Chapter 1

POV: Jasmine

Well, time to get up, I thought to myself as I hit the button on my alarm clock as it buzzed noisily. I hated mornings, I was never a morning person. I groaned as I jumped out of my bed and stumbled into my bathroom. I got ready for school, doing all the basics-putting contacts in, brushing teeth and hair, etc.- and then rushing downstairs for breakfast. I greeted my parents as I fixed myself some Fruity Pebbles cereal. My mom was eating some breakfast, while my dad was reading the newspaper.

“Good morning, sweetie, ready for your first day of high school?” my mom asked.

“Yeah, I guess so,” I said, nervous. Luckily, I was an only child: most of my friends have siblings, and have told me all about their experiences with them, scaring me from ever wanting one myself. I ate as fast as I could, then grabbed my backpack.

“Bye, mom, bye dad,” I said as I ran out the door.

“Bye,” I heard them shouting after me as I ran to the school bus that was just pulling up. I jumped on, excited about my first day of school.

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School was pretty fun. Before 1st period, I caught up with all my friends. We had our own little group with all of us popular girls. We were really tight.

“Hey, girl, are you gonna try to find a guy this year?” my friend, but not part of our group, Stacy, asked.

“Uh, I guess so,” I responded quickly, then hurried off to first period. There were a few new people in our class, including some new, hot guys. One in particular caught my eye. He was very hot, with short bronze hair and almost honey colored eyes, eyes that seemed strange, I had never in my entire life seen eyes that shade. He had very pale skin, the palest I had ever seen. He was pretty unique. I had the feeling that I was starting to like him. He was everything I wanted in a guy: cute, smart, funny, unique. But all the girls were already over him. I knew it would be hopeless for me to even try to be noticed by him or even talk to him. At lunch, I sat with my friends: Amy, Maria, Natalie, Sarah, and Diana. We were a really close group of friends. We did everything together.

“Hey, guys,” I said as I sat down after I got my food from the lunch line.

“Hey girl, how was your first day so far?” Diana, the outgoing girl in our group, asked.

“Pretty good,” I said.

“Well, any cute guys?” Natalie, the popular and flirty girl in our group, asked.

“Uhm, maybe one,” I said, blushing. All the girls’ heads instantly turned in my direction.

“Who????” they all asked at once.

“Uhm, his name’s Jordan,” I said, blushing even harder.

“Oh, that new really hot guy that most of the girls are stalking?” Diana asked. I nodded my head and began to look over at Jordan, daydreaming. All of a sudden, I was brought back to reality when the bell rang ending the lunch period.

“Come on, girl, snap outta it!” Natalie said, pushing me playfully as everyone started making their way out of the cafeteria. I walked to my locker and began to grab my things for 5th period when I realized, to my delight, that Jordan’s locker was 2 lockers down from mine! This is my chance… it’s now or never! I thought to myself as he walked to his locker and began to grab his books. He looked in my direction, and I immediately looked away, becoming suddenly nervous and shy that he had caught me looking at him. The rest of the day was pretty normal, even though my new crush hadn’t even really noticed me, but I didn’t think he would. I mean, he probably couldn’t see anything past the circle of girls that surrounded him when he walked to each class, and even at lunch. I walked home by myself, wanting time to think. I might as well move on, it’ll be hopeless for him to notice me, I thought to myself. Soon I arrived at my house and walked in, greeting my cat, Princess, as I walked upstairs to my room. My parents didn’t get off until 5:00, so I had 2 hours to myself. I pulled up a word document and started to write. Whenever I’ve got something big in my life going on, it always helps me to vent through writing poetry. I ended up writing a poem entitled: Will He Ever Notice Me? and saved it in my poem folder. I logged on to IM and saw that Natalie, Amy, and Diane were online. I talked to them in a conference for a while, and then logged off when I realized it was 4:30. I still needed to do my homework. I worked on it and finished it just as my parents got home. I went downstairs and helped my mom cook dinner. After dinner, I went upstairs and got ready for bed, while daydreaming of Jordan. I climbed into bed and fell asleep, dreaming of Jordan.

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