Eyes Shut (Zach Dempsey)

Chapter 7

Hannah

Those stupid dollar Valentine's, why did I even bother? I thought as I sat in the middle of Rosie's diner trying to stop my tears. I was supposed to be on a date with Marcus Cole. I used to think Marcus was nice, but he was just like the others. When I got my list, I was disappointed and confused because my number one match was Bryce. So, I had resigned myself to a night alone, but then Marcus called. It took a little convincing, but I said yes. We agreed to meet up at the diner at 8 but he showed up an hour late and with a entourage. I was mad but Marcus being the charming guy that he is I got over it and tried to have fun. We were having a nice time until he got up and sat next to me.

"What are you doing?" I asked him getting nervous

"You want to get out of here?" He asked placing his hand on my thigh.

"No, stop.." I said pushing him away, but he moved his hand higher.

"Come on.."

"No stop don't touch me!" I snapped pushing his out of the booth

"What the fuck is your problem!?"

"Get the fuck away from me!"

"Whatever." He said then turned to leave the diner and his entourage followed.

That's how I ended up here, wiping my tears as people gave me pitying looks. I heard someone sit across from me I looked up to see Zach sitting there

"Are you ok?" He asked and I just gave him a look hoping he would leave me alone. Zach and I weren't really friends the only connections we had was Perri

"You want to see a cool trick?" He asked, then he tried to stick a spoon to his nose but it kept falling, despite the way I felt I couldn't help but chuckle

"I swear Bryce has magnets in his face, he can get like a million on there.....look I'm sorry about Marcus." He said then the waiter came over and Zach pulled over his wallet

"No don't worry about it, it was just a couple of milkshakes."

"Really thanks man."

"After the way you played last weekend? No problem." He said then cleared the table.

"Did you want a ride home?" He asked and I just shook my head, and he nodded and apologized again and then he left.

Here was I sitting alone at lunch, glancing out the side of my eye. As the jock table were putting on their usual show. I didn't know where Clay was and Perri and the cheerleaders were setting up for anything fundraiser they had coming up. Then I looked up to see Zach coming over and this time he sat next to me.

"Can I help you with something Zach?" I was so confused the most we've ever talked, was last night

"Hey." He said

"Hi."

"Would you, um you want to do something sometime?" He asked

"What?!"

"I think you're really pretty and I know you think people only like you because you got this great ass, but I think there's so much more."

"Is this a joke?"

"What? No."

"It has to be... they dared you right?" I said looking past him at the jock table

"Hannah-"

"You're dating Perri."

"It's cool me and Perri aren't on at the moment."