Popularity Ch. 1

Hey, I'm Rachel Summers, I'm 15 and I'm the 'new girl' at Davenport High School. I'm not really what you would call pretty. I'm short, fat, I have braces, I have bad taste in clothes, I have glasses, and I've never been kissed. But that's about to change. See, over the summer I got my braces off, I grew 6 inches, I lost 20 or 30, I studied fashion magazines, I got contacts, and I'm determined to get a boyfriend. So now I'm tall, slim, I've got baby blue eyes that you can actually see, and I’ve got perfect teeth, a new wardrobe, and cabinet of brand new make-up. The only thing is now I don't have my best friend Paige who is positively gorgeous and always made me feel like the ugly duckling, don't get me wrong I love her she's just so perfect it's almost scary.

"Rachel, the bus is here!" shouted my mother. She's another person that always made me feel hideous. Seriously, she's 40 but she looks 20!

"Coming!" I said running down the stairs.

"Oh. My. GOD! Rachel! You look AMAZING!" said my mom and my 19 year old high school dropout sister Avery at the same time. See, my sister is really punk, I mean she pierced her nose, lip, eyebrow, tongue, bellybutton, and ears, and she practically lives at Hot Topic, so if she says you look good, you know you look good. And my mom is an actress and she gets her makeup done like 8 times a day.

"Thank you." I say, grabbing a granola bar before running out the door.

When I got on the bus all conversation stopped and I started walking down the aisle feeling more like I was a model on a runway the way everyone was staring at me. When I passed these two girls they stopped me and one of them said. "Hey, you want to sit with us." It was obvious they were popular so of course I said yes.

"Hi, so I'm Mandy and this is Aaliyah." said the girl who was probably the current queen bee but not for long. She was African-American, she had these amazing brown eyes, long black hair, and she was just all in all stunning

"Hey, I'm Rachel. I just moved here from Chicago." I said.

"OMG, I love Times Square." said Aaliyah who was probably really dumb

"No, sweetie, you're thinking about New York City." said Mandy, I was starting to realize that Mandy was really nice and I felt pretty bad that I was going to dethrone her.

"Whatever, you know I'm not good with geometry." It was really hard not to start cracking up but Mandy just sighed and I could understand that.

When we got to school another blonde came up to us and I had absolutely no idea who she was.

"Sorry I wasn't on the bus ladies. It's just Mason drove up to my house in his maserati and offered me a ride to school and what I going to say? No?" she was really confusing me and who was Mason?

"Oh, it's okay Kayla. We totally understand." said Mandy, and I understood. Apparently this Kayla was the queen bee. Well she looked the part. She was blonde, hazel eyes, tan, tall, skinny, and full chest.

"Oh, btw, this is Rachel." said Mandy.

"Hi, I'm Kayla." Kayla said smiling.

"Hey. So, I was wondering, who's Mason?" I asked I wanted to know because if he was popular then I could make him my boyfriend.

"WHO'S MASON!!!" they screamed in unison.

"What?" I asked and figured he was probably the most popular boy at Davenport.

"Hon, that is Mason." said Mandy pointing to a drop dead gorgeous boy standing with a bunch of good looking guys that were all hugely muscular. Mason had black hair, and the icy blue eyes that you could see from 50 feet away, he looked like he was 6'1 and could bench like 250.

"Sorry, but he's taken." said Kayla in this snobby way that made me happy to dethrone her.

I became instantly popular. Seriously, by lunch pretty much everyone knew my name and I figured that I was off to a good start. When I got my food Kayla, Aaliyah, and Mandy waved me over to their table so I knew that I was officially in. In the middle of our conversation about how hot Robert Pattinson was I got a text.

"Who is it?" asked Kayla through a mouthful of Doritos. Kayla was a surprisingly messy eater.

I checked and my mouth dropped open. I knew I'd get Mason but I didn't know I'd get him so fast. I mean, in gym we had exchanged cell phone numbers, but this was really unexpected.

"It's.... Mason." I said, I still hadn't gotten over the initial shock of it.

"WHAT!!!!!" They all screamed at once leaving me temporarily deaf.

"Let me see!" shouted Kayla. I really didn't have a choice so I handed her my Blackberry hoping she wouldn't 'accidentally' drop it and 'accidentally' stomp it into the ground because it seriously looked like she wanted to.

While she was reading the text for the fourth time Mason actually came over to our table with his friend Blake.

"So, Rachel." he said. "Will I see you Saturday night?" I was kind of stuck. I glanced at the girls. Mandy and Aaliyah both nodded at me but Kayla seemed paralyzed by the presence of Mason.

"Yeah." I said finally. "Yeah you will."

"Cool." said Mason about 3 seconds later he leaned down and HE KISSED ME ON THE LIPS!