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Seven

It was Friday. So far the week had gone very well. Guess what? I and Vanessa had talked on Wednesday! Yes, actually it wasn't a kind of talk I expected because it happened by accident. I had bumped into her while rushing off to class and her books had dropped. I helped her pick them up and handed them to her, muttering a 'sorry' and she took them, smiling and saying 'thank you'. I couldn't even believe it. After that, on  Thursday, she had asked me to have lunch with her to which Nicole had been so excited for me. "Vanessa is like the most popular girl in school." She had said, bouncing eagerly like a two year old.
"I thought you were the most popular?" I asked, surprise evident in my voice.
"Not as popular as Vanessa Richard."
So I had had lunch with Vanessa and we had talked about ourselves and random things and ended up exchanging numbers. That was fast.
Well, now I was getting ready for Dan's party, initially I was supposed to go with Nicole and her friends, but earlier today, Vanessa had asked if I wanted to go with her and when I had told Nicole she was the one who took my phone and sent 'yes' to Vanessa. The girl was really psycho.
I was wearing a red pencil dress that ended half way along my thigh and I was pretty much uncomfortable in it but I dared not say anything or else Divine was ready to chew off my head. She had picked the dress from my closet and had paired it with a pair of gold double strapped heels and a gold purse. I had tried telling her it wasn't a date, but she insisted on dressing me like that.
Few hours later, I heard a car pull up in our driveway and I assumed it was Vanessa, I took one last look at myself in my full length mirror before going downstairs to meet her. I opened the door, just as she was about to knock and the girl was almost literally knocked off balance when she saw me. Her eyes said it all though, she found me enticing. I had pulled my hair into a high bun and left tendrils around my face and I silently thanked Divine for it cause the way Vanessa's eyes were ravaging my body, I needed something to hide the blush that was creeping up my face.
"Can we go?" She asked smoothly. I simply nodded and took her out stretched hand as she led me out the door and into her car.
Look at me who was criticizing all the lesbians and gays I had seen when we first moved here, was I not almost the same as them? No, no, no, I wasn't. I tried to assure my self. I had not kissed any girl or done anything stupid. Yet. One part of me added, I quickly shut that thought. Vanessa was just any girl and I just liked her the way I like Nicole and Louisa and Grace, Lindsey and the others. There was nothing different.
All the while I didn't know Vanessa was stealing glances at me. Checking me out now and then while still trying to focus on the road. Suddenly I felt something on my lap, I flinched and looked down, it was Vanessa's hand. I looked up at her at caught her smirking, quietly I removed her hand from my lap and placed it on her dashboard.
She turned to look at me quickly before facing the road, "was that too fast?" She asked mischievously. I didn't answer, just concentrated on the road ahead. She didn't even bother me again and didn't speak until we got to Dan's house.
"We're here." She said softly. I opened the door and came down, waiting for her to walk up to me. The house was nice. It was like every other house around though. We walked in and the smell of alcohol was the first thing to hit me. Were teenagers also allowed to take alcohol? Oh yea, this was that crazy town without rules so no one cared.
"Wanna dance?" Vanessa whispered in my ear. I nodded and we moved towards the dance floor, she holding my hand. We danced for a while before I told her I wanted a drink and we went to get some.