~The Forbidden Fruit~

Chapter Twenty-Six

Casey pov.

While getting ready for my day out with Andy, Jared decided to burst into my room uninvited. All smiles and as chipper as ever. Sometimes I envied the fact that he could be so happy all the time for no aparrent reason.

"Andy wants me back!" He exclaimed, plopping down in my desk chair while I stood at my closet, buttoning up my shirt.

I turned to him so quickly I'm surprised my neck didn't crack.

"What?"

He had to have been misinformed, there was no way Andy wanted to be back together with him, not after he treated her the way he did. Not after she kissed me the way she did only days ago, it wouldn't be plausable. Unless she was using me to get back to him, or maybe I was a terrible kisser and it made her realize how much of a better kisser Jared was than I. That's probably what happened, she realized that she still had feelings for him and used me to stay close to him. How could I not have seen that coming? Gosh, I was stupid.

"Yeah, she totally does. I saw her last Friday when I went out with James, Karen, Talia, Michael and Jessica, we went to that carnival. She was there all dolled up and looking so delicious, I'm talking make-up, jewelry, new hair-do, the whole nine yards. I went over to say what's up and she was with some pretty boy, he ain't prettier than me but he's pretty. It was obvious she was trying to make me jealous." My brother ranted.

Obviously Jared was the one misinformed about Andy wanting him back, they just so happened to be at the same place that same night, it didn't mean she planned that out. However, she was there with another guy, according to Jared he was a handsome fellow. If it was on Friday, that was after she had kissed me and two days before she confessed that she liked me. Was she lying? Why was she hanging around some other guy?

I decided to inquire further and faced my brother, "You might be right. What does the guy look like?"

Jared shrugged and passed a hand through his blond hair.

"Tall, dark Elvis hair, blue eyes, sort of muscular. Totally not her type, he was nothing compared to me. In fact when I came over there she forgot all about him, she even let me kiss her."

My stomach dropped into my rear and I felt my palms get sweaty.

"She let you kiss her?"

He nodded smiling triumphantly, "Right on the cheek in front of his face, if that doesn't scream she wants me back, I don't know what does."

I furrowed my brows trying to imagine the scenario in my head, knowing Jared he probably surprised her with the kiss before she had time to react. Besides a kiss on the cheek is hardly disrespectful or pushy, it's a friendly gesture, right? I thought back to his description of the guy she was with and was drawing a blank. I needed to know who this character was, I didn't want to think about Andy possibly messing with my head for the hell of it.

"Did she at least introduce you to the guy?"

Rolling his eyes, he nodded and scrunched up his face.

"I knew who he was as soon as she said his name, that prick was always trying to steal my groupies, I hated when he would come to the basketball games and mack on all of them. They were there to watch me. God damned Drew Kessler, I hated him almost as much as I hated Presley Hemmens."

Drew Kessler, the same guy who ran into the three of us at the mall a while back. I remembered exactly what he looked like and exactly how arrogant he was. What didn't quite fit with me was the fact that Andy was hanging out with him, yet she had been so scornful to him at the mall. Did she like him and was just hiding it from us? What was going on? Maybe going on this date with her wasn't such a great idea after all, really, what did I know about her? Well, I did know quite a bit since we spent hours on end talking everytime we got together but what did I know about her behaviour when it came to the opposite sex?