The Diary of a Nobody

Chapter 1- How it all started

Any way so it all started in second grade when he started coming to my school in Britain, called Arnold Academy. The second he came in I fell in love. He was so handsome and kind and a great singer, but I didn't know that yet. I, and everyone else at my school, figured out he was a great singer a year later in our assembly. He sang Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley at the yearly talent show. It made me like him even more, which I did not know was even possible until that moment. I remember exactly what he was wearing. (Is that weird? Well, don't answer that) But he was wearing a red Pokémon shirt and jean pants. (Yeah it is weird isn't it?)

I liked him a lot. Throughout elementary and middle school, I had a crush on him. I didn't talk to him at all, really. I just watched him with his friends, and since I wasn't very social, I basically just read a lot during recess. All the time I wanted to talk to him, but I didn't. one day at lunch he sat down next to me, but we didn't talk at all. He just sat there, ignored me, and talked to the people on the other side of him. I knew that in Middle School, he had gone out with a girl named Katie, and another girl named Elaine. I wanted to be asked out, but I wasn't.

One afternoon when I was walking back to my house from school, it started to pour. People use that term for like, a little drizzle some times, but by pour I mean pour. It was a full-on downpour! He drove by and saw me like actually looked at me! He must have felt bad even though he probably didn't even know my name and he stopped and insisted I use his umbrella, and he walked me home. I said ok and we talked a bit about how we went to school together and he didn't even know my name and how I was thankful he asked to come with me. We didn't get much conversation, just the normal small-talk. Then eventually he asked where I lived. I said where it was and we were already there, no big deal right? Wrong. It was a very big deal. He actually knew my name now, and we had actually talked.

It was a big step in the right direction for me.

I saw him a few times in school after that. I mean he was popular and I wasn't... so the most we ever said was 'hi' and then moved on to the rest of our every day lives. That was how it was until he started to email me. It took me by surprise seeing that we talked very little ever! But it was a good surprise. In his first email he said something like: "Hey we don't talk much and I'd like to get to know you more".

Wow, that was cool. I was so happy I emailed back immediately saying something along the lines of: "Hey! Yeah I know I wish we could talk more! So let's start off. Um...what are your hobbies? And that was our first email conversation. The next days at school he'd wave when he was passing by in classes, and the occasional smile.

After school the next day, I checked my e-mail as fast as I could when I got home. He had replied, "I like to sing, mostly. what about you?" I knew he could sing. He was good. I replied "I do a lot of dance and swimming." and noticed he was online. We exchanged some more e-mails back and forth, and after a while singing came back up again.

"Do you sing Ali?" I thought for a sec. I didn't do a lot of singing. I was bad. At least, I didn't think I was that good. "No, I stink, but you're better" Then the conversation turned more. "Really? You think I'm good?"

"Well, yeah. I like your voice." I hoped he'd get the hint. He continued.

"No, do you think I'm good enough to compete?" In what? I thought.

"Sure,"

"Cool. Oh, and I meant to ask you something important before,"

My heart jumped. The school dance was coming up next week and he was going to ask me. I typed really fast.

"What?"

"Do you think your friend Katie would go to the dance with me?"

I logged off.

Had he really just asked me that? My heart broke. I didn't think I could feel this sad. I was so close to my dream and that! Katie? He liked Katie? Why her? She wasn't even that pretty. Yeah, I was hurt.