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A Better Reality

My Gift Is My Song

It was now Monday and I had to go to school, I hate school. It’s just not for me. Anyways, I spent all weekend at Rian’s place trying to get Eleanor to ease up a little bit, but I had no luck. Supposedly she starts school today even though we only have this week and then its Christmas break, but apparently it was her choice to start today. I was sitting at my kitchen table eating some cereal when I heard a car horn beep outside. I got up from my spot and put my dishes in the sink, when I walked out the door I grabbed my backpack off the ground and shut the door. I walked down my walkway to Rian’s car, I walked around to the passenger seat and there sat Ms. Eleanor, she stole my seat. I hopped in the back and hit Rian upside the head.

“Hey Eleanor,” I said to her and gave her a courteous smile, which she returned. After picking me up we made our way to Jack’s house to wake him up and get him. We were at Jack’s house for 20 minutes waiting on him, as we waited I tried and tried to talk to Eleanor.

“So Eleanor, are you excited for school?” I asked her while I fiddled with my thumbs.

“I suppose so. I’ve never gone to public school before,” she said while trying to find a radio station to listen to.

“Seriously?” I asked her and she just nodded her head. “What was private school like?”

“Tedious.”

“What?” I asked her, confused by the big word.

“I said tedious, meaning it was a lot of hard work and it was boring,” she said with a shrug of her shoulders.

Jack finally joined us and I had someone better to talk to than trying to talk to Eleanor. Once we arrived at school we all climbed out and started walking inside when we noticed Eleanor walking towards the main entrance instead of the student entrance.

“Hey Eleanor where are you going?” Jack asked her and she stopped walking and turned around.

“I have to go to the front office, Cathy said to go this way because it’d be faster,” she said while pointing over her shoulder to the doors she needed to go to.

“Want some company?” Jack asked and she just shook her head and turned around.

“Want some company?” I said, mocking Jack and he punched me in my shoulder.

“Like you don’t think she’s hot,” Jack mumbled while walking away from me.

“I don’t think she’s hot, I think she’s fine!” I yelled and ran up to him. I hope she does okay today, I’m sure going from private school to public school can be pretty scary. We were all hanging out in the general area of the sophomore lockers when I noticed Eleanor trying to open her locker, not only did I notice Eleanor but I also noticed Brad, one of the school’s jocks, eyeing her down like she’s a piece of meat. I quickly left the conversation I was in and walked over to Eleanor to save her.

“Are you having trouble with your locker?” I asked with a smile on my face.

“Huh? Oh yeah just a little bit. I’ve never had a locker like this before, I’m used to having a key for mine,” Eleanor said while looking down shamefully.

“What’s your combo?” I asked her and she quickly read the numbers off to me and I showed her how to open her locker.

“Thank you so much,” she said as she shoved her textbooks into her locker. I looked behind her and noticed Brad started to walk over to us.

“Look, this guy is about to walk up to us and he is most likely going to hit on you. I’m just warning you now, he’s the biggest douchebag in our school, and he’s a huge manwhore. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had like 5 STD’s,” I said to her and she just nodded her head taking in all the information I was giving her. As soon as I finished talking Brad walked up to us.

“Hey Gaskarth, whose your friend?” Brad asked me, with a hint of jealousy in his voice.

“Hey Brad man! This is Rian’s step sister Eleanor! Eleanor this is Brad,” I said introducing them. Here comes the pick-up line.

“Wow. Do you believe in love at first sight or do you need me to walk by again?” Brad said and out of nowhere Eleanor started to bust out laughing.

“Oh my gosh, Alex you were right! That was so funny. Too bad it didn’t work,” Eleanor said in between her laughter. Brad just gave me the stink eye and walked away.

“I am never wrong my dear friend.”

“Well thank you for the heads up,” she said and the bell to go to first period went off and Eleanor quickly looked at her schedule.

“What do you have first period?” I asked her as I leaned against the lockers.

“AP English with…Mrs. Howard?” Eleanor said and a smile broke out on my face.

“Ah, we have that class together, follow me,” I said to her while snatching her schedule out of her hands to see if I had any other classes with her.

“You take AP?” She said, surprised, and I nodded my head.

“I’m more than meets the eyes. Anyways lucky for you we have all of our classes together except for Art but you have that with Jack,” I told her as I handed her schedule back to her.

“How am I lucky?” She said, finally catching up to me.

“Oh silly Eleanor, you may not know this yet, but I’m going to be your saving grace when it comes to this hell hole we call school.”

After arriving in English my teacher gave me crap for actually showing up and Eleanor introduced herself to the class then took sat in the empty seat next to me. For the entire class period we didn’t do anything since we already took our finals and Christmas break was next week. I was just chatting with Eleanor about small things when Dina, a girl I know, came up to my desk and sat on it blocking Eleanor.

“Hey Alex,” Dina said while resting her hand on my shoulder.

“Hey D, what’s up?” I asked her, bored with her already.

“Not a whole lot, I was wondering if you wanted to catch up during free period?” She seductively said while playing with my hair.

“No thanks I’m gonna hang out with my friend Eleanor, she’s new,” I said to her as I took Dina’s hand off my shoulder.

Eleanor adverted her attention to us with a confused expression on her face and I just gave her a look that told her to go along with it, and it finally clicked in her head.

“Yeah, I’m sorry. It’s just I’m new and Alex offered to show me around during our free period,” Eleanor said then brought her attention back to the book she was reading.

Dina scoffed and hopped off my desk, “Whatever, fucking slut.” Uh oh.

“Excuse me?” Eleanor said after hearing what Dina said about her. “How am I the slut when you just asked Alex to ‘catch up’, we all know what you meant by catching up,” Eleanor said confidently.

“Who do you think you are newbie?” Dina said while stepping closer to Eleanor.

“I’m Eleanor Lewis, and you? Or do you not know your name?” Eleanor said, everyone in the class laughed.

“Dina. And I suggest you watch your back from now on. You just got yourself into something you will wish you never stepped in.”

“I don’t recall stepping in anything,” Eleanor said while looking at the bottom of her shoes. Dina just scoffed and walked away. After that the bell rang and we all gathered our things to walk out of the class.

“Alright Eleanor, I think you are going to fit in here. You’ve got the attitude down,” I said to her while putting my arm over her shoulder, where she picked it up and dropped it off her shoulder.

“Thank you, but don’t expect me to save you like that again,” she said while walking towards the main hall.

“Got it. What do you want to do? We have the period off,” I asked her as we looked around.

“I need some peace and quiet, can you find that for me?” She asked while fumbling with her bag.

“I certainly can, follow me,” I said and immediately started walking towards one of the exits. She followed me outside and I led her to the back of the school to an old field I always hang out at during free period.

“Are you positive we won’t get in trouble for being out here?” She asked as she set her bag down and took a seat on the tall grass.

“Yep, I always come out here. Sometimes I have my guitar but my cars been in the shop so I haven’t had it lately,” I said while mindlessly playing with a piece of grass.

“I can see why you like it out here, it’s very peaceful,” Eleanor mentioned while she pulled out a notebook and pencil. I laid back and looked up at the sky just watching the clouds go across the sky. Why is she being so free out here? I mean she still seems tense, but it’s almost like she’s breaking down, but only slightly.

“So Eleanor, what’s your boyfriend’s name?” I asked her with my eyes closed.

“Don’t have one.”

“Yeah right! Nice joke, but seriously what’s his name?”

“I was being serious Alex, I don’t have a boyfriend,” Eleanor said, not looking up from her notebook.

“Why not? You’re gorgeous! Any guy would be lucky to date you!” I exclaimed to her while sitting up.

“I don’t know. It’s never crossed my mind really. Will you lay back down? I was trying to draw a photo of you,” Eleanor said with a hint of frustration. I laid back down as she said.

“So you dance and draw? Anything else you can do?” I asked her.

“Well like you I sing and play guitar but I don’t think I’m quite that good.”

“I bet you are. Sing for me,” I said to her.

“What?”

“Sing. Now.” I sat there waiting to hear if she’d sing or not. Finally after a few minutes she began to sing 'Your Song' by Elton John:

It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside
I'm not one of those who can easily hide
I don't have much money, but boy if I did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If I was a sculptor, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show
I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song, and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple, but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well, a few of the verses, well, they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song
It's for people like you that keep it turned on

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue
Anyway the thing is what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple, but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world.


My jaw dropped, she was phenomenal! You may think I'm crazy but birds started to chirp when she sang, her voice sounded like an angel singing in Heaven. I was so surprised at how wonderful her voice was. Once she had finished the song she quickly went back to drawing.

“Are you happy now?” She asked and I nodded my head.

“Yes. We should do a duet together sometime when I’m famous,” I said to her, nonchalantly.

“Whatever floats your boat, you can sit up now if you want. I’m done,” she said while tossing her notebook at me for me to see. Once again my jaw hit the floor, she was really artistic, and it looked exactly like me!

“You know, you’re something else Eleanor,” I said to her while peering at her, she was just staring off into space, and she looked absolutely stunning.

“Why was that girl rude to me Alex?”

“Who, Dina?” I asked, she simply nodded her head.

“She’s a slut, Eleanor. She was jealous that you were getting my attention instead of her. In plus, you are strikingly beautiful, who wouldn’t be jealous when someone else had your attention,” I said to her with a smile on my face. I could see a blush forming on her face but I shook it off, it was kind of cold out.

“Thank you. I still don’t understand why she got so mad though.”

“Welcome to public school Elle.”

“Elle? Who is Elle?” Eleanor asked, confusion evident in her voice.

“You. That’s your nickname from now on. Eleanor is too fancy,” I said while waving my hand in the air.

“I suppose that’s okay.”

“Come on Elle, we better head back inside and get to our 3rd period,” I said to her while standing up and holding my hand out to her. She graciously took it and I helped pull her up, once I did she stumbled a little and I helped steady her by grabbing her hips. When she looked up my brown eyes connected with her green eyes and I swear I felt something, but it didn’t last long when she pulled away and started walking back. I jogged to keep up with her and once I caught up she handed me the drawing she did of me.

“Keep it.”

“Thanks,” I said while folding it up and putting it in my backpack.

She’s actually pretty cool. Cooler than I thought.

Notes

Title Cred:
Song: Your Song
Artist: Elton John

Comments

the starts part killed me. so cute and uhg i'm just way to into this
dizzydisaster dizzydisaster
10/27/13