Stolen Love
by mikayla
He is great but then it all changed when one of my best friends, Alyssa told me she liked Quint. She KNEW I liked Quint but she went for him anyway. He fell for her and didn't look back to see me crying for him. They became so close. they were always together and everything they did together I had to hear about from her because she's one of those people that tells everyone EVERYTHING! After a while they broke up for a funny reason: she was too aggressive and she bit him! So I waited until she was pretty much over him and he could see what a great girl I was. Finally, one day me and Quint were sitting in Home Economics when he passed me a note. It was from a girl that he had apparently been dating for a while but he had "forgotten to tell anyone about her." It was a break up note. We started writing notes back and forth, talking about random stuff when he asked me, "Do you like me?" Me, trying to protect myself from getting hurt, said "HELL NO!" He kind of fell back in his seat. (I sit right next to him) and he writes, "Oh, because I think I like you." Now, just imagine my position. I just lied to him about liking him and now he likes me, thinking that it's not mutual. All I could think of was GREAT. WONDERFUL. JUST WHAT I NEEDED! I didn't get up the courage to tell him that I like him until about 2 days later after I'd come up with a speech to admit my false statement. I thought to get him ready for the topic I wanted to discuss, I would warn him beforehand. So I gave him a note telling him I wanted to talk about our recent conversation. I said that I'd wanted to talk to him about it the last two days but I chickened out. As we were walking to lunch, I was babbling on trying to make him forget about the whole "I want to talk thing", but half way there he said, "You're chickening out again, just tell me." Well, remember my speech I'd planned out? All I actually got out of my mouth was "I lied," but it was enough. All he said was, "I know" and he just smiled at me in that way that I love. Things were perfect for the rest of the week and on into the weekend and when Monday finally came again, I was excited to see Quint. It was my motivation for the day. When I finally saw him in the halls before 4th period, I was overjoyed because i knew that he finally knew how I felt, but something wasn't right. He wasn't as talkative and I was about to ask him what was wrong when the bell rang. By next period, I was kind of getting worried but I thought that maybe he was just having a bad day, but that's when I saw them. Standing at his locker in an embrace that looked rather intimate, I saw him kiss her on the forehead (apparently, to him, that doesn't count as anything, but in my book it does). I was furious with him and her! How could they? I waited for him at his locker at lunch time to walk with him to lunch just as we do everyday, but he didn't show up. So I left and walked by myself, knowing that it was over. I sat at my lunch table where my friends were talking all around me, not really noticing my miserable mood and then I saw him. Walking my way, he smiled the smile I loved and waved. He came and sat next to me but by then I was angry beyond belief with him. He took one look at me and asked what's wrong. I just looked at him and then turned away without saying a word about anything. He asked if I was mad at him and I said told him no, then he asked again, "What did I do?" I told him to think about it. Send a message in a bottle to the one you love. Timeless and utterly romantic! |