Melani
- Dark brown hair
- hazel eyes
- tan
- 14
It was a cold, January Wednesday. I was walking to school, like I always do because the freshman academy is less than a block away from my house. As soon as I walked through the huge double doors, I was attacked with a group hug by my closest friends: Amy, Rachelle, and Jessica. They were just like my sisters, we even acted like sisters. Every weekend, we slept over at one anothers house. We were basiclly inseperable. "Guys! I missed you so much!" I said. You see, we were on Christmas break, so my family and I visited my grandma. "Melani," Rachelle said, "how'd it go in Cobbtown?" I lived in Dexter, Georgia. It's a small town of only 530 people. My grandma lives in Cobbtown, it only has about 350 people. "It went well." I said. We all started walking down the hallway, on our way to our lockers, and I saw a poster for Cody Simpson's Coast to Coast mall tour. As I passed by the sheet, I glanced quickly at the date. He was going to be performing this Friday! Honestly, I wasn't one of those 'I'M GOING TO MARRY YOU.' type fans, I just like his music, but I do think he's cute. "Hey guys? What are we gonna do on Friday?" I asked. The girls just murmered simple "No's" and "I don't know's". Then, at that moment, Toby, my science project partner came up to me. "Hey Mels." (Everyone called me that for short.) "Oh, hey Toby. What's up?" "Nothing much. Thanks for ditching me this morning." I was so confused. "Wait. What?" Toby stared at me in disbelief. "This morning you were supposed to meet me at Starbucks for the final touches on the project. Remember now?" Now I understood, and I felt horrible! "Oh my gosh Toby! I'm soooooo sorry. We got home around 4am, and I overslept, and I'm sorry. Forgive me?" I pulled my puppy dog face. "Fine. But you SO owe me." "Ok!" Then Toby left. Then Jessica said, "What were you saying about Friday?" "Oh. Well, you see, Friday afternoon, Cody Simpson is gonna be there! And I really want to go." We were already at our lockers. Luckily, all four lockers stood next to each other. "Ugh. Mels! You know we ALL hate that girl. He sings so high.", Amy said. "OH CMON. PLEASEEEE?." I begged. "No Melani. We don't like his music and I have something to do anyways..Rachelle and I are gonna go to the spa." Jessica whispered, as if she were afraid of me. "Fine. I'll ask someone else." I stated. And with those words, I slamed my locker and walked to class.
On the way to class, I was turning the corner and I bumped into someone, causing my stuff and the other persons stuff falling all over the floor. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry." said the voice. It sounded like a boy, but it wasn't familiar. "No, no, no. I wasn't paying attention. It was my fault. Sorry." I looked up at the boy. He had dirty blonde hair, blue eyes. And he was at least four or five inches taller than me. "Hi, I'm Jake. Jake Thrupp." He had an Australian acccent. He stuck out his hand for me to shake. "Im Melani. You can call me Mels for short." I smiled and shook his hand awkwardly. "Are you new here?" I asked. "Yeah. I'm from Australia. Queensland to be exact." He grinned. "Oh well, can I see your schedule? I can show you around." I said. Jake pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to me. I looked it over nd my eyes widened. "Dude. Seriously? You have all of the same classes as me!" I smiled at him. "Well, that's a good thing." he said, then he winked at me. I blushed. I took hold of his hand and started running into class, "C'mon silly! We have one minute until the bell rings!" I sat down in my seat and Jake sat in the seat next to me because we didn't have assigned seats. "Goodmorning Class. How was your break?" Mrs. Vargas said. Everyone was still tired, so no one answered. "STUDENTS! Wake up! Now, how was break?" She yelled. "Good!" Everyone yelled. "Ahh. I see we have a new student on the roster. Mr. Thrupp?" she asked. "Here!" He raised his hand. "My name is Mrs. Vargas. We are very glad you chose this school. I hope everyone has been very welcome on your first day." as soon as Mrs. Vargas said that, Jake's eyes beamed at me. So Jake and I went through the rest of the day normally. We had lunch together too. I didn't want to sit with my friends because I was still mad at them about what happened this morning. At the end of the day, I asked Jake where he lived. "I live I think less than a block away from here. I walk. You?" Now that he said that, I noticed my neighbors moved to Calofornia and a new family had moved in just a couple days ago. "Do you live at 755 Duloc Lane?" "Yeah! How did you know? Do you stalk me?" he asked, smirking. "Haha." I turned my serious face on, "Since you asked, yes. I do stalk you." Jake just stared at me in shock as we started walking. I just bursted out laughing. I could barely breathe anymore because I was laughing so hard, so I sat down on a nearby bench. Jake sat right beside me. "I was kidding!" I said, still laughing."Oh thank gosh. You hd me there for a second. You are a really good actor!" Jake said grinning. "Why thank you, sir. We should get going. Oh. And by the way - I'm your new neighbor!" I got up with Jake and started walking towards our houses when my phone started ringing: "Give me the chance to love you! I'll tell you the only reason why. Cos youuuu are on my mind. I wanna know you feel it! What do you see when you close your eyess?" Yes. My ringtone is Cody Simpson's song, On My Mind. Don't judge me! I mouthed "Hold on" to Jake. He just nodded. "Hello?" I answered. "Honey, where are you?" It was my mom. "I'm literally 10 feet away from home. I'm walking home with Jake, the new neighbors son." I rolled my eyes. "Oh really? The Thrupp's re coing over for dinner tonight, as a welcome to the neighborhood type thing." I smiled at Jake, but he just looked at me confused. "Ok. I'll be home in a few." And with that I hung up. "Why are you smiling?" Jake asked. "Wellllllllll, if you must know, your coming over for dinner to my house tonight." He smiled at me. "Really?" I nodded and said, "My mom invited over your parents for dinner. Fun. Woohoo." I whispered flatly. "Oh Yeah!" He yelle imitating Pauly D from Jersey Shore. "Quick question." he told me before we split up into our driveways. "Shoot." "You like Cody Simpsons music?" he asked. "Yeah. But I'm not one of those crazy 'I know everything about him' fans. I just like his music." "What are you doing Friday?" "Nothing. Why?" I said thinking about the drama that happened this morning about the concert. "Will you come with me to the mall?" "Sure. What time?" "I'll pick you up around 1?" "Sounds good. See you tonight Jake (: " Jake then leaned down and whispered, "Goodbye gorgeous." and with that he left.
I went inside and went into my room and logged onto FaceBook since I had no homework. I had a couple friend requests and whatnot. I decided to update my status, so I quickly typed, "I can't wait for tonight!" and after that posted, I saw Cody Simpson had updated his page, so I clicked on his name and saw a status update talking about a contest he was having for the people he was going to be performing for at his concert in Georgia this Friday! So I decided to enter the contest. It was a contest to be the girl he serenades, and dances with, and gives flowers to, and gets to go backstage ith him! I don't think I have a chance of winning, but what do I have to lose?