The Pretty Boy's Crush

New Girlfriend

It's now Tuesday, February twenty-eighth, 2017.

I walk down the hallway to my first period with Mr. Daniel who teaches English. Language Arts is always too easy for me, but I keep my mouth shut as I don't want to get into an advanced class because that just means more work for me and I don't want that.

That's when my friend Brooklyn stops me, right before I can enter his class, she pulls me aside excitedly.

"Paige, you won't believe what I just found out!" Brooklyn says happily. Brooklyn likes Jason's best friend, Jacob. So, we like to talk about our crushes to one another. "Jason said he was going to ask out a special someone!" She says excitedly as she takes both of my hands and shakes them excitedly. I blush darkly thinking that she is talking about me!

"You mean he's going to ask- "

"Makenna!" She says ruining my excitement. I let go of her hands, no longer happy with what's going on around me. I guess Jason wasn't really my type anyway, I guess he's not anyway. If I tell myself that, the more accurate it'll get.

"Jason is going to ask out Makenna Leverage?" I ask doubtfully as Brooklyn nods. "But isn't she taller than him?" I ask her as I raise my right eyebrow.

"Aren't you taller than him?" She asks as her eyebrows sew together to make one as she looks at me weirdly. I thought that Brooklyn was supposed to be my friend, you know, the one that lies to you about something like that.

"Well..." I say as my mind trails off reminding myself that I am a couple inches taller than him. "Height doesn't matter..." I say a little embarrassed, looking at the ground and then her.

"For you, but it matters for Makenna Leverage?" She asks as I roll my eyes and then walk past her and into my first period.

...

Jason is asking stupid Makenna Leverage to be his girlfriend? Why her? He just asked me to sit with him yesterday. It must've been to make her jealous! I guess I should've known that he didn't like me. But if he's taking Makenna, why didn't he tell me he loved her? What's going on?

"Paige." Mr. Daniel says looking at me along with the entire class. Mr. Daniel has grey hair and is thinning in the back of his head. He has two sons that are only toddlers. He is also a HUGE Seminole fan.

"Yes, sir?" I ask, blushing embarrassed as tears fill my eyes as I start to think of how big of a fool I was for thinking that Jason liked me. I then shake those thoughts out of my head, not letting myself get too obsessed about him in front of all these people.

"Can you tell me what figurative language is?" He asks me as I look at him worried. My blonde curls start to get in my face, hiding the looks from the other students.

"Figurative language is like a simile or a metaphor," I say with as much confidence as I can. Mr. Daniel smiles and nods as he continues teaching.

I look at the ground and continue to think of how stupid I was. Jason will never like me. Ever. He'll always love the girls who are prettier, more prosperous, and better than I am...

As I walk to the third period, I see Jason. He sees me and smiles and waves.

"Paige! Hey!" He says as I look to the ground sadly.

"Hey, Jason... I heard you asked out Makenna..." I say upsetting myself as Jason looks at me and then the ground making sure that he doesn't keep extended eye contact.

"Yeah, I did, you still want to sit next to me at lunch?" He asks as if I'm stupid, gullible, all those things. I'm not, and Makenna has the same lunch as us, so she can take the chance of getting her card signed.

"No, that's okay, you have a girlfriend now, she can sit with you," I say, not wanting to get caught up in more drama than what it's worth. He's taken over my mind almost all week, it's time to put an end to it.

Jason looks at me, slowly reaching his arm out to me, but then he stops, shaking his head and walking down to his third period.

I know that was mean, but this isn't some kind of cliché story, I don't need to play by the playboy rules. I need to forget about him and get a nice guy as my boyfriend. Someone who'll care about me.