Be careful what you wish for

Chapter 1 ~ Popular

DISCLAIMER: I WROTE THIS BOOK 3 YEARS AGO AND I WAS LITERALLY 12 PLEASE DONT BULLY ME XOXO

I wish to be popular! I thought hard as I blew out my candles on my cake. It was my 14th birthday, but I was one of the youngest , so it was July. I would be going into year 10 in September. I wished it with so much might that I thought it was bound to come true. Not that it had ever worked in the past...

I do have friends however , even though it's only two. I love them and I could trust them with my life , even with all their funny ways.

There's Sky , always to be seen in a faded leather jacket and black ankle boots , that even she knows have gotten to small for her rather oversized feet , no matter how much our teachers despair of her. She always has her wild and thick auburn hair in a rockstar style all put up in cool and unusual ways. She loves music , and actually writes her own , she is ridiculously talented at it. She is a real troublemaker , but people secretly love her. Sky is definitely a free spirit!

And then there's Clara , the sensible one of us , really studious and clever. She's the one with the brains , she's forever telling Sky off for begging to copy her homework at the last minute before the teachers put her in yet another detention , but she's really a softie at heart and gives in eventually. She's brilliantly gifted at art , her drawings are ever so detailed and realistic , she could sketch me in a minute flat. She's the quieter one and we are the only people who really know her. She doesn't say much to other people , but when we are on our own she doesn't stop talking nowadays. She always looks neat and tidy and has her soft golden hair put in to pretty little braids or scraped back into a sensible high ponytail.

Finally there's me , Zara , or Zee for short , I'm not particularly talented at anything, although I have a great passion for animals. The first thing I did was make sure Skys jacket and boots were faux rather than real leather when I became friends with her. I want to be a vet when I'm older , even though I have no pets because I live in a boring old flat where there are no animals allowed , I hate that flat. All the wallpapers peeling off and everything is faulty , and all you can see wherever you go is the dull brown colour that runs throughout the house. I tried the best to brighten my room and give it some life , but it's so small and cluttered I've given up now because I know it will forever remain a mess no matter how hard I try. I don't like my lessons since I'm not good at anything like Sky or Clara , but I'm especially bad at languages , I just simply can't get them , so therefore my Languages teacher hates me and makes me repeat the most awfully complicated things in front of the class , most of which I get completely wrong and everyone laughs , but not in a friendly , gently teasing way , but in a vicious menacing way as if to make me feel small and dumb , not that this could make me any less popular however , since I really doubt that's possible... I must be the most hated person in school , and I have no clue why , they all tease me because I'm dumb and plain and always end up embarrassing myself one way or another, I suppose thats their way of keeping on top , by making my life hell ...

If only I was smart and pretty and ....
popular...

I repeated that word over and over to myself just before I went to sleep , if only ....

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