A/N: (2015) I literally published this story towards the end of my 7th grade year and look at me now about to enter the 12th grade. Man does time fly, but enough about me let's talk more about this story. I remember having so many ideas for this story but I never really got past the first chapter because I was becoming distracted by other things. I've decided to keep this story up but turn into a one-shot since it could pass for one considering the way I wrote it. I have edited to the best of my ability and I want you to tell me what you think!
The school day was just minutes away from starting and Simon walked the high school halls watching every boy or girl who kissed and hugged, feeling so out of place with all the love in the air. Even Theodore his little brother had a girlfriend and his other brother Alvin of course was always hitting on girls only dating them for a short while, but he was always so nervous in asking Brittany out which resulted in Alvin ridiculously starting arguments.
Of course Simon wanted to know what love was, there were a few he's dated, but he didn't want to be like Alvin, he wanted to be like Theodore who had Eleanor at his side. He was in the 12th grade after all. He wasn't exactly popular, but he wasn't an outcast either. He accepted that fact and it didn't bother him one bit, he liked it.
"Hi, Simon!" A voice popped in his ears and he turned around to see the emerald eyes that lit his spirit. He felt something special when he was around her, but he couldn't figure out what it could be.
"Hey, Jeanette!" Simon greeted. Simon loved being with his purple clad best friend but right now he was just absorbed and lost in the idea of someone to love. Jeanette started talking but Simon ignored her.
Simon blinked a few times before asking "What? I'm sorry I kinda spaced out...".
Jeanette chuckled then began to speak. "Are you going to prom?"
"No, probably not." Simon answered. "I don't really like school dances, and I certainly do not have a date."
He did ask Jeanette to the Valentines day ball when they were eight, but Simon had no idea about love then. Jeanette was hoping that Simon would ask her to anything, but that hasn't happened since they were eight.
"Simon prom isn't like a school dance!" Jeanette corrected him.
"Oh, my bad, Jen." Simon said with a hint of sarcasm.
"Quit it with the sarcasm," Jeanette spoke. "I think you should go! Ask someone! It's going to be a night of romance!" Jeanette smiled at the thought. "I'm going. I hear it's going to be real fun. Our theme is 'Night of Romance'." Jeanette said.
"Real original!" Simon laughed but then his smile faded. "I'll think about it, but who would want to go with me!"
"Simon don't be so hard on yourself! The one girl who would want to be your date could be right in front of you! Just give it a shot! I'll see you 2nd period!" Jeanette said, as the bell rung.
Simon thought about what Jeanette had just said but he couldn't quite make it out.
"Bye, Jen!" Simon said waving as Jeanette turned around and walked away into the French room with Eleanor.
"So how was it with Simon?" Eleanor asked.
"I don't know, El." Jeanette sighed. "I'm almost pretty sure he's not going to prom but I gave him advice about it."
"Well once you guys get together, we should get those two together." Eleanor laughed pointing at Alvin and Brittany going into the Spanish room. Jeanette chuckled along with her sister.
~50 minutes Later~
"Alright class, grab a partner and read the directions on this lab assignment I'm going to give you which is do on Monday." Mr. Alamo said handing out lab packets.
Jeanette quickly took the chance to talk to Simon more and rushed over to his table.
"Hey, wanna be-" Jeanette began asking the blue clad chipmunk but began getting cut off.
"Hey Jen, want to be my partner?" Came from behind the brunette.
Jeanette's eyes widened, she knew this voice almost too well. The voice of a boy Jeanette used to be so fond of. She knew that she once liked him, that she did everything for him, and he ended up breaking her heart. A boy that moved a away almost two years ago.
"Dustin...?" Jeanette asked in shock.
"Yeah. Don't you remember me?" He asked the now furious chipette.
"Of course I do, but I have no interest in being your partner!" Jeanette started. "In fact, I was asking Simon to be my-" Jeanette turned around seeing that Simon had another partner. "Not chemistry partner..."
She could feel the tears building up in her eyes but she held them in. It felt like Simon completely ignored her and how could he when she was in the middle of asking Simon to be her partner. She noticed that Candy Angora became his chemistry partner.
"Jeanette, be my chem partner?" Dustin asked again. Jeanette looked around for anyone else, but she failed. She really didn't want to be partners with this jerk.
"Jeanette, there isn't anyone else available so settle for me." Dustin said.
Jeanette finally surrendered to the persistent boy. "Fine, but you know this is only for chemistry purposes then I'll go back to ignoring you."
"Yeah okay, I'm going to get the things we need and you can stay here and scowl at me from a distance" Dustin laughed while leaving his spot.
Jeanette sat there reading the instructions when Dustin came back she snatched the ingredients from him and placed them neatly on the table, the two then began mixing them and completing the lab. The whole time Jeanette didn't make eye contact with Dustin and kept looking back at Simon.
"W-why won't you make eye contact with me?" Dustin asked while laughing.
"Well what do you think!" Jeanette yelled writing down observations. "You broke my heart, left and then told me that I should just forget about you and you have the nerve to ask me why I'm mad at you!" Everyone was staring at the couple, minus Simon and Candy and Dustin shushed Jeanette not wanting attention drawn to them. Jeanette growled at him.
"I didn't mean to dump you, I loved you but I was leaving." Dustin confessed. Jeanette's heart healed from what Simon did to what her former sweetheart said.
"Is that true?" Jeanette sighed but her face quickly hardened "But you were majorly popular, why would you be seen with an outcast?" Jeanette asked completing her experiment.
"Because love has no boundaries wherever you are." Dustin said look into her eyes.
"Not when you barley made eye contact with them because of how popular they were!" Jeanette said. "You barley said hi to me at school!" Jeanette said turning away. "I was an outcast!"
"I was a fool, an underclassman, I was stupid for choosing popularity over the most beautiful girl in the world! Just because you were an outcast didn't mean I didn't love you I was a foolish kid! We're seniors now, let go of the past!" Dustin begged.
"N-no! I'm in love with someone else anyway at least I think I am!" Jeanette said. Staring at Simon.
"It's Alvin's taller brother, isn't it?" He asked.
"Sh-sh-shush! I don't want him to know! How do you even know, Dustin?" Jeanette asked quickly covering his mouth.
"Well you were staring at him this whole period!" Dustin said breaking free from her hand.
"Let's just finish this project so I never have to see you again!" Jeanette said.
"Why don't you go to prom with me?" Dustin asked.
"I would so love not to!" Jeanette hissed. "Now let's finish!"
~After School~
Jeanette went over to the Seville's to find Simon sitting on the steps doing his homework. Jeanette took the chance to tell Simon something that might actually work.
"Simon, I'm gonna be completely honest with you!"
"That's great, but I wanna tell you something too!" Simon said. He had something totally different to say then to what Jeanette was planning on telling him.
"Really?" Jeanette asked in excitement, she felt a rush go through her. "Are you going with anyone?"
"Yes, Candy Angora!" Simon said. Simon smile slowly disappeared as she watched tears drop down from Jeanette's face. "Jeanette? What's wrong." Simon asked, grabbing her hands, she slowly snatched them away.
"I-I'm sorry, Simon!" Jeanette said. Simon was completely confused.
"Sorry for what." Simon asked standing up.
"I'm sorry that it was so hard to notice the one girl who kept trying to get you to love her, the one girl who was an outcast in your life, the one freaking girl who wanted you to ask her to prom and to notice her and you know who that girl is?" Jeanette cried. "That girl is me, dumb enough to believe in love!"
"W-wait a minute, you love me?" Simon stuttered.
"No shit, Sherlock! I just said I did, but not anymore." Jeanette cried running down the street.
"I never realized it but I'm in love with her too." Simon admitted sitting on the step as it started to pour and short after a fog came out. He ignored the weather and began thinking about all the times that he felt things for her but ignored them thinking he was going through a stage. The door cracked and he saw Alvin come out and sitting beside Simon.
"I think I lost my chances with Brittany." Alvin sighed leaning his elbow on his knee and his cheek on his palm. "I think I'm in love with her..."
"Alvin we all knew that, you know how many times you said that in your sleep?" Simon asked.
"Really? Well whatever, she's probably going with someone else." Alvin said.
"No she's not." Simon said. "Alvin, don't be stupid like me and ask her to the prom she really wants to go with you." Simon said holding back tears. Right at that very moment Brittany walked out with an umbrella.
"Don't waste your time catch your treasure or you'll loose her forever!" Simon said and Alvin took his advice and got up running over to Brittany.
"Alvin! What are you doing?" Brittany asked clearly confused.
"Brittany Miller! I've been wanting to ask you this since I was eight, even though someone else asked you and I was heartbroken even though it was still me..." Brittany chuckled at the memory. "Will you go to prom with me?" Alvin asked confidently.
Brittany couldn't help but kiss him."I thought you'd never asked, loser." Alvin chuckled and began kissing Brittany again.
At this moment Simon felt a knot in his stomach and a lump in his throat. He knew that he lost his emerald while Alvin found his Amethyst. He was feeling so much that he just went inside and screamed in his pillow.
~3 days later/ Night of Prom~
Jeanette sat next to Eleanor and Theodore, during this event, she felt so out of place. The music blasted like no tomorrow and there were a lot of lovers dancing to anything, even Alvin and Brittany were having a great time. At this point she wished she said yes to Dustin. Dustin wasn't even here and she was just going to go home.
"Eleanor, I had a fun time but I think I'm going back home." Jeanette said.
"Jen, prom has barely just started, I think you should stay!" Theodore said trying to convince his friend to stay.
"Thanks Theodore, but I rather go home." Jeanette said with the sadness hinting in her voice.
"Are you really going to walk?" Eleanor asked with concern.
"I guess so, El." Jeanette answered and then began making her way through the crowd of people. She pushed the doors and looked at the big fog there was and then she started running.
~With Simon~
Simon was laying on his bed with his dog Rosy, these were her last few years so Simon was constantly with her. He couldn't help but think about how stupid he was, all the times he felt it something but brushing it off like it was just a phase.
Dave walked in and feeling bad for his son. "Are you going Simon?" Dave asked
"I don't think so." Simon replied rubbing Rosy's head.
"Just because you don't have a date doesn't mean you can't go, you can easily have fun with out Je- your date." Dave said.
"Nice save..." Simon laughed. He thought about winning her heart back, does he really truly love her, or is it a true phase? All Simon knew was that he wanted to win her heart back, become her knight in shining armor as cheesy as that may sound.
"On second thought maybe I'll go." Simon said.
"That's my Simon." Dave said getting up and leaving Simon to get ready.
Simon went into the bathroom in casual clothes and came back in a black tux with a white undershirt and blue bow tie all of which that fitted him nicely while his hair was styled back with gel and he was looking very handsome.
"Rosy, do you think it's just a phase?" Simon asked his furry friend.
Rosy just barked back at him as if she was talking to him and Simon nodded and picked up a rose from vase and made his way out the door and off to fix the mess he made.
~Back To Jeanette~
Jeanette was running fast and she eventually tripped feeling tired she just made her way back to the school and sat against the wall sobbing into her knees.
"What are you doing sad eyes." Someone's voice said.
"Dustin." Jeanette said lifting her head and rolling her eyes trying to hide the fact that she was crying.
"Did you really mean what you said about Simon at school?" Dustin asked.
"Guess not." At that very moment Dustin flashed Jeanette with a kiss.
Inside Alvin was getting punch for him and his date when he suddenly noticed his friend and a guy he recognized. "Britt, look!" Alvin said, looking out the window, Brittany gasped and signaled Theodore and Eleanor.
"That little worm!" Brittany hissed.
"It's not nice to call people worms!" Theodore said. Brittany just rolled her eyes.
"Come on! Let her choose, Simon was late and it's over. Just let her be." Eleanor said.
"I guess but he's a little weasel! Brittany growled but Eleanor looked at her with stern eyes as Brittany sighed and said "Well, Simon was just too late, he's not even here." Brittany said. "Let's just get back to dancing."
Alvin and Theodore looked at each other both thinking the same things. Their dates were wrong, but in a sense they were right.
Meanwhile outside Jeanette pulled herself away from again blushing a rosy red in her cheeks, she was in shock but couldn't deny she loved his kisses.
"W-why did you do that?" Jeanette said wiping her lips. "Because Simon was late..." He leaned in again and so did Jeanette and the two began kissing again.
To Simon's horror he had watched everything from a far dropping the rose, and running away from the couple. His heart was broken beyond repair, he knew that he lost her in the fog into the mist.
