It All Began Here
Story Background: Haley James is just finishing her junior year of high school and has fallen hard for the soft spoken senior basketball and baseball star, Jake Jagelski, and that's just where it starts. She works hard as the editor-in-chief of the yearbook staff (this part will come into play more later in the story). Haley is a shy girl relatively unknown by her peers. And she's a typical high school girl who changes her love interest freqently. Nathan and Lucas will be two of the main guys she's interested in, but there are others. The guys play baseball, and are NOT popular, cocky jocks, they're just good guys making their way through high school. This would start the summer before senior year and then take us through senior year and maybe beyond in the form of Haley's personal jorunal, and nothing more.
Author's Note: Please don't assume anything about any of the relationships or characters from the show. They've all been placed into a different reality and many far from who they are. An advanced 'warning' I guess you could call it about this story. Real high schoolers aren't always as well versed as what they seem on TV, and this story will definitely reflect that. The writing at most times will be much different than what you're used to from me. But I hope you still enjoy it.
Now, onto the story…
May 6
Dear Journal,
Wow, so much has happened in the last few weeks, there is no way I can remember it all, so I'm just going to skip to what's happening right now. And believe me, this is major.
In the announcements Monday, one of the bulletins was asking for individuals interested in being statisticians for the boy's baseball team to see Turner in the Athletic Director's office. I talked to Peyton and we decided to go talk to him. Well, of course, he wasn't there, but we left him a note.
On Tuesday we went to see if he had gotten our note. Turner said he had, and gave it to Coach Durham, but wanted to get our phone numbers.
Tonight Peyton received a phone call from Whitey and immediately called me. We are planning on meeting with him on Friday at 6 pm. He said he wants us to go to as many home and away games as possible – we would ride the charter bus with the team for the away games. They have one overnight in Charlotte, but we don't have to go. I said to Peyton, "That could be fun." She just chuckled. After talking to her, I looked at the schedule to see when the Charlotte game is. Wouldn't you know, it's the same weekend we would be leaving for Raleigh. Maybe I'll ask Birdie if we would go through Charlotte on our way.
Author's Post-Note: Okay, that's the first chapter. It's short, I know, but journal entries aren't always long. But that's what I need to know from you. Do you want multiple entries in one post…that's all this story is. Or do you want lots of little posts with the occasional long ones?
If you have any questions or need blanks filled in, please ask. I may not answer right away, knowing that it's coming up in a future entry, but I will try my best.
I hope you like it so far!