Chapter 5: : It’s a Date//Getting to Know You

They all sat, with Raven and Victoria sitting together, and across them is James and Sam.

“Okay, who would like to present a song for today?” Mr. Gomez asked

Silence

“Why don’t we start with……Victoria” He pointed.

“VICTORIA MR. GOMEZ ASKED YOU TO PERFORM” Raven screamed.

“YEAH VICTORIA!” Sam joined in.

Raven pushed Victoria to stand up. As she stood up, she nervously confronted the class.

“Hi, so this week’s theme was love, so I decided to pick Bruno Mars’s Grenade, since, it showed how a guy loves this girl so much, that he would do anything for her, but this girl, is cheating him. A little bittersweet huh? Though, my dream is to have a guy like this, just saying, so off to the song.”

She took the mic and started to sing:

Easy come, easy go, that's just how you live
Oh, take, take, take it all but you never give
Should've known you was trouble from the first kiss
Had your eyes wide open, why were they open?

The whole class was watching attentively. Sam, was just stunned, amazing.

As she finished, she bowed, and woots were heard from the class, she just sat down, humble.

After class, Victoria was the first one to get out of class, together with Raven. James tried to catch up, but was waiting impatiently for his buddy, Sam, who was quite slow to fix up his things.

“Come on! Just shove it in your bag” James said, impatiently.

“Fine, fine” Sam then shoved all the paper, notebook in his bag. Then James pulled him in the hallway.

“So he asked you out?” Victoria asked Raven, it was the end of the day, and it was Friday.

“Yeah.” Raven replied with a mouthful of burger.

“When’s the date?”

“Tonight”

“What?!!” Victoria panicked.

“We got to get you fixed” Victoria pulled Raven until they arrived Victoria’s dorm room.

As Victoria was fixing Raven, someone went in, it was Sam with James.

“Nothing to see here, buh-bye” Victoria prevented James to come in, and pulled Sam in.

“Have a good day” Victoria smiled and shut the door on James face.

Victoria opened the door “By the way, pick her up at 8:00” then she winked.

Back inside the room…..

“What’s this?” Sam asked Raven.

“It’s an eyeliner”

He was a bit naïve when it comes to girl stuff, Victoria just laughed.

“Just sit down there and watch the magic happen.” Victoria giggled.

In about an hour and a half, Sam was already asleep on Victoria’s bed. Then Victoria was sitting on the foot of the bed, while Raven was fitting some dresses. Then someone knocked. Victoria panicked, she stood up excitedly, tickled Sam’s feet, which was effective enough to wake him up.

James was wearing, long sleeved and a casual necktie, while Raven was wearing a turquoise cocktail dress, paired with two inch black high heels. They left leaving me and Sam at the dorm room

Well, I got to get used to this, he is my roommate. Victoria told herself, who was not very fond of having a guy roommate.

“Go to your side, pare!” I said all manly, he just laughed.

“I like it here, its colder.” He exclaimed, then sat up.

“So tell me about yourself, at first, you were this jerk with this ego, in the middle of the day, you were someone oh-so helpless, and now, your just, you” Victoria, said shyly, playing around with her hair.

“I don’t know, you’re just one of the few, wherein I could be me” He said, shocked. Obviously, that was never his plan to say that. Victoria was just red as a tomato.

“I feel honored” Victoria smiled.

Chapter 4: Hallway Madness

Victoria’s PoV

As Me and Raven were heading to music class, this tall brown haired, green eyed guy stepped in front us.

“Oh, hi James.” I said calmly, while Raven was all giggly.

“Hi, I was wondering if I could talk to Raven, privately” He asked me, we both exchanged looks, and I nodded in approval.

As both were talking at the other side of the hallway, I decided to drink in the drinking fountain. Suddenly someone tickled my sides. When I checked, it was a friend of mine, tall, and handsome, his name was Joe, Joseph, he had this crush on me since the beginning of the school year. He was handsome, yet I didn’t really find him.. my type.

“Hey You!” I exclaimed, we both shared a friendly hug.

“How are you?” He asked.

“Nothing really to say, just, finally got a roommate”

“Oh yeah, I heard”

“Disappointed?”

“No!”

Sam’s PoV

Victoria was there, talking with this, good looking guy. As I impressed these girls, I can’t seem to take my eyes off of her, the guy’s intimidating. Why do I care if she’s talking with a guy, not like I like her. Maybe I do. Wait! No. Those thoughts fought in my mind when someone interrupted me.

“Dude, I asked her out” James said.

“Oh okay” Replying without taking my eyes of Victoria, who was jumping with her friend.

“I think you should ask her out.” James told me.

“Who?”

“Victoria”

“What?! Why?”

“I’m seeing love at first sight between you two.”James chuckled.

We both started to walk to music class.

Chapter Three: The Who Cried, Help

Victoria’s PoV

I just needed to go to class; I won’t let that jerk bring me down, even though he’s cute. I met Seven in the classroom, sat beside her. The teacher still wasn’t there, and obviously, we would chatter.

“I heard Sam was your roommate” Seven started.

“Don’t even mention his name”

“Why? He’s too handsome to be named”

“No, he’s a jerk” Seven, hearing this, started to choke while drinking her bottle of water. I started to pat her back.

“Are you serious?” She asked.

“I promise” Then I started to tell her the story of the morning.

The teacher went in, Mr. Schwatziks, our Literature teacher. Checked our attendance, when someone barged in the room. When the whole woman population of the class saw who barged in, they started to go wild. While the men were just joking about his uniform, and I was with them. He worn the uniform incorrectly. The girls were just giggly, including Seven, and I was just there, figuring out were he would be seated. Then there was a seat empty beside. Oh shoot.

“Ladies! Calm down” I screamed.

“Why? You only have the right to admire me?” Sam said. The whole class laughed.

I couldn’t take him, I went closer then whispered;

“Shut your effing mouth before I shut them for you” I said evilly smiling, woots were heard from the class.

“Both of you! Calm down, James, help him fix his uniform, and Victoria go back to your seat” Mr. Schwatziks said.

James stood up and went to Sam, I just sat down.

After class, I was one of the last one to leave, other than Sam. When he was about to leave his stuff fell. My OCD-ness started to come in. I helped him pick up his stuff.

“Thanks” He said shyly.

“No Problem.” I said walking away when he suddenly grabbed my wrist.

“Hey I’m sorry for what happened earlier” He said sincerely.

“That’s fine.” I said smiling, I was trying to get out but he won’t release me. He was just looking at me, when I coughed.

“Oh yeah, can you help me around Campus?” He asked.

“Yeah sure, what’s your next period?”

“Free period.”

“Well, so is mine, let me tour you around campus”

As I toured him around campus, we stopped at the coffee shop. He ordered for himself, he ordered a frappucino, and I ordered a mint frappucino.

“So I didn’t really get to ask your name” He told me.

“Long name, just call me Victoria. But not Vicky or Tori, it seems like a cartoon character” We shared a laugh.

“What is it?”

“Victoria Ramsey Shailene A. Roberts”

“That’s...formal”

“Never really liked it, hey, can I see your schedule”

“Oh yeah sure.”

After free period, we bid good byes and separated ways.

Chapter Two: Nice to meet you, jerk.

About 5:30 am, Victoria woke up fuzzily, the usual, and then did her usual morning routine. After fixing her hair, with all those heat and applying light make she put on her uniform. A blue long sleeved blouse, tied up with a navy blue necktie, and a blazer on, paired up with blue plaid skirt, knee high socks and some black school shoes. Then she went down, to get some breakfast. When she arrived, she took a tray, placed her breakfast and sat in her circle of friends. Includes, Raven, Jules, Eunice and Seven.

“Good Morning!” Seven said, she was the most optimistic of the group. Nevertheless, she was the prettiest in the group.

“Hi, Good Morning” Victoria said, smiling effortly.

“What’s the prob?” Raven asked.

“Just, sleepy”

“Ah” They all said in unison.

After breakfast, Victoria went up to her dorm, to fix some final touches to herself. When she went upstairs, she realized someone was in her room, she took a tennis racket she found outside her room, and went inside, quietly

“Fix your attitude young man. You’ll study here until you showbiz attitude fades.” A woman said.

Victoria took a peek, and saw this woman in her mid 40s with this guy, about same as her age.

“I still can’t believe your doing this to me. Just because some stars got all fixed here, doesn’t mean that it would magically make me a momma’s boy.” A boy said.

That sounded famillar for Victoria, as she hear foot steps, she suddenly went out and act cool. Then the woman appeared.

“Good Morning lady, do you live here?” She asked, Victoria just nodded.

“Good, I’m keeping you incharge of him, he’s got this huge ego. When you get to change him, I’m going to let you marry him” the Woman said jokingly.

“I’ll try, and nice to meet you Mrs?”

“Mrs. Concepcion” They shook hands.

Victoria was afraid to come inside. Is it him?

She went inside fearfully. There he was, Sam Concepcion, standing right infront of her.

“Hi, um, I just wanted to say welcome to your new home, I’d be your room mate and my name is--"

“Stop it with the chitchat, know that we're not friends, were just roommates. So there’s your side, and this is mine. Get it? And I wont probably need to introduced myself. “ He interrupted.

“Excuse me? Well fine, wear those uniform and just lock the door on your way out” Victoria got her backpack from the desk and exited without another word. That jerk! She was furious, and was disrespected.

Chapter One: It All Started Out as a Plan

On this cold night, I was on the phone with Raven. We were on this bet to talk until 1 am. We had our laughs, when she suddenly talked about someone I admired.

“Hey what if we kidnapped you and took you to a dark room. Tied you in a chair, masked your eyes. And Even If started to play. Sam suddenly untied you and sang? Would you kill us?” She told me with all her insincerity.

“I’d probably laugh, no idea why.” I answered unsurely

“You sure, only that”

“And probably feel all giggly and jumpy, but I wouldn’t show it in front of him though”

“I might do it, If I had the money”

Before I continue with the story, let me introduce myself. I’m a Filipino-Austrailian, standing 5 foot 4 inches, layered brunette hair and quite fair skin. A student of Philippine Performing Arts University, currently freshman. Eighteen years of existence, and has this HUGE crush on this local celebrity, and the name is Victoria Ramsey Shailene A. Roberts. And is currently living in a dorm, without a room mate.

After a long conversation on the phone with Raven, it finally to the time when it was 2am, which was very late, for us.

Throughout the night, It was all I could think about. What if it would happen?

Last checks on Facebook, and I drifted off to sleep.