Kelsi picked up the phone to call Tyler.  It barely had time to ring once before he picked it up.

            “Hey Tyler. Could you come over real quick? I need to talk to you.”

            “I’ll be right over Firecracker.”

            “See you then Zorro.”

            She hung up the phone and went outside to wait on Tyler. He got there a few moments later. HE ran up to kiss her but she simply turned her head and he kissed her cheek.

            “What’s up? Why did you need to talk to me?”

            “I needed to tell you that, you’re nice but it just wasn’t…” a lump formed in her throat, she had never felt so horrible in her lives. “…Wasn’t meant to be.”

            “What do you think that?”

            “I don’t think that I know that it wasn’t meant to be.”

            “So you need to go. I have to go eat dinner.”

            “Okay. Bye. I guess I’ll see you at school.”

            “Yeah, but let’s not tell anyone about this.”

            “Okay, bye.”  He got back on his bike and rode off toward his house.

            Kelsi walked into her house.

            “You ready to eat honey?”

            “I’m not hungry.”

            “Okay dear, I will leave you some in the fridge, in case you get hungry.”

            “Okay mom, I want to be left alone so don’t come talk to me later ok.” Before her mom could respond she went up to her room. She sat on her computer, wanting to write a song but she couldn’t. She sat on her bed and looked at the ceiling and saw the clown that Tyler had pointed out except instead of laughing at it like she had last time it simply made her cry harder. She closed her eyes trying to escape memories of him. But it didn’t help. She saw the day Tyler and her fist met. The days at the mall and school. The day that he had pointed out the clown. That day at the picnic, when she had made him a hat out of a piece of paper. And how she had stolen his black converse shoes. The way he had laughed at the clown. Now she wished she could erase the past and start over but she couldn’t they just weren’t meant to be. She stood up and walked over to the computer and started typing a song.

            Two hours later she had finished the song and she decided to send it to Sharpay. Then she changed her mind and sent it to Tyler.

            Zorro,

                        I wrote this song. Tell me what you think.

            You were the one
That I couldn't find
Hidden away
In the depths of my mind

Why did I let you go
You're to good to be true
I messed it up and now I don't know what to do
We ran in circles and wasted time
From right to wrong
From right to wrong

If I knew that you were mine
I wouldn't have wasted time
I wish I could erase the past
Now its all collapsed
In my lap

I over thought
So I locked up my heart yeah
There you stood
Your blue eyes hidden beneath your hood

Why did I let you go
You're to good to be true
I messed it up and now I don't know what to do
We ran in circles and wasted time
From right to wrong
From right to wrong

If I knew that you were mine
I wouldn't have wasted time
I wish I could erase the past
Now its all collapsed
In my lap

My mind is blank just like a clean slate
Will I meet another guy with the same brown eyes
And the same name, with the converse shoes I gave.
Will he have the same laugh
Wear my homemade hat.
Bet I'll make another mistake.
And think he's just another fake.

Wish I could erase the past
Wish I could bring you back

If I knew that you were mine
I wouldn't have wasted time
I wish I could erase the past
Now its all collapsed
In my lap

If I knew that you were mine
I wouldn't have wasted time
I wish I could erase the past
Now its all collapsed
In my lap

                                Friend 4ever, Firecracker.

She clicked send.

After the picnic Kelsi ran home to call Sharpay, Jason, and Sierra. She ran into the house.

            “Mom! Guess what!”

            “What honey?” she asked mixing the ingredients together for the casserole she was making.

            “I’ve got a boyfriend! Tyler was Zorro. Oh my gosh he is so sweet and cute in everyway. We are gonna hang out tonight after dinner. I am so excited.”

            “That’s nice dear.”

            “Well mom I gotta call Sharpay and tell her Tyler is my Zorro.”

            “Okay but don’t stay on the phone to long.”

            “Okay mom.” Then she rushed up the stairs to her room. She dialed the familiar number to call Sharpay.

            Riiing, riiing,riiing. Sharpay finally answered her phone.

            “What took you so long to pick up your phone?” she asked.

            “Sorry Kelsi I was making out with Troy.”

            “Gross! Too much information.”

            “You asked.”

            “I wish I hadn’t. Oh yeah I called to tell you that Tyler was Zorro.”

            “Tyler as in the guy you hated cuz he read over your shoulder once.”

            “Yeah.”

            “I guess you don’t have a boyfriend after all.”

            “Huh?”

            “Well you said he was a jerk so you’re obviously not going to date him. I mean I wouldn’t.”

            “Yeah I don’t have a boyfriend after all.”

            “Don’t worry you’ll find Mr. Perfect one day.”

            “Yeah one day, when my dreams come true.”

            “You know that would make a great song.”

            “What?”

            “When you said one day when my dreams come true, that’s what I meant would make a good song”

            “I guess your right. I gotta call Sierra.”

            “Okay, bye.” She hung up the phone and she felt a tiny tear fall off her cheeks and roll off onto her pillow case. Maybe we weren’t meant to be. She thought.

            She picked up the phone to call Sierra.

            “Hey Sierra,” she whispered into the phone when she picked up the phone.

            “Kelsi? What’s wrong?”

            “I  found out who Zorro is.”

            “Who is it?”

            “Tyler.”

            “Our Tyler as in your friend Tyler.”

            “Yes.”

            “Well I guess you won’t have a date to my party.”

            “What party?”

            “The one I was gonna throw for you so you and Zorro could dance again.”

            “Why wouldn’t I have a date for your party?”

            “Hello, its Tyler. You can’t date one of your best friends.

            “Why not?”

            “Cuz then you will become a twosome and I will become a onesome, then when you break up we will be three onesomes.”

            “You’re right. I don’t want to end up as a onesome.”

            “Okay, bye. I gotta go eat dinner.”

            Kelsi hung up the phone and she felt as if someone had kicked her in the stomach.

            “I guess we just weren’t meant to be.” She whispered to herself.

Not the last chapter. Maybe like two ore three more. Review please. Love ya all.

Kelsi walked down the sidewalk trying nit to collide with the, what seemed like millions of people on the street and sidewalk. She got to central park and saw a picnic blanket and picnic basket both sitting on the ground under a tree. She sat down at it and waited to meet her Zorro.  Tyler came into view.

            “Hey Tyler, what are you doing here?”

            “Kelsi, I’m Zorro.”

            “What? You’re Zorro?”

            “Yes. Now if you want to leave and never look at me again go ahead. I just want one thing first.” He ran up to her and kissed her. He stepped back and stared at her as if to remember what she looked like forever. Kelsi just stood in shock. When Zorro kissed her she didn’t feel this way when Jason kissed her she didn’t feel this way. At that moment she felt as if butterflies were in her stomach and firecrackers were in her head and a tingling sensation was in her heart.  She looked at Tyler. He was still staring at her, as if waiting to see what she would say. She didn’t say anything she simply walked over to him and kissed him back and sat down on the picnic blanket waiting for him to join her.

I think this might be the last chapter you tell me if it is a good ending. Please let me know so I can know if I should write another chapter or not.  

Kelsi didn’t here from Z until the last day of school. She actually didn’t see him; he left her a gift on her front porch. He gave her a teddy bear with a Zorro cape, hat and mask. The fact that he knew where she lived gave her clues, she now knew that it was someone who had been to her house, or seen her come to her house. It didn’t narrow down her search very much, but at least she knew he didn’t forget about her.

            School was out and Kelsi was planning to travel to Albuquerque to visit Sharpay and Jason. She wasn’t going to tell Jason about Zorro, they weren’t dating but she didn’t want to stop loving him just because she had fallen for someone she had never really seen.

            A few days before Kelsi was going to leave Tyler and Sierra came to help her pack and talk to her. As she packed Kelsi noticed that Tyler was zoned out.

            “Tyler, you ok?” she asked him.

            “Huh…Yeah I’m fine.” He said and stared out the window again.

            “What’s wrong with him?’ Kelsi asked Sierra.

            “I don’t know. I haven’t seen him this upset since his gerbil died. If I remember correctly his name was Gerbil.”

            “He named his gerbil, Gerbil?”

            “Don’t ask he is really weird.” Kelsi dropped the conversation and picked up her Zorro bear and slipped him into her suit case.

            “Honey are you sure you will be ok?”

            “I’ll be fine Mom, but I won’t be okay if you don’t let go of me cuz I can’t breathe.”

            “Sorry honey. Tell Sharpay I said hi. Tell Jason too.”

            “I’ll tell them as soon as I get there since they are gonna pick me up at the airport.”

            “Okay, be safe and don’t do anything I did when I was your age.”

            “Okay Mom I promise I won’t.”

            Kelsi stood up and followed the other people onto the plane.

            Kelsi stood up on the plane and walked. Toward the door carrying her bag that held her composition book and her books she had bought before leaving. She got her luggage and waited outside for Sharpay and Jason.  A few moments later Troy drove up in his blue escalade with Sharpay in the passenger’s seat and Jason in the back seat. Troy took Kelsi’s luggage and flung them into the back. Kelsi slid in beside Jason and greeted with a quick kiss on the cheek.

            “Kelsi I wanted to tell you, I’ve got a new girlfriend,” he looked down at the floorboard, “Sorry, but she’s here and…”

            “And I’m there.” She finished. She didn’t feel bad when he told her. “It’s okay I understand I kinda found someone too, not that I’ve ever seen his face but still.”

            “You still haven’t seen Zorro’s face?”

            “No, he did put a bear on my front porch though.”

            “That is so sweet,” she looked at Troy, “Why don’t you ever do that for me?”

            “Okay, I will send you a teddy bear dressed in a basketball uniform tomorrow.”

            “Don’t do that!”

            “You just said that you wish I did that.”

            “I know but you’re not supposed to tell me when you are going to give it to me.”

            “Sorry Sharpie.”

            “It’s ok, Honey.”

            “You two are a perfect couple.” Jason laughed

            “We know.” They said in unison.

            “They are so creepy.” Kelsi said.

            “Yeah.” Jason agreed.

            When Kelsi came home she had spent time with her friends. They were at the mall. And they had stopped to look at cds and Kelsi looked everywhere for Kelly Clarkson’s new cd but she couldn’t find it anywhere. She finally gave up and they went home. The next day she heard the door bell ring she went down stairs and opened the door.  She looked down and saw a manila folder she picked it up and looked inside. There was the CD she had looked for everywhere the night before. Inside was a note that read:

            Kelsi, hope you liked the bear. Here is something I know you want. Meet me at the park tonight at lunch. Bring your appetite cuz I am going to bring a picnic to eat if you don’t run off when you see who I am. Please come. Zorro.

            Kelsi ran up to her room and put the CD in the CD player and called Sierra.

            Lunch time came and Kelsi changed from her baggy clothed to a pair of tight shorts and a blue and purple halter top. Pulled her hair into a ponytail and walked down the stairs.  She went to the door and turned the knob.

Kelsi watched as Z ran off. She watched him run out the door, she finally ran after him. By the time she got outside he was no where in sight. She ran to Sierra to tell her what had happened.

            “Sierra, he kissed me?”

            “He did? Who is he?”

            “Yes, he kissed me, but I don’t know who he is.”

            “How could you not find out who he is?!”

            “Well he ran off before I could see who he was.”

            “Well maybe you two can meet and you can see each other’s whole faces.”

            “I hope so, he was a really good kisser, not as good as Jason, but hey not everybody can be a Jason. Where’s Tyler?”

            “He called a few minutes after we got here saying that he’s sick.”

            “Really what’s wrong with him?”

            “I think he said it was food poisoning.”

            “I hope he gets to feeling better. Maybe we should go check up on him when we leave.”

            “I told him we would, but he said not to because he didn’t want to get us sick.”

            “Okay we won’t go tonight but we gotta go see him tomorrow.”

            “Okay.”

            “Well my date ran off on me so I’m gonna go on home.”

            “Bye, tell Sharpay I said hi if you call her.”

            “How can I not call Sharpie after I just kissed a guy I don’t know.”

            “Of course you gotta call her or she might kill you. See ya, Firecracker”

            “See ya, Scrunches.”

            When Kelsi got home she got on the computer to e-mail Sharpay.

            Sharpie,

                                    The dance was awesome. I kissed him. Let me tell you he is a great kisser. HE has brown eyes and I don’t know what color his hair was because her had on a hat. How’s it going with you right now?

            I ‘m gonna write a song and E-mail it to you. Bye.

                                                                        Love ya like a sista,

                                                                        Kracker Jack or Firecracker.

            P.S. Scrunches says hi.

            Kelsi sat on her bed and started to write down words, and lyrics. Finally in about three hours she had written a song.

            Sharpie,

                        I’m back I wrote a song. Here it is.

Once upon a broken heart
I was walking alone in the dark
Looking for a way to start again
What I wouldn't give for a friend
There was no love in my life
There was no light in my eyes
All the tears that I had cried and cried
Seemed like they'd never end

And I never believed fairytales came true
But now I know that they really do
Now that I found you, now that I'm here with you
Just look at the sunshine, and you
Showed me a world
That I'd never seen
I woke up and fell into this dream
Happily ever after just took time
Once upon this broken heart of mine

Long ago and far away
I could never dream of the day
That your love would come my way and stay
And sweep me away and I

Never believed fairytales came true
But now I know that they really do
Now that I found you, now that I'm here with you
Just look at the sunshine, and you
Showed me a world
That I'd never seen
I woke up and fell into this dream
Happily ever after just took time
Once upon this broken heart of mine

this is the way a fairytale feels
This is the way I know it's real
'Cause this is the way a broken heart heals

And I never believed fairytales came true
But now I know that they really do
Now that I found you, now that I'm here with you
Just look at the sunshine, and you
Showed me a world
That I'd never seen
I woke up and fell into this dream
Happily ever after just took time
Once upon this broken heart of mine

          I hope you like it.

                                    Love ya,

                                    Firecracker/ Kracker Jack

            She turned off her computer for the night and stared at the ceiling. Then out of no where she laughed, she laughed and laughed until she rolled off on to the floor. She finally stopped laughing and looked up at the ceiling and staring back at her was the face of a clown.

I know kinda lame but I thought it was kinda funny. Please review. Thanks for reading don’t forget to read the next chapter.

At the dance Kelsi suddenly felt really nervous. Her stomach did flip-flops. She clutched her stomach and walked down the stairs. She headed for the refreshment table looking for her date dressed as Zorro. She looked and finally spotted him pouring himself a glass of punch. She caught her breath and walked toward him.  She went toward him and tapped him lightly on the shoulder.

            “Hey Kelsi.”

            “Hey Guy.”

            “You know me but I don’t want you to know what my name is yet so just call me Z.”

            “Does your name start with Z?”

            “No, just call me Z for Zorro.”

            “Okay Z.”

            “You wanna dance?”

            “Sure.” He took her hand and led her to the center of the dance floor. As they got out there the fast music changed to a slow song.  Kelsi put her arms on his shoulder and her put his gently around her waist. As they danced, Kelsi began to feel less nervous. Something about Z made her feel like she knew him. She looked at his brown eyes. They looked familiar. He brushed her skin lightly with his thumb. His touch sent a shiver up her spine the same way that Jason’s touch did. He leaned in and their lips brushed. Her arms slid around his neck and his arms tightened around her waist. Suddenly she pulled away and looked at his eyes again she reached to take off the mask to reveal the identity of Z. Then he pulled away and ran off.

            ‘Who is Z?’ she wondered.

As the weeks went by and spring turned to summer and the end of the school year was coming to an end.  The school was having a dance to celebrate the end of school. Kelsi liked New York, but she couldn’t wait until summer so she could go to New Mexico and visit Sharpay and Jason.

            One day about a week from the dance Kelsi opened her locker and found a letter folded up on top of her books. In it was a note scrawled neatly in blue ink. It read:

            Kelsi,

                        I’m sorry if I hurt you in any way. Please forgive me and meet me at the end of school dance by the food table. I will be dressed as Zorro. I know it sounds lame but I couldn’t find another costume. Please meet me.

                                                                        Your secret admirer.

            Kelsi read over it again trying to figure out who it was. Sierra came up and saw the confused look on her face.

            “What’s up? You look like you just swallowed a sock.”

            “I got this letter and I don’t know who it’s from.”

            “Here’s a thought,” Tyler said coming toward them, “look at the bottom of the page and see what they signed their name as.”

            “They didn’t sign there name that’s why I don’t know who it is.”

            “Oh, let me look at it.” Tyler said.

            “Let me look at it first.” Sierra said taking it out of Kelsi’s hand. She studied it for a moment. “That looks like a girl’s handwriting.” She said handing in to Tyler.

            “It does. A girl has a crush on you! Gross!”

            “Just because the handwriting looks like a girl’s doesn’t mean that a girl sent it to me, Einstein, He might have gotten a girl to write it so I wouldn’t know who it was.” Kelsi pointed out.

            “That makes more sense.”

            “We have to find out who it is.” Kelsi said.

            “Why you will find out who it is at the dance.”

            “Maybe you’re right, Surprises are a good thing. Hopefully this one will be too.”

            The next day Kelsi, Sierra, and Tyler headed to the mall to find Kelsi and Sierra a costume. Tyler did not need one because he was going to use the one he used last year; he only came to see what cuties he could find at the mall. In the end Sierra picked out an angel costume and Kelsi was going to wear a white dress with a white mask to cover her face.

            The day of the dance had arrived and Kelsi was nervous. SHE slipped into the white dress and slipped her mask on. She heard a knock at the door and she went to get it Sierra was wearing her angel costume and waiting for her.

            “You look great.” Sierra complimented.

            “Thanks, where’s Tyler?”

            “He said he would meet us at the dance. Come on, you have a date with destiny.”

            “What makes you think its destiny?”

            “I don’t I just felt like saying it was.”

            “Come on let’s go.”

One day after school when Sierra, Kelsi and Tyler were sitting on Kelsi’s bed in her new house. They were really bored and Kelsi was talking about how they had found a pair of Elliot’s boxers in one of the clothes boxes when they were unpacking when Tyler just came out of the blue and said,

            “I see a clown.” Both the girls looked at him like he was crazy.

            “What?” Kelsi asked.

            “I see a clown on your ceiling.” He replied.

            “He’s finally cracked Sierra.” They all laughed.

            “I’ve got an idea. Let’s make a paper so we can know everything about each other.”

            “Sounds like fun.”

            Sierra six pieces of paper two for each of them, she wrote down different things to tell about themselves.

            “This is crazy why you need to know what my favorite gift to receive is.”

            “So we’ll know what to get you for Christmas, or your birthday.”

            “Whatever, so we fill it out and give one to each of the other people.”

            “Yep.”

            Kelsi answered all the questions. She was ok with most of them until it came to questions about who here parents were. She knew who her mom was but she didn’t know how her dad was she never met him. So she left all the questions about her dad blank.

            When they were done answering the questions and they gave their friends the papers. Sierra curiously asked,

            “Why didn’t you answer your questions about your dad?”

            “I…I…I don’t know who he is.” She said embarrassed.

            “How can you not know who your dad is? Did your mama lay an egg and you were hatched instead of born?”

            “No, I don’t know my dad because he ran away when he found out Mom was pregnant with me. My mom almost got an abortion because she didn’t think she could handle raising a kid on her own. I’m just happy to be alive.” She said trying as hard as she could to hold back the tears. “I’ve never told anyone except Jason.”

            “I’m so sorry.” Sierra said wrapping her new friend in a big bear hug. Tyler joined in on the hug.

It is so horrible isn’t it not my writing but Kelsi’s story.  I thought Tyler could be a funny person.

After e-mailing Sharpay Kelsi went down stairs to eat dinner. She ate the dinner that Mrs. Jackson made and went to bed early so she could wake up early the next day.

            She woke up the next day and got dressed. She wore a green halter top and a mini skirt. She put a barrette in her hair and went downstairs to eat. As she walked down the stairs she knew someone was staring at her. She turned around and saw Elliot and his friends. James mouth had dropped open at the sight of her. She knew that they were only staring at her because of what she was wearing she knew she was not pretty.

            She made herself an egg and went to school. She waited at the corner where she had planned to meet Tyler and Sierra. Sierra was the first one there.

            “Hey girl,” she yelled as she ran down the sidewalk her beautiful black hair flowing behind her, “I know you said you don’t like those clothes but in my opinion you look good.”

            “Thanks I am starting to like the clothes they aren’t that bad except for the high heels which I am taking back tonight when we go to the mall.”

            “Hey let me look at them tonight and I might buy them off you. You know me I love shoes.”

            “Yeah I’ve never met anyone who loves shoes as much as you not even Sharpay and I thought she was obsessed.” They both laughed, and Tyler came up.

            “Hey girls what’s so funny?” he asked when he saw them laughing.

            “Well, we were talking about clothes and shoes and Kelsi said that she has ever met anyone as obsessed with shoes as I am.” Sierra told him.

            “What’s so funny about that?” he asked confused

            The girls looked at each other. “We don’t know.”

            “You girls are really weird.”

            “I know one thing at least we don’t read over other people’s shoulders.” Kelsi said staring at Tyler.

            “Are you still holding a grudge about that?”

            “No, I just like to act like I am.”

            “You know we are going to be late unless we head to school right now and quit talking.”

            “You’re right let’s go.” They walked on toward school laughing.