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**May 8 2002**

“Charline, would you like to join me in the viewing of a film this evening? No, too formal. Yo, Char, have you seen Star Wars – Episode 2 yet? No, too vague. Hey Char, wanna catch a flick?” No!

Aaron was standing in front of his bedroom mirror, and if you couldn’t already tell, he was practicing how to ask out Charline. But, so far, he was unsuccessful.

He sighed. He liked Charline more today than he did yesterday. Yesterday he just thought she was cute. Now he thought she was hilarious and cute! He laughed, remembering the events that poured at dinner. Charline didn’t eat anything without ketchup – even her pickles.

Sophie walked past Aaron’s road and peeked in through the open door.

“Hey, Charline, what’s up? So I was looking through the paper and I saw an ad for the new Harry Potter movie. Wanna go? Perfect! Even though I don’t like Harry Potter.”

Sophie did her best to hold in her giggles and ran into Nick’s room, where Nick and Steph were playing Super Mario Kart. Charline and Joce were also in there, reading teen magazines.

“You, guys, guess what?!” Sophie exclaimed, now laughing her head off.

“Uh, what?” Joce asked, unsure of what was to come.

Sophie calmed down long enough to say – “Aaron is going to ask you on a date!” She laughed – pointing at Charline.

Joce and Sophie doubled over laughing. Charline looked really disgusted.

“Oh, you guys why are you laughing?” Steph asked, looking at Nick.

“Ew! Aaron’s gross!” Charline squealed.

Joce calmed down and then tried to turn serious. “Char, shut up, he might hear you.” She laughed.

Just then Aaron appeared in the doorway, and everyone was silent. It didn’t seem like he knew they were laughing at him.

“Uh, Charline. . .” he stammered. “I was looking through the paper and I saw an ad for the new Harry Potter movie. Wanna go?” He asked, looking down at his hands.

“Sure.” She smiled, being as nice as possible.

“Great.” Aaron replied, calmly. Inside, he was jumping for joy. “We’ll walk down to the Cinema, the show starts in an hour.”

And with that, they left.

As soon as they were gone, Sophie burst out laughing again.

Nick sighed. “You know, he really likes her.”

Sophie giggled. “I know it’s just that,” She burst out laughing again. “I saw him practicing that exact phrase in the mirror.”


“Two for Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets.” Aaron said handing the cashier five dollars. They got their tickets and went into the theater.

“So, uh…” Char stammered. She was at a loss for words, and would have rather been alone. In the beginning she was in awe of Aaron, them she remembered how annoying his stupid ‘rap’ songs were.

Aaron, however, was determined to show her how cool he was. “Hey, ok, I’ve got a joke for you.” He started, taking Brian’s advices on getting her to laugh. “There’s two pies in an oven. One pie says, ‘Oh man, it’s hot in here!’ The other pie says, ‘Ah! A talking pie!’

Charline smiled, but didn’t laugh. “That was stupid.”

Aaron refused to be defeated, so he took Kevin’s advice – if all else fails, blame Nick. “I know, Nick told it to me. Isn’t he lame?”

At that Charline burst into a fit of giggles. “Yeah! And he sucks at rapping. You rap better than him.” She smiled flirtatiously on her last sentence.

Aaron blushed. “Thanks.” The two shared an uncomfortable silence until the lights dimmed and the movie began. But their attention was not on the movie screen. Aaron was trying to think of more clever things to say and Charline was trying to convince herself not to like him.

Halfway through the movie, Aaron was about to stretch and then flop his arm around Charline’s shoulders, then decided against it. He looked over at her, and coincidently, it was at the same time she was looking at him. She gave a small smile and then turned back to Harry Potter. Aaron shifted in his seat. He was only fourteen years old and never really had a real girlfriend before. So he was pretty inexperienced.

After the movie, on the way home, it was dark. Charline shivered a bit, so Aaron took off his sweatshirt, gave it to her, and wore just his t-shirt. Now it was Charline’s turn to blush. Aaron was much sweeter than she thought he would be. Obviously, he didn’t take after his brother. She laughed at her own joke.

At Charline’s laughter, Aaron started laughing a little, too. “What’s so funny?” He asked. She shrugged.

“Oh, nothing.” She smirked. Aaron laughed, and they walked in silence for a few minutes.

That is, until they walked past the forest and the wind caused the trees to ruffle. Instinctively, Charline grabbed Aaron’s hand and practically jumped on him.

“Charline!” Aaron yelped, then he saw her innocent smile and couldn’t help but grin. “Oh, Hey. Charline.”

She grinned sheepishly. “Sorry. But the dark really freaks me out. Once my friends and I went to my cottage and we biked up to The Point and we saw this guy on a motorbike heading at full speed right for us –”

“Ok, Char, I get it.” He laughed. She shrugged. “So, in conclusion, guys on motorbikes scare me.”

“What does that have to do with your fear of the dark?”

Charline thought for a moment. “I don’t know!” She giggled.

Aaron looked at the ground, and his eyes caught something. “Uh, Char, we’re still holding hands.”

When he said that, Charline turned bright red. Thankfully it was dark, so Aaron didn’t notice. “Oh… that’s ok, I guess.” Her perception of him now was a lot better than it was three hours ago. She was starting to like him – not good. Steph and Joce were convinced they were meant to be, and she had to prove them wrong.

Finally, they reached the front step of the Carter household. But, before entering they just stood there, looking in each other as their faces inched closer, and closer…and closer…

“OW! Sophie! Get out of my way! I wanna see too!” Steph screeched. The girls were all peeking their heads through the curtain in an attempt to spy on Charline and Aaron.

Aaron sighed. So much for that. “Come on, Char. Let’s go inside.”