Chapter 8

• So...what did you want to talk about?" I asked Jeremy when he sat down in front of me. Wow, he isn't late this time.
• We ordered out ice creams and he got a plain vanilla ice cream cone while I got my cookies and cream in a plastic cup.
• "I still have feelings for you Lexi." He blurted out of a sudden.
• Like, who would've expected that?
• My heart beat hard against my chest and I felt like crying. Did my plan really work? Or should I say Emily's plan?
• "What?" I asked even though I know what he said. It came out in a sh column tone and my eyes were wide as my hands shook beside me.
• "I like you Lexi. I've always had." He said softly. His voice coming out barely above a whisper. He sounded so caring and scared that I was going to reject him.
• Oh.
• "Then why did you leave me? You broke my heart Jeremy. Do you even know what that feels like?" I felt like breaking down and I really was starting to get mad. I just felt wired inside. What am I supposed to say to this? What am I supposed to do even?
• "I didn't want to." He said. "I had to."
• "Why?" My voice shook as my eyebrows turned downwards into a slight glare.
• "My parents don't like you. They want me to go for someone like Brooke. With a rich family." He said sadly and quietly as if he'll break if he spoke any louder.
• I looked into my ice cream cup that was now half melted. How can he do this? If he really liked me he would have talked to me about it first. He just broke up with me and left, leaving a shattered heart. And he went straight to Brooke, letting me get a clear view of the two making out. How is that feeling sorry?
• "Your parents are stupid! Your stupid!" I yelled. "Just because your parents want it that way doesn't mean you have to have it that way!" I know I'm over reacting, but I can't help it. It's, it's not a good enough excuse. "Your such a jerk! You went to Brooke immediately!" I cried.
• I stood up with my ice cream in hand and walked by Jeremy. It all happened so quickly, I didn't even know what I was Doug until I did it. I dumped my ice cream on his head where his blonde hair was neatly brushed back.
• Ha, he probably tried to look nice before this little meeting!
• He gaped in shock as the melted ice cream slid down his neck and cheek.
• He bought that ice cream for me and he can have it back! "Here's your ice cream. I didn't need for you to buy it for me anyway!" I said and rushed out.
• New plan, make Jeremy miserable by fake dating Tyler. Oh yeah, I still have to get Tyler to like Courtney some how.
• That'll be hard. I'm no Cupid.
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• "Did he really say that?" Courtney asked, her lip slightly parted in shock.
• "Yup." I said, popping the 'p'.
• "Do you still plan on getting with him?" Emily asked.
• "Nope." I sad popping the 'p' again. "He's the jerk named Jeremy."
• I tried to sound happy, but in the inside I'm upset and frustrated with my life. My heart is still working on getting back together, piece by piece.
• "Are you going to fake break up with Tyler?" Courtney asked hopefully.
• "Not yet." I said. "But I seriously can't wait to." That kid is driving me insane.
• I pushed open the school doors and we all walked in. I spotted Tyler talking to Nick by the lockers and Jeremy sending mean looks his way while taking to some girl I don't know.
• Jerk.
• I walked up to Tyler and took him by surprise when I put a hand around his waist and kissed his cheek.
• "What the f..." Tyler said but stopped himself when he remembered our deal.
• "Oh, hey babe." He winked at me.
• Oh my god! That wink, that smile! It's gorgeous! He's undeniably hot with his brown hair and sparkling blue eyes. But I'll never admit that out loud. Ever. It was even hard to admit that to myself at first. But I can't lie to myself, it's true, as much as I hate it. He's hot...
• What the heck Lexi! You hate him! You can't say things like that!
• I felt a blush forming towards my neck. I'm so stupid, I swear.
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• Tyler looked at me, then at Jeremy. Then I looked at Jeremy and glared at him.
• "I freaking hate him." I mumbled. "Now I have to make him jealous."
• I turned to face Tyler and right as I turned my head, his lips crashed into mine. What the hell! Tyler's kissing me! And I'm kissing him back! What's scarier is that I actually enjoy it!!
• Tyler's hand was on my lower back and the other holding my face gently.
• The kiss didn't last long. Tyler was the one to pull away and I suddenly felt cold. When he was kissing me it was so warm and I felt tingles where his hand lay on my back.
• I suddenly realized what I was doing and mentally slapped myself. What had gotten into me?
• Stupid teenage hormones! I can't believe I let him kiss me! I can't believe I said those things. I can't believe it actually happened. Oh my god. What will Courtney think? She likdes Tyler.
• Still in shock, touching my small tingly lips, I looked up at Tyler, but he wasn't looking at me. He was smirking evilly at Jeremy. Just then the bell rang and I rushed to my first period class.
• I was going to yell at him but I realized everyone was around us. The whole school needs to see that we're a couple. But somehow, we need to break things off. But when? The only boyfriend I had was Jeremy and we only lasted a month.
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• When fourth period ended, it was time to go to lunch. I walked slowly down the hallways staring at, well nothing at all. Too much was in my mind.
• That stupid asshole just had to kiss me! Right in front of his biggest fan! Courtney loves Tyler. I just know it by the way she looks at him and talks to him.
• And I also have to face Brooke. The one who thinks she deserves everything she wants. Know one gets what they want all the time.
• I want my life to be normal and not have so much drama. But no, I don't have that.
• "Lexi, you ugly bitch!"
• Speak of the devil.
• "Oh, hi Brooke." I say in a fake sweet voice. "I'm ugly? Good. I was trying to look like you today." I turned around and continued walking towards the cafeteria, but wanted to stop at my locker first. So I turned the corner and made my was over there, with Brooke still following close behind me, with her annoying heels clanking the floor.
• "Maybe you should stay away from Tyler. He's too good for you." Brooke said, putting a hand on her waist.
• Damn, that kiss really got her mad, didn't it?
• I turned around and crossed my hands over my chest. " Frankensteins too good for you, honey. Why don't you just leave me alone?!" I said and walked away, ignoring all the odd looks from people around the halls. I heard Brooke gasp in a shock, having nothing also to say back.
• I spotted Tyler leaning on my locker casually with his hand folded across his chest. When he saw me he pushed himself off the locker and took a step away.
• "Why the hell did you kiss me?" I hissed. I didn't want anyone to hear me.
• "Cause Jeremy was looking at you like you belonged to him. It's part of the-"
• "I understood that." I said.
• "Then why are you so mad?" He asked.
• "Cause Courtney-" I immediately stopped myself.
• "What about Courtney?"
• "Never mind." I waved him off. He stood behind me, waiting for me to finish going through my locker. Then we made our way to lunch.
• "So, am I a good kisser or what?"
• I clicked my tongue and shook my head. "Or what." I snorted a laugh, making Tyler roll his eyes.
• But of course he was a good kisser! I wasn't going to admit it though.
• When I got to the cafeteria, I spotted Courtney sitting at our usual spot, phone in hand. Geez, I really felt bad. She's watching her long time crush and her long time best friend practically as a couple. And she even saw us share a kiss. That must really look terrible.
• I walked towards Courtney, leaving Tyler. When she saw me, she got up and started to walk away. I walked faster towards her and grabbed her wrist. I pulled her so she was facing me.
• "Court, I need to talk to you." I said.
• "What?" She said looking annoyed.
• "Can we go to the library or something?" I asked.
• "Whatever." She shrugged, but she would make eye contact with me.
• When we got to the library, we sat down on one of the couches they had there.
• "Courtney I promise you that it meant nothing. Tyler doesn't like me. We hate each other. He was just trying to get back at Jeremy." I said in one breath.
• Court nodded.
• "And to say that I liked it is a lie."
• Yeah, because you loved it. "You just have to know that we're fake dating. Things like that need to happen."
• Courtney looked at me for a bit before finally nodding.
• "So you understand?"
• She nodded again.
• "You mad at me?"
• "No." She smiled, but it didn't quite reach her eyes.
• Well that was quick. She must really really love him if it was that easy to forgive.
• "Okay then. Since that's good, I still have to get Tyler to like you. Any ideas?"
• "No. It feels kinda weird doing this."
• "But you have to work for what you want sometimes." I shrugged.
• "It feels like we're forcing him." She looked unsure.
• "Well I'm forcing him, you just wait for him to come to you." I smiled, as I gently patted her arm in comfort.
• She nodded and I walked back to the cafeteria with Courtney beside me. I'm glad I'm forgiven. Phew. That was done and now I have to get bítchy Brooke off my back.
• "I'm going to skip food today." I sat down next to Tyler and Courtney sat in front of him, next to Nick.
• "Why?" Nick asked.
• "My stomach hurts." I lied.
• "Tomorrow after school, we're working on the project that's due in less than two weeks." I tell Tyler. "And I'm coming over your house so you don't have any excuses to leave."
• "Whatever." Tyler rolled his eyes, obviously annoyed. He's always like that when we have something to do together. Rude bastard
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• Lexis POV:
• "Just pick a dress already." I rolled my eyes looking at the two dresses Emily was holding in front of her.
• Emily and I went to the mall after school today cause there's a party on Friday in one of the soccer players house. Emily just had to buy a new dress to impress Nick. She has this huge crush on him and he asked her to the party.
• "But I have to look extra nice." She whined.
• "It's Monday Em, you have time."
• "Why are you such in a hurry to leave?" Emily asked.
• "Because I have to go to Tyler's house for that stupid interview project that's due in less than a weeks and today I told him that I'll be there to make sure he doesn't have any excuses to leave if he's at my house and if I don't get there now he's going to make another ex-"
• "Whoa!" Emily cut me off. "Do you ever breath when you talk." She said jokingly, giggling a little.
• I laughed as heavy breaths came out. "Sorry." I pulled my hair behind my ear. "I'm always ranting."
• "Okay so I'm either getting this one-" Emily held up a dark red, knee length, strapless dress. "Or this one." She held up another short dress but this one was black and has one strap on the left, the right empty shouldered.
• "I don't know. They both look nice." I shrugged. Emily rolled her eyes and put the red dress down.
• "What?" I asked.
• "You used to be more helpful when we went to the mall together." She said in a somewhat whiny voice.
• "Sorry Em. I just have a lot onmy mind right now."
• "Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. You can go."
• "Thanks." I said and gave Emily a small hug. "I'll make it up to you, I promise." I said before I started walking towards the exit. As much as I don't want to see Tyler, this is important. "Wait." I turn to face Emily. "How am I supposed to get there. I don't have a car."
• "Call Tyler."
• I let out a sigh but still went outside and pulled out my phone. I called Tyler, waiting for his annoying voice to speak through the phone.
• "What do you want?" Tyler said without saying 'hello'.
• "Rude much?" He stayed silent, not bothering to answer back."Um, what are you doing?" I asked.
• "You called me to ask what am I doing?" Tyler sounded annoyed. I could imagine him putting a hand through his messy brown hair.
• Why does he hate me so much? Well I can't blame him, I hate him too. But he hated me first.
• "No, I was thinking if you could come pick me up." I said, ready to hear no from him.
• Damn it Emily! She just could have dropped me off really quick.
• "Where are you?"
• "At the mall?" I said in more like a question.
• "How did you get there?"
• "Emily drove me."
• "She can't drive you back?" Tyler asked as if I was dumb.
• "Well..." I said slowly.
• "Well what?"
• "She's busy shopping and I wanted to go to your house to do our interview project."
• "Whatever." Tyler said in a board tone and hung up without saying bye.
• "Couldn't say bye at least if you couldn't even say hi." I said to myself as if I was talking to Tyler.
• An old lady looked at me like I was crazy, passing by with her bags.
• 'Mind your own business!' I wanted to yell at her face only because u was already stressed out. Cause seriously, she should mind her own business and stop looking at me like I'm a retard. Instead I faked a smile at her. "Hi." I said with a small wave.
• She continued staring at me like I was an alien that came to earth and disguised myself as a perfectly normal teenage girl. Okay, I'm rumbling.
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