Love me, Logan 2 #6

The first day of school. Even if my room's still a mess, I still managed to find all my school stuff. Zack promised me he's going to pick me up. It's only the first day and I don't want anyone to think I'm a slut. So I wore a hoodie. I swung my backpack and I got out of my room.

'Are you ready for a new school Karen?' Mom asked.

'I guess so. I'm kinda nervous about the people.'

'Oh, don't worry about that. I think they're gonna like you.' Easy for you to say. Mom placed a plate of pancakes in front of me. I sat down and ate a little and filled me up with orange juice. 'You got to eat a little bit more, Karen.'

'Poptarts will do?' I said. I stood up and pushed my seat and I looked for poptarts in the kitchen cabinets. I found raspberry-flavored ones. I popped the wrap open and threw them in the toaster. Oh thank the Lord for toaster pastries. My phone rang, and there was a text message from Zack telling me he'll be in front of my house in ten minutes. I took out the poptarts out of the toaster, placed them on a plate and, maybe, since I'm feeling nice, share one with Kyle. I took one and bit it and walked to Kyle's room. Kyle was still in the showers. His laptop is on and it has Skype open. And the the person on chat has DeniseGryes1 for a username. That's probably his girlfriend since her name's Denise.

'Kyle, I made you a poptart.' I said.

'Thanks leave in on my desk.' Kyle said from the bathroom. I left it on his desk and I was about to walk out his room. 'Dude, you're going with Zack right?' he said coming out of the bathroom door with a towel wrapped around his waist and below.

'Yeah, why?'

'Do you think I could ride with him too?'

'Why?'

'You know what parents do when their kids goes to a new school.' Kyle said putting his pants on. I instantly thought about the movie Bratz 4 Real, when Jade's mom asked for the dad to have her and Jade's picture taken, and Jade was embarrassed. I smirked.

'I'll see what Zack'll say.' I said and I walked out the door.

'Cool.' Kyle said. He wore a Bring Me The Horizon tee and baggy jeans. He had his hair untidy and had his black Converse on. I'd laugh if someone called him a fag.

'Kyle, aren't you worried people are going to call you a fag?' I laughed.

'Please, Karen. The ladies looooove the band tee, the bags, the shoes and especially le hair.'

'Seriously? The hair?'

'Karen, Karen, Karen. My hair makes girls instantly wet, it makes mothers cry, it makes babies happy, it also makes the people in the army think why the hell are they fighting.' Kyle said grooming his hair. I just stood there covering my mouth and laughing. 'Hey shut up your boyfriend has the same hair as mine.' As soon as Kyle said that I stopped laughing and stood up straight.

'You win. Get ready fag.' I said and walked out his room.

'I always win, Karen. Muha ha ha ha.' Kyle closed the door as if he played dracula or some guy in a horror movie. I took out my phone and texted Zack.

'I'll be there in 5' replied Zack.

I sat on the couch and got my bag ready. Kyle walked out of his room. I heard Zack's car outside the yard, I looked out the window and it was really him. 'Mom, Dad Zack's out there, I'm leaving.' Mom rushed to me and kissed me and Kyle on our cheeks. Dad came to hug me and Kyle.

'Good luck sweety. I mean both of you. And Kyle, stay out of trouble.' Mom said.

'Have fun.' Dad said. We both walked out of the house and waved to Mom and Dad.

'Good morning Mr and Mrs West.' Said Zack. He opened the door for me and waved to my parents. 'Kyle's coming?' He asked.

'Yeah, I forgot to tell you. You cool with that?'

'Cool.' He said. He stepped on the gas and started driving. The school wasn't as close but wasn't as far either. But yeah walking there would be a drag.

'Are the people nice there?' I asked.

'Well, I guess as long as you're nice to them.'

'Will the people call me a fag for dressing up like this Zack?' asked Kyle. Zack looked back and smirked.

'Don't worry bro, there's a group of people dressing up like you. I bet you'll fit right in.'

'Sweet.' Kyle said.

We were in the drive way of the school and Zack found parking. There was a nervous beating going on in my heart. Zack stopped the engine and opened the car door. He opened mine before I could open it. He pushed the door closed and swung his arm around my shoulders. Kyle walked behind us. I saw a few people gazing at me and Zack, not in a good way, though. In a what-the-hell-is-he-doing-with-that-girl-in-his-arm-there-must-be-a-better-looking-girl-than-her or I'm jealous or just, the what the hell look. I got a little nervous.

'Why are people staring at us?' I asked.

'I don't know. They look jealous though.' Zack said.

'Hey dude I'm scared.' Whispered Kyle.

'Chill.'

'Zacky!' Yelled Derek from a distance. 'Karen!' You're here!'

'I guess I am.' I said.

'Do you like this place so far?' He asked.

'It's really big. Bigger than my old school.' I said. Then a guy and two other girls walked up.

'Oh hey, meet the people. This is Josh, Jordin, and Kristy. Guys, this is Zack's girlfriend, Karen.'

'Hey.' Said Jordin and Kristy.

'Hi.' I said shyly.

'You don't have to be shy. We're same as you.' Josh said. That was really comforting for me being as the new kid.

'That was nice for you to say.' Said Zack. 'These are the coolest people you'll know here, Karen.' He said and smiled at me.

'Uh, hey. Do I get friends and a warm welcome too?' Asked Kyle from behind us. All of us turned to him.

'He's the band geek, concert weirdo guy.' I said. Kyle thumped me from the back of my head. 'You want friends or not faggot?' I said.

'Ye-, yes I do sister.' He said in a hopeless voice. The guys laughed a little.

'Yeah they have a group for middle school band geeks. Wait, you are in middle school right?' Said Jordin.

'8th grade.' He said.

'Oh. Koda!' Shouted Jordin. A girl with scene hair, a band tee, a jacket, pair of skinnies and in converse came running.

'What?' She said.

'Koda, this is Kyle. He's new. He's similar to you. Make friends now, run along.' Jordin said.

'Hey.' Said Kyle.

'Hey.' Replied Koda. Her cheeks went a little reddish.

'Koda, are your cheeks going red?' Asked Derek.

'No!' She smacked him on the face.

'Ooooh. You like the boy?' teased Kristy.

'No! Shut up!'

'Hey you like her, Kyle?' asked Josh with a smirk.

'Er, I have a girlfriend.' Kyle said.

'Oh. Better chance next time bro.' Josh thumped Koda's head.

'I'll show you around.' Koda smiled at Kyle. Kyle followed and they both went away.

'She totally has a crush on him.' Said Jordin.

'Word.'

'Totally.'

'Bell's gonna ring soon.' said Derek looking at his phone clock. We all walked in. Zack slid off his arm and held my hand. I was blushing. But they the mood went away directly when I saw Alexa standing in front of what seems to be her locker, with a guy. She was in a skirt so small a baby could use is as a dress. And a tank top. I cursed silently.

'What's wrong?' Asked Zack.

'Her.' I had my eyes pointing to Alexa.

'Oh. You have me. Don't worry. Younger ones fear the senior.'

'Ha, sweet. Who else is a senior? I mean, your friends.'

'Well, Derek is, so is Jordin. Kristy's a 9th grader. You're left with Josh.'

'Oh. Kristy's in the 9th grade? I thought 11th.'

The bell rang.

'Hey, see you later, lunch is at 11.' Zack said. He kissed my forehead and waved while he walked away with Derek and Jordin. Kristy walked a different path too. They all waved.

'I'm left with you now.' Josh said. I only smiled. 'Which is your homeroom?'

'10.4,' I said.

'We're in the same class. Cool.'

'Cool. Does that mean same schedule?' I asked.

'Pretty much. But the math, science, English and art is separated.'

'Oh, yeah I remember.'

'What are you taking for math?'

'11th grade math.'

'And the rest?'

'11th grade science, 12th grade English and airbrush.'

'Ooh, airbrushing. That's nice. Well in math you're going to be with Zack, science with me, Kristy and Zack, and English with us all.'

'Cool. What's first?'

'Oh, we go to homeroom first.'

'Okay.' We walked into homeroom. Everyone stared. I took a seat next to Josh.

'Who's the chick?' asked a guy next to Josh.

'Karen. Zack's girlfriend. She's new.'

'Whoa, Zack the senior?'

'Yea. Problem?'

'Naw, she's just cute.' He winked at me and I waved awkwardly. Josh laughed a little, he looked at me.

'Karen, to break the awkwardness, this is Braiden. He's the captain of the school basketball team.' Josh said.

'Oh, hey.' I said.

'Hey sweet thang.' He said and winked again.

'He can be, er, rather cheesy.' Josh said. I just laughed a little. The teacher walked in.

'Good morning class, sorry I'm late, the morning meeting went a little long today. Please have a seat.' She took a sip from her mug and placed it on her table. She wore her glasses, 'Oh, right. There is a new student today. What's your name, the girl in the hoodie with the mustache printed on?' I realized she was talking about me.

'I'm Karen.' I said.

'Oh, please stand up, Karen.' And I did.

'Hi, I'm Karen West. I'm 16 and new. Er, hope we can be friends.' I said. Really awkwardly.

'I am Mrs. Daniels and I teach 11th grade math. Please have a seat Karen.' I sat down. 'Class, today Ms. Moore is absent due to a family reunion in the south, so for all of you in 12th grade math, you will have Mr. Adams as your substitute. And today there will be drama, and that will be held in the last two sessions of school hours. Everyone go to the drama theater at exactly 2 P.M. That's all you need to know for today, so go to your classes.' Then the bell rang. Since my math class is here I just sat in the same spot. I noticed some people didn't move also. I saw Zack walked in. I waved at him. First period with Zack already. This day will be fine. He took a seat next to mine.

'Hey.' He said.

'Hey.' I said, blushing.

'How's school so far?'

'It's fine I guess. Is Mrs. Daniels nice?'

'She is. Until you don't do your homework and or she find out you cheat.'

'Oh. Well, I do my homework and I don't cheat. It's going to be alright.'

'Hmm. I never knew you'd be in the same math level as me.' Zack smiled.

'I'm not that good in math though.'

'Nah. For you to be here, you must be good.' He said. I just smiled. Zack turned back and talked to his friends, then, I saw Alexa walking in the class. No! She can't be here! She's too stupid for 11th grade math!

'Bulimic.' She whispered when she passed by me.

'Anorexic pig.'

'Bitch.'

'Whore.'

'Slut.'

'Well hey look who's talking.' I said. She scoffed in disgust.

'I wasn't the one who stole someone's boyfriend away.' She said.

'Well I wasn't the one being a cheerleader wearing those slutty skirts everywhere could win a guy.'

'Bitch shut up! Logan was mine first!' Alexa said it a little bit louder for everyone to be able to be silent.

'Is there a problem, over there?' Mrs. Daniels asked.

'Nothing.' We said together.

'I was looking for 10th grade math.' Alexa said. Stupid.

'Wrong room. Search for room 125.' Mrs. Daniels said.

'Thanks teacher. Good morning. Later whore.' She managed to whisper the last sentence to me. And apparently stuck up her middle finger at me.

'What was that?' Zack asked.

'Alexa.'

'What's wrong with her?'

'She thinks I stole was the cause of her break up with her previous boyfriend.'

'That Logan kid?'

'Yeah.'

'Oh. But did you though?'

'No! Logan came to me.'

'Suuuuuuuuuuure he did.' Zack teased.

'I'm serious!'

'Yeah, yeah. Don't worry.' He smiled.

Class started and went by pretty fast. So did the next three subjects. I was standing in my locker. I felt a little annoyed in having Alexa in one of my classes. I threw my books in furiously.

'Hello!' Zack shocked me from the back, made me jumped a little. 'I'm sorry, did I shock you?'

'A little.' I turned around. He tucked my hair behind my ear, we leaned closer. We locked lips. As we kissed, it made me forget a lot of things. Including Alexa. I felt, safe.

'Zacky!' Squealed Derek which caused us to let go since we were shocked. 'Oh, I interrupted something did I...' Derek said awkwardly.

'Kinda?' Zack said with a little dissapointment.

'Sorry.' Derek said putting his head down. 'Lunch now?' he brought his head back up and gave a bright look.

'Fine.' Zack said. He put his arm around me as we started walking. 'Don't interrupt me when I'm with my girlfriend.'

'I said I was sorry!' Derek said.

'I forgive you this time.' Zack said. I laughed a little and Derek's face went red. We reached the cafeteria, there was Jordin, Kristy and Josh sitting at one place. We three took the remaining seats.

'Hey,' Jordin, Kristy and Josh said.

'Hellooo.' Derek said. I waved and so did Zack. 'What's for today?'

'Pizza, Caesar Salad, and Spaghetti.' said Josh popping a grape in his mouth.

'You hungry, Karen?' Zack asked.

'Um, kinda.' I nodded. Zack's phone rang.

'Oh, damn. You go with Derek. I'll catch up.' He threw his phone against his ear.

'Food?' Derek asked. I got up from my seat and walked with him.

'What's good here?' I asked.

'Well, I don't really pay attention, I just eat whatever. But if I were you I will NOT, eat the soup. They're not serving soup today but if you wanna stay healthy.' Derek said. I just giggled. Maybe giggle isn't the right word for it though. 'Do you like it here so far?' Derek asked.

'I guess I do. This place is cleaner than my old school. And more peaceful.'

'Cheating with Derek now Karen?' Alexa, who happened to be behind me the whole time just happened to be annoying at the time I never expected.

'What the hell Alexa.' I turned.

'What? Seriously Karen, all I've ever hear you say is "what the hell".'

'What do you want Alexa?' I asked nicely.

'Nothing, really. Maybe, my past back?' She pushed her tone for the last sentence. 'My BOYFRIEND back?'

'What? I never stole your boyfriend, for the fricking last time. He, your boyfriend, LOGAN, came to me.'

'Bitch!'

'HEY! Hey! Girls. Please?' Derek turned around.

'What, Derek?' Alexa scoffed.

'Alexa, could you just stop it, seriously. It's your past damn it.'

'What the hell Derek. It's my problem, well, Karen's problem actually for taking my boyfriend away.' She raised her voice. Some people looked at us three.

'Excuse me?! I TOLD you Alexa. Or more like, Alexass.'

'Oh, that's how you wanna play now?' She swung her purse at my face.

'Alexa!' Derek stepped forward. He checked on me. Part of my face bled because of a metal piece of her purse. 'You okay?'

'"You okay"? Really Derek? It's Karen now? Derek, Karen and Zack now?' Alexa raised her voice even more. Actually got the whole cafeteria to look.

'Hey, what's happening?' Zack rushed. 'Karen! What happened?!'

'Alexa swung her purse at Karen's face. A metal piece bruised her face.' Derek said.

'I'll take her to the nurse.' Zack took me by the hand and checked on my face.

'Ow.' I said.

'Does it hurt?' Zack asked.

'Just take me to the nurse please.' I said. He did, and as we walked, Derek bitched at Alexa.

'Alexa, did you just see what did you do to her? She's my friend, okay? I would hurt you back, but I'm a guy. I don't hit girls.'

'Really, Derek? You're just another momma's faggot.' Alexa smirked. The crowd went "Oooh".

'Really, Alexa. Do you want your parents to know about what you really are, behind that spoiled rotten daddy's girl? Do you want me to tell "Daddy"? Can you imagine what happened and how he'll treat you when he knows all of this?'

'You won't dare.' She said.

'Oh, dayum gurl, I would.'

'You have no proof!' She fought back.

'I do. You never realized.' He pointed at a security camera. Alexa scoffed and walked away.

At the nurse, Zack stood next to the seat I sat.

'How did this happen?' The nurse asked.

'This girl, Alexa, she swung her purse at my face.' I said. I felt a little dizzy somehow.

'Pfft. Kid's these days. Stay still, it's going to hurt just a bit.' The nurse swabbed alcohol over my cut. It hurt more than a bit, truthfully.

'Zack, why don't you go have lunch.' I said.

'No, it's alright.' He said.

'No, I'm serious. I'll go back later.'

'No, don't worry. I'll stay.' When he said that, his phone rang, again. 'Ugh. I'll be out then. I'll come back when I'm done.'

'Just go have lunch, Zack.' I said and I forced a smile. A thread of pain rushed through my cheek.

'Well, fine. See you later?' He smiled. I smiled back. Heh, just smiling hurts. Zack walked out the door. He seems busy.

'Is that your boyfriend?' The nurse asked.

'Yeah.' I said.

'He's really sweet. He really cares for you.' She said. I smiled, and again, it hurt. 'I'm not going to put a band-aid on this, I'll just leave some cream on. Don't worry, no one can see it.' She said. I stood up and I thanked her and walked out the door. I went to the cafeteria and saw Zack and Derek with Jordin on the same table. I waved and sat next to Zack.

'You okay?' Zack asked. I just nodded and I leaned my head on his shoulder. 'Drink?' He offered me a juice box. He punched a hole with the straw and poked my mouth with it.

'You guys are so cute. I swear.' Jordin said. I smiled, this time it didn't hurt.

'Jordin you wanna be wif meehh?' Derek mushy talked to her and wrapped his arms around her.

'Ofkaws I wanna be witchu Dereksiee!' They leaned closer and pretend-kissed with a loud "Muuah".

'That was nice bitching you did to Alexa.' Zack said putting down his pizza.

'I know right.' Derek admitted. 'But you should see what she's really like in front of her dad. She fricking could cry in a store as if her mom just died or something, just because her dad didn't let her get something. Like that time I was with her family in an Apple store, and the iPhone 4 just came out, she wanted one so bad, but her dad said he's going to get it for her birthday, which is in a week, and she cried. Like, right there. It was so embarrassing.'

'Typical Alexa.' I said softly.

'Who called you Zacky?' Derek asked.

'Oh, it's my cousin. He's getting married and he wanted me to be best man. I'll be gone for a week starting next week. Is that okay?' Zack looked at me. I nodded.

School bell rang, and sessions went okay, good thing I'm not in a same class with Alexa. Well, I don't really know yet. Zack took me home, he gave me a kiss before I got out the car. I wasn't in the mood to do anything today. It's only my first day. I don't know how mom will freak when she sees me like this.

'Karen? What happened to your cheek? And where's Kyle?' Mom rushed from the kitchen door and wiped her hands on a cloth.

'It's okay mom. And Kyle went out to the mall with a new friend.'

'No! Tell me what happened!' She took my face and rubbed by cheek.

'A girl named Alexa hit me in the face with a purse.'

'What?! Why?'

'She's been thinking I stole her boyfriend from her.'

'But did you?'

'No! Her boyfriend came to me, plus I didn't know he had a girlfriend.'

'Who is this Alexa girl?'

'Logan's ex, she used to go to my school too. Mommy I don't feel like talking, okay. Just smiling hurts.'

'Okay then, darling. Are you sure I don't have to tell your principal about this?'

'No, mom, it's okay.'

'Okay then.'


===TO BE CONTINUED===

Love me, Logan 2 #5

The day ended fast.
I woke up from my sleep and looked at my alarm clock; 4 A.M. Wonderful. I'm still trying to bond with the new environment. I don't know what to do until everyone wakes up. Maybe I'll walk around the block or something. I took my hoodie and tip-toed out the house. The day was still dark. At least I have my phone with me. I remembered I was supposed to pick up Jessica for tomorrow's concert. I hope Zack's free today.

I kicked rocks along the way, hoping the day would go on faster. I passed each house and eventually got bored. I looked at the clock on my phone and I got pissed since it's only been ten minutes.

'Maybe I'll go back home and see what happens.' I said to my self. I turned around and walked back to my house. I noticed Kyle was awake. 'Are you usually awake at this time?' I said half sarcastically.

'I haven't been sleeping for two days Karen. Look at these black things under my eyes! I've been going to the fridge for some milk every hour and now there's none left!'

'What's wrong with you? Oh, right. Everything's wrong with you.'

'Shut up. I'm serious. I miss home.'

'I know right. What's up with the attitude?'

'I told you I miss home! I miss the friking tree house, the smell of it, the smell of the air there, the school, the people, Dane, Denise, Oli--'

'Wait, who's Denise?' I know Dane already, his retarded friend and the one whom he was about to say, Oliver who is way sane then him. But, who's Denise?

'De-, Denise?'

'Ooooh. Kyle!'

'What?'

'Is it?'

'What?'

'Girlfriend.' I mouthed at him.

'Yes. I-I mean no. NO!'

'Ooooh Kyle why didn't you tell me?!'

'Why would I tell you?'

'Because you have a girlfriend! Kyle has a girlfriend! Kyle has a girlfriend!' I jumped around and teased him.

'Shut up Karen!'

'What's happening here?' A yawn came from the door of my parents' room. It was dad.

'Dad Kyle has a girlfriend!' I said.

'KAREN!' Kyle yelled.

'You do?' Dad stepped closer to Kyle. 'Why didn't you tell me?'

'Dad! Join me! Kyle has a girlfriend! Kyle has a girlfriend!'

'Kyle has a girlfriend! Kyle has a girlfriend!' Me and dad jumped around him pointing at his face until we were worn out.

'Are you guys done?' Kyle asked. Me and dad were running out of breath.

'I think so yeah.' Dad said.

'Good.' Kyle took a cookie and walked back in his room.

'Why are you in a hoodie, Karen?'

'I woke at 4 A.M., and I didn't know what to do.'

'Did Kyle do the same?'

'Nah. Kyle couldn't sleep because he's homesick. Why are you up so early?'

'Well, truthfully, I'm also homesick. But your mother is sleeping tightly.'

'How does she do that?'

'I wish I could answer that darling.' Dad wrapped an arm around me. My phone vibrated in my back pocket. I checked and it was a text message from Jess.

"Dudz sorri i cant sleepover at urs and cant go to concert toms ): so much crap to do lately. I got a project wit nelson. Urgh. Why do i always hav to be wit the nerds. K, so im gonna pass out again since its 5 am bye sessy karen xoxo ttul. <3" It read.

"Aye jessy. Awww! Gud thing we havnt got tickets yeh aha. Lol awh got a group wit him eh? Wish u luck babe <3 ttul sessy xoxo" I replied. And I texted Zack that he doesn't need to pick Jess up.

"you woke me up." Zack said via text message to me. I giggled and flipped my phone and slipped it down my pocket.

I didn't really know what to do for the day. No one's awake. Maybe I'll go to Kyle's room, I said to myself. I walked to Kyle's room and without the thought of knocking, I bust right in.

'What do you want?'

'Can't your loving sister just freaking enter her baby brother's room?' I said sweetly.

'Get the hell out Karen.'

'No.'

'Fine. What do you want?'

'Can I see a picture of your girlfriend?'

'But after that can you get out? Guys like me need beauty sleep you know.'

'Guys like you are fags. Now let me see her pic.'

'But promise to get out after!'

'Fine!' I whined. Kyle threw his phone at me. I browsed through the pictures and there was a folder titled "♥" and I knew it was the folder. I saw a girl that kinda looks like Miranda Kerr. 'She kinda looks old.' I said.

'Shut up she's freaking 14.'

'And how old are you?'

'I'm 14 now get the hell out.'

'Whatever.' I threw his phone at him really hard and walked out. I seriously didn't know what to do for the day. No one's awake at this time so maybe I'll go on my laptop or something. The Wi-Fi has to be on.

I walked in my room and took my laptop out of the case and hoped on my bed. I signed on Facebook even though I never liked going on it. I had four friend requests and five notifications. I checked the notifications first and the first thing I saw that Jessica tagged a picture of me. I clicked it and I saw a picture that was took like, ten years ago. Me and Jess were hugging each other and smiling really wide. There was a writing that said "I MISS YOU". Completely in awe, I liked the picture and post a heart in the comment box.

I didn't really know what to do for a few hours but shout at the TV screen about my opinions of the total bitches in America's Next Top Model. You know, they're always like, "I'm perfect, she isn't." or "She is nice but a total whore" and those types. It really annoys me. Why do you have to be so skinny to be pretty? Even if that is something out of subject because being skinny is required in being a model? I don't even know. But anyway, Kyle walked out of his room at like, 3 P.M.; he's been spending time in his room, calling his girlfriend for the past, I don't know, two hours, and he only came out for orange juice.

'Kyle what are you doing in there?' Mom asked. Kyle grinned widely. I turned around facing mom.

'Haven't you heard mom?' I said.

'Heard what Karen?'

'That Kyle,' I paused, and gave a look at Kyle. 'Has...'

'Karen!' Kyle shouted. Mom's face went glowing.

'Kyle, my baby boy,' Mom ran tip-toed to Kyle and pulling his cheeks in so many directions his cheeks grew red. 'Who's the lucky girl?' She winked. I laughed so hard at him.

'Thanks a lot Karen.' He looked at me embarrassed.

'Anytime bro.' I said. I turned back to the TV.

'Karen.' Mom whispered. I turned back. 'Who is she?'

'Denise.' I said.

'Karen!' I heard Kyle shout. All my mom and I did was just laugh.

My phone vibrated, I picked it up. I recognized it was Zack.

'Hey,' I said.

'Hey Karen.' He said in a tune that made my day. 'I was thinking...' he paused.

'Thinking...'

'There's a beach party tonight, at five. Do you think you could come with me?'

A smile lit up my face, 'sure. Pick me up?'

'Sure thing.' I felt him smile along the phone line. ''kay see you later?'

'Yeah.'

'Sweet.'

'See you later.' I said. I hung up.

First thing that came up in my head: What. To. Wear. I went straight to my dresser. But knowing not all of my clothes are in there, I had to open a few boxes to look for something to wear. I spent an hour and a half just looking for something to wear. After a few mix and matching, I decided to wear a loose white tee and shorts and a black bikini under. Not forgetting a bag and flip flops.

After I found out what to wear, I continued watching some FOX News and made comments at the TV. Without realizing, I fell asleep on the couch. Half awake, I didn't realize I moved my head on Zack's lap. He brushed my hair. I woke up, I rubbed my eyes.

'Hey.' Zack said. Smiling at me.

'Oh, hey.' I said. Realizing I fell asleep, I rose up and looked at the clock. 'God, I fell asleep! Sorry to keep you waiting!' I said panicking.

'Chill, it's fine. Anyway it's better to attend a party a few minutes late than being totally punctual.' He smiled. 'Go get dressed, leaving in five.' He told me. I got up on my feet and walked to my room. I put on the out fit I prepared. I walked out and Zack looked impressed. He was wearing an white tee and khaki shorts. I slipped my arm into his, said good bye to mom and dad and walked out.

We walked in the car. He smiled at me. 'What?' I smiled back.

'Nothing.' He started laughing softly.

'What is it?' I said smiling.

'You're just cute. That's all.' He said. I smiled at him. He got the car to go and drove. We didn't go to fast, or slow. Just a drive. Enjoying the reggae being played in the radio. When the sounds of waves smashing onto each other sounded clear, we slowed down and Zack parked the car.

I took a view at the crowd. These people were Zack's friends. Me and Zack stepped in the crowd, hand in hand, until my mood dropped.

'What the hell? What is that doing here?' A familiar voice.

Alexa.

'Don't talk to her like that.' Zack said.

'Let me talk to you then.' She let hand slide down Zack's arm. 'Baby, why her?'

'What the hell Alexa?!' I slapped hand off Zack's arm.

'Bitch he loves me.' Alexa pointed a finger at me.

'What the hell? I don't even know who you are!' Zack said disgusted.

'Baby, shush. Let me do the talking.'

'Don't you call him that.' I said squinting my eyes at her.

'Well make me!' Her tune rose. A guy standing next to me had a drink in his hands, I snatched it off his grip and threw the drink at Alexa. She gasped, wiping the drink off her. 'You bitch!' She grabbed someone's drink and almost threw it at me but a hand stopped her. It was Derek.

'Derek! Hi!' Zack said in a girly voice.

'Zacky!' Derek said with a little girl attitude. I laughed at them.

'Hey you stay away from them or I'll make your reputation down the toilet later in school. Understand?' Derek said threatening Alexa. Alexa scoffed and walked away.

We got ourselves drinks and just the three hanging in by the beach. Suddenly, Alexa and an army of girls that are either Zack's and or Derek's ex or crush came with eggs. One threw an egg at me, but missed.

'What the hell? Alexa what do you want?!' Zack stood up.

'You.' She said. 'So does these girls.'

'God, you? Crystal? We were done remember?' Zack had a confused and mad tone.

'What happens if I want you back?' Crystal said. She looked like a total slut.

'What? You cheated.' Zack said furious

'Well.' She threw an egg at me.

'Where did you girls get these eggs?' Derek asked. A girl pointed at a restaurant by the parking lot. 'Alexa do you really want me to ruin your reputation?'

'What? And why are you even here?'

'To take back what happens to be mine.' Said Crystal. She stepped forward and touched Zack. I stood up, Zack pushed her away disgustedly.

'He's mine. Cry me a river.' I said.

'He was mine first.' Said Crystal.

'No he was mine first!' Said another chick.

'No! I kissed him first!' Said another chick. Suddenly a bitch slap got on. Oh how I love these dramas. Every girl started throwing eggs at each other, pulling on each other's hair, calling names and fighting for a guy. Bitch slap. Is. Entertainment.

We slowly walked away from the scene and laughed it off.

'Aren't you gonna tell me how many ex you had?' I said with a giggle.

'Me?' Zack pointed to himself.

'Both of you! That was so much drama just for two guys!' I said holding my stomach.

'I know right. Well, my ex was like, only three out of the whole crowd.' Claimed Derek.

'And you?' I looked up to Zack.

'Ehh. I had only five out of the whole crowd. Then, who are the others?'

'Probably your crush or the girls that wishes she had you as her boyfriend and me as a best friend or something.' Derek said. There was a little silence. But it passed when Zack offered drinks. We stood in the crowd, having drinks, talking about the school I'm going to be in. Truthfully, I didn't enjoy the conversation. I missed my old school. I missed Jess. But I don't know what to do about it. I'm stuck in this place so I'll have to look on the brightside of every freaking thing to survive.

'So, school starts in two days. You think you're ready for a new place?' Zack said.

'I guess so. I'm just a little insecure about the people there.' I said.

'The people there are okay, I think.' Zack said hesitated. 'But, I won't let anyone or anything upset you.' He smiled.

'Plus, you have us to kick ass.' Derek said pointing at him and Zack cooly.

'Thanks guys.' I said and smiled at them.

The music slowed down. Everyone got a partner and slow-danced. I got Zack and Derek didn't get anyone. He just sat by the table and had drinks. I didn't really care that I'm actually wearing a tee and shorts, but as long as he liked it, I don't need to worry. I rested my head on Zack's shoulder and noticed Derek was dancing with a girl. He looked happy about it. I just smiled at him and he smiled back. I pulled my head off Zack's shoulder and looked at him.

'It's getting late,' Zack paused, 'you wanna go back home or stay out for a while?'

'Don't tell me to go home when I don't have to.' I smiled at him.

'You wanna get out of here?'

'Yeh.' I nodded. Zack mouthed "let's go" and took my arm and first, we walked to Derek.

'We're out of here, you in?' Zack said to Derek.

'Hello?' Derek said pointing at the girl he had in his arms.

'Riiiiight. Later then.'

'Bye Derek!' I said cheerfully. Me and Zack walked to the car. He started the engine and drove slowly, we talked about the party. But my phone rang and it was my mom telling me to go home. Without any other choice, Zack had to drive me home. In the middle of the way, it started raining. Zack turned up the radio and drove faster every time my mom texted me to get home faster. When we reached home, Zack walked me to the door.

'Thanks.' I said giving him a hug. 'I had, almost, had a good time.' I said remembering what happened.

'I'm sorry for what happened. I'm not gonna let that Alexa girl touch you. I promise.' He said to me. He tipped my head upwards slightly, and pressed his lips against mine. I placed my hands on his shoulders and his hands on my hips.

'Karen mom made--' Kyle's yell shocked us and we stopped the kiss. 'No, no, go on. I was just going to tell you mom made Lasagna...' Kyle said stepping a few steps back awkwardly. I smiled at Zack and mouthed "bye" at him. He smiled back and fast-walked back to his car. I walked to in the house with Kyle looking at me embarrassed.

'Don't worry. When you kiss with Denise I'm gonna make sure gramma knows.' I winked at him.


===TO BE CONTINUED===

Love me, Logan 2 #4

We went barging in a coffee shop since it was raining pretty hard after what we saw in the street. I guess I have half an ounce of feelings for Fera. I mean, I guess she just wants attention? Gah, what am I thinking. She's gonna have a hard time getting a boyfriend later--, 'what? Sorry.' I turned my head towards Zack. Conversations with the thoughts in my head.

'I said, what do you want? I'm paying,' he smiled at me.

'No, no it's fine, I'll pay. Caramel Latte please,' I took out some money out of my pocket but Zack stopped my hand from putting the money down on the counter.

'Chill. I'll pay.' Zack placed his money on the counter.

'Can you pay for me too?' Derek did a puppy face thing and stared at Zack.

'Okay fine.' Zack said, he sounded hopeless.

'Yay! I love you!' Derek said. Zack gave him an awkward stare at him and pushed Derek away from trying to give him a hug. 'No homo?' Zack just whacked his head and took the change. We sat somewhere in the back of the coffee shop.

'You goin' to our school Karen?' Derek mumbled.

'Yeah,'

'What grade are you in?'

'Ninth.'

'Oh, so you're dating a senior?'

'Why are you asking me this?'

'Lay it off Derek she's mine.'

'Okay jeez.'

'Caramel latte, vanilla frappuccino and green tea frappuccino!' Yelled the lady.

'I'll get it,' Zack said.

'No, no. I'll get it. And leave you two,' he raised his hands and quoted, 'alone.'. He walked away. Zack turned to me.

'Do you think you'll be okay in Green?'

'What's a Green?'

'Greenwick. My school.'

'Oh. Well, you tell me. How are the people there?'

'The place is a little too well organized. I guess the principal watched Bratz 4 Real and got inspired or something. I mean, the nerds are always with the nerds, jocks and cheerleaders go together, musicians, and like, you mention it, there's always a group for it.'

'Emos?'

'Yeah. There are.'

'Which do you think I would fit in?'

'I don't know. Do you sing?'

'A little.'

'Aww, you do?'

'A little secret of mine,'

'Well I'm keeping it.' Zack gave me a smile. 'What else do you do?'

'I wasn't really that big in my old school. I mean, A+'s on my math and science but--'

'Ooooh, a geek eh?'

'No! I wasn't done. I did cheer-leading but I quit,'

'Aww, why?'

'Because the girls were total whores.'

'Oh my God,' Zack laughed a little.

'And I play piano and guitar.'

'That's pretty impressive.'

'He-he. What about you?'

'I do drums, bass, guitar, sing, a little piano and I'm actually part of the town's hockey team.'

'You serious? That's cool. And I never knew you could sing.'

'Well you do now.' Zack smiled. Our heads went closer and we heard a clap.

'Cool,' clapped Derek.

''Kay what the hell Derek?' Zack said. I just laughed.

'Naw, don't worry.' Derek said handing Zack his drink and then mine. 'Why are you so, depressed lately?'

'Do I sound depressed?' Zack asked sipping his drink.

'Um, yeah you do actually.' Derek said.

'Do I Karen?'

'Kinda, I mean how you talk to Derek is like, not your Gung Ho thing.'

'Oh really. I guess it's just my aunt. I mean, even if I hate her little midgets I still have feelings for her.'

'You have feelings? Since when?' Derek teased.

'Derek. Not the best timing.' I said.

'I mean, go on.' Derek said.

'I guess I'm just worried. That's all.'

'So, what are you Karen?' Derek asked me.

'Huh?'

'I heard Zack told you about the thing in school.'

'Oh, that. I think I'm more into music but I might join the cheerleading.'

'Oooh, cheerleader eh?'

'Big deal Derek.' I said sipping my drink.

'So you know you're gonna have to make up your mind. You can't be two at once.'

'Seriously? That isn't fun.'

'Wait, then I'm a jock, and a musician. That's possible?' Said Zack.

'Dude no. It's like, against the rules.'

'School has rules? Oh my God since when?'

'What?' I got confused.

'Our school is like real messed up. There's always chaos going on every day. And like, a food fight happens every Thursday 'cause usually the jocks fight after practice 'till the end of school. So every Thursday, bring extra clothes. You're gonna need it.'

'Word. And like, you have to accept the environment there or you're gonna be beaten alive. Even if you're a girl. But there are better chances when you're dating a senior. It's like, you get more protection. But it depends on the guy. Since Zack's part jock he'll be able to scare your grade but if he's some nerd always talking about dinosaurs, yeah you'll have to be drained embarrassment.' Derek said.

'Whoa, o-kay. That sounds way different from my old school. I don't know what am I gonna be there.' I gave out a worried tone from my words.

'Don't worry.' Zack wrapped his arm around me.

'God, how could you guys drink cold stuff in a weather like this?'

'It's our thing? I don't know.' Derek said. I noticed Alexa standing by the counter. She saw me but didn't realize it was me. Then she realized so she looked back at me and gave me a disgusted look. I never stole Logan away from her. There was another girl beside her. I also noticed it was one of the girls from the cheerleading squad. Alexa tapped the other girls shoulder and whispered to her and glared at me and the same time. The other girl looked at me and looked disgusted too. They walked torwards my table and scoffed.

'Why are you here?' Alexa said.

'What? You run this town now?' I said.

'You're not spying on me aren't you?'

I scoffed. 'YOU'RE not spying on me aren't you? Why the hell are you here anyways?'

'It's called a family gathering. And I'm also moving here.' Alexa said. WHAT? Oh my God I can't believe it. 'What school are you going too? Some cheap public school?'

'Don't talk to her like that.' Zack stood up.

'And who are you? Her bodyguard?'

'I'm her boyfriend and leave her alone.'

'Derek? Why are you here?'

'Derek. You know her? I said.

'Ye-yeah. She's my brother's ex.'

'Well, I have to go now. My new house won't wait forever. And if you're moving to Greenwick, Karen,' Alexa gave me a pissed look since I was on my phone the whole time, 'Karen! I'm talking to you!'

'What is it, my queen?'

Alexa scoffed. 'If you're also going to Greenwick, I swear we're gonna have a lot of fun. Now ta-ta. I have to go. Bye bitch.'

'Hey! You don't talk to her like that!' Zack stood up.

'What?! What are you gonna do about it? I mean, I called her a bitch for stealing my boyfriend away from me!'

'I did not you anorexic pig! You were a total whore anyway! Logan didn't want you anymore remember that! And get over it! You got your chance and you blew it!'

'Fine. You win this round. But just remember, it's not over yet. Come on Dana.' Alexis and the other girl turned around, took their coffee and walked out.

'God. This is gonna be a school full of drama. Especially when Alexis isn't over with the Logan issue.' I threw my head back and exhaled.

'What really happened between you?' Derek asked. I raised my head back up and tucked some of my hair behind my ear.

'So Alexa is the popular girl. She's miss perfect. Her boyfriend was popular and one of the best football played in the school, spoiled rich daddy's girl, so many friends worshiping her name, and every time someone goes against her there is always the defender. And that was Logan, her, ex, boyfriend, and like, ten other people. Because of all that she became such a snob. She like, controlled everyone with her popularity. I wasn't counted as popular. I wasn't her follower too. I'm always with my best friend and yeah, I had a crush on her boyfriend. One day, my mom and his mom went to meet up and I knew he was coming so I dressed up differently. More skin and less jeans. Slutty, I know. But I really liked him. So like everything went well and he didn't talk about Alexa. But somehow Alexa found out about that and she got really pissed at me. And whenever I just wanted to say hi to Logan, she'd be there and try to be cute in front of him.' I took a sip. 'And like one day they broke up and Alexa blamed it all on me. She thinks that Logan going out with me as friends only is what caused the relationship to end. And I guess she really loved Logan.' I paused for a while. Some thoughts were spinning around my head. Rewinding what happened back at the park. I remembered that there was a girl that looked like Dana! 'Oh my God I totally remember now!'

'What?' Derek and Zack said.

'There was a girl watching me and Logan together at the park. He bought ice cream for me and like, I guess she told Alexa that he's cheating on her! That's why she's so pissed at me.'

'Well, what are you gonna do about it then?' Zack said. A long pause happened.

'Survive?'


===TO BE CONTINUED===

Love me, Logan 2 #3

I felt something vibrating in the back pocket of my jeans. I took my phone out, it was Jessica.

'Hello?'

'Karen!'

'Hai,'

'Hey, concert's in two days. You're picking me up this Friday right?'

'I guess so, yeah. Concert's on Saturday?'

'Yes!'

'Okay then!'

'Hey, I have to go. I'm at school.'

'Oh. Wait, why?'

'Rehearsing for a school play. I play Juliet and Logan's Romeo. I hope you're not jealous or something but he's my new boyfriend now.'

'Wait, what?!'

'Bye!' She hung up. I couldn't say a thing. I flipped my phone back and walked in the house with complete confusion.

'What?' Zack asked.

'Uh. Jess,'

'Jess...'

'Logan and, and Jess.'

'Uh,'

'D-d-dating.'

'Kidding?'

'No. At all.'

'Weird...'

'Uh-huh.'

'Well look on the bright side, he's never gonna bother you again.'

'I guess. But,'

'Yeah, I know. I feel the slight shiver too.'

I nodded and walked to Zack. We walked to the kitchen and saw a little mountain of cookies on a counter. Zack's mom wasn't there. Oh well. We both took a cookie. Zack's phone rang.

'Zack,'

'Hey bruh,'

'Oh, Derek, hey.'

'Hey, can I come over?'

'Uh, hold on.' He turned to me. 'Would you mind if my friend comes over?'

'Uh, sure I guess.'

'Yea sure, you can.'

'Great. Be over in a bit. Later,'

'Later bruh.'

'My friend Derek will be here. You're okay right? I mean, he might get a little weird sometimes.'

'I guess not, okay.'

'Hey, you have something on your shirt,' Zack pointed on my shirt.

'Where? Hey!' I yelled. When I looked down Zack lifted his finger to push my nose up. 'Oh no you didn't. I went to a counter and took some left over icing we used to make cake the day before. I squirted some on his shirt.

'Hey!' He took a cookie and tried to run to catch me. I ran away from him. He threw the cookie at me and it hit my back. I looked back and squirted some. I bumped Zack's friend that just entered the house.

He looked annoyed, then he looked at me. 'Oh, hey.' He said in a flirty voice. 'Who's this pretty lady? Your sister?'

'What? She's Karen. My girrrlfriend.' Zack made hand gestures. I stepped away and mouthed a sorry at him.

'You, have a girlfriend?!'

'I think she's visible enough,' he waved his hand in front of me.

'Oh, well then,' Derek turned at me, 'you know, Zack can be a little, pfft, naughty.' He did a wink at Zack, I pushed him away from me softly.

'I can handle it,' I told him giving him a cute, smart, awkward look. All together like that.

'Well, whatever. I was just warning you. But, whenever he's starting to be weird at you, just dial the letter Y, he put me on speed dial.' Another wink. He walked to Zack and patted him on the back. I looked back at Zack, "I don't know." he mouthed. I laughed a little and stepped back to Zack.

'What are you gonna do here?' Derek rubbed the tip of his nose, I gave a look at him but then my phone rang. It was an unknown number. But I picked it up anyways.

'Hello,'

'KAREN!' It was a familiar voice, but I couldn't recall.

'What, who is this?'

'This is Alexa! What did you do to my boyfriend?!'

'What the hell. What do you mean your boyfriend? Logan?'

'Yes Logan you skank!'

'Excuse me, HOW AM I THE SKANK?' I raised my volume. By the time I said the "S word", Zack and Derek looked at me confused. I mouthed a sorry at them.

'What did you do to my boyfriend?!' I can hear her also raising her volume.

'Well I was never with him for your information!'

'Yes you were! You were crazy of him!'

'I was Alexa!'

'No, you poisoned him using your best friend of yours!'

'Jessica?! It's her and Logan's relay [relationship]! What does it have to do with me?!'

'Karen, do you remember that day, when you were in the mall and Logan was chasing you?'

'What about it?'

'Well, never mind I forgot what I was gonna say, but Karen stop poisoning his mind! I still love him okay! Leave him a--'

'Excuse me Alexa, I never did bothered him okay! He was the one who was asking me to start over!'

'Stop talking to him!'

'What the hell!'

'What's wrong?' Zack whispered to me. I put the call on loudspeaker without Alexis knowing.

'Alexa, sweetie,' I started soft.

'What bitch?' I got offended.

'I NEVER STOLE YOUR BOYFRIEND OKAY. AND YOU GUYS BROKE UP SO WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO WITH THIS? YOU BROKE HIS HEART YOU LOST. STOP CRYING FOR YOUR OWN CHOICE.'

'I still love him okay! Even if we did break up! I want him back and I want you to take away that friend of yours off Logan!'

'Alexa cry me a river, build a bridge and get the hell over it!' I hung up. 'Drama.' Derek looked at me with an impressed look, 'what?'.

'I am impressed, you can really bitch at someone.' Derek said fanning himself with his hand.

'Leave her alone,' Zack told Derek. I dialed Logan's number, a flame of anger burned in me.

'Hello?' a sleepy voice said.

'Logan?'

'Whazzup,'

'What did you tell Alexa?'

'Huh?'

'She called me and went bitching at me to not talk to you anymore,'

'What the hell,'

'What?'

'I never told her anything!'

'I wished it was that easy to believe that but it isn't. Tell me the truth,'

'I swear I never told her anything!'

'Ugh, seriously?' I sighed.

'Would I lie too you?' And this happened to be the stupidest question ever.

'What the hell,'

'I mean, yea seriously.' His voice toughened.

'Ugh whatever. Bye thanks.' I hung up. I slid my hand through my hair. I shook my head.

'What's wrong?'

'Alexis, you know, Logan's immature ex, she was telling me to stay away from Logan. If you think of it, it's Logan who can't stay away from me.'

'If you need any help in beating up, me and Zack are here sweetie,' Derek gave me a flirty look.

'Yeah, we're here.' Zack said with hesitation. I just laughed a little at their trying-to-help-and-be-cute looks.

'So much dramaaa.' I held the A in drama. Urgh when will this stop. At least for one more week Alexis is gonna keep calling me.

'So, what are we gonna do now?' asked Derek.

'Now with no midgets around, wanna get out see a movie or something?' Zack said. I checked the clock of my phone. Exactly 4:15. I have time.

'Sure, whatcha wanna watch?' Asked Derek.

'Wanna go out of town?' Asked Zack with a cheeky face.

'I'm in. Karen?'

'Sure.'

'To the car!' Derek said.

'It's cool if you sit in the back right Derek?' asked Zack.

'Wha, what? I mean, yes. I am a man. I will.' Derek straighted his back and opened the door and sat in with a sad face? It looks as if. Jeez. I know it's only a joke though. Zack opened the door for me.

'Thanks Derek,' I said.

'No problem sweet,'

'Stop with the flirts, thanks.' I said. Derek got red. Zack pointed at his face and laughed. Just when he was about to start the car, his mom came out the house yelling.

'ZACHARY, DO NOT GO OUT OF TOWN!' Me and Derek laughed. I just knew his name was Zachary.

'Yes mom. I'll go see a movie and get ice cream or something. Bye.' He stepped on the pedal and got moving. I can see his mom yelling at him from the front yard of the house.

'Dude, your name is Zachary? I just knew.' I told him.

'Yeah, Zachariah actually. Mom calls me Zachary for short when she's mad. I like Zack better. Zachariah or Zachary makes me sound like a church boy.'

'True dat,' Derek laughed. 'Where to?'

'What do you want?'

'What about that coffee shop. The one we would trash down.'

'Seriously? I don't think the guy would even let us in,'

'Smart,' Derek paused. 'OMG,'

'Talk,'

'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' Then Derek started singing a song in da-da-da's.

'BARNEY'S?!' Zack yelled happily.

'BARNEY'S GELATO! GELATISSIMO! MUAH!' They said and did hand gestures at the same time. All I could do was laugh.

'Let's gooo!' Derek yelled. Half way, there was traffic. We got really bored, I turned up the volume of the radio.

'Don't you have CD's in here?'

'I got this car two weeks ago, I keep forgetting to put in CD's. In the mean time, we're gonna have to listen to this.' He turned up the volume again and the radio played a song by the Bee Gees or whatever. All of us yelled 'Ew' really loud and Derek turned off the radio like a ninja. We were stuck in the traffic. Five minutes...ten minutes... 'Hey Derek,'

'What,'

'I can make you say blue.'

'Prove it.'

'What color is this car?'

'Black.'

'What color is my shirt?'

'White.'

'Hah! I told you I can make you say white!'

'You told me that you can't make me say blue,' Derek paused. 'Oh.'

'HAHA! I made you say blue!' Me and Zack laughed.

'That is so not funny,' Derek objected.

'Prove it, she's laughing.'

'Not cool, Zack.'

'Whatever Derek.'

'Zachariah!' Derek yelled. I started laughing pretty hard.

'The name's not funny!'

'Prove it she's laughing!' Derek laughed. Zack took a look at me, I tried to hold my laugh but I couldn't so I burst out laughing. 'You just choke on your own alibi.'

'That's from Mr. Brightside! Not creative!' Zack yelled and banged his hands on the steering wheel.

'Hey. This is a free country. I can do whatever I want!' Derek yelled.

'Well,' Zack paused. 'There!' He slapped Derek's head.

'Hey!'

'It's a free country I can do whatever I want!' Zack said imitating Derek.

'FINE!' Derek said in a sissy voice. He threw himself on the car seat and folded as if he's only eight years old. 'Zack give me your iPod.'

'Why?'

'Because it's a free country. Now gimme it.'

'Fine.' Zack lifted himself a bit to take an iPod Touch out of his back pocket.

'Thank you sir,' Derek said. Loud, high-pitched songs started playing from the iPod.

'What the hell? That music, what are you playing?' I asked and turned my head back.

'Oven Break!'

'Oh, that gingerbread thing.' I said stretching my neck.

'He's been playing that game for two years, yet he never accomplished.' Zack told me. Derek grew red.

'Whoa. I did it the first time I tried.' I said.

'Show off.' Derek said.

'No, you just suck.' I told him. Zack laughed a little. Derek grew even redder.

'Well forgive me for being the worst Oven Break player.'

'Forgiven way before you thought I would,' I winked at him.

'You mean three seconds ago?'

'Pretty much, yeah.'

'Well apology accepted.'

The car grew silent. We weren't moving forward. There was a massive traffic jam. We don't know why. We sat there, moving half a meter per thirty minutes. Sucks like that.

'Zack,' Derek said.

'What.'

'This might be the most inappropriate time to say this but,'

'What?'

'I need to pee.' Derek said. Me and Zack burst out laughing.

'There's a gas station there if you'd like. You can walk there. I think we're gonna be here for another two weeks or something.'

'Okay then. Bee, arh, bee.' Derek tried opening the door but Zack left it locked. He flicked the switch, 'nice try you little smartass.' He ran out the door to the gas station. I laughed.

'So you guys are best friends,' I asked.

'Yeah, pretty much.'

'And you guys are normally like this?'

'Yeah.' Zack gave a chuckle. 'Ugh how long do you think we're gonna be here?!'

'I don't know you tell me,' I said. We noticed Derek ran towards the car as if there was something bad happening. He banged on the windows since Zack left the doors locked. He opened the window slightly.


'I think you're banging the wrong car sir,' he said.

'There was an accident! I swear I'm not lying. The woman kinda looked like your aunt.' Derek said. How he said it made Zack very suspicious.

'Tell you what,' he unlocked the door, 'I'm gonna see this thing and you sit where I'm sitting just in case there's a chance of moving. Karen you coming?' I nodded my head at him. We went out the car and Derek sat on the driver's seat and me and Zack rushed to see the incident. A horror look grew on Zack's face, I took another look at the victims, I noticed Jay being carried out the shattered car. 'Oh my God.' Zack ran to the group of policemen.

'Zack,' I said. I followed Zack from behind and gave him a hug.

'Officer, I'm the cousin of the victim, can you take me to their mom?' Zack said in an unpleasant tone. The officer pointed to an ambulance. Zack's aunt was standing in the car holding her almost-lifeless daughter's hand. It was visible enough that tears were streaming down her cheeks. 'Aunt Laura!' Zack yelled. He took my hand and fast-walked to her.

'Zack,' she gave him a hug.

'What happened?' Zack asked. This time completely worried.

'I don't know, Fera was complaining about how she's grounded and I got so stressed of her rubbing it on me so hard and I messed up and boom! This...' tears started running down her pale cheek. 'I'm such a fail,' she started crying again, and this time harder. I wasn't surprised that Fera caused this.

'Where's James?'

'James is okay. In fact, it's a miracle he didn't get a bruise. But Fera, look, she's unconscious.'

The location where the accident happened was cleared and cars started moving smoothly again. I noticed Derek was driving the car towards us. He said "Come on" from the inside of the car.

'Aunt Laura, I have to go. Hope all of this ends well.' He gave her a hug, 'love you.' He put an arm around me and we walked back to the car.

'Love you too,' Aunt Laura's voice was fading. Zack switched seats with Derek. Derek sat in the back and I sat in the front.

'I'm so sorry bruh,' Derek said trying to comfort him.

'Heh, yeah. Not surprised Fera caused it.'

'She did?'

'Yeah. Her mom grounded her and Fera was complaining and that happened.'

'It's about time she got grounded. Why?'

'You see that bandage around Karen's arm?'

'Whoa, serious?'

'Yeah. Friking used scissors and cut Karen's and James'.'

'James too?!'

'Yeah. I wish the kid would die or something.'

'That's not nice,' I cut.

'Hey, you hate her too.'

'True, true.' I said.



===TO BE CONTINUED===

Love me, Logan 2 #2

I went in my bedroom. Remembering the Wi-Fi isn't set yet, I decided to tell Logan that I can't go on MSN. Ten seconds after the text message was sent, there was a call from him. With total hesitation, I picked it up.

'Hello?' I started.

'Hey Karen,'

'Hey,'

There was a short pause, 'We'll start over right?'

'I guess if you wanna,'

'No, no. If you don't wanna start over that's fine.'

'It's up to you,'

'It's up to YOU.'

There was a long pause, I stopped biting my lip, 'Fine, I think we should start over...'

'Thanks, Karen.'

'So, how's school and everyone else?'

'Everything's fine, Jess has been missing you lately. Seth was looking for you too.'

'Seth? He still exist?'

'Yeah. Are you gonna come back here sometime?'

'Zack promised me that once a month he'll take me there,'

'Oh, cool.'

There was a pretty long silence after that, feeling awkward, I sat on the couch near me and twirled my hair and played with the buttons on my shirt.

'Why Zack?'

'Uh, he felt sorry for me since I was really homesick.'

'No, I meant why did you choose Zack?' Logan started to sound angry.

'Excuse me?'

'You loved me first,'

'Well you didn't.'

'But I do now!'

'But I don't. Logan, how are we gonna start over when you're like that?'

'Sorry, sorry. I'm really pissed today. So much homework and mids are coming, my dog just died, it's been hard for me. I loved Iggy so much.'

'Iggy died? I'm so sorry.'

'Yeah, it's okay I guess...'

'Hey, hey, I have to go. Sorry Logan. We'll talk sometime. I'll tell you when I'm back.'

'Bye,'

'Bye.' I hung up. I didn't really have to go. I just felt so awkward I wouldn't bother talking to him. I feel guilty too but I don't feel like talking to him when he's in that kind of mood. I jumped on my bed and called Jess. No answer. I tried calling her again. No answer. She's probably asleep? But it's only nine. Maybe tomorrow. I played Snake on my phone for a little bit but without realizing I fell asleep.

The next morning, since everything felt new, I woke up at five. I noticed mom cooking some pancakes. I got confused, was I gone that long? Mom's already cooking and the dining table was set. But heh, I wouldn't care.

'Hai mom.' I said pulling a chair and sitting on it.

'Morning Karen. Plans for today?'

'Yeah, I'm helping Zack babysit his cousins.'

'Oh. You and Zack is so cute together. Have you contacted any old friends recently?'

'Um yea no.'

'Huh?'

'No old friends contacted recently.'

'Oh, okay then. But just remember, you're going to find new people here to be your friends. Wherever you are, don't ever forget about your old friends. You won't know if there will be a time that your new friends would leave you.'

'Sure thing mom. Where's dad?'

'He's out to buy groceries.'

'Oh. Kyle? Wait no let me guess.'

'Asleep.' Mom and I said it at the same time. When there is no school, Kyle is a total pig. After dinner, he would sleep directly. Unless if there are homework or some project. But usually he would sleep directly.

'I'm gonna find his room.' I got up and pushed back my seat and walked to a room that I totally expected to be Kyle's room. The one with a big sheet of paper with a messy hand writing that says "DO NOT ENTER OR KYLE WILL BRING HELL TO YOUR TINY ASSES". I don't know why dad didn't do anything about it. I read it and not caring if he will bring me hell or not I busted in. Kyle's room was...tidy. I mean usually there will be video games, game magazines, his school books and his batman collection. I felt really weird entering his room in peace. Before at least something has to get caught on my foot. So I just wanted to see what Kyle's room would look like. Not dirty and gross yet. I went back to the door and I felt something hit my head. Kyle threw his Batman plushie at me. 'What up gangster?'

'Get out. I'm busy dreaming and would not like to be disturbed.'

'Whatever.' I went out the door.

'CLOSE THE DOOR!' Kyle yelled.

'Yes master.' I closed the door gently. 'Jerk.' I said walking away.

'I heard that Karen!' Kyle shouted again. I ignored and decided to have breakfast.

'Hey dad,' I noticed dad was home.

'Morning Karen,' Dad patted my head. I took a plate and mom placed one pancake on it.

'Syrup?' Mom offered.

'Yes please.' I stuck my plate out and watched mom poured syrup on my pancakes. I took a seat and started eating. When I was almost done, I heard my phone ringing from my room. I raced there before it stopped ringing. I picked it up directly. 'Hello?'

'Karen, I'll pick you up at 12 okay?' I noticed it was Zack.

'Oh okay,' I looked at the clock on my phone and it was 11:30 already! 'Oh, crap okay.'

'Is there something wrong?'

'No, no it's fine. I just woke up hehe. But 12 is fine I guess.' I said.

'Oh, okay see you later. Love you.'

'Love you too,' I hung up. I ran out of my room but I noticed a wall to my right. I remembered my old house, the bathroom was on the right. 'Mom where's the bathroom?'

'Go pass Kyle's room or you could use the one in mine.'

'I'll use yours.' I rushed in mom's room and went in the bathroom directly. I saw my toothbrush laying there on the rack. I took my clothes off and went in the showers. When I was done, clean and clothed, Zack was outside already. Perfect timing. I saw Kyle jumping on the couch.

'Where you going?' he asked me with his hair bouncing up and down.

'Zack's house. Hey mom I might be gone 'till night.' I ran back to my room and took my jacket. I fast-walked to the door.

'Stay safe honey,' said mom. Dad waved at me.

'Yeah Karen better make sure you better not go preggo!'

'Shut the hell up Kyle.' I opened the front door and closed it. I heard mom yelling Kyle's name from outside. All I did was laugh softly. 'Hey Zack!' I said brightly. I saw James, Jay and Fera in the back seat. I waved at them, 'Hey guys!'. I went inside the car and sat on the front passenger seat.

'Good morning gorgeous,' Zack said and pecked me a little. I waved at the kids in the back. Everyone waved but Fera. She rolled her eyes at me. My smile faded a little. But oh well she's only four.

'Where are your parents now?'

'They went out of town?'

'Pft, they didn't take you with them?'

'Yeah, they would but they're trying me. They wanna see if I could take care of three kids for a day.'

'But they know I'm helping right?'

'Yeah,'

'Can we please get going?' Fera said.

'Sure thing,' Zack started the engine and we went moving.

When we reached his house, Jay and Fera went out first and ran inside. James stepped off the car and Zack picked him up.

'Why did you pick him up?' I asked him.

'Because I'm gonna have to get ready when we get married.'

I laughed, 'I'm only 15. Long way to go,'

'Pfft, I know. I was only kidding. I just felt sorry for the guy.'

'Oh psh Zack,' I laughed at him and we walked in the house. We basically did nothing for two hours. Me, Zack, Jay and Fera was watching Up while James was drawing. Basically, for two hours we just watched a movie. Then Fera, Jay and James got sleepy so it was nap time for them and free time for me and Zack.

'The midgets are asleep. What do you wanna do?'

'Midgets? Be nice Zack psh. I don't know what do you wanna do?'

'Wanna hang around the pool?'

'Sure.' We sat by the pool with our legs in the water. 'I go to the same school as you right?'

'Uh yeah I guess,'

'What school?'

'Greenwick International,'

'Which one is the building?' I asked. Zack got up and took my hand.

'Come on, I'll show you.'

'What about the kids?' I got up.

'Don't worry.' Zack pulled me. We ran up to the third floor. There was a few doors. He took me to the one in the middle.

'Is it some rich kid school?' I asked him. Zack held on the door handle.

'I don't know you tell me,' Zack opened the door and there was this massive building standing there.

'Def a rich kid school. I don't know if I could survive there,'

'Nah you will. The people are awesome there. As long as you're nice to them,'

'Fine. Zack's awesome.' I rolled my eyes at him. Zack chuckled at me.

'Greenwick. I hate the color green.'

'Don't worry, school colors are blue, gold and white.'

'Shouldn't it be called Bluewick instead?'

'You're not funny Karen.'

'Explain the fact you're smiling,'

'Hey, smiling doesn't mean I'm laughing!'

'You're laughing now!'

'No I'm not!'

'You're not funny Zack,'

'Oh I am funny. You always laugh at my words.'

'Fine I do, you're not funny now!'

'JAMES!' shouted Fera so loudly. Me and Zack raced to the second floor to see what happened. James was crying, some of his hair snipped and a big red cut on his arm and Fera was bitching at him. Wow, I still can't believer the fact she's only four. 'Zack! Look at what that coconut head did to me while I was sleeping!' Me and Zack noticed that there were airplanes on her arms drawn by James.

'Fera what did you do to James?!' Zack yelled. I ran towards to James to check how is he.

'He started it Zack! Karen get out of my face I need to yell at James some more!'

'No! You've done enough to him!' This isn't the first time the girl pissed at me. Fera took her scissors and scratched my arm. I yelled in pain but managed to stand the pain.

'FERA! That's my girlfriend!' Zack ran towards me and took my arm. I was whining in pain. I noticed blood flowing out the cut. 'Fera get back in the room now.' Fera stuck her tongue out, 'NOW!' Zack yelled. Fera turned back and marched to the room. 'Karen are you okay?'

'I'm, fine. It's James you're supposed to care about. He has a few cuts on his arms,' even if I'm still in pain, I managed to support James arm so Zack can take a look.

'Ouch,' Zack said softly as James cry is still going on. 'What are we gonna do?'

'Do you have a first aid kit?'

'I think I do in the kitchen yeah.' Zack carried James and I walked down supporting my right arm. James was first. Zack took out some gauze bandages, scissors, antiseptic wash, tape, and a cloth to wipe up the blood. He washed the cut with the wash, wrapped the cut with bandages, and taped it. He had to do it three times since there were three cuts. And it took a while because he had problems with the bandage. When he was done he picked up James and made him sit on the couch and turned the TV on. He walked back to the kitchen to fix mine. When he was halfway done, my phone rang.

'Oh great,' I swung my other arm back and took out my phone from my back pocket. It took me a while since it was on the other side of jeans. The song Rocketeer was playing until I picked it up. 'Hello?'

'Hey Karen,'

'Jess! How are you?'

'I'm good, and you? How's everything? Have you started school?'

'I'm good and no I'm starting next week. How's school?'

'It's, heh okay. Hey, you wanna see Maroon 5 net Saturday?'

'For real?!'

'Yeah!'

'Oh my God yes! Where is it?'

'Fairsville, 12 March, 7 P.M.!'

'That's where I live! Where?'

'That stadium thing in wherever you are,'

'Oh my God cool! Won't the school shut down this Friday? The renovation thing they're gonna do to the roofs?'

'Totally,'

'Wanna sleep over?!'

'YES!'

'Okay, but how will you get here?'

'I don't know,'

'Jess hold on,' I pulled my phone off my ear and whispered to Zack, 'Zack, could you take me to see Jess? This Friday?'

'Uh, well, I think I can. School ends early at that day so probably yea.'

'Oh cool, love you!' I pulled my phone back to my ear, 'Jess, Zack's gonna take me to see you this Friday. I love you Zack!'

'Aww! I love Zack too! Yay! Oh, Karen I have to go, I'll see you when I see you. Bye!'

'Bye Jessica.' Then she hung up. 'Thank's a lot Zack.'

'Anything for you. Your arm's done and I think James is asleep.' Zack said looking at James. I turned back and he was asleep. 'I think everyone else is asleep too.'

'Yeah. Just asking, when are your cousins coming back to wherever they're from? I mean they're here to stay right?'

'Yeah, they're coming back tonight actually.'

'Oh, well that's sad. I can't imagine how bitchy will your aunt be when she finds out what Fera did.'

'Yeah. I'm telling her anyways.'

'Meanie,'

'Hey you secretly agree. I know that.'

'I guess I do. I really hate Fera. I still can't believe the fact that she's only four. I mean, she watches too much TV. What do you let her watch? Resident Evil?'

'She's only been here for like, five days and I haven't watched any thriller, action, horror, or those kinds of movies.'

'Well she's gotta have influence from someone. She hangs out with Jay a lot right?'

'And his friends,'

'Maybe she hangs out with them too much?'

'Oh! I just remembered. Once, Jay did a movie night with his friends and they were watching Zombieland and Fera was there.'

'Isn't that obvious. I watched that movie it was disgusting.'

'Nahh, I thought it was pretty cool.'

'Oh pfft no! It's too much gore.'

'I love gore!'

'That's something we don't have in common.' I winked at him.

'I guess. And yeah I guess thats how Fera got so violent. I mean the movie's all about cutting and killing. Such a shame for a young, rotten mind.'

'Yeah. Rotten mind psh.' I laughed a little.

'What do you wanna do?'

'I don't know, what do you?'

'I don't know,'

'Wanna watch something? I have a TV in my room so the midgets can't go in.'

'What are we gonna do to James?'

'I'll carry him to my mom's room.'

'Oh okay. Zack and I put back the first aid kit stuff back in, I placed it in a rack and Zack picked up James and carried him to his mom's room. I went in Zack's room and just sat on the bed. When Zack came, he took out one whole tray of DVDs and threw it on the bed. It looks heavy.

'What do you wanna watch?'

'Uh, what do you have?'

'What genre?'

'Anything. What's your favorite?'

'Wanna watch a horror movie?'

'Uh, okay. What movie?'

'How scary do you want it?'

'Scary but not that scary but not that cheesy too.'

'Silent hill?'

'No, that's boring.'

'House of Wax?' Zack threw the disc at me.

'What's this?'

Zack looked cheeky and looked at me, 'I'll show you.' He took the disc away from me and inserted it in the DVD played. He turned on the TV, switched off the lights, closed the curtains and sat behind me. I looked at him with the you're-being-a-little-bit-too-dramatic look. He just smiled at me. When the movie started, it didn't scare me. Basically six people going to a place that isn't on the map and goes in a house with people's heads covered in wax and all. But when it came to the one who fell for the trap and fell in hot wax, I had to yell and automatically hugged the person closest to me. If my face was a computer, it would make a 'x[' face and Zack's face is like 'x]'. And there was a lot of scary stuff in the movie but I force myself not too look like a loser. I succeeded and failed. Mostly fail. Zack could only laugh a little at me. When it was another scary part, I was biting my finger, Zack chuckled when he saw me like that.

'What?' I took out my finger and stared at him.

'Nothing, you're cute.' He did another soft laugh again.

'Well, why did you have to "show" me this freaking movie?'

'Hey you asked first,'

'Well you could've told me it was this scary!'

'Sorry Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaren. Do you still love meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?'

'Yes, I do.' I got up and ran to him to hug him. Suddenly the door opened and Zack's mom was there!

'Oh, hello Karen. Uh, Zack, your aunt and cousins are leaving, would you come down stairs to say goodbye? I'll give you a minute.' She closed the door but before that she was looking at us with an awkward face. Me and Zack turned red immediately. I let go and he groomed himself.

'Coming?' He asked me.

'Yeah.'

'I'll turn the TV off first.' He turned to the TV and switched the DVD played and TV off. He placed an arm on his hip and I put mine through and we walked down laughing at stuff. We saw Jay, James and Fera. Fera was being bitched by her mom and I would laugh but I can save it. 'You're going already Jay?'

'Yeah,' Jay put on a sad face.

'When are you coming back?'

'I don't know, but when I come back can you take me for ice cream at that place again?' Jay looked up at Zack smiling.

'Sure thing brother.' Zack smiled at him and messed up his hair. Jay groomed his hair and turned to me.

'You're going home Jay?'

'Yeah,'

'Where do you live?'

'Saint Mark,'

'Oh, three hours from here?'

'Three sleepy hours,' Jay smiled at me showing his two bottom front teeth gone. I saw his cheeks really red.

'Well, I'll see you when you come back.'

'Me too,' Jay said to me, his cheeks gone even redder. Zack mouthed a 'she's mine' to Jay. But Jay ignored. I walked to James, I bent down to get a better look at him.

'Hey, James.'

'Haiiiiiiiiiiiii.' He said it that long.

'I'm gonna miss you,'

He didn't reply but he only gave a nod at me. I'm taking that as a 'Me too.' Who doesn't miss me? HEHEHEHE. Pfft. Gah just kidding. He hugged me and I hugged back. I got up and Zack talked to James for a while. I just watched Fera being bitched by her mom. Please, please, please let me laugh! But then my smile broke when Fera pointed at me. Then I saw her mom saying something like, 'go to her'. Fera walked to me with hesitation. I tucked some of my hair behind my ear. I just smiled.

'Sorry Karen.' Fera said looking at the floors of the house.

'Oh, sorry for what?' I played stupid.

'For everything.'

'I don't get it?' I played stupid again.

'For cutting your arm with scissors,'

'WHAT?!' Yelled her mom. 'Fera Patricia Damons, is that what you did?!' OOOOOH. I tried not to laugh. Zack stood up with James in his arms and looked at me and laughed a little. 'Fera Patricia Damons tell me the truth!'

'Yes, mommy.'

'You lied to mommy before?'

'Yes I did.'

'Fera Patricia Damons, for two months there will be no TV for you! No Nintendo DS, no Wii, no PSP no anything but your books!'

'Mommy that's not fair!'

'Tell me why it isn't fair!'

'James started it!'

'What did he do?'

'He drew airplanes on me when I was sleeping!' Fera pointed at James. Bad move since that was the time when her mom realized the bandages on him.

'Fera! That's it! No TV, DS, Wii and PSP for you for three months!'

'Mommy!'

'Enough! You're going to spend more time with your books starting from now!' Her mom pointed at Fera's face and Fera look really sad and guilty. 'You lied to mommy and disappointed mommy enough for today okay Fera? Now say good bye to your aunt and Zack and don't forget to say sorry to James and Karen!' Fera turned around and said sorry to James first. James only stuck his tongue out at her and me and Zack laughed. Then with even more anger she turned to me and said sorry again. I just smiled and showed her my palm. That is all. Everyone went outside and Fera went in the car first, then James then Jay. Their mom hugged Zack and his mom then waved at me and got in the car. When the engine was just about to start, Jay went out of the car and ran to me to hug me.

'I'm going to miss you!' Jay cried and hugged me so tight around my thighs. I hugged him a little and laughed a bit.

'I'll miss you too.' I said to him. I gave him a kiss on the cheek and he got so red he looked like he was about to faint! Zack helped him walk back to the car at first then Jay was able to walk on his own. The car started moving and everyone waved at it. When it was completely out of sight, 'weird.' I said.

'I know right,' Zack said.

'Cute kid,' I said and laughed a little.

'Zack you're not the only one competing for Karen.' His mom winked at both of us and started walking to the door.

'Hey, Karen's already officially mine mom.' I just laughed a laughter of shyness a little.

'Cookies?' His mom offered.

'Oh, me!' He ran inside. When he was almost reaching the door, he stopped and turned to me. Come on! he mouthed. I fast-walked in and laughed and took his hand.



===TO BE CONTINUED===

Love me, Logan 2 #1

I looked at the house that I'm going to live in for the rest of my life in Fairsville. It's bigger than my other house, gave me a little shiver down my spine. But like what they say, what's bigger is better.

'Karen, why don't you check it out. I think you're going to like it.' My dad told me with a smile. I nodded at him and went inside. Zack followed me behind.

'This is massive,' he told me.

'I can't wait to go to your house,' I told him remembering the things he hid from me.

'Heh, don't worry.' Zack smiled.

'This is big,' I said. I stared at the ceilings, how it's way taller than my height times three.

'I call biggest room!' yelled Kyle running inside rushing to the first door he sees.

'How old is he?' asked Zack.

'I think he's 13.'

'More like 5,' Zack looked at Kyle with an awkward face.

'Psh Zack be nice,' I told him and took his hand. We walked around the house, viewing the future I'm going to have here.

'Karen! Please get ready, we're going to have lunch in 10!' yelled my mom. Me and Zack walked outside where the car is. I saw mom and I waved. 'Zack you want to come?'

'Uh, thanks Mrs. West but I think I have to go back home, my mom's gonna look for me.'

'Oh, okay then sweetie.'

'Karen, I gotta go. Is it okay?' he took my hand and asked me.

'Oh, okay. Don't worry.'

'Okay, I'll call you tonight.' He kissed my cheek and went in his car. I just waved at him with a weak smile. He started the engine and droved away.

'He really likes you,' my mom said to me with her arm on her hip and a cheeky smile.

'Um, yeah, hehe.'

'Remember what we were like when we were young?' Asked dad putting his arm around mom.

'Aww, of course I do.' Said mom giving a kiss to dad. Mom and dad started kissing.

'OH OKAY STOP.' Said Kyle covering his eyes. 'It was a long time ago people, break it up!'

'Kyle, be nice you geek.' I slapped his head.

'Love has no age,' said dad with a wistful face. 'Let's get in the car people.' Dad went in the car, mom followed and then me and Kyle. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I hope it isn't Logan.

I closed my eyes and flipped my phone. Not Logan, not Logan, not Logan, I screamed in my head. I opened my eyes and guess what? Logan.

Can I call you?

My hands were trembling. Um, not now. Family's with me. Maybe tonight, we'll go on msn or something

He didn't reply after that. I looked at the view of the city through the car window, thinking if I could be happy here. My best friend is back at the town I was and I miss her so bad. I decided to text Jess that I'm gonna call her on Skype tonight.


The day went really long... All I really did at the dining table was eating and listening to Breathe Carolina. I'm back at home and I just remembered that the Wi-Fi isn't connected yet. I texted Jess that I'll Skype her when the Wi-Fi is set. The stuff is already in the house and the mover people thing were still moving in the remaining furniture. It's 4 P.M., I don't know what to do. I miss my tree house. Even if Kyle was the one who [helped] built it. Two men of the mover people thing brought my furniture to the room I chose. I told them where I wanted them and I tipped them both $5 each. I dusted my bed a little and lied down there. Thoughtless. I just can't describe the feeling I'm feeling now. It's anger, fear, broken, and almost happy. Since happy is only a little part of it, in fact almost a part of it, I, I don't know. I mean, I wish I could just tell dad I don't wanna stay here. My phone vibrated, Zack's calling. I picked it up and closed my eyes.

'Hey,' I started.

'Hey. How are you?'

'Zack I don't think I wanna stay here for long. I wanna go back...'

There was a pause after I said that.

'Well, I'll tell you what, once a month I'll drive you back to your old town. Is that good?'

'Thanks Zack. I love you,'

'I love you too.'

'So,'

'What'r you doing?'

'Nothing, I'm on my bed and I'm just, missing you and my town. You?'

'I'm, doing nothing too. I miss you,'

'Can you come over?'

'I think so, but I'm not sure. Wanna sneak out later at night?'

'Um, I would but, I'm a little scared of my mom and dad would think.'

'Oh, well, I'll come over tomorrow. I have relatives here. Little kids. You wanna help me babysit while my parents and aunt are gone?'

'I'd love to. Pick me up?'

'Sure,'

I placed my left arm on my stomach. I heard Zack yelled Jay stop that! or something like that.

'What did you say?' I laughed a little.

'I told you, I'm babysitting my cousins. This is hard.'

'I wish I could come over,'

'Sure! I'll pick you up?'

'Oh okay, I think my mom's fine with that.'

'Okay, I'll be there in a few Karen. Bye.'

'Okay Zack. Bye.' I hung up. I can't wait. I got up and I told mom that I was going to help Zack with his little cousins. Thank God mom said yes. I sat down on a couch. Still dusty but oh well. I took out my phone and flipped it up and down. I waited for about ten minutes then I heard a honk. I took my jacket and said bye to mom and dad and ran to the car. I saw three kids inside in the back passenger seat.

'Front seat ma'am.' Zack opened the window and told me. I opened the door and went in. 'Guys meet Karen. That's Jay, Fera,' then Zack pointed to a kid that seemed autistic, 'and James.' Then Zack moved towards me a little, 'He's a little autistic, if you don't mind.' He whispered.

'It's fine. I've handled an autistic kid before.' I smiled at him. I gave him a little kiss and I could hear Jay going 'Ewww!'. He made me laugh.

Zack drove and in the car, I heard Fera whispering Jay and giggling with each other.

'Jay likes you!' Fera screamed.

'Fera! Be quiet!' yelled Jay covering Fera's mouth. They both were giggling and having fun, but the thought of James touched me.

'James, what do you like?' I asked James with a smile. James looked at me with a bright smile and when he was about to talk, Fera was yelling at me.

'Why are you asking James? He's a total coconut head!' said Fera.

'Totally!' Agreed Jay.

'Guys, be nice.' Zack said.

'Yeah, please be nice Jay and Fera.' I scolded them softly. I saw Jay rolling his eyes.

'Whatever!' said Fera.

There was a silence after that. After the long silence, we reached Zack's house. And it was huge. Zack parked and Fera, Jay and James got out of the car.

'Okay, what else are you hiding from me?' I folded my arms and looked straight at Zack's eyes.

'A lot of things. I just don't wanna brag.' Zack winked at me and took Fera's hand. We went inside and to the living room. I saw the room was pretty messed. I saw a few plates on the floor, plastic building blocks scattered, and two cans of Coke open and I bet it belongs to Zack. Fera and Jay played with the building blocks, and James went to a different place. Not where Fera and Jay are. James was sitting on a chair, drawing on a piece of paper with a black crayon on the table.

'Why is James always lonely?' I asked softly to Zack while we cuddled on the couch watching Cinderella on TV.

'Well, since he's autistic, Fera and James thinks he's a little weird I guess.'

'How old are these kids?'

'Jay is seven, Fera is four and James is six.'

'Why do you leave James alone like that?' I got up and walked to James. I sat on a chair and I put my hands on the table. 'Hey James,'I smiled. James didn't say anything to me in reply but he was smiling at me. 'You like drawing?' I asked him and he nodded at me with joy. 'What are you drawing?'

'Airp-plane!' he told me and waved his arms in the air.

'Can I see?' I asked, still with a smile. He passed the paper to me and I saw what he drew. 'That's a nice drawing James. You wanna be a pilot?'

'Yeah!' James' face was really bright, it made me smile.

'Well then you keep trying hard!' I motivated him. I saw James took out his crayons and started coloring his airplane. I noticed Zack smiling at me, I smiled back. He got up and walked and sat to the chair next to me. He smiled at me.

'Zack I'm hungry!' yelled Jay.

'Me too!' yelled Fera.

'What do you guys want?' asked Zack.

'Cake!' yelled both of them.

'Heh, I have to order cake this time?'

'I can bake cake?' I told Zack.

'You guys wanna make cake with Karen?'

'Yay!' yelled both of them.

'To the kitchen then,' told Zack. Jay and Fera rushed there. Zack got up and looked at me.

'James, you wanna help make cake?' I asked James.

'Yes!' said James hopping out of his chair. I took his hand and wrapped my other hand around Zack's. When we reached the kitchen, I saw Jay and Fera preparing the pots and pans already. Cute of them.

'We don't need pots and pans yet guys, we'll use them later.' I said with a smile. 'We're gonna need flour, two eggs, milk, a bowl, a hand mixer, butter, baking powder, salt, sugar and vanilla.' Jay and Fera marched right to a counter and took out all of them.

'They're really enthusiastic,' said Zack.

'Yeah,'

'Glad you're here,' Zack looked at me and smiled.

I took some butter and placed it in the bowl and using the hand mixer I beated it. 'Wanna try?'

'Me me!' yelled Fera. Fera noticed she was too short, Zack lifted her up and she gladly took the hand mixer and beat the butter.

'Me next!' yelled Jay. Zack picked up Jay and he also beat the butter. Zack put Jay down.

'James, wanna do it?' asked Zack. James ran to Zack and Zack picked him up and James beat the butter and laughed happily. Zack put James down and then I poured the sugar and vanilla and let the kids beat the mixture again. I added the first egg and Jay beat, the second egg added and Fera beated. I poured the flour in, James was jumping up and down so he can get a better view, and he placed his hands on the counter when it suddenly knocked down the flour bag. It fell right on him, Fera and Jay laughed at him.

'James you're such a dumb coconut head!' yelled Fera. Jay and Fera just kept on laughing. James ran away while crying. I looked at Zack with a horrible feeling. Zack ran chasing James.

'That isn't very nice you know. How would you feel if you were called a dumb coconut head?' I asked at them disappointed.

'Whatever bossy!' scoffed Fera. 'Now hurry up I am hungry!' Fera starts to get on my nerves. I would forgive her since she's only four, but still. I mixed the mixture and placed them in the cake pans. I stuck a toothpick in the cake. I put it in the oven and set the timer to 35 minutes. I groomed myself and looked for Zack and James.

I saw James and Zack lying on a bed. Zack was trying to comfort the poor kid. He was crying.

'What's wrong?' I mouthed.

'I'm trying to ask, he won't answer me.' He said softly.

'James, are you okay?' I sat on the bed. Zack got up and gave me some space. James said nothing, he only covered his face. 'James?'

'James?' Zack tried to open up his hands. He started making silly faces at him, and I followed. Finally James was laughing again. 'Let's get you downstairs.' Zack lifted James up and carried him in his arms. He pretended that James was an airplane and started lifting him up in the air making airplane noises. James was laughing with glee. Fera and Jay was outside in the backyard jumping on the trampoline.

'You have your own pool?' I asked.

'Yeah. Big deal,'

'Psh,' I scoffed. Zack played around with James and I just watched them and Fera and Jay play around. When the timer went off, I went inside, the toothpick lying on the cake. I took it out, and let it to cool for 10 minutes. When it was cooled, I called everyone inside. 'You have icing?' I asked Zack.

'Yeah, Fera go get the icing.' Fera marched to the counter and took all the icing, icing sugar, sprinkles, decorative stuff for the cake. I sliced the cake to five slices and everyone got one to decorate. Fera drew a princess, Jay drew a car, I wrote Zack's name, he wrote mine and James drew an airplane. After the decorating, Fera and Jay took out forks for everyone. We sat on the couch and ate.

When it was almost eight o'clock, I had to go. Everyone went in the car and when we reached my house, everyone went outside to hug me. Including Fera.

'Guys get in, I wanna talk to Karen.' ordered Zack. Fera, Jay and James went in the car. 'Thanks, Karen. I had a great night. You need to help me out more with kids.' I laughed softly. 'Tomorrow, okay? I'll pick you up.'

'Don't worry. Yeah tomorrow,' I smiled at him. We kissed for a short time and we could hear Fera and Jay going 'Ewww!' inside the car. We chuckled and Zack started stepping back to the car.

'Bye,'

'Bye Zack,' I waved at the car. When I lost the sight of the car, I went in my house. I had a great night.


===TO BE CONTINUED===

[bonus LML :D] Love me, Logan #15

I fell asleep in the car for a while, when I woke up, Zack told me we still have an hour to go. I put my hands in my hoodie pocket and that made me remember the note Logan gave me. I took it out, smoothened it and opened it.

Karen
At the start, I never did pay attention to you. I never noticed you liked me that much. But it's Alexa. She's always messing with my head, and when we're together, every time I try to talk to you she will think that I don't want her anymore. She's kinda, disturbing in that way. That's why we break up and make up again. Now since I'm feeling the way you felt for me, I was too late. You have your own way now. I can't do no more but to let you go with Zack. So, whenever you need a friend, I'll be there. So, can we start over?
Logan

I felt the pressure he puts on the pen and paper on the back of the paper. I crumpled it slowly with my hands. He never told me this. He's such a friend. I never thought he's like this. It's also too late if I'm going to be with him. Not that I'm having second thoughts.

'Why are you crying?' Zack asked.

'I am?'

'What's that note?'

'It's from Logan,'

'What's with him?'

'He, said that he wanted to start over.'

'Oh.'

'Yeah.' I say straight on the car seat and wiped my tears. I folded the piece of paper and put it in my hoodie pocket. I took out my phone and decided to text him.

i guess we can start over...

10 Minutes later, I finally got the answer.

thanks. hey, im sorta busy. we'll talk later :)

He sent me a smile and I didn't reply.