Cupid's assistant

chapter 2

The bell for lunch finally rang, everyone jumped out of their seats and ran out the door. "Bye Mrs Smith!" I call out to my English teacher. She is one of the few teachers that I actually like. She actually teaches you and shows you how to improve on your work. "Bye Sophie, have a good lunch," she called back. I quickly hurried over to my locker where I met up with Carrie and Lizzie.

"Hey girls how was pre-calc?" I ask my exhausted looking friends.

"Mr Johnson decided to give us a pop quiz and it had 40 questions on it and he only gave us the rest of the class period to finish it. I think I bombed it." Lizzie says looking annoyed.

"I think I did extremely well on it," Carrie says. Carrie is a math genius and works well under pressure and when there is little time to get something completed.

Lizzie scoffs and starts to stalk toward the cafeteria where we meet Mary, Jane, Jacob, and Alana. Carrie and I share a knowing look, Lizzie only acts like this when she is PMSing, which also means that ours is coming soon. Ugh!

We follow Lizzie to the cafeteria and sit down at our table and are greeted with a bunch of hellos. But there was one hello that stood out. It was said with a deep playful males voice. It was a voice that I new well, it was a voice that I grew up with, it was a voice that I love. It was the voice of someone who was supposed to be in Chicago. I look up to check that I'm not imagining his voice, and I found out that I wasn't. Because sitting across from me is my best guy friend Simon Crowe!

"Simon," I yell, "Why didn't you call me and tell me that you are back in town? How long have you been back? How was your trip?" I ask him as I run around the table and wrap him in a big hug, probably with everyone staring at me but I don't care. I haven't seen my Si in a month.

He laughs and hugs me back. "I wanted it to be a surprise, I've been back for 2 days, and my trip was good."

"I normally hate surprises but this has to be the best surprise ever. you have been back 2 days and didn't call me? Wow I'm impressed and a little hurt. Yay, I'm so glad that you had a good trip."

"Awwww Sophie don't be hurt. It took all the guts I had not to call you. I just wanted it to be a surprise and see your shocked face, which by the way was totally worth it. you should have seen your face." Simon replies laughing towards at the end pointing at my face.

I punched him repeatedly in the chest. He laughed some more, then for my final punch was the hardest one and left him gasping for air.

"Ok, ok. I'm sorry I should have called you." He struggles to say.While the rest of the table laughs at us. "Knowing you that isn't enough though so I'll go get you lunch and I'll take you to a movie and buy you popcorn this week."

"Awww you know me so well. Now go get me my lunch peasant." I order Simon, he walks to the lunch line and I turn back to the rest of my friends to find them staring back at me. "What," I ask, "Why r y'all staring at me like that?"

"Oh no reason," replies Jane.

"Uh huh, yeah sure." I say back knowing that they are hiding something from me and normally I would ask but knowing my friends its usually better if I didn't ask.

I look up and see James at his table with the rest of his team mates staring at Carrie. I nudge Carrie, "hey look who's staring at you in a stalker in love kind of way." She looks up and makes eye contact with James and they both smile a goofy grin. James excuses himself and walks to our table and sits down. "Hey guys," hey says and we all greet him back. "Sophie what was all that screaming that I heard coming from your mouth?" James asks.

Of course Carrie, Alana, Jacob, Mary and Lizzie takes what he said in the wrong way and burst into a fit of giggles, and I just had to blush. Jane and James looks around confused, "What? What did I do?" He asks.

"Oh nothing," replies Lizzie, "and it was Simon that made her scream." They laugh even harder now, and I'm blushing even harder wanting to bang my head against the table.

"Oh do you always scream when you are with him." James asks still confused and still giving everyone something to laugh about and still making me embarrassed with out him even knowing it.

"Yeah she kinda does, she's a screamer." Jacob replies for me. Ok, now I really want to go crawl and die in a hole. But no it gets worse Simon decided to come back at that exact moment and finds everyone laughing their asses off, James (who finally understands what's going on) and me blushing.

"Ummm what's going on?" He asks, and gets multiple and different answers from each person.

"Nothing," James and I say in complete unison.

"Something perverted that I don't understand," Jane replies still very confused.

"You and Sophie! hahaha," Jacob says still laughing.

"I'm sorry," Mary says in quite voice.

"Sex talk," yells Alana.

"Sophie screaming," Lizzie says in a loud voice.

Simon being smart decides that he doesn't want to know and changes the subject. "So Sophie who is your next victim in your game of match making?"

"Ok that's too far! I don't have victims I have very thankful clients and its not a game its hobby. If it was a game I wouldn't take it so seriously. And for your information I am a great match maker and a great judge of character. Thank you very much!" I yell at him even though I know he just said it to tease me and irk me but I just couldn't help being defensive.

He just like I knew he would laughed, "Ok, ok, so who are you going to get together now?"

"Well I haven't started on a new project yet but I think I know who I'm going to make a couple."

"Oh, and these people would be?"

I look around the table and see everyone eagerly waiting for my answer. "You'll see," they all groan as I say this. I laugh, "don't worry y'all will know soon enough I promise." I say this with a devious grin and start to eat the food that Si got for me. If only they knew, that Mary will be my next assignment, if only they new.