Hey, James. Wanna go out sometime? Matt.

Charlie! You’ll never guess what Matt Willis just asked me. He wanted to know if I wanted to go out with him sometime! What a loser! James.

Geek alert! Say yes, JB. We can totally humiliate him, and he’ll learn his lesson about asking out populars. Chaz.

Right. Fine. Hang on, I’ll just say yes to him. J.

Matt. That would be good. What did you have in mind?

I have tickets to Fall Out Boy next week. You interested?

James, did I see Matt pass you a note? What’s going on? You still like him, right? Steve.

I like him, but I can’t. Charlie would think I was a freak.

Screw Charlie! (Not literally, I’m kind of rooting for you and Matt.) Just go for what you want. Popularity isn’t everything.

It is in this school.

What’s going on, Matt? Did you ask him? Tom.

I asked him to the concert. He hasn’t replied yet, though. I don’t think he’s going to. Why did you tell me to do this? I feel like an idiot.

Don’t. He turns you down; you take it as a sign and move on.

I don’t want to move on.

Then you better hope he says yes.

Would you just say yes? You’ve liked him for too long to turn him down. In fact, I’m not talking to you again until you ask him.

Steve, you would never give me that privilege…

Well? Have you said yes yet?

Matt, that would be awesome. Can we get there early and stand in front of Patrick?

Well, I’m more of a Pete fan myself… But I’ll make the sacrifice.

That’s so typical! Everyone’s a Pete fan, when clearly the anti-front man rocks. Besides, everyone’s going to try to stand in front of Pete.

That’s a sign that he’s the best…

As if! Patrick all the way… Take a banner if you want his attention so badly. Look, do you want to do something else before the concert?

Well?

Well?

Well?

I’ve said yes. But what am I going to say to Charlie? He wants to humiliate Matt!

Lie to Charlie about where you’re going to be. He’ll turn up at the location, you won’t be there, and you can say that there was a change of plans on Matt’s side.

Right. Thanks.

He said yes! Tom, you have no idea how happy I am right now.

That’s great. Now maybe you’ll stop acting so depressed. It was getting us all down.

I dunno. That depends on how it goes…

It’ll go fine. Stop worrying.

I’ve said yes. We’re meeting at Starbucks on Saturday.

Perfect. There’ll be enough people there to humiliate him. By the way, I saw that dork Steve pass a note to you. What did that freak want?

He’s not a freak.

James, I know you live next door to him and you’re old friends and all that sentimental crap, but if you truly want to be popular, you have to shake loose limpets like him.

What? Like, this week? Yeah. That would be cool. It would give me time to assess if I really want to take you to this concert.

You know you do… Wanna go to Starbucks? We can just talk- without notes.

Sure. Sounds good. When?

Go for it, James. You don’t need popularity. You don’t even want it.

Just go for it, Matt. You know this is what you want.

Populars don’t hang around with losers, James. It’s a rule. And if you want to stay in with us, you better stick to the rules.

How about Saturday?

Remember; get Willis to Starbucks on Saturday. We’ll sort him out.

I can’t, Matt. I’m busy Saturday. How about Friday?

Great.

Cool. See you then.