My Promised Lie

Chapter one

There are so many stories of girls getting the man of her dreams, girls getting over their problems and girls living happily ever after. This is nothing like my story.

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It all started when I the bell went for my first class, I walked to G5101 as usual but that day was different. I was stopped in the hall by Samantha Perkins, she was the most popular girl in school and had never spoken to me before.

“Hey, it’s Alice right?” She said with a huge smile on her face.

“Um, yeah”

“I love that name, anyway I need to ask a favour”

“Um, I’ll help if I can”

“Well, Jake Matthews, you know him right?”

“Yeah, isn’t he your boyfriend”

“Ex, but that’s what I wanted to ask you about. Well, since you’re like new, he wouldn’t know you, right?”

Well I’m not new, I’ve been at this school for the same time she has but I’ll go with it.

“Yeah, I guess…”

“Well, I want you give you a makeover and like everything else.”

“Why?” I bud in before she finishes, I should have just walked away now that I think about it. I mean what good could come if she came up with the idea herself.

“Um, I want you and Jake to go out, I mean not for real but just so he thinks you are.”

“What’s the point of this?”

“He broke my heart and I just want him to feel the same way”

I had my heart broken before, only once but I know how she feels.

“I don’t know”

“I’ll pay you, and you get a free make over. $20 a day?”

“Well, I guess”

“I’ll pick you up at 4”

She smiled and walked off.

I finally got to class, I saw Jake sitting in the back row as I walk in. I took my usual seat at the front of the classroom. I turned a few times during class to see if he notices me, he didn’t. He didn’t know I existed, and I doubted he ever would.

The whole day I wondered what’s going to happen. Is it all a prank? And if it is, is it a prank on me or him. The whole day I stared at the clock.

“Is there somewhere else you have to be Ms Harper?” I’ve always love that about Mr Pillar, he likes to torture kids that don’t pay attention, apparently that day he notice I wasn’t.

“Um, no sir” I moved my eyes from the clock and towards the board.

“If you wouldn’t mind?” He gestured towards the board which had a load of writing which I guessed he wanted me to read, I did.

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