For Michael (BMC Expensive Headphones)

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He passes by me in the hallway while laughing with his best friend, Jeremy Heere. I sigh dreamily at his laugh, his eyes, his hair, everything about him. My locker slams shut next me, I flinch and reluctantly turn to see my bully, Bryce. 

I barely leave with many bruises and a lot of blood. I'm now walking home, more like limping, and I hear it again, Michael. He's walking with Jeremy, slushees in both of their hands. I sigh, I know I'll never be with him but it's nice to dream. I turn right to avoid them but luck is not helping me today. 

He calls to me, asking if I'm okay. They both ran up to me, my face on fire as Michael inspects me. They end up taking me back to Michael's house and cleaning me up. We end up spending all day together and I'm on cloud 9. In that moment, I don't care if Bryce tried to tear me down, Michael is my lifesaver. 

I went to the mall afterwards since I needed new sneakers, Bryce was unfortunately there, fun. I limped (again) to Payless and looked for something. There was nothing so I was just gonna go back home. But some guy pulled me into the back, dud looked like ever more of a loser than I did. He went on about some magical tic tac that would solve all of my problems. He told me I could be loved, I could be popular, I could be the love of my crush's life. He told me it'd be free as long as I got more people to buy it after I took it. 

On one hand, this could kill me or hurt me. This was a pretty sketchy guy, this could be drugs or poison. But on the other hand, I'm in public so should anything happen, I'm sure someone would be able to save me. My life is already bad enough as it is, not much left to lose, and I have a chance of being good enough for Michael.

I buy the Mountain Dew and take a deep breath. For Michael, I think and swallowthe pill and soda.

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