Head Over Heels for the Jerk

Chapter 1

"I'm in love with you Conner." Anna croaked out, feeling as though this hundred pound weight was immediately taken off my shoulders.

But that feeling only lasted for a moment.

"Anna... I'm really sorry but I just don't feel that way about you" he said placing a hand on my shoulder, only for a second before brushing his dark locks away from his face. As standard and cliche as the reply was, he had sympathy in his eyes. His friends on the other hand were holding back their laughter. "Guys, stop." he snapped at them. "Look, it's just that there's someone else that I have feelings for."

"Yeah, Madison Williams" one of them scoffed. "He's like a wittle love sick puppy, don't waste your time." he said, crossing his chest and glaring at Anna with a look of what she could only place as distain.

"Zach enough!" Connor scolded him before heavily sighing. "I really am sorry."

The whole time Anna was blinking back tears she really preferred him not to see. "Yeah, I totally get it. It's fine Conner." Her voice cracking while saying this. "Anna..." he began. "No It's ok, just forget it." Anna said turning on her heels, clutching her books tightly to her chest. "Anna hold on! Anna!" he yelled behind her.

"Anna! Annie wake up already" Anna's little brother screamed while nudging an arm into her side. Little brothers are at least good for something, waking you up from much unwanted nightmares- or flash backs to be precise. "Anna are you dead?" he said while poking at her side. Anna breathed a heavy sigh before answering him. "No Dylan, I'm not dead."

"Too bad, woulda been nice to be an only child" he teased. Anna rolled over to face him at the foot of her bed. "I bet it would, you little punk" she mocked him, rubbing her knuckles into his head of brown hair.

He chuckled his cute 7 year old laugh before swatting her hand away. "Mommy said to get dressed and come downstairs. We're all going out today!" and with that, he ran out of the bedroom.

Anna groaned and laid back down on my silk sheets. How that boy can be so energetic at 9 o' clock on a Saturday morning was beyond her. It's the last weekend before school starts again, and I have to start my junior year. Unfortunately, that flash back had occurred on the last day of school last year, and Anna hadn't seen Conner since then, nor was she looking forward to it. It's not that Conner is a bad guy, he's actually one of the nicest guys she'd met. It's his friends and their teasing that has Anna horrified. She'd heard from my incredibly chatty best friend Maya that he and Madison Williams started dating over the summer. All the more reason for me not to want to witness their lovey-dovey entrance into school on Monday.

"Anna hurry up!" my mom yelled from downstairs. "We're leaving in ten!"

Better start getting dressed.

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"You know where I'll be." I told my parents as I started walking towards my favorite store in the mall.

"Do you have you're phone with you?" Mom asked me before I got too far.

"Don't I always?" I said while raising my phone to prove it. I'll leave my phone at home when Dylan willingly agrees to go to bed at 8 o'clock.

So never.

"I'll call you in about an hour when we're ready to leave" said my dad while walking away with mom and Dylan.

I just reached Hot Topic (Yes, my absolute favorite store) when I coincidentally met up with Maya. By coincidentally I mean she texted me earlier saying she was here so I convinced my parents we should come here first.