What About Us?

Chapter 1

Beforehand

Blank space. That's all I see right now. A stupid white wall. There isn't even ONE drop of color on this wall. Who even paints a wall white? My color is more like dark colors, like black. But this?! This is like a blank canvas waiting to be painted on. Just like my life.

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Chapter 1

Acceptance day. The day those stupid letters come in the mail. The letters that make your destiny. The person you are going to be in life.

"Honey? Can you please go get the mail please?"

"Can't you go get it yourself? I know why you are sending me to get the mail," I respond to my mom, not getting my attention off my phone.

"LAURA ABIGAIL MENDEZ GO GET THE MAIL!!"

"Fine," I mumble. I grab some random shoes I find, and head outside.

"Damnit," I whisper. "He's out."

"Hey Laura!" he says all happily. Play cool, I think to myself as I walk over to his yard.

"Hey Daniel," I cooly respond.

"You know what...." I get lost in his eyes, not know what he said after that.

"HEY!" he says as he snaps his fingers.

"Oh sorry, what did you say?"

"I said do you know what college you got into?"

"Oh, no, that's what I was going to do, I was going to this mailbox over here, yea, I hope I get into UCLA. Or Princeton. Princeton is also a good school. What school-"I get cut off.

"DANNY!"

"Oh, hey Meredith," Daniel says bored.

"Laura."

"Meredith."

"Oh Danny, babe? You would not GUESS what college, would you mind Laura but I will like to talk to my bae ALONE?!"

"Yeah, I get it, bye Daniel," I say.

Daniel mouths sorry to me before being pulled by Meredith to his swing on his patio. I walk over to the mailbox, that has my mom's and dad's handprints. I fight back the tears that are coming to my eyes. Ever since my dad died when I was 10, I have changed from this perfect little daughter to the rebel daughter that every parent doesn't want to have. And my mom and I might seem like we are perfectly like each other, we actually don't.Check, check, payment, check, yes. One after the other the other, acceptance letters when piling up in my hand. Before I went into the house, I heard a "WHAT?!" escape from Meredith's mouth, with a smirk on my face knowing they aren't going to the same college.

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I gave my mom all those boring junk and ran to my room. I organized the letters from most to least liked. I started at the least end, so if I don't get accepted to that school well there's others. And I'm leaving the best for last, as many say. I open my least favorite college. One after the other, they said "We've considered your application but..." and I didn't have to read more. All of them until I came to my most favorite school. UCLA. Where nobodies turn into somebodies. I open it, slowly, carefully. I'm too scared to see if I got accepted or not, so I call my best friend Dylan. In 10 minutes, she's at my house.

"Hi, Mrs.Mendez"

"Hi Dylan."

When we get to my room, she takes the letter away from my hand and starts reading.

"Dear Ms. Mendez, we highly appreciated your dedicated application...," Dylan read. Its over, I'm not accepted, might as well start going to city colleges. "And we are gladly excited to tell you that YOU ARE GOING TO BE ATTENDING UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES THIS FALL!" "WHAT?!" We start to dance around my room, and my mom came in 5 minutes later and we also drag her in and start dancing. Once we stop, and my mom leaves, I look out the window to see Daniel practicing his guitar. He's just so cute. I fall back on my bed,

"What's up?" Dylan asked.

"I think I'm in love, Dylan, IN LOVE!"

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Hello people!

This is my backup account for YaniraCortez, but instead of fan fiction, I'll be writting like realistic stories, kinda. So yea, I hope you liked this beginning. I'll make a schedule to update, for this account and my main account. Keep in mind that once school starts, I'll probably break it, but I'll try my best.

XOXO ElizabethEspinosa28 a.k.a YaniraCortez