They Said Don't Worry

He is my Best Friend and That's It

Okay so my first chapter!. I hope its intersting.
Melinda's POV
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Ring! Ring! My stupid phone rang so loud it interrupted my dad's freaking beauty sleep and he got horribly grumpy. I ran to get my phone and answered as quick as possible because no one and I mean NO ONE wanted to hear him yell again.
"H-he-hello?" I hesitated to answer the phone. Its was Wendy. I moved across the state and never told her. Of course they started school already I missed the most important day; the first day of 7th grade.

Oh who am I kidding, no one cares about the first day of school. All I see it as is getting yelled at and warned about the whole school year in advance, the nice way of course. The first imperrsion is such a big deal apparently.

"Uh sorry girl, forgot to tell you, I moved. I'm far, far away. Bye!"
Ok I didn't like her. Wendy didn't shut up about every flaw that ever stained my personality and appearance. Thank god I won't be seeing her again.

I didn't want to move for one reason and one reason only. People actually liked me. Excluding Wendy of course; but she was jealous. People asked about me, invited me places, agreed to every game I ever wanted to play. Even the cutuest boy in the class was my "boyfriend". It couldn't get any better.

No seriously. It just couldn't get better.....so worse was the way it went. We had to move because my dad got an "amazing" job in NY so we moved closer to where he worked. It never hit me why our lives revolved around my parents, but I wouldn't ever ask.

I moved in 7th grade and let's just say that's when my whole life flipped upside down. I got a new personality, and a new way to go about life.

I went from careful to care free
Nervous to unhesitant
Shy to outgoing

Some may say that's actually very good and that's what I thought. But being forced to change wasn't. It felt like I had no choice. But I also had no choice in the moving thing either so I thought it just came with the package.

Well 3 years past and now I'm in high school; a freshman, and moving is behind me now. I made amazing friends and even though my life has shitty problems; they tell me not to worry; so I learned not to.

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"MELINDA, GET YOUR ASS TO BED!"

My dad is a pretty angry guy; but when he is happy, its the best thing ever. His laugh can put the whole town in a good mood and he can make any one smile if he tried too. But my dad did not exactly have an....optimistic view on life sometimes. He comstantly focuses on the politics, people dying, whose fault is it, and basically how horrible life is. He tells me I don't own myself or my life.

After my homework at around 10:00 pm, The night is mine but for only one thing...sleep. All day, I belong to the world...whatever that meant. I don't think about it.

I dimmed the lights until it looked like they were out and got ready to sneak out.

Yes, I was leaving for the rest of the night. Forget the rules. I mean rules were meant to be broken right? If I wasn't forced to sleep maybe I would have slept. Every night I did whatever I can do to leave and enjoy myself.

I snuck out of my averaged sized home into the the pitch black night. At the end of the street waited my best friend, James.

James is the most charming and playful guy I know. Everything about him is perfect and sometimes I feel like I don't even deserve him. He is a few inches taller than me so I have to glance up a little bit to make eye contact with him. His soft brown hair always perfectly fell into place. He has a really edgy "bad boy" style and i loved it. And when he wants to be classy (or I force him to) he would honestly look like a model. I wish I could just run my fingers through his hair and stare into his sparkling hazel eyes and kiss him.......

No.

Why was I just thinking about that?!?

He is my best friend and that's it. I shook myself out of my little daydream I had in his car and walked into his house with him for what he told me was a little study hangout.
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Wellllllll James was thinking otherwise.