Grit Meets Glam (Legally Blonde but with Rock Music type story)

Chapter 7: The Others

EMMA'S POV

That afternoon after school, I stared in my floor length bedroom mirror at the girl. She was supposed to be me, and she was still wearing her band shirt (today I wore a Sleeping With Sirens band tee), and my green hair streaks, and I hadn't turned into a girly girl or anything, but something about me seemed different. I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I sat on my green chaise lounge (essentially a fancy couch) in my bedroom that had gold edges, and I listened into my two parents arguing below my bedroom. My dad, who now owns Wang's Chinese, a massive Chinese restaurant chain in LA, after my grandad who founded the restaurant fifty years before I was born retired ten years ago, and my mum who's a top corporate lawyer. On the outside, my family seemed perfect. On the inside, my parents would not stop arguing and even sometimes threw plates and vases at each other. I have no one to talk to now since my older girly sister is now at UCLA studying business. She started this semester and is rushing sororities.  I have no desire to join one, even though my parents both want me to.

I feel like such a fucking failure. Bethany is the perfect girly girl, smart, was popular at her school (she went to a private school, I refused and ended up at the high end public school I am attending now), funny, nice, classy, and an all around Mary sue. I am the opposite of everything she is and I hate it. I can hear my parents. They're arguing about how Bethany should have stayed here and commuted to college and I should have gone to boarding school so they didn't have to put up with me. I cried. Tears poured out of my eyes and they wouldn't stop. 

I shouldn't be unhappy, I have a rich family who give me so much. Except love. But I have my friends to give that to me instead. My mind started thinking about Zizi. The charming girl who you can't help but want to be friends with. That's why my whole friend group was drawn to her so quickly and almost immediately wanted to be friends with her. Zizi has her moments but isn't an overall mean girl like Melissa is. Zizi is a genuinely nice person. She's the Elle Woods while Melissa is the Regina George. I am glad Zizi is out of that toxic friend group. God! They were so awful to her in every way imaginable. My skin crawled. I'm glad she's hanging out with my friend group now, as she deserves the best.

I sighed and pulled out the photo. The small printed photo in my drawer that I refused to show a single soul. Except my friend Alex, who is gay himself. My parents found the photo but I lied and said that she, this girl, was a friend. Yeah right. My parents want my sister and I to marry rich successful men to continue their legacy. If my parents found out I wasn't into men at all they would lose their shit. I've tried talking to guys at rock concerts in the past but they make my skin crawl. I couldn't imagine dating any of them. I couldn't relate to girls in middle and high school gushing about boy crushes. 

Over the summer at a rock music camp, last summer that is, I met a girl. Hannah was amazing. I remember we initially hung out as friends, but one time we snuck out to the edge of the woods at night and she kissed me. We started secretly dating for the rest of camp. Every moment was electric. We were in the same band at camp and that heated up chemistry even more. After the camp, two weeks before the start of school, at Alex's house, I showed Alex the photo of Hannah and I and he said "you're not alone" and hugged me. Ever since then, we have talked about gay stuff that Lori or Johnny wouldn't understand. I used to have a crush on Lori but at the start of sophomore year she started to hit her boy crazy phase and gushed about boys. She had no interest in dating beforehand but obviously puberty properly hit her and she became even more boy crazy than Melissa. Who dated half the football team in sophomore year alone. Lori hasn't dated anyone though. She drunkenly kissed a guy at a party once though. Even after that kiss happened, the rumours of Lori being a lesbian wouldn't stop. They've (the rumours has) started since freshman year. Meanwhile no one suspects me for some reason. I can't figure out why.