"So it was a rough night,

It's just you and me now, feels right.

I hold your hand, we escape into another land,

In a place, I've never been before.

We kiss and I never wanted anything more

"Woooaaahhh! woahoah!!!

The sun and the stars are all we have,

As we begin our new lives

Just the thought of you gives me..

An internal dive..

"I--"

"Nice song. Bad singing though.." A voice surprises me from behind. I sit up on the hood to see that it was Johnny standing beside Dave's car. The weirdo.

The weirdo who's wearing a gray shirt and looks really good in it.

NO!

"Uh, what do you want?" I ask.

"Do I always have to want something from you Jenna? Can't I just.. be here, just to talk.. become better friends with you?" He said as he moved closer to me. Or the car.. which ever.

" 'Better'? I don't remember becoming friends with you." I answered. Hah. take that.

"Ouch. Fine then. I wonder what people have to do to formally 'become' friends with you..  Have a blood pact perhaps?"

"Gee, no wonder girls can't resist you. You're so charming and witty." I replied stone-faced.

"No need to get all hostile. So what's a girl like you doing here all alone after school?" He asks leaning on the side of the car.

"My brother got detention today, so I have to wait for him." I answered pathetically.

"Oh. Sucks for you." He shrugs and looks past the parking lot.

"Uhh.. might I ask you what you're doing here, since you're so much better than me?" Thinks he's so cool..

"I'm waiting for my girlfriend. We were supposed to go to Vicky's to grab something and I dunno.. waste the afternoon." He answered shrugging and stared at the ground.

"Oh gee.. sounds like fun." I tried to supply as his phone began ringing.

"Excuse me a minute alright?" He tells me as he turns around and answers the phone's persistent ringing as I nod and lie back down on the hood. "Hello?"

"Oh, hey Anna.. what? Oh, you can't? What project? With Gina? Yeah that's alright I guess... I'll be okay.. I'll find something else to do then. No it's okay. Okay, talk to you later, Bye..."

"Well then," He turns to me as he puts the phone back into his pocket, "Scratch what I just said, I have nothing to do on this fine afternoon." He says in a suddenly tired voice.

"What's wrong? Afraid of being away from your girlfriend for more than 10 hours?" I replied. He's more of a loser than I thought.

"No.. it's not that." He scratches his head for a few seconds and looks up, "It's hard to explain but screw it, wanna go to Vicky's anyway? Since we both have time to kill..? To BECOME friends?" He looked at me with those brilliantly green eyes, his voice almost begging I go. What about Dave? I thought.

"Detention doesn't get out 'til another million hours, trust me." He replied as if reading my mind.

"I guess that would be okay.. Isn't that where the preps hang out at though?" I asked. I have never really.. been to a diner. Not here at least. And the fact that I hate the people who hang out there doesn't help much either.

"Yeah they do hang there, but man.. he's got the best chili fries and hot caramel mallow sundaes in the world." He smiled. And don't even get me started on the smile.

"Well then I better check out this caramel mallow sundae, though I don't feel like you're right on that one..." I said as I smiled and got off the hood of the car and began walking away with Johnny.

'This should be interesting.' I said to myself as I was walking beside Johnny to the other side of the parking lot. I wish it was j_greene instead though..

~

'Man, I wanna tell her already...But I can't.. it'll ruin everything..' I looked at her staring straight into the almost-sunset, thinking deeply about something.. I smiled and stared off into the horizon... of the parking lot.  JM8875... Oh, there it is.

"Whoa. THIS is your car?" She gapes at the black car in front of us. "This is a 1970's classic!!"

"Yeah, it's a Dodge Challenger, but uh, it seem's you already know that." I say as she walks closer and touches the car.

"This is incredible. Did it cost a fortune?" She asks. She's into cars too?

"Kinda, this model was hard to find though. And I've been saving a lot so.." I scratch my neck and shrug. "C'mon, let's get going." I say as she looks at me and the car back and forth, itching to ride it.

"So what do you feel like listening to right now?" I asked when we were finally settled in.

"Hmm.. do you have any Operation Ivy?"

"Good choice." I say as I pop in Operation Ivy's Lint Rides Again cd as the song Yellin' In My Ear blares through the speakers.

"Ah. Awesome song." She says smiling and bops her head to the beat.

"So.. do I have your approval yet?"

"Almost. But you're getting closer." She says smiling as I pull away from the parking lot.