The Girl Unknown

CHAPTER 1

" I'm not Pretty!! Stop calling me that!!" I said.

" You are. I don't understand why you deny it. Look at you! The prettiest girl ever!!" He Said.

" Well you're sadly mistaken."

****** "HE" was Quentin. My neighbour, classmate and now my new best friend.

We were so unknown to each other. Even though we were from the same school, we were strangers to each other.

Lily and Quentin. The two unknowns. The two best friends. We would see each other as we crossed paths in the locality, but were both hesitant to ever come and talk to each other. I would imagine things like " Oh! thats Quentin. Should i go and say hi? Would he recognise me? No! I should probably not! What if he does not? That would be so bad!! No i won't!!" 'Lily you're being silly.' Others would say....I'm silly, i know.

Quentin would think, "Umm.. I've seen her somewhere, is she the same? Should i go and talk to her? What if she's not the one? NO! I can't! Ugh....I need to confirm if she is the same one!" Genius, I know...

It often surprises me how we were just a short while ago. ******

"God! Why won't you ever believe me! You ARE pretty! Why such a low self-esteem?"

"Quentin, thats what I've already thought of myself. I never want to be told and hurt by someone, if they say I'm not pretty. It's better that I know and accept the truth, so when someone says so, it won't hurt me."

"I have nothing to say....." Quentin wanted to do everything he could to change that, but he didn't know that over time my thoughts about myself had become stronger. That was extremely sweet of him and I really loved the way he was treating me. I had never felt this way before. That feeling of someone close to you, who loves you and care for you.

Life was slowly changing and I could not believe what was happening to me.

Anyways let me introduce myself first.

I'm Lily Jacobsen. A girl with self esteem issues. I love my dreams a lot and always wished for them to come true but my story is no less than a dream. More like something I was always hesitant to dream of. I truly believe in dreams. Life has given me a lot of suffering and struggles. I'm in my mid 16. Sweet Sixteen and all. I'm a little irritating and there is no way I can say any good things about myself so it doesn't really matter who I am. Don't worry you'll know soon enough.

Let me tell you something about Quentin Pemberton. Oh! His anger. Don't even get me started. Sometimes its so hard to handle his anger.. but wait why am i talking about his anger? Okay! He's the kind of cute that you can't stop staring at. He can just drive you crazy in seconds and don't even try to mess with him. His bad habit is....WHY THE HELL TO MESS WITH TEACHERS?

Anyways lets get back to our conversation.

We had just entered this policy of sharing everything with each other.

Some days later during some conversation of ours, I asked him out of curiosity " Quentin?"

He was talking to his partner, *name of partner*, when he turned around at my call leaving his conversation with *name of partner* abruptly. " Yes, Lily?"

"Can i ask you something?" I asked like an idiot *as if he would say no*

"Sure, Ask!"

"Umm.. Do you like someone?" I asked hesitantly.

He looked at me and smiled.

"Yes."

"Who? You have to tell me. You promised to do so. Not to hide."

"Okay. Okay. But you need to tell me who you like first." He said with his broad curious smile.

"No... I asked first! Ladies first right?"

"Dogs follow right?" that was the instant answer I got from him.

"TELL ME" I looked at him with narrowed eyes and fake anger.

"Okay!" he looked scared.

"She is the prettiest girl, but she doesn't think so."

I WAS BLUSHING. HE KNEW I UNDERSTOOD.

"Now you're turn!!!" he said.

"He is the only one who calls me pretty and denies what I think about myself."

HE WAS BLUSHING. I KNEW HE UNDERSTOOD.

After a long pause of blushing and looking here and there I final broke that silence.

"Okay?Yes, We are talking about each other."

He instantly replied, "Yes." and then he said " So... ya I really like you"

Those words hit my ears and then my heart. I was not in tears but I was numb. Totally numb. I could not feel anything, hear anything or see anything. Just him and my beating heart.

As we walked to our respective lines. I said goodbye to him and walked away.... until I heard him scream "At least tell me? Yes or No?"

I looked back and replied " I'll let you know tomorrow." He made a really cute face. "Okay!" he said.

While I stood in the line with a friend and walked out, while he stood near the gate and was talking to a friend about what had happened. He had a smile on his face as he glanced at me. I could not resist. " YES!" I mouthed.

His face turned pink. His happiness was just so contagious.

For the first time in a long time I smiled........because he smiled.