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I could hear my heels clicking on the tile floor as I walked
down the dead silent hall at school. No one said anything, but I could feel
they were staring at me.
I am a freak now, and I can’t take it back.
***
He was just a boy who loved music and I was a girl who could
have done better. Joshua Frazier made
music in his house with his best friend, and he didn’t have a girlfriend. Nor
did he want one, or so the rumors said. But deep down inside me, I just couldn’t
resist.
It wasn’t this way at the beginning, though.
***
I was at a football game, cheering on my home crowd, when I
saw Joshua. I don’t know what it was about him, but I felt this urge to go talk
to him. I instantly scolded myself. No, Megan;
you have a boyfriend, and he doesn’t want a girlfriend. Don’t bother. But
all through the game, I couldn’t take my eyes off him. He had his computer out
with headphones on sometimes. I guess he was working on something with Florin,
his best friend, because they looked deep in thought as they occasionally pointed
to the screen and shared the headphones.
Heath approached me after the game and he wasn’t very happy.
He noticed that I wasn’t watching the game and asked me about it.
“I’m sorry. I just wasn’t in the zone I guess.”
Heath changed, his expression moving from angry to
concerned. “Are you okay?”
I didn’t realize it, but I felt kind of awkward and cold. I
didn’t know what was going on, but I wasn’t about to tell Heath about Joshua. “Yeah,
I’m fine. I guess I just need to get some sleep.”
Back at home a week later, lying on my bed, my head wouldn’t
stop reeling. My heartbeat grew faster as I remembered he slight lingering
gazes when he thought I wasn’t looking. He did that all week too, I remembered.
I suddenly sat up, shaking my head as if that would clear it. I couldn’t do
this anymore. I don’t know why I feel this way about Joshua, but I couldn’t
deny it any further. It had been a week since the game, and I still couldn’t
keep Joshua out of my head. I decided to do something about it in the morning,
but I had to start with Heath.
I called Heath around noon, it being Saturday and he didn’t
wake up until noon anyway. I asked if we could talk.
“But we are talking,” he said innocently, obviously sounding
like he just woke up.
“I mean in person,” I sighed. I think he got the hint,
because he agreed and we met at the closest park. I walked there but it was
raining. Such luck was mine, but it is
Seattle. I sat on a bench that wasn’t too wet and I waited for him to show up.
When he did, he didn’t have an umbrella, so I had to share
mine.
“What did you want to talk about?” he sat close to me,
keeping me warm.
He smelled so good; it almost broke my heart to do this to
him. But with Joshua showing up and taking over my thoughts, I couldn’t keep it
up.
“Us,” I said quietly, but I knew Heath heard me by the way
his body stiffened.
“Am I doing something wrong?”
“No, it’s not even you anyways. It’s all me and I can’t do
this to you anymore.” I tried not to cry.
“So why now?”
I thought about it for a moment. “I don’t even know where
this came from, but I can’t deny my feelings.”
“Who is it?” He was spot on, and I felt bad for thinking he
wasn’t that smart.
“Joshua Frazier.”
Heath turned to look at me, “Why him? He’s a freak!”
“I don’t know!” I shouted, standing up. “I don’t know why I
feel this way, but I do! I can shut my ears to something I don’t want to hear,
but I can’t stop my heart from feeling what it wants to feel.” I shuddered from
the sudden lack of heat on my right side where Heath had been sitting. “Good
bye, Heath. I hope there’s no bad blood between us.” I walked away in the
strengthening rain, leaving Heath behind me.
Monday, I was shunned. People never talked when I was in the
hall. It was so quiet; you could hear a pin drop from the other end. They
stared at me like I was limited edition, and inside I was breaking. I had never
not had friends but now I guess I
would learn how to deal without them. I felt like a freak, and I couldn’t
change it.
In class, Joshua sat
next to me, and my heart raced despite the circumstances.
“How are you?” he asked with a cute smile. His deep blue eyes were shining and his dark
red-brown hair was sticking up stylishly. I couldn’t say anything, so I shook
my head. He frowned and laughed a little, playfully bumping my shoulder with his.
“Being ignored by people isn’t the worst thing to happen, believe me. It’ll get
better.” Florin came in, but had to sit on my other side.
“Hey, dude, are we going –“
Joshua held up a finger, making him wait, “In a minute, bro.
Megan, will you look at me, please?”
I made my eyes meet his and I tried not to blush. “Yes?”
“You’re an amazing person and I don’t know why anyone would
want to ignore you. I know for a fact that I wouldn’t ignore you, no matter
what you did. Do you want to talk about it?”
I shrugged but the bell cut off my response. He made a
writing gesture and I took the hint. I began to write a note. I told him how I
broke up with Heath. I threw it onto his desk. He smiled and wrote me back.
What was the reason?
I like someone else.
Would you care to tell
me?
I paused, though I knew I had to tell him sometime.
I like you.
He didn’t respond. The suspense we killing me, but at the
end of class he gave the note back before falling into step with Florin who
instantly began talking about getting together to write more beats. So that’s what they did: They wrote music
together.
I opened the note, my hands shaking, but the response was
not one I expected.
Meet me in front of
the school after fourth period.
So, after fourth period, I walked outside into the pouring
rain. Joshua waited for me under a tree, his hair soaked.
“You wanted to meet?” I had forgotten my umbrella today,
which was dumb. It always rains in Seattle.
“Yeah, I did,” he smiled and pulled me under the tree.
“So?”
“I like you too,” he whispered.
My breath left me and my eyes were wide. He laughed and
pulled me into his chest. “You don’t have to say anything.”
“I don’t need to,” I smiled and kissed him in the rain.
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