Alien Colony by Anna Lewis

Author:Anna Lewis [Lewis, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anna Lewis
Published: 2017-06-27T22:00:00+00:00

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9th May 2006

“You don’t have long now, you know?” Sara, my rebellious best friend drawled, popping her gum loudly in my direction. “Do you really want to leave school knowing that you only ever stared at Adam from afar?”

I glanced back over at him, my hot heart racing like crazy in my chest. Adam Martin was my dream guy, the one I spent my every waking moment fantasizing about. Of course he would never notice me, we didn’t run in the same circles, he was cool and popular, he spent his days with the other rich kids, whereas I hung out with other jocks just like me, but that didn’t stop me from creating the most beautiful relationship between us in my mind.

“I know, but what am I supposed to do?” I sighed sadly. “He’ll never go for someone like me, not really.”

Tiana, the incredibly beautiful, well developed for her age, cheerleader slung her arm over his shoulder, as if to prove my point. He was the hot, muscular, popular boy who could have anyone he wanted, whereas I was the invisible girl who was only ever noticed for her running records. Adam went to parties, drank alcohol, and kissed girls. My high school experience was one of training and homework. I wanted to succeed with running, but I also needed to have another skill in case things didn’t pan out in the way that I wanted them to.

I knew I was being smart about my future, but my hormones couldn’t help themselves from desperately screaming out for the boy who would never see me.

Adam was the most typical tall, dark, and handsome boy ever, and on top of that he had actual dimples, and emerald green eyes that pierced right into your soul. My look was far more plain; long, mousy blonde hair, boring brown eyes, and a lean, slightly gangly body. There was nothing about us that matched. Still, I wanted him.

“Don’t you get it?” Sara chuckled loudly. “This is the carpe diem time, you need to act on your feelings now before you never see him again. So what if he says no, what does it matter? You’ll never see him again anyway.”

For a second, I allowed myself to dream about that moment. I pictured myself being bold, standing up, stalking across the lunch room to speak to him. I imagined shoving Tiana to one side and declaring my feelings... but even thinking about it was hard. It filled my body with a hot, intense shame that I wasn’t sure would go anywhere.

“No way, I can’t,” I stammered, scraping my chair backwards. “There’s just no chance.”

“You can’t spend your whole life being shy and afraid,” Sara wasn’t about to let this drop, however obvious I made it that I really didn’t want to talk. “You can’t go off to college being so fearful of life. You need to break free now so you can totally reshape yourself there.”

“Oh yeah? Is that what you’re doing?” I hoped that I could switch the subject up, taking the spotlight off of me.

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