Part Seven
“Well I don’t think I’m ready for
children yet, but maybe I’ll take you up on that offer in a few years.” She
was blushing really bad. Her face was so red. Us three were just laughing. I
couldn’t help myself. I had done that to some else before I saw in the store.
It’s all in good fun though.
“Thanks.” She was embarrassed.
“You know, I never thought I would
meet so many girls over here. In Oklahoma a lot of the girls are all stuck up
and well bitches. It’s nice to find cool people around here.” No I’m not
trying to get into their pants, I just wanted to have a conversation.
“Well a lot of girls every where are
stuck up. You just have to find the right ones.” Randi gave me one of those
looks. It’s true though. I’m sure everywhere you go there are people who
can’t get over themselves and what not. Not here though, I like the girls
here.
“That’s true, but hey at least I
got to find to good ones.”
“Hey what happened to your nose?”
Sarah asked.
“I broke it.” I didn’t want to
say Tay did because that wouldn’t look good for him.
“How?” Angie chimed in.
“Just goofing around with Tay. It was
an accident.” Well it was half the truth. We all just sat there for a minute
then. “Damn, it’s hot out here.” I wiped so sweat off my forehead. “I
think its time to cool off.” I went towards the water. I only had my normal
clothes on but that’s okay. I found a bucket so I put water in it and threw it
at the girls.
“Zac!” They all stood up. It was
hilarious, until they started chasing me. I had to try and run away from three
pretty pissed, but happy girls. That didn’t work though. They caught me and
made sure I was drenched. I fell in the water so I took them with me.
“I’m soaked!” Randi got up while
the water dripped off of her. “They are my good clothes too! Oh Zac, you’re
dead. I will get you back for this.” I glanced at my watch, which was
waterproof, and it said 6:03.
“I gotta get going, I have to go out
tonight.” I got up and rung out some of the water.
“Yeah and I need to change my
clothes.” Randi rung out her hair.
“Alright, it was nice to meet ya.”
Angie got up and well as Sarah.
“Yeah you too. Maybe I’ll see you
around some time?”
“Yeah maybe.” Sarah smiled. I
reached into my bag that I had, I like to carry one around sometimes, and pulled
out one of our This Time Around CD’s. I have a few with all of our signatures
on them. I handed one to Sarah and one to Angie.
“Here, take these.” Angie was just
like yeah whatever but Sarah almost started to cry. Go figure. “I’ll see ya
later.” Randi and I headed home. “Shall I walk you home?” I smiled at her.
“Sure.” I took her hand in mine. We
walked to her house in the evening sun, we the 6:17 sun, to her house. “Well I
guess I’ll see you later.”
“Would you like me to call you or
something?”
“Yeah, that would be great.” She
wrote her number down on my hand.
“Alright, then I’ll see you
later.” I looked at her. She was just so pretty. I leaned in and we locked.
Just a little kiss. We pulled away and she went into her house. I felt good.
It’s time for me to have a girlfriend. I defiantly have to ask her out. I made
my way back home.
“Hey I’m back.” I came into the
house.
“Why are you wet?” Ike looked at me
funny.
“Oh, I was playing in the ocean with
the girls.”
“The girls?” Tay came out of his
room.
“Yeah, I met some more at the beach
when I was with Randi.” I thought about Angie again. Just maybe, nah.
“Well you’re just a babe magnet
then aren’t ya?” Ike rolled his eyes. He needs a girl, I could tell.
“I’ll go get changed and then we
can leave.”
“Alright.” So I found some decent
clothes and pulled my hair back. I grabbed my music stuff, well our songs, so we
could choose the right ones that we wanted on the CD.
“I’ll drive.” Tay grabbed the
keys. We all go into the car and drove to a pizza place by where we used to rent
our house. We like it there. The food and the service is really good.
“Alright I like the song Underneath.
That defiantly has to be on this CD.” Tay pulled out the list of all our songs
we have right now.
“Yeah I agree, that song might be our
new single.” Ike looked at his list.
“What ever happened to that song you
had out today? You know, the one call I Wish or something like that.” I was
curious, could you blame me?
“That’s nothing.” Tay disregarded
it.
“Oh come on, it has to mean
something. It has to mean something special.” I looked him square in the eyes.
He set his sheet down.
“It has to do with Jackie.” He
looked down at the table. I knew it was about her.
“What happened between you two?” I
had an idea of what happened because I know she doesn’t appreciate him for
him. All she likes is his fame. I always hated her for that. No one deserves to
be treated that way.
“Well you know how she came into the
wrong window that one night. She came into my room and started to say shit about
you.” He looked at me. “She said how much she hated you and you were a
bastard and all this crap. I told her you weren’t and I said you better shut
up because he is my brother. I don’t care if you like him or not, you will
respect him and not be such a bitch to him. She got upset and left. So in the
morning I left because I didn’t know what to do. She’s the only girl I ever
went after for so many times.” He glanced at Ike and then at me. “You guys
were right. She is a bitch and only likes me for the fame. I just didn’t want
to admit it.” I could tell he wanted to cry, but he wouldn’t do it in public
for the life of him. He just ate his pizza.
“I’m sorry. I only told you those
things about her so you would see what she was trying to do. I didn’t do it to
be mean.” I had a little bit of guilt, but not too much.