You Belong With Me
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find That what you're looking for has been here the whole time
You know that girl that sits in the back of the room with her headphones on as she daydreams of a better tomorrow? Yea that girl is me, Ally Dawson. The girl that is labeled as a dork, a nerd, a freaky genius girl, the kind of smart kid that you go rushing to at the morning to ask if you can copy their homework. Yup that's me.
And I'm not going to lie. I am socially challenged. I make awkward conversations, my dance moves are horrible according to everyone and if you say hi to me... Well I say hi back, just like ten times softer so you have to ask me to repeat what I just said.
Now don't get me wrong. I don't mind being invisible. It's not that bad. You don't have many friends, or get invited to many parties or have a boyfriend... But the few friends you have are real and who wants to go to a party when you can hang out with your buds and sing off key with them to the radio. The only part that makes me wish I could disappear from all my labels is him. The golden boy of Marino High School: Austin Moon.
Only problem is that he doesn't know I exist. Ok so maybe I'm exaggerating on that one a wee bit. He knows me, he's said hi to me before, but he just sees me as another nerdy girl who has a crush on him.
Except I'm not even sure if he knows I have a crush on him...
Yea I'm not good at knowing the gossip around the school. Like I said I'm just trying to survive this thing we call high school until I graduate and can hopefully have a better social life in college.
So this is why at every class room all I do is daydream how one day he'll realize me. The real me. Not the girl that people say I am or the girl that hides behind her glasses but the girl that loves to eat pickles and write in her songbook. You know? But I'm pretty sure that's going to happen as soon as I learn how to dance. Oh and in case if you haven't seen me dance... Well I'm pretty much a lost case. Ask anyone and they'll tell you how bad it is.
"Ally!" The teacher snaps at me.
All of a sudden I remember that I'm in class in where I'm supposed to be paying attention and now there's like twenty pairs of eyes looking straight at me. Great! Exactly how I love my Monday mornings to go! Note the sarcasm.
"Uh... Yes Mrs. Reed?" I say in an almost inaudible voice.
"Can you please tell us when the civil war happened?"
The edginess in her voice lets me know how much she dislikes me. I don't even know what I did to her. Well actually I kinda do. I might have corrected her on one of her lessons in front of the whole class and the worst part was that I was right and she was wrong. Hence the hate she now has towards me.
"Umm 1861?" I say in a questionable tone to let her know that I'm not a know it all. I know if I make it seem like I don't know she'll forget in whatever punishment she's thinking of giving me. And unlike the other teachers she isn't kind enough to give me a detention, no. She likes to make me stand in front of the class and search through our text book and find whatever she asked to make sure I got it right. Yea like being tortured by my "loving peers" as my counselor likes to call them, isn't enough.
She nods her head in content and goes back to her boring lesson that makes the entire class fall to sleep. I let out a deep breath as I have once again escaped the tortures of Mrs. Reed.
I'm going to go back to my day dream when I feel something hit my head. A small piece of paper falls on my desk and I look around to find who it's from. My eyes almost fall out when I see Austin looking at me with his childish smile while encouraging me with his hand motions to open the note.
I stare at it and then look back at him before I point at myself to make sure it didn't land on the wrong desk. He gives me a playful disappointing nod before he beckons me to the note once again. Feeling my heart beat pounding in my chest, I slowly open the note.
Maybe all my foolish daydreams are finally paying off. Maybe there is a possibility for Austin Moon to see me as something more. I try to not look desperate as I open the note at a normal pace but I'm just dying to know what it says. A big smile is forming on my face and I know that if I could see myself that my eyes would be shinning in that certain way. As I unfold the last corner of the page I read the special words he has written.
"Hey I forgot to do my homework for our science class. Do you think you can help me out? ;)"
He's asking me if he can copy the homework that's due in our third period.
I feel my heart breaking just a bit but I put on a fake smile as I turn back to him and give him a thumbs up. As the bell signals this class over, I give him my homework and tell him to give it to me when we see each other again in third period.
"Thank you so much Alls! You're the best! I have no clue what I would do without you. I owe you one. Maybe if you'd like we can-" but before he can finish his sentence his girlfriend comes into the picture.
"Come one baby! We need to get going before we get there late!"
Her voice is annoying. It's super squeaky and have I told you it's annoying? She just makes me get frustrated at the fact that she has everything I can't have. And she knows I like him and uses it against me.
Austin turns his head to look at me again but before he can even say a word, she's grabbing his hand and is dragging him down the hall. The last words he shouts is, "See ya next class Ally!"
And I'm left standing there. Trying to figure out what words he was going to tell me. I should know better than let him borrow my homework. Trish is always telling me that if I want him to notice me that I need to make myself important. But it's always hard to say no to him when he gives me that million dollar smile of his and makes his eyes shine that certain way. I just can't say no to anything he asks me to do.
It's not until I hear the bell ring that I make my way to class. In my head I'm going through the same debate as always: why do I waste my time on a guy who only says hi to me when he needs something from me. I mean don't get me wrong. He's a really nice guy. He actually treats all of us underdogs very nicely and he's the only one that invites us to parties. But he only talks to me in specific when he needs to copy my homework. Just like everyone else.
It's just the story of my life. I'm always left saying only half of the things I want to say. This is why happily ever afters and fairytale ending don't exist for me. Oh and I think it also has to do with the fact that I don't have any sense of fashion either.
I kick a piece of paper on the ground before I enter the class room but just my luck. A teacher walks by, thinks I'm littering and now I have detention after school. Yay! What else can go wrong?
A/N: So this is going to be like a five shot kinda deal. I already have it written out and will post each chapter every like hour wand a half after this one. So yea. Hope you enjoyed it! :)