Six.

See what happened before this.

School started and everything changed almost at once. I saw Marian during my lunch break and she couldn't help but notice my distance.

"Are you going to that party this weekend?" she asked.

After a few moments of silence, I shrugged. "I don't know", I finally said. In fact I did not want to go. I wanted to be with Luke and I didn't know how long I could keep this charade up.

Marian was about to respond when Shawnda walked up to us hand and hand with none other than Brian. WTF?

"Guess what?" Shawnda says obviously not realizing that she was interrupting a semi-conversation.

"What?" I say, obviously annoyed. I looked quickly at Brian and he smiled. Did Marian notice that? God, I hope she didn't notice that.

I smile back and kind of glance at Marian.

"Well Brian is going to the party tonight." Shawnda says. Great, could this day getting any worst?

"That's nice, but why are you telling us?" I say, and Brian looks at me with shock.

"Well", Shawnda says, "I was thinking that maybe he would like Gaby" Gaby was Marian's bestfriend and this situation was becoming more and more complicated.

"How nice of you" I said and kind of shot a glance of "yea right" to Brian


The party started and I immediately wanted out of there, Brian was there, Marian was there and it seemed to me that everyonee knew that I was keeping a secret. After a while I called Luke, "Can you pick me up?" I asked.

"Sure", he says "Where are you at?"

I gave him directions and that was the first night that he and I spent together. At first it was wierd being held by him but after a few moments I couldn't imagine being anywhere else.