We now focus on Travis!

Chapter 5: Travis

Another day has passed and Travis was walking across the hallway, just feeling nervous about who will ask him to the dance or who he might ask to go with him to the valentine's day dance and then, fear sets in as he reminisces his tormenting moments of being bullied by girls back in middle school. He sighed heavily and felt like this could be a major issue for him that someone will reject him because of him. Just then, Diego walks by and sees Travis sulking in his locker and he comes towards him and said, "Why so down?"

Travis looks at Diego and answered, "I'm scared of asking a girl to this dance."

"Why's that?"

"Well, back in middle school, I used to get teased and tormented by most of the students back where I'm from and most of them were girls. They would call me stupid, wimpy, shrimp and repulsively ugly. I don't think I would face them here."

"You never know unless you try. Has any girl called you these things here?"

Travis thought about it for a second and then answered, "Not really."

"Okay, then. So what are you so worried about, anyway?"

"That it'll be deja vu all over again."

Diego sighs exasperatedly and said, "What if I told you that it won't happen if you took a chance?"

"How do I do that?"

"Just be yourself and see what'll happen."

Diego pats his back and walks off, leaving Travis with a shaken confidence and complete anxiety about who he'll ask out. He slowly gets up and walks across the hallway, feeling a little bit anxious and to his surprise, a girl-15, 5'4. 144 pounds, blue eyes, dark midnight hair with green bangs, wearing a dark purple tank top and green T-shirt and rhinestone jeans with a few small holes-noticed his nervousness. She walks up to him and asked, "Travis Mosley, right?"

Travis turns around and sees her and said, "Yeah..."

She looks at him with a smile and said, "I'm Danielle Sanders. I've noticed you've ben around here for a while and I heard that you were nervous about asking a girl out to this valentine's day dance."

Travis swallowed deeply and replied, "Uh-huh."

"Why is that?"

"I was...kinda afraid that some girls here might make fun of me and say ugly things about me like they did back in middle school where I'm from."

"Where are you from?"

"Whereville."

Danielle looks at Travis with a smile and said, "Well, I'm not like most girls. I was kinda nervous about you too, because I thought you might not like me because of the way I am, how I dress-"

"...what music you listen to." Travis finished.

"Yeah. It's like you read my mind for some reason."

"Proably so. So, if you're not seeing anyone, maybe you would like to..."

"...go with me to the Valentine's day dance on Saturday? I'd love to go."

Travis' face lit up when he heard that and he said, "That's great."

"I'll see you round, okay?"

"Okay."

Danielle walks out and Travis somehow felt completely thrilled that it actually works. He chuckled softly and walks off with a huge amount of confidence in himself that he did the impossible. As he was walking, Diego sees him looking happy and he smiled as well, saying, "Good job, Travis."

Sorry if it's short, but that's all I got. So stay tuned for more!