“Kaylee, if you value your life any you’ll stop shaking me like that.” Kaitlyn mumbled as she slapped Kaylee.
“Fine, but you’re going to be late.”
“I’m not my clock is a half hour fast.”
Kaylee stood up and said, “Oh oops.”
Kaitlyn rolled her eyes as she sat up and looked around the room as someone knocked on the door.
“I’ll get it,” Kaylee replied cheerily.
“You do that,” Kaitlyn mumbled as she tightened the drawstring of her pajamas as she headed into the living room.
“Thanks,” Kaylee said as she closed the door behind her.
Kaitlyn walked into the living room to see Kaylee walking over to the couch setting down a huge life size teddy bear and a box of chocolates.
“What’s all this?”
“It’s all for you.”
Kaitlyn walked over and looked at the teddy bear and the box of chocolates confused.
“Here’s the card, I would have opened it but I know you would be pissed,” Kaylee replied laughing.
Kaitlyn took the card and read it. “It’s from Nick.”
“Duh! What did the card say?”
Kaitlyn handed her the card.
“Love Nick?” Kaylee looked back at Kaitlyn, “Awe, go out with him,” She said whining.
Kaitlyn started to laugh and shook her head before she walked out of the room and into the bathroom.
Kaylee walked over to the bathroom door and tried to walk in but Kaitlyn had locked the door. “Why don’t you call him?”
“Because.”
“Why? You like him.”
“That’s irrelevant.”
Kaylee sighed and started to bang her head lightly on the door.
“What are you doing?”
“I don’t know you are driving me nuts. Call him go out with him.”
“He’s going about it all the wrong way. I don’t want things. If I were interested in having a boyfriend right now, all I’d want is someone there for me, someone who would care about me, not things. He doesn’t have to buy my affection.”
Kaylee groaned and stomped off and back into the living room as Kaitlyn got in the shower.
Chapter 7
“Kaitlyn wake up you’re going to be late,” Kaylee said as she shook Kaitlyn repeatedly.
Jennifer Lopez said it the best, my love don’t cost a thing.
Ok, so that was a tad bit on the corny side. Right? But seriously, he is going about this in the wrong ways. So, all my views and feelings aside for a moment. Let’s pretend that I actually do want to go out with him and I do want a man in my life. Buying me things is no way to make your way into my life. If he wants me to go out with him he would have to show interest in my life and the things I like. I have to have something in common with him. Above everything, he has to want to be my friend first.
I think I’d rather be a friend with someone and then move into a relationship instead of meeting a stranger going out a few times and then starting a relationship. If you are friends you know whether or not you like them already. So you don’t have to waste time getting to know a stranger who in the end has some weird habit that you can’t stand and you have to break up with them.
Like I said before. I like the simple things.
“Bye I’m going to class,” Kaitlyn said as she closed her messenger bag and lifted it over her head letting it rest across her chest.
“Uh huh bye,” Kaylee said as she was watching a movie attentively.
Kaitlyn shook her head as she walked out of the door closing it softly behind her.
Kaylee looked at the door and then back at the TV before she picked up the phone and dialed a now familiar number.
“Hello?”
“Nick?”
“Uh, yeah.”
“It’s Kaylee.”
“Kaylee?”
“Crazy chick?”
“Ah.”
“Kaitlyn got the flowers and the teddy bear and chocolates.”
“And?”
“She acts as if it’s nothing.”
“What? How come?”
“She says you’re going about this the wrong way.”
“What do you mean?”
“She doesn’t want things. She’s so focused on her school work and everything you know she doesn’t want a boyfriend.”
“How come?”
“Bad experiences? I don’t know she just doesn’t want a man she thinks that she doesn’t need one.”
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
Nick sighed as he ran a hand through his hair.
“Yeah, so I’m thinking if you really want to go out with her. Get to know her first, become her friend.”
“That’s what she wants?”
“Yeah.”
“Alright.”
“Ok,” Kaylee replied as she smiled.
Nick was quiet for a minute and then said, “Thanks.”
“Wow that sounded like it hurt,” Kaylee replied sarcastically.
“It kind of did.”
Kaylee rolled her eyes and said, “Bye.”
“Yeah,” Nick said as he hung up the phone.
“Dude, Kaitlyn come on,” Kaylee whined.
“Kaylee stop whining it isn’t very attractive.”
“Come on, please?”
“No, you have a look on your face like you are up to something.”
Kaylee looked around as she pressed her lips together.
“You are up to something,” Kaitlyn replied pointing at Kaylee.
“Nah,” Kaylee replied shaking her head.
“Liar. It’s a school night I’m going out.”
Kaylee rolled her eyes and started to whine some more, “Please?”
“No, I know what you are up to.”
“No you don’t.”
Kaitlyn looked up at Kaylee and said, “I bet I could guess and get it right on the first try.”
“Ok,” Kaylee replied as she put her hands on her hips.
“I know it has something to do with Nick.”
“How do you know?”
Kaitlyn looked up at Kaylee and sighed, “I’m not stupid. I’m rather observant of the things around me you know.”
“Really?” Kaylee asked cocking an eyebrow.
“Uh huh.”
“Please? It’ll be so good for you.”
Kaitlyn rolled her eyes.
“Come on.”
“Why is this so important to you?”
Kaylee stood there a minute looking around then looked back at Kaitlyn and said, “Because I care about you? And I want you to get laid?”
“My god, is that all you care about?” Kaitlyn asked rolling her eyes.
“I just want you to have fun.”
Kaitlyn sighed as she stood up and walked out of the living and into her room. Kaylee got up and started to follow her.
“If you go out tonight and if you don’t like him after you talk to him or whatever then I will speak of him never again.”
Kaitlyn cocked her eyebrow as she looked at Kaylee and asked, “Never again?”
Kaylee shook her head and said, “Never.”
Kaitlyn bit her bottom lip as she looked around then back at Kaylee sighing. “Fine.”
“Woo,” Kaylee replied as she bounced around clapping.
“The cheerleader in you coming out?”
Kaylee stopped and looked at Kaitlyn un-amused. “I was never a cheerleader.”
Kaitlyn licked her lips and just looked at Kaylee trying not to laugh.
“I wasn’t.”
“Ok,” Kaitlyn replied nodding.
“I’m serious.”
“Ok,” Kaitlyn said laughing.
“Ok fine I was a Junior Varsity cheerleader and then captain of the Varsity.”
Kaitlyn lay down on her bed trying her damnedest not to laugh out loud.
“You’re laughing.”
Kaitlyn sat back up and nodded. “Yeah, uh huh yeah I was.”
“Why?”
“Because what you were in High School was who I hated.”
“Huh?”
Kaitlyn shook her head. “Never mind.”
“You didn’t like cheerleaders?”
“Nah,” Kaitlyn replied shaking her head.
“I was one of the nice ones.”
“Ha, you sure about that? I didn’t know they existed.”
Kaylee put her hand over her heart, “That hurts.”
Kaitlyn rolled her eyes, “Get out of my room.”
“Hurry up we’re leaving in thirty minutes.”
“Yeah yeah whatever,” Kaitlyn replied unexcitedly.