Is This it
A book by Daniel.N
Copyright 2014 by Daniel.N
Cover art designed by daniel.N
Edited by Daniel.N
This is a book, it is a book and I am going to say it again, it is a book. All the characters here are fictional and don’t represent any body. Use of real places and products are to represent authenticity and not whatsoever.
Don’t steal stuff from this book without asking my permission. Who am I kidding, do what you wish I don’t care.
Because I wrote this book, I dedicate it to myself.
Thank God.
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Preface
So this is a book, it takes place in Daniel high school North Carolina.
There he was, sitting right in front of me but I had no word to say to him, Daniel had been my crush since 9th grade but he was too cool to notice, I sat directly behind him and the only word he had ever said to me was “Mary, please for your pencil”, and I had quickly gave him.
I sat on the seat directly behind Daniel, I had good grades but a deplorable social life, and I did not use Facebook because my mom was my friend on Facebook.
I knew he definitely had no interest in me, all the girls at school craved for his attention and I saw myself the least preferable to get his attention. But I wasn’t stopped from crushing on him.
There he was, talking to Selena, the girl who sat in front of him,
She giggled each time Daniel would say a word to her, her dazzling white teeth bulging out uniformly every time she giggled, envy would cloud up in me.
I sat directly behind Daniel so all I could see was his back, his gorgeous face was always hidden from me and all I could see was what his hands did and Selena’s tempting laugh. I wasn’t a nerd though, to my left was Peter, he was the most annoying person on earth and to make matters worse, he had a massive crush on me since the ninth grade, my feelings for him were of mutual hatred, the reason he was my friend was because he lived close to me, and we had met in ninth grade and also I felt pity for him.
While staring at Peter, I noticed he had been drawing me on his notebook for the whole time; he had his hand supporting his head under his chin and was fantasizing about me while staring at me.
I made up my mind to focus on Mr. Francis who was talking about the Spanish rebellion in his black suit and white tie. Being that I had read it beforehand, what he said sounded familiar.
"Hey Mary", I heard a tender and charming yet manly voice call out my name, I was looking at the teacher so my best guess was that it could have been Peter.
"Hey Mary," the voice called out again, the voice did not sound annoying as Peter’s, this made me confused for who could it have been?.
Looking to my front, I could see Daniel moving his soft lips while looking at me.
I now knew he had called out my name, confused and perplexed, I began to sweat and breathe hard due to nervousness.
His big blue eyes were boldly looking at me, he stared straight into my fear filled eyes.
“Hey Mary”, for the benefit of doubt I stopped looking around the class and towards Daniel who had turned and was staring at me.
My heart was beating faster than a speeding bullet, this was the moment I had waited for, and Daniel was speaking to me and even knew my name.
What could I say? I had no idea what to say and no one could help me, I mean no one.
He was still staring at me, his eyes fixed at my face and nothing else, his eyes were blue and so beautiful, his hair so long and soft.
“Hey, Daniel” I responded responsibly as if I were reading a speech, he then turned back to continue talking with Selena.
If I wasn't nervous, he would have said more, he had just made my day, week and even year.
“Mary” the teacher declared loudly so as to bring back my attention to him.
I shook in response to his loud shouts.
“Mary, what did I just say?”
I had no idea what he had just said or what he had said during the whole lesson
I was perplexed and while standing up, I was sweating real bad, not because I had no idea what he was talking about but because Daniel was staring deep into my eyes.
“Mary” the teacher declared louder this time
“The Spanish revolution was a revolution that took place in the nineteenth century and set Spain free from oppression, the key players were”
“Stop Mary, I thought you weren’t listening, but focus though”.
“Ok”
As I looked towards the west wall which had the clock hung to it, I discovered that we had two minutes before the period would come to an end and I had blown it with Daniel.
The bell rang in the white speaker on the roof and after the teacher left, everybody else started moving out.
Selena had just walked out and I was pretending to pack up my books so as to be with Daniel as he too was packing up his books.
I could see his eyes constantly staring at me and when our eyes would collide, he would hide his face.
I finished packing up my books but he was still packing up his, I thought about trying to help him but decided to walk outside.
I carried my backpack, using only one of the two straps and decided to walk outside.
The only way to get him speak to me was to make it unavoidable, I walked three steps forwards and as I tried squishing myself in between the two benches, I intentionally hit his backpack thus throwing all his books on the floor.
“Am so sorry” I declared as I bent down and started picking up the books.
He also bent down and was picking up the books but said nothing to me which was getting on my last nerves.
Hungry and thirsty for a word from him, I decided to tell him a joke which I believed was funny.
“So, what do you call a car with no driver?”
He did not seem to care or respond or even show a sign of being interested in what I was saying, focusing all his attention on picking up his books.
“It is called a driverless car”, I began faking a laugh which he automatically sensed to be fake and ignored me.
I was annoyed at him for not caring about what I did, I was trying my best, I needed advice and there was one person who could give me, my sister.
I walked outside without even saying goodbye and accidentally hit my feet on the door which caused some pain.
I got out of class and straight into the hallways which by this time had been filled with students walking to their classes.
Walking through the hallways, I noticed that my sister was talking with Jack, another popular boy in school and by the look of things, she just gave him her number.
My sister and I had been sworn enemies, my intelligence and lack of a social life had made me more favorable to my mom than her which got her in a hell of trouble.
Asking help from her was going to be hard as she hated even being seen with me at school.
Jack had just left thus leaving her standing alone by her wildly decorated locker and she seemed to be attentively texting.
I had to approach her with caution for it was going to be a war if I was seen with her.
“Hey Martha”, I called out from afar
She ignored me and turned her head to the other side to ignore me even more.
I decided I would bear the risk and approach her, I ran towards her and when I had gotten close enough, I tapped her.
“What do you want”, she declared furiously
“I need your help with a boy”.
She smiled diabolically, shaking her hea
d as if she had just thought of something good or bad.
“So, who is he?”
“It’s Daniel”.
“Daniel eh, you need all the advice you can get and I am going to give you on one condition”.
I was extremely needy for her advice more than ever before, I would do anything for it but my sister wasn’t trustworthy as her condition could be pretty diabolic.
“Anything I will do it, even doing all your homework”.
“I want you to make me have A or B in all my classes and in return, I would give you Daniel”.
I did not hesitate to say yes.
“Yes”, I responded hesitantly with no remorse or thought of what would happen, all I knew was that I was going to be with Daniel and my sister was going to help me.
“Good girl, firstly you need to tell him how you feel by stalking him”
Even though I had a very low social profile, I knew stalking was not cool.
“I don’t think that makes sense”.
“Ok, if you want Daniel you must listen to me”
“Ok”, I responded.
“You will need to send him a friend request on Facebook, text him and make sure you know all he does online”
“Ok”
“When you done doing that, tell me and by the way, I have a test tomorrow so...”.
She then walked away and disappeared among the crowd of German transfer students who just got out of their class.
I had to use Facebook this once and it was for a reasonable objective.
The rest of my classes were as usual and all I could think in all of them was what Martha had told me, was she right? I had to answer that question.
During my last period, the announcements came on as I was packing my books to leave.
The dance which was next Friday had been announced and I had never been to a dance in my life or dreams.
I walked out of class and met the person whom I had wished I had not seen.
It was Peter and he was waiting for me at the door and by the look on his face, he had been there for long.
“Hey peter, how you are”
“Am fine now”
“Am sorry Peter but I have to go somewhere so we won’t walk home together.
“Ok”, the look on his face when he responded was the one which triggered pity in me for him, but I hated him and he was so annoying.
“Bye then” he added and walked away depressed and disgruntled with the answer I had given, but I was happy though and walked back into class.
When I knew he had gone far enough, I walked out and began walking home.
Our house was close to school but also close to Peter’s house and added to that, Peter was fond of my mom so he frequently visited us which made my days worse.
The footpath was void of many people as most of the students got picked up by their parents but I liked walking.
I arrived home tired, hungry and also confused; I had to figure out how to get Daniel’s number, Facebook and any other social media excluding Myspace.
As I opened the door, my mom stopped me with her same boring questions to which I had always given the same answer
“So how was school today, anything fun?”
“Fine and nothing”
I walked upstairs to my room which was very well organized with everything in the right position.
I sat on my bed after changing to my house clothes which were also very clean and well ironed.
I was confused and perturbed and decided I would go see my sister in her room.
Her room was left to mine so I got out my blue door and knocked on her door.
The heavy metal music booming in her room had made her unable to hear me so I had to knock once more but louder.
She opened the door and looked annoyed and furious.
“What are you doing in my room?”
“Please I need your help”.
“I believe it’s about Daniel”.
“Yep, it’s him”.
“Sit on the bed with me”.
She had always driven me out of her room, her room which was haphazardly arranged with everything in the wrong place, her makeup table was her major priority as she spent hours on it.
“So, what do you need help with?”
“Teach me how to get his social media without stalking him”
“It’s difficult but I’m going to teach you because you are my sister and because you made a deal with me.
"So, what will you teach me first?"
"No need to hurry, you will learn all you need"
"I am so happy you are helping me"
"Me too" she answered sarcastically.
She thought it be better if she stood up so I sat on the bed while she stood up in front of me as a teacher.
Her red hair and emo clothing served as enough distraction but I had to concentrate if I wanted Daniel.
"In order to get a boy's number and stuff, you need to show him that you love him by telling him all the time, always try to smile to him and when he looks at you, you should pretend kiss with your lips, then you can decide to one day walk up to him and ask him by saying "I need your number because I am in love with you".
I had gotten all she had said and had it glued to my memory. I had to do what she said and I had to do it the next day.
"Thanks sis" then I walked out of her room back to mine with gladness and satisfaction filled in my heart, smiles etching from cheek to cheek as if I had found a funny clown.
I sat on my bed reflecting deeply and keenly on what she had advised me to do, it seemed reasonable but I needed to create a Facebook, a one which my mom wasn't my friend.
It took me four hours because I had to create an email and had to confirm it and because I wasn't really social, it took longer.
My stack of homework which lay on my bed was none of my business; I had to first do Martha's as payment for the advice which I was going to see its importance.
I finished all my homework by 9:00pm and then dived dizzily into my bed and slept.
"Ring ring", the alarm was buzzing with it’s annoying sound, I had not slept as dreams of Daniel had clouded my mind, I dreamt about Daniel since ninth grade so I guess I must have exhausted all dreams there could have been about Daniel in this four year period.
I took my usual bath and hurried downstairs after wearing my outfit for school.
I sat on the wooden table which stood in the middle of our already crowded kitchen and began to pour milk into my honey notes cereal which was damn delicious.
"Hey baby, how did you sleep?" my mom asked as she barged into the kitchen from her room.
"Good".
"No bad dreams".
"Nothing".
Daniel was something you could not tell your mom cause she was going to give you the lamest advice you could hear like, "if he is the one, he will be yours", my mom’s advice on boys were so lame that it needed a disabled parking spot.
The door wasn't far from the kitchen and as soon as I finished eating, I dashed outside with the speed of dash; Martha still caressed her bed when I left and I had gone an hour earlier as usual.
Walking to school, I was filled with enthusiasm and nervousness, I believed my sisters advice would work but what if it did not?, I would then be a laughing stalk at school and be mocked by everyone.
The road seemed congested with cars but the footpath which I walked on was void of any person as it was only 7:am.
I arrived school 30 minutes later and by the time on my iPhone 6, it was 7:3o thus leaving me with only 30 minutes to prepare for my classes and the moment I had anxiously waited for.
I walked to my locker after going to the office to take out my biology textbooks which I had left there the day before, Till now I had not seen Daniel or heard anything about him and Selena also was nowhere to be seen.
I had my head down while walking through
the hallways, seeing only the irregularly dotted tile floor which was pretty clean for a high school.
I ascended the first row of stairs which led to my first period class and my best guess was that the teacher had not come for it was thirty minutes early.
I tried walking as slow as I could for the class was three doors away meaning it would take me a minute to walk there.
I had come to the door and unexpectedly it was open leaving me amazed and confused, I walked in cautiously and to my greatest surprise, I saw the person I had not expected I would have seen.
Daniel sat on the second bench and seemed to be copying some work from the history textbook which laid in front of him.
I stood speechless at the door and hesitated to walk in as I found myself not yet ready to confront him. His blue T shirt which complemented his sky blue pants also matched my blue T shirt.
I stood still till when as he noticed me, he turned and was looking towards me, his eyes almost colliding with mine. I turned away my face and thus he turned away his.
I stood leaning by the door and was looking outside for I could not stand to look at Daniel, he was too hot.
I was looking outside while students rushed to their various classes, some not hesitantly but others running as if they were under duress.
“Hey”, I felt a calm tender and charming male voice call me from behind accompanied by a slight tap on my shoulders which left me baffled.
The best guess was that it was Daniel but the word which I would say to him had flown out of my mind.
I stood there confused while still preventing my fear crippled self from looking at him.
I stared at the tile floor at this moment and my heart pressure rose; I was sweating uncontrollably but had nothing to control it.
I became confident for some reason and turned back around, his muscular build up was perfect, his eyes dazzling and blue as sapphire, he had no pimples clouded on his smooth face as opposed to mine and he was simply magnificent.
“Hey”, I replied, I had nothing more to say for I did not think of anything else to say to him.
The look on his charming face meant he wasn’t sure what to say so I had to help him say it.
“I love you and always had a crush on you please can you give me your phone number”, I hurriedly uttered all these words before recalling what stupidity I had just exposed.
He looked confused and I knew I had totally blown it with him, he did not say anything which meant he was somehow annoyed or disturbed, but he did not also move away from me which meant he wanted to utter words of hurting meaning to my ears.
“240, 456, 6784”
I anxiously typed down the number in my iPhone with so much enthusiasm.
“I didn't get what you said by the way, all I heard was I need your number”
I was gladdened for he had not heard the part about the massive crush which I had for him, I smiled back at him and him me, his white gorgeous teeth exposing out and I could not stop fantasizing about them.
He walked back to his seat and I to mine when Selena arrived from the door.
She walked to him and embraced him which I considered a spit on my face because I considered Daniel to be mine.
That day was a good one and I heard nothing on what the teacher talked about, it was a sub so I did not give fudge about what he said for it wasn't as