(c) What I Go To School For - Chapter 4

After 8th period,Nick came up to me at my locker.
"Hey Amy..." he said.
"Hey what's up?"
"Well since we're partners for history, I was wondering if you want to come over after school to work on our project."
"Uh.. Sure." I replied.
"Great I'll meet you here in 5 minutes and we can walk home to my house." he said.
"Okay see ya in a few."
Right after he left, Halle ran up to me.
"SO????" she asked.
"So what?"
"What'd he talk to you about?". I rolled my eyes.
"Oh, nothin really. We're just gonna walk back to his house in a few so that we can work on our history project." I answered.
"Oooh another 'study' date!" she squealed.
"It's not a date."
"That's what you think."
"No, that's what I know." I said, slamming my locker and walked up to the front door of the school to wait fo Nick. I saw Joe first, then Nick.
"Hey Amy! Ready to go?" Nick asked.
"Yep."
"Okay. Mom picked up Frankie waaay earlier so we don't have to worry about going to get him, so it'll just be you, Joe, and I."
"Okay."
"Watch out Amy! Nick has a MAJOR crush on you." Joe said laughing. Nick punched him in the arm.
"She knows that, smart one." Nick said.
I laughed.
"Oh look! She's laughing at you!" Joe mocked goofily.
"I am laughing at both of you." I said.
Nick looked down, blushing, as we continued to walk.
"So, Amy, have any brothers?" Joe asked.
"Nope." I replied.
"Well, if everythin keeps goin well, you will soon."
Nick's cheeks turned 3 shades darker, still looking down. I grabbed his hand. Finally he looked up and smiled at me. Joe started to laugh as we walked to the door.
"What are you laughing at?" Nick asked.
"Um... To tell you the truth... I don't know." Joe replied and laughed even harder. Nick and I bursted out laughing as we walked in the door.
"Welcome home boys." their mom said, giving both of them a kiss on the cheek.
"Mooom.." Nick said. His mom looked at me.
"Oh sorry baby I didn't mean to embarrass you. Nice to see you again, Amy."
"Nice to see you too, Mrs. Jonas." I replied as she gave me a hug. We walked into the kitchen where kevin was sitting, eating a butterfinger.
"Man, you seriously gotta stop eating those like...every hour." Joe said to him.
"I've only had one, and that's what I'm eating right now."
Joe leant over and whispered in my ear.
"That's what he wants you to think."
I giggled. Nick looked at Joe and me. Joe leaned over and whispered in his ear.
"Oh okay." he said back quietly.
"Heeey what are you guys whispering about?" Kevin asked.
"Oh nothing." I said. Kevin took another bite of his butterfinger.
"I'm on to you guys." he said and walked into the next room. I sat down on a stool at the counter. Nick sat by me and Joe sat across from us.
"So what do you think our project should be about?" Nick asked.
"Um.. Well I guess we could draw a huge pic of the white house and list a lot of facts about it along with a list of presidents."
"Okay that sounds good." he said, pulling his history book and pencil bag out of his bookbag.
"Want me to ask mom for a posterboard for you guys." Joe questioned, taking a bite out of his apple. Nick looked at me. I nodded.
"Yea if you could, please." Nick said.
"Okay. B-R-B."
Nick opened his book to the current chapter. He looked at it for a bit, then pointed at a paragraph.
"How about this?"
"Hm?" I scooched closer so I could read it. He looked at me, waiting.
"Yea that will work." I said looking up. Nick looked me in the eyes. I looked back. He leaned in and....
"Hey I hope blue is okay." Joe said as he walked back in. Nick and I quickly scooted away from each other.
"Uh, ya that's fine." I said as Nick started tapping is pencil.
"Okay good." Joe said, putting the poster on the counter before going outside. Nick sighed.
"You okay?" I asked.
"Huh? Oh yea." he replied, looking down at his book. I grabbed the poster and started drawing the White House.
"HEY YOU TWO LOVEBIRDS!" Frankie shouted, flopping on to the couch to watch pokemon.
"Who told you to say that?" Nick asked, looking irritated.
"Joe gave me a dollar to."
Nick shook it off. Then came the sound of Joe playing the guitar and singing.
"They come and go but they don't know that you are my beautiful...."
I stopped working and listened.
"So, um, here's some..."
"That's a really good song." I said, interrupting Nick.
"Really?" he asked.
"Yea! Who wrote it?"
"Oh.. well, Joe, Kevin, and I did." he answered, smiling.
"Wow.." I said, looking at him, meeting his gaze. He leaned in again and...
"Oh hey there Amy." said Mr. Jonas. as he got someting out of the fridge. Nick turned away and put his face in his hands before looking at his dad.
"Hey dad.." he said quietly before sighing again. "Nice to see you again, Mr. Jonas." I said, finishing the drawing of the White House. His dad looked at the poster.
"Nice Job!" he said.
"Thanks." I replied. Nick looked at it.
"Yea that is really good. Want me to write the facts?" he asked.
"Um, sure, but I need to be getting home. I said, picking up my books.
"Okay... Well I'll walk you to the door."he said, getting up.
"Oh okay."
When we walked through the living room, Frankie was still watching T.V.
"Bye Amy!" he shouted.
Nick walked me out on to the porch.
"Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow."I said.
"Yea..." he said, looking away.
"Well... bye." I said, turning to leave.
"WAIT!" he said, grabbing my arm.
"What...?" I said, turning to look at him but before I could finish my sentence, he kissed me.