He knew he wasn't really college material and had already decided to focus on his restaurant instead of going any further. This became the obviously c...rrect choice when he received an offer to make "Gibby's" a franchise restaurant and open up another in downtown Seattle.It was a good thing that Gibby had just come into a ton of money since he volunteered to buy all the supplies for tonight's shindig. He really wanted to score brownie points with Carly since he knew that she was at least staying. I stumbled away from her and fresh tears spilled onto her cheeks. "No Ben please wait!" My lips were tingling from the kiss and I was too shocked, did she really mean that. I closed the door and looked at her. "Do you mean that?" I asked her.She nodded. "But what about all those things you said about me what you told Lisa?" "I only said those things because I couldn't figure out my feelings for you they scared me, I said those things to Lisa because she wanted to ask you out I couldn't have. Every organ in my body was paining.I looked at the nurse.“ Congratulations on becoming an adult”***Fortunately, when I woke up, I was wearing clothes. I was in my room. I looked at the clock.I ran yesterday’s events through my head. It must have been a dream. I was getting late for the school. As I descended the steps of my room, I saw Vinayak at the bottom.“what are you doing here?”“don’t we have to go shopping for the ball?”“what ball?”“ has yesterday’s injection made you crazy? The new. Last year they won seven games, including a 35 - 10 drubbing of Kennedy. They had lost a lot of players to graduation from their offense but returned most of their defensive starters. Coach Nelson and his assistants worked the JFK team hard. No one wanted a repeat of last year’s humiliation.Jake was waiting outside wondering who his ride would be today. Debbie had been mysterious about it when she told him she would arrange to get him home. Just as he was thinking he might have to mooch a ride.