Here is chapter 1 everyone! I hope you enjoy reading it, as much as I enjoyed writing it! I'm working really hard on this story, and I can't wait for you guys to read the whole thing! Thank you for being so patient throughout the whole "new story" process!
"Ally."
Ugh.
"Ally."
Where is the damn snooze button?!
"Ally! Wake up, you got to get ready!"
This is worse than having an alarm clock give me a heart attack in the morning. I hesitantly opened one eye and when I saw the light being projected from the window I nearly felt myself go blind.
I yawned rather loudly, stretching my arms out. When I finally believed that I could survive the lighting in this room, I opened both eyes.
"Get ready." my dad said stubbornly and then walked out of the room. Today's a new day, have positive thoughts Ally. I sat silently on my bed just trying to think of a way to make this day decent.
Nothing.
* I don't mind spending everyday,
Out on your corner in the pouring rain,
Look for the girl with the broken smile,
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile,
And she will be loved, and she will be loved…
"Ally!"
I've already gotten tired of hearing 2 people say my name today. I take out one of my earphones and listen to that voice that echoes all the way to mars.
"Alls! Over here!"
"I'm coming!" I screamed, awhile being destroyed by this beautiful learning facility I call high school. It's brutal, but amazing.
"ALLY!"
I heard you the first time! Do you not see my getting crushed by the rest of the school's population?! I know I was invisible, but couldn't be that invisible.
Ally Ma…"
Once I got myself out of the crowd, I ran over to her and put my hand over her mouth, hard.
"If you ever say my full name in public I will never forgive you, and I mean it." I said to her raising my eyebrows seriously.
"Okay, okay I get it!" she said putting her hands up in surrender.
This is Rebecca. She has beautiful features, face, and soul. 1 out of my 2 friends. She was rather girly. You see, I meet her in 8th grade when I was getting bullied (no shocker there) and she helped me out. Ever since then we've been the bestest of friends. She hangs out my friend Trish and I. Trish has been my best friend as long as I could remember. But for one, she can't keep a job. And she's very lazy. But I love her deeply.
"Look, so you know how-" I heard her breathe in sharply. This is the part where we all go silent. And I'm not exaggerating. Not one bit. God, help us all. Here we go again.
"Austin Moon is looking over here." she said awhile taking in a shaky breath.
Before I knew it, the whole hallway was quiet. Austin Moon made an entrance, that's for sure.
After a few moments of total silence everything started to slowly move once again. Austin leaned against the corner wall just watching us. This is terrifying.
I can't even begin to comprehend how you can survive one full day covered in leather and jeans that seem to be one to size to big, but Rebecca simply defined it as sagging. It was in "style". Pft, yeah right.
"God, Austin is sooo freaky and to make it worse he's hot! No fair!" she huffed.
I rolled my eyes at the stupidity of that comment. Austin is just…mysterious. And not the "cool" kind just the…scary kind. It's like he wanted you to fear him. But it worked like a charm, since he was the school's bad boy. Girls loved him more than algebra, but then again, it seemed that I was the only person that enjoyed the wonders of math. I've known him since kindergarten. He was never all bad. He was just always the scary kind, I guess. He also knows I'm scared of him, and then he takes advantage of it.
You could say I am bullied on a regular basis; no doubt about it. Let's just there's a boy named Jonathan. He just LOVES to pick on me and make me feel completely worthless. I know him and Austin have a bad history. They always seem like there fighting to see who's more popular and who's more intimidating. Let's just say Austin is way more intimidating by a long shot.
Anyways, this is usually what happens. Jonathan picks on me; Austin always sees the whole thing happen. Once Jonathan leaves, and remember I'm still terrified, he comes and tries to tell me something that I believe is supposed to help me out in life or whatever, but in the end I'm even more terrified than before. The rivalry is known by every single person in this school, most people believe it's just to see who's better than whom, but I think it runs deeper. Something happened in the past. But I'll never get close enough to either of them to find out.
Bringggggg!
My thoughts are washed away by the sound of the bell.
Rebecca throws her head back and groans quite loudly, "Stupid bell! I wasn't even able to tell you what I wanted ask you! I'll see you at lunch, kay? Bye Alls!" she whipped around and sped away faster than I could say goodbye.
I was going to meet Trish at her locker because we usually walk to first period together. I saw her raise her hand and start waving, motioning me to come over. Then everything came at me at full speed. I turned my head slightly to see Austin Moon looking around checking out some red-headed female, which by the way she dresses, Rebecca would identify as a one of the school's sluts. Such a rude label. That was a sin. Everything that happened afterwards was in the speed of light. As I was walking in between a vacant hallway I felt myself being pushed against a locker.
I heard Trish gasp from far away. Ow, that was probably going to leave a mark. I close my eyes and felt my lips start to flutter. "Ally, Ally, innocent old Ally. Didn't I tell you to dress better? How do you expect to make any friends dressed like that?" Jonathan spat in face his voice dripping with venom in every word. I opened my eyes, and out of instant I looked down at my outfit.
I was wearing a ruffled white blouse with a pink cardigan and dark jeans with flats. I raised my eyebrows. I thought I looked pretty decent. I heard Jonathan laugh something reflecting an evil tone. "Nerds, never learn do they?" His hand was right in front of my face I swear, I thought he was going to slap me. But then again, he just dropped my books. He would raise his hand near my face and then slam the books out of my hands where the would spread all over the hall floor.
"Oh, and I'll take that by the way. Need some new music to listen to."
He yanked my iPod right out of my hand. I wanted to fight back, to say something, to not let him get away anymore. But I couldn't. I'm powerless; I'm just Ally Dawson.
I heard him walk away laughing to a point where you barely notice that he had been there in the first place. I remained blinking often to keep myself from crying. I turned my head slightly to the right to notice Austin squinting at me, like he was examining what I would do next. I turned away quickly and bent down to get my books. Awhile I was picking everything up; I felt something gloom over me, a figure. And it wasn't Trish.
The mixed smell of Axe and tobacco filled my senses. It made my eyes burn. I felt like the sun had just burned out. Austin gave this cold and stiffening feeling to the atmosphere. My lips started to tremble again. My hair was covering the side of face like a cloak. I felt Austin bend down to knee level and gently move my hair behind my ear. I felt his cold breath spread throughout the left side of my face as he exhaled delicately.
He swiftly said, "A. P. P. E. A. R. A .N. C. E. Learn it. Use it. You might have a few more living days. Just make sure you don't have a heart attack. I'm just warning you, sweetheart." I felt sick to my stomach. His presence alone, gave me an extreme, anxious, terrifying feeling. I clenched my fists and held my books harder to my chest. I then stayed in that position for a few seconds. I felt him straighten up and slowly walk away till you could hear his footsteps fade away into another hallway.
"Ally!" I heard Trish yell as she ran closer towards me. But she sounded like an echo in my mind. Is what Austin did considered bullying or what? What is all this called? Is there even a word for it? Maybe sexual harassment! No…that's not it.
I slowly rose back up.
I couldn't begin to understand the feeling that had rushed throughout my body when he spoke. His words were so fluent and he acted like he knew what he was doing. It was total madness. I slowly blinked and started to walk with Trish talking by my side awhile I blanked her out. I couldn't connect my thoughts, everything was stuck together.
Bringggggg!
The bell that rung meant first period started. That alerted me. I was done thinking, now I was running to my first class with my thoughts flying around me.
* Lyrics to Maroon 5's song, She Will be Loved. Such a beautiful song.
Well I hope you all enjoyed chapter 1 of Insight! I can't wait for you guys to become more involved in the story with my crazy ideas and Auslly fantasies. Let's now celebrate with some cake!