Dear Journal,

Today Mrs. Finer is giving us all of class to write in these journals. I'm glad because now we don't have to listen to her boring lectures. I'm actually really stressed out right now. I bet your wondering why… but I'm not gonna tell ya! No, just kidding, I will.

Emma has been my really good friend since middle school started. People say I'm weird for being such good friends with a girl, but Emma's really cool. So anyways, the bad part of having girls for friends is that they never shut up about boys. Emma obsesses when ever she has a crush and it can get really weird and annoying especially when the boys she likes are friends of mine. Today in science she told me her new crush. She told me she has actually has liked this person since the beginning of the year, but hasn't told me. She usually tells me right away so when I asked her why she hadn't, this is what happened.

"I just was afraid you would tell him," Emma said with a nervous look on her face.

"What? Emma, I've never told a guy that you like him even if its one of my friends."

"Well, this person is different."

"Different how?" I asked confused.

"You'll see when I tell you."

"Then tell me!" Emma took a deep breath.

'It's Alex," she said.

"Alex Mirar? What's so special about him?"

"No! Not that Alex!" Emma said frustrated.

"Alex Jones? I thought you hated him?"

"Not him!"

"Then who?"

"Oh my god Nicky, you are such a dumb ass! I can't believe you don't even know your own brother's name!"

"Of course I know my brother's name, its Al…" I stopped dead in my sentence. My brother Alex! She liked my twin brother!

"You like Alex?" I asked with disbelief.

"Yeah," she said turning red and looking away.

"Well can I tell him?"

"No!"

"Why not?"

"Cause, he doesn't like me. He doesn't even notice me." Unfortunately she was true there.

"Ok fine, I won't tell him. But he would want to know."

"Thanks."

And now I sit here in eng/lit, thinking about how I'm not going to tell Alex about this. He's always complaining that girls never like him, how could I not tell him? I guess I'll just have to think about how upset Emma would be. I know she wouldn't be upset if Alex liked her back. And what if he does? I know he knows her. She comes over to the house like everyday for band practice and she has almost every single class with him. Well, I guess I'll just have to tough it out. Hopefully her crush will pass before it gets worse. If it got worse, I would have to hear about how hot my brother was every few seconds, eww. Wait. If she thinks Alex is hot, then she must think I'm hot too. We look exactly the same except that my hair is just a little longer. Oh haha, I'll get her pissed off when I tell her that one. When I asked her and Jenna if they thought I was hot, they said that I was just ok. I wonder what she says now. Well, I'm gonna go. Colton just passed me a note telling me to meet him out in the hall. Write later, I guess. Bye!

NICKY

Dear thing,

Mrs. Finer Is making us write in the piece of crap all period! This sucks! Taylor is sitting next to me right now, she is writing in it. I wonder what she's writing. I'll look over and see. Damn, she just hit me on the head for trying to see what she wrote and covered it up. Hmm, well at least she flirted with me. Hitting me on the head is flirting right? Yeah I thought so. I can't believe I'm actually writing in this thing. I wonder if my best friend Jon is, one second. Yeah, he is. Weird. Hey, so is my friend Ryan! I guess they want to get an A. I'm sorry for what I said before, Mrs. Finer. I don't really want to get an F. An A would be good, but I think on this I'll probably get like a D. I suck at writing. Ah, Mrs. Finer just assigned another chapter in our book! I better go do it. Thanks for listening to me ramble.

ALEX