Blind Date 3: Enlightenment
Rating: Pg-13
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Chapter 2: And the winner is…
~ one week later
“Good morning fellow Roswellians. This is your favorite DJ Johnny Robbins on your favorite radio
station KROZ. Today is the big day, that’s right today I will be announcing which lucky fellow won our blind date contest.
Stay tuned for more updates and here’s “Are you happy now” by Michelle Branch.”
“Now
don’t just walk away
Pretending everything is okay
And you don’t care about me
And I know it’s
just no use
When all your lies become truths
And I don’t care, yeah, yeah, yeah…”Singing along with the radio, Tess continued making up her bed and getting ready for school. “Okay I got
my backpack, homework, phone, writing instruments, and now all I need is Buddha Boy and I can go.” She turned off her
radio and flipped her lights off and opened her door and nearly ran into Sheriff Valenti. Catching her before she could fall
into him, she stepped back and looked up at him.
“Oops, sorry I didn’t see you there. What can I do for
you,” she asked him. Before he replied, she continued talking “did you get the dinner I wrapped up for you? Also
shouldn’t you be sleeping and enjoying your day off? Is everything okay…?”
Holding up his hand to
stop anymore questions he replied, “Yes I got dinner and thank you. Also yes this is my day off and I would be sleeping
except when I went to go to bed I found one Michael Guerin snoring in it.”
Aw man, I am so busted. I’m
going to kill Michael for this. I told him to be up early before Jim came home, but does Michael ever listen. No he just does
what he wants to do.
“Well you see Michael’s apartment is uh… being fumigated for roaches and I told
him that he could stay here until then. I thought he would be gone before you got home, so I told him it would be okay to
bunk in your room.”
“Let me see if I got this straight. Michael’s apartment is being fumigated for
roaches and instead of staying with Max like he always does he decides to stay with us,” he asked her in disbelief.
“Um
well…you’re not buying a word of this are you,” she asks him.
“Not one word, so you might as
well tell what’s going on. Michael didn’t forget to pay his rent again did he?”
“No, Michael
has been staying with everyone on alternative nights in hopes that Maria doesn’t find him. You see Michael got…”
Waving
his hand he told her, “stop right there. I don’t need to know anymore, matter of fact this conversation never
took place that way when Amy asks me about Michael’s whereabouts I can honestly say I don’t know anything. Those
Deluca women can be scary when they’re mad and I don’t want to be in Maria’s path when she finds him. Have
a great day at school and don’t forget Kyle and Michael.” Patting her on the shoulders he turned and strode off
down the hallway.
“Well at least I didn’t get grounded.” She stepped into the hall and closed her
bedroom door behind her. Walking into the living room she found Kyle and Michael watching ‘Yogi the bear.’ “Hey
Yogi and Boo Boo if the two of you want a ride then you better come on because I’m leaving right now.” With that
she walked past the two startled boys and went out the front door.
“You do know that you’re Boo Boo right?
I’m too tall and cool to be Boo Boo, so that’s you,” Michael told Kyle.
“That’s okay
Boo Boo was the smartest of the two,” Kyle smirked at him.
The two grabbed their bags and headed out the door
still arguing about who was the smartest bear.
~beep beep“Come
on guys before we miss homeroom,” Tess yelled out the window of her car.
“We better hurry before she leaves
us because my car is in the shop and no way is Dad going to let us use the cruiser,” Kyle told him.
“I
can’t believe you’re scared of a girl,” Michael laughed.
“Sure Guerin, at least I’m not
the one who’s been hiding out at other people houses for a week.”
“Hey you would hide too if Maria
was looking to hurt you,” Michael told him with a shrug.
The two finally reached the SUV and hopped in just seconds
before Tess pulled off. Kyle leaned over and turned the radio station and the radio belted out “how do you like me now.”
Scowling at Kyle, Tess reached over and turned the station.
“Kyle, I’m not listening to any Garth Brooks
today and you chose the radio station yesterday.”
“Garth Brooks? That wasn’t Garth Brooks that was
Toby Keith and I can’t believe you can’t tell the two apart,” he told her with a pout.
“I don’t
care what his name was because I’m not listening to it, so get over it and stop pouting.”
From the back
seat Michael spoke up, “I say we listen to 109.5 and listen to the soothing sound of Metallica”
“Michael,
you would think Metallica is soothing, and I’m not changing the station so deal with it,” she told them. Reaching
over she turned the radio until she found a station and turned it up.
“Hey this
is DJ Johnny Robbins on your favorite station KROZ, and today we will reveal who won our blind date contest in a few hours
so stay tuned. This next song is dedicated to Mary from Jason B.
This is ‘I knew I loved you’ by Savage Garden and remember stay tuned for more updates.”“Oh I love this song and that is so romantic how this guy keeps dedicating songs to his girlfriend,”
Tess gushed.
“More like desperate. I mean what guy keeps calling the radio station dedicating songs everyday.
That’s just wrong in so many ways and don’t get me started about this blind date contest. I mean only some loser
desperate to get a date would enter this contest,” Kyle muttered.
Nodding his head in agreement, Michael said,
“Yeah, you never know what kind of girl the station could hook you up with either.”
Tess pulled into the
school’s parking lot and quickly parked. “Alright Yogi and Boo Boo get out and stop being mean. I mean there’s
nothing wrong the blind date contest and you don’t have to be a loser to enter it either.”
Quickly getting
out before Tess could lecture them some more they were met by the rest of the gang and one angry Maria Deluca.
“Well
I finally caught up with you at last. You know if I didn’t know any better I would say that you were avoiding me. Now
that wouldn’t be true would it Spaceboy,” Maria asked.
Freezing like a deer caught in headlights, Michael
looked to the others for help.
“Um you know we’re going to be late for English class so we’ll see
you all later in the quad for lunch. Come on Buddha Boy let’s go before we’re late,” Tess said.
The
others made their excuses as well and ran off with their significant other to class leaving Michael to face Hurricane Deluca
alone. “Maria we should head off to class now before we’re late and we don’t want to be late,” Michael
told her as he tried to get past her.
“Nice try Spaceboy, but its not going to work. This afternoon you have
an appointment with my stylist Armand Pepe and he’s going to do wonders for you.” Seeing that Michael was about
to argue, she grabbed his arm and dragged him off to class. “You’re going and that’s that Spaceboy.”
~12pm
in the Quad/Cafeteria
Tess looked around and finally found everyone sitting at their usual table next to the tree.
Walking over to the table, she elbowed her way to sit between Kyle and Alex.
“Hey everyone, what’s going
on,” she asked as she watched Kyle shove food in his mouth. “What are you eating Buddha Boy?”
“Well
I’m trying to convince Isabel to let me turn on the radio to see who won the blind date contest,” Maria told her.
“Maria,
why would you be interested in hearing who won unless you entered someone in it again,” Isabel asked her.
Before
Maria could speak a loud voice interrupted them. “Good afternoon fellow Roswellians. This is Johnny Robbins at West
Roswell High where have found our King of Heart, senior Lyle Valenti.”
“Oh god, Maria please tell me you
didn’t enter Lyle…I mean Kyle in the contest,” Liz asked her as she looked at the DJ and his crew surrounding
them.
One of the ladies in the radio entourage leaned over and put a big red crown on Kyle’s head while another
handed him roses.
“So Lyle what do you have to say to all our listeners out there,” the DJ asked.
Kyle
blinked as someone took his photograph and said the first thing that came to mind, “who the hell nominated me?”
