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friends." Mike said with all honesty.
    Grey didn't know what to say or think at first he was mildly angry, but then once he thought about all, that Mike had been through with Gina he could understand.
    "That's cool man as long as you had fun and got your mind off what's her name, then I'm happy." As a matter of fact Grey was rather content with the way things turned out. He didn't know how long he could put up with Charlotte. She was a nice girl but not really his type. He wondered how he was going to get her off his trail.

    The rest of the night Mike explained how he really wanted to be friends with Jill and Charlotte and that he wanted to spend time with them. Grey agreed and they decided to have these two girls in their life. Mike the one now with the plan was all excited about this. He knew that he could pull this off. He felt like Inspector Gadget with many unexpected things up his sleeve.

    Mike went home and Grey was alone and happy about the outcome of the party. He also thought that it really was best that Mike just have a bit of normality for a while until he got over Gina.

    On his way home Mike was planning how to get these two together and how he was going to get them to end up together. He didn't care if it took him all year he was sure that they were going to end up together. He would do everything he could think of to get them in the same locations and over time they would finally end up with one another.

Chapter Ten

    It was Monday and Mike was excited because he was going to spend his first day with Jill. This was the first day of his plan and everything was working so far. He knew that this would be the day, the day that Jill would determine whether or not Mike was for real. Oh he felt so smart, he knew he was too.

    It was the end of the last period and Mike headed to the front of the school and was trying to figure out how to find her and remembered that they had made no agreement as to where to meet. So he just decided to pick a tree and wait under it until she came and sure enough no more than ten minutes after he began waiting did she come out with Charlotte close to her side. He ran up to them and decided to sneak up on them. Only as he was running up to them he tripped over a crack in the walkway caused from a nearby tree root. The last thing that Mike remembered was a sharp blow to the head.

    He woke up looking through a water bottle and thought that he was going blind or something so he freaked out.
    "I AM BLIND, OH GOD. I AM GOING BLIND WHY HAS GOD PUNISHED ME!" Mike screamed. He was more confused than a hamster out of a drier.
    "No you're not going blind, you're okay you don't have to worry." Jill said soothingly, while she removed the bottle of water that she had put over the scrape on his head.
    Mike could not figure out what had happened. "What happened how did I end up on the ground? And why does my head feel like it was used for a pockey huck... I mean hockey puck?" Mike was sitting up now and regaining some of his consciousness but was still a little out of it.
    "I am not totally sure I was walking down the stairs with Charlotte and out of the corner of my eye I saw you doing a swan dive onto the ground here. From the looks of it though, you seemed to have tripped over that crack there." Jill pointed over to the crack; in all honesty she wasn't sure how he fell. The crack only seemed to make the most sense.
    "How long have I been out?" Mike wondered it seemed to him like days. He just wanted to lie down.
    "Only a few minutes," Jill said with sincere concern. Mike took the water bottle from Jill and drank it all in one fail swoop. He was feeling better. He looked into Jill's eyes and saw that they were red. Then looked over at Charlotte and saw that her eyes looked a little red too.
    "What's wrong with you guys, were you guys just crying, thinking I was dead or something?" Mike was never more serious in his whole life than he was at that moment. He was marveled at how they could be so