Sunday, February 3, 2013

The Valentine's Quest part 1

Valentine’s day is coming around the corner, which mean Harriette has to pretend that she doesn’t care about not having a boyfriend. But she cares, a lot. But around this time she can’t let it show, she has to pretend that she’s cool with it or else everyone will think she can’t get a boyfriend.
She can, she just doesn’t want to date some random guy she has no feelings for what so ever.
But this Valentine’s day is looking to be the worst so far, Tamarai has her eyes on this new kid and DaeRi has a boyfriend, though their relationship is rocky. So Harriette will be extra alone.
Harriette liked Valentine’s day a lot more back when she was little, when it was about trading gifts with Collin and going on “dates” with the family.
Not that Harriette hates Valentine’s day, she doesn’t, she still sees some fond things about it. Like swapping gifts with Collin, and going on “dates” with him. Last year they went out to eat at her favorite spot in the city.
But this year Harriette can’t help but feel like a loser if she spends Valentine’s day with Collin again. He’s her brother!
“So we need to get you a boyfriend,” DaeRi announces a ten days before Valentine’s day.
“I’m not dating anyone just for Valentine’s day,” Harriette said, “That’s just lame.”
“But that’s the point, it won’t just be for Valentine’s day,” DaeRi said. “It’ll just start that way, but then you’ll show your charm, and he’ll show his charm, and you’ll fall in love.”
“Who’s ‘he’?” Harriette asked.
“I don’t know yet,” DaeRi said, “But it has to be someone cool.”
“What about that freshman guy, Thomas?” Tamarai asked.
“Who’s Thomas?” Harriette asked. Tamarai always seemed to know the weirdest people.
“He’s a freshman and he’s on the yearbook committee with me,” Tamarai said.
“And he’s not Teddy?” Teddy was the guy tamarai had a crush on.
“Yeah, duh,” Tamarai laughed, “I wouldn’t be trying to pair you up with Teddy.”
“Okay, what does this Thomas guy look like?” Daeri asked.
“Brown curly hair, really green eyes and he’s really tall,” Tamarai said.
“I’m not dating someone tall,” Harriette said, “In case you haven’t noticed I’m barely five feet.”
“Oh... yeah,” Tamarai said. “You’re right, that would be weird.”
“Okay so back to the drawing board,” DaeRi said. Harriette sighed, lately everything DaeRi does is annoying. She’s not sure why, but even this whole quest to find Harriette a boyfriend just grates on her nerves.
“You know, I don’t really care about not having a date,” Harriette said, which was only a little lie. She mostly didn’t care, but she did.
“Fine, but you won’t get away with this forever,” DaeRi said, “People are gonna start noticing, and rumours are gonna be spread. Now I have to go, my boyfriend invited me over to his house for dinner. Hopefully this will clear up all the drama about him not going to prom, which is just unfair.”
Harriette just laughed, “It’s unfair to you because he doesn’t want to go to his senior prom?”
“Yes,” DaeRi said, “I’m his girlfriend and I want to go.”
“Just save it for next year,” Harriette said.
“Whatever,” DaeRi said, “See you guys later.”
“See ya!” Tamarai said.
“Is it just me, or does DaeRi get more annoying day by day,” Harriette asked once she left.
“She does not,” Tamarai said.
“I’m just joking,” Harriette said, even though she wasn’t. She just figured she shouldn’t start Tamarai against her right now.
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The truth was DaeRi feared for Harriette’s, and ultimately hers, state of Popularity. Harriette has just been so relaxed lately, not seeming to care about popularity as much.  And Tamarai never cared, so DaeRi figured someone has to care out of them three or they’ll fall on the popularity ladder quickly.
So DaeRi wasn’t giving up this quest to find Harriette someone suitable for Valentines, and she didn’t really care whether Harriette wanted one or not.
The first thing DaeRi needed to do was make a list of all the suitable guys at A.L. High. So after dinner with Payton, which was okay, not stellar since he’s still adamant on not going to prom, she went straight to her room and pulled out her notebook.
“Suitable guys,’ she said to herself. “Well, there’s of course Darian, Bachelor and Preston. But not Preston since he’s my ex.”
She wrote down the two names and continued to think aloud to herself, something she did quite often.
“Hm, there’s Caleb from my math class, he’s cute,” she said, “not exactly popular, but he could be. He’s got the look.”
Suddenly there was a knock on her door.
“Yes?” she asked.
“Who are you talking to?” her mom asked in Korean.
“Myself,” DaeRi replied.
Her mom opened the door and looked around “Good. It’s late. You should be asleep.”
“I’m working on something important,” DaeRi said.
“Homework?” her mom asked.
“Not really,” she said. “But it’s still important, and it has to do with school.”
“Talk slower please,” her mom said, still in Korean. “I don’t understand when you talk so fast.”
DaeRi sighed, “It’s for school.”
“Okay, go to sleep soon.” her mom said.
“Gosh, why can’t she just speak in English?” DaeRi said to herself. She looked down at her notebook, only two names and Harriette has already expressed how she felt both both of them.
“Oh, and Caleb,” DaeRi said, writing it down. “Hm, who else? .... I’m gonna need some help with this, I’ll talk to Tamarai tomorrow.”
And with that she set her notebook down and got ready for bed, the whole thinking of the guys at A.L. High. This was important, Harriette has never had a date for Valentines day, and DaeRi is sure that people notice.
Finally she fell asleep with that thought on her mind and another more worrisome thought, what if Harriette refused to go on a date with someone?

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