and he jumped back like, ‘What are you doing!’  She would be mortified.

But what if he didn’t?

“Oh come on,” she admonished herself aloud, “Drake doesn’t see you like that, and that’s all there is to it.”

Sighing, she twisted the ends of her French braids around one finger and tugged.  When was her life going to change?  Ever since her run-in with Toi about the upcoming Spring Fling, Camille had found herself wishing for a different what? … life? …. status in school? …. circle of friends?

“No way!” she exclaimed a little too loudly, and then dropped her voice lest one of the two terrible twins come bursting through her door.  And then jumped when there was a loud bang against her bedroom door.

“Hey!”  It was Tara, thank God, and not disgusting Tenise, who would probably tease her no end for talking to herself in her room.  Another bang came at the door, and Camille rushed to open it before her sister broke it down.