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up and stormed into the house, leaving me sitting there in the blistering heat. My head spun. I felt panic rushing through me. Shit, now what? I had managed to piss everyone off all because of Jake Masters in less than an hour. My thoughts went back to Jake. I wanted to be sitting in his room, lying on his bed, smelling his scent. If his friends hadn’t shown up I would have probably been doing just that. I gathered my things and walked into the house. Chris and Stephen were no longer around. Nicole stood at the fridge leaning against it with a soda in hand, glaring at me.
    “I’m really sorry,” I said in a rush, “I don’t know what came over me.” I played with the handles of my bag. “I didn’t get to finish my story, you wanna know?”
    “Uh, yeah,” she said theatrically as if she’d forgotten my verbal bashing of Grant.
    The lameness was instantly gone. I took a deep breath, smiling. “Ok. I was with Jake in his room, listening to his music…and, you know how close we used to be…” I paused.
    Nicole stared off in the distance. She was no longer listening to me. She took a drink of her soda and set it on the counter, pulling her long hair out of her face. I admired how pretty she was, with her all-American-California-girl blond hair and blue eyes. No wonder Grant kissed her ass. He probably felt like he hit the lottery.
                  “Hey, just so you know, I’ll call Grant later and apologize and I’ll just talk to you about this later. I’m gonna go home for a bit. Call me when Nadine gets here. I wanna hear what she has to say about Jake. Plus she’ll wanna know what we did after she left.” I flashed a wicked grin.
                  “Oh come on!” she whined. “There’s gotta be more, I was listening I swear, you have to share!”
                  I laughed. “It’s nothing, trust me. Other than Nadine’s slice on it and I can’t wait to hear it.”

5
    Alyssa
     
                  I glanced at the clock as I walked out of Nicole’s house. Not very much time had gone by. I wondered if Jake was home and if he was still rehearsing. As I got closer to my house I could hear them playing. I arrived and stood in front of his house. I could hear his voice singing out, and it made me melt. He sounded older. I leaned against his truck. They played through two songs while I stood there in my dream state. All of a sudden the garage started to open and I darted as quickly as I could toward my house.
                  “Hey, back already?” Jake called out as he opened the door to his truck, taking out a duffle bag and what appeared to be a camera tripod.
                  “Ha, yeah, I kinda got in an argument with one of the guys.” I shrugged.
                  “Bummer,” he said. He spoke again with his head down, muttering something I couldn’t hear. He gestured and threw his head back, biting his bottom lip. He was too cute and I couldn’t stand it. “Come by later if you wanna talk about it, the guys should be leaving in an hour or so.”
                  My stomach fluttered as the butterflies slammed into each other. I smiled, trying not to look too excited. I was speechless. I looked past Jake and noticed Mike was staring at me with a smug attitude.
                  I slowly walked back to my house in a daze, thinking it would be cool if Nadine liked Mike instead. I wished so hard that it would happen. I had a lump in my throat the size of a grapefruit, and my mouth was super dry. Gross, I thought. I went straight to the kitchen and gulped down a glass of water. I wondered if anyone was home.
    I shouted out, “Is anyone home?”
    There was no response.
    The only sound was the whirl of a fan someone forgot to turn off. I was a nervous wreck. I screamed out loud, throwing myself down onto the sofa. I was totally in la la land. Thanking God it was summer time and school wouldn’t