Holy shit, you’ll never believe what I just saw. Jake Weiland is on a date with the hottest girl I’ve ever seen. She’s not just a cheerleader, she’s the head cheerleader. Since when can Jake Weiland get a date with a cheerleader? Better question: since when does Jake Weiland want to date a cheerleader? … No really, Hay, you’ve gotta see this. They’re here at the restaurant right now. She’s a knockout- ginger, blue eyes, legs for days…

Dude, I’m not gonna tell you what she’s wearing. It’s a dress. Lots of leg showing… Come down here, see for yourself… No. I’m not calling Johnny to see if he knows exactly what kind of dress it is. Why do you even care? … Trust me, it’s expensive. She looks loaded… Cassandra something, I didn’t quite catch… That’s right, head cheerleader… What? Are you sure? …. I wonder if Jake knows she’s the Mayor’s daughter… Yeah, ha ha, I’m sure she knows who Uncle George is… Yeah, well at least we know that neither of them is in it for the money, right? …

So anyway, I was trying to put together the video footage from our last concert and this girl kept getting in the shot. It’s almost totally useless… Yeah, real bummer. Next time I wanna ask Dane to take a camera to the back of the crowd, and we’ll set up the audio line to record directly into the computer… Well the footage will be from a distance, but the sound should still be awesome… No, I can’t upload anything. But it’s nothing new anyway, we haven’t played a new song in a while… Don’t worry about it, I’m sure lover boy over here will be writing a sad song about how bad this date went before you know it. She’s probably already gone… I’ll go check, hold on…

Dude, she’s still here! I pretended I had to do something at the register, but they were laughing and it looks like she was having a good time… Yeah, I know Jake’s a good guy, he’s my cousin. But you know he’s not exactly a ladies’ man… I’m telling you, Hay, get down here! … I don’t care if you’ve seen her, you haven’t seen Jake like this. I swear to Zeus, it’s like his eyes are made of chocolate or something the way she’s looking at him like she wants to devour him… Whatever, yeah, see if you can get him on three-way. I’ll wait…

It’s true, Johnny, I swear on my life. If I’m lying, Hermes can come take me to the Underworld right now… Ha ha, no Hay’s just too lazy to come over and check it out himself… Knock it off, Hay, I’m not taking video of them for you. If you wanna see for yourself, get your ass over here… Johnny, you ever see her? Mayor’s daughter, the hot redhead… Right?! I’m telling you, she’s here on a date with Jake. Swear to Zeus. I swear. To. Zeus… No, I think she actually likes him… You’re coming?… Dude, swing by Hay’s on the way and talk some sense into him… No wait, don’t. I don’t know if they’re going anywhere else after pizza, just come straight here. I don’t want you to miss this… See you in a few, Johnny. Nice to know SOME of Jake’s friends are interested in his brand new love life… Yeah, Hay, I’m still here… Are they? Hold on, I’ll go check again…

Still there. They look pretty comfortable together. This time time I just peered through the window, but Jake saw somehow and looked right at me, then cracked up and told her something, probably that I was looking again… Shut up, am not… I am not a creeper, I’m just a concerned friend!… Yeah, like you wouldn’t be doing the same thing if you were here… No, that’s right, ha ha, you wouldn’t. You would be going over and sitting backwards in a chair you dragged over from the next table, making yourself right at home, admit it…

No, I’m not jealous. Why would I be jealous? I’m working on Melissa… Yeah, from my Trig class… I help her with her homework over the phone almost every night, that totally counts… No, that does not make me her tutor. It makes me that cute, smart guy in Trig who helps her out and doesn’t even try to make a pass at her… Because right now she thinks she’s in love with some guy on the baseball team. But he’s into some other girl. I just have to wait for Melissa to realize it and give up on him, which is inevitable. Then I slide right in and comfort her… Shut up, ha ha, that doesn’t make me a creeper either!… Johnny’s here. Call you later, man.

This is an exercise written as part of NaNoWarmUp, a personal writing challenge in October to write 25,000 words as preparation for writing 50,000 words in November. This year I’m using the daily writing goal of 800 words to write ABOUT my Cassandra story from the point of view of other characters. In November, I hope to be prepared to start writing a new first draft of Cursed from Cassandra’s point of view, a more complete story after figuring out how other characters perceive Cassandra, her prophecies, and the Trojan War.