This feeling never leaves me, chapter 2
Harmony's P.O.V.
"Ok, Missy you can sit next to Mr. Pritchard back there" the teacher said pointing at that mysterious boy. "And Harmony you can sit next to Mr. Armstrong Over there." He said while pointing at a kid who was pretty cute, but no where near as cute as the other. I gave Missy a look saying "Lucky!!" but only she knew what I ment. I walked over to the other side of the room and sat down at the abandoned desk. I saw Missy sit next to that other boy who was surprisingly staring at me. I smiled and he turned away fast with reddened cheeks. Most of the time, if me and Missy got a boy to even look at us, they usually went for her. I don't know why and I really didn't care until now. I just let it pass and tried not to think about it too much as I stared for a couple more seconds until the damn teacher started talking. I listened for about 2 min.,I found out he was teaching something I already knew, so I started doodaling. I then came up with some lines in my head to a song i've been writing so I wrote them down. I could feel that Armstrong kid watching me.
"So, you write songs?" he finally asked me in a wisper. "Yea, sometimes." I replied back while looking up with a smile. "Billie Joe" He said as he held out his hand. "Harmony Grace" I replied back while takeing his hand and giving it a warm shake. "That's a nice name" he whispered again. "How'd you get it?" "Well, My mom wanted to name me after my dad and my dad didn't want any jrs or any remakes of his name. So she looked at music cause my dad's a musician and she came up with Harmony. My dad liked Grace so there." I said finishing. I was drawn back to the day of my sixth birthday. It felt like it was yesterday.
Flash back
"Mommy, Can you tell me about the day I was born?" the 6 year old Harmony asked her mom. "Well, I was walking out to the car after I just went to return a car seat and.." she rambled on. i stood there looking up at my mom. she was so pretty. 'i hope i grow up to be as pretty as her.' i thought as She continued. "When I was ready I puched and pushed and then you came out, but the docters wouldn't let me see you because there was something wrong. So they took you away and found out you had namona." She said as she explained the rest. She smiled and had a loving look in her eye. that look that i'll never forget.
End flash back
I sighed at the memory as Billie Joe asked me "What kind of Bands do you like?" I replied with "Well, I love the ramones as you can tell, the clash, bad religion, the sex pistols, Black Sabbeth, Kiss, aerosmith, the velvet underground and a lot of underground bands from Virginia. thats only a small portian though" I answered. "So do I, that's so cool" he said while smiling a friendly smile at me. "There are a lot of great underground bands here, they all play at this place called gilman street, it's downtown." He said. "Me and my friend Mike over there go there all the time," He said while pointing at that boy. I looked over and saw the boy or Mike glance at me then look away. I think Billie knew that I thought he was cute cause when he said that he gave me this cheeky smile that said 'I know your secreat' " Yea, I'm sure my friend missy would love it." I said while pointing at her just like he had done. I looked over at her and I saw she was too busy to see me but I think he said something and she looked at me with a "hmmm" look on her face. I just laughed and turned around. The teacher kept telling us to stop talking but I didn't care, and I could tell Billie Joe didn't care eather. "Hey, when do you have lunch?" He asked me. "Umm, 5th period." I answered. "Great, that's the same one me and Mike have." He said. "Cool so I guess we'll sit with you guys then?" I asked. "Of course." He said. "Ok. So, Mike... " I said and I saw him smile like he knew what I was going to say. "How long have you two known each other?" I asked. "Scince we were ten. How about you and Missy?" He asked. "For about 15 years." I said. "Whoa so you've known each other your whole lives?" he asked. "Bacically yea." We talked the rest of the block until it was time to switch. I found out I didn't have any more classes with him so I said I'd see him at lunch.
I walked down the hall trying to find my class. It took me like 3 min to find it and I was the last one in the class. I walked in and I saw him again. I was so fixed on him i didn't even see the other people in the room snickering at me. I felt joy inside me but it was interrupted when the damn teacher asked me who I was. "I'm new." "Oh, you must be harmony. Ok well, go sit next to Mike back there." She said while pointing at the only empty desk left. I walked over, trying not to stare at him but also watching him out of the corner of my eye. I sat down and a wave of nervousness came over me. That fear of rejection burned next to the joy I felt for just being near him.
Mike's P.O.V.
As she walked toward me I couldn't help but stare. when she sat down next to me she looked at me fast. I was close enogh to see all of her face, her lips, eyes, nose. Her eyes were different. They were light brown with specks of dark brown scattered in them and a greenish- blue ring around the brown. They were so beautiful to me, I've never seen anything like them. The dark eyeliner really accented her puples inside the brown. I noticed she liked the ramones whitch were one of my favorites. I felt so scared and happy at the same time. When me and Billie even get a girl to notice that we excest, they normally go for him. I'm just to damn shy and for some reason girls don't like me. I hoped that she wasn't going to be one of those girls, I had a feeling she was different. I don't think any other girl has made me feel like this. I finally got the courage to ask her something. "You like the ramones?" 'stupid mike!! Of course she does!' "Yea, they're one of my favorites." She said with a smile that made my chest feel light as a feather. "I'm Mike" I said holding my hand out. "Harmony" She said while accepting my gesture. Her hand was soft but callosed along the finger tips and the insides of her fingers, I could tell she played music. I saw her pull out a notebook and write something down real fast.
"SHHH!!." The bitch teacher said. "it." I heard her say almost immediatly after. I looked at her with the stupidest smile on my face and started laughing. "So what kind of music do you like?" I whispered to her. "Well, mostly punk rock and metal. My favorites are the ramones, the sex pistols, black sabbeth, iron maddien, and mettalica. But I like other rock too like KISS and stuff like that." She said. "Me too." I said. We talked for the rest of the class and I found out a lot about her, but I felt like she was hiding something. I'd talk about my family and she'd try and avoid it. I didn't expect her to tell me her whole life story or anything, just I felt concerned. There was something she wasn't telling me and I'm going to find out. I don't know why I care so much about this girl when I've only known her for less than a day. But I knew I had to help weather she liked me or not. I could tell this was going to be a long long year...
Harmony's P.O.V.
We talked for the rest of the class, then it was time for lunch. I told him I'd meet him at lunch because I had to find Missy. He was alright with that so we went our separate ways. I couldn't wait to tell her that i found someone that i liked a lot. I ran up and down the halls, desperatly trying to find her. i got glares and rude remarks from some people, but i couldn't of cared less. i was on a cloud of joy i'd never felt before. i couldn't understand why i was soo happy, i just was. I finally found Missy, who was talking to Billie Joe ironically, and I saw mike coming down the other side of the hallway trying to find Billie Joe. As I walked up to them I said "Hey Missy!" "Hey! Come here!" She said back. I Came up to her and asked "I see you two have finally met. So are we going to lunch?" I asked. "Yea, just follow us." Billie Joe said as he and Mike started to walk to the cafeteria. 'I guess I'll tell her later' I thought as Missy and I followed them.
As we walked in we got disgusted looks from people and people saying rude stuff to us. I didn't care anymore because I had Mike and Billie Joe on our side. This one jock dude Stood up in front of me and said "Why don't you go run a mile so you can lose some weight fatass" I saw Billie Joe get mad but I saw Mike getting furious and he looked like he was going to jump on him. "Oh yea, Just state the obvious." I said. I continued in a sarcastic tone. "I've never heard that one before. Ha Ha your funny. You know what, you need to maybe read a fucking book and maybe, just maybe you may learn something but don't hurt yourself now. You've got to be in shape for the "foot ball" season." I said in an imitating voice and pushed him out of the way and started to walk back over toward them. I heard a lot of "Ohhhh's" from everyone as he sat down and turned around. "Go Harmony Grace!!" Missy Said as she put her hand up. We did our famous clap where we jump and clap while we're in the air. "Yea I think I saw his dick go between his legs" I said. We all started laughing. We found a seat way in the back and sat down.
"That was nice." Said Billie Joe. "Yea, I've had to take shit from people like that my whole life so I'm used to it." I said while looking at Mike, Who's been surprisingly quiet the whole time. He looked like he had calmed down. "Yea, you'll get that a lot." He continued. "It's not like I give a shit." I said. WE sat down at the lunch table, missy next to me and mike across. "Yea, she's such a bitch." I heard Billie Joe say while pointing at this really preppy girl, who not only dressed preepy, but she had that really annoying voice too. I could hear her all the way acroos the cafiteria, witch was pretty damn big. "Great, more preps." I said in a disgruntled voice. "I hate them." I heard Mike say, while looking over at the "Bitch" table. Every single one of them were dressed in the latest fashion and were all talking about some guys shirt. Boring
!!! I pulled out some money and asked "Is the food worth eating?" "Umm, if you were desperatly starving." Mike said. i don't know why, but that made me giggle. Putting my money back in my pocket, i asked "Soo, are we the only ones in this school who are outcasts?" "Well, unless you count the nerds, yes. But there are more at other schools, and they all go to gillman street." said mike. "Oh, i've heard of that place. it sounds like fun" I said and smiled again. "Hey, do you guys live around here?" Mike asked us. "Yea, it's only like 15 blocks from here and missy's house is 14." I said. "We live like 16 blocks from here." "Wait, you to live together?" I asked. "Yea, Mike's family couldn't afford to live here anymore so they moved and they let him stay with us." Billie Joe said. "Oh" I said. "That's cool that you two live together." I said. "Hey, lets walk home together" Missy suggested. "Yea, ok" Bille Joe said as Mike and I just nodded our heads in agreement. We continued to talk some more. Until lunch was over.
'We'll meet you by the flag pole after school" He said as He and Mike Walked away. Me and Missy walked toward our classes which were surprisingly across the hall from each other. As we walked I decided I'd tell her now. "Missy, do you like Mike?" I asked, hoping she would say no. "Yea he's pretty cool." She said. "No I mean like like." I asked again. "Ohhhh" She said with the same look that Billie Joe had givin me in homeroom. "No, why do you?" She asked. "Well... .. Yes" I admitted. "Oh, Harmony's got a crush, Harmony's got a crush" She sang in an annoying kids voice. "Shut up! I do ok?" I asked with a smile on my face. "Ok, that's fine. Billie Joe's cool too but they're not my type." Said Missy with a frown. "Aww, it's ok Missy Cool, we'll find you a guy." I said. "Maybe, Well, Se ya." She said as she entered her class and I entered mine.
I sat through the rest of the day bored as hell and just waiting for the clock to speed up. I Kept adding a few lines here or there to my song every once in a while when some lines popped into my head. After what seemed like weeks, the school day was over and we could go home. I found Missy and we went to the flag pole to wait for Billie and Mike. "So, you really like Mike?" She asked me. "Yes, I do." I said with an embarrassed look on my face. "It's nothing to be embarrassed about. Hey, He's a cool guy. I can see you two together." She said. "Oh, come on. He doesn't like me like that. No one ever does." I said with a sad look on my face. Missy didn't say anything but she had an unreadable face. "Hey!" I heard Billie Shout from about 30 feet away and caused me to look up and I saw him walking over to us with Mike at his side. He put a smile on my face as we walked tward each other. his shoulder length blone hair was gleaming in the sun as we got closer. we met halfway and missy said "Come on, lets go!"
"Ok, Missy you can sit next to Mr. Pritchard back there" the teacher said pointing at that mysterious boy. "And Harmony you can sit next to Mr. Armstrong Over there." He said while pointing at a kid who was pretty cute, but no where near as cute as the other. I gave Missy a look saying "Lucky!!" but only she knew what I ment. I walked over to the other side of the room and sat down at the abandoned desk. I saw Missy sit next to that other boy who was surprisingly staring at me. I smiled and he turned away fast with reddened cheeks. Most of the time, if me and Missy got a boy to even look at us, they usually went for her. I don't know why and I really didn't care until now. I just let it pass and tried not to think about it too much as I stared for a couple more seconds until the damn teacher started talking. I listened for about 2 min.,I found out he was teaching something I already knew, so I started doodaling. I then came up with some lines in my head to a song i've been writing so I wrote them down. I could feel that Armstrong kid watching me.
"So, you write songs?" he finally asked me in a wisper. "Yea, sometimes." I replied back while looking up with a smile. "Billie Joe" He said as he held out his hand. "Harmony Grace" I replied back while takeing his hand and giving it a warm shake. "That's a nice name" he whispered again. "How'd you get it?" "Well, My mom wanted to name me after my dad and my dad didn't want any jrs or any remakes of his name. So she looked at music cause my dad's a musician and she came up with Harmony. My dad liked Grace so there." I said finishing. I was drawn back to the day of my sixth birthday. It felt like it was yesterday.
Flash back
"Mommy, Can you tell me about the day I was born?" the 6 year old Harmony asked her mom. "Well, I was walking out to the car after I just went to return a car seat and.." she rambled on. i stood there looking up at my mom. she was so pretty. 'i hope i grow up to be as pretty as her.' i thought as She continued. "When I was ready I puched and pushed and then you came out, but the docters wouldn't let me see you because there was something wrong. So they took you away and found out you had namona." She said as she explained the rest. She smiled and had a loving look in her eye. that look that i'll never forget.
End flash back
I sighed at the memory as Billie Joe asked me "What kind of Bands do you like?" I replied with "Well, I love the ramones as you can tell, the clash, bad religion, the sex pistols, Black Sabbeth, Kiss, aerosmith, the velvet underground and a lot of underground bands from Virginia. thats only a small portian though" I answered. "So do I, that's so cool" he said while smiling a friendly smile at me. "There are a lot of great underground bands here, they all play at this place called gilman street, it's downtown." He said. "Me and my friend Mike over there go there all the time," He said while pointing at that boy. I looked over and saw the boy or Mike glance at me then look away. I think Billie knew that I thought he was cute cause when he said that he gave me this cheeky smile that said 'I know your secreat' " Yea, I'm sure my friend missy would love it." I said while pointing at her just like he had done. I looked over at her and I saw she was too busy to see me but I think he said something and she looked at me with a "hmmm" look on her face. I just laughed and turned around. The teacher kept telling us to stop talking but I didn't care, and I could tell Billie Joe didn't care eather. "Hey, when do you have lunch?" He asked me. "Umm, 5th period." I answered. "Great, that's the same one me and Mike have." He said. "Cool so I guess we'll sit with you guys then?" I asked. "Of course." He said. "Ok. So, Mike... " I said and I saw him smile like he knew what I was going to say. "How long have you two known each other?" I asked. "Scince we were ten. How about you and Missy?" He asked. "For about 15 years." I said. "Whoa so you've known each other your whole lives?" he asked. "Bacically yea." We talked the rest of the block until it was time to switch. I found out I didn't have any more classes with him so I said I'd see him at lunch.
I walked down the hall trying to find my class. It took me like 3 min to find it and I was the last one in the class. I walked in and I saw him again. I was so fixed on him i didn't even see the other people in the room snickering at me. I felt joy inside me but it was interrupted when the damn teacher asked me who I was. "I'm new." "Oh, you must be harmony. Ok well, go sit next to Mike back there." She said while pointing at the only empty desk left. I walked over, trying not to stare at him but also watching him out of the corner of my eye. I sat down and a wave of nervousness came over me. That fear of rejection burned next to the joy I felt for just being near him.
Mike's P.O.V.
As she walked toward me I couldn't help but stare. when she sat down next to me she looked at me fast. I was close enogh to see all of her face, her lips, eyes, nose. Her eyes were different. They were light brown with specks of dark brown scattered in them and a greenish- blue ring around the brown. They were so beautiful to me, I've never seen anything like them. The dark eyeliner really accented her puples inside the brown. I noticed she liked the ramones whitch were one of my favorites. I felt so scared and happy at the same time. When me and Billie even get a girl to notice that we excest, they normally go for him. I'm just to damn shy and for some reason girls don't like me. I hoped that she wasn't going to be one of those girls, I had a feeling she was different. I don't think any other girl has made me feel like this. I finally got the courage to ask her something. "You like the ramones?" 'stupid mike!! Of course she does!' "Yea, they're one of my favorites." She said with a smile that made my chest feel light as a feather. "I'm Mike" I said holding my hand out. "Harmony" She said while accepting my gesture. Her hand was soft but callosed along the finger tips and the insides of her fingers, I could tell she played music. I saw her pull out a notebook and write something down real fast.
"SHHH!!." The bitch teacher said. "it." I heard her say almost immediatly after. I looked at her with the stupidest smile on my face and started laughing. "So what kind of music do you like?" I whispered to her. "Well, mostly punk rock and metal. My favorites are the ramones, the sex pistols, black sabbeth, iron maddien, and mettalica. But I like other rock too like KISS and stuff like that." She said. "Me too." I said. We talked for the rest of the class and I found out a lot about her, but I felt like she was hiding something. I'd talk about my family and she'd try and avoid it. I didn't expect her to tell me her whole life story or anything, just I felt concerned. There was something she wasn't telling me and I'm going to find out. I don't know why I care so much about this girl when I've only known her for less than a day. But I knew I had to help weather she liked me or not. I could tell this was going to be a long long year...
Harmony's P.O.V.
We talked for the rest of the class, then it was time for lunch. I told him I'd meet him at lunch because I had to find Missy. He was alright with that so we went our separate ways. I couldn't wait to tell her that i found someone that i liked a lot. I ran up and down the halls, desperatly trying to find her. i got glares and rude remarks from some people, but i couldn't of cared less. i was on a cloud of joy i'd never felt before. i couldn't understand why i was soo happy, i just was. I finally found Missy, who was talking to Billie Joe ironically, and I saw mike coming down the other side of the hallway trying to find Billie Joe. As I walked up to them I said "Hey Missy!" "Hey! Come here!" She said back. I Came up to her and asked "I see you two have finally met. So are we going to lunch?" I asked. "Yea, just follow us." Billie Joe said as he and Mike started to walk to the cafeteria. 'I guess I'll tell her later' I thought as Missy and I followed them.
As we walked in we got disgusted looks from people and people saying rude stuff to us. I didn't care anymore because I had Mike and Billie Joe on our side. This one jock dude Stood up in front of me and said "Why don't you go run a mile so you can lose some weight fatass" I saw Billie Joe get mad but I saw Mike getting furious and he looked like he was going to jump on him. "Oh yea, Just state the obvious." I said. I continued in a sarcastic tone. "I've never heard that one before. Ha Ha your funny. You know what, you need to maybe read a fucking book and maybe, just maybe you may learn something but don't hurt yourself now. You've got to be in shape for the "foot ball" season." I said in an imitating voice and pushed him out of the way and started to walk back over toward them. I heard a lot of "Ohhhh's" from everyone as he sat down and turned around. "Go Harmony Grace!!" Missy Said as she put her hand up. We did our famous clap where we jump and clap while we're in the air. "Yea I think I saw his dick go between his legs" I said. We all started laughing. We found a seat way in the back and sat down.
"That was nice." Said Billie Joe. "Yea, I've had to take shit from people like that my whole life so I'm used to it." I said while looking at Mike, Who's been surprisingly quiet the whole time. He looked like he had calmed down. "Yea, you'll get that a lot." He continued. "It's not like I give a shit." I said. WE sat down at the lunch table, missy next to me and mike across. "Yea, she's such a bitch." I heard Billie Joe say while pointing at this really preppy girl, who not only dressed preepy, but she had that really annoying voice too. I could hear her all the way acroos the cafiteria, witch was pretty damn big. "Great, more preps." I said in a disgruntled voice. "I hate them." I heard Mike say, while looking over at the "Bitch" table. Every single one of them were dressed in the latest fashion and were all talking about some guys shirt. Boring
!!! I pulled out some money and asked "Is the food worth eating?" "Umm, if you were desperatly starving." Mike said. i don't know why, but that made me giggle. Putting my money back in my pocket, i asked "Soo, are we the only ones in this school who are outcasts?" "Well, unless you count the nerds, yes. But there are more at other schools, and they all go to gillman street." said mike. "Oh, i've heard of that place. it sounds like fun" I said and smiled again. "Hey, do you guys live around here?" Mike asked us. "Yea, it's only like 15 blocks from here and missy's house is 14." I said. "We live like 16 blocks from here." "Wait, you to live together?" I asked. "Yea, Mike's family couldn't afford to live here anymore so they moved and they let him stay with us." Billie Joe said. "Oh" I said. "That's cool that you two live together." I said. "Hey, lets walk home together" Missy suggested. "Yea, ok" Bille Joe said as Mike and I just nodded our heads in agreement. We continued to talk some more. Until lunch was over.
'We'll meet you by the flag pole after school" He said as He and Mike Walked away. Me and Missy walked toward our classes which were surprisingly across the hall from each other. As we walked I decided I'd tell her now. "Missy, do you like Mike?" I asked, hoping she would say no. "Yea he's pretty cool." She said. "No I mean like like." I asked again. "Ohhhh" She said with the same look that Billie Joe had givin me in homeroom. "No, why do you?" She asked. "Well... .. Yes" I admitted. "Oh, Harmony's got a crush, Harmony's got a crush" She sang in an annoying kids voice. "Shut up! I do ok?" I asked with a smile on my face. "Ok, that's fine. Billie Joe's cool too but they're not my type." Said Missy with a frown. "Aww, it's ok Missy Cool, we'll find you a guy." I said. "Maybe, Well, Se ya." She said as she entered her class and I entered mine.
I sat through the rest of the day bored as hell and just waiting for the clock to speed up. I Kept adding a few lines here or there to my song every once in a while when some lines popped into my head. After what seemed like weeks, the school day was over and we could go home. I found Missy and we went to the flag pole to wait for Billie and Mike. "So, you really like Mike?" She asked me. "Yes, I do." I said with an embarrassed look on my face. "It's nothing to be embarrassed about. Hey, He's a cool guy. I can see you two together." She said. "Oh, come on. He doesn't like me like that. No one ever does." I said with a sad look on my face. Missy didn't say anything but she had an unreadable face. "Hey!" I heard Billie Shout from about 30 feet away and caused me to look up and I saw him walking over to us with Mike at his side. He put a smile on my face as we walked tward each other. his shoulder length blone hair was gleaming in the sun as we got closer. we met halfway and missy said "Come on, lets go!"
