"Patch!!" the guys started to laugh. Just the thought of them dating struck them as funny. They had been friends for so long, that the gang could not picture them dating.

"Obviously you two are perfect for each other. I mean you both love soccer and have wild and crazy personalities. Maybe this is a sign that you should hook up," Ace examined this rather unusual situation. He couldn't understand why they have never hooked up before.

"There is no way we could hook up," Buddy laid down on his bed. A tornado of thoughts swirled around in his head. He couldn't help but think of Patch and their relationship. "Patch just wants to be friends. She definitely doesn't want anything to happen that will ruin our friendship."

"Do you know that for a fact? Maybe she does want to move on but is scared you don't want to," Spinner sat in the blowup chair next to Buddy's bed.

"Duh, of course I am sure. I know her better then her girlfriends do," Buddy sat back up and made his way back to the computer. He looked at the screen to see what she had wrote.

"What's wrong, I'm not that bad looking am I?"

"No, you are more beautiful then I ever imagined," Buddy quickly typed in. He didn't want her to thing he was a rude, insensitive male.

"So, what do you plan on doing about this?" Dandy and Ace's curiosity began to raise as they wondered what was going on in Buddy's head.

"I'm still going to make a date to meet her, and we'll have to see what develops from there. And I think I am going to ask her to go to the dance with me, even if we are just friends."

"So do you want to meet at the Ice Cream Shoppe at around 7:00. You'll know it is me cause I'll be holding a red rose," Buddy typed in his invitation.

"I would love to. See you then"

"Perfect, now I just have to sort through my thoughts and figure out what I really feel, what I'm going to say and how she might react," Buddy signed offline and laid back down on his bed.

"You are making a mountain out of a mudhill," Spinner wanted to convince Buddy that everything would be all right in the end. He sounded like Sweetheart. The two of them must live in the same fantasy world.

part 3