By Nick Carter
It happened just the other evening as we made our way home from school
through
the sleet and snow. I was doing my usual trick of impersonating Mr
Wajeski,
our geograghy teacher. Of course the gang was in stitches (I can
impersonate
most of the teachers in our grade) but the guys love it when I do Mr
Wajeski,
he's such a bumbling idiot and I've got him down to perfection. The way
he
stumbles around dropping his books in the hall, how he stutters and
screws up
his eyes when he's trying to explain something. This time I'd been
putting up
posters for the Christmas dance, Jimmy had accidentally on-purpose
banged into
him scattering his papers everywhere! We left the short-sighted buffon
on the
floor scrambling to pick them up. "Sorry Sir!" laughed Jimmy as he ran
off. It
was cool, he never dared shout out anyone, especially us.
But then it happened. I mean you hear those dumb, soppy tales about how
love
hits you like a bolt from the blue. I never believed it until that
moment but
there she was, standing by the grocery store. Even though it was
getting dark,
her piercing green eyes sparkled and she looked just like an angel
waiting to
be placed on the top of the Christmas tree. Wow! Gorgeous long, blond
hair,
beautiful shy, smiling mouth, but those eyes! I'd seen her from a
distance at
school but as usual I'd played it cool and had made no attempt to be
friendly.
She wasn't in my class and I didn't even know her name, but now I had
to find
out. So I broke away from the guys and made some excuse about needing
to go
into the store.
As I approached, her eyes dropped. I heard a loud Tut! sound and there
was
Cherry standing protectively behind the counter, staring at her. The
Cherry!
The Cherry who'd been my 12th girlfriend this term, had been a token
pretty
girlfriend who I'd mess around and then ditch when I got bored. Darn,
I'd
forgotten about Cherry! She was chewing gum and, before I could even
blink,
she'd blown a bubble big enough to swallow me up and send me to the
moon. As
it popped she sucked it back into her mouth with the speed of a bullet
and
blurted out:
"Whaddya want?"
"Probably still bitter about our split", I mused. "Six packets of Oreo
biscuits and a tub of your finest Ben & Jerry's ice cream if you
please." I
don't know why I said that, it just sorta came out but at least it took
Cherry
scuttling into the back of the store for a minute while I struck up the
courage to speak to my angel.
"You're new here, aren't ya?" I blurted.
"Yup," she replied, shyly.
"I'm Zac, what's your name?" She looked up smiling but, just as she was
about
to reveal it all, Cherry stormed past her at threw by grocery bag under
my
nose and said,
"That will be 8$ exactly, thank you!"
I was fuming, Cherry had spoiled my moment of truth. As I delved around
deep
in my pocket I realized that I'd spent all of my money on soda pop in
school.
My anger quickly subsided into complete embarassment and I called over
to the
guys to help me out.
"What are you buying ice cream in this weather for, Zac?" They
challenged.
"Listen, who's the leader of the gang? Just give me the money!" I
stormed.
I paid up and scurried off, not daring to look at the total confusion
I'd left
my angel in. How was I to ask her on a date while she was in Cherry's
viperous
clutches? She'd probably poisoned her brain with horror stories of the
trouble
our gang has caused. All completely untrue of course
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