The Silhouette of a Girl

Chapter 6

It was still a few weeks until Halloween, and I needed to prep for a band show and, eventually, a play. I also have to get an idea of what I'm going to say to Liam and rehearse it so that I'm not stumbling like a newborn gazelle over my words and thoughts. Tootsie says that everything will be okay, but my nerves are getting the better of me. This doesn't even happen for band or drama! Why can't I think of this as just a play? Or even a concert for me to perform? Why does this have to be so nerve wracking for me?!

"Stop thinking so hard, it's hurting my head, Ocean." Said Tootsie. I kinda stare at her with a blank look on my face. "Didn't you know? We are basically the same person! And Your thinking is making me think and I REALLY don't wanna think right now." She said. I laughed at her. She always knew how to bring me out of my thoughts. Her look towards me said, "Your gonna be fine, hun." So, I am overthinking it again? I guess so.

The next few days go by repetitively quick and slow in certain classes. Fast in band, drama, lunch, and science, slow everywhere else. Eventually, it came to the middle of the month. Band competition came around and I was so ready to get a first division ranking and bring home a trophy! Our Theme was the story of Percy Jackson and his quest to save the world. It is so suspenseful in the first movement. In the ballad, it is about how he saves the love of his life, Annabeth Chase and they have a sweet moment before Gaia decides to attack again in the Third Movement. The whole song is so touching to me, but then again, I am a hopeless romantic.

As I'm pumping myself for the show, I see him. Liam is standing in the hall and he's in his senior jacket. For some reason, I get the feeling he's waiting for me. Or that could just be my imagination on overdrive again. As I get closer I notice that his usually clean-shaven face is aging with a bit of stubble. He looks seriously good in just about any way that he styles his hair. "Hey, Rosy." He said with what looked to be a twinkle in his eye and a million-dollar smile across his face. "H-hi, Liam!" I say. "How are you?" He asks. I tell him I'm good and ask him the same question. As I ask him this, I realize how he tenses up just the slightest and looks behind me before answering with an "okay." I thought for a minute that it was my question being returned to him. All of a sudden, Cindy comes up in a slightly revealing outfit. She is wearing a teal one-shoulder crop top with a darker blue short skirt and black knee-high boots with about 2-inch heels. It was one of those outfits that kind of matched but didn't at the same time.

"Oh hey, Nosy," said Cindy, "Nice to see ya," I swear that I heard that snarl in her voice again. Cindy wrapped herself around Liam's arm and pushed herself far too close to him. She looked at me like a was a bug under her show when Liam wasn't able to look at her. I didn't have Tootsie here at the moment, she was across the building. 'I can handle this' I thought to myself. "What's up Cindy? Oh, and my name is just Rose." I said to the enemy. Liam looked kind of like he was uncomfortable, but that was probably just my imagination, I'm probably just thinking in my favor again. "You know, PDA isn't really allowed at school and if I were Liam, I probably wouldn't like it too much if someone just wrapped themselves around me like a snap-on bracelet," I told her. Just imagine her as the enemy in the play. The Gaia to Percy, I'm going to get through this.

"Uh, I-I don't r-really mind. It's nothing to make a big deal out of. Sorry girls, but I gotta get to class." Liam replied. "Yeah, see, he doesn't mind. WE gotta get to class. See you around Rosy." I swear she gave me the stink eye as she walked slightly behind Liam. Damn it, apparently, I can't do it. Guess what I thought before about him being uncomfortable and maybe even a little happy to see me was wrong. God, I'm so stupid. Why would he be interested in me when he could have a girl as beautiful as Cindy. I mean, I hope he has more intelligence than the average guy to not get with her, but still. Why would he even try to get with me, I'm average, nothing special. I know that usually, the girl that thinks she's worth the scum on her shoe eventually gets the guy she longs for, but this isn't a fairy tale, it's real life.

I continue with a slightly defeated look on my face and some tears in my eyes. I want to be able to allow him in my life without the weight of the world trying to pull us apart. I want my chance, too. But it's never going to happen. He's so far out of my league that we are worlds apart. To him, I'm probably a smudge on a lens compared to him being the sun warming the peoples' skin. He is the trophy to my participation award given to the last place.

I guess that is what happens to a person like me. I think thoughts like this to myself until lunch. Then is where Tootsie and I go to my wolves with some food from my house and continue to talk until 1:00, that gives us about 10 minutes to get to the high school and into class. Plenty of time, really. Once I get to the woods, I see all of my wolves surrounding someone new. The wolves aren't acting harsh, but they are on edge. "Hello, beauties, who is this stranger here?" They all look to me and come running to surround me and Trinity. "Apparently someone that they don't want us to meet," said Tootsie under her breathe to me.

Then, the stranger stands. he is very tall, he also seems very similar, too similar. "Oh, it's Liam," states Tootsie. I look to my wolves and let out a small whine that didn't mean that we were hurt but to stay on guard for us. "Hey there Rose." He said as he walked closer to me in my ever so slightly shaking form. This didn't go past my wolves either as they saw the stranger come closer to their sister.