The Accidental Text

Chapter 1

Lila

School is about to begin and I am standing by my locker, looking down the hallway. You got students scattered everywhere but my attention was to the one section, the populars.

There were six of them down there, Dani and Michelle were cheerleaders. With them was David, who was on the football team. Andy and Billy were on the Soccer team, and then there was Shawn, the captain of the football team and also the leader of the populars.

Shawn was who I secretly wished would notice me. He was that all American boy with good looks, hair that was perfect, and a body that was drool worthy.

Just looking at him had me wanting to be either Dani or Michelle right now. They were right there next to him as they were laughing and making some jokes about David’s muscles.

I can’t help but just daydream that things were different and I was included in the populars.

“Earth to Lila! Did you hear me?” Nina said to me.

“Huh?” I was brought back down from my daydream by Nina’s voice.

Nina was my friend who doesn’t care if she is popular or not. She does what she wants and doesn’t care what you think.

“Stop watching the populars. They are not that spectacular.” Nina huffed at me.

I sighed and turned my attention away from the populars and back to Nina. “Don’t you ever wish you could be on that side of the hallway?” I asked her.

“Not this again, Lila, I love you but stop trying to be like them. Come on, let's get to class.” Nina said as she closed her locker.

I sighed and shut my locker too. I went down the hall, past the populars, who ignored me, like usual, as I went to my first class, history.

Who am I? I’m nobody, that’s who I am. I have gone to school since kindergarten with these people, but they don’t know me.

I bet they can’t even tell you my name, not that any of them ever tried to learn it. That’s how little they know me. However, I know everything about them.

I’m the invisible classmate. I only have a couple of friends, like Nina and they are sort of not popular either.

Actually they are more like the oddballs of our class. Truth is, if I wasn’t friends with them, I would have no friends at all. That is how invisible I am and I hate it sometimes.

I’m what they call the wallflower. I want to fit in, and I try, but all it does is make me a joke. So I tend to stick to myself and not really put myself out there.

Deep down, I don’t want to be a nobody wall flower. I want to be noticed and be like the populars. I know it is silly and I guess you can call me a wannabe, but the problem is I don’t know how to be one of the populars. When I try, it just becomes a reminder that I’m no one to them.

My classmates think I’m a new kid if they do notice me. They don’t reach out to me, but if I reach out to them, it is usually because I’m offering them something. Yep, people only like me if they get something from me.

That moment they notice me however only lasts for about a minute. Then I go back to being invisible again to them.

Like Dani and I got paired up to work on a project in science. I offered to do the research on it since I knew she had cheerleading.

She was grateful that I could do all the work. That’s right I did everything on the project. All Dani did was add her name.

She thanked me, we got an A, then that was it. She didn’t acknowledge me after we got that A and I was back to being the invisible classmate to her. I’m pathetic, I know, but that’s who I am in this school, the nobody.

I got inside the classroom and sat down. Soon the other students started to come in the room as well, including the populars. I saw Dani and Michelle go up to Becky and Lisa, who are also classified as the populars.

The girls started talking about some shirt that Lisa was wearing. They were gushing about how great it looked on her.

It was just this pink t-shirt. It had a sweetheart neckline, but wasn’t anything special I thought. I looked down at what I was wearing.

I had on a t-shirt too with jeans. No one makes a big deal over my clothes like they are doing with Lisa. But then again, I don’t have a body like Lisa’s either.

Lisa is a size 6, I’m a size 14. She has perky boobs, I got footballs for boobs. She has a round, tight butt, my butt jiggles when I walk.

That’s my other issue, I am not built like the other girls in my class. My body is a bit larger than the other girls.

You think being a bigger girl would make you stand out, nope. I am still invisible despite that.

I hate being the invisible wannabe in my class. I wish I could just once get noticed and people would like me.

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Shawn

“David!” Dani sheiked as she put her hands on his muscles as he flexed them at her. Everyone was laughing, because Dani was insisting that David never actually worked out.

David, being David, had to prove her wrong and show off his guns.

“How about you Shawn? Are your arms just as big as David’s?” Michelle asked me as she put her hand on my arm.

“Oh, I can hold my own on the weights.” I told her.

“Seeing is believing.” Michelle said, batting her eyes.

I looked at her and put my book bag down. Then I suddenly just picked her up. Laughter sprung up all around us and Michelle was squealing.

“Shawn!” She gasped.

I put her down and said “Does that prove anything?”

“Maybe.” Michelle said, still batting her eyes at me.

“Come on, got to get to class before that old bat comes out here and yells.” Billy said.

He was referring to Ms Gray, she is an English teacher who thinks she is the principal. I think she has been teaching here since the school was founded.

She does not have any clue as to what fun is. Her version of fun is diagramming a sentence. The old bat seriously needs to retire.

“Yeah, let’s go.” I said picking up my bookbag.

We all walk into history class, right away the girls beeline over to Becky and Lisa. Squealing about something Lisa has.

“How can they get so excited over a damn shirt?” Andy asked me as we sat in chairs for class.

“It’s Dani and Michelle, they get an o****m from a tube of lipstick, who knows.” I said to him as I got my book out of my bag.

“Hey, I heard Matt’s parents are going out of town this weekend.” Andy said to me.

“Yeah, and his dad has a fully stocked bar in the game room.” David spoke up.

“So party this weekend at Matt’s?” I ask the guys.

“It appears so man.” Andy said.

Before I could say anything, the bell rang and the history teacher came into the class.

“I hope you guys read your chapters last night on the Great Depression, pop quiz!” The teacher said as she smiled at us.

A groan left me and my guys mouths. Did we actually read the chapters? Not really, more like we skim them over.

After class was over, David asked me as I was putting my history book back into my bag “Did you know any of the answers on the quiz?”

“A few, this will blow if I fail, I can’t get another academic probation.” I told him.

“We need to befriend a nerd or something.” He says, looking up at students leaving the class. “Like her.” He says pointing to a girl.

I looked to where he pointed and watched as this big girl practically ran out of the class.

“Isn’t she the one that gives Lisa lunch money or something? What’s her name again?” I asked David.

“I don’t know, like Lola, Lilly, Lilac, or something like that.” He answered.

I grabbed my book bag and we walked out of the class and I see the girl David pointed to moments earlier running down the hall. “God, she acted like she had to go take a s**t or something.” I said to him.

“Nah, just how those types act. Scared of their own shadows. I will see you after PE.” David said as he went the opposite direction of where I was headed, English class with the old bat.