text: [Themes: love & dating, romance]
  
  You never thought it would come to this. Hiding out in the bathroom stalls at school, playing on your phone during your lunch period so you wouldn't be seen alone. You would have laughed at someone doing this back in elementary, but now that all of you're friends have found new people to hang out with your stuck alone. You keep blaming yourself for not seeing this coming and making new friends when you had the chance. Now its too late, or at least that's what you've concluded whilst sitting in this dingy stall.
  
  After losing your friends and talking with classmates, you came to the realization that you were a drifter. You could hang out with anyone you wanted, everyone was somewhat friendly to you but you were scared. Scared of being rejected and looking like a loser, which you already were but you didn't want to think that.
  
  The familiar bell rings giving you another sense of dread as it's now your free time, you save your angry birds level while silently slipping out of the restroom before anyone gets outside, god knows you wouldn't want anyone to see you. Lunch Period is over and now you have thirty minutes of free time. Being a loner for the past months has given you experience on what to do to not act like a loner.
  
  You can go to a teacher's room and catch up on work to look busy, you could go to the library and pretend that you're doing research for something that has been ordered by your teacher.
  
  Finally you can go eat lunch as you warned yourself that if you kept on skipping lunch you would start to become anorexic.
  
  [Author's Note: Just a short story on the thoughts of a lonely kid. May add another act to it but just wanted to get the beginning out. Also please leave the first ending you got ^_^ .]
  
  > go to the Library
  You decide to try and keep busy by pretending to do research in the Library by reading some books or going on the computer. But as you walk through the hall you see a group of people approaching.
  
  It's not until they get closer you realize it's your old friend Henry and his new group of friends. You just take out your phone and start playing around with it until you pass them.
  
  As you get closer you hear Henry call out "Web what are you doing roaming the school building by yourself, can't find your friends?" The group snickers and you look up at him.
  
  That son of a bitch, who does he think he is. You just slightly chuckle and go back at looking at your phone continuing your walk towards the library.
  
  You then see Henry come up to you and look at your phone, watching your anime i suppose?" He mocks as he see's you looking at anime pictures.
  
  Your reflex's come in and you push him back, which makes him stumble a bit. He was pretty skinny and had little muscle, making your bigger body more effective. "Back up." You say putting your phone away.
  
  "Stop trying to act cool Web, everyone already knows you're a geek who can't find anyone to hang out with." Someone from the group says causing laughter. You just roll your eyes and walk past them to the library. You learned to stop caring what those pot-smoking skaters said to you.
  
  > In the Library
  With the twenty minutes you had left you decided it would be good to just relax and read a book, a good one would last you a week in here. You went over to the historic section of the library and got a medieval book to pretend to be studying for Social Studies. As you sit down and flip through it you notice the library is full of people filling the tables and the computers. You feel relieved that you got an empty table in the corner of the room.
  
  As you read through your book you hear the sound of the chair across from you sliding and see a girl pulling it. "All the tables are empty, can I sit here?" She quietly says holding a book to her chest. You silently nod as you write in your notebook about the information you read.
  
  "Hey, do you know much about that subject, i was thinking of doing a report on it, it's the only part of history i haven't really read much about." She says acknowledging your medieval book. "Yea I know a good amount." You smile seeing her trying to whisper throughout the conversation. "You want to talk about it outside?" She nods grabbing her book bag and book as you follow her outside to a table in the shade.
  
  "So just tell me the most important and fun parts on the subject to get me interested." she says as she opens her book."
  
  "Well there's a lot of things to that age of time, Castles, Feudalism, Knights, Crusades, and some other stuff if you look into different countries like Japan, Scotland, and the Middle East." You say trying to make it sound interesting. "That sounds interesting, lets talk about the Japan side."
  
  You and the girl spend about 10 minutes brushing through the main things on Medieval Japan for her to look into later on when she had spare time. But as you get done you realize that you still have a good few minutes until class starts so you decide to take the risky chance to get to know her a little better.
  
  You find out her name is Rebecca and she tends to have a soft and quiet voice no matter where she is, But her strong personality makes up for it as she doesn't seem to be afraid to say things in her mind. You find it cute as you notice that habit and start to laugh to yourself while Rebecca looks confused. Once the bell rings Rebecca asks if you can meet again in the same spot after lunch to talk more about the medieval age more. You make her that promise and feel happy to have a new place to go during your break.
  
  > Next
  You come out of the bathroom once again and know where you are going today. You walk outside to your meeting table and sit down while playing on your phone. Three minutes later Rebecca arrives holding some papers and books that all looked related to the medieval subject. Maybe after you two study you can get to learn more about her again, you feel like you hooked a friend and you want to make sure you don't do anything stupid and let her go.
  
  20 Minutes later
  
  You looked at all the papers you helped her finish and feel glad that you still have ten minutes to talk, if she stays of course which you hope to god she does. "How come I've never seen you in the cafeteria, i was looking to sit with you but you weren't there." She says looking down.
  
  You always mess up Webster always.
  
  "I had to do something for a teacher, but I'll be there tomorrow." You smile trying to lighten up the mood. "So what do you like to do, you don't play sports or hang out with anyone else." She asks looking at you questionably. Coming from her that stung.
  
  "I do my own thing here, don't really have much time for anything else."
  
  You liar just tell her
  
  "But for fun i like to just browse the web or play video games at home, not the most interesting life but it's for me." that remark gets a laugh out of her along with a smile. "Same with me, I could really care less what anyone else thinks of my hobbies, its my life, even if it does get lonely sometimes" Rebecca admits
  
  You smile at her honesty, something that you wish you would use when talking to people. Bull shitting people was something you never liked doing but it was a way to get out of situations you didn't have the balls to confront. But there was something about Rebecca that seemed like a crowbar trying to open a safe, something strong that wouldn't give in to the strongest pull, but was going to happen eventually.
  
  Rebecca looks at her phone with a surprised look in her eyes. "Oh there's only two minutes left, promise you'll be at lunch tomorrow, I don't want to look dumb waiting for you." Rebecca says getting up.
  
  "Of course, I ain't a dick." You joke to her.
  
  She smiles before walking away towards her class.
  
  You weren't a dick, but you were a coward. There was still a feeling inside you that you shouldn't go to that hellish cafeteria to meet the eyes of your peers. If Rebecca noticed that you were a loner how many other people had noticed as well. Had the entire school known about it but were nice to say anything. This thought made your heart beat at a alarming rate.
  
  The choice was yours.
  
  > go to the cafeteria
  You let the decision go through your mind as you roll in your bed. Tomorrow would be a big day for you, or just a beginning step to something big.
  
  As the bell rings for lunch to begin you walk over to the cafeteria with everyone else while getting a few surprised looks from your classmates and old acquaintances. Your assumptions were right, they did know you were a loner, but you continue on not wanting them to ask you any questions.
  
  You reach the tables and grab one as you wait for what seems like ages until you spot Rebecca come to where you sit. "You know i kind of doubted that you would come." She admitted as she sat down across from you.
  
  "I never break promises." You tell her with a smile on your face.
  
  Even with all the stares around you, as nobody else seemed to join the table you both were sitting at making the your table stand out with all the full ones around you, it didn't bother you one bit. Maybe because you weren't alone, you were with Rebecca and she seemed like a shield against anything else, including your negative thoughts.
  
  "You notice them to."
  
  Rebecca broke your chain of thought as she is also looking around.
  
  "Yea its noticable."
  
  "Does it bother you?"
  
  > No
  "No not at all." You say giving another one of your smiles.
  
  "Why do you still lie to me?"
  
  Her question takes you off guard as you give a confused look.
  
  "Every time you lie, you give one of those cheesy smiles, and besides anyone would be bothered by these stares, but being bothered and accepting it are two different things, you need to understand that Web."
  
  Her statement leaves you speechless as she continues to eat her meal quietly.
  
  You take another look around the both of you, noticing the stares replaced with snickers. Especially from that girl Stephanie and her group of douche bag boyfriends.
  
  Then their's Amber sitting with her group of friends who are one of the most popular groups of them all. There eyes, they seemed filled with evil, there mouths are ones that are known to spread rumors, and those rumors can as well as be fact.
  
  Then finally there was your old group of friends, Henry, Luis, and Martinez. There eyes were the worst of them all, Martinez and Luis looked at me with pity but Henry you could see him whispering to those beside him, you could probably guess what he was saying, those laughs pretty spoke for their words.
  
  You looked back at Rebecca, who was still silently ate her food, not looking up.
  
  "Do you feel uncomfortable being with me?" You ask her.
  
  This time it was her turn to look confused at your question.
  
  "These stares aren't directed at you, there all towards me, you know it to." You admit continuing to look around.
  
  "Web, people always look at people sitting alone, I've always sat alone before I met you and people always stared, every day, don't think there all just for you Web, haven't your parents told you about sharing." She smiled at her joke as you did as well.
  
  "Well whatever it may be its toxic, I can see it in your face, you're not the best liar either, let's get out of here." You say getting your bag from the floor.
  
  But as you stand Rebecca speaks.
  
  "Do you accept it though, being alone."
  
  > Yes
  You think about that question for a bit. It was a pretty big one for you.
  
  "Yes." You finally say with confidence.
  
  "Honestly, It doesn't really matter when high school is over right? I think I can make it another four years when were out of here." You say trying to joke around.
  
  Rebecca's chin rests on her palm as she looks at you with a straight face, as if studying you, trying to look deep within you for something, But finally she succumbs to a smile..
  
  "Your right, I can make it another four, especially now that I have someone to drag with me."
  
  You both laugh at her reply getting a few stares from the neighboring table.
  
  But even with your response to her question, you still feel a weight in your stomach for finally accepting it, small part of you still wants to fit in with everyone else, to go back to what you once had, to be able to never worry about this predicament again, but nothing lasts forever, and neither will your loneliness.
  
  You take one last look at your old friends, you see them all laughing, hitting each other in the shoulder, seeming to have a good time with one another.
  
  Your stare is however broken by a loud thud on the table. You look to see the Japanese Medieval book that you had recommended Rebecca in front of you.
  
  "Now where were we?" Rebecca asks as she flips through the pages.
  
  You laugh silently to yourself.
  
  Page 57, History of Kimonos.
  
  Acceptance Ending