I got onto the yellow school bus to go home - but all the graffiti on the sides made them almost rainbows. I headed into the back of the bus - where all the cool kids sat. Nate, my best friend, was already there.
"Hey dude. How was... Kennedy...?" Nate grinned. He thought he was so cool - that jerk. I mean he was my best friend, but he wasn't stupid - he knew how to push my buttons.
"She was slutty, giggly, and annoying, whats new?" I replied.
Erynn - a nice girl who wasn't really popular, but she was so cool and funny we let her sit in the back of the bus turned around. "Isn't Kennedy like your girlfriend?"
"Yes, your point?" I said jokingly.
She giggled. "Oh nothing..."
She turned around and me and Nate started talking again.
"When was the last time you didn't have a girlfriend for more than a week?"
"I don't know, since like 6th grade, why?" After I said it it sounded pretty pathetic.
"Don't you ever want to just take a long break? Always being with a girl must be stressful." When Nate wasn't ragging on me, he did share so actual wisdom from time to time.
"It is ya know... I've just always had a girl on my arm - its been so long I don't remember what its like to just hang' with the guys and not worry about a girl... my girl. Especially the only girl I even want to be with is Steph."
"THATS JUST IT!"
"What?"
"We need to have an intervention with you."
I looked at Nate like he was crazy. "Rude. I'm not on drugs or anything."
"I know. I know. I mean a girlfriend intervention."
"Your insaine." Even though it didn't sound actually like a bad idea.
"No - I'm a genius. Think about it this way - girls like to plan. So you don't know how to go with the flow any more. Each date/time you see your girlfriends is PLANNED, but what if we just took it all away? What if we took away all your control of a situation - no planning, no girl to keep happy - nothing. Just you and the guys. We'll call it The MAN Project.
"Hmmmmm. That actually doesn't sound to bad. How long would I have to do it?" I started to get worried - when Nate did something he didn't do it half a**.
"The whole school year."
"What?! Now I really think your crazy... when am I going to date Steph in all of this?"
"Thats the other part - girl code."
"Girl what?"
"Girl code. The 101 on all things girl. The number one rule - you can't date a bestfriends ex. So dude the only two ways you can break the laws of girls by yourself is (1) back stabbing friends who are trying to get back at the other so they drop themselves on you or (2) you wait it out and hope the one forgets about you and lets the other date you. Its a pretty risky process - but a whole year would give Kennedy plenty of time to get over you so it should actually help you in this case - waiting for a whole school year."
How could he know half that stuff? I knew he paided his older sister Maggie once when he was five to teach him 'all about girls' but I had no idea he could have still remembered it all.
"Dude..." I thought about what I was gonna say. In my head I wanted to find a reason to say the plan was completely stupid and would never work, but I couldn't - it really was brilliant.
"Yes..." He waited my insult/protest, but we both knew I didn't have one.
"Fine I'll do it." The words felt like slime as I said them outloud. NO GIRLS FOR A WHOLE YEAR. I WAS FREE!
"Hold up dude. At the end of the project, we'll through a huge party to celebrate the end of the school year and the start of summer. Only then you can choose if you want to still ask out Steph or you want to stay single for the summer too."
"That sounds great. When are we gonna start?!" I was actually pretty excited about this. It was new, it was fresh, and it definetly was going to be and experience.
"As soon as you break up with Kennedy."
Oh ya... Kennedy... how this whole thing had started.
"I'll do it first thing tomorrow."
"Perfect." Nate replied.
All I could thing was how bad braking up with Kennedy would be - "Oh great... this is gonna be fun."
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The MAN Project
Fiksi RemajaBradly Stevens - also know as Brad - is the most popular guy in school, but he has one problem: he hates his girlfriend and is love with her best friend. He has never been single for more than a week since 6th grade. He wants to ask out Steph (his g...
