“So have you asked anyone to Homecoming yet?” asked my friend Chelsea.

“No, have you?”

“No . . . but I’m not going to be able to make it. You will, so just go and ask him!” she said.

Here’s the deal, I’v been crushing on this guy named Kyle forever. But he rarely has noticed me, even though I sit right next to him in 4th period. We text and talk sometimes, but it’s mostly if one of us doesn’t know the French word for something. Or if I’m stuck on my geometry, anyway so we never really talk about serious stuff. But there is one thing I know about him, is that he has a major crush on my friend Josie. So the one night we were texting for a while and he breaks everything.

Me: Whts da frnch wrd 4 new?

Him: Nouvelle, hav u heard bout da nws?

Me: no, wat happnd?

Him: I asked Josie to homecoming n she said yes.

Me: oh cool!

Right after he said that I turned of my phone, chucked it against a wall and ran up to my room. I sobbed forever in there, until my mom came in.

“Honey, are you going to be okay?” she asked through my door.

“No mom! Just go away!” Yet she opened the door and came in anyway.

“Honey, I know that you liked him and all, but maybe it’s for the best . . . I mean-“

“How could that be for the best? He likes someone else. End of story, not even a glimpse of Lalie in there! NONE!! Why would it be good for me? Yea sure, for her and him, but my heart is now shattered into pieces. So no, nothing in this situation is for the best.”

And I got up and laid on my bed, and pulled the covers over my face. Hoping that with this action she would leave me alone. Not so successful. She pulls down the covers and wipes away a tear.

“I’m sorry honey.” She kisses my forehead and walks out of the room. Brings back my phone and turns it on for me.

Josie: He tld u huh?

Me: yea, thts grt 4 u!

Josie: Yea, thx, but I kno u lk him n im sry.

Me: Tis ok, ill b fine.

Josie: u sure?

Me: yea, I’ll ask some1 else.

Kyle: so yea, m x-cited.

Me: cool.

Kyle: yea, I g2g, ttly

I closed my phone and just sat there. He didn’t even notice! I mean I get you can’t really read emotion thru texts but seriously?! It’s not like I wasn’t nice! I picked up the phone and called Chelsea.

“Hello?”

“Chels?”

“Hey! What’s up, you sound sad.”

“He asked someone else Chels, he asked Josie. And he decided to tell me through TEXT!!”

“Oh, Lay, I’m so sorry.”

“Me too. You remember the time when you sat on my Dulche-Gabbana sunglasses and I was MAD?”

“Yea . . . “ and I can hear in her voice that she remembered that very well.

“Well I’m that mad again.”

“Oh man.” She said.

“Oh man is right . . .” and we spent the whole night talking about him and how much of an ass he was and how we could possibly get him back.

We never really came up with anything except maybe to make him jealous. So the plan was that I was going to be with guys everywhere. And not to just be with them but BE with them. So everywhere I went, the mall, the commons, the movies, shopping, everywhere I went I had a guy with me. I started to love it, they were all my friends so it was easy to flirt with them, so it was easy to make him jealous. Then one morning Josie texted me and she was now trying to set me up with one of her friends. Ryan something, the name was familiar but I wanted to go so bad that I said if she could make it work then go ahead. So after numerous calls and texts he doesn’t want to go with someone he doesn’t know.

“So he has the nerve to call me and say ‘Way to break Ryan’s heart Lay, he wanted to go.’ And all I said was ‘I did nothing he just decided that he didn’t want to go with someone that he doesn’t know.’ So as Kyle starts getting into depth of his version I just hang up and turn the phone off.” I tell them. We were having a party at Chelsea’s house.

“Wow . . . Who knew that so much drama went into asking someone to Homecoming.” Lo said. Her name is Laura but Lo is easier.

“I did!” said Chelsea.

“Me too!” I said.

“Same here.” Taryan said.

“Ditto to that.” Alli commented.

We spent the rest of the night talking about how stupid boys can be and how kick ass we were going to look at Homecoming. We had all bought our dresses, cause we were going whether or not we have dates. Mine is black and white, Chelsea’s (who now could come) is all black, Lo’s is blue with sparkles, Taryan’s is black too, Alli’s is Chinese looking but also black and last but not least Carlie’s was black too, but had a bust line. Our friend Kellie had a date but her’s was black with white sparkles.

Homecoming Night

We all met up at Chelsea’s house for pictures. That took like an hour because parents were crying and our ride wasn’t there yet. We all kept looking at the clock, but then my phone did the ring for when I have a text. Almost everyone jumped.

We used to have this figured out,

We used to dream without a doubt . .

It was Kyle.

Kyle: So ur coming 2nite right?

Me: Yea, but I g2g, c u there.

End of conversation. Finally finally finally our ride came! And when we got to the dance we certainly made a big entrance. We were known as TACCKLL. Taryan, Chelsea, Carlie, Kellie, Lo and Lalie. SO we walked under the banner standing in a line. Like, you know how in Mean Girls when they are walking through the mall all in that line and they look like they own the place? Yeah, that was us. Carlie automatically went over to Matt, her date and began to dance. The rest of us formed a circle and started to have fun. I saw a glance of Kyle once or twice before he saw me. And it was REALLY bad timing too. Because at that second my guy friend Terry came over and started to grind with me. Right as we started Kyle caught my eye but almost instantly looked away. I let go of Terry and walked over to him. But he gets the first word.

“Don’t let me stop you from dancing with your date.” He said.

“Terry isn’t my date, he is just a friend.”

“Right just like I am just a friend. Just incase you haven’t noticed Josie ditched me so I am having a really bad night.” He said as if im supposed to feel sorry.

“Well im not having that great of a time either. I love my friends, but in case you didn’t know, the guy I liked asked someone else. SO I sorta am having a suck night too.” I told him, giving him the most obvious hint ever.

He didn’t get it, so he walked away and talked to someone else. But just a few minutes later he was over grinding with the one and only ME! It was fun, until he had to leave like, a minute into it. So that was the only good part of the evening. But the rest of the night we texted, and as I lie awake in Chelsea’s basement I think about the recent events and what they may mean. But I fall asleep before I get too far.

On Monday we texted for 3 hours straight after school. And that happened all week. So I wasn’t so surprised with what happened on Friday night.

Kyle: So wat r ur plans 4 da weekend?

Me: nothing, sleep. U?

Kyle: Well we could hang out if ur not to busy 