“I really thought I had a shot with her,” Kellen sighed as he leaned on his arm and rolled the dice for his turn.
“It's all right, man. Not everything goes everyone's way all the time.”
Kellen turned a miserable look up at his friend Jun. The other boy rarely combed his longish black hair and favored printed t-shirts and hoodies with his favorite anime girls on them, in today's case a buxom pink-haired nurse in a uniform two sizes too small. Between them sat Freddie in a constant battle to keep his glasses up from the tip of his nose, and Suzy, a half-Asian girl with her father's Jewish nose and her mother's delicate jaw. Beau rolled his eyes at the oft-repeated sentiment and Hannah and Cassie openly skoffed at him.
“You need to let that go, Kellen. She would never have ever been interested in you. She's too into herself and the drama she's tied up in with those cheer losers. I win this one.” Cassie leaned forward and adjusted the game board.
“I know, you always win. It's just, when we were in that driving class together, I don't know, I guess I thought it was fate. She’s always so nice to me, and she likes a lot of the same things I do.”
“She was just using you against the head cheer bitch,” Hannah said, snatching the dice from under Kellen's outstretched hand. “Freddie, I'm thirsty.”
“Okay. Water? Tea? Pop?”
“Whatever's fine, just get something.”
Kellen cast a wary glance at Freddie as he scurried out of the room.
“You're just not boyfriend material,” Hannah said, scowling at Kellen. “We've been over this before. I don't know anyone who would go out with you.”
“Yeah, and you said your new best friend didn't think you had a shot, too,” Beau said, rolling his dice against Hannah's attack.
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