The Girl You Don't Know

Chapter One ~ Who I Really Am

"Hey," I say into my video camera, "It's Melissa! Today, I'm going to do the cotton ball challenge with James Harette!"

"Hi," James says excitedly, "I'm so excited and scared at the same time."  

"Yeah, It's because whoever loses gets to yell 'I'M SEXY AND I KNOW IT' in front of the neighborhood." 

"Yup," He says nervously, "Hopefully it's not me and you go first."

I take the blindfold, not bothering to argue, and wrap it around my head; I try to find the spoon but failed.

"James!" I take off my blindfold and start looking around, "Where is the spoon?"

"Here." He tosses me the spoon and I catch it.

I hold a container over my head but James gave me a 'What are you doing?' look.

"Wow." He says, "What a cheater!"

"What did I do?" I put on my confused face.

"You forgot to put on your blindfold, stupid."

"Oh, right. Heh." I, embarrassingly, laugh.

I wrap the blindfold over my eyes, take the spoon and hold up the container above me.

I dip the spoon into a jar full of cotton balls and try to scoop some. I carefully drop the things into my container. After my five scoops, I take my blindfold off and sadness welcomes me as I see only two cotton balls on my plate.

"Shoot." I say.

"Haha," James laughs, "Watch me try." After he finishes his five scoops, he takes a look at the container above his head and, just like what happened to me, sadness takes over him. I giggle as I see two cotton balls.

"Now we both need to say it since there is no winner." I say.

"Urg, fine."

I pick up my video camera and walk outside.

James follows me with a nervous look on his face.

"Ready?" I say while placing the camera on my doorstep so it has a perfect view of the middle of the street. That's where James and I will be standing.

We walk to the road. "When I say three." James says "One." I give him a nervous glance. "Two." I see my grumpy neighbor watering her plants. "Three."

"I'M SEXY AND I KNOW IT!" We shout as loud as we can.

"SHUT UP!" I hear my neighbor yell.

"Shoot." I say, "Run."

We run back inside, grab my video and lock the doors.

"Well, we did that for you, YouTube." James says into my camera.

"If you liked this video then click the like button below and follow James. His channel is in the description box below so go check that out."

"Goodbye!" We say together.

I turn off my video camera and say "Want to go to the kitchen to get a snack?" I ask him.

"Yeah, I'm kind of hungry."

We walk down stairs and to my kitchen. I take out two tubs of ice cream.

"What flavors?" He asks.

"Chocolate Banana and Mint Chocolate Chip."

"I'll take Chocolate Banana, please." I hand him the tub.

"Good. I like the Mint." I say in a weird accent.

James gives me a look before laughing. Non-stop.

"I'm so confused." I say while flopping on the couch.

"I'm tired." I blurt out randomly while James is STILL laughing.

He walks over to me and starts to calm down.

"Sit beside me." I command him. He does and I rest my head in his shoulder. I close my eyes and let the darkness take over my body.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

If you don't know what the cotton ball challenge is, then let me explain it to you.   THE COTTON BALL CHALLENGE: you will need one spoon, one blindfold, two containers or bowls or plates. one container is filled with cotton balls and the other is on your head. Blindfold yourself. Take the spoon and try to scoop as many cotton balls as possible with only five scoops. Since cotton balls are really light, you won't know how many you have on your spoon.   So how do you like the story so far? And please be honest.

~Jenn