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Ally's POV
I can't believe I am going to a party tonight! With a boy! What if I tell my dad and he doesn't let me go. He never approved of me going to parties which is why I never went. Actually it was mostly the fact that I never got invited to them and always made fun of them but I feel that something is going to change. The bell rings and I get in my car. I heard someone calling my name. I turn my head to look out my back window when I see a short Latino run up to me.
"Hey! Wait for me!" She yells halfway across the student parking lot. The parking lot was made up of cliques. The jocks are farthest away from the door. You'd love to hate those people but they are mostly the ones who throw the best parties, which sadly, I'm never invited to. Then we have the popular chicks who date the jocks. The stoners and next to them are the Thespians who try and bring Glee to life. And the dramas who don't take crap from nobody. And last but not least the people closest to the door are the loners slash geeks aka me, the people who never get invited to parties.
My best friend Trish de la Rosa was part of the Popular Clique but she isn't like all of those girls in it. For starters she is my friend, she is genuinely nice, and she is a caring person who is not the spawn of satan aka Brie Hart. Brie Hart, has good hair. That is pretty much everything good about her. She once watched Jessie Jenkins talk to her longtime crush and went up to her and asked her when she was due. That would be something nice she'd do compared to the things she's done in her high school career.
Trish arrived at my car and jumped in the passenger seat. "Are you done talking with The Spawn of Satan?"
"Who? Brie? Yes, she is the spawn of satan defiantly and yes."
"It was a rhetorical question."
"Oh." I start the car and drive out of the parking lot. I turn on the radio and listen to the Pop Station which is currently playing my favorite song. I turn it up just a little bit more knowing my favourite song is playing. "You're in a good mood."
"I am." I smile.
"Why?" She is starting to get curious. Well, who wouldn't get curious to a nerdy Ally Dawson who always looks down. I try not to be and I barely am, just when I'm not in a good mood but I make it look like I am always in a bad mood. But not right now, I'm in the best mood.
"Because I got asked to go to the welcome back party!" I announced.
Trish screams. "Oh, my God! That is so awesome! What guy asked you?" The reason I'm never asked to parties is because guys usually do the asking, you know, dating and reason like that. If not I'd always be going to parties because Trish would invite me. She always tries to drag me to parties but I would never go if a guy asked me so she stopped asking me. I'm a difficult person, which is probably the cause to never having a date. "Who asked you? Timmy Laurance? James Kyle? Riley Newman…?"
"Riley Newman? The quarterback of the football team? Yeah, right. In my dreams." I fix my hair in the rearview mirror while we stop at a red light.
"If Riley never asked you, who asked you?"
"Austin Moon."
"Oh, him…" Trish presses her lips together.
"You have no clue who that is do you?" It's always Trish's go-to move of pressing her lips together if she doesn't know something or if she is lying.
"Not a hinch."
I laugh, "He's the new student."
She hits me on the shoulder, "No way!"
"What?"
"He is the topic on everybody's mind."
"You think I don't know that? It's so weird. We had this instant connection to each other today. In art class. It was so weird. How could a guy like him go for a girl like me?"
"I think the question here is how could he not? Ally, you may not know this but you are so girlfriend material. You're nice, cute, sexy…" She raises her eyebrows.
"Sexy? Me? A short girl with long plain brown hair is sexy?"
"Exactly, I don't understand why every guy in this school never goes after you."
"Maybe it's the short part."
"Short is sexy."
"Ugh. What about my personality. I love reading books. No guy wants to hear about the plot to The House of The Night series. All five books."
"If a guy wants to listen to that then he is a definite keeper." I roll my eyes to her and give her annoyed look. "Uh, I meant, if a guy wants to listen to that then he is a definite keeper," He says in a more positive way. "Yeah, no that doesn't really help." She says to herself.
"Change of topic."
"I think that is a good idea. You excited for the party?" We arrive at my house and start getting ready for the party. "We are going to be getting you to look so hot that people will melt in your eye of vision."
"Maybe just make me look warm?"
"Shut up."
We get ready for the party and I go downstairs with Trish. My dad turns around and looks at me, "Where are you two going tonight looking like that?" Trish lives with my dad and I because her mom left when she was five and her father died when she was eleven. She has been living with us for six years ever since her dad died. My mom died while she was giving birth to me.
"We are going to a party." Trish says.
My dad's eyes widen, "You guys are going to a party? Since when do you guys go to parties?" My dad never knew that Trish went to parties reason being that I never went and was always home to cover for her.
"Since now. We got invited and we are going. We will be careful." I say.
"Okay, but be home by 11:30."
"But I really want to go to this party. It's the first one that i've- Wait, what?" I am caught off guard that my dad actually agreed for me to go to a party. "You're letting us go?"
"Yeah. I trust you enough that you are going to be careful."
I run up to him and give him a huge hug, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
"Okay, okay. Go have fun."
We leave and hop in my car and I drive to the party. We park the car in front of the destination which was at a beach. I look around to go find Austin but I couldn't find him. "Where's Austin?" Trish asks me.
"I don't think he is here yet. I'm going to go wait by the parking lot." I say.
"Are you sure you don't want me to wait for you? You've never been to parties and if you're alone guys will just go up to you for pretty much anything."
"I'll be fine."
"Here, at least take this drink." She grabs a drink from one of the coolers and hands it to me. "One less reason for guys to come up to you."
"Thanks." I take it from her hand.
I go over to the parking lot and take a sip of my beer. I look around leaning against a pole. A guy starts walking over to me with a smirk on his face, "Hey, sweet stuff."
"Take a hike." I spit.
"Ohh, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. Why don't I help you get to one." He starts putting his hands on my waist when I push him away.
"Go away!"
"Relax, I know you want to." He tries kissing me when I slap him over the face and start to walk away. I turn around and notice that he was still following me so I sped up my pace a little more each second. Suddenly I felt my heart racing and my instinct was to run. And that was what I did. My heart raced to the speed of light and I started to sweat. It was so dark I could barely see where I was going. Knowing where I was anyways, I ran through vehicles but that was when I realized that a couple cars were parked too close to each other and there wasn't any space for me to run anymore. I turned around and he followed me to where I ran. "You shouldn't have done that." He goes up to me and turns me around and covers my mouth. I try to scream but there was no use. I tried to maneuver out of his grip but he was too strong. It's true, this is about to happen to me.
But all of a sudden his grip got weaker and I was free to move. I start to run. I turned around and saw the man on the ground. I covered my mouth in the disgust I saw. Blood was everywhere. Running down his neck, blood all over him. Tears formed as what I just saw scarred me for life. What I just saw is something that could never be unseen. I run as terror ran through my body. I had no clue on what to do but run.
Suddenly I run into something, or someone. I look up and see Austin.