Fooling Myself

Popular Girl

My day went as usual. I had the normal popular girl life going on.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not the mean popular girl. That's my best friend Lindsay.

Despite what you think when you first look at her, she's horrible. With her sweet face and medium length blond hair and blue eyes, you'd think she was just the nicest person in the world. But she's not.

Why am I friends with her? You might ask. Well, it's because.. Never mind.

Duncan on the other hand, is possibly the sweetest guy you'll ever meet. He has high cheekbones, gray eyes and dirty blond hair. Him being a football player gave him a lot of muscle. Most people are afraid of that. I was when I first met him.

If you're wondering, my feelings for Duncan are real. They're possibly the only real thing about me.

I love the way Duncan makes me feel. He makes me feel like nothing in the world will ever come between us. Like, we'll be together forever. Every time he smiles at me, or kisses me, I get massive butterflies in my stomach that seem to never go away.

Sometimes, I want to tell him about how I hate being someone I'm not, but I can't ruin his reputation. He's been working on his reputation since freshmen year, same as I.

My popular girl, cheer leading captain status, wasn't easy to accomplish. I constantly had people trying to knock me down, and telling me to give up. But I didn't.

As soon as the old head cheerleader left for college, the spot was all mine. I spent many nights coming up with new routines for the team and trying to make them as original as possible. 

Sometimes I feel like my work isn't appreciated. I mean yeah, my team says thanks and all but you know, it just doesn't seem real.

"Aurelia."

I looked up from my paper and saw my chemistry teacher, Mr. Norman, looking at me.

"Yes, Mr. Norman?"

"Can I talk to you after class?"

Around that time, I started to notice all of my classmates staring at me like I did something wrong. Deciding to ignore it, I put on one of my biggest smiles and said happily, "Sure."

You know those moments when someone says, "We need to talk." Or something along those lines, and instantly you start to think about every bad thing you've ever done in your life?

Yeah, well that was me.

I'm pretty sure I almost gave myself a heart attack in the middle class. I guess I'll just find out what Mr. Norman needs after class.

***

The bell rang and my heart dropped.

As everyone filed out of the classroom I stayed back and slowly started to pack my stuff.

"Aurelia?"

"Yes, Mr. Norman?" I said without looking up.

"I have a favor to ask you."

I let out a huge breath of air and turned around. "Ok, go ahead."

"Well, I know this might be a lot of work and it's last minute, but we have a new student arriving tomorrow and I was hoping you could show him around."

Really? This is what he wanted me to do?

"Mr. Norman, I'm sorry but I don't think I'm the right person for this."

He looked at me with disbelief on his face. "Oh, c'mon! Aurelia, you're the popular girl. Who else would be better for this then you?"

Oh.

Right.

I'm the popular girl.

I sighed and said, "Ok. I'll do it. Where do I meet him?"

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