Hello everyone :D This is actually my first story on fanfiction and I'm nervous DX And this is BEFORE Marty came to save the future again. It'll make sense I promise! I hope to hear some feed back if it's not too much trouble :] Oh and pleaseeeee let me know if think my OC is a mary-sue! I'll fix her if that's the case! Also my grammar and spelling are not all that great…I'd just thought I'd mention that.
Enjoy :D
Chapter One: That Thing!
In the year 2015 everything in Danielle "Dani" Farris life was just swell. She really had nothing to complain or worry about…until that fateful day in Café 80's.
"Hey Dani!", her redheaded friend Chrissy nudged her foot lightly with her own. "McFly is staring at you!" Her tone was quiet and harsh with obvious contempt for the guy.
Dani groaned before carefully rolling her eyes to where Chrissy motioned. Sure enough there he was, Marty McFly JR. Who by the way, was not the most popular guy at Hill Valley High School that and his family were somewhat of a joke to everyone in this particular town.
Anyway, McFly sat on the stool not too far from the booth that her two friends sat, with a Pepsi perfect in his hand. She caught his gaze and he quickly looked away as if he never looked at her at all.
"Ah so he is." Was Dani's response before taking a sip of her own Pepsi.
"How creepy…" Jodi who wore skirts a little bit higher than she should, piped in.
Dani snuck a small glance at McFly again, and then said. "He's… not so bad."
It was a half-hearted defense, but very true. Yes, he could be a bit odd, he lacked much in the "appearances are everything" department, his jokes were lame and of course he was a frequent victim of Griff Tannen's bullying. Yet despite all that he was in fact a nice kid.
She had found this out in the beginning of the school year when she had been paired up with him in Physics. Oh the dread when she heard the physics' teacher Mr. Hootch call out "McFly and Farris" and oh the horror when he announced that they would be partners for the entire year. Meaning not only would they be working together for grades, they would have to sit next to each other everyday and freaking communicate with one another. She really had thought Mr. Hootch had a grudge against her. Hell she thought God had a grudge against her. She remembered how she reluctantly got up and made her way over to him. She remembered the slight look of panic in his eyes and how he scooted to the far side of their table from her. (Which didn't bother her in the least.) They probably still would have never said a word to each other if there wasn't that tiny problem…Physics was not Dani's strong point. At all. She thought this problem could be solved by simply going up and asking Mr. Hootch for help, but when he opened his mouth all that came out was BLAH BLAH BLAHHHHHH. Shit. Shit. Shit. Damn it she wasn't freaking Einstein! Her grade in the class dropped and dropped. It had dropped all the way down to a 28…in only month. She recalled the day they got back their test scores on Circular Motion ...was it? She stared at her paper with a big fat red 42 on the right hand corner.
"Shiiitt…"she muttered, throwing her face into the table. She would have fallen asleep then till a slightly high pitched boyish voice decided to deprive her of that.
"….Sooo what did you get?"
Damn. This was going to be embarrassing. She lifted her head, turning it a bit to look at him. "Ahhh, a 42…", before he could make a remark or even an expression she quickly asked, "You?"
"80." Her head shot all the way up. "80? Seriously?" No. Seriously McFly got physics?
McFly smiled with teeth. "Uhh Yeahh, it's not that hard once you get-"
"NEXT CLASS" came in the computerized voice. And Dani left.
The next day, was a whole new lesson in physics. Dani, once again was at a lost. Her green eyes roamed the class room. Everyone was working. You know because EVERYONE knew what to do. Everyone except for her that is. Damnnnn. She glanced at a hunched over McFly whose face was so close to his paper that his nose almost touched it.
After a moment or two, she bit the bullet and tapped his arm lightly. Being so consumed with formulas and all the poor kid nearly jumped from his seat. He looked over to where he had been tapped only to meet Dani's small smile. "Sorry Martin, but do ya think you can explain to me what the hell to do…please?"
His face lit up, he nodded his head vigorously. "Oh yeah! Sure! Sure!" Since he was all the way at the end of the table he had to lean then stretch to see her paper. "Whadda ya need help with?"
"Err.." Dani gave him a meek grin. "Everything…" He let out a laugh as if she shared some joke with him. While explaining he stumbled on his words, either out of nervousness or maybe he just was not good at explaining things. She didn't know. But what she did know is that she regretted asking McFly for help.
"Do you get it?" he asked his voice cracking. He might've guessed he wasn't making much sense.
She bit down on her lip. "Ahh, sorry not really. But that's fine I'll just ask-"
"Wait! I think it'll make sense if I just show you." Still struggling to keep himself balanced leaning over, he grabbed a sheet of paper. "Look …" McFly wrote down the first problem and did a step by step so she could understand. As she watched him work with one of the formulas she couldn't help, but think how simple the problem was now. Why couldn't Mr. Hootch do a step by step?
When McFly was finished he brought his head up to meet her, his own holding certain uneasiness. "Do you get it now?"
Excited that her brain sunk in the 'step by step' she smiled. "Yeah! You made me ACTUALLY learn something. Thanks a bunch Martin!" No longer feeling regret about asking McFly's help, she turned her attention back to her own paper.
"Ha umm no problem!" was his shy reply before settling himself back to the far end of the table.
And ladies and gentlemen, everyday would be similar. Dani was no longer embarrassed to ask for McFly's help. Yet she would ask for help so often that she found herself feeling guilty that he would have lean so far over just to help. They were on the same table for god's sake!
"Why are you so far anyway?" she had finally asked him out of the guilt one day when he attempted to once again lean over to assist her. "Scoot over here…" she said, pushing back the little voice that said her personal space was going to be invaded.
McFly was beyond startled, but he complied with her. His chair made that attention drawing creaking, of course kids stared. She ignored them. They didn't understand. Education is important to her damnit!
Once again that slightly high pitched boyish voice broke her away from her thoughts. "Danielle? Heyyyy helllooo?"
She blinked. "Uh what? What?"
"Did you hear anything I just said?" He was referring to the question she had asked him for help earlier on.
"Oh no, I'm sorry Martin-"
"Marty."
That surprised her. "Sorry?"
"I don't really like the sound of Martin, you know? Kinda makes me think I'm some kind of martian from space or something." He put on a goofy grin. "So call me Marty."
"Marty." She repeated softly before smiling. She liked the sound of it.
"Got a nice ring to it don't it?" He laughed when she rolled her eyes at his playful arrogance.
"Pffht surrrre. Well since were on the name subject I think it should only be fair that you call me Dani."
Yeah, so pretty much from there on Dani and Marty became friendly acquaintances. You know, if they bumped into each other they would make small talk. If he saw her from a distance he would wave and she would wave (quickly mind you) back. Also if she bought little candy bags for friends on special occasions…she would get Marty one too. Hey, he was the reason she was passing physics.
Anyway enough of memory lane, point was the kid was okay.
"Crap! He's coming over!" Jodi whispered the unnecessary panic in her voice.
"Oh god, let's get out of here! Hurry!" the redhead looked over at Dani. "Take your Pepsi!" she exclaimed and snatched her purse up while Dani rolled her eyes at her dramatic friends.
"You guys are acting-" Cue the slightly high pitched boyish voice.
"Hey Dani!" Marty was now above her with his trademark goofy grin cemented into his face.
She forced a smile of her own. "Hey Marty, how's it going?"
She watched as his eyes roamed the café, looking at anything else, but her.
"Oh um, good. Um hey, I was wondering umm...", he stopped in mid-sentence, his grin now twisted into a slight frown. He gulped, questioning himself on what he was about to do.
Chrissy did not hide the fact that she annoyed and disgusted. "Hurry up McFly!" She scowled flipping her red locks. "You're making us late for our…thing."
"Thing?" Marty repeated eyebrows knitted together in confusion and slight curiosity.
Chrissy glared harder as if she was trying to get him to disappear with her eyes. "Cha, are you deaf? Our thing!"
Reaching the peak of his embarrassment Marty's fidgeting became visible yet he still could not manage to leave. Dani, however was now glaring at her friend. Glaring hard for two specific reasons.
Well, Chrissy was annoying when she was rude.
'Thing'? She really couldn't think of a better excuse?
"Thing?" Dani urged trying to mask her annoyance. Chrissy blinked taken aback.
"Uh yeah, come on Dani, you know our thing we have to do. Right Jodi?"
Jodi who was fixing her make-up during this whole fiasco smiled over at Dani. "Yeah you know that thing." She winked, assuming that Dani was the one dense to the excuse for the McFly situation. Un-freaking-believable. She just wanted them to provide a better excuse!
"Nope not really. Enlighten me." While still waiting a proper excuse she vaguely wondered how uncomfortable Mary must have been.
Finally the redhead spoke. "Ah, ya know Dani, me and Jodi should do the thing. You don't have to the thing if you don't wanna." And with that the two girls got up with their matching purses in hand. "Call ya later K?"
"Bye-bye." Yup. Dani was in a bad mood now. Thing? Really?
"Good luck with the thing you guys!" Marty who really didn't know what to do exactly, threw in earning himself glares from her friends.
She watched them leave before looking up at where Marty stood. "You wanna sit down?" she asked feeling somewhat unsettled with his hovering.
"Huh? Oh no, I'm good thanks." He smiled at her. It was a comfortable sort of smile. He probably felt easy now that he was no longer under the hate filled stares of Chrissy and Jodi.
She tapped her Pepsi container impatiently. "So ahh, what were you saying earlier?"
He locked his dark brown eyes with her bright green ones, and then looked away cheeks beginning to flush. "Ummm…yeah. I was wondering if you're not busy-"
'No.'
"I mean you don't have too if you don't wanna-"
'No. No.'
"But do you think you might wanna come over to my place Saturday? And I don't know, hang out? Watch a movie maybe?" he finally finished still refusing to look at her.
'NO!'
She opened her mouth to of course politely decline his offer. Then he decided to look at her. Shit. Seeing the glimmer of hope in his eyes was just too much. "Sure Marty."
'Noooooooooooo! What the hell are you doing?'
At that point he was looking away from her again. Bad timing! "Oh that's okay, wait-". Realization dawned upon him. Damn. Damn. Damn for her. "Really?" he asked, clearly in shock.
'Dani this is your brain speaking! It is NOT too late to get out of this!'
"Yeah, I got no plans anyway so why not?"
'You damn fool! Nooooooo!'
Marty became secretly overjoyed; so much the fact that he was going to bounce up and down at home. And his sister would throw a very heavy book at his head for disturbing her while she was on the phone.
"GREAT!" He composed himself quickly, feeling his face become hot. "I mean great, six 'o clock good?"
"Yepp, sounds good to me." She mumbled sipping the last of her perfect Pepsi.
"Okay, I'll e-mail my address to you."
Oh yeaaah, she totally forgotten she had given him her e-mail. It was school related she was sure that was her reason for giving it to him. So he was SoFly98? Haha, so that's whose been sending all those pesky chain letters…She made a mental note to talk to him about that.
"Sweet…" She gave him another forced smile in an attempt to ignore the migraine that her brain bestowed on her for her disobedience. Marty went for the exit only turning around once with that stupid grin. "See ya Saturday!" And she watched him leave, watched him run into to the street and nearly get hit by a car. And then she just stared at the exit of the café.
Rubbing the temples on her head; she sighed, "I should've just gone to the damn thing…"
So what did you guys think? Bad huh? Really, really Bad? XD
Yeah, well if it was….I'm sorry D:
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