Selena let out a long sigh as she ran her fingers through her long dark hair. Looking up, she listened to her English teacher go on and on and bout sentence fragments and run-ons. In her notebook, she was writing something of her own, a song. She was writing out the beginning details of it, still a little unsure where she what direction to take it.
The bell rang then and she quickly gathered her things together, rushing to get out of class before it got too crowded in front of her locker.
"Hey, Selena." She heard a voice say, looking up she saw her best friend, Miley leaning against the locker, a smile on her face. She rolled her eyes, knowing it meant only one thing.
"Yes, Miley?" Selena asked, bending down to retrieve her books. She looked at her friend, who seemed too bouncy for her taste.
"Most amazing thing happened to me last night." Miley began, as Selena shut her locker, together they walked down the hall towards the cafeteria to get some lunch. Selena let out a sigh; this was going to be a long afternoon. She adjusted her glasses and looked at her friend. She motioned to continue. "Nick came over last night. And you know how we've been fighting? Well. It sort of got worse."
"How could this possibly be amazing?" Selena asked her, a bit confused.
"Let me finish." Miley told her, "So anyway, I was in the middle of yelling at him and he pulled me close and kissed me." She sighed, her blue eyes dreamy. "It was so cute, and so sweet, and so…"
"Nauseating?" Selena filled in. Miley gave her a look; she shrugged, and picked up a try. "I'm just saying."
"Well, anyway." Miley cut in, picking up a tray and following Selena. "No body has ever done that to me, and you know all the guys I've dated. It was just…cute."
"Yeah, cute. Got it." Selena muttered picking up an apple. She put it on her plate, as well as a slice of pizza. After they paid, they sat down at one of the tables. Selena sighed, and began to tear apart her pizza, eating it slowly.
"You seem awfully chipper this morning." Miley muttered sarcastically. "What's got your panties in a bunch?"
"See, as much as I love to hear about your boyfriend being all cute and sweet…" Selena trailed off, chewing and swallowing her food. "I'm still suffering the repercussions of my last relationship."
"Ah, the one that failed." Miley nodded. "David, that asshole."
Selena laughed at Miley's face as she spoke, "Well. Anyway, he's happy with Lucy. Last I heard, they went off together and had a grand old time in a hotel room."
"Ew. Let's do our best to escape that visual." Miley made a face, then took a bite of her salad. "I say, we find you a new boy. You know, make him jealous."
"I don't want him back." Selena shook her head, "He's just…not worth it."
"Sweetie, I'm not telling you take him back. I'm just saying, revenge is sweet." Miley leaned back, and added another forkful of salad into her mouth. "Trust me, it is."
Selena rolled her eyes and shook her head. "If you say so, Miles."
"I know so. So…" She leaned forward, "This is what we're going to do…"
"Hey, Miley! Selena, what's crack-a-lackin'?" Miley rolled her eyes as their best friend since diapers, Wilder took the seat beside Miley. His shaggy hair in his face as he gave them a huge smile, blinking his eyes rapidly.
"Don't have a column to write?" Miley asked him, barely glancing in his direction. Wilder leaned back, and smirked.
"Nah, it's not due til Friday." He shrugged. "I'm good."
Miley rolled her eyes again, and began to eat her salad. Wilder could be so annoying, but so cute and sweet at the same time. She couldn't help but love him, as much as he drove her insane.
He looked between the two girls, "So, ladies. What are we talking about today?"
"Selena's sex life." Miley stated bluntly, knowing he hated to hear anything that involved his best friend and a guy. "You know, it's quite interesting."
Wilder's eyes grew wide, "You have a sex life?"
Selena's cheeks turned red and she shook her head, "I don't." She glared at Miley, "But Miley here seems to think otherwise."
"No. You don't have a sex life." Wilder leaned back in his chair, bringing his feet up on the table. Miley moved to the right a little so that his feet wouldn't land in her food. "I'd know about it if you did. Plus, your faith, Selena. You could never go against that."
Selena let out a sigh, knowing he was right. Her family strongly believed that you had to wait until you were married to have sex. Which seemed ironic to her, considering her parent's past. Nonetheless, she kept the promise, knowing it would make her mother proud of her, and happy.
"Anyway, whether or not Selena has a lack of a sex life, we shouldn't be ones to judge." Miley began, even though, she knew it was a joke. She had a pretty active sex life, as for Wilder, she wasn't too sure.
Selena took a bite of her pizza and chewed it thoughtfully, "You know," She began, dying to just change the subject. "My parents were talking to me about getting eye surgery, so I wouldn't have to wear these glasses anymore."
"Are you serious?" Miley turned to her, obviously easily distracted. She had the attention span of a two year old, it came in handy sometimes. As for Wilder, it took him about an hour to fully process anything. "That's so great!"
"Yeah, we're considering it." She sighed, slumping in her seat.
"Way to change the subject." Wilder spoke a few minutes later. "I thought we were talking about-"
"Subject changed!" Miley said, brightly, her hands in the air, she smacked Wilder with one and faced Selena. "I'm very happy for you."
"Thanks, Miles." Selena smiled, "Wilder, you're forgiven."
"For what?"
"For having an attention span to that of a four year old." Selena smiled sweetly at him, he shook his head and smirked.
"You're are one insanely sarcastic girl."
"Hmm." She responded, as the bell rang ending lunch. Wilder jumped up in realization. "What is it now?"
His hair flew side to side as he looked right to left then to her. "I didn't eat lunch!"
Selena looked down, she pushed her half eaten pizza towards him, "Here you go, enjoy." She gave Miley a pointed look, she only groaned then letting out a sigh, she pushed her half eaten salad towards Wilder.
"Here, you go. My amazing salad I was just in the middle of enjoying."
"Thank you ladies, but…" He shrugged, "Okay, fine. I'll eat it." In about thirty seconds, he was finished. Selena and Miley stared at him dumbfounded.
"Jesus, you're a trash compacter." Miley spoke, her voice full of amusement.
"Don't ever doubt my amazing abilities." Wilder stood up, "That should hold me over until we go to the diner after school. I'll see you ladies, later." He waved at them and walked in the direction of his locker.
Gathering their things together, Miley and Selena shook their heads simultaneously.
"Wilder is one crazy boy." Miley murmured, as Selena nodded in agreement.
Crazy boy, he most definitely was.
Later that night, Selena up to the front door of her house. She leaned against the door, able to hear her parents yelling at eachother on the other side of it. She let out a sigh and opened the door, throwing her bag down by the stairs, she walked into the living room. Her parents both looked at her, and stopped fighting.
"Where have you been?" Her mother asked her.
"I…was at Miley's house. Didn't you get my message? We had to study." She bit her lip, looking down, she leaned against the doorframe, then she looked up and addressed her mother and father. "What are you guys fighting about now?"
Her mother, Mandy looked at father, Richard. Then she looked at her, "Nothing, it's…nothing."
"It didn't sound like nothing." Selena began, her voice becoming unsteady. "I could hear you guys down the block."
"Listen, why don't you go upstairs and get ready for bed?" Richard asked her. "We'll talk about this in the morning."
Selena slowly nodded, and turned toward, and picked up her bag, walking to her bedroom. She sat on the bed, and looked around, she had the feeling what her parents were going to tell her in the morning wouldn't be good news.
She also had the feeling she wouldn't be living in her current bedroom much longer either.
She lay on her back and looked up, she felt a tear slip down her cheek. Wiping it away, she got up and got ready for bed.
The next morning, she woke up early and went downstairs for breakfast. Her mother–who usually cooked it—looked up at her, "Get dressed, we're going out for breakfast."
"As a family?" Selena couldn't believe her ears. As of late, they hadn't been out together, just always ate at home. Where no one could witness her parents arguing back and forth nonstop.
"As a family." Her mother nodded her head, "so, get upstairs and get dressed." Selena smiled and happily ran upstairs to her bedroom, she quickly changed and walked downstairs again, her father gave her a hug, and all together, they went out to a diner her parents used to take her to when she was younger.
Looking around, she remembered how when she was younger, her mother would laugh, her father would smile at her, and she would giggle. Now, it didn't seem like they would ever be that happy again. Sighing as she took the menu, she read over her options. Looking at her parents, she noticed the frown on her father's face, the sad look on her mother's.
After ordering their food, Selena looked in between her parents. "So…what's this news you guys were fighting about last night?"
Richard and Mandy looked at each other, then at their young daughter. Mandy opened her mouth to speak, but shut it soon after. Richard looked at her, then softly smiled at her. "We're thinking about your eye surgery." He said, "And as much as your mother thinks you look beautiful with your glasses, you're getting older, and so, we talked about getting you that surgery."
Selena blinked, was that really what they were arguing about? She didn't really believe it for a second.
"Oh, that's great news." She said, "T-thanks." She intertwined her fingers together and looked down. "I look forward to it."
A week later, Selena walked into school, everyone turned to face her as she walked down the hall. Her hair was straightened reaching just past her bra. Her bangs to the side, so that everyone could see her eyes. She grinned, knowing it was exactly what everyone was looking at, her eyes.
"Selena, your eyes are beautiful." A friend from her biology class, Derek told her. She smiled at thanked him. He stared at her for a moment, then walked down the hall.
Miley grinned at her as she walked up to her locker, "Girl, you look hot!"
"You think so?" Selena grinned, "I mean, I wasn't too sure before…"
"Hey, Selena, looking good!" Wilder walked past them, he turned around, raising his thumbs in the air, he pointed at her, and smiled. Then he turned and sped off as fast as he could towards his class.
"Thanks." Selena blushed, she looked at Miley. "I suppose you were right." She shrugged, and opened her locker. Throwing her books in, she straightened her body and closed it.
"Now," Miley told her, linking their arms. "Let's find you a boy to fall in love with."
"Miley." Selena teased, playfully scolding her, "Let's not get ahead of ourselves."
"Who said I was?" Miley asked innocently.
After a long day at school, and a few glances her way, Selena was glad to being able to finally go home. As she and Miley walked towards the street, through the parking lot, Selena pulled out her glasses. She put them back on, and looked at Miley.
"Do you really think you need those?" Miley asked her, Selena shrugged. "Come on, you look so hot without them."
"I don't know. I kinda miss them." Selena shrugged, she pulled them off, and in her hurry, managed to let them fall to the ground. As she was about to bend to pick them up, she saw a set of wheels run them over. She backed away quickly, and looked at the car.
It was an all black mustang. The boy in the car, too, was wearing all black. His hair was as dark as her own, rings on her fingers, his nails painted black.
"Is black your favorite color or something?" Miley asked him. He seemed to have ignored her as he bent down to retrieve Selena's glasses.
"I think they're dead." He shrugged, and handed them to her, she took them and shifted them from one hand to the other, still transfixed by him. He smirked at her, and she noticed, his smirk was unlike anyone else's. It was sideways. She felt butterflies in her stomach, and smiled. "You have nice guys." He told her, staring at her for a moment.
She smiled, "Thanks." Then he turned and got inside the car, backing out of the spot and driving away.
Miley had a smirk of her own on her face as she glanced at Selena. "Some one's got a crush."
Selena blinked, and shook her head. "No. No, I don't." She looked down at her glasses. She looked behind her at the trashcan, giggling at the sound of glass crushing when he'd run over her glasses. She began to wonder, if it was on purpose, in any case, she was happy. "I don't even know him."
"Yet, you're blushing, and your eyes are sparkling." Miley looked down at Selena's glasses. "Do you really think you need those?"
Selena looked down, she smiled as she played with it, then turning around, she threw them away, liking her arm with Miley's. "Let's go." She said, "We've got some shopping to do."
As she pulled her away, Miley grinned, "Those are my favorite words!"