Wake

Chapter 1

Emmaline's POV

I groaned and rolled over, smacking my awful alarm off. With my eyes still shut I reached over, feeling for the phone on my dresser. Once I found it, turned it on, and looked at the time, I immediately jumped out of bed and ran to my small apartment's bathroom. It was already 7:23! I now only had 30 minutes until I had to leave for my first day of work at the small diner I recently got a job at.

I twisted the shower on and stepped in, welcoming the relaxing feeling of the burning water on my back. Breathing in a sigh of relief I told myself I had to stay calm for my first day of work. I know my job doesn't sound very challenging, but I tended to screw everything I do. After giving myself a short pep-talk, I shut off the water and twisted my long wavy blonde hair into a towel. Walking over to the mirror I stopped, looking at myself. I had soft, baby blue eyes with light blonde hair that fell in waves down my back. I held my face in my hands and let out a shaky breath- disappointed in my appearance once again. I kept hoping that maybe one day I would wake up and look pretty, or even beautiful. I had never called pretty, in fact I was that girl that everyone picked on through out middle school and high school. I gasped and staggered back as the memories flooded my head, trying my best to hold back tears.

*I stood awkwardly in the corner, uncomfortable with my surroundings. I was in 8th grade gym class, changing in the locker room. Suddenly I heard devilish snickering coming from the corner across where I was changing. When I looked up my blood stopped cold. Shelby and her two followers, Aubrey and Madelyn, were standing with evil smirks on their faces. I shivered with fear as they started walking towards me.

'No, not this please, anything but this right now,' I thought, not quite sure who I was begging to. I jumped as Shelby started to speak.

"Aw look it's little, or should I say big," Shelby snickered, " Emmaline. Why aren't you changing? I thought someone who was lesbian would love to be changing in front of this many girls." She waved her hands around motioning to the girls getting dressed around us.

"I-I am not g-gay!" I stammered looking at my feet.

"Are you sure? Because you always seem to be staring at me so either you are gay or you are a stalker. Or both." She added smirking. I gulped and tried to go on changing for gym, but Shelby then walked up and pushed me into the lockers behind me. The back of my head hit the locker behind me and I winced, holding in tears as best as I could.

"Now your undressing for us? Sorry, but not something I would want to see, like ever!" She glared jutting out her chin. Then she leaned in close to me and harshly whispered, "You will be pretty or loved so you can just stop trying. You are a ugly dumb-ass fuck who has no friends and will never have any." She leaned back, cackling and turned to her friends. "Come on girls, I'm sick of looking at this bitch." They walked off only looking back to witness the tears start to silently stream down my face. Shelby winked at me and blew a kiss leaving me in the locker room to crumble to my feet, gasping as the tears rushed down my face.*

I opened my eyes blinking away the tears that were threatening to spill over. I took in a deep breath taking time to collect myself before saying "Emma, focus. Don't let Shelby and her band of skanks get into your head right now. This job too important to mess up." I sighed grabbing my makeup bag, smearing a thin line of eye-liner above and below my eyes, before adding some mascara. Stepping back to look at the finished results I shook my head in disappointment. I gave up trying to wear a lot of make up a while ago, I mean why do it if all I am going to do is end up looking ugly anyways?

Walking into my room I headed to the closet, pulling out a a light pink tank-top and matching it with a white blazer and and black pencil skirt. I pulled on my heart shaped necklace ,kissing it before dropping to my chest. My sister has given me this necklace for my 13th birthday, right before things started to get bad for me. My sister, Lili, was my only ray of sunshine in the dark world lived in. She held the other half, the key that fit perfectly into the lock in the heart. She lived in California with her rich, handsome fiancé, while I lived all the way in New York by myself, so I barley got to see her these days. My parents had kicked me out of the house when I was 16 and now being 19 I haven't seen them since, but I couldn't say I missed them. My dad used to abuse me when I was younger, and my mother hated my because I didn't turn out perfect like my sister.

Shaking my head clear of my clouded thoughts I made myself a quick cup of coffee before slipping on my black flats, grabbing my bag, keys and heading out the front door of my apartment, running head on with someone standing directly on the other side.

A/N

Hi guys! ok so i'm really new at writing fan-fics and pretty much suck at writing in general, but I wanted to try and see if I could write a story... anyways leave comments if you guys have any suggestions or anything! thanks!

PS I'll try to update at least once a week.

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A/N Part Two

Hi everyone! I'm Abby and I'm editing this story. I also might contribute a little. So if Russia, tropical fruits, or All Time Low is mentioned, it's probably me. If anyone wants to follow me it's DIANASINCE2013 but I'd rather you follow the real author of this story. Farewell all you beautiful people :-)