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how bad you had it for this girl before I told you what I know about her.” I reached over and punched him in the arm. “Owe!” He managed to say between laughs.
       “It’s seriously not funny Pete. Really it’s not.”  As soon as my temper subsided I joined Pete in laughing. I really was acting like an idiot. I got myself under control and headed back toward our destination. “Ok seriously, what’d you find out?”
       Pete chuckled again then finally started filling me in on the Intel he had gathered from his mom who was good friends with Stephanie Eckles mother. Hell they practically ran the PTA at J. Harker High. There wasn’t a rumor in town that those two women didn’t have a hand in. Mrs. Eckles was practically throwing it everyone’s faces that she personally had been hand selected by the new girl’s family for her to stay with them. Well, that was her story anyway. I wasn’t surprised that my parents knew nothing about a foreign exchange student visiting this year. Such things would be below them and their social standing. “Her name is Willa Alucard. Apparently she is from some old royal family in Romania. She is 17 years old and she will be here for the year. There, that’s all I know, because she just got into town this afternoon.” Pete had finished filling me in on what he found out about Willa from his mom.
       As we arrived at the bonfire, the party was already in full swing. Matt Dixon had already set up his DJ stand and was playing some pretty good beats that were blaring from the overly large speakers. Matt’s dad was the top real estate agent in the county, so he had the money to drop on the best of the best stereo equipment for his son’s hobby. Matt played all of our parties basically because he was the only person in town that had a professional set up and mainly played for free. It was his sure fire way of getting invited to every party in town. His family had plenty of money, but his social skills were seriously lacking. He was a grade “A” douche. He thought of himself as a Jersey Shore wannabe and most people just barely tolerated him.
       I pulled up and parked the Audi next to a row of cars of other soon to be seniors. “How do I look?” I asked Pete before I got out of the car. He looked at me as if I had gone off the deep end of the nut pool.
       “Oh my God John you seriously just sounded like a freaking girl just now. Could you just please not ever ask me that again” he got one more laugh in at my expense then rushed out of the car.  He took off walking quickly toward the fire. He looked back over his shoulder and hollered “You coming Stokes or are you staying in the car all night?”
       That’s when I noticed why Pete was in such a hurry. Kelly had been sitting next to the fire enjoying the music and had just heard Pete call out my name. Shoot, I really didn’t need her of all people messing tonight up for me if this new girl happened to make an appearance. I walked slowly over to the opposite side of where Kelly and her minions had been seated and took a seat next to a few of the guys who played on the football team with me. Pete was busy making small talk with one of Kelly’s minions. It was a pathetic attempt at making Kelly jealous.  
        Normally it never worked, but tonight it seemed to actually be working. Honestly I think that Kelly had been using Pete as a stepping stone slash whipping boy for so long, that she was used to being his center of attention and the fact that he was talking up someone who she deemed beneath her was getting to her, because she had that murderous jealous look on her face.
       Then the unexpected happened. Kelly got up walked over to Pete threw her arms around his neck and pulled him into her and planted a deep wet kiss square on his mouth. The whole party seemed to stop and watch the crazy spectacle.
       “Damn! Do you see that Stokes? Your girl is hooking up with your best friend!” someone hollered