Summer Catch (PT.1)

Told in the tales of happy endings and romantic beginnings Jane tried to stay positive. A new beginning at a new school. Of course her mind wasn't exactly in belief that she would meet anyone. One of many things could possibly happen to ruin her "summer romance." Or what Jane liked to call a "summer catch." She stood 30 minutes in front of her closet. She looked at the clothes that she has worn 1000x, searching for something to meet her requirements of looking good. The outfit had to have a personal flair to it, a necklace or layered shirts. She refused to look like a Gap mannequin. It needed to make her look thin. At 110 lbs. her stomach needed to look slim. And it needed to make her 34 c boobs look not slutty. She hated when guys got to know her that way. She grabed 3 shirts and 3 pants and began to rearrange them to get "the look." She settled with a pair of ripped and patched jeans. A Gap shirt and a thin black jacket to cover her stomach. She added personal flair with her ruby heart necklace and white gold earings on her bottom holes and gold opal earings on the top holes. One last look in the mirror and she was out the door. Her phone sat permanetly in her pocket. She knew a friend of whom would be in her class. And the way she thought of it, if she wasn't alone she couldn't get hurt. The school she was about to enter was filled with 700 students, snobs all of them. She recieved her call and met her frined, connie, in the front. Fast forward past the search of the classroom and the beginning of class. As Jane sat in the back of the class next to Connie, the teacher began to talk about "the rules." Jane of course was not listening, insted she was doing what she called "the look over." It was the glance over the students searching for any form of cute boy in her class. Just then she saw the hope of her surviving this boring class. The cutest boy she has ever seen... Okay it probably wasn't the prettiest boy "ever," but for the moment at least. The only thing is she could only see the back of his head. OF cours to her that didnt matter. She just stared at him. With his dirty blonde hair tucked underneath hsi black "beanie" that was placed carelessly on top of his head. Then the teacher began the "ice breaker." Jane has never liked ice breakers, but this time she didn't care. Becuase she knew who her partner was going to be. Just at that moment Connie leaned over and said "partner?" But then something unexpected happend. Now theres a long and boring story as to what happened so lets just skip to the point. She became paired up with hot guy. He also went by the name of Shawn Miller. Their procedures for the ice breaker was to interview each other. Perfect way to ask all the personal questions to get to know him. She got his name, age, views of politics, and status. He was Shawn Miller of 16 years, hates watching the news, it brings him down so he says. He doens't care about global warming, is pro- choice as apposed pro- life. And most importantly is single. She counted the number of smiles, laughs, eye contact, and impressed reactions. Once they finsihed their interview they sat in awkward silence. She made a couple more pathetic jokes and he smirked off of what she thought was politeness. Fast forward past the presentation. Actaully that was all the interactions of that day, so fast forward to the next day. Jand did her usaul 30 minuets getting ready time. Then in class she just stared. If she had heat vision there would be two holes in his back. She just drifted off in her head. Thinking of him of course. Even though hes single doesnt mean hes not "fooling around" she thought. I mean i'm sure he has a lot of frineds who are girls that think he is cute. Then the worst possible thought came in her mind. What if hes gay? He is really pretty, and i think thats the saying, "too cute to be straight." Can't be. She kept thinking over and over agian about him with some other girl/guy. She analyzed his every move. How he only talked to one person, the guy sitting next to him. He smiled when he talked to him. I don't know , but i really hope he isn't gay. It really shocked her how no girl in class made any attempt to talk to him. I mean, she thought, more girls talk to the guy sitting next to him. No offense to that guy but he doesn't compare to Shawn. He was some what heavy set and his hair was placed life lessley on top of his head. His skin was oily and seemed rough. As compared to Shawn, whom had the skater build. With thin legs but not annorexic thin. And a flat stomach, but not hard abs. His face was the best part, well next to his hair. He had brown eyes, and two freckles placed above his lip and below his eye. He reminded her of an child actor who guest starred on "Ghost Whisperer." It was kind of irritating in a sense that no one could fully appreciate hi pretty-ness. But then again, she thought, should i really be complaining that no one is hitting on him. He is so off limits to everyone else. Since there was no interaction of any form that day, lets fast forward to the next day. Jane sat in class still in wonderment about Shawn. All she could think about was him. Was he thinking about her? Well of course he wasn't, she thought, he only knew her name. Even though she was clearly stalking him, she told herself and connie that it was only a crush. See to Jane a crush was different than a "like." Crush meant nothing more than staring and possibly talking. "Like meant talking and flirting in hopes of something further. She already knew he was out of her league, so it was just a crush. Still she wondered if they were going to "intereact" that day. Much more than she knew greater fate held her future. Their next class assignment was to group up. Now there were 6 groups. 2 groups of all girls, 2 groups of all guys, and 2 groups of both genders. She refused to join the group of all girls. Then she basically screamed in her mind to him, "don't join the guy groups." He must have heared, becasue he didn't move. So far so good, luckily he was in her team. After all of those mind tricks they were together. Howevver what seemed like a perfect situation was less than that. Okay two facts need to be made known. First, the topic of discussion was about teen pregnancy. Second, Jane is a strong feminist. She believes in pro life and that women are better than men. What happened next is so complteley horrifying that we will skip it, and just state the main points. First, Shawn made it known that he knows from experience that the worm in a margirita will knock you out. Second, he stated that some teachers are hott and in his discription "do-able." Third, he suggested a contest for guys to get a girl in every country knocked up. Finally, he doesn't care about sex, with whom its with, not a huge decision to him. Jane thought this was a huge problem. Her hot guy was a complete butt-head. How could he not be perfect. Its as Hugh Jackman told the press he was gay. ITS JUST WRONG!!! Fast forward to the end of the day. As she walked out of the class, all she could see was his face. It was as if a movie of him looking back at her was playing in her head. Well, she thought, at least I know hes not gay. It was irritating how this jerk made such an impact to her thoguhts. Since the weekend was next, well fast forward. For all that happened during her busy weekend, she still couldn't stop imagining him. The day after the weekend progressed. Jane had forgotten how he exactly looked like. However, once he walked into the classroom all the thoughts came rushing back. Even though she basically hated him, she still had a small hope that he would join her group for their new project. However, fate had another idea. What seemed to be a group consisting of him and her, ended up beging a group of her and the guy who sat next to him. He also went by the name of Kelsey. Through this project she got to know who he was. And he was actaully pretty nice. No wonder the girls liked him more than Shawn. After the group assignment the students just sat in thier desk, waiting for recess. She watched as girls began to talk to him, noticing his presence. It wasn't quite flirting but they were asking his name. Well, she thought, doesn't matter hes a complete jerk anyway. For the rest of the time he sat with his head between his arms on the desk. She noticed that the girls who usaully talked to Kelsey were now beginning to talk to Shawn. Ahhhhhh, hes off limits, she yelled in her mind. One, thing that really irritated Jane, was his shoes. He had rips and tears in his shoes. It made him look like a hobo. As if he could not afford new shoes. Okay, so maybe she was still crushing on him. She remebered the saying of how your heart says one thing and your mind says another. Jane just couldn't differinciate which organ was telling her she had a crush on him. For the rest of the day she just glanced back at him, then shook her sight of him. Reassuring herself it was only a crush. She watched as the thin asian girl whom sat in front of him kept talking to him. She wrestled in her mind about that girl flirting with him, and how could she flirt with her guy. Not like she cared of course.