9. Deals

Deals

JAMIE

“We need to know your name. Someone as beautiful as you would have an equally beautiful name, I’m sure.”

“Seriously? I talk you up and you go ahead and act just like this douche?” She nods her head to Drew and rolls her pretty eyes. “Tell you what, if you can guess my name, I’ll give you a break and let you get away with one lame pickup line a day for the next week.”

“Deal.” I snap out before the others can ruin this. My mind goes completely blank as I stare into her dazzling cobalt eyes. I’m so lost, I stumble out the first name on my tongue without thought, “Gabriella.” I want to slap myself stupid.

Her eyes go wide and she take several steps backwards. “How…” She trails off, shaking her dark coffee coloured hair. “You cheated, you must have known who the new people were and took a guess from the names on the list. Doesn’t count.”

“Nah ah, you made a deal. We get to say whatever lines we want for the rest of the week.” I laugh, shocked that I got it right off the bat but not wanting to let her know I pulled the name out of my ass.

“Nah the deal was for you to say whatever line once a day.”

I’m tempted to steal the glory for myself but then another idea pops into my head. This is a competition after all, might as well make it interesting. “What one of us does, the others do, we’re a package deal, take it or owe us a favour of our choosing.”

Her perfect nose scrunches up as she thinks over what I just said. I’m fascinated by this girl, she’s feisty yet also strangely sweet. I’m so busy staring that her words catch me off guard. “What kind of favour, cause I’m not down for anything if it’s a sexual favour.”

“No, we’re not like that.” I could have sworn I heard her mumble, “That’s not what I heard.” But I ignore it and continue, “It’ll just be something we need at a time of our choosing.” I wink at her and keep moving, hoping she’ll follow but when I glance back, I realise no one’s following. They’re all staring across the hall at a group of students surrounding something. I walk back so I’m standing next to them and go up on my toes to see over the other kids heads. On the floor with her face contorted in agony is Melody. Drama queen of Dane Academy.