"What?" I gasped loudly, backing away, in total shock, "this has got to be SOME KIND OF JOKE!" I was sooo disappointed, and I really thought my dreams would come true.
Lee backed away. "Okay, I'm sorry. All those texts I sent you and then I could've just sent them all to Melissa. Don't be jealous, please, but I really like her." He hung his head.
"You like her more than me? Why?" I screamed.
"You're not exactly the date type," he murmured. "She's pretty, cute, you name it. She's kind of clever. She's popular. She's caring. She smiles at me all the time, she's perfect. She's asked a couple of boys out but they all refused cos she doesn't wear any makeup. I don't get the big deal of it though."
Furiously, I stormed out of school.
When I got home, I opened up my emails. I had recieved an email from a "MAILER DAEMON".
The email mialovesyou@yahoo no longer exists.
So my email hadn't got to Mia. Anyway, who was Melissa? There was no Melissa in my form, and Lee's not exactly an I-remember-people-not-in-my-year kind of person. That was me. Lee only dated girls who were in the same year as him... so who was Melissa? That was weird...
I sighed and replied dully to Sofie's email, (cool, sent! I saw u with ur new bfriend lee... he = cute, you = lucky i hope andy kisses me bye) pretending it didn't send:
Sorry. This email could not be displayed due to the server malfunction.
and shut my laptop with a SMACK. Life sucked. Then I decided to ask Mia who Melissa was, so I restarted my laptop and the stupid thing had logged me out. So I logged in again.
To: miatimesahundred@hotmail.com
Re: ur yahoo dont work anymore
Hey mia any idea which idiot melissa is? appar in our form... lee <3 her not me?!??!?!!?!?? omg, gon faint i thought he was meant to ask me out 0-0 wotevs, ur bff (big fat friend, lol) shannie
The next day at school, Lee refused to look at me. 'Silent treatment.' Then the most ridiculous thing ever happened, he went up to Mia and asked her out! What? Then I could read Mia's lips clearly, and I couldn't believe it. "Lee, I like you. But I fancy Ryan." Lee's eyes widened like saucers.
Nearby, Ryan blushed and interrupted their conversation. "You? Like me?" The dork couldn't believe it.
Mia shrugged. "Yeah, I love you." Like it was no big deal (!)
Ryan was so happy he just hugged her and Mia gratefully hugged him back, and before she said anything, Ryan muttered, "Yes, I'll be your date!"
Looking at me, Mia smiled and winked, but it was all gone too soon when I mouthed, "I thought Lee said he likes Melissa!" Then she looked away and broke apart with Ryan.
"Bye," she giggled, waving a hand. "McDonalds at six."
That SUCKED even more than Lee turning me down: Lee turned me down, asked Mia out, she said no and got a perfect date with her crush. Damn it.
I was too excited to find out who Melissa was, that I just whipped out my phone and went on the internet. The only reason I didn't normally do that was because it was so slow and tiny, but I could make out Mia's email and it horrified me.
To: shannonnnnnnnn@yahoo.co.uk
Re: sucker
Yeah I know who melissa is. Idiot huh? me.
I didn't get it though! How could my best friend that I knew for so long, Mia, have a name, Melissa, that I've never heard? Bizarre. And now she thinks I think she's an idiot. And now she thinks because Lee asked her out and she turned him down She's better than me. And now she thinks because she's getting a date with someone she'd had a big crush on for ages, she's better than me. So she's better than me huh? I'll show her. And no matter how much Lee likes Melissa I'm never gonna go off him. I'll win him one day.
One day.
A/N kay so my PC is pretty much out of bounds so I either go on my iPad (more likely) or my phone (internet problems) so I can't get bold, italics, underline and leaving more than one line so if I have like a really good cliffhanger then on the next line I carry on you know exactly why so :) keep scrolling minions :)
'My hair was as messy as a long haired cat's who had a fight with a rogue dog and lost. My eyes portrayed an old lady's who slept in the woods and hunted all day and night without no sleep in between. My skin was pale like a vampire's who had lived for over a thousand years but never made any contact with the sun or any source of light, and had no fake tan stashed in his bathroom. My nails were chipped and chewed like one of those chew toys old people threw to their hyper dogs gingerly, saying, "Here Barker," in an eager voice, then they went back to reading their (boring) books quietly. My knees were bruised and battered like those homeless kids' whose dads used to abuse them constantly, and made them sleep on the floor at night, with no pillows.'
Sorry, that was me reading a book.
'People stared but it wasn't the staring' -
Someone shoved my book into my face and it whacked me in the nose. I heard a snigger. "Lemme finish this," I groaned, as this book was my life. It was the only good thing in my life and the reason I lived. It had exactly 1000 pages. I just started it this morning.
- 'stared but it wasn't the staring that put' -
Another blow came to my face.
- 'wasn't the staring that put me o-'
Another.
- 'put me off'
I slammed the book shut and threw it at my attacker. Hearing a girlish shriek, I snickered, but only until they threw it back at me and I could see their face. It was Melissa. My book landed an inch to the left of my knee. Talk about bad aim. I gasped to make it more dramatic, but all the nervousness trickling down my back only wanted me to get back together with her. We could chat together, she could help me get my date, I could give her advice for Ryan, she could "Miss Information" me the gossip with her and her new boyfriend, I'll help her see if he's really for her and tell them when's the best time to kiss. It would be Melissa's first.
"Look," I began to Melissa in a pained voice, trying to swallow the lump that was stuck in my throat. I wanted to cry but I couldn't. Her face said, "Why should I". "I'm sorry. I guess I was just jealous. I didn't know it was you. I want us to be friends."
"Why should we?" she snapped back. "You just threw a book at me."
I was going to argue that she slapped me in the face first, but it would only make things worse.
"Lots of people have curly brown hair," I pointed out stupidly.
She smirked at my idiotic-ness. "You need me to brighten up your life. Without it, it's so dull. I've got my crush as a boyfriend and Lee publicly asked me out, so I'm gonna be popular with the girls. I've got a date and many more to come, even kisses. Lots." She fake smiled, then blew a fake kiss at me, turned on her heel and walked away. Nicole and Gemma high-fived her and I gaped, they were so hot and popular in the girls group. No way would Melissa deserve to be their friend, after how she hurt me and dumped me like that. I was crying so badly inside, torn apart, by a stupid, freaking, frickin', fudging, friggin' email.
(A/N: trying to think of as many words meaning the actual swear word without being rude!)
