Swept Away

Chapter 11

*unedited*

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I only had lunch every other day because my schedule was packed, so it was with abundent graditude tha I plopped down in my seat. I always sat with Charlotte and our other mutual friend Karen, It was always just us three sometimes Karen's boyfriend, or Charlotte's, but otherwise there wasn't much going on. 

And for the most part, I liked it that way.  I was just normal, had a normal amount of friends... I was just getting through my highschool career.  I wasn't popular, but I wasn't invisible. I was in the middle. Which I guess sometimes could be annoying-- I mean it was perpetual limbo. I was a god enough student, got good grades, I was good at the sports I did, and I was in clubs. I had connections... just not enough I guess. 

So although I knew a lot of people that were "popular" since like day one when we were learning our ABC's I was never actually a part of them-- the for lack of better words "popular crew". I was right on the edge. However I wasn't desperate enough to do somehing about it. I had decided in middle school that while it would probably be nice to be popular, the whole gaggle of them just annoyed me.

They could go from being totally cool, and then first class bitch in like under three seconds. So I was the girl they invited to parties, but never sleep-overs, the girl who you checked your homework answers on, but never actually invited over to study.

It used to piss me off I guess, but my last crap had been given long before I entered the door of Ollmurs High.

Charlotte on the other hand still struggled with fluctuating feelings. She sometims wanted-- craved their attention. Lately she had been hung up on not getting invited to some exclusive shindig the Queen Bee Josie Hanson had. 

So now with all that back story maybe you can understand my reaction when Austin Meyers sauntered over to our table with a "Hey," like it was completely normal. 

I shot a wideeyed look at Char, who returned it equally as mystifyed.

My chilly feelings for The Gaggle aside I replied just as nocholantly, "Hey."

Cause "Hi" sounded girly and eager, "Hello," sounded awkward, and "Yo," ... we weren't on that level.

Unlike me however, I'm pretty sure Charlotte was about to start foaming at the mouth. I couldn't blame her though. Austin was the kind of boy that highschool chliches revolved around. He was the sun and the whole student body orbited him-- as dumb as that sounds. He was a gorgeous with his crystal blue eyes, and ash brown hair. His face was almost as nice as his body-- yes I said almost.

But I knew guys like him never talked to girls like me-- or girls in general-- unless they wanted something...

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"Charlotte's here," my mom notified as she poked her head into my room. 

"Ok," I nodded and shut my laptop, "She'll come up." I watched as she walked away without shutting the door.

If there was one thing I couldn't stand it was when people barged into my room without knocking and then once they did whatever they came to do they left the door gping open. I hated it. I mean how hard was it to return the door to the state in which you found it in-- closed? And lately my mom had been doing a lot of that.

Actually when I told her she was sneaking around the other day it definitely wasn't an exaggeration. She was being totally suspisious to be quite hontest. Just yesterday I came home to find her snooping around in my room. I got it if she wanted to try becoming an active parent again, but who did she think she was? Being an on and off mom for years and then suddenly coming back and checking my room for-- what-- I didn't even know.

"Hey," I greeted Charlotte as she slipped into the room, and shut the door behind her like a good friend.

"Hey, so you weren't joking when you said you're mom is here to stay huh?" she jutted her thumb behind her towards my door.

Rolling my eyes and flopping onto my bed I said, "Yeah. And she's being so weird, I can't even. Like she wants to know stuff about me and be involved but instead of actually talking to me like a normal mother she snoops through my stuff and interrogates me."

"Snoops? What?"

"I know honestly, like who does that?" I sighed, "Anyway enough about me and my monster of a mom, what's up with you?"

I felt the bed dip and she sat cross-legged next to me.

"Ehh was feeling a bit lonely, mom's off again, and Dad's at work."

Charlotte was very well off. She lived in a very posh part of town in a mansion like house, but this was all as a result of her parents' work-aholic lifestyle. She was an only child in a big roomy house by herself for the majority of the time so I guess in that way we were alike-- well the being alone part.

"Oh! And aparently I have some far off relative in New York City," I watched as her face lit up. I could just see the gears in her head turning, and scenes of the NYC wildlife flashing across her mind, "both parents are deseased so she lives by herself I think. I wrote her the other day and she wrote back telling me I could come and visit."

"So when are you going?" I inquirred.

"Next month," she wiggled happily. She sounded giddy with excitment, like she was about to burst.

I smiled. This was what Charlotte needed, what with all her Jeff drama. She needed a break-- she was long due for one.

"Hang on," she fished her phoneout of her sweater pocket. And I saw Jeff's name and face flash across the screen.

Speak of the devil.

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A/N: hey guyyyss so I finally made 100 votes it was slow and painful waiting for those last three votes lol but now I've got it. However I really want to get my reads up, and my votes and stuff so help me out read, vote, comment, follow, add this to a list of yours so people that follow you can see and stuff.

Question: Who do you think should play Austin? I have an idea, I was thinking Sean O'Donnell but idk so let me know below vvv

Anyway... school's starting back soooon -_________-

I've been looking at clothes online and actually starting my summer work lol

alssssoo I'm gonna try to get this story to move along, meaning the kiss shall come faster, but if I don't get much action (LOL meaning reads and votes) I won't ty so hard to post.. just saying.

Ok so yeah 

~luckyon3 aka Sarah

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