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much as possible. “Look, I don’t know what I saw.”
     
    “What do you think you saw? Ally asked wide-eyed.
     
    I paused, biting my lip and trying to think of what to say and how much to say. If I said too much they would think I was insane or lying, either way they wouldn’t want anything to do with me. I couldn’t lose the only two friends I had managed to make.
     
    “I thought I saw something,” I began. I was trying to gauge what I said based on their expressions. Seeing only interest, I went on. “It was just something in the corner of my room. One second it was there and the next it was gone.”
     
    “What was it?” Ally asked in amazement.
     
    I looked around to make sure no one else was listening. “I think it was a man.”
     
    “Who was it?” Billie asked, one eyebrow going up in a flag of doubt.
     
    I bit my lip again and changed my tactic. “I don’t know. I don’t even know if it was real. Like I said, it was there and then it wasn’t.”
     
    I didn’t wait for either of them to respond. I gathered my things. “I’ve got to go. I’ll see you later, okay?”
     
    It didn’t matter where I went. I just knew I had to get away from their questions before I said too much.
     
    Another class was coming into the cafeteria as I was trying to squeeze out one of the doors. In my haste, I collided with Jonah Ericson. My books and papers scattered at his feet.
     
    “Oh God, I’m sorry.” I stammered, kneeling down to collect my things.
     
    He smiled with perfectly straight and white teeth, “I ran into you and you’re apologizing?”
     
    I sensed myself blushing and felt like a stupid little girl for being thrilled that the school jock was speaking to me and kneeling in the floor with me. Could I be anymore pathetic? He was just so handsome with his perfect face and gorgeous hair.
     
    “I should’ve watched where I was going.”
     
    “Are you always this hard on yourself?” He asked, apparently oblivious to my agony. He just kept smiling. “You’re that new girl, aren’t you?”
     
    We stood as he handed me a handful of my notes and papers.
     
    “Yeah, I’m Becca McCallestor.”
     
    “Well Becca McCallestor,” Jonah said with another brilliant smile. “I’ll see you in History class.”
     
    He walked off to join a group of fellow jocks in the line, obviously too important to be troubled with bringing his lunch. I hated myself, but I couldn’t help but stare after him. He glanced back at me one more time with the beautiful smile and the after sun playing in his golden hair.
     
    At my old school, I always despised girls that fell all over themselves for the school’s top jock, but just a few brief minutes with Jonah Ericson and one glimpse of that brilliant smile and I was hooked.
     
    Before going to History class, I did something I had never done before. I went into the restroom to check my appearance. It was still just my same old face looking back at me, but now there was an excited flush to my cheeks. All because Jonah Ericson spoke to me.
     
    Unfortunately, Ashley Richardson also decided to visit that bathroom mirror before class. She walked in and edged her way in beside me, applying her red lip gloss and eyeing me in the mirror.
     
    “You are so pathetic.” She said with a giggle. “Getting yourself all worked up over Jonah.”
     
    Ashley gave me an insincere smile, blew a kiss to her reflection and left me there.
     
    I smoothed my hair, but had no lip gloss, so I scowled at my image and headed toward class.
     
    As I walked down the hall toward class, I couldn’t help wishing my life was one of those feel good teenage movies where the perfect guy falls for the new girl no one knows, then there’s the magical kiss, some sort of happy song, and then the names of the real people would scroll up the screen.
     
    I walked with more confidence, fully wrapped up in my fantasies. I held my breath as I walked through the door. Jonah Ericson wasn’t there