Prologue
Five years ago
"Who's that?" My best friend, Melanie Summers asked from beside me.
I turned my head around to see who she was talking about. "Oh, that's Michael." I said, my voice clearly lacking of enthusiasm.
Despite my tone that inched toward I didn't really like the guy, I can practically see my best friend gleam with excitement. "You know him? Introduce me to him. He's really cute." I rolled my eyes at her. That didn't mean I didn't agree with her though.
"I don't really know him that well. He's my new neighbor that moved in just yesterday."
"Ooo. Maybe it'll turn out as a love story. Neighbors turned lovers." I couldn't help but laugh at this ridiculous idea.
"He's a cocky jerk."
"He's a cute jerk though." Mels stated. I rolled my eyes for the second time but didn't respond.
"How do you even know if he's a jerk? You didn't even get to know him yet. What happened to 'Mels, don't judge a book by its cover?'" Mels mimicked in a high pitched voice. By the way, my voice does not sound like that. "You're being a hypocrite Addy."
I sighed a defeated sigh. "Fine, I will give him a chance but even if I give him a chance, he'll probably think that he's too cool to talk to us."
You see, Melanie and I aren't exactly the most popular people. We were just normal teenagers. We had a tight-knit group of three friends, including us two. There was also Austen Taylor but I'll talk about him later.
"Who's too cool to talk to you guys? I'll beat that person up for you." A voice said out of nowhere. I jumped a few feet up in the air since I'm easily scared and let out a squeak. I put my hand on my heart. "Geez, you scared me."
"I can see that." He said, trying to hold back a laugh.
Of course, being the great friend Mels is, she was also holding back a laugh. It failed though as she couldn't hold it in anymore. You couldn't hear anything since Melanie has a silent laugh. It's pretty funny because you can clearly see her laugh but you can't hear anything. This seemed to get Michael to follow suit since he was clutching his stomach, with his head thrown back, letting out a loud laugh. It was very loud, in fact, almost everyone in the cafeteria stopped doing what they were doing just to look at them.
When I looked at the two, I joined in with them since the scene in front of me was too funny. Mels was clapping her hands like a penguin, laughing her silent laughter when Mike looked like he was in pain from laughing too hard. Like I said, it was just all too funny so I joined them. When we all calmed down, we took a few minutes to regain our breaths.
"What was so funny?" I asked.
Mels shrugged, the smile still on her face. "Your face. It was priceless."
"Yes, that and your laugh." Mike said, pointing to my brown eyed best friend.
I turned around and looked at Michael. "What are you doing here?" It was pure curiosity, nothing to be rude or anything.
He, on the other hand was a little rude since he ignored my question. Instead, he asked his own question. "So, who's too cool to talk to you guys? You two seem pretty cool. I'll beat them up for you."
Melanie grins at this. "We were talking about you. So, you're gonna beat yourself up huh?"
"Oh, well in that case, no. I'm talking to you guys aren't I?"
"Touché."
"Anyway, I'm not that cool so I'll just hang out with you guys." Mels quickly moved aside to let him sit down with us when I tentatively did. I'm more of a shy person when Mels was a more outgoing person. Michael put his arm around my shoulders like we were totally familiar with each other. I shrugged it off but he didn't seem to get the message as he kept on putting it back around my shoulders. Eventually, I gave up.
At first, it was awkward since it was only him and Mels talking but then Austen came and now, both my best friends seem to take a liking to my new neighbor. I started to warm up to him after the first few days and got to know him better. Mike wasn't a jerk even though he could be cocky sometimes. He was a really great person to hang out with. As the years passed, the group of three tight-knit friends became four. Surprisingly, Mike was even closer to me than Mels and Austen.
Mike became my bestest friend and all at the same time, he became the biggest player I've ever met.
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Hey guys! I'm back with a new story. This is the prologue so please, tell me what you think about this. This was five years ago when they first met Mike but the story will be when they are older. Comment and if you honestly liked the prologue, vote. By the way, if you read "Falling For You" thanks for taking your time to read it. I'm entering it into The Watty Awards. It probably won't get far but I just want to try it. :D
I'm going to work on writing now so until next time!
-karennâ¥