19 August 2012
Chapter 2
“I figured it out!” Kate says excitedly, sitting down on the couch beside me. We are in Kate’s room listening to Taylor Swift’s Speak Now album, our favorite album by her. She grabs a throw pillow and hugs it as she speaks. "He is secretly a ninja and he pretends to lock himself in his room. But he is really sneaking out of the window!” Nichole and I laugh. "That is so unfair! I want to be a ninja, too! It’s my dream!” I complain playfully. Nichole smiles. “You need to get over that dream," she teases. “But I want it to happen!” I protest. Kate laughs. “Anyway, so what do you guys think we should do to find out?” I frown. "Well, asking is out of the question,” I mutter. “And I’m pretty sure if we went through his room to find evidence he would have a real reason to be mad," Kate adds reluctantly. I shudder. “I don’t even want to go in there.” “We could ask his friends,” Nichole suggests. “You’re a genius!” I say excitedly. Then a thought strikes me. “We don’t know any of his friends.” “Kate might,” Nichole says, looking at her. Kate shakes her head. “I avoid his friends for the fear of becoming like them.” We all burst out laughing. We laugh so long and hard that my side starts hurting. “Ow!” I say, holding back laughter. “My side hurts! Don’t make me laugh!” But we still laugh for a couple more minutes. “Ok, ok, so back to the topic,” Nichole said after we calm down. “We need to talk to his friends. Samantha, you said that the boy you ran into earlier was one of Kendall’s friends.” “Ran into?” Kate echoes, confused. “I ran into the guy when I was leaving school, and I had seen him talking to Kendall earlier,” I say quickly before Nichole can explain and give Kate the wrong idea. “What was his name?” Kate asks. I shrug. “I never got it. But-“ “She thinks he was adorable,” Nichole laughs. “I never said that!” I retort, not in the mood for jokes like that. “He had brown eyes, dark brown hair that kind of stood up…” I feel myself smiling at the memory of him. I blink. “That’s all I got. I was kind of distracted by Kendall.” Kate frowns. "I don’t know him. At least, I don’t think I do.” She looks at me. “So, you think he’s cute, huh?” She smiles mischievously. I blush slightly. “No I don’t! Nichole said that!” “Don’t deny it,” Nichole teases. I glare at them as they start laughing. I'm not amused. “Any more ideas on why Kendall was acting like that?” I ask, hoping to get their minds off of the subject. Suddenly, a thought accords to me. “Wait… is Kendall entering the talent show?” Kate and Nichole stop laughing abruptly. “I don’t know. Every time I talk about it, he changes the subject," Kate replies slowly. “We could ask him,” Nichole says. “Not right now,” Kate says. “At school, maybe, or I could ask him at dinner. Last time I knocked on his door, he practically hit me with his guitar.” Nichole and I exchange glances. One look at her tells me we are thinking the same thing. There is something up, but what?
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