Hi, guys! I wrote this story a long, long while ago and I hope it still holds up. :-/ It takes place in high school and is a bit more...chaste...than some of my other stories. As with most of my short stories, I think what it really needs is expanding. A project I'll have to get working on!
When geeky Sophie moves to a new school she has the bad luck to fall for the coolest guy in school. But Jake is dealing with a changing life and rescuing Sophie from her clumsiness might be just what he needs.
When geeky Sophie moves to a new school she has the bad luck to fall for the coolest guy in school. But Jake is dealing with a changing life and rescuing Sophie from her clumsiness might be just what he needs.
Sophie sat on one of the chairs and Alex sat on the sofa at
his parents' house. Paul pulled over
another chair and sat down. The three
friends often met at Alex's house after school, since he lived within walking
distance and his parents were rarely home.
His family's house was also bigger than the one bedroom apartment Sophie
shared with her father and the modest single story home Paul's family lived in.
“Did you
get homework for English and History today?” Sophie asked.
“Yeah,” Paul
said, “I thought the teachers were supposed to work out a deal where it was one
or the other.”
Paul was an
odd child. He wore turtleneck shirts
everyday and carried a briefcase to his classes. He had a baby face that looked many years
younger than seventeen. Sophie had just
moved to town a few months before so she didn't know that he had dressed the
same and wore his hair the same since he was five years old.
“Hey,” Alex
said, “No homework talk. You guys are
such losers.”
Paul
laughed. “So we're the losers, what are
you?”
