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
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