A Replacment

Start of Something New

I pace around the living room, anxious to get this all over with so we could go back to our lives.

But if what Andrew has to show you is as bad as you think, you may not be able to go back to your normal life. The stupid voice in the back of my head says. I shake my head to get rid of those irritating thoughts when I hear a knock on the door. I rub my hands together and open the door. Andrew stands there with the same troubled look he had when I saw him this morning. I welcome him in and he sits down on the couch.

I run up to my room and get the movie, then I sit down next to Andrew, neither of us saying a word, and we watch the movie in silence. I take a deep nervous breath as the movie starts.

With Kiki

Kiki padded over to the ice cream shop, nervously wringing her hands together as she anticipated Devon's arrival, and really wished that she'd had a mirror on her. What if she had something in her teeth, or her hair was sticking out in weird places, or she had a booger hanging out of her nose.

The brunette surfer girl mentally panicked over her thoughts and began looking for anything that could be used as a mirror. She grabbed a spoon off of some random table and checked to see if any hairs were out of place, but the spoon was much too small to use, so she tossed it aside and fumbled around for anything else.

After almost tripping over the high heels she was wearing, Kiki abruptly stopped and took a deep breathe to calm herself, and scolded herself for panicking over some boy she just met.

But Devon's the first boy to ever be interested in you, her mind shot back. It was true though, being a background character doesn't give you much time to get noticed, especially by boys, so when Devon asked her out, it made her feel like she wasn't invisible anymore, she finally felt noticed.

Kiki glanced at a window in a closed nearby shop and saw her reflection. Walking slowly to it, she put her hand on it, still not able to believe that the girl looking back was actually her, plain, cheerful quiet little Kiki. She never thought she could ever look like that, and ever since coming to this strange world, Kiki felt like she was a completely different person, a person that actually belongs here.

This morning when she woke up, Kiki noticed that when she got up, her hair was an absolute mess, and looked like a, what Nikki would call, a birds nest, and when she went into the bathroom and yawned, she couldn't help but gag at her foul smelling breathe, and upon looking in the mirror, she saw a small zit appearing on her forehead. While most girls would find these things very irritating, Kiki couldn't help but smile and laugh at how ridiculous she looked.

In Wet Side Story, everything is perfect, not a single hair is out of place, everyone has minty fresh breath and sparkling white teeth, and all the girls' skin is perfectly flawless, not a zit or blemish in sight, but to Kiki, everything was just...too perfect. Kiki soon found out that she actually liked having such small problems like this, it made her feel like a real person, and not a character in a movie.

But would Devon like her, even if she wasn't perfect? Kiki shrugged that thought off, even though she just met him that day, Kiki could tell that Devon was a really good guy, and wouldn't care what she looked like.

Kiki tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and feels a tap on her shoulder. A large grin appears on her face and she quickly turns around to face a very nice and very nervous looking Devon.

He was wearing a dark blue button up shirt, black jeans, and black and white sneakers, and in his hands he held a single rose.

Kiki could tell that he didn't own many fancy clothes, so the fact that he had gone through so much trouble just to look good for her, warmed her heart.