OK, so today I FINALLY worked up the courage to ask Tyler out. As soon as Math was over, I went up to him and said (I'm not quite sure, I was really nervous) something along the lines of

"Will you go out with me?!?"

And just as the time when I asked him to the dance, it was loud and fangirly. There was what seemed like an eternity of awkward silence, and then he stared at me and said,

"What?"

And I said,

"Nothing! Never mind!"

And I went to Science. But the worst of all was yet to come. Cody C., who I thought was my friend, started making fun of me and teasing me all day long. I could've dealt with the "rejection" alone, but he kept making it worse. All afternoon I had to listen to him follow me aorund and tell random people in the halls that Tyler rejected me, and all he said to me was,

"Hey Nikole! Tyler says to tell you that you're hideous."
"Hey Nikole! Tyler says to tell you that he thinks you're a slut."
"Hey Nikole! Tyler says to tell you that he would rather burn in Hell than go out with you."

And it hurts a lot, because I've always been self concious about how I look. I've only had a total of 3 people in my entire life tell me that I was pretty. And that's just the half of it. Cody's verbal abuse stings, a lot. Added to the verbal abuse I get from Lucas each and every day, which Brooke finally noticed and "took care of", it's enough to bring me to tears...