<Update: 17/04/2016>
A/N : Extremely sorry for the delay everyone. I have had a lot, A LOT of things going on in my life and I just could not bring myself to write.
Sorry again and Happy Reading :)
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Chapter 5 - Who wants to look at a girl with short bubble gum pink hair?
Dear diary,
Umm...well, I have never done this before. Actually never felt there was a reason to. Mom says it's a good thing to write down my thoughts. She says it helped her a lot when she was my age. I never understood how exactly.
Until now.
I had never had this problem of not sharing something with mom. With her its always been easy. She makes my life easy. But if she gets a fraction of the idea of what I'm writing down here, she will be ecstatic; she will be over the moon and it will be a hell lot difficult for me and dad to bring her back. Because this has never happened to me before. I can't tell her anything until I have even a 0.1 percent chance. I'm just not ready to tell her, or anyone for that matter.
Not yet.
I guess feelings do hit like a wrecking ball. 'Cause my life hasn't exactly been the smooth sailing ship it used to be.
Dave came into my life like that iceberg to Titanic.
And since the day his eyes locked onto mine, I crashed, broke and sunk in his sea blue ocean for eyes.
Steph would probably laugh, pat my head and wish me luck like she had for every other crush of mine. But its different this time.
Dave's different.
I never understood why people did crazy things to get someone's attention.
Until now.
I dyed my hair pink. I cut it and dyed it pink. For real. And just to get one look from him. One look that would last for a lot more seconds than was normal. One look that would capture my face in his mind. One look that will make him want more.
But I'm stupid.
Because who wants to look at a girl with short bubble gum pink hair? For the first time in my life I felt self-conscious.
I never feel self-conscious. Fact.
But as the eyes lingered on me and smiles turned mocking I wanted nothing but the ground to open up and swallow me whole. The gnawing feeling in my stomach didn't die even after Steph put me at ease. I just could not ignore the jabs and had to run to the bathroom to hide till the year ended.
Well that was the plan, until he came. Swooped down like an angel and swept me off my feet with six little words. And I was a goner.
"Don't mind them. You look pretty."
It's real this time Mr. Diary. I can feel it. I'm falling for real.
Anyway, I gotta go. Steph's almost done with her homework and it's time for me to act normal, act like myself. Steph would find out if there's even a teeny tiny bit difference in my behavior. There are two guys glancing at us since the last hour, maybe they could be of some help? ;)
Later...
Alicia.
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