A Search For Something More

Chapter 1: Introducing Rough Draft

A Search for Something More

By HAKDurbin

Part 1: A New Love

"Mister Draft, are we interrupting!?!"

I jump to see Ms. Harshwinny's unamused face mere inches away from mine. I look around to realize that I am in my fifth-period history class and I have been caught secretly writing one of my stories in class...again. I hear my fellow students snickering and whispering about me as I catch sight of one of the guys secretly handing the guy next to him a dollar bill. Guess they made a bet over whether or not I'd get caught again. I can feel my cheeks warming up in embarrassment.

"What were you writing that could be so much more important than my lecture this time?" Ms. Harshwinny asks in her cold, stern voice.

My cheeks get hotter as I try to think of something to say. I look at my notebook revealing the contents of my personal Star Wars fan fiction. There's no way I'm going to answer her that. I'm embarrassed as it is.

With all the dignity I could muster, I awkwardly say, "I-i-it's not important Ms. Harshwinny. Sorry."

Her, facial expression doesn't change as she walks back to the front of the classroom saying, "Well, you can keep on being sorry all you want in detention."

I let out a quiet groan as she returns to her lecture. At this point, I am no longer surprised about detention, but it still is annoying.

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My name is Rough Draft; I am a senior at Canterlot High school who prefers to write stories rather than pay attention in class. Ever since I was a kid, I loved reading stories of characters that go on all kinds of adventures in the many creative worlds that their writers come up with, and thus I want to write my own original stories with my very own imaginative worlds and adventures.

But deep down, I also want to write about my characters getting together and falling in love. Why? Well, I guess after reading other stories or even watching movies or shows with stories about love, there is a naive part of me that believes that finding love is the final touch in someone's life. So logically, I would want to have romantic subplots between my characters.

But seeing as I am a nerdy high school student with not much experience in writing, I encounter two problems with carrying out my dreams. Firstly, I haven't thought of anything original yet. The best kind of stories I can come up with so far is Star Wars fan fiction where I am a powerful Jedi with the might and skills to defend the galaxy against entire empires of the evil Sith. No matter what obstacles this fictional me would face, there would be no monster, fleet, or armies of the Sith that would stop me from protecting the galaxy.

And the second problem is the simple fact that I have never been in love. I thought I found love once when one of the popular girls in the school, Sunset Shimmer, appeared to be interested in me, but it turned out that she just deceptively used me for her popularity, as she has done to others in Canterlot High.

But I don't want to discuss that further. Not right now, anyway.

Anyway, even though writing fan fiction doesn't put me on the right track of what I want to write, it makes me content to be still writing ... even if sometimes I'll secretly do it during my classes. This isn't to say that my grades suffer for this. I do ok. But I am so much more focused on my writing that I have a considerable reputation for getting in trouble over it. And history with Harshwinny is the prime example.