My New You

Chapter 2

I laugh as my brother face plants into the ground. My laughter is soon joined by my two other brothers.

Chase faked laughed "Hehehehe, funny." He said sarcastically.

When he stood up we walked to the school together and went our separate ways. As I passed Elle she said lowly so only I could hear "Bully too?" Even though I ignored her and looked fine on the outside, I could feel a lump in my throat. Do people really think of me as a bully.

When I got to my locker I found a familiar face from yesterday.

"Hey Tami," Elliot greeted me with his cute boyish like smile.

"Hey Elli." That nickname made us both frown since it sounded like his sister's name. "I guess i'll have to find a nickname for you that doesn't have anything to do with your name. Maybe Bieber boy?"

He gave me that 'What in the world?!' look. Then he remembered what happened yesterday.

Yesterday he was driving and i plugged his iPod in to listen to music and Justin Bieber came blasting out the radio. It was so funny tears were flooding out my eyes. He insisted that it was Elle of course, I believed him at first before 5 minutes later he started to sing along.

"No." He said sternly. But that only made me laugh louder drawing attention from the students in the hallway. Elliot looked down at his blue all star converse embarrassed from all the attention. I grabbed his arm and pulled him out of that hallway to the science wing where there wasn't anyone at the time. I was still giggling under my breath.

"You are crazy," Elliot muttered. I nodded with a cheeky smile which made him laugh. We heard the warning bell.

"Better get to class Bieber Boy." I ran past him to make it to my class.

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At lunch I made sure to get a seat facing Elle. Also Elliot sat at my table, everybody liked him. Chandra especially liked his boyish smile.

As my table talks I can't help but glance past Peyton and stare at Ethan, the stupid jerk I love. His eyes met mine, and none of us made an attempt to look away. Elle noticed us and pulled his shoulder so he'd face her, and his hand knocked of her gatorade that spilled onto her ripped up jeans.

When that happened I looked away acting as if I hadn't saw that.

"Oh that's so cool!" I heard Chandra gush about something.

I turned toward her, "What is?"

"The party your brothers are throwing of course, where's your mind been?"

"Wandering." But I said that so only I could hear that. "Elliot are you coming?"

He looked down at his hands nervously as a few eyes fell on him. He answered "I don't know probably not."

"Why not?" Sean asked him.

"Well Elle might tell my stepdad, her dad, because we aren't suppose to go out at night when they're away."

"Sneak out, that's what half the people at the party do! And by the way, your stepdad sucks."

"I know..." He muttered to himself.

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I smiled at myself in the mirror as I looked my outfit over.

I had chose black skinny jeans and a black and white striped tank top. Centered on the tank top was a heart. Like hey, you don't always need to wear a dress or a skirt. I had on a red headband that had a bow on it and some red flats.

For make up I had just put on some watermelon lip gloss and light blush.

The party was already on full blast when I heard a knock on my door. As I opened it with his famous boyish smile was Elliot. Along with him Chandra.

"Ready?" Chandra asked even though she was walking away, back into the party.

Elliot and I followed behind her, "Have any problems sneaking out?"

"Nah, but better look around corners. I think Elle's here too." 'With Ethan' was the first thing that popped into my head. I shook thought out of my mind and shrugged.

We made our way to the large dance floor with was just our large dining room with the lights dimmed and colorful christmas lights everywhere.

"Want to dance?" I asked him?

"I don't know how, haven't really been invited to parties..." He responded sheepishly.

"Well, I've been to a ton a parties and I still don't know how to dance. But let's try anyway!" I pulled him onto the dance floor ignoring the scared look he was giving me. So cute how he's so shy. Besides his smile you'd think he was a bad boy.

When we got on the dance floor some people were still sober and dancing like they had some since so we tried to look at them and copy what they were doing.

A minute deep into a song, "This is boring..." He nodded his head and agreed then something caught my eye. Elle, in a sparkling silver dress. Everybody was staring at her as she moved threw the crowds. It was like a moment where the loser finally decided to shine. Expect she wasn't a loser, I was.

She met my eyes and gave a smug smile. I widened my eyes, she hadn't noticed Elliot yet. I grabbed his hand and dragged him out the room. We went past a few rooms and then I stopped.

"Your sister's here." I explained kinda with an annoyed tone.

He looked apologetic at me. "Hey, it's ok. How about we go watch a movie or something?" He looked at me thankful that I didn't blame him for his sister.

So now we were upstairs watching the Avengers, my all time favorite movie. Watching Iron Man coming to the rescue in Germany. The best superhero ever in the movie.

"Hulk."

"Iron man."

"The Hulk!"

"Iron man! Flipping awesome!"

"Well Hulk is some bad stuff."

We were arguing on which character was the best. But of course it was Iron man.

It became kinda awkward when a couple outside slammed against my door and started to make out. Elliot was blushing and I was cracking up. That was until they stopped and I heard my name.

"Tami?" A familiar voice called for me. There was some murmuring argument or something. I went over to my bedroom door and opened it, there stood Ethan and Elle. Elle had a shocked, then smug looked on her face.

"Elliot?" She said in a sweet voice taking a step into my room.

"Elle..." His voice kinda cracked.

"Didn't expect to see you here."

"Didn't expect to see you here either." He muttered.

"Well I'll see you later." Then they left. A few minutes later, so did Elliot.