A/n: HEY READERS! I'm going to be honest this story starts off very boring but the more you read, the more your love it! Trust me!
Beautiful Distractions
"Smile." Mom ordered through her clenched teeth. "At least pretend your happy." She added when I didn't obey. Happy? Was there anyway I could be happy right now? She made me move across the country to some small town I still didn't know the name of.
"Trina Green!" A tall blonde woman screeched from across the tiny restaurant. She skipped over to where my mom and I were sitting and slid in the booth, next to my mom.
"Sky," My mom sighed. "Its been too long." Sky had been my moms best friend when she had lived here as a teenager. I had to listen to all the stories on the way here.
"Indeed." Sky nodded and her eyes moved toward me. "Oh my." She gasped. "This must be Sage." She smiled brightly. "Oh wow your even more beautiful than I imagined."
"Thanks." I mumbled fixing my eyes on the ground. I never knew when people called me beautiful, if they were just saying it or if they meant it. My thick dark chocolate, almost black curls spilled down to my lower back with dark bangs hanging across my forward.
"Those eyes." Sky commented leaning in closer to get a look at my bright green eyes. "Just like your fathers." My mom stiffened at the mention of my father. My mom had gotten pregnant at the end of her high school career and my father had bailed on her. He just disappeared and nobody ever saw him again.
"Yes well," My mom recovered but Sky still seemed oblivious to her mistake. "Ready to catch me up on the town gossip?" Mom giggled. I tuned them out as they talked about the people they once knew when they were young.
I scanned my eyes across the simple restaurant there was only three other people in here beside my mom, Sky and I, all sitting at the bar. My eyes glided toward the window a cloudy grey day outside and my mom told me it was usually like that. That sun was the last thing I'd see here.
"What about the Bridgton family?" Suddenly my moms voice whispered low catching my attention.
"You mean Haylee and Maya?" Sky whispered back.
"Yes, the super models." I could hear my mom rolling her eyes. "They still here?" She asked tucking her dark hair behind her ear.
"Nope." Sky smirked. "but they have younger brothers here now." The way she said this made it seem like she didn't believe it. Suddenly Sky's eyes flickered toward me. "I actually think they are Sage's age."
"Really?" My mom grimaced. "I don't want Sage involved with that family at all." My mom shook her head. What exactly was so wrong with this family? Why did nobody here like them?
"Trina?" A short women with red hair lowered her sunglasses staring at my mom. I had been so engrossed in my moms conversation I hadn't even heard her come in and she startled me a bit.
"Mary?" The red head nodded. "Wow you look great!" My mom exclaimed.
"Come, sit with us!" Sky patted the space on the booth next to her. Mary slid in and her eyes focused on me.
"Is this Sage?" She asked.
"The last time you saw her she was in here." My mom placed her hand on her stomach laughing.
"Well your beautiful." Mary smiled, her eyes filled with understanding. "That isn't very surprising though, what with both your parents being so beautiful."
"Thanks." I forced a smiled. I was sick of being reminded what I looked like. The constant reminder that I had the same eyes as the man who tore my moms heart apart.
Mary, Sky, and my mom chatted and gossiped for what seemed like forever. I had not been paying much attention. I had been counting the colorful dots painted on the walls. There wasn't many but just enough for me to entertain myself.
"That's them!" Sky suddenly whispered harshly, hitting her hand on her table and using the other hand to point toward the window. My moms eyes darted quickly toward where Sky's fingers were pointed and her jaw dropped slightly. My eyes followed where my moms gaze was locked on the window and my jaw dropped too.
Two perfect boys were standing across the street. One had messy brown curls pilled perfectly on his head and his eyes were a strange gold bronze color. His skin was pale, not normal pale but ghostly pale. His face reminded me of something I'd seen out of a magazine. Even though he looked just like a supermodel, he was nothing in comparison to the boy next to him.
The others face was flawless and I felt like I had to get up and move closer to find something wrong with it. His shaggy blonde hair rested perfectly, not like a skate rat shaggy but perfect. His eyes and skin matched the boys next to him exactly but they looked nothing alike.
"Figures," My mom sighed pulling me out of my thoughts. "Their beautiful just like Haylee and Maya." The Bridgton family. The family that my mom seemed to resent. They were outcasts. I didn't understand how something so beautiful could be so left out. That wasn't the way it was in movies.
"They are beautiful." Sky agreed, "Just like your daughter." Her eyes smiled at me. "She really is beautiful." Was it possible to say that I was sick of being called beautiful.
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"Darn it!" I yelled when my foot slammed right through a cardboard box. I was beginning to get sick of all the boxes piled up in my room.
"Honey I told you to unpack." My mom giggled slightly when she saw me struggling to get the box off my foot. She shook her head "You never do anything I tell you."
"I'll unpack when I get home from my first day of school!" I smiled with extremely fake enthusiasm.
"Just get in the car." My mom rolled her eyes. I obeyed her order and got in the passenger seat of her white car as she drove me to my new school. When we arrived, I was shocked. The school was too small to even be a school.
"You have to be kidding me?!" I exclaimed as I stared at the tiny school in front of me. I knew this was a small town but was the school suppose to be this small? It was nothing compared to the school in my old town.
"I know its small." My mom shrugged. "Here is your schedule and a map. I already got them from the office yesterday. Have fun!" My mom smiled placing the papers in my hands.
"Yeah, sure." I said sarcastically jumping out of her car. I had never felt so self conscious is my life. Suddenly my pants felt too tight, my hair felt too long, too curly. All eyes were on me. Nobody was being very subtle about it either, they were staring. I pretended not to notice but it was hard.
"Ignore them." A sudden bubbly voice appeared next to me. "I'm Carrie." Her blonde hair bounced as she put her hand out for me to shake.
"Sage." I took her hand smiling.
"What grade?" Carrie asked keeping a perfect smile on her face.
"Junior." Her smiled became wider.
"Me too!" She squealed "Here let me see your schedule." She reached forward and took it out of my hand and stared at it in silence.
That's when I saw them. The Bridgeton boys. The blonde and the brunette were hard to miss, beside the fact that they were the only ones not looking at me. They looked like airbrushed models rather than high school students.
"Who are they?" I asked Carrie, she followed my gaze and rolled her eyes.
"Of course you'd ask about them." Her voice sounded envious and I couldn't understand why. "Those are the Bridgetons, they don't talk to anybody and nobody talks to them, Everyone thinks they are cursed or something." She rolled her eyes again.
"But there so," I struggled to find the right work.
"Beautiful." Carrie finished for me.
"Yes, how could something so beautiful be cursed?" I asked suddenly the blondes eyes flickered toward mine and I looked away sharply. Carrie giggled.
"I don't know." She shrugged.
"What are their names?" I asked.
"That ones Elliot." She pointed toward the one with the curls but I never took my eyes off the Blonde.
"Who is the other one?" I asked. Carrie rolled her eyes.
"Caleb." Carries eyes moved toward him and she looked at him longingly. "Hes so hot." She sighed. Hot? That didn't even begin to describe it.
"Well we should get to class." Carrie said pulling her eyes off of Caleb. She started to walk off.
"Wait, my Schedule?" I called after her.
"Sorry." She laughed walking back toward me. "There's nothing like a hot boy to distract me." She handed me my schedule. "Your first class is right there." She pointed me in the right way and walked off again. I followed her directions but as I started to walk, I slipped and fell to the ground. My map and schedule flew out of my hand and I reached forward to grab them but a perfect ghostly white hand beat me to it, and just from his perfect hand, I knew exactly who it was.
"Nice Fall." Caleb's perfect voice rang through the air. My breath caught in my throat as I heard him speak. Carrie had told me they didn't talk to anyone.
"Thanks." I sighed taking my papers from his hand "I mean for picking these up." I waved the papers. "Not for the 'nice fall' comment." I rambled on.
"I'm Caleb." He smiled showing off his perfect teeth.
"I'm, uh," I had suddenly forgot my own name as I stared at Caleb's face.
"Sage?" He finished for me.
"How did you know that?" I asked. I had only told Carrie my name.
"Its on your schedule." His perfect finger reached out and pointed to the place where my name was printed on the paper.
"Right." I sighed as he chuckled. I had only talked to him for a minute and he probably already thought I was crazy.
"I think I've made you late for class." Calebs perfect voice spoke. I noticed that there was no one else there.
"It's okay, I can just say I got lost." I shrugged.
"Or you can tell the truth, and say you tripped." He raised an eyebrow jokingly.
"Ha Ha." I laughed Sarcastically. He smiled at me one last time and walked off I stared at him as he walked away. There really was nothing like a beautiful distraction.