Eleven Roses

Chapter One

I love being in the shower. It's the one place where I can let everything go. I can stand there and it will just be my thoughts and myself. Complete and utter parad..." LARA! Noah is here... hurry you are going to be late for school," my dad yells from downstairs. Just like that the paradise crashes and burns, then welcome back to the hell hole called my life.

I run downstairs and am greeted by a smiling Noah but wait I know what you're thinking. No Noah isn't my boyfriend, he's my best friend. Noah and I have been friends since we were in kindergarten. Now we get to start our junior year together.

Noah is *that* guy in school. Every single girl in our school wants to date Noah Parker. It's strange because i remember Noah in middle school. He was a short, dorky boy who only had one friend and she was a dorky girl.( That was me by the way) Since sixth grade Noah has had a massive glow up. Like I said everyone wants him, he is captain of the football team and is pretty good looking. He's your typical buff jock with dark brown hair and green eyes. When he walks through the hallway all the girls instantly start drooling. Oh and next to him, that short, little nobody, thats me, Lara.

Im *that* girl in school. When I say *that* I don't mean the super hot girl. No, I'm the girl that nobody knows exists. Little Lara Hannings. The short girl with curly, jet black, shoulder length hair and dark brown eyes that look black. I do however have a sister... two in fact. Kayla and Morgan. Both of them fell on mom's side when it comes to looks. They're both carbon copies of my mom... the straight brown hair and blue eyes. Morgan is the oldest and Kayla is the youngest. I miss my mom. She died when i was really young. Ever since then it's just been my two sisters, dad and I.

"Come Lara, we really are going to be late," Noah says. I can understand why all the girls would want Noah... he's good looking and he's nice. He is a really great best friend. The one down side is that everyone comes to me to help set them up with Noah. It's the one time i actually get talked to. So I play along and I help but Noah always turns them down. He is always saying " I want it to be real... i want her to find me." Cheesy.

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The school is buzzing. It's getting close to that time of year again. Valentine's day, or as my school says it... Rose Day. Everyone in the school is given one rose that they can send to someone else... signed or anonymously. My most hated day of the year... i have never had a valentine and I have never gotten a rose. Except the one i always get. Every year i get one rose from the same person... they never sign with their name, only with "F.M" I have no idea what it stands for. Sometimes i think it's one of my sisters sending me it to make me feel better about never getting an actual rose.

Surprisingly even my younger sister gets more roses than me. She gets atleast seven roses. Morgan, well Morgan might as well get the whole damn greenhouse. She comes home with dozen after dozen after dozen of roses every year. No suprise though. Morgan is like the female version of Noah.

Walking through the hallway of the school is actually painful this time of the year. All you hear is murmurs of who is going to get who's rose and i never hear my name. I wish i would though. Atleast once... just to find out who "F.M" is but let me just shut my mouth and try to push through the day. I hate school.