If You Open Your Eyes

Chapter 2

"Crapp. Owwww oh my god." My stupid locker decided that it wanted to crush my fingers, again, for the millionth time.

"Dani!" Haley exclaims as she bounds down the hallway with her beach-blond ponytail swinging behind her. "You okay?"

"No, I am not fucking "okay." The metal locker just slammed my fingers and probably broke them. Again."

"Geez, Dani. Chill out. It's not like the locker is out to get you."

"No, you're right. It's not just the locker. It's the whole freaking world."

"Yeah, whatever Dani. Let's just go to lunch."

Even though I am bursting with anger on the inside, I follow her, still nursing my damaged fingers to my chest.

As I stomp into the Cafeteria after Haley, not all heads turn our way. But those who don't know any better, the freshies, turn towards me with a look of utter confusion. I simply glare at them and they quickly turn back to whatever the hell they were doing.

After we made our way our usual table, Haley took out her salad with multi-grain croutons, an iced coffee from Starbucks, and a Special K granola bar all out of her Vera Bradley lunch bag.
I just sat and watched as she took an abnormally large bite of her salad.

"Nothing, again, Dani?" Haley asked with her mouth full of lettuce.

"Well, yeah. There was nothing in the house."

"I'm gonna buy you lunch. You can't just not eat!"

"No Hales, it's fine. Please." The last thing I needed was Haley's pity.

"Fine."

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "Thank y-"

Before I could finish my sentence, Haley had grabbed my arm and was dragging me to the lunch line. I reluctantly followed, because I didn't really have much of a choice against a 5'6" cheerleader, while I stood at a measly 5'2" and played guitar.
I let her pull me along until we neared the food, and I saw something that I guess was supposed to be meatloaf but looked more like Ms. Dawson's dogs crap.

"Uh, no. No. No." I dug my worn-out converse into the tile ground of the cafeteria, and it almost worked until Haley suddenly jerked me forward and to a stop.

"Hales! What the fu-"

"Shh! Look,"

"Wsizzhadt"

"Hah, oh sorry," Hales says as I peel her freshly manicured hands off my face. "What'd you say?"

"I said: At what?"

"Oh, yeah. Him." She points me in the direction of a some poor guy getting of the dog crap dumped on his plate.
Well, maybe I shouldn't call him some guy. He looked more like an Abercrombie and Fitch model than an eighteen year old boy. Even with a look of disgust pinching up his face.

"Holy shit. He's gorgeous. Who is that?"

"He's a new kid in my English class. And no. He's not gorgeous. He's like a God."

"So.... What about him Hales? You gonna go for him?"

"Yup."

Before I could stop her and tell her it wasn't a real dare, she was already confidently strutting over, golden ponytail swishing, to the cute brown-haired guy.

I couldn't hear the conversation from where I was standing, but when I scooted a little to the left I could see that he was already smiling.

Of course. Haley has all the boys of the school at her fingertips, and can snatch one up and spit one out as easily as she would please, but has never dated another guy since Alex. He broke her heart in the ninth grade when he sleep with her cousin. Therefore she now pronounces all guys as filthy man-whores who don't know how to treat a girl right. She still flirts shamelessly, though.

"...Haha! Alright, bye! See ya later!"

I look up to see Haley with a ginormous grin on her face, fast-walking towards me and grabbing my arm to pull me back to the table.

"So, what's he like?" I asked once we were back in the safety of our lunch table.

"Ok, well his name is Tyler, and he used to live in Denver and was like the biggest football star. And he has a pet cat named Fluff and he has an older brother named Matt. He's also like super funny and when he smiles he has this adorable dimple on his left cheek."

"And you learned that in five minutes?"

"Dani I can't even begin to explain to you how absolutely gorgeous he is. I think I'm in love."

"Okay, one: I saw that he's gorgeous I was like right there and two: You can't possibly be in love you just met him."

"Whatever. Oh, shoot! I almost forgot. Your food!"

"No, Haley. Did you even see that "meatloaf"? I'm pretty sure it was just the lunch lady trying to make money by selling her dogs shit to unsuspecting high schoolers."

"Um, ew, no I would never make you eat that. Do you know how many calories are in that stuff? Like a lot. The fries are to die for, though."

"No, Haley, I'm good. I'll just have something when I go see Maddie I guess."

-AUTHORS NOTE-
Hi! So, really, who is Maddie? And the new guy? What do you think of him? Comment and let me know what you think! Also, don't forget to vote! Thanks for reading!