Dreams and Reality- Aqua's Version by Tammy (best novels for teenagers .txt) 📖

no reply, still in after-shock.
“Right then, back to the entertainment issue, Elle we were thinking you could convince Rye to help us with that.” I said, smiling in a begging way.
“Well…I can try.” She said as the smile on our faces grew.
“Yes, so that means you’re helping?!” Brooke said, cornering her as she rolled her eyes. Then the bell rang and Elle went to her class while the rest of us went to cheerleading, well except Jake, but he was going to football. When I got there, I saw Josh, Jake’s brother there talking to some of the guys I saw at the hospital the other day. Wow, he is really cute, I mean wait I can’t think that, I’m dating his brother, I’m not single. Besides, Jake finally said I love you. The guys were being switched around today, so as soon as Jake was off of his drills I ran over there, and left the rest of girls cheering for the others, it was cold outside so most of us were in hoodies, but I forgot to get mine back from him.
“Hey.” He greeted me, smiling at my shivering.
“Hey, where’s your hoodie, I’m freezing out here.” I asked, frozen, it was only like 58 today.
“Do you really need it, or are you only cold because you’re in your cheerleading skirt?” He asked, what is he not cold? All I know is I’m freezing.
“I’m really, truly freezing.” I told him honestly.
“Ok, you know which bag is mine.” He told me, sighing.
“Yes, thanks Jake. When you leave though, I’m going to have to pretend to have been giving you a pep talk.”
“Ok, but first, I love you.” He told me, melting into his un-walled self.
“I love you to.” I told him, melting him further, then the coach called his mini team back onto the field, and Josh’s team came over. “Remember! Positive outcomes only!” I shouted, as if I even believed it.
“Hey Aqua.” The guys greeted me, I didn’t even know them all, wow I’m awesome, older guys even have heard of me.
“Hey guys, I’m sorry I don’t know all of your names.” I told them.
“I’m Josh.” Josh teased me; I just rolled my eyes at him.
“I’m Matt; I was in the hospital the other day, when you came to visit Rye.” He said, so he was the one who Brooke liked, what a cutie pie, they would be such a cute couple.
“I’m Danny.” Some really tall guy said, and the rest of them introduced themselves, except for this really mysterious guy. I had seen him in the hospital, but I’d never seen him talk.
“And, your name.” I said, walking up to him and crouching so that I could see his face, his head was hung. Then he looked up, at my bubbly happy face.
“I’m Joseph.” He told me, and then looked down.
“Well then, nice to meet you all and I hope that you’re ready for the game tomorrow. All of us cheerleaders will be there to cheer you on.” I said smiling; I was playing the part of head cheerleader so that the coach wouldn’t be mad for wasting a practice day.
“Well, we would be but Matt keeps getting distracted and can’t catch lately.” Josh said, picking on him.
“Ok, then let me see your arm.” I said, pulling out a sharpie from my shoe, I always needed one, so I just carried one around during cheerleading.
“Um, ok.” Matt said, holding out his arm. I wrote, catcher, on it so he would remember, then I put no going mental.
“Out of sight, out of mind, in sight, in mind.” I told them, and then a few more problems were told to me, like Josh couldn’t focus and so I wrote, No going mental, Focus.
“So, think you guys are ready for the game?” I asked them, turning back to my peppy self.
“Yes.” They all said.
“Who are we?” I chanted.
“Tigers!”
“I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you who are we?” I shouted at them.
“Tigers.” Then the coach pulled them out, and Jake’s team came back. “Positive outcomes only!” I shouted after them. Then, I ran over to the pile of bags and grabbed Jake’s, then ran over to the girls, it was time to go through his bag.
“Ok, Brooke, you’ve done good, time for a break.” I said, showing her the bag I had.
“Um, ok, girls you can take turns taking breaks, and then doing drills.” She said, quickly dividing them into two and picking one to start out, as she realized what we were going to do.
“Ok, so what do we have here?” She asked, curious, she still didn’t know whose bag it was.
“Jake’s bag, I’m supposed to only get his hoodie, but if he knows me, and I’m pretty sure he does, then he knows I’m going to snoop.” I told her, and she nodded, helping me unzip his stuffed bag.
“Ok, we have a lot of trash, oh wait, these are notes! Score!” I said, taking out a pile, and then a glass bottle, I wondered what it was.
“Wow, he has a lot of notes, no wonder he doesn’t get any A’s.” Brooke said, going through his bag, seeing if there were any more for us to read.
“I found his cologne, it smells really good, I’m going to spray his hoodie before I steal it.” I said, spraying it down so I could smell like it.
“Ok.” She said, distracted by Matt.
“You know, you should really take charge and just ask him out for yourself.” I told her.
“No, I think that he’ll ask soon.” She said, and then she went to switch teams, and take over for Ashley. I took it as an opportunity to read the notes I had in a pile. I opened one, and started reading, it was to Rye.
When are you going to say it dude? I told Elle on our first date, you can say it. Rye wrote him, he has really nice handwriting for a dude.
I don’t know, I don’t know if she’ll say it back.
Yes, she will, just do it.
How would you know?
Because, she tells Elle and she tells me, but she doesn’t know everything, but she does know that.
Ok, but I don’t know, what if she thinks I’m lame, none of her relationships have ever been very committed.
I know, but she’s not going to dump you. Then the note ended, they probably got caught, or started a new page. Then I opened another, it was to me, but I know that I never got it.
Aqua, I love you, I don’t know if you’ll say it back but I do, and I need to say it. I know that a lot of people think we shouldn’t be together but I really like you and there are ten reasons why:
1. Your beautiful, even without your makeup, it doesn’t make a difference.
2. Your good at everything you do, even if it’s not you best thing, like Science, you still have an A in there and you say it’s your hardest subject
3. Beneath your shell, you’re really sweet; you’re always helping people who need it
4. Your honest, you always tell me what you can.
5. You can mean when you need to, you think you need someone to help you defend yourself but you really don’t your perfect at it
6. Your elegant, even if you don’t know it, everything you do is graceful, your walk, your talk, everything
7. You take my breath away, and I love it
8. Even if we weren’t dating, I could still love you
9. Your forgiving, you are willing to forgive and forget anything
10. You like me back, and that’s worth more than anything
So I hope that you see why I like you, and just know I love you. The letter was recent, and I almost cried reading it, that was so sweet, and I felt guilty. I break people’s hearts, and even though I know that I won’t for a long time, I know that I will eventually. He really shouldn’t love me like this.
Then the Brooke pointed to her watch, telling me that we only had ten minutes left in class, so I shoved his notes back in (except the one I just read), and shoved his cologne in there to. Then, when his team was on the field, I ran over to the pile and put his on top, and then I ran into the locker room and changed, running back outside, only taking three of my ten. The rest of the girls went to change, but the guys had to stay until the bell rang, throwing the balls around, some stupid freshman mouthed off to the coaches. I ran over to Josh, I wanted to see how my strategy worked.
“So,” I said, raising my brows quizzically.
“So, oh, yes it worked, everyone was on top of their game.” He told me, guessing at what I was getting at.
“Yay, I told you it would work.” I smiled up at him.
“Well, you know how us guys are. If a girl we barely know, and a blonde head-cheerleader one to, comes up and starts writing stuff on our arm, we’re going to think she’s crazy.” He teased me, laughing.
“Ha ha, I’m just glad it worked, you know football players, their skull is too thick to remember to look at their own arm.” I got him back.
“Oh, well, aren’t you the little trooper.” He said, emphasizing the crouch to pat me on the back.
“At least I’m not a giant,” I emphasized by jumping up just to reach his shoulder, which I could have reached just standing.
“Ok, truce.”
“Good, but I won.”
“No, you didn’t.”
“Yes, I did.”
“Whatever, you keep thinking that. It was a truce though, so technically no one won.”
“And you keep thinking that.” I said, clearly winning. Then Jake ran up.
“What are you guys up to?” He asked, putting his arm around me and staring at his brother.
“Nothing bro, just talking.” He said, in an innocent voice, his eyes getting wide. “You didn’t think we were doing anything, did you?” He tortured him.
“Of course not.” He said, trying to keep it in, I could tell, he was extremely jealous. He really shouldn’t be so defensive, it would break him further then if I would dump him when he was only beginning to let his walls down, but I still like him too much for that. Then the bell rang and Jake went to change, before he was late, and I grabbed my stuff and left for History. By the time it was lunch, I had almost forgotten about what I read. We all grabbed our salads and headed for the table. To my surprise, Elle was actually there, me and Brooke sat on either side of her. Jake sat across from me, and Ashley across from Brooke and then Sapphire across from Elle. I saw Elle look around for her friends before eating again, but I saw someone that I didn’t want to see walking towards her. James really needs to leave her alone. Everyone knew I hated him, after the way he treated me so they all got quiet when he came and put his hand on her shoulder. She got a really big smile; she must have been expecting Matt or someone, poor thing.
“Hey.” She said, getting up, and I saw her disappointment that it was only James.
“You can sit at my table if you want.” He said noticing the unsure look on her face, the girls were gawking at the fact that he was over here, and then even further at the fact that