A Cute Little Moment: Chapter VI: Chapter One of Fangirls from Thaddeus's perspective!!!!!!!!!:):):):):):):)

 

Chapter One of Fangirls from Thaddeus’s perspective😊 (Also known as The Enchanted moment😊)

Why doesn’t anyone ever talk to me other than to say I’m in their way?

Thaddeus, one of the sweetest boys you would ever meet, caught himself thinking on another Monday, where he would have to face both perpetual loneliness, and people trying to knock him to the ground. Constantly. Just because he liked reading more than most kids his age, he wore glasses because he couldn’t see very well other-wise, and that he did very well in school. So well in fact, that his teachers wanted him to skip a grade, but he didn’t want to. He wanted to stay with his cousin, Austin, who was basically his only friend. Only Austin was out, sick. So, Thaddeus felt particularly alone that day.

“Hey, are you okay?” Thaddeus’s mom, who was another one of his only friends, asked him. Thaddeus could tell his mom was worried about him, no matter how hard she tried to hide it. Thaddeus could always tell.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” Thaddeus said, his usual response as he faked a smile. His mom gave him a sympathetic smile as she took his hand.

“Thaddeus, don’t be afraid to defend yourself, okay?”

Thaddeus nodded reluctantly. The only problem with his mother’s advice, was that he was always afraid to defend himself. It terrified him because the bully would only do something worse to him. As his eyes wandered the gym like they always did to see if the bully was there today, (Unfortunately he was,) something different caught his eye. A girl, who looked about his age, that he had never seen before. She was small, with blonde hair, hazel eyes, freckles across her nose, and a lovely smile that brightened up the whole room on her kind looking face. Thaddeus suddenly found his heart was beating a little faster than normal, like he just ran a lap in gym.

“Hey, Mom?” Thaddeus said softly, motioning to the girl, who seemed to be becoming fast friends with the girls she was sitting with. “Who’s that girl over there? The one who’s laughing?”

Thaddeus’s mom smiled. “She’s part of that new family I was telling you about. She’s the youngest in her family. Her name is Alexa, I think. Why?”

“No reason. She’s really pretty,” Thaddeus whispered, his cheeks flushing.

“Do you want me to go talk to her mom and-“ his mother began, but Thaddeus shook his head.

“No! That’s okay,” Thaddeus interrupted. “She wouldn’t want to be friends with me.”

“Oh, now. You don’t know that, sweetheart.” His mom said, kissing his forehead. Only Thaddeus was pretty sure he did know. Before he could think more about it, the bell rang, signaling that it was time for class. Thaddeus sighed as he got up from his chair as his mom hugged him and Thaddeus started toward the hallway. As he walked by that new girl and her friends, he just caught a few words of what that girl, Alexa, was saying to her friends.

“Oh, yes! That book was my most favorite one in the whole series!”

Huh? She and her friends liked reading, too? Other kids around here were a bit like him? That was unheard of. Maybe she would want to be his friend. Maybe.

Thaddeus sat as he usually did in class: in the back where he wouldn’t be noticed by anyone, but he still managed to be noticed by his teachers because he usually knew all of the answers to the questions, so they would call on him. Actually, the classes were his favorite part of school. It was one of the only things he could do where he felt like he was in control. Only today, he couldn’t focus on his classes. He tried to focus, he really tried, but his mind kept drifting to that girl he saw in the gym. Alexa. She was the prettiest girl he had ever seen and she seemed so genuine and kind and she liked to read! So did her new friends! He didn’t know kids younger than him liked to read. Maybe he should go talk to them… but no. They probably wouldn’t truly like him. They wouldn’t even notice him there with them if he was friends with them.

Thaddeus took his lunch out of his lunch box and smiled. His mom had packed him his favorite. A ham and cheese sandwich with just mustard (he wasn’t a fan of mayo), potato chips, a fruit cup with pears, a juice box, and a little chocolate pudding cup. He ate everything rather quickly as he was starving and that was the only other thing powerful enough to distract him during class. He was just tearing open his pudding cup, practically being able to taste it already, when it was suddenly snatched from him. Thaddeus felt his stomach drop as he turned around and found himself face to face with Mike Sullivan, the most terrifying being on Earth, as far as Thaddeus was concerned.

“Hey, thanks for the pudding, Hawthorne,” Mike said, sounding demeaning. Thaddeus tried to mask his shudder, knowing where this was probably going to go. “Oh, are we afraid today, Hawthorne? Oh, wait, that’s every day for you, isn’t it?”

Thaddeus’s pulse got a little quicker as he tried out his mother’s advice. “Wh-who are you c-calling afraid?” Thaddeus shot back and immediately regretted it with the look Mike was giving him.

“You’ll pay for that little comment, Hawthorne. I think it’s about time I teach you some manners!”

With that, Mike pushed Thaddeus out of his chair and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and dragged him, painfully to the hallway.

“No, stop! Let me go! I’m sorry!” Thaddeus whimpered as Mike shoved him against a wall.

“Oh, I don’t think so, Hawthorne!” Mike said as he threw a punch and knocked Thaddeus’s glasses askew. “Aww, look at that pathetic little Mama’s boy!” Mike taunted as Thaddeus cowered and curled into a ball. Mike cackled like an evil hag as he was about to deliver his next death blow. Before he could, a voice cut above Mike’s childish taunts.

“Hey! Stop! Stop that!”

Thaddeus gasped as he opened his eyes. It was Alexa, the new girl, stepping in front of Thaddeus, like she was protecting him.

She’s even more beautiful up close… her eyes. They sparkle like emeralds, Thaddeus thought dreamily as Alexa approached Mike and leveled a furious glare at him.

“Why are you doing this to him? How would you like those things you were doing to him done to you?” Alexa fumed. Mike just laughed, but Alexa didn’t flinch.

Wow, she’s brave, too! Thaddeus thought, starting to feel a little better.

“And what are you going to do about it, new girl?” Mike said, sounding mean as he usually did. Thaddeus scowled. This new girl clearly didn’t deserve that kind of treatment. Alexa seemed to go a little blank, like she was thinking. Her friend stepped in front of Thaddeus, too, looking tough.

“We’ll go tell your mother just what exactly you’ve been doing to him and a lot of other kids, too!” she said, scrunching up her nose and Alexa turned to her.

“Nice one, Breanna,” she whispered as they fist bumped.

“Oh, really?” Mike said. Breanna, Alexa and the two other girls that were with them nodded.

“Uh huh!” they said together as Mike scoffed and started to walk away. Little did he know, his mother was standing right near them by the time he was fleeing.

“Mike Oscar Sullivan! You’re in big trouble!” She said, grabbing him by the ear and dragging him away.

As Alexa’s friends started to cheer, Thaddeus suddenly found Alexa bending down and offering a hand to him. Thaddeus took it and she helped him to his feet. Thaddeus shuddered silently. He felt sparks shoot all the way up his arm when he touched her. Alexa smiled at him as she reached out and fixed his glasses. “Hey, are you okay?” she asked him gently. Thaddeus blushed bright red and nodded wordlessly. Alexa smiled sweetly.  

“Those things he was saying to you back there weren’t true,” she said softly as she took his hand again. “Don’t ever believe them.” Thaddeus just nodded. “I’m Alexa, by the way, but everyone calls me Lexi. What’s your name?”

Before Thaddeus could answer, the bell rang suddenly and Alexa or no, Lexi, she liked to be called, jumped, seeming to be startled. “Oh, um, I have to get to class now. It was nice to meet you!” she said and her friends nodded in agreement as they started to the classroom they were supposed to go to and waved.

Thaddeus just stood there, thinking about what just happened. Alexa didn’t even know him and yet, she jumped right in to defend him with no hesitation. Thaddeus thought that he might have just found the girl of his dreams.

“It was nice to meet you, too, Lexi.”