Prologue
They were laughing at me again.
Not one day could go by where I could go to Shadyside High and not be laughed at by my peers. Whether they were laughing at me for my shaggy, 'fag' haircut, or how ultra 'poser-ish' my clothes were, I couldn't go a day at school without being laughed at.
But this time, it wasn't the guys who normally laughed at me, or even the group of popular girls that laughed at me usually everyday. It was a girl and her friends that wasn't supposed to laugh at me.
Lunch was the worst period of the day for me. Worse than gym class, where the boys shoved me to the ground in basketball, causing me to have to an idiot", she said, her cheeks burning with embarrassment.
"Yeah, well", I shrugged, not knowing what to say.
"Hey, I'm not trying to be rude, but did you want something?" she asked, taking a sip of her water.
I blushed. "Can we talk? Like, in private?" I asked her, watching a couple of her skater-ish looking friends start to snicker, watching me.
"Uhm--sure, I guess", she said, glancing at her friends.
She walked out into the hallway with me, biting her lip slightly. She glanced at me, a strange look on her face.
"Listen--I-I-"
"What?"
"Will you go out with me?"
I hadn't really known she had boyfriend. Okay, so maybe I was a bad stalker.
And that was when she laughed
