Aria & Damon

Chapter 1 - Seniors

"Aria! I said wake up, or you're going to be late for your first day of Senior year!"

"OK MOM! I heard you the first time! Jeez!" Uh I hate the first day of school. Its only half a day and were in Homeroom the whole time. I couldn't care less if I was late. The only thing I have to look forward to is Damon ignoring me for yet another year. Our last year in the same school, after this its over.

I sighed and went into the bathroom. I stood in front of the mirror for a few minutes just looking at myself. I'm not the hottest girl, but I'm OK with that. It doesn't mean anything to me anyway. Girls usually count on their looks to help reel in the boys. Well, I don't want to reel in boys. There's only one I want. And great looks wouldn't get me him. I liked my hair this year though. I had light blue highlights put in recently. Its long and layered with the side part. The bangs sweeping across my forehead, I prefer them that way, because they cover up the scar above my right eye that I received when I was 8. Damon and I were playing baseball, needless to say the ball ended up hitting me in the head and splitting it open above my eye. I had to have 7 stitches. Ive always been a little insecure about that scar. Everyone compliments my eye color. They're light blue with a dark ring around the iris. But their not as light as Damon's.

I sighed, Here I am thinking about him yet again. That's never good for me first thing in the morning.

I took a quick shower and got dressed. I ran downstairs for a quick breakfast. Looks like its just a pop-tart for me this morning. Yummy. I still had Damon on my mind. The shower didn't help with that. He's not the jock anymore. The only sport hes played in the last four years is Soccer. If I had to stereotype him. Id say he was a skater. He let his hair grow out and started skateboarding again. He and Sarah are still together, They looked pretty happy the last time I saw them... "Aria, You had better get going sweety or you're gonna miss the bus." My mom said right behind me, bringing me back to the present. She pulled me into a hug and said, "Have a good day darling." I pulled away and grabbed my bag and as I walked out the door I mumbled, "That's highly unlikely." As the door was closing behind me she yelled, "I heard that!" I smiled to myself and shook my head. Gotta love Mom.

When I got to the bus stop Damon was standing there and my heart did flip flops. It was strange seeing him standing there, because he started riding to school with Sarah last year.

Hmm, I just noticed that I finally have him all alone. I decided I would press my luck and try to speak with him. And "Hey" Was the only thing I could think of. I suck like that sometimes. Uh. All he did in reply was nod, but I caught the expression on his face. He looked so sad. Concerned I ask, "Whats wrong Damon?" He shrugged and shook his head. This annoys me, I'm not THAT easy to shrug off. I rolled my eyes and sigh loudly, "Look Damon, I know were not friends anymore but I can still tell when somethings wrong with you. I know that it takes something serious to get you to show emotion and you look like you're about to burst into tears any minute now." He smiled a tiny smile and said, "I never could fool you Aria, But I'm fine OK. Don't worry about it." I opened my mouth to tell him that I wanted to worry about it, but before I could get the words out of my mouth the bus was in front of us. 'Great', thought 'There goes my only chance to talk to him.' He got on before me and went right to the back and sat down with some of his friends. "Aria? Are you gonna sit down or ride to school standing up?" I looked down and saw Ian sitting on the 8th seat looking up at me. "Oh... Yeah Ill sit." As I sit he pipes up, "Hey were Seniors now can you believe it?" "No," I say, "Its unbelievable." Ian chuckles, "Yeah I know. I'm psyched to finally get out of here................" He kept going on and, but I stopped listening to him. My mind is in the back of the bus with Damon. I turned my head just a little and saw him out of the corner of my eye. He wasn't talking or laughing with his friends as he usually would. He was silent, staring straight ahead. Something had to be seriously wrong. I just couldn't think of what that something could be. "Maybe somethings wrong with Sarah." Ian says beside me. Confused I ask, "What are you talking about?" He nods his head towards the back of the bus. "I'm not blind y'know. You've been watching Damon out of the corner of your eye with a worried expression on your face. I caught the look on his face when he got on the bus, as well. Im also not dumb to the fact that he hasn't ridden the bus in a year, Considering that he rides with Sarah, but hes on the bus today, looking like that. My guess is that something is wrong with her." I nodded. It makes perfect sense. "Yeah, Well, Its not really any of my business anyway." I say as the bus comes to a stop at the school. I start to get up but Ian grabs my arm and pulls me back down. "You're still in love with him aren't you?" He asks, looking me in the eyes. "After all of these years, and him ignoring you constantly, you're still in love with him?" "Is that really a question?" I ask him. He continued to look at me, "I guess not," he replies, "Ive always known you were, but you've never spoken of him. You're really good at hiding you're true feelings." He let me go and stood up. We were the last people to get off the bus. The last thing I said to Ian before going to homeroom was, "I'm only so good at hiding them because, Ive been hiding the way I feel for him, for as long as I can remember." Damon walked by right as I said that. But he must have been so absorbed in his own thoughts that he didn't hear what I said. "Yeah, well maybe this is the opportunity you've been waiting for. Don't let it pass you by." Ian said as he walked away. I seriously doubted that this was that opportunity. And even if it was I had no idea what to say to him, and I doubted that he would listen to me if I tried to tell him how I feel. When I walked into homeroom he was sitting at his usual desk with his head on his arms. He wasn't very festive on his first day of his last year, but then again, neither was I. I started to walk over to him but I was tackled from behind. "Oh my god Aria, I love your hair!" My friend Macy exclaimed, letting me go. "Yeah? Its OK?" I ask, not really caring. "Oh yeah. Its beautiful. Oh can you believe that were finally Seniors?" She asks excited. I just shake my head and say, "Nope." She smiles, looks like shes about to say something else but saw another one of our friends, Lilliana, and went running towards her. I walk in Damon's direction and without him even noticing sit right behind him just as the bell rang. 'Ha! I made it.' I thought to myself. And now there's nothing he can do about it, unless he wants to get in trouble for getting up. Mr. Harding, our homeroom teacher was still not in the room so I opened my mouth to let him know I was behind him, and that I wasn't planning on letting this go. But yet again I was interrupted. Mr. Harding came bursting into the room shouting, "Congratulations you are all Seniors now!" Oh yeah I was gonna love being a Senior. If one more person said that to me I was seriously going to slap them. Just as I thought that Damon sat up turned to me and and said. "Hey. That's right, were Seniors this year." He had a crooked smile on his face. 'Great!' I thought.

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The pic to the right ----> is loosely what Damon looks like.

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