Disclaimer: I do not own Zoey 101 or any of the Characters. I just like to write about them because I have no life. Well, sort of. I have a sort of life.
"And now it's time for me to tell you about someone very special to me here at PCA. His name is Chase Matthews and he's the funniest, sweetest, ni-" Zoey's words were interrupted by her cell phone ringing. As she searched for it, she discovered it wasn't on the table where the sound was coming from. She hit the table to make the ring stop. "I was almost done with my stupid project!" She grunted in frustration and pressed pause on the DVD recorder. "Where is i-"
"Zoe! Zoe!" Nicole yelled.
"Nicole, where are you?" Zoey shot around the room, searching for the source of the voice.
"I'm right here, Zoe!" Nicole's voice seemed to enjoy the nickname she had given Zoey.
"Where is right he-" Zoey's cell phone began to ring again. She bit her lip, more frustrated than before and kicked over her DVD recorder. "Make it stop!"
"Zoey! Answer your stupid phone!" Nicole shouted, shaking Zoey with such force that the sleeping girl opened her eyes. Zoey yelped in shock. Nicole screamed in response.
"Will you two shut up? I'm trying to sleep!" Lola raised her voice harshly, speaking almost the exact words Dana used to speak almost every morning. Zoey ignored her new roommate.
"My phone. Where is it?" She asked Nicole.
"Right here. Now answer the stupid thing. Chase has been calling you for five minutes! He's pretty determined," Nicole said, her face displaying innocence. Zoey yawned and pressed the 'answer' key on her phone.
"Hello?" Zoey spoke groggily.
"Hey Zoe," Chase's voice sounded from the other line. "What are you doing right now?"
"Well, I was sleeping, but seeing as you called me six times, I'm up now," Zoey answered.
"Oh. Sorry, I thought most people would be up by nine in the morning," he laughed.
"You don't know a lot about girls, do you?" Zoey responded.
"I suppose I don't," Chase's voice spoke happily. There was a pause before he went on. "Okay, I was wondering if you wanted to hang out later today." Zoey sat up.
"What do you have in mind?" She questioned.
"Maybe we could meet up at Sushi Rox and just hang out all day, decide from there."
"Okay, so, how does twelve sound?"
"Twelve sounds great. So, just me and you then?" Chase's voice was becoming a little shaky.
"Oh, right. Just me and you," Zoey said, rather surprised but not denying Chase's request.
"Great. I'll see you at Sushi Rox then."
"Okay, bye," Zoey said, smiling a little.
"Bye." And with that, Zoey hung up. Nicole, who had been standing there the entire time watching the conversation, squealed rather loudly.
"What did he say?" She asked excitedly.
"Do you guys take no note that I was sleeping?" Lola raised her voice, but Nicole and Zoey took no notice. They both knew that Lola didn't quite understand. Seeing as Zoey and Nicole were best friends, they were the only two that really knew how Zoey felt about Chase, but Zoey was never in a rush to get him because there was never any competition for him at the school.
"He wants to hang out today," Zoey said, a her grin expanding to a large toothy smile. "Just me and him." Nicole squealed again, only to have her face met with a pillow.
"I need my beauty sleep! Actresses don't do perfectly without enough sleep, you know!" Lola shouted. Nicole threw the pillow back and ignored her.
"Just the two of you?" Nicole smiled.
"It's gunna be so much fun. I'm gunna go brush my teeth," Zoey said, getting out of bed. Nicole opened her mouth to say something, but Zoey interrupted before any words left Nicole's mouth. "I don't wanna hear the floss thing, okay?" Nicole huffed in disappointment and another pillow collided with her head.
Michael looked up at Chase.
"You called her at nine in the morning?"Michael asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, what's wrong with that?" Chase countered. Logan laughed.
"Don't you know anything about girls? They sleep until one in the afternoon!" Logan said very matter-of-factly.
"It's like the spit-shake," Michael explained.
"Really?" Chase seemed like a naive child.
"Of course, genius!" Logan shouted. He stopped to think, opened his mouth, but shut it again. Logan then spoke, "Normally I would give you some advice, but you'll just do something stupid anyways. Have fun with your life." Logan's harsh statement ended and he left the room. Chase looked innocently back at Michael.
"So, no spit shaking, no calling before ten," Chase began listing, but Michael covered up Chase's mouth.
"Just be yourself and don't worry about what Logan says, man," Michael interrupted, tired of watching Logan brainwash Chase.
"But he is right," Chase stated.
"Sometimes Logan's right," Michael didn't enjoy saying this much, but it was true. Chase opened his mouth to speak, but Michael covered it again. "But most of the time he's wrong. When are you going to learn that?" Michael removed his hand from Chase's mouth. Chase looked at his best friend innocently.
"I guess," Chase began, letting out a sigh, "later?" Chase smirked. Michael smiled.
"No matter what Logan says, remember this: He's a shallow guy who's never kissed a girl before," Michael whispered.
"What?" Chase jumped a bit at hearing this.
"You can't tell anyone. It's a secret!" Michael winked at Chase, who winked back with a large grin on his face. "Now go get ready."
When Chase entered Sushi Rox, Zoey was already sitting down.
"Oh, am I late?" Chase asked nervously, checking his watch as he joined her at the table.
"No, I was just early," Zoey smiled. Chase raised an eyebrow.
"You're always early," Chase told her.
"Yeah, I guess I am," Zoey laughed, reflecting back on the time that she resigned from being school president right before Chase had. "So what do you want?"
"How about some California rolls?" Chase suggested. Zoey nodded, and Chase hopped up out of his seat and strode over to the counter. "Hey Kazu," Chase smiled.
"Hello Chase," Kazu smiled back. "You're here with Zoey, I see." Kazu winked. Chase looked back at the girl of his dreams. It seemed like everyone knew how he felt about her except for her. Or so he thought.
"Yeah, I am. Lucky me, huh?" He chuckled lightly. "An order of California rolls," Chase said, handing Kazu the money. After receiving his change, Chase walked back to the table. After he sat down, the two teens sat around in an awkward silence.
"So," Zoey sliced the silence with a verbal knife, "How's Michael?"
"Michael's pretty good," Chase spoke, not quite sure of what else to say about his best friend. Chase smiled nervously, and the two sat in silence again until the California rolls were ready. Zoey took a bite into one of the rolls and her expression lightened immediately.
"Mmm!" She grunted a little.
"They're good, aren't they?" Chase smiled.
"I forgot how good real food is!" Zoey said, taking another heaping bite.
"Um, Real food?" Chase asked, cocking an eyebrow.
"Quinn's been feeding Nicole and I her all healthy, no pesticides, laboratory tested, calorie free pizzas and vegetables because Nicole and I were talking about how hard it is to stay away from unhealthy food because it tasted so good," Zoey began explaining. Chase nodded as Zoey took another bite, thus finishing her first roll, and waited for her to chew and swallow. As she grabbed another one, she continued talking. "They all taste like rice cakes." Zoey's face was dead serious.
"I thought you liked rice cakes," Chase challenged Zoey's statement.
"Oh, of course I like rice cakes," Zoey paused to take another bite. After swallowing, she went on. "But not every day. I don't like rice cake flavored pizza. Or rice cake flavored cake. Or rice cake flavored apples. Or rice cake flavored rice cakes!" Zoey almost squeaked because she was raising the sound of her voice.
"Why doesn't Lola have to eat rice cake flavored everything?" Chase asked as he watched Zoey wolf down another California roll.
"She faked an allergic reaction to the food, and Quinn felt so bad, she won't even give Nicole and I the food in the same room that Lola's in," Zoey said. Chase nodded.
"That's harsh. Well, maybe you could escape from it," Chase tried solving her problems.
"How?" She asked before finishing her third roll.
"I don't' know," Chase answered honestly. "But we can figure out a way." Zoey smiled.
"Thanks Chase," She said, taking a sip of her PCA water bottle, "You're the best." Chase felt his cheeks redden a bit. Zoey's did too.
After the California rolls, Chase and Zoey decided to go to the PCA park, where they usually had PCA's student's bands play during Saturday afternoons. Zoey pulled out a folded up blanket from her rather large purse and spread it out before the two.
"How'd you fit-" Chase began, but Zoey held up her hand to stop him.
"Rice cake flavored food isn't the only think Quinn's testing on me," She smiled a little and sat down on the blanket. She motioned for him to join her. The song that was playing came to an end, and they clapped.
"Isn't that Dean Rivers?" Chase pointed to the stage, where, sure enough, Dean Rivers was approaching the microphone.
"Attention students," The dean began, "The environmental club is having a camping trip. All who are interested should sign up in the student lounge." Zoey looked at Chase with an interested look on her face.
"Don't you have two tents?" She asked cunningly.
"Yeah, but you don't seriously want to-" Chase was, yet again, interrupted by Zoey.
"If it means getting away from Quinn's freakish experiments, then I would love to!" Zoey smiled. "And you're coming with me. I don't want to be the only normal person there." A new band began playing. "Please?"
"Well," Chase spoke, not sure what to say. He wasn't all to thrilled about camping, but he didn't want to say no to Zoey. Plus, if he went with her, then she would spend more time with him avoiding the environmental geeks, and she would be happy. "Yeah, I guess." Zoey hugged him so hard that she knocked him over, so the two were laying down for a brief moment.
"Thank you thank you thank you!" Zoey shouted gleefully, a smile spread across her face. She had gained two things from this: Alone time with Chase and a long break from Quinn.