And
there we
were;;
sitting
on his bed, working on our english assignment. it
was
awkward being
at his house, considering we stopped being
friends
a few years
ago. but even so, i can't say i didn't like
it.
he stopped writing and said, just out of
the blue,
"why
aren't we friends
anymore?"
he took me by
complete surprise. i didn't know what to say. so i simply
said
"because
we just gave up trying."
"trying what?"
"Look, you're popular. you've been the football guarterback
since i've known
you. you have girls who'd do anything to date you. you're a
straight-A student.
to the untrained eye,
you're basically the perfect teenage boy. but me? i'm
not popular, i just have my close friends. i'm not beautiful,
maybe not even
pretty. i'm not great at sports or anything. i can barely pass
the mile
run in gym class. i do alright in school, but i'm no genius. and
guys
aren't exactly fighting to ask me out. we were total opposites. i'm not
even
sure how what made us friends in the first place. but whatever it
was,
wasn't strong enough to last long."
he looked at me seriously for a long time, taking in what i had
said.
"I know why we became
friends." he finally said.
"Why, then." i asked.
"because on the first day of middle school, when you walked
into homeroom,
i almost stopped breathing. you were beautiful. you were wearing those
faded jeans
and green tank top. you had you're hair in a ponytail and weren't
wearing any make-up.
and you didn't know anyone in our class, but you still just came
in and sat down next to me,
smiled, and said "hey, i'm
erin, what's your name?" and i could smell your
rasberry
shampoo
and see the friendship bracelet on
your right arm. and right at that moment, i knew."
"..knew what?" i asked, amazed.
"Right at that moment, i knew, that you were the girl i wanted to
be
in my life forever <3