My New You

Chapter 1

I turned to meet Ethan's eyes but I met Elle's instead. Her eyes narrowed and she looked me up and down. I looked around her to look at Ethan, he looked at me with worry in his eyes.

"Need a ride?" Ethan asked. Elle looked at him with shocked and angry. Then before i could even respond she was speeding down the road.

So i continued to stomp down the road. I pulled out my iPod to listen to music the rest of the way home.

When entered the game room i was sweaty, dirty, and tired. My 3 brothers all looked at me with concern. I plopped in a bean bag and told them i walked 5 miles home.

"Why didn't you call?" Peyton asked. He was the most protective of me. Kinda my replacement father.

"I lost my phone." I said with a sigh. Right then my stomach growled and everybody heard it. My younger bro by a year laughed a little and told me they ordered pizza. So now i was just watching them play video games until my little sister, Kelsey, who is 4 came in.

She had that huge smile on her face that makes everybody just want to stop and say 'Awwww'. She looked a lot like mom. She had natural strawberry blonde hair with orange highlights I added for her. Since it's her favorite color of all time. Besides rainbows which mom would have killed me if I did. But i think she would have even looked more adorable. Her eyes were sky blue and she. Was so small and delicate. Like you'd do everything to make sure that she doesn't get hurt. Her hair went to her bottom because she would let it get cut. Her bangs her moved to the side by a blue butterfly pin.

She smiled wider when she saw I was home. She skipped over to me and sat on my lap.

"Hey lil' K," I grinned back down at her.

"I drew you in big school today!" She called her school big school because it went from preschool to 8th grade so that needed a lot of space. Anyways she pulled a sheet of folded paper out of her pocket. I laughed as i examined the picture.

I looked like I had a huge afro, because she tried to draw my curls. I had these huge football shaped eyes with too many eye lashes that were way to long. She tried to draw some eyeshadow around my eyes even though i didn't wear any, so there was an inch of pink around my eyes.

"Pretty," my brother Sean commented sarcastically, but K didn't know that yet. So she just grinned at him as a thank you.

"So how was school today, K?" I tried to rhyme her name as much as I could because it made her happy.

I smile and nodded as K tole me about her day. All until the doorbell rang. Then it was on. I picked up K 'cause she weighed nothing and started to race to the door. Thank god the game room was on the first level. So now it was a race. I was in the lead since I was closest.

But some how I lost, why? Well one of my brothers run track, I can barely ruin with my own weight, and one of my brothers cheated. But I ran back into the game room and sat there waiting for the boys to bring back the pizza.

The next day I hopped out of Peyton's car and started to walk towards the school building. I used to like school, because Ethan was there. Now it's just a place to learn.

When I entered I went to my locker and was tapped on the shoulder. I turned to face Elle with a fake smile on her face.

"Look, just because you're popular doesn't mean you can get anything you want," she said in a low tone to me. But i just stared at her. She doesn't even know me? Does that mean Ethan liked tough girls?

"Being rich doesn't mean you're better than anyone else." After that she walked away in her torn up sneakers. How does she now if i'm rich or not? The clothes? I have my own job to be able to buy these and everybody knows it. My dad is always off working to be able to keep this house. My mom is like a stay at home mom.

I sighed as I walked to my first class. I sat in the back next to Chandra, and listened as the teacher began to teach.

At lunch today I nearly cried.

I got a bowl of soup today and went to sit at my usual table. It included my brothers, my best friend Chandra, my other best friend Jake. And a few other people I talk to.

I was just talking and laughing and laughing when everybody stands and looked behind me. And i felt a warm liquid run down my head and back. Some of the soup got into my eyes so my eyes began to water. I didn't have to look behind me to see it was Elle. I just got up and started to walk towards the exit. But then i heard someone scream.

I looked back to see Elle covered in pasta. I guess that was the que for everyone else to start throwing food at her. But some hit different people and it just ended up being a food fight between everyone. But I still kept walking till i got to the locker room to wash up.

When I was clean i went to the front yard of the school and just laid against a tree.

"I'm sorry," a male voice apologized to me. When I looked up I looked into brown eyes. As i studied him he had a lot of hair. And he wasn't all muscular but he was cute.

"For what?" I asked him no longer looking into his eyes.

"My sister." He answered. I looked at him again. Did he mean Elle? He looked nothing like her. And as if reading my mind he said "Step sister." And he sat down next to me.

"Elliot," he held his hand out for me to shake. I smiled at him and shook his hand.

"Tamesa."

"How about we leave and get you a new lunch?" And then we were off.

"McDonald's?" He asked.

"I don't eat fast food," I commented kinda embarrassed.

"That explains why you're so skinny," he responded with a chuckle.

"What?! You are probably as skinny as I am!"

"Ok how about mexican?"

"I don't eat fast food."

"I'm not talking about Taco Bell. Want to go to Qdoba?"

"Ehh, sure?" I haven't been there before because i thought it was fast food.

He parked into a space near the door and opened it for me. As we went to the counter I saw all the ingredients out like at Subway. The only fast food i liked, if it even was fast food.

Elliot had ordered 3 hard tacos with about everything on it. Even salsa. I had got 2 soft chicken tacos with cheese, sour cream, and tomatoes. Elliot had muttered skinny girl.

We were sitting outside but I haven't eaten anything, because Elliot was watching me. Waiting for me to eat it, but I didn't like people watching me eat in case I looked like a pig. But I finally gave in and took a bite. And that led to a bunch of others.

"Skinny girl turned into a pig?" Elliot smiled at me. I rolled my eyes at him while chewing. "Why don't you eat fast food?"

After I swallowed I explained "Well when I was little I loved McDonald's. And I ate it a lot. And got sick of it. And in middle school, in health class we had to watch this movie. And it made me hate fast food forever. It gave a few facts about the food. And the guy ate fast food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing else."

"Gross," he commented after swallowing a bite. Then he studied my face. "Do you wear make up?"

I shook my head, "No."

He smiled and nodded. "I like it. But why don't you wear it?"

"Well my ex didn't like it so I stopped wearing it. But now my ex dumped me and is hanging out with your step sister." I answered not looking into his eyes at the last part.

"Well I think you'd be prettier without it. I think my sister wears too much." When i looked at him he was smiling at me, and his eyes showed no lie.