Chapter 1

What would you do if the one you like is already going out with someone?

"Ashley!" someone shouted.

I looked up, it was Mia, my best friend. "Hi." I smiled.

"So, I just wanted to tell you that Joey asked me out!" she said giddily.

"Really? I'm happy for you." I said giving her a bear hug.

"I want you to pick my dress." she smiled.

"Of course." I smiled. Mia Hathaway, my best friend since birth. She has perfect blonde hair, beautiful eyes and perfect white teeth.

Me on the other hand, have unruly long black hair with freckles across the bridge of my nose. In short, opposite of Mia. But I never got jealous of her, she's my best friend for crying out loud.

"Thanks Ash. See you at lunch."

"See you." I waved.

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My professor is the most boring teacher. "You have to mix the H2O- blah blah blah blah."

I looked around the classroom. Everybody's doing the usual stuff. By usual I mean: passing notes, texting, sleeping, eating and drooling on someone else's Chenistry book.

I looked at my watch. Only 1 minute before the bell rings. 5…4…3…2…1 Yes, I'm outta here. I was the first to leave the class.

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Cafeteria.

I saw Mia waving at me from our usual table. I set my tray on the table and sat across from her.

"Hey." She smiled. "Chemistry giving you a hard time?"

"You have no idea." I said. "I don't want to talk about that. Let's just eat.

"Lets" she agreed.

I dug in my cheeseburger. I was really really hungry.

"You know…Ash. You should slow down, you'll choke yourself to death." She teased.

"I'm just so hungry." I said. Then something caught my eye or someone. It's Tiffany Stanton, the queen of the damned, the most popular girl in school. Hand in hand with her boyfriend, Charlie Howe, the most popular guy in school / captain of the basketball team / quarterback of the football team.

Can he be captain of the basketball team and be the quarterback of the football team at the same time? Now they're walking to their NERD FREE table with Tiffany's friends and Charlie's jock friends.

I looked around the cafeteria. Everybody's eyes were on them. Like they just came out of nowhere. Sure, Tiffany has a model's body and Charlie has these piercing blue eyes. He's just so handsome.

Oh yeah. Forgot to tell you. I like Charlie Howe for 7 years. Shocking isn't it? And Mia doesn't know. Why? Because last 6 years , she had a crush on him too. And what am I supposed to do? tell her that I have a crush on her crush? That's going to be messy. So I just kept my mouth shut but now that she's no longer interested in hm. I think I'll just keep my secret a little bit longer.

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"Ash, what do you think of Joey?" Mia asked while she was looking for a book inside my locker.

"I don't know. I never did actually met him. Yet." I said stuffing my books in my backpack.

Oh, shit. My backpack's zipper is broken again. God, if your really there, for once can I not have a broken zipper?

"What's wrong?" Mia asked.

"Nothing. It's just this stupid zipper." I said struggling to keep all of my things together.

"Maybe you should chang it." Mia suggested.

"Again. My mom would kill me." I exclaimed. "I had a zillion backpacks with broken zippers in just one semester."

"Don't worry. I'll lend you my extra bag." Mia suggested.

"No." I kept moving the freakin' zipper back and forth. Then it finally closed. I sighed with relief. "It's already fixed."

"Okay, if you say so." Mia said unconvinced.

I smiled reassuringly. "Let's go to class."

"You go without me, I have something to do first." Mia said walking away.

"Okay, see you." I waved.