Chapter 1: Tyler's POV
The title of the chapters will eventually be a poem so don't be confused.
~Emmy
"Man, she is just a bitch don't let her fool you." My idiotic best friend, Kai, said. He was talking about Thea Raia, the sunshine girl of the school. She really was the personification of an angel. She wasn't that popular, though only two people really knew her well. Her best friend Kendra and Kai. Everybody else just knew her as the "Nice Girl".
I didn't want to admit it, but I was Jealous of Kai. In freshman year I fell in love with Thea when she defended me when one of the Varsity football players spilled syrup on me. I still was, a senior in high school, in love with a girl he hasn't spoken to since that day in freshman year. I knew it was pathetic, but I couldn't stop it. It was even worse watching my best friend date her for a year; Then call her a bitch when she didn't put out.
"Come on Ty."
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Going home after wasn't my favorite thing. When your dad was never home and when he was it was like World War III, you wouldn't want to be home either. And when I saw his pretentious Bugatti parked in front of our house that was way too big for the three of us. More like two of us, since he was never there. What can I say, though, my dad cared more about his title than his own family.
"Hey Tyler honey how was school?" My mom asked me when I walked into the kitchen. My mom was by far my favorite person in the entire world. I didn't care if I was a mamma's boy.
"It was good mama how was your day?"
"It's been wonderful. Especially now that my baby is home. Now go finish your homework."
The rest of my day was spent doing homework, texting Kai, getting annoyed at him, then tuning my parents out for three hours while they screamed at each other. Around two in the morning my mom's familiar shadowed appeared under my door. I quickly hid my phone and pretended to be asleep. She slowly opened the door, trying not to wake me up. She sat down on my bed and pressed her forehead against me.
"I'm sorry baby. I just don't know what to do."
With that she left my room. She always did that after a big fight with my dad, and every time my heart broke for her. She deserves so much more than him.
Like every night, I threw on my favorite navy hoodie and climbed out of my window to go to my home away from home, Steve's. Steve was a family friend that knows all about what's going on at home. He let me stay over a lot, which sometimes meant I had to babysit his six-month-old daughter, Nova. I didn't mind though. Steve and his wife Jen had done so much for me. I really couldn't thank them enough.
"Hey Hun!" Jen calls from behind the counter.
"Hey Jen, how's your night going?" I asked, sitting down on a stool.
"Good, why are you out so late?" She knew the answer.
"Just being a reckless teen." I answered, to make her laugh.
"That seems to be the theme tonight."
"Why's that?"
"A girl came in here, she just left, but she looked pretty upset. She was the sweetest thing, though. Left Carrie a twenty-dollar tip and a sweet note. Really made her day."
Hearing that made me think of Thea. How she would be the one to do something like that, but does anyone send her notes? Then an idea came into my head.
"Sorry Jen I gotta go!" I said not even waiting for her response.
My plan wasn't fool proof, but that was okay. I was going to get closer to Thea Raia.
Every day I would put a compliment in her locker then a clue as to who I was. Scared would be an understatement to how I felt.
