My Crush Made Me Date Him, To Hide What I Did To Him

I had a crush on Zach for my whole high school life maybe even before I knew what having a crush even was we were close friends in middle school and then drifted apart as the years went by but we always stayed friendly with each other when we would walk past in the hallway we would say hello and return to our conversation with our friends all this time though I've been madly in love with him every time I see him with another girl I get a sinking feeling in my stomach I wish he would look at me the way he looks at the others but so far nothing like that had happened until one fateful day all of my friends know that I would do pretty much anything to be with Zach and they continuously tease me about my crush last time when we were at Hannah's birthday party all six of us were playing truth or dare in Hannah's basement most of the dares were silly like get up and run around the room barking like a dog or drink a can of coke as fast as you can without stopping but when it came to my turn Hannah was the one to ask me truth or dare I chose Dare as to not be called a wuss in front of all my friends Hannah didn't even stop a beat to think when she blurted out I dare you to steal Zach's underwear from his locker on Monday when he's at soccer practice there was a gleam in her eye she knew I was caught in the crosshairs my face went bright red I don't think that's gonna happen everyone in the room told me that I had to do it they were all staring at me with wide eyes no way no how besides I have dance practice when he's at soccer practice so I can't do it oh well try again I said Hannah dared me to skip dance practice and steal the underwear I sighed what would I do with his dirty underwear I said one of my friends said to cuddle up with them the other said to sell them on eBay man they were a little weird they were obviously no help at all okay okay I'll do it but I better not regret this if I regret it you're going to regret it even more I said to Hannah and then we spent the rest of the night devising the plan after a night of cold sweats and no sleep it was Monday morning underwear day all night I thought about how to chicken out but I knew it wasn't going to happen if I didn't go to school Hannah would come to my house and drag me out by my ear if I pretended like I stole it she would know I don't know how but she would Hannah would not let me live it down if I gave up on a dare like this we'd been playing truth or dare as a group for ten years and no one had chickened out since sixth grade that was the night we dared our friend Beverly to jump into the principal's pool naked we snuck out to the principal's house at midnight ran into his backyard and she was just about to take her clothes off to jump in when the principal's dog came barking out of his doghouse we are surprised we didn't die that night so technically she didn't chicken out but ever since then everyone's done their dare it's just like a rule now anyway I spent most of that day at school trying to keep an eye on Zach I didn't want anyone to tell him that I was going to be sneaking into his locker later sometimes my friends like to tease him about me too and I had a feeling they would try to trick him into meeting me down there to catch me so I made sure that no one really talked to him for my group Zach was famous he had a lot of friends from different cliques one of the cheerleaders was chatting with him through our entire lunch period one of the jocks was teaching him how to throw a three-pointer during gym class and the computer whiz of the school had Nick showing him how to work a certain part of their robot in our electronics class he just knew everyone and everyone liked him maybe that's why I liked him too after school I usually go to dance class on Mondays from three to five but I was going to blow that off today I hated doing that because dancing was one of the small ways that I could let my frustrations out a dare is a dare though the soccer practice started at 3:00 as well so I knew the boys would be coming out of the locker room soon I waited by the staircase out of view until the last boy scuttled out onto the field outside I snuck down into the locker room it smelled like old shoes and skunked down there nothing I would ever want to smell again everyone's lockers looked the same jam-packed with jeans and different colored t-shirts I memorized what Zack was wearing so that my search would be easier and after scanning for just a few minutes I came across his at the end of the last hallway I was rummaging through his clothes when I heard someone whistling down the stairs if I got cotton here I would be in so much trouble I needed to hide but there was nowhere to go I was standing next to a wall the only way out was to sneak back through where the person was walking my only choice was to get into the locker and pray as soon as I pulled the door shut Zack popped his head around the corner I burst into a cold sweat he couldn't see me through the locker door but I could see him perfectly and I cannot believe what happened next Zack sat down on the bench in front of his locker I was holding my breath as the cheerleader that he was talking to at lunch today came into the locker room as well I know what you're thinking but no they weren't there for some romantic meeting I don't think instead it looked like Zack had money in his hand and he gave it to the cheerleader she reached into her backpack and gave him a packet of papers that's not even the strangest thing that happened soon after the jock that was teaching him how to play basketball earlier was there and Zack slit him money as well from my vantage point it looked like he gave the kid a stack of $100 bills person after person entered the locker room and each one of them exchanged money or objects among them and Zack the craziest thing of all was no one said a word the entire time I thought that things were winding down and I was going to get out of this locker soon I was beginning to cramp and I really had to pee when the soccer coach came around the corner it was only then that Zack said something hey coach they exchanged kind remarks and then the coach pulled a paper out of his back pocket okay here's how you did it practice today and the paper showed achievements times and points that Zack scored during practice the practice he had been sitting in the locker room for awesome thanks man Zach said and slapped a stack of money in the coaches hand they both walked out of the locker room and this was finally my chance to escape I climbed out of the locker and finally stretched my body I looked at my watch I had been in the locker for two hours I was just about to tiptoe out of the locker room my hands squeezing the life out of Zach's underwear when none other than Zach himself rounded the corner hey Claudia what's going on he looked super confused I didn't blame him I hadn't been here and then I was surprised I said holding up my hands the ones that were holding his underwear he blinked clearly freaked out and wordless I tried to hide the underwear but it was no use what should doin with my boxers Zach asked eyebrows raised I could ask you what you're doing handing off thousands of dollars to people especially your soccer coach but we could also just walk away from each other and pretend this never happened his face went white you saw that he asked his mind must have been blown because he stared off into the distance I'll tell you why I was in here if you tell me why all those people were taking money from you huh not a chance he said trying to take his underwear from my grubby palms are you in the mob or something I asked pulling the undies away from him it took him a bit but he finally gave in he knew he wasn't getting out of this without some type of answer that's when he told me that he paid everyone to do things for him the cheerleader does all his English homework she writes all of his essays and gives him the answers to the tests since she has the class right before him he pays her $1,000 a week which he gets from his rich dad the jock teaches him how to play basketball for 200 bucks a week all of this left me in disbelief then he said that he paid the coach $1,000 a week to pretend he's a soccer star Zach has 40 awards countless certificates and a scholarship to college and he's never stepped foot onto the soccer field his cleats hang in his locker and if never touched mud I wondered why his locker didn't smell bad like the rest of the room you can't tell anyone about this he said putting his hand on my knee why not isn't this extortion I thought to myself because I would be ruined he almost shouted well if you want me to be quiet then you better cut me in on some kind of deal I don't think he was expecting those words to come out of my mouth whatever you want 1,000 bucks a week a car what my parents won't even notice your money sounds nice but that's not what I want I want you to go out with me be my boyfriend you realize you're creepily holding my underwear and we're hiding in my locker right I nodded knowing full well that I sounded like a stage five clinger okay I said standing up I guess I'll be going now I'll have to talk to the principal before I leave school so I better catch her on her way out Zack grabbed my arm and squeezed you can't please my parents would disown me he pulled me in for a kiss and I felt instant fireworks between us I don't know if he felt the same way but it honestly didn't matter because I got the boy I wanted and I got to keep his underwear as a souvenir my friends don't understand how a silly dare that they didn't think I would pull off could end up with me having the boyfriend of my dreams and I'm never going to tell them that this is all a ruse to keep Zack out of prison the more Zack and I hang out the more he seems to actually like me he keeps asking me if I would rather have money and of course I say no I would never choose money over him however I have asked him if he ever plans to stop paying everyone to do his responsibilities for him he said that if he makes it into the college of his dreams he'll stop paying people to do his work for some reason I don't believe him he wants to go to a really prestigious school and I know he's not really smart enough to be accepted if he actually does get in he'll fail miserably once he has to do his own school work that's why I've begged him to pay off the admissions counselors for both of us to get in that way I can keep a better eye on him all we have to do now is wait for our admissions results to come back we'll know if we have the grades to get in and if we don't he said he'd make sure that we're both walking down those tree-lined sidewalks by next fall he'd bet his money on it

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Length: 11min 17sec (677 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 28 2020