A Girl’s Diary novel Chapter 33

After a good night's sleep, a coffee marathon, going home and taking a shower. I went straight to Tommy's. 

He kept explaining his plan which was simple enough to be dumb. But non-suspicious! We'd take pictures and he'd send them later telling them we were on a field trip with the agency team. 

Simple! 

I would have to act on the phone all like 'I really want to come but I just can't' 

So, that was what happened exactly. Ron was like 'Okay' So, I was like 'Hallelujah!' 

Right now, I was adjusting my mask and trying not to look anything like Eli. I suggested that Sky go with Ron instead because the girl would be on cloud nine! 

When Ron came with Sky, my first thought was: should I tease him? 

"Hey again!" I greeted Sky. She grinned a full toothful grin. 

"You remember me, right?" She squealed. 

"Sky, right?" I asked sounding a bit unsure. As if I could ever forget her name! "Okay, why don't you sit over there. I'll go get my guitar, Ron." 

"Okay!" They said in unison. 

"On second thoughts, Ron can you coke help me for a sec?" I asked him. I was going to tease him but not in front of Sky. Why? Because it would be a nuisance later. 

He gave me a curt nod and went behind me. I got my guitar and just as I was about to talk, he opened his mouth. 

"No, that's not the girl I like." He said sheepishly making me giggle. 

"No? Then who were you trying to empress?" I asked raising a brow. 

"Another girl." He smiled to the ground. Cute! 

"I'll leave you for now. But this is not done. You'll not escape." He blushed a bit, coughed awkwardly and went to our recording studio. For some reason, I really liked training there. 

After one hour, I decided I was done for the day. I mean I wouldn't leave Sky to stay and listen to the sound of my failure more. That was part of why you should never meet your heroes in real life! 

"So, since this is done, who wants coffee?" 

"My best friend is addicted to coffee." Sky said with a smile. 

"I take it you're not a fan of it?" I asked. 

"I like laté! Doesn't taste like coffee." I wouldn't argue again. I argued one time with her and we spend three hours talking about coffee. 

"But isn't laté made of coffee?" Ron asked. Screw you, Ron. 

The next three hours were spent talking about coffee. I was murdering him later. But I participated saying the opposite of whatever I said as Elena! Smart! 

It was an easy conversation until Sky decided to bring me up. "You know you remind me of Eli!" She said and my heart stopped. "I would have thought you're Eli if she wasn't with Tom right now." OMG! 

"Is that your friend?" I asked keeping my smile on. 

"Come to think of it, you sound like her," Ron said. 

Abort! Abort! Abort! 

"Look here." She opened her phone and got closer. "She even looks like you." Sky said showing me the photo I took with Tommy this morning! 

"Well, maybe. But I can't really see much resemblance." I said feeling a bit nervous but not daring to show it. "What about we take a picture so you can show it to your friend?" I said driving the conversation to an end. 

Sky got overexcited but everything ended well. I was about to head straight to Tommy's. How so ever, I didn't want to hear him brag about it. Nor did I want to meet his sister by coincidence. That girl was the only one in her family that didn't know about me being Cinnamon. Why? Because I didn't like her. 

I roamed the streets letting go of all the pressure. Especially, since I had to go to school again tomorrow! 

My legs carried me to the one calm spot I went with Ron to. I sat at the edge of the lake with my shoes off and let my toes touch the cool water. 

"What are you doing here?" I heard Ron's voice. 

Was I imagining him? I was going crazy? 

Oh. My. God. 

"Shana?" 

"I'm really going crazy," I muttered under my breath. 

"Is that a way to greet your fake boyfriend?" I turned around and slapped his leg. "Shana? That's not how we high-five in real world." 

Shit! 

He was real! 

"Did you ditch the trip or what?" He asked sitting beside me. 

"You know me too well!" I laughed lightly. 

"So, you know you owe me because you ditched me." He said. 

"I don't owe you anything and I don't have to do anything but keep talking." I did want to know the rest of what he was saying. 

"I'll stop talking about Cinnamon since you hate her." He smiled. 

"Thank God!" I breathed dramatically. 

"But you have to do one thing for me..." He trailed focusing on my reaction. 

"And that is?" I raised a brow 

"Be my slave for the rest of the day." 

"What? What do you mean?" I asked in confusion. "You kinky pervert!" I gasped. 

"Shana, I did not mean this." He insisted. "What I meant was something like Umm... an innocent date between friends where you can't say no to anything." He explained. 

"Have you completely lost your mind?" Why would I agree to this? 

"Nah! I'm perfectly fine why? Didn't you say you'd rather do anything instead of meeting Cinnamon?" He shot back. 

"I didn't exactly say that but if you try anything, I'll cut your limbs." 

"Does this mean you said yes?" He smiled widely. Damn this disarming smile! 

"Yeah!" I breathed heavily. 

"Yay! Let's go." He caught my wrist and started running. This felt like part of a movie! So unreal. Did this guy really like plain boring Elena? "We need to get jackets." He said as we got into his car. 

"Why a jacket! It's so hot." I argued. 

"Don't you dare disobey me!" I gave him a dirty look but said no more. 

Just one day Eli, hang in there for only one day  

We went to the shop and got damn heavy winter jackets. He was surely a psycho