Chapter 1
Semi edited.
Buzz buzz buzz.
I jolt from my sleep and lazily reach for my phone to shut off my alarm.
I don't want to go to school.
Once I shut it off, like most teenagers I scroll through social media for a few minutes before I get up.
As I'm scrolling I see my friend Megan enjoying her trip to the Bahamas for the next 3 weeks.
Lucky bitch.
I put my phone down and sit up stretching and wishing I could go back to sleep, but luckily school is almost over.
I live in Miami beach Florida and we get out of school in the middle of May so we have a few more weeks until summer vacation and my birthday.
Right around when school let's out is my birthday and I'm really excited since I'm turning 16.
I'm not the type of person to want a flashy sweet 16, just a party in my backyard with my family and friends and we can swim in my pool.
I mean which sounds more fun, a pool party or a party where you spend way too much money on an itchy dress you're probably never going to wear again, and uncomfortable shoes?
I'll stick to my pool party.
Before I leave my room I put my phone on the charger and go downstairs to eat breakfast.
I walked into the kitchen. "Morning" I said to my parents.
"Good morning honey" Mom said.
"Morning pumpkin" Dad said.
I go grab some waffles and put them in the fridge, then grab the syrup and a bottle of water.
A few minutes later my mom leaves the kitchen to go wake up my little brother Ethan.
He's a few years younger than me so he gets to sleep in a little bit later than me.
Lucky booger.
After breakfast I get ready for school.
I text Megan saying how jealous I am of her that she's on vacation.
Megan moved here last year and we slowly became friends.
We were closer in eighth grade and when we came to highschool that changed.
I've always been a loner because when I was younger I had a group of friends that were like my best friends, but were 2 faced so as soon as I saw their true colors I dropped them and stuck to being by myself until Megan came along.
Megan is the total opposite of me and found herself with the popular crowd within the first week of highschool and don't get me wrong I'm happy for her, but since she became friends with them she doesn't hangout with me as much.
Many times she's ditched me to hangout with her new friends or guys, actually she ditched me quite a few times to hangout with a guy she was talking to.
Even last year she was boy crazy and that has only gotten worse now that we're in highschool and there's more guys in the school.
If you're wondering why I'm still friends with her after all that, I honestly don't know.
Maybe I'm just holding onto the hope she changes or something.
When I get to school I go to my locker and grab my books for first period.
As I'm grabbing my books from my locker I see a guys coming out of the main office holding a piece of paper that I'm assuming is a class schedule.
He raises his head and holy shit is he hot.
He has quaffed medium brown hair and baby blue eyes that I can see from where I'm standing since I'm less than 10 feet away from him.
It's been awhile since we've gotten a new kid let alone a hot one.
He'll be in the popular group in no time with looks like that.
I shut my locker and walk to my class, but I quickly realize that I have to walk past the guy.
Ok, don't do anything stupid.
I know he won't come up to talk to me since I'm not what most guys go for.
It's not like I'm unattractive, I think I'm really pretty with my wavy dirty blonde hair, blue-green eyes, and nice smile thanks to having braces in middle school, but it's that I'm flat chested and don't really have an ass.
I'm pretty lanky and top that off with having no boobs and I'm basically invisible to guys so that's how I know if I walk past this guy he won't pay attention to me, but since I don't have much experience with guys there's a strong possibility I'll do something stupid by accident.
I get closer to him and start to freak out.
Ok, he's just another hot guy, just walk past him and get to class.
"Hey" He called out just as I walked closer in his direction.
I feel my body start to heat up and my nerves kick in.
I'm definitely sweating through my deodorant right now.
I swallow and walk towards him, my heart racing a mile a minute. "Yeah?"
My palms start sweating like crazy.
Whatever you do don't shake his hand.
I looked down at his schedule then locking his baby blues with mine. "How do I get to room 105?" He asked.
He wants me to direct him to the science class? Yeah I think I can do that without making a fool of myself.
I lick my lips. "Ye-Yeah it's down the hall to your right" I said pointing to the door down the hallway.
He smiled. "Thanks" He said walking in that direction.
When he's out of sight I let out a breath.
I hope I don't have any classes with him because I'll totally make a fool of myself like I just did stuttering.
*
Thankfully I didn't end up having any classes with him, but I did see him in the hallway on the way to math class.
Have you ever had a crush on someone you only see here or there, but don't know their name? Yeah that's exactly what happened with this guy.
When I see him in the hallway I discreetly check him out from a decent distance away so it seems like I look straight ahead instead of at him.
I've come up with stupid little fantasies about me dropping something on purpose right in front of him and he bends down to help me and we walk, maybe I just ask for him name or in some fantasies I'm really bold and ask for his number.
Has anyone else has those type of fantasies about their crushes, especially at school?
I mean I've had crushes before, but never to this extent and I think that has to do with I don't know his name or anything about him, it's the mystery aspect.
Any crushes in the past were on someone I actually knew so I think that's why this is different.
The rest of the day goes by pretty quick and Megan texted me that she got home this afternoon so she wants to hangout.
I texted her I should be off the bus in 15 minutes since I live close to the school.
When I get off the bus I go inside to have a quick snack and wait for Megan to get here.
Just as I finish my snack Megan pulls up.
I throw my garbage away and head outside to see her.
"Hey... How was your vacation?" I asked her.
She's not a huggy type person so I don't bother hugging her.
I see she got plenty of sun from the bronze tan she got, that only enhances her appearance.
She has straight brown hair, dark blue eyes, model like features and a body that looks like someone way older than just 16.
She sighed. "It was so good, I didn't want to leave" She said.
"Nice, what did you do?"
"We went snorkeling, paddle boarding, jet skiing, not to mention all the different activities at the resort" She said.
"Lucky, that sounds like so much fun."
"It was, not to mention the sexy cabana boys that I had some fun with" She smirked.
Of course... boys.
"Well that's good you had a good time."
"Yeah. So what do you wanna do?" She asked.
I shrugged. "I don't know, we could walk around the neighborhood or go shoot hoops."
"Basketball sounds good" She said.
"Ok, let me go get my ball and we'll walk over."
"Ok" She said.
One of the few things we have in common is we both like basketball.
We both played on the varsity team this year, but we were second string so we didn't get to play much.
In the cul-de-sac where I live there's a basketball court and tennis court not far from my house so we don't have a long walk.
I grab my ball and a couple of waters and head back outside to Megan.
"So I heard we got a really hot new kid" She said.
My stomach clenches because I already know that once she sets her sights on this guy it's game over.
I know it's stupid because I know I don't have a chance with him considering I don't even know him, but on some level I want my crush all to myself if that makes sense.
"Yeah I heard about him, but haven't seen him yet" I lied through my teeth.
"I heard from Danielle that he's so hot and one day in gym class she caught a glimpse of his abs when he lifted his shirt to wipe his face" She said.
I wish I would've been in that gym class.
For the rest of the walk she talks about the guy and the stories she's heard about him.
As we get closer to the courts I noticed a guy shooting hoops at the back basket.
Looks like we're not the only ones here.
"Oh look, someone's already here" She said.
There's a bunch of people who live in my neighborhood from school so there's a good chance it's someone we got to school with.
We open the fence like door since both the basketball court and tennis court are fenced in.
When we get in the guy who was playing turns around to see who came in.
Holy shit it's the new guy from school.
"Damn, he's hot" She checked him out.
She'll have her claws sunk in deep pretty soon.
"Hey, why don't we introduce ourselves?" She asked.
I honestly don't know why she's asking me because I know she'll go over on her own.
I dribble my ball. "Nah I'm good" I shoot a foul shot.
She rolls her eyes. "Whatever, it's your loss" She walked in the direction of the guy.
It is my loss especially when Megan is involved.
