Is it you?

“Naomi it’s obviously a boy and he is totally flirting with you “she squealed

I sighed and thought why would I tell Maria about this. Every single time I tell her about a boy she always does this, but I just thought that, because we don’t even know if it’s a boy, that wouldn’t happen. Well apparently, I was wrong.

Maria noticed my bored expression and said “What?”

“Every time a boy just as much as looks at me you go OMG OMG OMG; he is definitely flirting with you “I mocked

“I don’t talk like that “she pouted

“Yes, you do. Plus, we aren’t even sure if it’s is a boy or not”

“He definitely is “she said that with a duh tone like it was so obvious or something.

Okay okay I am getting ahead of myself let me tell you the story from the beginning

I was chatting with my aunts when mom called me.

“Check this out”

“Emma won the techmates competition this year and you didn’t even participate ”

I put my face in my hands “oh mom not this again”

“What? What did I say? “Mom asked faking a surprised face

“Mom you always do this. You tell me look who did this and look who did that, and then you go on and on about how lazy I am, and how I’m not doing anything useful with my life, and it turns into a fight, and I really don’t want to go there “I sighed

“It won’t honey I was simply just informing you “she said in a very fake voice that I totally didn’t buy, but I just went with it.

“Okay then great for her. Can we please stop talking about this?”

“Fine, you can go back to whatever you were doing “and I thought that was it, but no of course mom had to add.

“Which is probably nothing “my mom said in what she thought was a hushed tone.

But I ignored it, because I wasn’t in the mood for fighting.

I just kept thinking Cars, Agenda, Lemon, Mint oh that’s weird I should probably explain. Well, every time I get angry, I keep repeating these four words because they each start with a letter from the word calm. It’s something I saw on a TV show I really love, and it surprisingly works.

Emma is my former teammate, and techmates is a competition where you create a mobile app to help the community, and I did not participate this year, because I had already tried it out 2 times, and I just felt like it wasn’t for me. I guess mom never got over it, because the day I told her that I wouldn’t be participating this year she gave me a huge lecture about how it’s good for me and would help me in numerous ways.

“Fine then if you don’t want to participate in it then at least do something useful with your life. You don’t have any goals. Unlike your brother who always works hard to one day fulfill his dream of becoming a professional football player ”

Those very words kept replaying in my head ever since that “conversation” me and my mom had.

Now don’t get me wrong. Both of my parents love me very much and I love them too, but sometimes I feel like they are disappointed in me just because I don’t play sports, and I know it’s wrong, and that sports are good for you and all that, and I have tried, I’ve played several sports, but I never stick to any of them, because sports just aren’t it for me.

But then again, I am an overthinker, so maybe it’s all in my head.

I am good at other things. I like origami, Math and English, but I guess that’s not good enough.

Someone knocked on my door and distracted me from my thoughts. It was Ann and Rose my two favorite aunts but I just call them by their first names. I was so happy they came, because I desperately needed to talk to someone about this. As soon as I let them in the first thing to come out of Ann’s mouth was “Naomi are you okay?”

Ugh how do they know me so well.

I just stared at her for a while, sucked it up and told them everything. The fight, my feelings, and the competition.

" I got into kind of a fight with mom, because she thinks I’m not doing anything useful with my life, I shouted, she shouted, I stormed out. “I said trailing off

“Naomi you can’t just storm out like that you have to find a way to work it out by talking with your mom “said Rose and Ann at the same exact time which was kind of creepy.

Anyways back to the point, what Ann and Rose said made me feel angry and guilty at the same time and so I said. “why, why do I have to talk or reason with her, she will never understand where I am coming from, it’s pointless”

Then Rose put her hand on my shoulder trying to comfort me after my mini outburst

“she will Naomi, at the end of the day she is your mother and you have to work it out with her. ”

“I know “I said softly

After that we watched some rom com’s (my favorite) and went to sleep.

When I woke up the next morning, I decided that I wanted to make things right with my mom, so I asked her if we could have breakfast together at her favorite restaurant. She agreed and thankfully we had a great time.

The rest of the day was pretty much uneventful we didn’t do anything except watch the match that would determine whether we make it to the quarter-finals or not, but sadly we lost which is devastating, because that means we are out of the championship and it was in our own country.

Now don’t get me wrong I am not at all interested in football and I don’t understand a thing. It’s just that my family usually watches the important matches together.

The next day I was supposed to meet up with my best friend Maria at our favorite mall but unfortunately, she got sick so I went to visit her at her home instead when I got there, I rang the doorbell of her house which is really fun because her parents let her have it as a song and she changes it ever month this month it is Shawn Mendes’s if I can’t have you, I love that song so much.

After listening to the song for a couple minutes Maria’s mother opened the door, after I greeted Maria’s mum, I went up to Maria’s room she was laying sick in bed and the first thing I said was “OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?

She looked so pale, almost like a vampire, and she looked like she hadn’t slept for days.

“I don’t know I think I have food poising my stomach has been hurting me all day long “Maria said with a pained voice I thought for a while of what we ate last week and then it hit me.

“it must have been that sushi you ate I told you that place didn’t look good”

I have always hated sushi but Maria loved it so she insisted we go to that new sushi place downtown, even though all the reviews were terrible and I told her it was a bad idea, but as usual she didn’t listen to me and ate it anyway.

We ate together almost every day last week and sushi was the only thing I didn’t eat with her, so I connected the dots as soon as she told she though it was food poisoning.

Maria’s mum came into the room and gave us our food. The food was delicious, but only I ate, because Maria still had a stomachache, so she couldn’t keep anything down. So, we just turned on a movie, and as we were watching it, out of nowhere, Maria asks me “how is it going with your mom? ”

“We’re good, I think, I mean we had breakfast together yesterday and it was fun.”

She just nodded then we continued watching the movie which was horrible by the way I knew we shouldn’t have watched a movie on the mickey channel that channel is the worst It always has copied or infamous movies. After the movie was done, we talked for a little bit about Shawn and Camilla’s new song seniorita then we went to sleep right away because Maria still wasn’t feeling very.

I left the next morning after making sure Maria was okay and didn’t need anything.

At home I watched a bit of Tv, had lunch, and then I started working on an English essay that I had to turn in after tomorrow, but it was like my mid refused to focus. I kept looking around my room and doodling on the empty paper in front of me.

“Having trouble with that, I can help if you want, you know I won best short story in our school competition last year ”

And that would be Hayden, my twin brother. Hayden is the brother my mum was talking about. He’s always been mommy’s little boy even though we are literally the same age. He is a ladies’ man, the captain of the football team, and of course a straight A student, basically any male lead in a cheesy high school movie.

“Hi Hayden welcome back how was football practice?”

“It was good and how about you how is that essay going? ”

I looked at the empty paper and then back at Hayden “what do you think?” I said sarcastically.

He laughed and said “don’t worry sis I am sure you will get the hang of it “then he smiled at me and left to take a shower.

Eventually I was able to finish most of it, then I got bored and decided to make an account on twitter, not a normal account but a one direction fan account.

I wanted to try something new, and maybe even make new friends who are just as obsessed with one direction as I am.

Author’s note:

Hi guys I hope you enjoy the story and if anyone has anything, I can improve please let me know in the comments below.