This Love

Chapter 1

*Danielle's POV*

I loved the city of Chicago as much as the next girl, but I always believed change was good. I was overall very excited to be moving to Nashville. I love Tennessee and everything about it. Besides, I was very ready to start over. My past wasnt bad or anything, I just like starting fresh. Besides, I didn't really have any close friends here so it wasnt a big deal to move.

Let me tell you a little more about me. My name is Danielle, I'm 17 years old (senior). I'm a big music nerd and I love it very much. I'm a Taylor Swift fan (oops) and I love country music. Hunter Hayes, Dan and Shay, Carrie Underwood, the works.

Anyways, we've been driving for over 8 hours now, which means we're almost there. I can't wait to go and just unpack. I actually really enjoy unpacking, not sure why.

A few hours later, we arrived at our new house. It really was a gorgeous house. It was very large, white exterior with black detailing. It was very elegant and engaging. I loved everything about it. We also have a pool in the back. I've never had a pool so I'm excited.

I go upstairs with some boxes of small things and start unpacking and setting up my room. Its much larger than my old room, so that's exciting. I spend a few hours unpacking and then my mom comes upstairs.

"Danielle, baby, you should get to sleep. You have to get up early tomorrow," She says.

"Okay mama. Night." I say. I've always been very obedient of my parents. It's just the way I was raised.

Plus, she's right. I have school tomorrow since it's only September. I climb into bed and examine my large and empty room. I fall asleep quickly since I'll have to be up much earlier than I'm used to.

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The next morning I wake up to my alarm going off through my phone. It's set to "What You Do To Me" By Dan and Shay, which I have to say, isn't a bad way to start my morning.

I get up and stumble to the bathroom attached to my room (which I love having) and begin washing my face and brushing my teeth. Then I go and throw on my usual makeup, some concealer, eye shadow, mascara, etc. Then I take my naturally wavy blonde hair out of the bun it was previously in and curl some pieces loosely. Then I walk over to my closet and throw on some high waisted denim shorts and a crop top and sandals. I grab my backpack and walk downstairs and get in the car. I was going to drive myself to school because both of my parents work and I'm an only child, but its right around the corner of my house and it's a nice morning, so I walk. Once I get there, I go to the office right away.

"Hi. I'm Danielle, I'm the new student?" I say, hoping they'll know who I am. The secretary lady smiles and hands me a paper with my schedule and all the room numbers and calls someone to the office to show me where my locker is. A few minutes later, a boy comes down to the office and walks over to me.

"Are you Danielle?" He asks me politely.

"Yup. Nice to meet you." I say.

"You too, I'm Troy." He says. "Here I'll show you where your locker is."

We walk out of the office, "So, where you move from? Because I'm LOVING the crop top choice." He says.

I laugh, "Thanks. I'm from Chicago," I say.

"Not even. Thats so cool." He says.

I laugh again, "Well I wasn't from the cool city part of chicago. I was from the suburbs. Nothing fancy there."

"Well I still love the shirt," He says. Then he turns a corner and I follow.

"Here's your locker," He says.

"Thanks." I say looking at the combo they gave me and putting it in. It clicks open and I start putting my stuff away when the bell rings. Troy is looking at my schedule.

"Oh you don't have to wait I can fing my way." I say.

"Oh hell no. You're my excuse to being late to first period. Besides we're in most of the same classes so I might as well wait." he says.

I laugh slightly and continue putting my stuff away. I tape up the little picture of Hunter Hayes that I've had in my locker every year since freshman year. He's my biggest inspiration and I love everything about him.

Troy stops and looks at the picture, "Oh damn who is that boy?" He says, "Is it an old boyfriend or something? Because he is cute..." He says.

"What?!" I say laughing.

"Honey...I'm gay. I date boys." He says.

"Well thats not what shocked me, but good to know." I say.

"Then what? The boy?" He says nodding towards the picture.

"How do you NOT know who this is?! It's HUNTER HAYES? You're from Nashville for God's sake you should know!" I say sarcastically.

He snickers and rolls his eyes, and I laugh.

"He's a young country singer. I love his work. I have both of his albums if you wanna borrow them..." I say.

"Sure. Hey lets hang out today, you can play me his music and I can admire it and all his perfection." He says.

"Sure," I say laughing a bit, "I'm walking home today if you wanna come with. I only live the next street over." I say grabbing my books.

"Sure. Why not?" He says. I close my locker and we start walking to our first class. When we walk in, Troy explains to the teacher why he was late and he goes and sits down.

"Um...Hi I'm Danielle." I say quietly.

She smiles at me, "Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Mrs.Ericson." She says with a smile, "You can take that empty seat right there." She points to a seat in the back corner. I walk and set my stuff down. When I sit down I notice the boy next to me staring at me. I try not to look over, but when I do he smiles. He's really cute. I just smile back and look forward again.

"Tyler?" Mrs.Ericson says.

"TYLER?" She says again. I look around the room for who she's yelling at and realize its the boy who's (still) staring at me.

"Huh?" The boy looks up.

"Could you please answer the question?" She says in a strict tone.

They go on, until the bell rings. I stand up and grab my things. As I start to walk away, I feel a hand on my shoulder that spins me around.

"Hey, I'm Tyler. Sorry for kinda embarrassing you back there..." He says.

I laugh, "It's whatever. I'm the new girl I've GOT to be embarrassed somehow. But why were you staring at me?" I say with a funny look.

He laughs, "Well the thing is, we never get cute new girls here..."

I roll my eyes, "You're full of bullshit." I say.

He laughs again, "Well I hope my bullshit-self see's you again today." He says with a wink and walks away.

As soon as I get out of the classroom, Troy runs to me, "WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!" He says frantically.

"What?! I don't know!" I say laughing. 

"Tyler is up there for hottest guy in this town and he was checking you out the ENTIRE class period. WHAT EVEN!" He says.

"Yeah I dont know whats up with him. And he called me cute juat now..." I say.

"NO HE DID NOT" say's Troy as if he were a celebrity.

"He seems kinda like a player or something." I say.

Troy gasps, "Honey NO. Thats the thing. I wish he were a player or a douche. BUT HE ISNT! He's perfect and everyone is after him, so if you get him, take him." He says.

"On my first day? Hell no." I say.

"Fine," Troy says, "But you don't know what you're missing..."