There we were sitting in Health class waiting for the bell to ring.
I was going ballistic trying to stay calm, while telling Nikki that the Backstreet Boys’ concert was only in a few days.
“Mandy, you’re so lucky you get to go! I wish I could but my mom & dad refuse to pay the cost of tickets! And there’s just no way I can get the money in 10 days! And even if I could.. my mom and dad still probably wouldn’t even let me go! They’re just like that!..”
Nikki now had a very depressed look on her face. “I wish you could go with me!! That would be the best!!! It would be so much fun having you and my cousin go with me! I know we’d have the best time!”
“Your cousin..who?”
“Erin! Don’t you remember me telling you about her? We’re practically like sisters we’re so close!”
“Oh yeah, is she into BSB too?”
“For sure! We both have our walls plastered with Backstreet and Aaron posters! She’s just like you and me ~ Backstreet Fanatics!”
“Really?!? Cool.. does she not have tickets either?”
“Nope.”
“It’s a shame! I would have really liked to go see our men in action and it sounds like your cousin would too.”
“Yep.”
I shook my head in agreement.
The bell then sounded, RRINGG....
“Oh, I’ll catch up with ya later in english ok Nik?”
“Alright! I’ll c-ya later then, Mandy.”
We gathered up our books and raced down the hall to our next classes as we finished saying good-bye.
“Guess what?!!?!?!!? Well.. no, I take that back! Don’t even guess! Cuz you’ll never believe what just happened!”
“What??!?! Please tell me!”
“Ok, ok. Aaron smiled at me in the hall!”
“No!”
I stood shocked as Nikki kept on telling me about her MAJOR crush.
“Yeah! And he looked so cute with that great smile of his! Oh and you wanna know the best part?!? After that, he came over and started talking to me! Found out, his sis has extra tickets for the concert! He said I could have the extra ticket because her friend can’t make it!”
“Oh, Nikki that’s great!! Maybe I’ll see you there!”
“Wouldn’t that be the best thi-..”
Nikki got cut off as Mr. Simmin’s walked in and asked us politely to quiet down. We couldn’t help but giggling at his cart!
See..he has this cart in his room and on it is nothing but Austin Power stuff!! We looked up and saw him putting on his British hat!
Everyone cracked a smile as he turned around and did an Austin Powers’ impersonation. He’s almost as big as a fanatic with British and Austin Powers stuff as we were with the Backstreet Boys ~ but not quite! No one could be anywhere near a fanatic of anything, as Nikki and I are of the Backstreet Boys~
And that’s a fact!
Grrr..
'Man! I’m starvin!
I hope no one else heard my stomach growling!
I looked around my french class. No one seemed to notice thank goodness. Just then, the bell sounded.
At last! Lunch time!
As I got to the cafeteria, I grabbed a chair and sat down with a bunch of my pals who were already digging into their meals.
“Hungry?” I asked.
“Oh Definitely!” Kim replied - her mouth half full.
“So where’s my lunch..?” I asked.
Chelsie slid down my usual; cheese pizza, a bag of chips, and a hawaiian punch.
“Thanks Chels.”
“No problem! I told you I’d get your lunch from now on!”
“I know, I know. But I wasn’t sure if you we’re still going to do it or not. Still tryin to lose weight huh?”
“Yeah.”
“Is it working for you?”
“Actually it is!”
“Well that’s good.. but I don’t know how you can go without lunch! I’m always craving this stuff once french gets out!”
“I can tell!”
“That obvious!?”
We all cracked up.
“Hey- Only 10 more days guys!” I said with total happiness.
Kelly rolled her eyes along with Chelsie. They both think Nsync is so much better. I don’t know why... but they do.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah..” Kelly replied, “No biggie.”
“Yes it is!!” Trisha and I chimed in.
Laughter filled the air once again.
“So did ya end up getting tickets for the Cincinnati show?” I asked Trisha.
“No! Me and my mom waited in line forever! But by the time we got to the booth,they were sold out!! How in the world did you score tickets for the concert, Mandy?”
“Ohh well, I didn’t go wait in line! My next door neighbor offered to get me a ticket while they went down instead of us making 2 separate trips. They just happened to be the 11th people in line who got to purchase them! They said they gave them the best ones they had left.. so I’m assuming we’ve got pretty decent seats!”
“No wonder! 11th in line!? Man! I wonder how they managed that?”
“I dunno! But I sure am glad they did!”
“Yeah I bet!”
“So did you end up not getting any tickets or what?”
“Well like I said, when we got up there the show for Cincinnati was sold out, so they started selling tickets for the Lexington show. So my mom got us tickets for that.. but they’re not very good seats.”
“Aw! I’m sorry about that Trisha! But hey, it’s better than nothing!”
“Yeah I guess so!”
“Gosh. I can’t believe you guys are excited over all this. The only reason I’d want to go is to see how Brian and AJ looks..”
“Ohh! So you admit it Kelly! You do like BSB!”
“Only Brian and AJ... But Nsync’s still way better!”
“Yeah right! Well you just keep on thinking whatever you want to Kelly, because BSB’s a whole lot better than Nsync will ever be!”
“No! That’s just your opinion!”
“Sorry hun! That’s a fact!”
We all forgot the little discussion we were having, and we all turned and looked in the same direction.
Coming our way was Sean. Sean Greco. A senior who seemed to stun all girls by his looks. But we all really knew the real him. He was a true jerk. We watched as he made his move on yet another freshman girl. We rolled our eyes in unison as we watched him in disgust.
'He needs to get a life!'
He invited the girl on a date which we knew he wouldn’t show up to. The freshman girl would be stood up, once again. This was a game Sean and his buddies played. They got a kick out of doing it for some odd reason. Could all older guys be as rude, and unthoughtful as Sean?
Surely there’s gotta be someone out there who’s not a jerk, immature, not still going through puberty, stuck up, or only after certain things.. But here at Scott High School ~ none of this was true.
..Well.. not anyone who was currently taken or being crushed on by someone else.
Surely, there’s someone out there for me.
“He’ll come in your life, when you least expect it,”
I said reminding me of the advice my grandmother had told me, just a few weeks ago when I was feeling down.
My grandma’s advice always ended up helping me out in the past, but this time I wasn’t too sure...
