Fa212354: Happy 4th of July!! I'm really bored right now, and I there's nothing on TV, so here I am! Enjoy this chapter of Loup Garu.

Disclaimer: Fa212354 does not own Twilight at all.

With my mind set, I made my way home. I made note to get a present for Amanda, and apologize. I made of list of things that Amanda would like, but ended up not getting anywhere. I decided to call Redeate.

"Hello?" Redeate asked once she picked up the phone.

"Hey, it's me." I said quietly.

"Hey, Christine. What's up?"

"I need some help."

"With what?"

"I'll tell you later. Meet me at the mall?"

"Okay."

I hung up and grabbed my jacket before heading out the door and to the mall. 5 minutes later, I finally made it the mall and was sitting with Redeate at the food court, telling her the whole story. Once I finished, we decided to look through the stores before having lunched.

"You know," Redeate started with a smile, " Amanda's birthday is coming up soon. In a month actually." She finished as she looked a necklace over. It was a small chain necklace with a shiny cherry dangling from it.

"I don't think she likes cherries though." I said. We moved onto a new store that all types of Asian stuff in it. "It's her birthday already? Wow." I added and picked up a necklace with pandas on it and showed Redeate.

"Perfect." Redeate said and grabbed it from my hand and brought it to the register. "Oh, were you going to get her this?" She asked after she paid for the necklace.

"Not anymore." I said sarcastically. "Come on, let's go look somewhere else."

Once we both had gotten gifts for Amanda, we decided it was time for lunch. We practically ran to the food court (shopping can do that to you). I volunteered to go get the food, and settled on pizza and Coke for the both of us.

I quickly paid the guy at the counter after ordering and grabbed our food. I was doing so good by not running into someone, when I bumped into someone. Figures. "I am so sorry!" I said as I picked up our food.

"Not as sorry as I am about your shirt." The guy said as he pointed to my shirt.

"Wha-" I looked down and saw that my Coke had spilled all over my shirt. Great, another shirt to clean up. I grabbed a napkin and started to wipe the Coke off, causing the stain to get bigger than before.

"Sorry. I wasn't watching where I was going." The guy said.

"Neither was I." I muttered. By now I had had a really good chance to look at him.

He was short, taller than me, but I was considered short. He had brown hair that went over his eyes, glasses, and a sloppy smile. If I wasn't so depressed about Jake, I probably would've found him cute. But I needed more excitement than this to get my mind off of Jake.

"Christine! What's taking so long?" Redeate whined as she ran over to us. She stopped , though, when she saw the guy that I bumped into. "Oh...Who's this?" She asked as she looked him over.

"Um, this is...I don't know his name actually." I said.

"I'm Connor." He said as he smiled at Redeate.

"I'm Redeate. Oh, and this is Christine." Redeate said before I could even open my mouth.

"Well, I have to go. Sorry about your shirt Christine. Maybe I'll see you guys around." Connor said, but it was mostly directed at Redeate. Redeate giggled and waved as he walked off.

I rolled my eyes and grabbed her arm. "Come on, I have to change my shirt and we need to wrap Amanda's presents." I said.

"But her birthday isn't until next month." Redeate said as she came back from 'Planet Girl'.

"I know, but it'll give me something to do."

"You're still thinking about Jake, huh?"

"Yeah."

"How 'bout we do something to get your mind off of Jake." She was quiet for a moment. "I know! Let's go see a movie."

"Let's go to my house first. I need to change."

"Okay!"

After I got another shirt to put on (an old on), we went to the theater. "Let's watch Princess Resurrection." I said, bouncing along. My usual good mood was restored.

"That's the anime one right?" Redeate asked as she got in line.

"Yep! It's got vampires in it!"

"Oh, so you're rooting for the blood-suckers now, are you?" A voice came from behind us. I knew right away that it was Jake.

I turned around. "Now, I've always rooted for the undead. They can pone you and Edward!" He just stared at me. " Who's slow now?" I said grimly.

"Hi Christine!" Amanda bounded up to me and hugged me. I went down hard on the ground. Amanda didn't notice, because she had caught sight of Redeate. "Redeate!"

"Whatcha' doin' here, Manda?" I asked. "A date?"

"Yep! With Jake!"

"Who else?" I murmured, to low for anyone else to hear. Or so I thought. Jake glared at me, so I knew he had heard. "Well, have fun." I turned on my heel and walked away.

Redeate caught up with me. "Christine, I thought you wanted to see a movie!"

"I wanted to get my mind off of Jake. That's kinda hard when he's sitting right next to me." When I'm mad, my Texan accent got even more pronounced. Amanda says it's hard to understand me. Especially when I switch to Spanish. "El chico es super estupido! Dios!"

"I assume you mean Jake."

"Who else?!"

"Oo! Do you know how to cuss in Spanish?" She asked, her mind diverted.

"Yeah."

"Say something!"

I told her in a few words what I thought of Jake.

"Whaszat?"

"i can't tell you."

"Why not?"

"It's not something you say in polite company."

"Oh..."

I sighed and told her what it meant. She gasped.

"You know how to say that?"

"Would I lie to you?"

"...yep."

I pretended to be insulted. "So mean!" We laughed.

Jake's POV

Grr. I realized I was shaking when Amanda put her hand on my arm. "Calm down." She said.

"I can't." I mumbled.

"Shut up." I looked at her with shock. "You can."

I finally stopped. "What're we gonna do now?" I asked as we watched Redeate and Christine laughing. My anger was gone now.

She smiled slowly, and I got chills down my spine. "Time for phase 2."

"What was phase 1?"

"When we tried to make her jealous." She turned on me impatiently. "Did she seem jealous?"

"Uhh...I dunno. She was mostly angry I think."

"Yes!" She hit her palm with her fist.

"...Huh?"

"She is jealous! Christine never gets angry!"

"Really? She's seemed angry all the times I've known her."

"She does that to everyone she likes. Actually...You're the only one she's actually liked." She quickly covered her mouth with her hands. "Crap! I wasn't supposed to say that!"

"Really? She likes me?" I said like a kindergartner.

"You weren't supposed to hear that. Please don't tell Christine I told you that. She'll be pissed if she finds out." Amanda start naming off the things Christine would do if she found out.

"Don't worry. It's no big deal. I won't tell." I said. At least I knew Christine liked me. That would make it easier to take her insults. Of course, she does have a harsh way of showing it.