One of the Boys

One of the Boys: Chapter 15

So in the end, everything paid off. I discovered that love may literally be a door's knock away, that sometimes, going against the values may just be the best decision of your life, and that people can forshadow the rest of your life.

The surprise that I had been waiting for was really a punishment. I returned home to find that my bedroom door was gone. Apparently, I had no privacy rights anymore and I would get my door back when I could be trusted. I also had no phone for two weeks, no computer for a month, and I couldn't hang out with friends for a week. Personally, I thought this was a pretty light punishment. I could handle this.

Jenn and I are still best friends, I mean, why wouldn't we? Actually, we haven't been any closer than we have before. And it's really not the two of us anymore. She's now taken to including Kyle in, so it's the three of us now. I couldn't be any happier than I am now. Jenn and I still get our girl time, though. I mean, as much as I love Kyle, I can't spend every winking minute with him.

As for Amanda, well, funny story. Kyle had broken up after I had gotten out of the hospital and gotten back to school. I saw her through the halls and she gave me her evil daggers. I just grinned back at her, knowing that I had won, because I had. Kyle was mine and not hers, and I could show him off. Serves her right. You don't mess with me. You ask for the bull, you get the horns. At least she still has her friends.

Speaking of friends, I finally got rid of my "followers". All I had to do was be myself, just dressed nicer. I still dress like a girly girl, but I don't act like it. I still act like my tomboy self. And apparently that turns a lot of people off. At least now I know who my real friends are, which is actually still a lot of people in the school. It's still kind of flattering.

And let's not forget Kyle. Well, we had our talk, and it was really, I'm not sure how to put it. It was, very nice I would say. It went almost exactly like the dream I had after the car crash. Except at the end, instead of kissing me, he asked me out. He's now my boyfriend. And we're very happy. This is exactly how I imagined it, how I wanted it. I had taken the risk, and it had paid off. I had gone through near-death experiences, just to get to the one I love.

So my life is now perfect and complete, for the time being. I have perfect balance, even though I wasn't looking for it. I was still myself, but I looked nicer now, which is definitely a plus. I didn't need that part, but I guess it happened with the whole ordeal, so I went with it, and I definitely had fun. I have the perfect boyfriend, the perfect best friend. I have enemies, well, just Amanda, who would probably never stop hating me, but hey, that's life, and I gotta live with it. I don't even mind. At least she's jealous of me. I would never be a complete girly girl, but I wasn't going to be a complete tomboy anymore. I was in the middle, not part of a group, but my own group. The Alex group, where she lives in her own little world with her boyfriend and best friend and they all live in harmony and happily ever after.