She was timid. A little too timid. She didn't have much confidence like most people. In fact, she has no confidence. She spends most of her time looking down and fiddling with her hands when people talk to her and never does she make eye contact. She's quiet and never really speaks to anybody but her mom and her best friend Mona who is actually quite like her except the only difference being that Mona actually grows some confidence to speak to people.
Apart from shy, she is very insecure. She can't stand disappointing the people she loves and she can't stand not being able to do what others have the courage and nerve to do. She's the typical nerd with probably no luck of ever being popular or acknowledged.
The funny thing is, she's beautiful. She's tall with big Asian shaped brown eyes with long eyelashes that compliment them, smooth tan skin, nice plump pink lips and stunning raven black hair. She's ridiculously gorgeous. But she doesn't see that whenever she looks in the mirror. All she sees is the quiet nerd who is invisible to everyone. She had never had a boyfriend or a girlfriend in which case she's gay. Luckily, her mother was pretty accepting towards her sexuality knowing her daughter would need all the support she can get not only because of the fact that she is very insecure, timid, and shy but because her father is barely ever around due to him being in the army therefore, she shows all the love and support her daughter can get.
She gets up from her bed slowly and makes her way to the bathroom to take a shower and brush her teeth then comes back in her room to change. She pulls out her typical outfit, khaki skinny jeans with a button up white shirt and a purple sweater vest to match with. She puts on her dirty vans and ties them in a tight knot. She then walks up to the mirror in her room and makes sure her hair is in a tight pony tail with no hairs sticking out while fixing up her glasses to her nose, holding them by the corner with her index finger and her thumb.
"Emily, sweetheart, come downstairs I made you breakfast and it's almost time to leave for school." Pam yells from the kitchen.
Emily scrunches her nose at the thought of school knowing it's her first day of junior year. Summer wasn't all that fun considering she doesn't even have friends to spend it with. She rarely even spent it with Mona. She was mostly at home reading books or cooking since her mother often works late night shifts at her job and doesn't have time to cook lunch or even dinner at times. Pam calls her all the time to see if she needs anything or if she's okay though. She cares about her daughter and loves her dearly.
Emily goes downstairs and sees her mom in the kitchen. She walks over to her and gives her a warm hug. "Good morning mom." She says as she walks over to the table and sits.
"Good morning honey, you can take your time stop rushing." Pam says when she sees Emily hogging up the food.
Emily chuckles a bit and manages to swallow. "I just don't want to be late, mom."
Pam rolls her eyes and smiles at her daughter. She knows school is important to her and if it were for her she probably wouldn't even bother eating breakfast just to make it in school on time. "Sweetheart, I only rushed you because I know you take forever to get ready, but you have enough time." Emily smiles and continues to eat her eggs and toast slower this time.
"So are you excited for school?" Pam says, walking over to sit next to her daughter.
Emily rolls her eyes. Her mom always asks her that question on the first day of school as if she were still in elementary school or something. "Mom, as important as school is for me, it still isn't quite a blast to go." She stabs the last piece of egg with her fork.
"Well, I mean, aren't you excited to meet new people or even see the ones from last year?" Pam looks at Emily with a sympathetic smile.
Emily just nods and walks over to put the plate in the sink. Pam notices the change in mood and walks over to Emily. She knew her daughter wasn't what anyone would call "popular" or "cool" but as a mother she always tries to lighten the idea of friends and going out and other things teenagers do other than stay home studying, but Emily still tends to neglects that thought.
"Emily, you're beautiful and you have a beautiful personality. You're a good girl, that's why I love you." Pam gives her daughter a small smile and caresses her cheek. Emily smiles in return. She wishes she could hear those words from someone other than her mother, but she doubts it.
It's about 6:30 a.m. and Emily starts walking out of her house. She has enough time to get to school. Even though she walks, she still gets there early because her school is like right around the corner. It only takes her perhaps 10 minutes to get there depending on the speed she's walking in.
She holds on to the straps of her book bag tightly with her hands as she makes her way inside the school. Fortunately, there isn't a massive crowd since the bell hasn't rung yet so she makes her way easily to her locker to put her books in and takes out the ones she needs for her first class. Someone taps her from behind and Emily freezes in place not sure if she should turn around or just ignore them thinking it might be an asshole just trying to bully her or something. She decides to ignore it but then the person taps her again on her shoulder. Emily's eyes shut and she slowly turns around with her head down. She raises her head a little to see who it is and realizes it's Mona looking back at her with a huge smile on her face.
"Hey there Em!" Mona hugs Emily a bit too excited.
Emily hugs back then sighs in relief at the fact that it was just Mona. She let's go slowly, backing away to get a better view of her. She smiles at Mona to let her know that she's happy to see her too and realizes nothing much has changed about her either. Mona was wearing her glasses and a long ridiculous skirt that goes up to her knees, a button up shirt and black vans. Her hair was in two pony tails, one on each side.
"Sooo..." Mona says in a flirty voice while bringing her hands back up to the straps of her book bag. "What's your schedule?"
Emily takes off her book bag and places it on the floor while digging inside it in search of her schedule. After like a minute, she finds it and hands it over to Mona. She puts her book bag back on as she quietly watches Mona read through her schedule.
"You have only two classes with me. First and fifth." Mona says disappointedly as she hands Emily back her schedule.
Emily nods in return and gives Mona a small smile knowing it would suck to only be able to have her best friend in two classes but either way they don't sit down and gossip and talk about anything in particular like most kids. Emily takes school incredibly serious and would rather be listening to the teacher and learning and taking notes than be talking. It's not like Emily talks anyway.
"At least we still have lunch together." Mona sighs a little then smiles as if trying to look on the bright side.
Emily just smiles at her sympathetically and turns to close her locker behind her. She holds her books in both arms against her chest and leans on her locker a bit. Mona moves to stand next to her waiting for the bell to ring.
A few minutes pass of Mona rambling on about her awesome summer which she spent with her two other friends who Emily honestly never cared to get to know since she's so shy and nervous around people. Then finally the bell rings and Mona stops talking and signals Emily to go to class with her since they have the same class. Emily walks next to Mona with her head slightly down, hugging her books in front of her tightly while moving through the crowd.
They enter the classroom and Emily immediately spots a blonde girl sitting in the back who apparently stands out because of her behavior. Hanna Marin. She was sitting on top of her desk instead of the chair, throwing paper balls with some random kid trying to make it in the trash can.
Hanna is known for being the school's badass and anything she says goes not because she's mean but she's just a popular girl so people find her either cool or intimidating since she is consistently breaking all the rules. She mostly hangs out, skipping class with her crew which is Spencer, Aria, Noel and Toby. They're all pretty intimidating to everyone, especially Noel and Spencer. They get into the most fights and they barely go to class. Last year, Noel got into 6 fights just one semester of school but only got caught twice since he fights in the back of the school where no one sees. Aria and Toby are the chill ones who just sit back passing the blunt at each other.
Emily looks up and down at Hanna noticing she her style which is kind of edgy. She was wearing black leather skinnies with white chucks and a white Polo v-neck. Her hair was short and curly and she had piercing blue eyes. Emily looks away timidly trying not to catch her attention. She then feels a tug on her arm realizing it's Mona pulling her to the seat next to her. She sits down hesitantly and rests her books on the desks.
"That's Hanna Marin. She's the badass in the school." Mona whispers, noticing Emily was staring at her.
Emily nods her head and sighs while staring down at her books. She hears the commotion in the background but doesn't care to look. She's too shy and nervous. Instead, She sits quietly waiting for the class to start.
When the bell finally rings to go to the next class, Emily quickly grabs her stuff and makes her way out of the classroom with her head facing down avoiding eye contact with anybody. Suddenly, she bumps into someone making her hands release the grasp she has on her books sending them falling to the floor. Emily gasps and doesn't bother looking up. She quickly kneels down to pick up her belongings and realizes the person whom she bumped into is helping her pick up her books as well, but she still doesn't look up to face them.
Once she gathers all of her things, she stands up and keeps her head down staring at the floor waiting for the person to just walk away but they don't. Emily gets anxious inside thinking they're going to hurt her for bumping into them. She tightens the grip on her books against her chest and shuts her eyes.
"Hey, are you alright?" Emily hears them say. She looks up slowly and sees Hanna. Hanna Marin.
Emily nods letting her know she's okay and gives her a soft smile, but her hands are getting sweaty and her heart is racing realizing she just bumped into the person she last expected to. Hanna smiles back and hands Emily the rest of her books that she helped gather from the floor. Emily slowly reaches for them and she can feel Hanna watching her. She puts her books against her chest once again and looks back down as she bites her bottom lip. Hanna puts her hands in her pockets and gives Emily a confused look.
"Were you in that class?" Hanna points to the class which they both just came out from.
Emily nods her head still look down at the floor not making any eye contact with Hanna. She chews her bottoms lip trying not to get so nervous. She can't even believe she bumped into Hanna. A part of her wished she hadn't but the other part is glad Hanna is talking to her instead of being mean or something. She never really knew what to expect when talking to the badass in school.
Hanna observes Emily for a split second noticing the girl won't speak to her. "That's weird, I didn't see you." She says awkwardly.
Emily nods and walks passed her still avoiding eye contact. She let's go of the breath she didn't even know she was holding as soon as she feels comfortable again, although in school she's never really comfortable. She feels bad for leaving her hanging like that but not only was she really anxious and nervous but she also had to get to her next class.
Hanna watches her walk away. She assumes the girl has to go to class so she brushes it off. She decides to skip her next class and just go by the student parking lot, her everyday skipping spot with her friends where no one sees them. Aria and Noel were already there. Aria was laying in the backseat of Noel's car taking a nap and Noel was in the front seat with the door shut and the window down smoking a blunt.
"Ay, where were you first period?" Noel asks when he sees Hanna approaching.
"In class, duh." Hanna scrunches up her nose while making her way to the other side of the car and sitting in the passenger seat.
"Oh gees, my bad. You usually skip first period because you think it's too early for school work." Noel says. He releases the smoke from his nose.
"I know but I have an elective first period so I thought it might be less work I guess." She takes the blunt from Noel and takes a hit.
Noel looks over at Hanna. "Oh. What elective?"
"Art." She says while releasing the smoke from her mouth.
Noel chuckles at Hanna. "You gonna draw me a cute little picture?" he teases.
"Man, shut the fuck up." Hanna says, giving Noel a playful shove.
Lunch time finally arrives and Emily is sitting with Mona and her other friends. She eats the sandwich she made for herself while listening to their conversation. She honestly hates sitting with Mona and her friends because they only talk about how much they wish they were popular and which boys are cute in their classes. Only sometimes they talk about school work and how they should go over each other's house to study.
Emily never cared about being popular. She does, however, care to look good and wished she had a girlfriend. The problem is, she's too shy to wear all those nice outfits that may drag attention because Emily hates attention. She also doubts anyone would want to be with her. I mean, who wants to be with a nerd?
After a few minutes of finishing her lunch, the bell rings to go to fifth period which is algebra honors. She has all honors classes, except her elective classes of course, and her GPA is at a 4.0 which is incredibly good. Her mom always makes a big deal and starts jumping up and down when Emily brings home the report card because her grades are so good. Even though Emily knows her mother is just proud of her, she still thinks she may sometimes overreact.
They make their way through the crowded hallway to their class. Mona walks next to Emily once again as Emily holds her books tightly against her chest. Mona knows Emily hates these crowded hallways and wishes she could do something about it but she can't. She smiles at Emily knowing she might be nervous about the kids in her next class due to her not doing well around people she doesn't know. Mona thinks maybe she's scared of getting bullied or something although, Mona tends to have a hard time understanding who the hell would have the heart to bully a person as sweet and caring and beautiful as Emily regardless of her nerdy ways. But the world is full of surprises.
Mona enters the classroom followed by Emily. They sit together and realize the teacher is not there yet. Mona rips out a piece of paper from her spiral and writes down a note for Emily.
M - How's your first day so far?
Emily reads the note and then looks over at Mona with a weak smile on her face. She then looks back down at her paper and clicks her pen on and writes a reply for Mona. Emily looks up to see if the teacher is in the classroom yet and when she sees that he isn't, she passes the note to Mona. Mona picks it up and her eyes widen when she reads it.
E - I bumped into Hanna.
A/N: I was inspired by the fanfic "The Sound of Silence" by MissHeatherMichelle which is an amazing story so shout out to her! It is originally a brittana fanfic (Glee), but I decided to make a PLL version of it with hannily and it is slightly different of course. I changed a few things since I didn't want to make it exactly the same, but the idea is the same so I hope you guys enjoy and review any time!