It happened again.
Two years ago I fell for him. He was the funniest, sweetest guy
ever. He became my best friend. He walked me to class, he flirted
with me every moment we were together, he made me laugh
constantly, he stood up for me around his friends, he put up with
my stupidity. Then one day he just stopped. He didn't even
talk to me for weeks. It took me months to get over him, but I
did.
Last year on the first day of school I saw him walking down the
hallway. I was ready to ignore him so I looked the other way but
of course he noticed me. He hit me flirtily on the head with his
papers and his face just brighened when he said my name. And in
that moment I knew it was happening all over again. But it soon
ended and towards the middle of the year I went back to silently
passing him in the hallways trying to look the other way.
But you wanna know what happened today? I was at work putting
some clothes away on the racks. I just so happened to look over
and I saw him standing there. I didn't want him to see me so
I tried to hurry. I looked up as I was about to walk away and
then he looked over so I quickly turned around and got back to
work.
I felt it again. I felt that flutter in my stomach. But I
didn't want to fall for him for a third time. I tried to
ignore him but I ran out of other things to do. Eventually I had
to walk past him and he was looking at me so I said hey just to
be friendly. He smiled and said "Hey Sam, how's it
going?"
Nothing wrong with that, right?
Wrong.
My name is Alex.