• Stacy's Nickel's Diary Entry #1
    March 13, 2010

    tab Just one simple glance at Tyler Woods wouldn't tell you how different he really was. All right, maybe his nice, button up shirt, fit with a tie and a beanie to go would clue you in on something, but all in all, he looked normal enough, maybe even cute. In fact, there were a lot of girls who just swooned over him in the halls before class, but as soon as he spoke those first, reputation making words, all his fans cringed in despair.
    tab "That would be me, sir." "Sir"? Seriously, who says that? That pretty much made his fate set. He wouldn't be any person that was going to be asked out any time soon.
    tab Tyler was the kind of person who just made so much sense, he didn't make any sense. Correcting people's grammar, asking why everyone was laughing at something that really shouldn't have been so funny...It was all logical, but in our minds, why would anyone do something like that?
    tab Man, I feel pretty stupid writing this diary. I guess I really shouldn't be making fun of Tyler when the people who still write diaries are probably more scarce than the people who still say "sir".
    tab Nobody would've had any notion that I would start writing my own diary, least of all me. They were, I thought, simply reserved for people like nerds or dorks who actually enjoyed that kind of stuff. Besides, I considered my life too bland and uneventful to have anything worth actually writing about.
    tab Well, I guess until now.
    tab You see, Tyler wasn't the only thing on my mind that day. It was Jacob. More or less, he was my "boyfriend", or whatever you call a "boyfriend" that you don't actually like.
    tab I guess that brings me to the other reason I'm writing this journal. There were a million reasons why I should've left Jacob, but I didn't.
    tab I'll explain that later.
    tab Today, though, Jacob crossed the line. I was done. Finished.
    tab Finished...with what?
    tab That's what I'm going to tell you, assuming there is a you, and I'm not just explaining this to myself. I guess, after what happened today, I'm just worried about what will happen next, and if worse comes to worse, will people know the full story?
    tab Jacob tried to rape me.
    tab Now that I've insulted Tyler all this time, I now have him to thank for saving, potentially, my life. Without him there, who knows what would've happened? He stepped in at the exact right time, and sent Jacob to the ambulance without breaking a sweat. And after Tyler was wrongly accused and sent to the principle's office, probably for expellsion, I made up my mind:
    tab I was through living in the dark. I was going to tell the truth.
    tab But the truth I told the princicple was just to get Tyler out of trouble. For you, anonymous reader, I give the full truth.
    tab They say the truth hurts. I couldn't agree more.

    tab I met Jacob in third grade. He was a new student who came around half way through the school year, something new and refreshing to see in the small district we had at Jayfox.
    tab I was quick to make first impressions, and very surprisingly, it was all positive. He was nice, gentle, selfless...
    tab If you know a thing or two about Jacob, at least at his current state, you're probably thinking that this is some sort mistake. If you were to take first impressions on him now, you would say the complete opposite: He was mean, rough, selfish...
    tab ...Criminal...
    tab The innocent boy from third grade, you can tell, has changed into a school menace in a matter of seven years.
    tab Within those seven years, a story unfolds.
    tab My story.
    tab His story. The story that almost justified his criminal behavior in his later years.
    tab Listen to my story, because it might be the last chance for me to share the truth.