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The Beginning of Something Wonderful

I've never been that popular outgoing person tht makes friends quickly. I've never flirted with a boy or wore clothes I knew a boy would find attractive and chase after me. I was always that girl in the background, ever stood out, never found myself pretty, never spent hours in the morning trying to put makeup on. I was always shy and kept to myself. I only turn into that outgoing person when I'm around my friends. I seriously lacked confidence that every girl I knew had. 

"Amerie?" A voice snatched me away from my darkest thoughts, leaving behind reality that I had tried to avoid again and again. Sitting next to me had been one of my very close friends, Blaize. She was always dying her hair some abnormal color and dressing in ripped jeans or tutu skirts. Some could say she was sort of a Scene Queen. Even so, she was a nice person and not as hardcore as most people made her out to be. She was a rocker, not a delinquent.

"Daydreaming again?" She smirked as she handed me my coffee, that had surprisingly complimented her dazzling black nail polish and series of writsbands might I add, and sat in the seat next to me. "One Pumpkin Spice Lotte, extra whip cream and sugar for Amerie Antoine."

"Haha, very funny" I softspokenly replied. I took the coffee and drank a sip, slightly showing off the black nail polish Blaize had lent me. It was before school and we would always hang out in the coffee shop across from the school. It was just something that we did. Not too long afterward, Ashley and Jayde came by with their coffees.

 

"Hey." Jayde dully greeted us. Ashley waved a shy hello, timidly tucking her charmingly red hair behind her ear. Ashley was more timid and shy than I was. She was beautiful but wasn't confident in her looks, whiche severely bugged me. Jayde was the goth of the group, always dressing in black and never seeen with a smile for as log as I've known her. Well actually...There was this time where she smiled but that was only after dunking cold iced tea on a boy's head after he tried to flirt with her.

 

"Don't you ever wonder how people see us?" Jayde started, sitting across from me and Blaize but right next to Lilty.

 

"What do you mean..?" Lilty questioned. Jayde rolled her eyes as if it were just plain obvious. Blaize glared at Jayde, as if to warn her not to start it.

 

"Amerie is the only black person among three white chicks. You can't honestly tell me it doesn't bug you how people stare. I couldn't careless but I know how weak-hearted you can be." Jayde laid back cooly in her chair, crossing her legs to reveal her sparkly black boots with mini chains hanging from them. That's right. In the midst of all my friends, I happened to be the only black one. I had been okay with it but there has been times where I just want to crawl in a hole and hid from the stares we'd be getting.

 

"Ugh, Jayde!" Blaize's voice raised slightly as she slammed her fist down on the table. Jayde shrugged as if it was nothing.

 

"What? You know how people can be. Racism is still out there, obviously. And Amerie has to be aware of the stares we get from all races."

 

"I don't want to be thinking about Skin Color when I pick friends, thank you very much! Bringing that up was totally unnessisary!"

 

"Oh wah-wah. Get over it. Would you rather it go unspoken like a a secret we all know?"