Not Like Her (Darker Days Series #1)

Chapter 1: Something

October 6, 5:37 pm,

Hi again! So, I've decided to write a diary, and well this is it, so yeah. I lost my old diary, but that doesn't matter because none of that was important anyways. Oh yeah, I almost forgot! My name is Madelyn and I'm 13 years old. I go to Firebridge Middle School, and I have two cats named Rigsby and Morocco.

Um well I don't know what to really add to this first entry, but I'll tell you about my life. I have a mom and a dad of course, no siblings. Being an only child sucks sometimes. At school I have three close friends named Alyssa, Frannie, and Zach.

Alyssa always wears big bows in her hair and I don't know why. She's kinda short, only 5'0", and she weighs 98 lbs. She has beautiful long and curly brown hair and bright blue eyes hat sparkle even in the dark. A lucky girl she is to have such beauty. Sometimes I'm jealous of her because she gets all the guys.

Frannie is the nerd of our group. She has blond hair that she always keeps up in a ponytail and doesn't like people touching it. She had glasses and brown eyes, and she's tall. She is nearly 5'5" and she's only my age! She always wears dorky mismatched socks because she's too lazy to sort them and she never gets anything lower than a B+ on her tests. She spends most of her days studying.

Then there's Zach. Now Zach is quite the view if I say so myself. Not only is he my best friend, but he's also the hottest guy in school. He's on the track team and stands at about 5'7". He's got medium dark brown hair and vibrant, unmistakably blue eyes that shine like no tomorrow! I wish he was my boyfriend, but lord knows he's far out of my league. Any other girl would be quite lucky to have him as a boyfriend.

Oh I almost forgot to tell you about myself! Well I have long auburn hair and blue-green eyes. Nothing special there. I'm short, as I already mentioned and I don't really do much with my life. School is my escape from school where my parents are constantly arguing about something, and it gets old. I like to draw and I love watching horror movies. My favorite series of horror movies is the Saw series of course. I'm always intrigued by how the machines work. Sometimes I draw out sketches of my own in my notebook. My mom tells me not to watch scary movies because they'll rot my brain and my eyes will freeze wide open or I'll have a heart attack. I don't believe her.

Oh! By the way, me and my friends are all in seventh grade. I thought you should know that. Well, my mom is calling me downstairs so I should probably go. I'll be back later.

Bye for now.