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“Chase won’t want me if I’m bald,” I said
dramatically. I had a thing about cutting my hair. Once, I went for
a trim and the hairdresser must have been out to get me, because
she cut my hair into a bob. I’d been trying to grow my hair long
like Rachel’s for years, but it grows so slowly, and psycho
hairdressers don’t help.
    “ Don’t be silly, we just
need an inch from a piece of your hair. You don’t want Chase to
fall in love with Amber do you?”
    “ I’ll get the scissors,” I
said quickly. Liz cut off only an inch as promised, and it
dissolved in the liquid straight away. “But how are we going to get
Chase to drink the love potion? It’s not like he goes to our
school, and we can slip it in his coke at lunch. But that would be
handy.” I grinned.
    “ Good question,” she said.
“But I’ve already thought of that part. We’ll inject the potion
into a box of chocolates and send it to Chase as a Valentine’s
gift,” she said pulling out a red, heart-shaped box of chocolates
from her backpack and beaming about her “genius” idea.
    “ You have got to be
kidding,” I said in shock. “What celebrity even opens gifts and
mail from fans, let alone eats the gifts?”
    “ The love potion will
attract Chase to the chocolates. He will be drawn to open the gift.
He will smell the sweet, deliciousness of the love potion and will
be unable to resist trying just one chocolate. What is sweeter than
a box of love potion chocolates on Valentine’s Day?”
    “ Ok, James Bond, what
about this one. How will he know how to find me?” This should stump
her.
    “ Like when you send any
package, we’ll include your name and return address. After he’s
consumed the love potion, he’ll be instantly drawn to you, and will
come find you. A man in love, will climb mountains, and swim oceans
to be with the woman he loves.”
    “ But still, I seriously
doubt that anyone would be dumb enough to eat a random box of
chocolates. If it was me, I would be too scared that the chocolates
were laced with arsenic from an obsessed fan,” I said shuddering.
Liz raised her eyebrows. “I know what you’re thinking Liz. But
we’ve been over this. I’m not obsessed, I’m in love, and I don’t
want to hurt him, I want to love him. How could love
hurt?”
     
     
    *****
     
     
    6. Valentine’s
Day
     
    The next day, the day
before Valentine’s Day, I noticed that the whole school had gone
crazy. Red balloons and streamers covered the halls. People had
been giving each other heart shaped invitations to the Valentine’s
Day dance.
    “ Liz, there’s a pink heart
in my locker. I wonder who it’s from.”
    “ Phoebe,
sometimes I wonder where you’re from, Mars
perhaps?”
    “ No, men are from Mars and
women are from Venus,” I corrected, referring to the famous
relationship book.
    “ How could I forget,” she
slapped her forehead.
    “ It’s from Ben,” I said
reading the note.
    “ Duh!” she practically
shouted.
    “ It’s an invitation to the
dance. It says:
     
    Dear Phoebe,
     
    Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    I’d love to go to the
dance
    With you,
     
    Love Ben”
     
    “ That’s so sweet, and he
used ‘L-O-V-E,’” Liz said, reading over my shoulder.
    “ Well he’s definitely no
poet, but it’s the thought that counts. I think that he was just
trying to cheer me up over the whole Chase thing.”
    “ Maybe he really wants to
go with you.”
    “ We’re going as a group,
remember, the three musketeers.”
    “ Well, I’m actually going
with Nathan.”
    “ Why didn’t you tell me?”
I demanded.
    “ I’m telling you now. But
we can all go as a group if you’d rather do that.”
    “ Yes please, a group is
definitely better.”
    #
    Every year, the Valentine’s king and queen were chosen at the
dance. I knew that Amber would definitely be nominated for queen,
and probably win. She would take Chase to the dance in a heartbeat
if she could, but Eugene Sherman would take her in a heartbeat