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CHAPTER~2

Michelle's POV

And we're out to scout! Got nothing else to say for now. All I know is, I caught Devin making eyes at some guy. nananana. And we're on a roll!

devin's POV

Why why why? Why did he have to be like the first person I saw? Why! Even worse I think Michelle and Vicky caught me holding a death glare with him. I really don't want them to find out about the whole thing.

if only you would have seen him. I mean he looks good. As Vicky would say. And he did, really, seriously, look absolutely good. No. great. He had that smile and his eyes were all happy and . . . god listen to me, I am not getting all mushy over that asshole. hellz no... I so am. Much.

Suddenly someone grabbed my waist from behind and I jumped. 'What the-' I turned around to see my friend matt standing before me. 'Hey matt' I said giving him a kiss on the cheek. 'Long time.'

'Yeah I know where've you been?'

'Out n' about. Ya know doing . . . whatever it is that I do. How bout yourself?'

'I've been working. Nights, at a bar.'

'Oh, sh-way? Very cool.'

Matt sorta smiled and chuckled. 'Yup, money is cool.' He winked at me. 'By the way devin you look great tonight.'

'You mean I don't look great all the time?' I said jokingly with a smile.

'Wanna drink?'

'Sure, get me anything.'

'I'll be right back.'

Matt left me standing there. It wasn't a moment before I spotted my girlies chatting up some guys by the wall. I examined the guys they were flirting with. With particular interest in Michelle's. Nice catch I thought as I made my way toward them. 'Hey ma wuddup?' I said with a smile so they knew I was just playing around with my fake accent.

' We jellin' Lola answered and blew me a kiss with a wink. 'Dev this is mike john and ace.' She said working clockwise pointing toward each guy with her hand, holding a beer bottle. 'Guys this is Devin, she's the coolest girl you'll ever meet and you should fall in love with her right now, all of you.' All of them started laughing. I just rolled my eyes. Sometimes it was as if my friends were trying to auction me off to guys. I don't need that. Well, not really.

Everyone started talking again, Lola and mike broke off and went somewhere else, Vicky and john were still there in deep conversation about something totally irrelevant. So it was just me Michelle and ace.

'I'm going to go get myself a drink. I'll be right back babe.' Michelle said, passing by me with a hand on my shoulder. Ace and I were left standing there.

'So devin.'

'Yup?'

'You from around here?'

'Actually, yeah I am. I used to live in Brooklyn when I was a kid, but I've lived in the city most of my life. How bout you?'

'Nope. I guess my accent isn't that noticeable anymore but, I'm orbitally from England, and then California. I'm in New York for a job I'm trying out. Me and john work in an office downtown. I'm not really liking it though so I think I'm going to move back to Cali in the summer.'

'Bummer.' I said, then I realized it rhymed I laughed at myself for that.

'No, not really. I sorta miss it. You ever been to Cali before?'

'Yeah. I have an aunt that lives there. I used to go visit my cousins. We had some fun times. I spent one summer there. When I was like, um . . . 16. yeah 16.'

'You ever learn to surf or anything?'

'Actually, yeah I have. One of my cousins was obsessed with surfing. He'd surf every single day. It was like clock work. He tried to teach me, I wasn't really any good at it, and once I started getting the gist of it, I had to go home so, no luck with that. Why you're a surfer?'

Ace smiled, he seemed sort of embarrassed or something. 'Yeah. When I lived in Cali, it seemed like the thing to do, so I tried it out and I ended up liking it. no waves here though.'

'Yup, sorry bout that. I'll talk to god see if we can work something out.' That got him to laugh a little. Or was it just a smile? Either way I notice he had a really cute smile, he had the dimples and everything. Adorable.

'Wanna go somewhere quieter?' he asked. I didn't even realize the whole time we had been some what yelling over the noise in the room.

'Love to.' I shouted. And we headed down the hall and up the staircase.

Michelle's POV

All I did was leave for like two and a half seconds the next thing I know all my girls are gone. What's up with that? So I decided to look around. Then, I saw it. It changed my life forever. My face got into the biggest smile ever. I found Devin...walked up the stairs with Ace. They both looked really happy, and they were talking about something. I couldn't hear what they were saying though. I HAD to find Lola and Vicky. Like speak of the devil. I walked two steps and there was Lola. Flirting with some other guy.

'Lola, come 'ere.' I said pulling Lola away from her victim. 'I just saw dev headed upstairs with Ace.' I was all excited and stuff.

Lola got this look on her face, as if she had just seen eminem walking by. 'Oh she gon get it oooonn.' Then she started doing a retarded dance to her own song, (trying to beat box or something). I started cracking up. whata freak. Gotta love her.