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chapter two:
change for the better
A blonde girl was walking down the hall, destination: her locker.
"She dyed her hair?" Some girl asked her friend, surprised.
"Guess so, now she has no reason to stand out." Her friend answered, they giggled.
Jude Harrison, age 16, was a talented but un-famous girl that lived in Toronto. Who you´d say, gets to live a pretty normal life. Her parents, Stuart and Victoria just got divorced, but her mom hooked up with her lawyer, they are now traveling around the world, so technically Jude lives with her sister: Sadie, her beautiful and popular college sister.
She thought that compared to her sister she was not pretty at all. She was, obviously wrong, she was very pretty, cute, kind, and popular among the group of people that actually knew who she was, no, "the red-headed girl", does not count like knowing.
She had an innate talent for writing awesome songs, playing most of the instruments naturally, and singing not with her throat but with her heart, although just two people knew about this awesome gift Jude had, one of them her sister Sadie, and her childhood pal: Jamie Andrews.
Surprise, surprise. Now everybody´s staring. Jude thought. Just in that moment, a good looking guy, with shaggy blonde hair walked past her, without even taking a look, just the opposite of his two friends, Wally and Kyle. Whom thumbed up at her.
Kyle Bateman was in the same gym class as her, they became friends almost immediately, she remembered the first time she talked to him, he was actually humming an AC/DC song, which she recognized right away. They then started talking about good, and bad, and not-even-mention bands the whole hour, after that they chatted every single class.
Wally Robbins began talking to her because of Kyle, though he was in her English class since 5th grade. One day after gym ended, Kyle and Jude were still talking and joking, then Kyle introduced them and they felt pretty comfortable around each other, like sister/brother kind of thing.
She didn´t realize they were the Spied´s crew after a couple of weeks, because Kyle and Wally never talked about Spied when they were with Jude, and Spiederman wasn´t never around when the dudes where with the ex-red-headed. So they never get to talked to each other, and actually weren´t dying to talk to each other.
Well, everybody minus Spiederman. She thought again.
Yes, that handsome blonde was, in fact, Vincent Spiederman, the trouble maker, the ladies man, the everybody-is-wrong-because-they-don´t-think-the-same-way-as-I-do dude, the ridiculously talented musician, and not to mention cocky. Yeah, I think that´s the closest definition of the Vincent Spiederman everybody knew.
They were only a few things that weren´t public domain about Spied´s life. One: family issues, don´t even think of the idea. Two: Love, because truthfully he has never loved somebody, or that´s what people thought. Three: Jamie Andrews was, as well, his childhood friend, just not as close as he was with Jude. Four: Death, difficult to handle for everybody, yeah, but Spiederman was a higher level… Like always.
He also had a band with Wally and Kyle, called Spiederman Mind Explosion aka SME, they were good, but nobody had ever heard them play, so nobody could know that.
She arrived at her locker and started taking out her books. A male voice took her out of her thoughts, once again.
"Hello Jude Spears, how was your weekend?" Jamie Andrews said with a hint of joke in the sentence, and a raised eyebrow.
"Very funny, Andrews." She replied sarcastically.
Her before mentioned childhood pal was now standing in front of her, trying to make her laugh, or at least smile. Sort of gives you an idea of what the goal in his life was. Was also her boy-next-door, so ever since they had memory, they´ve always been together.
His image was sort of an emo/nerd guy, with black framed glasses. Music geek: no doubt about it, every question you did, every answer he gave you. A walking Wikipedia. Yeah, Jude gave him that nickname, "Walking Wikipedia". Jamie was the other person that knew 'bout Jude´s talent, and wanted to push her to sing in front of some crowd, it didn´t matter how large it was, but to sing in front of other people besides him and her sister. She, of course, didn´t agree.
Another funny fact of Jamie Andrews, if you like to call it that way, was that he was truly, madly and deeply in love with Jude; of course everyone could see that, except for Jude, she just deny everything that involved Jamie, love, and Jude in the same sentence.
Well that wasn´t exactly the funny fact, the funny fact was that when they were in kindergarten, he was the best buddy of the little Spiederman, but they stopped talking on 8th grade, when Jamie admitted his feelings for Jude.
No, it´s not what you are thinking… Spied, actually, stopped talking to him because he thought Jamie preferred a girl over him, not because he was in love with she as well. That tiny decision, will later led to something bigger.
"So what´s up with the blondie thing going on?" Jamie asked her, as they walk to the math class.
"Change for the better Jammy, change for the better" Jude replied.
Once they arrived to the class, the quickly searched for their seats.
Jude was literally in the middle of an awkward situation. Left: Spiederman, who she barely even talked to; right: Jamie former buddy of Spied, and actual BFF of Jude. Weirder impossible.
So that was what Kyle and Wally were talking about? She dyed her hair? I guess I didn´t notice what color it was before… I don´t actually care. Spied thought, as he look at her, from the corner of his eye.
That weird feeling someone´s watching me again. I´m definitely losing it. Jude was obviously concerned about her mental health, and once again ignoring Vincent Spiederman.
So, yeah, it´s not much of a long chapter, though I was happy with the result! Let me know what you all think of it :)
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