Chapter 25

"I'm gonna wear this whether you like it or not!"

I cross my arms as I peer at Emma through the mirror.

"Seriously? I mean your shirt literally says 'this is my classy lady costume'. Not to mention that you are wearing track pants and soccer cleats with it." She adds an exasperated sigh after she finishes with all the crazy hand gestures.

I look at myself through the mirror. I personally love my outfit. I'm wearing a three-quarter length sleeved black and white shirt with 'this is my classy lady costume' in bold lettering, with my regular black nike track pants. But to add to my fantastic costume I have some comfy cat ears, that were.a dazzle, sparkling gold. I also left my hair down just so that I could please Emma a bit. I guess I was wrong.

"I think your outfit looks boss Jess." Nova grins at me from where she sits on my bed.

"Yea!" Lily joins in. Oh don't worry everyone, Lily is going to get picked up soon to go to some friends house. No I'm not dropping her off to Mrs. Gold, I felt bad for always making her watch Lily.

"Well that's two to one." I grin at Emma. "Actually three against one including myself. So that settles it. I'm going as one classy lady."

Emma gives me a deadly glare. "You're not wearing that. You should wear something like me or Nova." She motions to her despicable me minion costume then to Nova's prisoner costume. Yea Nova has the whole bright orange jumpsuit and all. Earlier the first thing she said to me 'I'm a prisoner to the school board' which I thought was hilarious.

"Do you want me to put on my whole soccer uniform and the shirt?" I warn her.

She signs. "No. Let's just go. But don't blame me when people start giving you weird looks."

"It's going to be the Halloween house of Horror, the only weird looks people will be giving me is when I don't scream and they do."

We only wait a couple more minutes until Lily gets picked up by her friend Billy's mom. She only talked to me for a brief minute until Lily and Billy wanted to leave and go back to his house to play. The girls and I left shortly after that, maybe about a half an hour after, since we have to clean up the mess that we made playing with Lily and Emma had to touch up her already perfect makeup.

I'm now driving as Nova flips through the radio stations and Emma sits in the back complaining about Novas choice of music. Just minutes ago she was complaining about how Nova got shotgun. It was hilarious how they fought over the front. Both of them sprinted right out the door, but luckily for Nova Emma is wearing heels and almost feel face-first down the two tiny steps.

After what feels like the 50th station, Nova finally flips to a good song.

"Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol' days." We all belt out. Even though it's already half way through the song we all exactly know the words. I mean this is one popular song right now. And boy, do I like my music. "When our mamma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out."

We all grin to each as we do some crazy dancing. Well the craziest I can do is swing my arms quickly, gotta keep my hands on the steering wheel.

"Oh. Wish we could turn back time, oh, to the good ol' days..." I peek through the mirror to see that even Emma is going crazy. Of course Nova is though, she is obsessed with twenty one pilots. I'm not joking. She practically wears a band shirt of them at least once a week. Not to mention all the hoodies and beanies.

"Oh. When our mamma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out."

We continue to jam out to the rest of the song until we make it to Dominic's house, which is actually only a couple of minutes away.

"Ah. I have to admit Nova, I really like that song." Emma says as she fixes her hair.

"I've said it a million times before and I'll say it again, twenty one pilots' music is so good that no one can even find words to describe it." Nova deeply replies as we get out of my car.

I lock the car with the sound of a 'beep' and suddenly I feel the raw emotion I've come to recognize starting to eat me alive. Nervousness. The last time I went to a party it didn't go so shabby. I'm still not completely over what Clarissa did to me there and I don't think I ever will be. What k felt was utter sadness and humiliation. Having practically the whole school laugh at me. Reading all those nasty comments on every social media app you can think of. Even a couple days later when I thought that Spencer was behind all of it too. Clarissa caused all of that and the other hundred things I could name off of the top of my head. And now I'm going to another party where history could repeat itself.

I must've been zoning out for awhile because suddenly I see Nova and Emma standing in front of me. Nova is snapping her fingers in my face and Emma standing beside her observingly.

"Hello....." Nova drags out.

"Hello...." I mimic back.

The two instantly lean back. "Jeez, we thought you were having a sugar crash from all that candy we ate earlier." Emma states.

I giggle to cover up the nervousness snacking away on my confidence. "Yea, we sure did eat a lot of candy."

They grin. "I'm surprised we all didn't crash right down on the couch earlier." Nova jokes.

"I know right." Emma agrees as she somehow manages to keep up to our walking pace, seeing as how she's wearing like 6 inch heels and barely ever wears them. "Too bad we had to stop before we ate too much and Lily would've start puking up rainbow coloured everything. Those sour patch kids sure were delicious though."

I look nervously at Dominic's house as we stop at the front steps. It's already packed and we could here the music blaring from a block away. The front-yard is full with drunk teenagers, some who are already passed out and some who are already making out. It's not even 9 o'clock yet like come on people have some class.

Somehow both Emma and Nova notice how nervous I am. I wonder what gave it away. Either the shaking hands or the eyes darting everywhere on high alert. Or maybe they are just amazing friends. Yea it's definitely the last one.

"You know Jess...." Emma begins. Oh gosh not another pep talk. "You're a pretty strong girl. Heck I can't even right down all the things you've faced on one piece paper. I would probably even need a whole notebook for all the things just Clarissa has done or said to you. But somethings you don't have to do. I know you don't want to be here and going to another party is absolutely not on your bucket list, so you don't have to be here."

I look down as I fidget with my hands. Emma could never be so right. I would rather be at home cuddling up with Lily watching one of her many Disney movies. But instead here I am.

"After everything you've been through you can do whatever the hell you want." Nova adds. "We both know you only came here because we wanted you to. You can go back home really. Emma and I will just make Jace drive us home."

I roll my eyes at the last part. "Listen friends. Real friends look out for each other. They make sure that you are okay for everything. Well guess what you girlies are real friends. You know that coming back to another party is way out of my comfort zone and you respect that. You may not have at first, but you do now." I jokingly look at Emma, who shots me a guilty look. "But I'm a real friends too. And I want to be here with you two. I'll face my tiny fear of high school parties just for tonight. It's been over a month and I need to get over it."

Emma pulls me in for a big hug. Even Nova eventually joins in.

"And you know." I begin in the middle of the hug. "This is the Halloween house of horror, and if by any chance Clarissa is here, I get to watch her get scared out her mind."

Eventually we actually decide to enter this said 'House of horror'. Neither Nova or Emma have been to one of these in the past years for school so they don't have the slightest clue what it's like in there. I didn't tell them this, but I actually talked to Spencer about it and he said it wasn't scary at all. Although I think he just said that because he doesn't want to admit that something scares him.

"What if instead of zombies and stuff, they decide to show something truly scary. Like Clarissa's face with all her regular face paint." Nova points out as she turns the door knob open.

And even though Emma told us before to be quiet when we enter, I burst out laughing. I'm really sorry it's just that what she said is the utter truth.

"Or they could decide to record you laughing. I mean that's terrifying." I hear Emma mutter from beside me. I jab her lightly in the stomach with my elbow.

I look around the inside of Dominic's house to see that it's been filled with spooky spider webs, creepy carved out pumpkins, real looking skeleton bones and heads, and even the floor where we first walked in is drenched in a deep red liquid also known as fake blood. Even the walls are smeared with the substance, probably ketchup but that's too predictable. But I have to say this whole thing is pretty well set up. There is even haunted music playing and I can even hear the screams of the other victims that are following the pathway of blood. Well, there goes having nice clean soccer cleats.

Before everyone left school earlier today, Dominic made sure to inform everyone to follow the trail of blood from the front door of the house. And he even threatened that if you didn't, you would be thrown out of the party and tortured by the demons that roam the empty hallways. I think he got his point across.

His house is honestly the perfect scene for a haunted house. It's gigantic and almost as big as Clarissa's to be honest, and that's saying something. The whole team even made the outside look like an old rustic house from the early 1900s. I know what everyone is probably thinking 'um Jess you're on the team too'. Why thank you, you should let the guys know that because they didn't let me help. They insisted that since I'm new here I have to experience the house of horror for myself and not plan it.

I turn to my left side to see that Emma's already a little freaked out. Oh hon, it hasn't even started yet. I then turn to my right to see that Nova looks exactly like me. Excited. I'm one of those insane horror movie lovers and likes everything vampire and zombie. You won't be surprised to know that I also love the show the vampire diaries and that it's one of the shows I binge watch when I don't have anything better to do. You'll be stunned to know that I actually don't watch the walking dead though.

"Parker said that the first things to jump out and scare everyone will be the easier ones, then it gets harder." Emma whispers as we turn left down the hallway following the blood.

"So I assume Jace will be the first one." Nova makes a lame attempt at distracting Emma. I can't  tell if it worked or not since the whole house has the lighting turned down extremely low so that we can barely even see anything and we only have the lights from inside the dozens of spooky carved out pumpkins.

We continue to walk down the hallway for about only 5 more steps when I feel someone or something grab me. I hear Emma scream, but my reaction is much better. I kick the guy who seems to have blood covering his face and hair and ripped up outfit right in the shin. He immediately let's go of my shoulders and us girls keep walking. Nova guides the already horrified Emma away from the three guys drenched in blood as they pretended to follow us.

6 rooms, 2 hallways, 13 times Emma screamed, 5 times I physically hurt someone, and 11 scares later we end up in the living room. Supposedly this is the scariest room in the house and where it starts getting intense. So far I've only been frightened a couple times near the end. Emma on the other hand is jumpier than a little kid on a brand new trampoline. But Nova somehow manages to not even flinch when a crazy guy with a knife jumps at her.

"Well we've made it this far." I say as we look around the room for anything that will try and jump out at us.

"Yep." Emma replies weakly with her shaky voice.

"I bet you this is the room the guys are hiding in." Nova suggests. "So far we've recognized none of them and it's getting near the end. We only have the kitchen and the backyard left. Then the party starts downstairs."

I nod my head. The rules are once you make it out of the house of horror someone escorts you downstairs to the basement where the party actually is. "I know they are probably watching and listening to us right now from their hiding spots."

They agree. "Well come out come out wherever you are boys. We aren't scared of a little blood." Nova taunts with a bored expression on her face. How she can stay so calm, I don't even know. Just minutes ago I was close to screaming at the next person who jumped out at me.

"Actually......" Emma drags out slowly.

We remain in that room as Emma and I make nervous small talk for a couple of minutes.

"You know what book I really want to read is the m-" I begin then I cut myself off. "Ahhh!" I scream as I feel someone attack me with bloody hands.

In the background I hear both the girls scream too.

"Get off me you creep." My voice gets muffled as I thrash around in my attackers arms. Wow, they are really into scary poor innocent girls.

"I prefer Dracula." I hear a husky voice whisper into my ear that brings shivers down my spine. I smack the familiar 'Dracula' over the top head as he lets me go.

I turn to face him with a glare on my face. He's wearing a now ruined white soccer jersey drenched in blood, a black cape, and the normal soccer clothes. Not to mention his messy hard has fake blood in it like he thought it was hair gel and his whole mouth area is covered in more of that blood.

"You're mean." I hiss at him.

"You always tell me that." He pauses as I see his forest green eyes glaze over my head. "Kitten."

"Thank you for getting that stupid fake blood all over my white and black top." I motion to my now ruined costume.

"Well most classy ladies are covered in blood, wear cat ears, and soccer cleats." His suddenly annoying voice replies.

"Not in the mood Spence." I mutter as I straighten my gold cat ears.

"But I want to suck your blood." He says in the oh-so famous Dracula impression.

He pretends to bend down to bite my neck, but then I swat him away. In the process Spencer somehow managed to get my hair covered in more fake blood.

"Gross." I crinkle my nose at the smell.

"Don't worry it's just red corn syrup mixed with food dye and dish soap." Spencer states.

"I'm still mad at you." I grumble as I comb my fingers through my sticky hair now covered in the substance at the ends.

"You'll get over it."

I turn away from him for a second to see Nova and Emma talking with a huge group of 5 or 6 guys who are all dressed up similar to Spencer. Although Spencer is the only one wearing a full soccer uniform, they just have blood covered shirts and faces. But Spencer was the only one who didn't drench is whole face in the corn syrup and dish soap mixture. I think he made the right choice.

I can't even tell who is who as I try and recognize Jace or Parker. All the guys look the same with the creepy costumes.

Spencer and I walk over to the girls and bloody boys.

"You should've seen yourself!" Someone who I think is Jace says to Nova. "You screamed louder than those cheerleaders in those horror movies."

The guys all laugh with him as Nova glares at Jace.

"Yes I did but that's only because I felt one of you perverts grab my behind." She gives a pointed look to the guy on the far left.

"She's not the only one that screamed like a girly chick." Spencer pipes in. I shoot him a warning look but he ignores me. "Kitten over here screamed too."

All the boys drag out an 'Ohhhh' in unison in a teasing way.

I roll my eyes and huff. "Yes I did because Spencer over here got your secret blood substance all over my classy lady costume." I gesture to my shoulders.

"Oh that reminds me." Spencer looks at me. "Wonderful costume. Very creative if I do say so myself."

I grin. "Why thank you. Emma didn't think so."

Emma joins in the conversation as soon as she hears that. "Hey! I just thought you could be more creative."

"Well you gave me little notice that I'm going to this party and I only had this." I state truthfully.

"Hey hey, as much as I would like to see a chick fight, you girls have to cut it out." A bloody boy who I soon recognize as Parker says. And no I didn't recognize him because the sound of his voice but simply what he said.

"Hello Parker." I say monotonously.

"Always in that peachy mood I see." He jokes. "Anyways, Jess isn't the only lazy person here. Spencer refused to get his face covered in blood like the rest of us. Lazy lazy lazy...."

Spencer shots Parker an annoyed glance. "I'm sorry I just want to keep my beautiful face clean for all to see. Plus that stuff is way too sticky and you guys put way too much red food colouring in it. Have fun looking like a tomato for the rest of the weekend."

The look on Parkers face is priceless. At first he look horrified, now he looks so close to bursting out into tears. "We're having family pictures taken on Sunday...By a professional."

That just makes Spencer and I laugh harder. "Maybe that professional is so good that they can make your skin look pale." I suggest with a smirk on my face.

"Not funny." I hear him quietly grumble.

Instead of getting a kick out of all of this like Spencer and I, Emma looks extremely concerned. "I'm sure you won't look like a tomato Parker."

"Really." He replies in the voice of a baby.

"I promise."

Aww cute moment right there. I'm literally thinking of their ship name right now. Pemma? I wonder if they like each other or not. I already know that Nova and Jace do but what about these two cutie pies? I have to say if they do that would be fantastic. They are the perfect match. The loud and cheesy Parker and the shy and kind Emma. Perfect couple right there folks. Now I just have to figure out if they actually like each other and then get them together. But I don't want to meddle too much.

Spencer awkwardly clears his throat. "Well we better get going to the kitchen and outside, then we can go to the real party."

I raise my eyebrows. "We?"

"Yea we. I'm coming too. What did you think I would really leave you when Clarissa could come and attack you at any given moment?"

And my heart swells, but seriously. "You make it sound like she's some rapid hyena."

"She is." They all state at the same time.

"I'm fine Spence. I got my girls. Besides you have to stay with the guys and run the house of horror." I continue as I look up at him.

"To be honest I kinds wanna leave now. I've had enough people scream when I jump at them. Not to mention all the girls that try to talk to me, including the hyena Clarissa." He runs a hand through his messy hair in a stressed way. "And she still tries to bother you when Nova and Emma are with you. She stops when I'm around. "

"I'm honestly fine without you Spence. I can handle myself." I protest. But then I lower my voice oddly as if I know I'm hurting him. "You're not my little lap dog like she thinks. I don't need you."

I instantly regret my choice of words as I see his eyes immediately fill with hurt. I turn to Emma to distract myself from looking at him. "Let's keep going." She silently nods her head but it looks like she wants to say something. I notice that she shots a look at Parker as I rush away from the scene. I quickly grab Nova who was just chatting to Jace. I don't look back. And that's because I can't dare let myself look at him after that.

After we almost make it outside and through the kitchen, where we also got jumped, Nova finally speaks up after Emma hushed her. "What was that for?"

"Nothing." I insist.

"Nope I've seen nothing before, heck I've done nothing before literally all weekend no joke. But all that tension and the way you forced me to leave that ain't nothing." She protests back as we open the door to the backyard. 

I ignore her but I hear Emma murmur something along the lines of 'small fight with Spencer'. I refuse to add in the conversation. I also insist on not thinking about it anymore. I only said like two sentences.

"This way." I point to the trail of blood leading to the area around the pool which has some more of the fake blood. I have to say Dominic has some extremely chill parents if they let him host a Halloween party and let him deck the whole property with Halloween props and cover everything with the red corn syrup, food colouring, and dish soap.

We walk about 15 meters until we get scared by this huge group of guys who are all decked out as zombies. Emma obviously screams bloody murder and Nova and I both jump.

I hear them all laugh. I recognize most of them then and there. "Hello Dominic, Dean, and Chris." I greet sarcastically.

"Hey you forgot about someone." One of the walking dead points out annoyed as he puts him arm around my shoulder in a friendly.

"Hi Daniel." I say in my same tone.

"Glad to know you know my name." He jokes.

"Um I know all of your names?" I state in an obvious tone but it comes out more like a question.

"Yea you better." Daniel replies.

"Daniel you should know all our names too. Remember this one SPENCER." Dominic pipes up from beside us. "So I suggest you do your captain a favour and get your hands off his girl."

Daniel straightway drops his arm from my shoulder in a threatened way. I furrow my eyebrows at the whole situation. "His girl?" I ask in both a suspicious and confused voice.

I can tell even through the zombie makeup and blood that Dominic looks caught off guard. "Oh uh, forget I said anything. Let's get going to that party. I'm the uh escort so let's go."

I give him a suspicious look but brush it off. Why would he say that I'm Spencer's girl?

"Come on Emma and Nova." He adds to the two girls talking to the other zombies.

We follow him and as we do I notice that Dominic is getting a little too friendly with Emma. I mean like flirting with her hardcore. Emma doesn't even notice but Nova and I on the other hand sure do. I'm for some reason not liking this. And no it's not because I like Dominic, but because I ship Emma and Parked together. And Emma over here can't really decide she likes Parker if another cute soccer player is flirting with her.

We soon make it to this huge basement that is basically the size of the whole upper floor. It's already packed with people dancing and going crazy. I notice there is a whole lot of couples up in here or just pathetic people who want to get a little action from a stranger. It's just like any high school Halloween party but crazy. It looks like Dominic even hired a DJ who is playing some random dance remix and flashing some sick coloured lights. And since it's  Halloween themed there is of course horrifying Halloween decorations and more blood. That blood is definitely the them of the party.

Dominic leaves us after flirting with Emma one last time. Nova instantaneously leads us toward the huge alcohol table.

"I'm not drinking." Both Emma and I say immediately once she points at the bottle of vodka. I know my reason why I'm not drinking, although I don't know hers.

I turn to her. "Why aren't you drinking?"

She merely shrugs. "Meh. I'm not one of those slutty girls who will get drunk then hook up with a random guy."

"Well I am." Nova confirms as she fills her whole red solo cup up with the strongest vodka on the table. She then walks away randomly.

I look back contemplating whether or not I should go after her. I give Emma a questioning look.

She signs. "You haven't been here long enough to understand Jess. Nova is practically in love with Jace and she just won't accept it. She hates herself for feeling that way towards him and basically tries to forget her feelings at every chance she gets. In this case getting with random guys at parties. Getting drunk so that she can forget for a night."

I stand there in slight shock. I could tell that the two liked each other, but I didn't think that any of their feelings were that strong. "But Jace likes her back. If two people like each other that much then they should be together, end of story."

"But neither one will get brave enough to actually tell each other they like them. And since they alway argue it's kind of hard to fit an 'I really like you' in there." Emma says in an exasperated tone.

"Let's just forget about their odd relationship tonight. I'm not in the mood to be involved in some sad sappy romance movie tonight." I reply as I grab a Jell-O shot. Oh trust me I'm only having one.

"Oh yea." She grabs a Jell-O shot too. We give each other's cup a quick tap before we swallow them.

I quickly taste the cheap vodka in it. Blah.

"Anyways let's talk about someone else's love life." I suggest as I toss the plastic cup in the near bye garbage.

Emma nods happily. "You and Spencer!" She squeals.

And that's when I almost throw up my Jell-O shot. "What? No I'm taking about you and Parker."

She looks both disappointed and embarrassed. "Oh okay never-mind the first suggestion."

I give her an expecting stare. "Well tell me about how you like him...." I tease.

"I actually don't know." She begins as I practically see the wheels turning in her head. "I mean I think I like him. I just don't know. I need like some sort of sign. Like a-"

I cut her off quickly to cover up. "Hey Spence and Parker." I emphasize on Parker's name so that Emma gets the hint.

I watch Spencer nervously as he walks up to us from behind Emma.

"Hey girlies." Parker gives a grin at the table of alcohol beside us as he go straight for the beer. "You know Spencer's been pretty worried about you Jess. He was wondering if Clarissa tried anything yet?"

If glares were deadly Parker would be 8 feet under the ground already, based off of the look Spencer is giving him.

"Actually no she hasn't." I look at Spencer to prove my point. "And she won't.... Because you're here now." Sometimes you just give in and stop fighting, especially with people who are important to you.

Spencer looks at me like he just wants to hug me for the rest of the night. Well whatever makes him happy.

"Glad you two finally made up." Parker butts. "I mean you guys couldn't stay mad at each other for more than thirty minutes."

  After more jokes from Parker, more giggles from Emma, and even more glares from Spencer the party is over. We basically just danced to some crazy songs well Parker got drunk, wasted Nova paid us a visit, and even more wasted Jace stopped on bye too. I also ate so much candy that Spencer had to cut me off. It was his idea in the first place to put candy out for everyone. No visits from Clarissa or her plastic posse, although I did spot her sending glares at me, but I couldn't really take her seriously since she was wearing a stupid puppy costume. Yes she dressed up as the puppy snapchat filter.

Now all I have left in my agenda is the school's huge fundraiser the night of Halloween which is actually less than week away. 6 days away.
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6 days later.

"You know I'm going to throw up again if we go on that ride again." Jace complains as we walk through the student-filled amusement park.

That's right our school fundraiser is an amusement park! It's nothing too grand but nothing to bland. What's the best part about it is that it's actually right across the road from the school and so when school ended we all rushed over.

"But it's so fun." Emma whines.

"Yes the zipper is the best ride here." I join in.

"No way. You're literally in a cage that flys around and flings you around even more, then drops down so fast that it looks and feels like you're going to hit the ground." Jace protests as we stop and look at some food truck that sells cotton candy and pretzels.

"I think we should do it again then." Spencer pipes up. Oh Spence, he'd never miss an opportunity to watch Jace suffer. But it seems far though.

Jace shots him a dirty look. "Nope I'm out. I'm gonna go catch up with the guys or something." Probably referring to Dominic and Daniel.

"I'll come with you." Nova suddenly states and we all look at her. Things between the two of them have gone so smoothly these past couple of days and they've been arguing more than usual. "What? Daniel's pretty hot." Take that for example. They've been saying things like that all week.

And that just adds to the flame. Jace immediately gets jealous but tries to hide it. "Fine. C'mon then."

And now it's down to four. Once I pay for my cotton candy, Emma pays for her pretzel, and Spencer and Parker buy the rest of the food, we sit down in a little table beside the food truck.

"I sure do love amusement parks. They are so amusing." I make a cheesy joke as I stuff a mouthful of delicious cotton candy in my mouth. 

"That sure was cheesy," Parker responds. "Almost as cheesy are these amusement park nachos."

I laugh with him as the only two sane people here give us weird stares. We could do this all night.

"Almost as cheesy as...." Spencer begins. "Nope I got your hopes up, no jokes from me."

We fake sadness.

"Anyways I wanna get back to the zipper." Emma squeals excitedly.

"But I want to go to some games now." I frown since I don't want us to split up.

"Aww." She replies. "I guess we'll have to split up."

"How about Spencer goes with me and Parker goes with you?" I recommend. I sort of have this plan to get Emma and Parker together and this is step one and step two. Emma will realize that she does in fact like Parker and bam! Perfect couple.

"Huh?" The two boys say in unison, birth with their mouths full of food.

"Yep. Alright let's go Spencer." I hook my arm with his as he scrambles to collect all his food.

Within seconds we leave them. "What was that for?"

I grin evilly. "That was called step one and step two." He gives me confused look. "I'm setting them up together."

"Oh okay."

"You don't seem as excited as I do." I frown.

Spencer shrugs. "I don't really meddle in my best friends love life."

I grin. "Well I do."

5 games, 1 giant polar bear stuffed animal, 1 fluffy unicorn, 2 adorable stuffed kittens, and more than an hour later, Spencer and I sit on a random blue bench. Yes, Spencer did indeed win all of those for me, but I protested at first which makes it allowable. And to be far I did actually win him a sick looking soccer ball and he said 'that's enough for me now I have everything I've ever wanted'.

This blue bench is in fact the place Emma texted us to meet her and Parker. We've been waiting here for an extra twenty minutes. But all is good since Spencer and I have been having some very deep conversations.

"So why exactly is the sky blue?"

I furrow my eyebrows. "Maybe.... Oh because the molecules in the air...Yea I have no idea."

He fake gasps. "You don't know something? Well there's a first for e-"

I can't hear the rest because I'm lifted up off the bench my a familiar brunette who also drags me away from Spencer.

"What?" I ask her in confusion.

She has the biggest grin on her face. "Parker kissed me."

Well there's the sign my dear best friend Emma Foster has been looking for.

Now the start of step three.

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Dun, dun, dun.... Cliffhanger! I wonder what the heck step three is? Oh sneaky Jess.

Hey perfect people! I don't want to make this too long like my other authors notes but I just wanted to say that the updating schedule will soon change since I know I will have a pretty crazy week in store for myself so please be prepared!

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