one stroy two souls, Vanessa [read after txt] 📗

could make me laugh at absolutely nothing. I’ve known Darcie since we where in fifth grade. That was year she accidentally got gum stuck in my hair because she thought it would match my earrings. I had to get it chopped right below my ear and to this day I refused to cut my hair any shorter than a trim, but we have been friends ever since. I couldn’t picture my life without her, she was there for me when I need her and same went for her. I was always the shy caterpillar and she was the social butterfly, but some how I have always been her shoulder to cry on.
“Aria? You keep blanking out are you okay?” Jade whispered in my ear. Man what’s going on with me today I hope I get better and soon.
“ Yeah, I m sorry” I said as I rub the temples of my head hoping it might help me concentrate.
“ Why are you apologizing to me?” she ask with a grin on her face, I shook my head
“ I don’t know.” I said laughing and she joined in, in my pointless laughter. When we stopped she nudged my arm and whispered to my ear
“Shane keep looking at you.” I turned to where she was facing. To where this guy is standing with a football in his hand, in front of a table full of girls with hearts in there eyes, drooling. “and I have heard rumors that he was asking a lot of stuff about you and…” she paused and covered her giggle “ and that he think your cute.” she had that same look in her eyes that the other girls at that table had and the way she talked about him as if he was the most important thing to her.
“ who is Shane?” I asked out of curiosity. How did he make all this girl turn in to mindless zombies at the sight of him?
“ who is Shane?” she said shaking her head bewildered by my question “only one of the hottest guys in school the captain of almost every team. I would die to be you right now.”
I wanted to say you would die if you where me right now, I didn’t want any more attention and why couldn’t anyone else see that. After I took another glace at his direction, he came with his posse of jocks to gather around where Jade and I are sitting with our lunches. I could hear Jade almost hyperventilating as he approached with a spring to his step as if he knew that we where just talking about him a few second ago. But from the look on his face it look like he expects everyone to. Shane blocked the space between me and Jade and had his back towards her as if she didn’t even exist just to talk to me. I couldn’t believe how cocky he was I didn’t care if he was the king of France or the captain of almost ever team, I didn‘t like his attitude not one bit.
“Hi I m Shane.” he said giving me a wink as he sat on the table with the football in his arm
“ Hi.” I said as I took a bite of my pizza, showing him I was not the lest interested.
“ Aria. That’s your name right?” he asked to fill the awkward silent between us.
“ Yup” I could tell he didn’t like my one word responses, he was use to all of the girls drooling over him but not this one. I was smarter I know that guys like him only want one thing and I was not going to be another notch on his bed post to go along with his other trophies.
“ I was wondering if you would like to go out on a date with me this Saturday night?” he was completely serious, now almost everyone in the cafeteria was looking at us
“I can’t I’m going out of town this weekend.” what I said was true, I just didn’t add the fact that I didn’t want to go on a date with him either.
“ Ohhh okay.” his face fell, I guess he has never been turned down before. I should tell him that sometimes life is never fair.


Grayson

I can’t believe it, I don’t thing I have ever seen Shane get turn down by anyone. I couldn’t help but laugh as Aria rejected him in front the whole school during lunch today, and the look on his face was priceless I wish I would have taken a picture.
Shane used to be one of my best friends, but we have drifted apart after he became the captain of almost every team the school offered male students. He was to busy for anyone but him self.
He thought he was better than everyone else and I couldn’t stand to be any where near him. all you heard come out his mouth was how many more push ups he could do and how he could easily lap you. It drove me crazy.
Not no mention stealing Courtney, my ex girlfriend. I caught her cheating on me with him. She dumped me. It was mind boggling that I was the one faithful to her but she was the one who easily kicked me to the curb. I thought I loved her, good thing I didn’t say it to her because I know now that she didn’t feel the same way. Now I know that love and lust are two completely different things.
Aria was on my mind walking to my physics class, why did she turn him down? Maybe she had a boyfriend back where she use to live. I mean she had to be taken. That means she’s dedicated to him. I wish I would be able to say that about Courtney when she was mine, but she jumped on the Shane train as fast as she could without even looking back.
I should stop thinking about her, she is in a relationship and I don’t want to be the Shane that breaks them apart.
An emotion wash over me I couldn’t help but feel jealous for this guy I have never meet, that carried with him Arias heart.
I spot Shane talking to his servants I mean “friends” in the hall
“Dude I can’t believe she turned me down. I mean I m the hottest guy in school what more could she want?” Shane asked his group of mindless zombies.
“She must be stupid” one of the guys in a letterman’s jacket said trying to cheer Shane up. The rest of the group nodded agreeing. This mad me mad none of them knew her but they act like the did.
“She has more brains than all of you guys put together.” I said as I walked by. That comment was suppose to stay inside of my head I didn’t know why I was defending her she wasn’t mine to protect.
“What did you say Rams?” the same guy that just called Aria stupid asked pushing his way towards me. I tried too pretend that I didn’t hear him because I really didn’t need a fight on the second day of school.
“Let it go Nick. He is not worth getting kick out of the football team for.” Shane like the power he had over them and used them often.
“ Your lucky Rams. I would have kicked your …” Nick turned away, as the Shane group went on their way.
Yeah right everyone knew that I was a fighter and I fought better than anyone. That was the only thing I was good at. Too bad that my parents did not find beating the crap out of someone was something to brag about around their snooty friends.
I lost track of how many times my parents had to get me from school for being in a fight. Them yelling at me on the ride home was the most parenting they did in a year.
I would like to think that they yelled because they cared about me some where deep deep down so I would look forward to being sent home just to hear them speak to me like I actually mattered to them. Like they wanted something better for me.
I don’t fight anymore it only reminds me of how sad my childhood was and that my parents didn’t love me at all.

***


The last bell rings, yes school was finally done, right now nothing sounded better than the noise of freedom. I walked out world history following the mob of people stopping at their lockers, going out the doors and running to the bus.
I saw Nick bump Aria making her drop all her stuff on the floor. He just left her there. She looked at the floor where all her notebooks were scattered and took a heavy breathe and kneeled down to pick them up. I ran and grabbed what I could, I scanned the loss paper that fell out of one of the notebooks it was a drawing of a broken heart being squashed by a hand. It was well detailed but dark.
“Wow! Did you draw this?” I asked pointing to the picture
“Because if you did you are really talented. Wow!” she blushed, the color of cheeks bring out her plump lips.
“Thank you” she said shyly taking the books from my hand, she looked down not meeting my eyes. I noticed that the hall wasn’t as packed as it before. where did everyone go?
“ I m sorry about that Nick’s not the kindest kid around” I said hoping to start a conversation with her.
“ Why did you help me?” her question caught me off guard, to be truthful I didn’t know.
“ I don’t know” I told her “maybe because I know how it feels to move to a different school.” and maybe secretly I wanted you to like me, helping you out would be my brownie points.
“ Well whatever the reason is, thank you.” she got up and offering me her hand and I took it, it was not because I needed it but because I wanted it.
“ so why did you move to------?” I asked as we walked out the door to the parking lots
“It’s difficult to understand… my life is complicated right now and…” she paused, looking at her you could tell that there was sadness in her eyes which she closed as she took in a big breath.
“ you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want too.” she opened her eyes a tear slowly fell down on her left cheek.
“You know you’re the first one to ask me what I wanted since I we moved here?” she wiped the tear off her face and looked down at her feet.
“ Why won’t you look at me?” I asked before thinking, I took my hand and raised her chin making her look at me straight in the eyes. She smiles
“Why do you ask so many questions?”
“ Because… I want to know you better.” I smiled back we where standing so close I could hear her breathing go up when I answered her question.
“ Well… I should go.” she said braking the silent. Those where the last words wanted to hear coming out between her lips. Did my words make her uncomfortable to a point where she felt like she a had to leave. I