A young boy around the age of 16 sits on the chair of his desk with a bunch of papers scattered in front of him. He writes a bit on one of them and then crumples it up and throws it in the garbage. The garbage can is full of crumpled up papers both inside and around it.
His forehead leans upon his hand and his fingers intertwine with his hair. His face is dark and his features can’t be made out. Sitting up straight he looks at the paper in front of him.
He takes the pen in his left hand and lays the point on the clean sheet of paper. Almost as soon as the tip of the pen touches the paper he begins to write down something. The pen moves swiftly as if it has a mind of its own and suddenly comes to a stop.
The boy puts the pen down and folds the paper, but not quite in half just enough to cover the part he had written on. He brings the folded paper to his mouth and runs his tongue across the edge. Unfolding it, he lays a hand flatly on both sides and begins to tear the paper where he had licked it. He leans over to his right side and grabs a dark green book bag, which looked almost empty. He unzips the front pocket and puts the torn piece of paper inside.
He quickly zips it up again and throws it to the floor.
"I can’t believe I’m doing this." His eyes narrow towards the book bag but he closes his eyes and breaths deeply.
The hand which was on top of his desk clenches up into a fist. He stands up almost knocking his chair over.
"This wouldn’t so hard if I hadn’t…" He doesn’t finish his sentence, but instead looks up and lets out a sigh of frustration. He was going to do this. His pride wouldn’t get to him this time.
He walks slowly towards his book bag and looks down on it. He shakes his head and walks towards the light switch.
"Why her?" He says taking one last look at his green book bag and turning off the lights.
Chapter 1
She walked towards her locker with a beautiful smile printed on her face. While walking through the semi-crowded hallways she receives some nasty looks. Disregarding them she held her head up high and turned the knob on her lock until it made a clicking noise. She opened it up and put some of her books inside.
"Alex!" she heard her name being called and stood up, since she had been kneeling because of the fact that her locker was on the bottom half.
"Michael!" She smiled and blushed a little, "How are you?". There he was. The man of her dreams.
"I’ve been meaning to ask you something, Alex" He brushed his hand over his navy blue ROTC jacket and looked into her dark brown eyes.
Her heart stopped for a moment and she casually grabbed her books that were on the floor. She closed her locker and stood up again to look at him. Her books were in her arms and she hugged them tightly at the thought of what he was about to ask.
He’s finally going to ask me out she thought delighted.
Michael was a very clean cut guy. He was in the ROTC, had beautiful hazel green eyes and light brown hair which had an army cut.
"Yes?" She asked formally and fluttered her eyes brows. He laughed a bit at this and she turned red.
"Well you wanna come to the mo-"
She cut him off and quickly said "Yes!". He blinked at her and smiled like he was about to laugh.
"Well that’s great!" He smiled tenderly at her, "I’ll pick you up ok? It’ll all be a lot more organized then if we all meet at the movies. Saturday at 6".
She was hardly listening to his words, she just nodded and smiled dreamily. He waved at her and told her he had to go to class.
She squealed to herself and saw her best friend, Lilyette walking towards her. She had beautiful blond hair baby blue eyes and a very exotic name. It was like the French version of Lily.
She ran towards her best friend and practically knocked her over.
"Oh my god! You’ll never believe what just happened!" Alex screamed.
"What.. What is it?" She asked excitedly.
"Michael just asked me out!!!!" Alex squealed and jumped up and down, "Saturday at 6!!! To the movies". She looked up an sighed happily. Lily’s expression changed from excited to suddenly serious.
"What?" Alex looked at her, "Aren’t you happy for me?".
Lily bit her bottom lip and placed a strand of golden blond hair behind her ear.
"Alex…" Lily giggled a bit to herself, "He asked me too…".
"What?!?!" Alex yelled, "What the he-"
"Calm down!!" Lily interrupted her, "He asked a small group of his friends to come with him to the movies. You were probably day dreaming and didn’t hear him." She put a hand over her shoulder and laughed a bit, "My poor Alexia".
Alex grr’ed jokingly at her best friend, "You know I hate that name! Don’t call me it!". Although she was disappointed it wasn’t a date she could use it to her advantage. She would sit next to him and if Lily was right and it was the movie Signs (with Mel Gibson) then she could hang onto his shoulder in the scary parts. It was perfect, she thought to herself.
"Who else is coming?" She asked Lily while they walked to their first period English class.
"Well.. You, me, him and…" She paused and looked at Alex, "Scott".
They both laughed knowingly, for it was a known fact (between them at least) that Lilyette Wilson had a Mayor crush on Scott Diaz.
They entered the classroom only to see that the teacher had made new seating charts. They each looked on the over head to find there names.
They found both their seats and they were both sitting next to each other. The classroom had one of the desks that were in rows and you had two people sitting next to you. Unless of course you were in the corner.
"This is perfect" Alex whispered in her friend Lily’s ear.
"Yeah now we can talk"
"No I mean the movies. Scott ‘s coming so you can sit next to him and I’ll sit next to Michael."
Lily nodded. "I can’t wait".
Their conversation was interrupted by the horrible sound of the bell. The only time that bell sounded like music was when it dismissed classes.
When the class continued to talk even after the bell rang the English teacher, Mrs. Wilson raised her voice over the class.
"Excuse me, I think I heard the bell ring" The class got a bit quiet and many faces turned to her.
"Laura, Stop talking or you are going to get a detention." Some heads turned to a girl with dark silky red hair and light blue eyes. She rolled her eyes and blew a pink bubble of gum.
"And throw your gum away. Now" The teacher was getting irritated now, "Anyone else who has gum throw it away now as well."
A few students, including Laura, got up to throw away their gum. It wasn’t an extremely honest class, But the whole class knew that once the teacher said, "Everyone throw your gum away" you had to, because if she caught you (which she always did) she would give you an automatic detention. Or D-hall as the students liked to refer to it as.
Alex looked over at Lily and she looked back giving her the same look. They were both thinking the same thing.
They didn’t like Laura at all. She was a stuck up brat who always made fun of them both.
When the teacher was finally able to start the class she gave them their assignments and allowed the class to talk softly while working.
Alex and Lily were talking quietly about the movies and this Saturday.
"I don’t even know what I’m going to wear!" Alex picked up her pencil and looked over at Lily who was on her left side.
"You could always wear the pink skirt you just bought. It’s just so cute" Lily kept her eyes on her work.
"Yeah you’re right" Alex was so excited that she accidentally bumped her arm with the person sitting on her right side.
She looked over to see who it was.
"I’m sor--" She started but didn’t finish because her eyes noticed who she was sitting next to.
"You made me mess up." The guy sitting next to her looked very annoyed.
"I’m sorry ok?" Alex said very annoyed herself.
"Well sorry wont fix the huge line across the page now WILL it?" He put his pencil down, lifted up his paper and showed her the line where he had messed up.
"Get your stupid paper out of my face" Alex pushed the paper away, "Don’t be such a baby, Randy. Use a freakin’ eraser."
Randy passed a hand through his dark blond hair, "I was writing with a pen you idiot".
"Asshole" she spat and turned back to Lily. She had better things to do then talk to that stupid jerk. He hated her and visa versa. He was friend with Laura and her ‘crew’. Figures! Laura, Randy and their friends were the popular people that everyone wanted to be. Everyone except the exceptional few who were smart enough to see that all they were, were just a bunch of pretty faces smacked in a brainless head.
She groaned angrily and started doing her work. There was the occasional arm bumping with Randy, but each of them decided to ignore one another. After a torturing 45 minutes the bell rang. Alex got up and said bye to her best friend. She then went happily along with her daily routine. English, Music, Math, Lunch, World Civ, Gym and finally, Science.
Chapter 2
No...none of that Sarah-lee You will have to wait for this chap >.>…… <.<
