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Four days of torturous school had passed and it was finally the weekend. I rolled over and looked at my red digital clock on my nightstand.

9:23

I shoved my face into my pillow and kept it there for a little longer before sitting up and rubbing the sleep from my eyes.

Ding.

My head swiveled round and spotted my phone that was charging by my clock. I reached over and grabbed it, unplugging it, and sitting back up.

New text from 'Zack the hottest guy in the world'.

I shook my head and clicked on it with a small smile.

'Hey beautiful ;)'

'Hey average looking guy, when'd you change my contact name?'

'What ever do you mean?'

'You know what I mean'

'Fine, two days ago. You were to pre-occupied by Kyle's dance moves'

'Well I'm changing it back' I said with a smirking emoji.

'To what?'

'Maybe I should change it to Zack the average looking guy'

'Aw come on, you know that's not true'

'How about dirt face?'

'Ugh, come on, it was one time!'

'How about Zachary?'

'I will literally sic Julia on you if you do that.'

I laughed at that one.

'Why not do it yourself?' I asked with a grin plastered on my face.

'Because I don't hit girls, unless you want me to ;)' he said and I could already picture his smug face.

'Whatever, Zack it is.' I said with a slightly red face. It was a good thing he couldn't see me right now. I don't think I would ever live that one down.

'Could be more creative but okay, btw I had a reason for texting you'

'And what was that reason?'

'Well before you so rudely distracted me, I was going to see if you wanted to come to lunch with me and the boys. You can bring Julia too if you want. Cole has seemed to take a liking to her.'

I thought about it for a second before replying.

'Sure, I'll text her and see if she can go.

'Cool, pick you up at 12?'

'Sure, thanks :)'

'Anything for you darling ;)' he replied one last time.

I just laughed slightly and shook my head. Standing up, I walked over to my bathroom and looked in the mirror. I still had a grin on my face and my cheeks were still a little flushed. I shrugged and started getting ready, texting Julia in the process. She said she could come and was going to come over here at 11:45. I sighed before continuing to happily get ready.

Usually I wasn't a morning person, but I guess I was today.

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I heard a beep outside of my house, Julia and I stopped talking and stood up. Walking over to the door, I pulled it open and we both stepped out before I shut and locked it.

"Hey ladies, need a ride?" Kyle shouted out the open window. I laughed at him and pulled open the back door. Julie and I both slid in the back since Cody and Eric were in the front.

"I'm guessing Zack, Sammy, and Kyle are taking a different car?" I said as I buckled my seatbelt and Eric started to pull off.

"Yep." Eric said as we started to cruise along on the paved streets.

"Zack argued that he wanted to pick you guys up, but he lost rock, paper, scissors, so he's probably sulking now." Cody said with a shrug.

I laughed at that, I could already picture him with his arms crossed, looking all grumpy, but still denying that he was sulking.

Boys, I shook my head.

"So where are we going?" Julie asked from beside me.

"Chipotle baby!" Cody shouted making me jump while everyone else just snickered.

This was going to be an interesting ride.

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"Hey Zo." Zack said as I hopped out of the car and smiled at him.

"Hey, you ready?" I asked as everyone else shut their car doors and formed one big group. Zack nodded and smiled at me before grabbing the top of my head like a claw machine and trying to steer me all the way to the door. I laughed as he turned me dramatically, almost making me bash into walls.

"Zackkk!" I drew out grabbing his hand and trying to push it away. He just steered me into a corner.

"Woops, reverse!" he dragged me backwards as the group laughed at me. He finally slid his hand off my head and onto my shoulder, pulling me next to him.

"You're mean." I pouted playfully.

"But I just brought you to chipotle!" he argued smiling.

"Fine, you get out of it this time." I said as I watched the boys order and stand to the side once they had their bowls, waiting for everybody else to be done.

Zack and I stepped up to the counter and ordered our own food. I went first an even though he argued that he wanted to pay for it, I slipped the lady some cash quickly and went and stood by the boys. Zack glared at me and I just gave him a big innocent smile before he shook his head, walking over to the rest of the group.

"Let's go eat outside!" Sam said happily and we all agreed, walking outside and pushing two big tables together. We all sat down and proceeded to realize that we all forgot forks.

"I'll go grab them." I said jumping up and not waiting for anybody's protests. I walked back into the air-conditioned building and grabbed way more forks than necessary, so I could mess with whoever sat next to me.

I walked back out, hiding the extra forks and sat down in the only seat left which was with Zack on my right (of course) and Eric to my left. Next to Eric was Cody, then Sammy, then Julie and finally Kyle.

Everyone was oddly silent, so I looked up to see everyone looking amused and Zack glaring at Cody. I stared at them for a few seconds before slowly raising the forks.

"Forks anybody?" I asked looking around at everybody. They all reached forward and grabbed their forks all at once and dug into their food, forgetting about whatever was going on before. I just shrugged and started to eat my food too.

After a minute of eating, the conversation picked back up.

"No wonder why you can't get a girl." Kyle snorted,

"Excuse you, I get way more girls than you." Cody retorted.

"We all know I could get the most girls." Zack said from beside me. An odd feeling settled in my stomach, but I just ignored it.

"Hey Zoe, feel my shirt." Zack said. I did just for the fun of it and rolled my eyes.

"Let me guess, it's made out of boyfriend material?" I asked sarcastically.

"Nope, its made out of cotton. Do you want to know a fun fact about cotton?" he asked making my eyebrows scrunch up.

"Sureee?" I drew out questionably.

"When I wear it, it feels like boyfriend material." He said smirking.

I knew it.

I just snorted and rolled my eyes with a small smile.

"Hey look!" Zack said pointing way down the street. Everybody turned and tried to find what he was pointing at.

"What?" I asked still trying to find whatever he was talking about.

"Don't you see that?" he asked looking at me.

"See what?" I asked again looking up at him expectantly.

"Our future together of course!" he said smugly. Everybody else snickered including me at his joke.

"Alright, I'll admit that one was good." I said laughing and slipping one of the extra forks into his food while he was distracted. He went to go pickup his fork to take a bite again, but his hand found two. His eyebrows scrunched up in confusion and I must admit, it was pretty adorable.

"What?" he muttered under his breath before shaking his head and tossing the extra fork into the trashcan that was about 5 feet behind him. I held in a little laugh as I just listened to the conversation.

"We all know McDonalds is better" Kyle said.

"Nope, Chick-fil-A." Cody said.

"let's take a vote then." Kyle chirped.

"Fine, Sam?" Cody asked.

"McDonalds." He said after thinking for a second.

"Chick-fil-A for me." Eric said.

"Julie?" Cody asked.

"McDonalds."

"Chick-fil-A here." Zack pipped up. And I quickly slipped another fork into his bowl.

"Zoe?" Sammy asked, and everyone looked to me waiting for my answer. I shrugged my shoulders looking guilty.

"Neither?"

Gasps were heard from all around the table.

"You don't like McDonalds or Chick-fil-A?" Kyle said with his jaw hanging open. I just shrugged again.

"I don't really like fast food stuff. I think its gross." I said and took a sip of my water that I had brought with.

"How could you."

"Not any fast food?"

"Like... wha- what?" Everyone stared at me surprised.

"Well that explains why she has such a rockin' body." Kyle said smirking. Zack picked up his fork and flung it at him then pouted for a second before realizing he didn't have a fork then looking confused when he indeed had one.

"What?" he said out loud still staring at his fork.

"What you don't think she has a nice body?" Cody asked.

"No no, not that." He said looking up to me with wide eyes as I just raised my brows at him.

"No, you have an amazing body, er well... whatever, it's just my fork... I had two, but I didn't and..?" he rambled looking from me to his fork.

"You good there, buddy?" Eric asked looking at him strangely.

"I have another fork." Zack said looking up at him.

"Cool...? Good job on remembering to grab a fork?" Eric said confused.

"No, it's just... whatever, never mind." He said and took his plastic fork and took a bite looking annoyed. I held in my laugh and looked up to Eric to see him holding in a smile. Guess he had caught on.

"Hey Zack look." Eric said pointing behind him. Zack spun around looking for whatever Eric was pointing at. I slipped another fork into his meal then took another bite of my food, so he wouldn't get suspicious.

"Can you see our future together?" Eric laughed as Zack spun around and glared at him then went on to continue eating his food. His eyes went wide at he saw yet another fork.

"Bro! Another fucking fork!" he exclaimed pointing at his meal.

"Look we get it, you're the only one that remembered to grab forks. Good for you. Don't need to rub it in." Eric said rolling his eyes while Zack looked up with eyes still wide.

"No, I didn't remember though." He said trying to get us to understand.

"I just don't see why you would make me go get more if you already had a bunch." I said shrugging.

"No, I didn't get any forks!" he exclaimed frustrated.

"Okay, chillll." I said looking at him with wide innocent eyes. He just huffed and angrily stabbed his food as the rest of the boys just looked at us confused. I took a fork in my right hand and went and lifted Zack's chin, so I could look at him. I just tilted my head and studied him for a second.

"Are you okay?" I asked as I sneakily slipped another fork into his bowl.

"I-" he gulped and glanced down to his bowl. Once he saw the other fork, he jerked back and looked back and forth from his bowl to my face. Once he started to put the pieces together, his eyes narrowed at me.

"You... did you... have you been...?" He stuttered out glaring at me. I heard Eric trying to hold in his chuckles behind me. I just tried to give him innocent eyes, but I don't think it was working.

"What ever do you mean?' I asked taking out my last few forks and slowing setting them in his bowl and leaning back in my seat, pressing my lips together to keep myself from busting out laughing. It didn't work very well when Eric couldn't keep it in any longer and started laughing. That's all it took to set me off and have Zack's eyes darken.

"You little..." Zack muttered before grabbing my waist and lifting me up out of my seat and throwing me over his shoulder.

"Zack put me down!" I yelled between laughs as he spun around.

"You think its funny?" he asked as he stopped spinning put picked it back up in the other direction. I could hear the rest of the group laughing as Zack kept spinning.

"Zack!" I squealed still laughing as he started bouncing up and down slightly.

"I'll show you funny." He said with humor in his voice as he started to walk across the street with me still over his shoulder. I could hear the laughs grow louder as I could see the plain black pavement turn into Fancy stone tiles.

I pushed myself up from his back to see him walking over to a big water fountain that was spraying up in the air in the middle with calm water stretching out in a ring around it. It would have been prettier if I wasn't about to probably be dropped in it.

"Zack no, please!" I said struggling. He slid me forward, so he was holding me around my waist instead of the back of my knees. I took my chance to wrap my legs around his waist and wrap my arms around his neck, so he couldn't drop me into the water.

"Zack no, I'm sorry." I said as I held on for dear life.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't?" he asked resting his hands on my hips. I leaned back so I could look at his face but still kept my arms around his neck in case my reason wasn't good enough.

I looked into his eyes that were sparkling with amusement and took a moment to study his face. Study his strong jawline, his slightly crooked nose. Study the spot on his left eyebrow that his hair was a little uneven from a small scar running through it.

I took my time to took at his thick eyelashes framing his Steel colored eyed that had specks of grey and brighter blue in them. I looked down at his soft looking lips and noticed the tiny scar beneath them that was off-set to the right. I could feel his soft brown hair ticking the back of my arms as I looked back up into his eyes and tilted my head.

"Because I'm cute?" I offered with a small hopeful smile. He let out a soft smooth chuckle and shook his head at me. He just turned around and started walking back to the table. I giggled and hugged him, burying my face that was probably red in his shoulder.

"Hey Zack?" I asked pulling back and looking at his face again. He mumbled a 'hm' as he continued walking back over to the table with a smirk on his face.

"I can walk you know." I said amused

"I know." Is all he replied with. I just sighed as we made it to the table a few seconds later. Cody let out a low whistle. Zack just scowled, and I just giggled as he let me down, so I could sit back down in my seat. I unwrapped my legs from him and once my toes reached the ground, untangled my arms too.

His hands stayed on my waist the entire time, lowering me to he ground and making sure I wouldn't fall. I smiled at him and laughed as I we both slid back into our seats. He tossed his extra fork at me and I tossed it behind me into the trash can smiling.

"That was kind of hot." Kyle said laughing.

"Fuck off Kyle."

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More about Zack coming up soon.. what do you think Is going to happen?

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~awkwardpenguin3