"Wow," Natalie breathes out once I have finished my telling of the story she has been dying to hear all day, "so you and Blaze... is it like official yet?"

"No," I tell her, "well not really at least. He asked me on a date but we aren't like together together yet."

"That's so cute." She says, taking another sip of her caramel latte.

"Yeah...I really like him Nat."

"I can tell," she smirks but then her face gets really serious, "have you slept with him?"

I nearly spit out my drink at this, "pardon me?!"

Nat rolls her eyes at me, "I'm not saying that what you guys have is fake or anything but you know Blaze, he is known to get with girls just to get in their pants then ditch 'em. I just hope you haven't went that far with him."

"Of course I haven't. I'm not that type of girl at all, you know that." I tell her, a bit hurt that she would think so lowly of me.

"No, no Jade you know that's not what I meant. It's just Blaze has a way with people, he can be really convincing..."

"Yeah I kno-- wait, why do you have that look on your face?"

"Nothing." She mumbles, looking down, swirling the straw in her drink.

"That isn't nothing Nat. What did yo--" I gasp, "you slept with him, didn't you?"

Natalie's head shoots up, "no! I would never!"

I give her a look that says I don't believe her.

Natalie looks guiltily down at the table, "okay, I didn't sleep with him but I came close."

I gasp, my eyes widened.

Natalie sighs, "it was when I first started going out with Jason. I knew that I liked him but he seemed distant, he seemed like he wasn't that interested in me. For a while I was positive he would break up with me. I wanted to make him like me, make him jealous somehow. So at a party I got really drunk and I grabbed Blaze and just started kissing him. It got really heated and we went into one of the closets. We were ripping eachothers clothes off and you know..." Natalie trails off and I get what she means, "then when things got really heated and you know what was going to happen, I pushed him away. Physically. I realized that it wasn't right and I couldn't get Jason to like me by doing that."

I run this through my mind. So she knew something was off, she knew that Jason didn't really have those feelings that she had.

Jason isn't the only one hiding something in their relationship.

"What happened next?"

"Well Blaze never really cared you know? I was just another girl he kissed. I mean, chances are, he was too drunk then to even remember now. Not like I cared either because I was just using him. For about a week or so after that things were still iffy with Jason but then they gradually started getting better and now look at us!"

Yeah, now look at you guys. You almost slept with another guy and he loves your best friend. You're doing great. I sarcastically add in my head.

"Did you ever tell him?"

"Who, Jason?"

I nod.

"Oh my gosh, no. I could never. And neither can you. Its not like anything really happened with Blaze. I mean yeah we made out and some other things but we didn't actually have sex. You have to swear to me that you will never tell Jason, okay?"

I nod, "I would never."

She nods as well, thankful.

We stay quiet for a moment, neither of us wanting to talk. Both of us going over this new found information in out minds.

"Hey, here's an idea!" She tells me excitedly.

"What?" I ask.

"We can go on a double date!!"

Oh no.

No no no no no.

No.

That cannot happen.

For so many reasons.

"Won't it be awkward though? Considering what you and Blaze have... done...?" I ask, nonchalantly.

"Oh not at all, he does that with a lot of girls. He would never bring it up now."

"I guess you're right."

"So it's a yes then??"

"I don't know Nat.." I tell her, going over everything that could happen in my mind.

"Aw please??"

Well I guess part of my plan for Jason to stop liking me was to show him how happy I am with Blaze, which I am. So I guess that going on a double date would actually help in a way.

Or it could ruin everything. My mind tells me.

Even though I think it will help, there is a little voice. An instinct that is telling me what a bad idea this is.

I shove that voice down deep and forget about it.

Nothing will happen. Nothing bad anyways.

"Okay," I tell her, "but not right away. Let us have some time first. We have only been hanging out for a little while. Let us have a few dates on our own before the double date, okay?"

I can see the excitement in her eyes and how badly she wants to jump up and down, "okay!!! Thank you Jade, I love you!!!!"

I laugh, "I love you too Nat. Now let's go, class is going to start soon."

***

After my dreaded class of biology is finally over I head to my locker, tossing my books in and grabbing my history to work on the upcoming project.

"Hey Jade." I hear a voice say.

I smile to myself, knowing that it's Blaze. Taking out my bag and shutting my locker door I come face to face with Blaze.

"Hey." I reply.

He smiles at me, taking the book out of my hands and studying it, "history?"

I sigh, "yeah. I have a project due about the Holocaust that I have barely started."

"When's it due?" He asks me.

"On Monday. So one week."

"That sucks."

"Yep," I say popping the 'p', "so what did you want to talk about?"

Blaze sighs, "um this is sort of an awkward topic...but I have had some people asking about the whole movie date, and I just wanted to know i--"

I cut him off short and start talking.

"Look Blaze, I know you have a reputation and that you probably don't want to be seen with me because you don't do the whole dating thing. So if you don't want to be public with me, just tell me now."

Blaze looks absolutely shocked and even more hurt at my words, "that's not what I meant at all. Do you really think I am that shallow?"

My eyes go wide, "oh God, no. No, that's not what I meant."

Blaze turns to go, but I grab his arm quickly, "Blaze look at me," it takes him a while but he does, "I didn't mean it like that okay? I really like you and I like spending time with you. I just don't want to get my heart broken so I am trying to be safe. You understand that right?"

I slowly drift my hand down his arm so that our hands are intertwined.

Blaze nods and sighs, "I really like you too Jade. I know that I have a reputation and I am truly telling you that I have changed. I want to be with you. I came to ask you if you wanted to be public. I didn't know if you wanted everyone to know about us."

I gasp, "Yes. Blaze I want to be public with you. I want people to see us and see a happy couple. I want that if you want that."

Blaze smiles widely, "I would love that."

I smile too, "good."

Then he does what I don't expect him to.

Blaze leans down and kisses me.

My book gets dropped to the floor as Blaze's hands go around my waist, pulling me close to him. My arms go around his neck, pulling his face to mine.

The kiss is an amazing kiss. Fast and passionate yet slow and loving at the same time.

Around the halls I can hear students watching, whispering.

A lot of the whispers are probably negative, calling me a tramp for being with the player, but in this moment, I couldn't care less.

In this moment, all I care about is Blaze.

***

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