As shocked as I was that the kisses took place, I still couldn't make my brain reset itself. Two days since the dreadful kisses happened and they were all I could think about.

Two days since I've seen Joseph. My brain told me lies: He's out with a girl. He is playing with your feelings. He's just using you.

I knew they were lies because in the two days since I've seen him, Joseph has called me a total of twenty-two times. Twenty-two.... in two days. The guy's obsessed.

Or in love.

I shook my head, of course he wasn't in love with me. We just started becoming friends again. He couldn't be in love with me.

At least, not yet anyway.

"Raegan! Joseph's on the phone... again." Raina yelled to my room.

Make that twenty-three times in two days. I felt the urge to punch someone as I got out of bed. The queen size mattress was still calling my name, although I'd been with her for two days.

I longingly looked at my bed as I walked out, determined to come back to my love.

Ad I approached the phone in Raina's hand, I could tell by her facial expression that she wasn't happy. This was the twenty third time she has answered the phone to Joseph asking for me. In two days. Can I elaborate that it has only been two days? I don't even know how that's possible.

Raina looked at me, a scoff on her face. "I like him, but if he calls one more time, I will seriously stab him. In the face. With a butter knife."

I grimaced and grabbed the phone from her, hitting it against the table, lertting Joseph I was on the line.

"Rae, I just wanted to check to make sure you were ok," he said, his voice drowsy. I rolled my eyes. I knocked the phone against the table, our sign of 'yes, I'm ok.'

"Oh, good. I just was making sure." I rolled my eyes again. Raina stood beside me her arms crossed. "And yes, I heard what Raina said. Tell her I can't help it. I worry about you."

"Twenty three times, Joseph. If you call one more time, I will hurt you." Raina yelled slightly, making sure Joseph understood. "If you want to know she's ok so badly, why don't you come over."

That made me pause. What. No. I hadn't seen him since we kissed and I didn't want to see him now. It's gonna be awkward and he might want to kiss again and I wasn't ready for that. What if he was just using me? What if the thoughts in my head weren't lies? What if they were the truth? What if -

My thoughts were cut off by a loud voice in my ear. "Raegan!"

I looked at Raina as she looked at the phone. I knocked the phone on the table again, waiting for a reply.

"I asked if you wanted to meet for dinner. Maybe at mom's diner?"

I thought about for a moment and then nodded. Raina giggled and then I realized, he couldn't see me. I knocked the phone on the table one last time and then I heard him say, "6:30, at mom's diner. I'll meet you there."

And then the line went silent. Like my voice. I rolled my eyes.

"Come on! You've got a date with Joseph." Raina squealed, pulling me up the stairs.

Date? Who said anything about a date?

Raina dressed me up, almost as if it was an actual date in a fancy restaurant. Which it wasn't.

She has placed my hair in a entricate bun with hairs sticking out. She put me in a blue summer dress that touched the bottom of my knee. She placed a white jean jacket over my shoulders and gave me a pair of sandals.

I looked at her as if she was growing another head. She looked at me confused.

"What?"

I grabbed a paper from my desk and a pen and wrote: It's winter, Na. Why am I wearing summer clothes?

Raina groaned. "Because Rae, it's cute. And you have to look cute."

I rolled my eyes. Raina still thought of this as a date. I wanted to yell at her, I wanted her to see that it was just two friends catching up. It was just two people, who used to like each other, eating together. But I didn't want to crush her high spirits.

"Ok, it's 5:00 now. Wanna head out?" I looked at her as if she was stupid. "Oh, nevermind. Date's at 6:30."

I laid on my bed and closed my eyes, hoping for at least ten minutes of sleep, but Raina wasn't having it. "Get up, young lady. You'll wrinkle your dress."

I sighed and sat up. This was going to be a long day.

5:30 rolled around and I was getting kind of tired of Raina. She has not stopped talking about how the high school sweethearts were going to get back together and how we would get married and have children.

Finally, I had enough. I threw the closest thing to me at Raina, which barely missed her. It was my notebook. She looked at me and then walked out of the room, silently sulking. I rolled my eyes, she'll get over it.

I looked at the clock again and it was 5:45. I decided to leave early and maybe I could study before Joseph got there.

I grabbed my new sign language books and headed out the door to my BMW.