Chances

In The Beginning Pt. 1

Adrina's POV:
The stairs creaked when I stumbled up through the darkness. When I was a kid I used to be scared of the dark, no light, no mom, dad, no safety just me and the bogeyman sitting there playing that unspoken game of hide and seek. I never felt that need to ever again conceal my face from the world till now.

Scared and alone, still even in the plain sun light, I never feel actually "present". Like I'm actually there in the moment, doing the thing I'm supposed to be doing but not really doing it. My mind wondering who's watching, if they can hear me, when am I safe from it?

Life can be tough even as a teenage girl. Not being the prettiest or coming from a screwed up family. Ya I'll admit it. It's not tough...it's F***ING hard.. It's always been my mom, me and my sister.

Dad left long time ago, REALLY long time ago.*laughs angrily* Still though I went to school like everyone else, and... nope that's pretty much it. When I was in elementary I had no friends, no kids my age dealing with the same family problems. Life as I knew it was f**ked up.

I really did try to make friends but they never saw it that way. But being the anxious anti-social 7 year old I was, I took it without giving anyone sh*t about it. Like I said no friends, I sat underneath the slides hiding from the pr*ck teachers and fake "friends", either reading a book with my dumb thin broken framed glasses or crying into my 4 year old torn jacket that my father had gotten me on my last birthday with him.

Only four years with that b**** and still I'm stuck here with the problems, even though he left to get rid of them... me. Ya the therapist says " oh you know you're not the problem" or "no u didn't cause any of this" but you can tell from their fake ass voices that they understand why your parents left.

Whatever though, I'm still here aren't I? Well not for long, I guess...

Now I could feel the cold. It felt lonely but couldn't be worse than what I felt this morning. Mom was probably out drinking with her boyfriend, sister hopefully out with her friends. Only me... the silence all felt too friendly. There wasn't much of that at school.

Middle school life was...better than most of my past. At least I made friends, and they actually stuck around,right? My grades were great and friends always were hanging around having fun. I somehow made people laugh, CRAZY RIGHT?? I never even laughed myself but my friends, for some reason were always in the mood for jokes. The darker and crazier it was, the funnier. Lucky for me I came from a pretty dark past, perfect for making people laugh.

The sound of other people's joy made me, happier by 1/60 but it still helped get me through the day. I somehow learned to fake a laugh by instinct but only my best friends can really tell when I'm laughing with my face and crying on the inside. Thing was, boys could be funny when it came to playing with your feelings.

Calling you their "valentine" and pretending to be sneaky about looking at you in class, when they know you love them with all your heart. But truth is that made it even better for the boys. The boys in our school would never know how much anxiety and stress they brought into my school life. Unless...

But anyway let me tell u about my friends. First there's Brianna. She's hilarious when it comes to laughing and making someone happier. I can usually relate to her cause she's always making people laugh and it makes her even funnier to know that they're happy because of her. I like that feeling, a lot. She's also going to ask this boy Corbyn Besson out on a date. Ya not typical of her but she's gonna do it, I'll force her into his arms if I have to. You don't even KNOW how perfect those two are for each other. Always making the same jokes, have been close since 5th grade and are both awkward when it comes to talking to each other. Which by the way is SUPER cringy! I always see them sneaking looks at each other, everyone can see it. But as you can most probably tell THEYRE OBLIVIOUS AS HELL!! They should already be together but this case of match maker is tough to piece together.

Then there's my friend Camila. She's annoying, but still has the daily tea. She sometimes attacks me for liking Daniel Seavey. This boy that I've been friends with my whole life. He somehow got me through it all. My best friend pretty much. A family friend,but got closer to me than anyone else. And Camila gets annoyed with me about that since she, also has a crush on him. Ya we fight a lot about that, but it's always been fun and games between us.

Now Ava. She's the only sensible, reasonable one in the group. Makes people laugh at random things she says. Makes sure everyone knows that Zach Herron is hers. Ya I forgot to tell you, she's with Zach. They both love each other and I know it'll work but Zach is always getting into trouble. By trouble I mean, stealing, what else oh ya, speeding, drinking... ya lots of stuff going on there. But she loves him anyway, he's a nice person to talk to but can get her into the worst places.

Now I haven't told you about Jack and Daniel. Jack is the nicest boy you could ever meet. Kind, hilarious, hot... I didn't say that. I said my boyfriend, no not like that my friend that is a boy. He literally can sit there all day looking into my eyes, listening to all my jokes, and messed up stories. He sometimes makes me look forward to the bad days cause I know he'll be there to cheer me up.

I'm telling you this boy knows everything about me... well not exactly but more than he should know. He has the curliest hair, omg I could just pull at it all day. And so you see he has small feet like mine we're both 9's. Ya we both wear men's shoes, so what. Just means more choices for me. I sometimes would snatch his sneakers at school and wear them the rest of the day without him noticing after gym. Then he'd find me after school, we'd play chase and attack and then he'll grab me from behind and pick me up. This boy, like I said before the greatest boyfriend material. Wait I mean... no I definitely did mean it.

Ok so I'm guessing you all know I like him, this is true. But I doubt he likes me back, you know the same way, like as a girlfriend.

Lastly we have Jonah, the hot but annoying AF f-boy. We've all known him since 4th grade. Like that one friend that thinks they're too cool for the rest of you once they get in with all the preps. So he moved on and became a jerk. Trying to hit on all the girls, even Ava but she's loyal and told Zach.

And as you probably would expect he beat the sh*t out of him! Ya that was a painful day, but we'll get to that later...

Daniel POV:
Adrina? She's my best friend, ever since we were little. It's kind of funny how we met. My mom had brought me over to Auntie A/M/N. Mom and Auntie A/M/N have been best friends since kindergarten.

Past Daniel POV:
They always have these family dinners, right? And this was the first one I was finally invited to. Mom said there would be a girl, same age as me so I wasn't that excited but I'd try to be her friend.
*2 hours later
We were finally there and I saw a little brown eyed girl. She looked like someone I wanted to know. Then we got to the door. Auntie opened the screen and looked happier than she used to be.
"DANIEL"
"AUNTIE" she looked different. Not like her hair or makeup. Like eyes and smile, it looked weird on her.
"Daniel why don't you go and find Adrina. She's really shy, like gets anxiety around new people shy. So don't get offended if she doesn't talk to you."

I was kind of confused but she
sounds like she just needs to meet the right people.

Adrina POV:
Little did Baby Dani know, we were thinking the same thing...