Tricked

Chapter 4: Check Yes Or No

Lynn had left a few outfits of clothing, some make up, and her hair straightener for me to use throughout the week. Monday I tried to do my hair like she had and it didn't look too bad. My make up on the other hand was a problem after trying for about an hour to get the eye shadow right I opted for just smudging some eyeliner under my eyes and leaving at that. I put on a tight tee and a cool pair of jeans, my hoodie and a pair of converse high tops. My mom was asleep when I left for the bus stop. I made my way down the drive, it was the first time I'd ridden the bus at this house. When I got there I found a surprise I never in a million years would have expected. Remington was standing there with headphones in and his backpack slung over his shoulder. He didn't look up at first when I walked up to wait. When he finally looked up he immediately took the headphones out. "Hey. Didn't see you there." He said his voice like velvet but I wasn't fooled. "Hey" I replied and nodded curtly. "Sooo... you live around here now?" He was trying to make conversation with ME? But why? What game was he playing? I decided to play along for a bit. "Yea me and my mom just moved into apartment 5 over here" I pointed towards the apartment building. "That's cool. I live in 8 it's just around the corner from your's." He was my neighbor?!? Why hadn't I known that? Great, now everyone will know about my mom. We didn't talk after that and got on the bus.

Wednesday could come soon enough. I got dressed in the what had become the normal, did my hair and ran out the door. By the time I had gotten to the church I was out of breath and had to stand there for a minute to catch it when i finally did I walked in and immediately found Lynn. She was wrapped around her new boyfriend. She and Dylan Mason had started dating last week. "I need to talk to you" I looked at my feet nervously. "Ok" she turned to Dylan kissing him quickly "I'll be right back" I pulled her to one of the empty class rooms that the church used for storage and closed the door. "I need you to help me" she looked worried "what's going on?" She asked stairing at me intensely. "I want to go out with someone. I want a boyfriend, and I know who i want to go out with I just dont know if he likes me too." I fidgeted nervously while a slow wide smile started to spread across Lynn's face. "So I guess..." I paused trying not to sound stupid "how do I know if he likes me too?" Lynn was quiet for a long time and I thought maybe she was going to make fun of me when she finally spoke I was close to tears. "Well why don't we just ask him?" My eye went wide. "I cant just ask him. What if he says no?!? What of he laughs at me? What if he tells everyone how pathetic I am?" I could feel panic welling up inside of me. Lynn put her hand on my shoulder "honey we wont know if we dont ask. Who is it? If you tell me i can get you two alone for a little bit so you can ask." She glanced at her phone "its 5:30 right now we have about an hour before bible study and classes start. So we have to hurry." I nodded, knowing she was right. "Darrian Murkwood." I started nervous as hell that she would laugh at me. "Ok then let's get to work. Can I tell Dylan he would be able to help pull him away from everyone else. I'll be there with you if you need me." I nodded again and she got to work.

Lynn ran over to Dylan and whispered in his ear. His eyes went wide as he smiled warmly at me. I felt like a child. "Yeah, I can do that." He got up and purposely walked over to Darrian and whispered something to him. Darrian looked over at me and Lynn and I felt my cheeks heat up. "Come on" Lynn said excitedly and pulled me back to the storage room. "Help me move this stuff." She started clearing a spot against the outer wall of the room and I helped. "Do you have any notebook paper." I asked forming my own plan. "I cant speak very well when its important it's easier for me to write down what I want to say. Plus if we are gonna be in here we have to be quiet we aren't actually supposed to be in here you know?" She smiled and nodded.

A few minutes later Dylan walked in and Lynn and I were sitting on the floor talking about weather or not cheese cake is a pie or a cake, behind Dylan was Darrian and I felt butterflies fill my stomach. Lynn and I had been passing a notebook back and forth telling each other what had been happening throughout the week we weren't at school. Lynn pulled it out and a gel pen and handed them to me. Lynn grabbed Dylan's hand and pulled him to the opposite wall making him sit down and they started whispering to each other. Darrian look at the couple and then looked at me. I smiled nervously as he came to sit next to me. I glanced at the clock, we had about 45 minutes. I opened up the notebook to a blank page on the page I wrote "what's your favorite color?" He looked at the page confused then looked at me his carabian eyes piecing my soul. I shrugged and quietly explained trying to keep from studdering. "I'm really nervous. I dont want to get in trouble and I want to get to know you." He smiled at me and nodded. God he was beautiful. Darrian took the pen and notebook from me. "My favorite color is a steel blue almost grey." I smiled and we sat there learning al the silly stupid stuff about each other. I looked up at the clock and saw that we were about to be late. Darrian followed my gaze and frowned. It was time I wrote what I had wanted to all this time making sure he couldn't read it. I tore the page out and folded it up, handed it to him, I grabbed Lynn's hand and we ran from the room. The note said "I like you. Do you like me? Check:" then I had drawn to boxes inside one said "no", but inside the other was "yes". I wait through the the decisions and lesson answering the correct answers automatically we were covering the crucifixion. I had been going to church since I was about 7 and already knew all the answers, I was so nervous. What if he checked no? What if he decided I was too childish? Was this the wrong move? I should have just asked him. I'm so stupid. I have ruined my chances. All these thought swirled around inside my head and I just kept going deeper and deeper. Then I looked up and dared a glance at Darrian. He was sitting across the big wooden table from me his dark hair falling over his face but not covering his eyes almost like it was placed there on purpose. He was stairing at me intently and suddenly the class was over I stood slowly fearing what his answer would be. He stood at the door waiting for me. He handed me the note then as if he could read my mind gave me a hug. It was warm and felt like I had been hugging him all my life. It felt natural and all too soon it was over. Then he walked to the church bus. I stood there feeling cold and so alone missing the contact that we had shared. I shook my head. Stop being stupid I looked down to the note in my hand and slowly opened it there I saw what I had written and a check mark in one of the boxes. Yes. He had check the box next to yes and my heart soared.