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‘Benedick’ or ‘Claudio’ – I’ll bet my life on it.”
    Kale raised his
eyebrows, “I’m intrigued; you seem so sure. How about we put a
wager on it?”
    Izzie smirked
at him, “Ok, I’m interested, what are the terms?”
    Kale thought
for a moment; this was the perfect chance to get her to agree to
something she would otherwise decline.
    “Ok, if Ms
Belson casts me as ‘Benedick’ or ‘Claudio’; I’ll pay for us to go
out for dinner after the roles are announced … but if she doesn’t,
you pay. What do you say?”
    Izzie shook her
head in disbelief, “I say that involves me, you and dinner, no
matter what the outcome is.”
    Kale looked
smug, “Yeah and? Come on, what do you say? If you’re right you get
a free dinner?”
    Izzie shook her
head and laughed at him, “You’re a trier; I’ll give you that. Fine
but I pick the place, deal?”
    Kale held out
his hand, “It’s a deal.” Izzie grasped his hand and shook it and as
she did so, she felt the most peculiar sensation shoot through her;
she actually felt butterflies in her stomach; surely she, of all
people, couldn’t be getting excited at the prospect of eating
dinner with Kale Eddison? She shook her head to clear her thoughts
and made her way to English Lit.; Kale following her closely
behind.
     
    As the school
day drew to a close, Izzie found herself wishing that the week was
over; already she felt she had made a huge mistake agreeing to
dinner with Kale. She quickly pushed these thoughts away as she
made her way to her locker and gathered the books she needed for
her homework later that night. As she made her way out, she noticed
all the television vans and reporters congregated in the car park;
she had forgotten about Kale’s conference. She quickly struggled
through the vast crowd until she made it to her car and got behind
the safety of closed doors. She took a fleeting glance around and
found she was blocked in; she sighed, she knew she’d have to wait
until the conference was over – no way would the T.V. van move now,
not when Kale was about five minutes from greeting them all. All of
a sudden, Izzie noticed the crowd of reporters hurry towards the
front doors of the school; it looked like Kale had presented
himself. She saw them all file into the school and figured that the
conference must be happening in the Staff Room. Before she knew
what she was doing, she found herself getting out of her car and
following the throng of people; she was curious as to how Kale
would act in front of all these journalists. Izzie managed to sneak
in at the back and nobody questioned her so it looked like she was
safe. She ducked behind a rather large man and prayed he wouldn’t
move or Kale would surely spy her sitting there. There was a lot of
fuss and commotion while the reporters got out their notepads and
the interviewers checked their microphones. Finally there was
silence and Kale spoke to them all.
    “Hey everyone,
thanks for coming today. Before I answer any of your questions
though, I wanted to say I appreciate you all letting me have my
privacy while I settled in here at Hartside High. So, who’s first?”
Kale looked around the room and tried to look for the reporter that
looked the least invasive. He spied Chuck Simpson; a journalist
from one of the biggest international newspapers and also, one of
the nicest people you’d ever meet. Kale was relieved and pointed to
him; at least he was guaranteed that he wouldn’t get any awkward or
intensely personal questions from him.
    “Chuck … how’s
it going big guy? What do you wanna know?”
    Chuck smiled at
Kale gratefully; the kid was always so nice to him – giving him the
exclusives - and he appreciated it; it got his boss off his back on
numerous occasions.
    “I’m doing
alright kid, thanks for asking. Anyway, how you getting on with the
whole normal school experience? I’m sure it’s a shock to the system
- not to mention that the entire female population that attend