Someday

Chapter 30 - Scavenger Hunt?

Alex's POV:

As I struggled to remove the tight maroon dress from my body, I thought about what Maddy could be hiding. It seemed that Angie was in on the plan as well, making me feel like the odd one out. During the entire car ride, Angie was biting her lip and was constantly glancing in my direction like she had something that she wanted to tell me, but couldn't. My curiosity peaked when she started bouncing in her seat while staring at me. I finally asked both of the girls about it, but neither of them coughed anything up. There were times when Angie was about to, but Maddy would whisper something in her ear and she'd calm down. After a while I gave up on interrogating them, but my curiosity was burning brighter than ever.

I finally got the dress off and I let out a sign of relief. Despite Angie and Maddy's compliments, I decided not to get it. It was too tight, too short, and too revealing. If I made one wrong movement in that dress, one lucky person would've gotten flashed. But Angie and Maddy were in love with the dress. For some reason, the two girls only wanted me to try on dresses today and if I picked up something that looked remotely like what i would usually wear, they'd smack it out of my hands.

I picked up the next dress that they told me to wear which was a black and white dress that had a Vera Bradley sort of design all over it. It looked okay. But actually wearing it might be a problem, we'll see...

The dress slipped on quite easily. The fabric was stretchy, so it was comfortable and at the same time hugged my upper body in the most flattering way possible. The bottom half of the dress was loose. It looked beautiful on me. The sleeves were a bit shorter than I'd like so I put a long black cardigan on top. The dress stopped just above my knees, which was the perfect length for me. I gathered my hair in my hands and put in a loose braid, pulling out a couple hairs to frame my face. I turned this way and that in front of the mirror and was satisfied with what I saw, so I finally stepped out of the changing room for Angie and Maddy to see. Their reactions were similar to mine.

Angie gasped and said "You look so cute!" While Maddy nodded in agreement while fanning her face with her hands. After the argument of who would pay for the dress, Maddy wanted to while I disagreed, Maddy quickly paid with a smug smirk of victory on her face. I carried the bag out to the car while walking closely behind Angie and Maddy. They were whispering about something when Maddy's phone rang. Maddy showed me who was calling her after she say my curious stare.

It was Tyler.

"Hey Tyler, we just finished shopping... Yeah, she's with us... Yup... Ok." She glanced at me a couple of time during the call and also after she hung up.

"What did he want?" I asked in a rather hostile tone. I suspect that Tyler was in on Maddy's secret plans too. I was really feeling like an odd ball here.

"Oh he just wanted to know where you were. Apparently you forgot to tell him that you were going out, so he wanted to know if you were with me." She turned back around to continue the walk to the car, but quickly turned back around to add something. "He said that he loves you by the way." This made me blush as I followed them both to the car. We both climbed into the backseat of Maddy's car and drove to a nearby diner. We ate and talked and laughed about things that have happened while I was gone at school. This was nice. I was definitely missing this in my life right now.

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We were driving back home from the diner and I was stuffed and exhausted, I wanted nothing more than to curl up into my bed and doze off. Unfortunately, Angie had other plans.

"Oh crap, I forgot my calculator at school! I need it to do my Algebra homework!"

"Ugh, fine. We'll go to the school. Hold on." She made a sharp U-turn that made me fall to the side since I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. Before I knew it, we arrived at the school and all of us were walking towards the front door because Angie was scared to go in alone.

As I got closer to the door I noticed a note taped to it that made me pick up my pace. Angie and Maddy sped up to keep up with me. I could feel their phone cameras pointed at me, but I didn't care because my curiosity was getting the better of me, as it was doing for a lot of tonight.

I took the note off of the door and read aloud what was on it.

You are the smartest person I know, Alex. Here's a little scavenger hunt for you. When you get to the end, I'll be waiting for you with a present. I love you, babe. Ready. Set. Go!

Where you became royalty.

-T

T? Scavenger hunt? Tyler? It had to be Tyler. It all made sense now, the secrets, the phone calls, everything. This is what they were planning. I need to find Tyler at the end of it, so I need to follow the riddles. Where I became royalty? I thought back to my very first encounter with Tyler and ran through each encounter after that. He had called me something the second time we met. What was it? Ah, right. It was princess. A princess was royalty, right? And that happened in our study skills class. I knew exactly where that was. I reached the handle to the door to the school and was, for some reason, surprised when it opened with ease.

It was weird being here at night. But that didn't matter now because I was determined to solve this scavenger hunt. Call me childish all you want, but if you present me with a challenge, I'm gonna do everything humanly possible to complete the challenge. This is included.

I finally made it up to the study skills room after running up a flight of stairs, I kinda felt bad for Angie and Maddy, since they weren't much for running, but that thought quickly faded away as I searched for the next note from lover boy. Since the chairs were flipped over and placed neatly on the tables, I found the note taped to the bottom of my chair quite easily.

You're the most kind and forgiving person I know.

The place where I was a jerk to you :(

-T

That was easy. Our chemistry class, where we first met. He shamelessly flirted with me in front of the entire class. I quickly made my way to the other side of the floor, where the chemistry room is. I held the two notes tightly in my hand, there is no way I would forgive myself if I lost these. I quickly opened the door to the chemistry room and frantically searched around for the third note. I saw it taped tot he window that I always look out of and rush to the window, jumping over multiple desks in the process. I finally reached the note and read it.

You are absolutely gorgeous. Plus you have really soft hands ;)

The place where we first held hands alone.

-T

When did we hold hands alone for the first time? I don't think I've ever voluntarily held hands with him, so maybe he forced me to hold hands with him? No, he's never done that before. Wait. He dragged me to the basketball court. Does that count as holding hands? I'm gonna say it does because I've got no other ideas. I make my way down the stairs and to the basketball court. I'm exhausted and I no longer have the energy in me to continue running. Once I reached the basketball court, I immediately saw the note on the pole of the basketball hoop. I could hear Angie and Maddy breathing heavily behind me. I rolled my eyes. Those drama queens would do anything for a romantic story. I read the seemingly last note.

Hey, baby! This is the last one, I swear. You're eyes are more beautiful and shine brighter than any star I've ever seen.

The place where I was the most amazed with you.

-T

The gym? Because of my gymnastics? I guess so. My entire body was aching at this point that I was just slugging along. The only reason my feet kept moving was to see Tyler. After a lot of whining, and a bit of crawling, I made it to the gym. I wonder what the gang is planning. I guess we'll see.

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