Normal Girl with a Normal Life…Not!

Chapter 1

"I wanna be a billionaire so freakin bad, buy all of the things I never had!"

I sang along happily while listening to the radio in my car.

"Oh, every time I'm feeling down…"

I pulled up to a stop light with the window wide open. The two guys in the car next to me stared. I didn't think much of it. I knew I had a good voice. One of the 'wolf whistled' at me, when I turned around he winked, then ran the red light. He was an idiot.

I parked in my regular spot when I arrived at school. My name is Kim Hefler and here are some things you should know about me. I'm not really concerned about appearances. I'm definitely not in with the popular crowd. The most important fact is I'm absolutely obsessed with Jared Morson. He was absolutely a vision. He's the jock and I'm the geek, although I wouldn't say that I look like a geek, a pretty geek. I don't even know if it's possible to be a pretty geek.

I walked into my English class and to my surprise Jared was there. He'd been gone for quite some time now. I walked to my table to take my usual, assigned spot next to him. Jared never noticed me so I didn't really even notice it as his eyes followed me all way from the door to my chair. I began my usual routine. I pulled out my binder put in to my left then took out my pens, putting them in order, green black then red. I was a little obsessive with order. I peeked over my shoulder, through my hair, to stare at Jared. To my surprise he was staring at me too.

He looked down at my binder for no apparent reason then said, "Kim, right?"

"Y-yes that's me." Gosh! I sounded like an idiot. His eyes were liquid onyx and I could feel the heat from his stare burning my skin.

"I'm Jared, Jared Morson," he said while reaching out to touch my skin and it burned for two different reasons.

"I know your name. We've been in the same classes since elementary school. God! You're hot." I questioning look flickered across his face just before he broke out into a mischievous grin.

"Why thank you Kim. I could say the same to you."

My brain was screaming, did Jared just say I was hot? It took my a few seconds before I remembered the reason I'd called him hot.

"No! I mean temperature wise, you are hot."

"Mr. Morson!" I voice interrupted our conversation. "If it's not too much of an inconvenience could you please take your eyes off Miss. Hefler and study the textbook?"

"I'm afraid it would be a bit of an inconvenience because Kim had such a beautiful face."

"What?" My long time friend time shouted from the other side of the room. I'd known Tim just as long as I'd known Jared. Tim was always pressing me to be more than friends with him. But I just didn't see Tim that way.

"I said Kim has a beautiful face."

"Please! You've never even noticed Kim before and she'd been sitting next to you for five years!" Seven, I mentally corrected Tim. I wished Tim would stop talking already this was getting embarrassing. I looked over at Jared and saw his hands vibrating. His fingers were invisible, lost in a skin tone blur.

"Come now gentlemen," our teacher Mr. Bin said crossly, "we can continue this argument on our own time."

"Jared," I whispered. "Are you okay?" His eyes were still fixed on Tim's back, his brows pulled together in a mashed line. I reached out to touch his arm and the moment we made skin to skin contact the shaking ceased.

"Sorry Kim," he muttered, "I shouldn't have gotten so worked up about it. It's just that I got really mad when I realized he was right." Jared Morson saying I had a beautiful face and then admitting he felt ashamed for not noticing me was like a dream come true.

"It's okay," I murmured as I sat down, "it's not like a really stand out in a crowd. I'm pretty boring."

"No," he said. "You are anything but boring." A blush was starting to creep its way up my face so I averted my eyes.

"Thanks."

The bell rang and I quickly jumped out of my seat, rushing for the door. This classroom was way to hot for more than one reason. He had been staring at me the whole class with this dumb found expression. As soon as stepped out of the door someone roughly grabbed my shoulder and spun me around.

"Whatever you do you cannot date Jared Morson." Tim, it figured.

"You can't boss me around Tim Sully." But even though I said that I knew there was an element of truth in what he'd said. Really, why would a guy like Jared go for me? It didn't make sense.

"Kim you'd be so much better off with someone who knows you better."

"Come on Tim. I've told you a thousand…no, a million times I don't see you that way." He looked a bit sheepishly around the hallways as if to make sure no one was listening.

"It doesn't matter Kim you'll see eventually." Whatever you say Tim I really don't think I will.

"Come on," I said changing topics, "let's go get lunch."

"Maybe we should go eat lunch in the stair case today."

"Why?"

"Jared will be staring at you."

"So," I said self consciously, "is there a problem with that?"

"Kim, if there was a way to rape someone with your eyes let's just say you would not be a virgin anymore."