"Hi," she said, "My name is Pamela, Pamela Scott." she said with gleaming smile.
"Uhm.. H-Hello!" I managed to stutter, "I'm Joan Dietz.
There she was! Talking to me! Now my thoughts were spinning! I sat there with my large round puppy dog eyes admiring her eyes and her dazzling blonde bouffant hair all concluded into a buoyant blonde ponytail, fasted with a beautiful aquamarine ribbon to match her skirt...
"Well, I was just wondering if I could borrow a pencil, I seem to have left purse at home." she inquired, hastily.
"Oh! Sure thing! ", I said, each tiny word dripping with interest and desperation. I removed my backpack from my shoulders and rummaged through my things in frustration. There say Pamela Scott next to me, the friend of my every day dream. The friend of my dreams who take my pencil, a token of friendship and show me the ropes of being beautiful, blonde and social. Finally I had located a No. 2 worthy enough of Pamela's grip, but when my head returned to Pamela's attention I noticed she had already started a new conversation with another classmate!
"Uhm.. Pamela?" I said, timidly.
"Oh, hey. " Pamela turned her head to mine as I held out the No 2 with a shaky hand.
"Oh, thanks but I just got one Denise."
Pamela returned her attention to Denise, a popular girl in a red dress, and there it went, all my hopes and desires of the new girl siphoning me into a world I had always hoped to be in. A world where I was beautiful and envied, sparkling and dazzling and not plain! I didn't notice it but I had dropped the No 2 on the ground and I didn't care so I reached into my backpack and retrieved a sheet of loose leaf and a No 2 that had been almost devoured with teeth marks, and I began to write this story...
"In her eyes you could see the bright dazzling gleam...