"Bye Grandma," I shouted to my grandma, as I headed out the door.
When I got to my car I looked across the street to my old friend, Leslie's house. She used to be mine and Rachel's best friend, but when she hit puberty she started getting popular, and left me and Rach. At least people think it's puberty. Rachel and I think she got a boob job.
I opened my door to my car, and was fixing to get in when I saw a car pull into Leslie's driveway. I let out a quiet gasp when I saw who it was. Jordan.
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"Hey, why were you late this morning?" I leaned over my desk, and whispered in Rachel's ear.
"I got pulled over by a cop," Rachel looked back at me, and rolled her eyes. I let out a soft giggle.
I was fixing to tell her about Leslie and Jordan, when the teacher interrupted me. "Excuse me Ms. Andrews is there something you need to ask?" my History teacher, Mr. Cole asked.
"Um, not really. I just needed to know how to spell something," I lied. He nodded, and went back to the lesson.
I quietly got out a piece of paper, and started writing notes to Rachel.
"What is it now Ms. Andrews?" Mr. Cole asked, when he saw me handing back the note to Rachel.
"Uh-" before I could think of something to say, he snatched the piece of paper from my hand.
He opened it and read it, out loud. "You'll never believe who I saw pull into Leslie's driveway this morning."
"Who?"
"Jordan 'the hottie' Tanner," when he read that everyone started laughing. I could feel my face start to heat up, so I slowly slouched back in my chair. What made it even worse is Jordan is in that class.
He continued reading about how I thought Jordan was hot even though he's a player. Finally I had enough. I stood up, and quickly ran out of the room.
I could feel the tears pouring down my face, as I ran to my car. "Why does all the bad stuff happen to me?" I thought.
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"Valerie, you're home ear- oh sweetie, What happened?" My grandma asked, when she saw my tear stained face.
"I don't want to talk about it," I sighed, tears still in my eyes.
"Oh, sweetie come here," my grandma said, motioning me to the couch.
Even though I didn't want to talk about it, she still got it out of me somehow. By the time we were done talking it was 6:30.
"Do you want me to fix you something to eat?" My grandma asked, as I got up off the couch.
"Um, actually can I have that box of my dads things?" I asked.
"Um, sure. I put it in the basement with a bunch of his other boxes," she replied.
"Okay, I'm just going to take a look in some of the boxes."
"Okay sweetie, tell me if you need anything," she replied turning her attention to the TV.
I had read more of my dads journal over the weekend, and it explained what the time machine looked like, and how it worked.
I ran upstairs to grab his journal, then headed to the basement. We rarely went into the basement even though it had a couch and TV.
I looked around and saw a couple of boxes in the corner. I sat next to them and started digging stuff out.
"BINGO," I yelled as I found something similar to the description he had wrote.
I picked up the small wirery object, and sat down at a table across the room.
"Let's see," I said as I looked at his journal for directions on how to work the thing.
"Turn wheel, then push down," I read to myself, then did as the journal said to do.
I turned the wheel to the left, and heard it click a bunch of times. Then, I pushed down.
Suddenly everything went black, and when I opened my eyes everything was the same.
"What," I whispered to my self. "Why didn't you work," I yelled at the so called time machine.
I slowly got up and trudged upstairs, when I opened the door I couldn't believe my eyes. Teenagers were everywhere.
"Oh my god," I whispered to myself. I quickly walked to the kitchen, and went up to a boy that had his hat turned backwards, and an earring in one of his ears.
"Um, this is gonna sound kind of bizarre, but," I paused and looked up at the boy,"What year is it?" I asked.
He gave me a strange look, and said, "Uh, 1988."
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CAN YOU GUESS WHO THE BOY IS?!?!?!? I decided to have a bunch of 80's actors in this story! Soooo yea.....I'll update soon, and hopefully have another story up too.....xoxo
~Ashley
