Fan Fiction ❯ Turn Table of Love ❯ Typical Day ( Chapter 3 )

Turn Table of Love

By: Cho Chang

Chapter 3: Typical Day

"Hey, Drew!" said an annoying voice behind Andrew. Please don't let it be who I think it is! Please, please, please! It is.

"Hey Candy," he mumbled rather reluctantly as he shut his locker door.

"Well, it's Wednesday, and four more days until Kacey's party! And you haven't called me yet! So tell me," Candy said in one bid breathe it seemed like.

"I don't know. I think my family has something planned that night. I might be able to go, but I'm not going to take anyone. Okay?"

"Oh, okay. Fine." And she stomped off.

"Dude, what was that all about?" Brian said coming up behind him.

"It was just Candy being Candy. You know."

"Dude, why don't you just go out with her! She's a total babe if you ask me, Drew," Will said running his fingers through his hair.

"Yeah, totally! She totally wants you man, and what, you don't even bother!" Josh said.

"Yeah, she's a total babe who's full of herself," Andrew muttered. As they turned around the corner, Andrew happened to bump into someone. Cassy.

"Whoa, sorry. Wait, Cassy?"

"Huh? Oh, hey Andrew," she solemnly greeted as she picked up her books and papers.

"Drew, how do you know her?"

"Uh…we talk sometimes?" Cassy noticed that he didn't want his friends to know about the tutoring sessions, so she went a long with the story.

"Yeah, we run into each other sometimes and end having a really long talk about stuff."

"Hey, man, check it out! She's wearing a Something Corporate T-Shirt!" Kevin said as he elbowed Andrew

"Yeah, so?" Cassy asked. She didn't like this attention and wanted to get away soon.

"Just that we have a-"

"Band that you named after them. I know, I know," she continued.

"Hey how'd you know?"

"Oh, Kevin, you didn't know?" Andrew said with a smirk on his face, "She's a psychic!"
"No way! Really?!"

"Yeah I am," Cassy said sarcastically. She knew Andrew was playing a joke. A rather dumb joke if you ask me, she thought to herself.

"Hey Cassy," Andrew said.

"Hey."

"Something wrong?"

"No. Why?" As she said this, she looked straight at him.

"Cause you look like you've been crying. Did something happen, like you didn't get an A on the paper that was due yesterday?" he asked trying to at least get a smile out of her.

"Ha, ha. No it's just that…do you know what today is?"

"Uh…Wednesday?"

"Of course you don't know. You don't know me. Today's my…"

"Your what?"

"My birthday and my parents are never home to celebrate it with me. I never get at any "Happy Wishes" or any thing else. The only thing I ever got was the Beetle from last year."

"Whoa." That's all he could say. He never had this problem with his parents.

"Nah, it's okay. You don't have to worry about me. It's just my birthday after all."

"Hi." Andrew didn't know what to say after what he had found out this afternoon. About her birthday and her parents.

"Hi. Look, sorry about this afternoon at school. You really didn't need to bother. Or know."

"It's okay. Well, anyways, I got you a card. I am sort of broke," he replied. As he handed Cassy the card, he say her face light up.

"You didn't have to. Thanks!"

"I didn't know what kind of cards you like so I just got one from Hot Topic."

"I love that store!"

"You do? It's kind of freaky if you ask me."

"You have to get used to it. You're always used to shopping at The Gap and stuff, that's why. You have to get used to the black and how other people like to dress. That's the problem with popular people. They don't accept people who are different."

"Uh, sorry?"

"Well, come on in." As he walked in, he saw a picture of a family that hadn't seen the night before. There was a little girl of about nine, a mother, and a father. Both parents were Asian, so the daughter looked extremely like the mother. The girl also looked vaguely familiar, "Hey, is this you?"

"Yeah, with my parents when I was nine. That was one of the times they ever had time for me."

"They look nice."

"They are. They just aren't around a lot, so I was by myself a lot my whole life."

"Even when you were really young?"

"No, I had a nanny then."

"Oh."

"Okay, let's start off from yesterday," Cassy said as she opened her text book.

"Oh, goody. Physics."

"Shut up."

"I never did find out what you did during 3:30 and 5:15."

"Why do you even need to know?"

"I was just wondering. I told you what I did after school."

"Yeah, but everybody knows you're in a band."

"Fine, don't tell me. Look, seeing that you don't have a party for your birthday, there's this party on Saturday. You could sort of make that your party, just as long you don't mind the popular people."

"If I go, don't call it a date."

"Why would I?"

"Cause, I have known some boys to do that. Not to me but to other girls. And then you popular people make such a big thing about it. Oh, she went to the party with him! He must like her! Oh my god, can you believe it? He asked her out!" she said mocking the popular girls.

"I have to say, that's a pretty good impression. You like to speak your mind don't you?"

"Maybe."

"Look, just don't mock them at the party or you'll have it."

"I know self defense."

"Okay, I don't want to go there."

"Good."

"I just saved my life, with not going into that self defense stuff."

"What, you're scared?"

"No." Then all of a sudden, he felt a sharp pain on his shin.

"That's what you get for being a chicken." She had kicked him.

"God!"

"Well, you were being a chicken."

"I am leaving now before I get any more injuries!"

"Bye."

"Hey Drew! Where's that psychic girl, Cassy? I wanna' ask her about my grade in Math," Kevin asked excitedly.

"Kevin, everyone knows your grade in Math!"

"They do?"

"Idiot. You always leave your grade slip in the classroom where everyone can see it. And Cassy isn't psychic."

"Yes she is. How'd she continue my sentence?"

"It's called already telling her. I told her about it the day before."

"Oh."

"Drew! Why can't you see that Candy likes you and wants to go out with you?!" Andrew heard Lacey yell.

"Cause she's full of herself."

"Oh my god! Just a typical boy. Can't see through the words! The words actually have meanings!"

"Whatever. Just leave me alone."

"But-Oh, hey Will!"

"Hey, Lacey. Got a date for Kacey's party yet?"

"No, I was hoping that a special someone would ask me," she answered flirtatiously.

"Wanna go with me?"

"Sure. See ya around Will." And with that she gave him a wink and walked off, nose in the air.

"Drew, do you have a date for the party yet? Better get one soon or all the babes will be gone," Brian asked.

"Yeah, you need to get a date!" Josh said, leaning against the lockers.

"I wouldn't call it a date. I am just being friendly," Andrew replied hesitantly.

"Being friendly? A date's a date. You either have a date or not."

"I am not calling it a date. She'd get pissed at me. And I only think of her as a friend."

"Dude, will you ever listen. If you have a friend that's a girl, she's a girlfriend."

"There are such things as friends that are girls, actually Josh," Brian said.

"There are? Dude, I am going to make some new friends right now then!" Josh said as he strutted over to a group of girls chatting.

"So, Drew, who is it? And don't worry, we won't call it a date," Will pushed.

"It's Cassy. Mrs. Alpert says that she needs to be more social and I can help her with that."

"You're going with her?"

"Look, yesterday was her birthday, her parents are never there to celebrate it so she doesn't have a party. So I though maybe she could kind of celebrate it at Kacey's party."

"Just don't tell Kacey. You know how she gets when her parties are always being celebrated for another reason instead of her."

"I'll be careful."