Saturday, October 3, 2009

Is Love that Hard?

My first love was something I could never forget. We were all friends in third grade. He sat behind me and I could feel my body getting hotter by the minute. I turned around and smiled a friendly, warm smile. “Hi,” I said. He looked up from his neatly handwritten homework. A reply came out from his pink, soft looking lips, “Hey Wendy.” I felt like I would faint. He wasn’t taller than me but he was not that short, in third grade most guys were shorter than me. I loved the way he smiled. We knew each other since kindergarten, me, my best friend, and him. We laughed together and hung out together. I started liking him since the day he moved to the seat behind me. I snap back to reality as I remember that he was talking to me. He smiles at me, then returned to do his work. He was a guy to die for. I just loved his sweet smile, his rough black hair, his twinkling brown eyes, his soft pink colored lips, his slender body, his soft smooth skin, and his nice sweetly scented breath. All his features are so dreamy.

One day, my best friend, Maria, came over to my place for a sleepover and we were talking about who we like. “So who do you like?” I asked. I looked up at her but her head was down; looking at the notebook she was doodling in. She paused for a long time and finally stopped and she was really quiet at first. “Um… you won’t tell anyone right?” “I’m your best friend,” I said. “I like…. Reece…” she answered. When I heard the name, my heart shattered. “You like Reece?” I asked. “Yeah, he’s so cute, and when he smiles, my heart skips a beat.” At that moment I knew I had no chance. “Wendy…. Wendy….” “Huh?” I snapped back to reality. Then I was like “Oh, sorry.” “So who do you like?” she asked. I was like I don’t like anyone. I was too spaced out to answer her. I couldn’t think straight, she keep talking to me but all I heard was blah, blah, blah. My best friend likes the person I liked. I was so crushed. I felt like I was in a small room and all the walls were closing in on me. I wasn’t in pain or sorrow, I was just sad that my best friend liked the guy I like, I knew I could never stand a chance anymore. I felt like this was a nightmare. This was all a bad dream and I would soon wake up to it.

A year passes and we we’re in 4th grade, I kept my love a secret. One day after school I was talking to Reece and the question popped up. “So, Reece, who do u like?” “Why?” he asked. “Oh, no reason, I’m just curious.” “Oh okay, but you can’t tell her okay? Well I like….. Maria. She’s cool and all.” At the sound of my best friend’s name, my heart ached, my chest felt tighter, and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I always knew he liked her and I could always tell but I need to know for sure that I was correct. There it was the clear answer that I have waited so long to hear. I was like “Cool, that’s totally cool, I think she likes you too!” At that time there was no way I could tell him how I felt, so all long I just kept it in my heart. He was my first but won’t be my last as I have liked many other boys after him. It wasn’t a big deal, he likes my best friend and I was happy for them, because they both liked each other and they still do till this day. He wasn’t the only one that I couldn’t forget but still were good friends and one night over the internet I told him how I felt. He said he knew, he said he always knew and even if he knew I wanted to tell him myself, that I had really liked him. I had never felt the way I felt when I first saw him, even though we were friends since kindergarten, I never felt the way I felt in third grade when I noticed that he was in my class. My heart would skip a beat ever time he smiled at me, I felt like I couldn’t breathe when he called my name. I would blush when our hands accidently touch eat other. I have never felt like that before and I was wondering what was wrong with me. Even though now I don’t like him anymore, I still remember that he was my first love.

Why Not Me?

My heart is still unhealed from the pain he caused me. The sorrow, the sadness, the feeling I get every time I see him. As if a knife had stabbed me in the heart. His warm smile, his cheerful laugh, the way his big brown eyes twinkle when he laughs, the way his lips curve up when he smiles, the way he talks, whatever he does makes me notice him even more. I never had a chance to tell him how I feel about him but it will always last in my heart forever. The way he talks to other girls and pretending I wasn’t even there. The way he never glances over at me. I feel so depressed. I feel that the whole world has come crashing down on me like someone has punched my stomach so hard.

We were once best friends in 7th grade and now we are nothing but plain old schoolmates. We would laugh with each other, talk about stuff that were so off topic like what we did on the weekend or what the weather was going to be like or who we liked. But now we don’t even glance to each other when we pass the halls as we go to our classes. I never thought I could live without seeing him each day but now I feel like I will die because I see him every day. There’s no one in the world that can take his place in my heart. As I see him walk down the hall, my heart races so fast, it felt like it would pop out any second, just to wait for him to say a hi to me. But all he does is pass by me and waves to his other friends. I feel so crushed. I feel that I would never be able to be myself again.

“Why does he have such a big effect on me?” I ask myself all the time. As I walk the busy, noisy, locker filled hallways I wish he were walking next to me. I knew I could never be the girl of his dreams but I wish I was. He flirts with girls that are pretty, who has skinny slender bodies, long smooth legs, and girls who are shorter than him. I know that I am nothing like that and not anything close to his dreams but I really wish he was mine. I never thought there would be a day that my heart would heal from the pain it caused me just looking at him. I knew we could never be together but just getting him to say hi to me would be for me to die for. I never trusted anyone with the secret that I loved him. I always felt unsafe telling my friends what my true feeling him were, for they would laugh at me for feeling that way. I still dream of the day that I would wait for him to realize I was really there, and for the day I would get the courage to say those three words to him. “I love you……”