Author's Note

This took me a while. I know. I've had my hands full with film club, and school, and figuring out what I'm going to do after senior year. Anyway, at least I finished. Here it is, the next chapter in Arron's story. Glad I finished it. If it weren't for Plushy help and encouragement, I would have never finished this. So any way, here it is. To all my fans who find some of my work enjoyable, hope you like this story.

Confronting Today.

The next morning I woke up early. Really early. It was 5 am. I got dressed, packed up my back pack and slowly went down stairs to make myself breakfast. I didn’t want to wake my parents up, so I crept as slowly as possible. I wanted to walk to school alone, and I knew my parents wouldn’t let me. My mom has always drove me to school, but I know for a fact if I let her, she’ll want to continue bringing up my incident with Aria, and I wasn’t in the mood to relive last night. Good my dad leaves for work at 4, so I only have one parent to deal with.

I slowly crept down the stairs, trying very hard not to make noise, as I slowly tiptoed and made my way to the living-room. Unfortunately, my parent’s own a wooden stair case. And every wooden stair case has that one squeaky board that squeaks as loudly as possible no matter how soft you step on it. I quickly stopped in my tracks. “Damn!” I whispered to myself, slowly taking one step back. I knew that next step was that stupid little squeaky step. But I had to get to the kitchen.

Slowly I stepped back down; turning back to see if my mom was awake, I slowly placed one foot on the step. The squeaky, squeaky step. As I picked my foot up and slowly leaned forward, resting it on the step of the stairs, well what do you know, it happened. SQEEEEEEAK!

I flinched. As I was biting my lip, I quickly turned around to see if that had woken up mother. Luckily it didn’t. I could, hear her softly snoring in her room. I was relieved. “That was close” I thought to myself, as I wiped the sweat from my forehead. I made my down the last 2 steps, and finally was in the living-room. I slowly made my way to the door and placed one hand on the handle and another on the lock-switch. I slowly pushed the door forward and twisted the lock slowly to avoid it making a click.

I opened the door and placed one foot outside. As I slowly turned back, I smiled and quickly headed out the door. As I shut the door behind me, I took the spear key my mother keeps under the welcome mat, and I closed and locked the door. Mission Accomplished. Of course, that was the easy part. The hard part was still ahead of me. Walking back to school to face the music.

After sprinting away from my house, I casually meandered through the city. It felt like there were thousands of butterflies whirling around in my stomach. What do I say? Do? Feel?

"Why didn't I just stay home?"

"Why?"

"Oh, right. Mother...Uuugh!"

I continued walking down the street, making my way to CHS. Just another 3 blocks, which felt like almost 3 miles. I felt as if though the people who were walking by me were staring at me. A million little eyes that won't stop following you. I was getting nervous. I need to calm down. After all, what are the odds that people will even remember "Yesterday's Event"?

Well, I finally got to CHS. As I crossed the street and made my way up to the front of the school, I could see my best friend, Ditzy Doo, A.K.A. Derpy, leaning by the side of the statue in the center of the courtyard. She noticed me walking towards her way, and smiled. She waved at me, to my response, I smiled and waved back.

"Arron, Your back!" she exclaimed, jumping up and down with joy. "I thought you were going to skip today..." she said.

"Skip? Why would I do that?" I asked her.

"You know, cause of..."

"Oh that?" I said rolling my eyes at her. It looks like people still do remember.

"That was really bold Arron. No has ever talked t a Dazzlings since...the Battle of the Bands event?" Ditzy said, whispering into my ear.

There it was again. What was all this about the Battle of the Bands? What was it about Aria and her Dazzling friends that everyone is going on about. But I really didn't care. All I wanted to know was why the hell Aria knocked me out rather than tell me truth. Does she love me!? I told Ditzy I wasn't done speaking with her, and I intended to try again.

"Are you nuts!" Ditzy shouted, "After yesterday, you still want to try and make friends with her?"

"Oh course" I replied back with a smile, "I need to know."

"Know what?" asked Ditzy.

I wondered if I should tell her about Aria, and the way she was winking and blowing kisses at me during gym. But I decided it was best to keep that hidden. "Nothing Ditzy. Don't even worry about it." I said with a nervous expression on my face.

Derpy stared back at me with suspicion. She knew I had something up my sleeve. But she didn't know what. "Okay Arron." she said with a squint in her eyes. As she turned around and walk away, she slowly pointed at me, and then using her two fingers pointed to her eyes. Oh crap, I know what that means. She's watching me. Of course, I wasn't worried. It's just Derpy. What are the odds?

As I walked down the courtyard and up the steps of the school to the front entrance, I overheard some students talking about something. Something interesting...ME.

"Shh, that's him! That's the guy." I heard them whisper.

"That's him?"

"Pff, no wonder Aria knocked his lights out."

Well, it looks it was time to face the music. I walked into the school and made my way down the lobby to the freshmen wing. As I walked down the hallway trying to find my locker, I kept hearing whispers coming from every student that passed by. Everywhere I went I kept hearing, That's him, that's the boy, that's Mr. Dodgeball, and Blah, Blah, Blah. Well, it could've been worst. Mom could've drove me to school, and given me...The Talk.

As I reached my Locker and turned the dials to my lock, I heard a familiar voice behind me. As I slowly turned back, I couldn't believe my eyes. It was, guess who, Aria Blaze and her friends. Looks like faith keeps poking fun at me. First I share Art and Gym class with her, now I find out her locker is across from mine. Now was my chance. I could talk to her again. I looked around to make sure no one comings or looking. I took a deep breath in, and slowly began walking towards her. Her friends immediately noticed me. They all turned around and stared.

"Ah, its you." said the girl with the orange frizzy hair. "You're that Arron guy, right?"

"Yes." I replied with a confident tone of voice. "I need to speak with Aria."

The girl moved aside. There I was now, face-to-face with her again. Aria Blaze. I was happy to see her again. But from the expression on her face, I could tell she wasn't feeling the same about seeing me.

"Oh, hey." she replied.

"Hey." I replied with a nervous smile. "Listen, about yesterday..."

"Save it." said Aria interrupting me, "I know."

"What?"

"Hey, you guys mind if I speak with Arron, in Privet?" Aria asked her friends.

"Ugh, If you must." replied the orange haired girl.

"Oh I get it." said her perky blue and purple haired friend with a wink.

"Ugh, I don't mean it like that Sonata." said Arai.

So that was her name. Sonata. But I didn't really care. I was more interested in the fact that Aria wanted to talk to me in privet. What did she meant by that. I was nervous.

"Whatever, Aria." said her friend with the orange hair. "Just do what you need to do. We'll be in the library."

As the two walked off, Aria leaned in towards me and whispered in my ear. "Follow me" she whispered. Uh-oh, usually when a girl asks someone to follow her, it can't be good. Well, on the bright side, at least I was finally going to talk to her. I followed Aria down the hallway to an empty room by the end of the hall. I walked in, shaking in fear. After Aria closed the door, she grabbed me by the shoulder and turned me towards here. We were now face to face.

"Good. Now no one will be able to see this." she said with an evil-like grin.

"Wait what!?"

I knew it, she's trying to kill me! Why did I follow her Why did I trust her!? WHY DIDN'T I STAY AWAY!? WHY DID--

Just then, It happened. Something I never expected. Without warning, she grabbed my arm and pulled me towards her. As sudden as the whole dodgeball event was, I never expected this. Towards her she pulled me. This was something I never expected to happen. And especially so sudden. Especially with the whole event from yesterday. Why all of sudden now. I can't believe it.

She...

She Kissed Me...