Chapter 1
Jason POV
We met in the sixth grade.. and in all honesty, I don’t remember what are initial meeting was like. Maybe it was something she said that made me laugh or perhaps a friend that we had in common, I know that whatever that moment was where we had connected, I have never regretted it. When we clicked that was all it took. we spent every minute of every day with each other, except summers when our parents would take us away on our family vacations, we would still text every day and make sure to call every night.
In junior high, I was the baseball star and she was the shy girl who had good grades. She was usually quiet with the cutest laugh, I’ve never mentioned this to her before but a few of our classmates at the time would ask me if we were dating or something,... I made sure to keep them away from her. I didn’t know that someone who didn’t even go to our school already had their eyes on you.
I remember that night when she called me, I was on a cruise with my parents and sister. I had a few missed calls from her, and when I called her back I had to ask her to slow down because I couldn’t understand what she was saying from the excitement that was radiating off of her. My heartfelt like it had completely stopped beating, ” wait what?″ I asked her to repeat because my brain couldn’t register what was coming out of her mouth. ” Jason, can you hear me? I said that I had my first kiss today !! can you believe it? I finally had my first kiss ” she squealed through the phone. She then explained that he was related to one of her neighbors and he was staying for the summer .. his name is Jonathan. As we ended our phone call, my emotions were taking over me and I took that moment to confess to my sister my feelings towards your first kiss with someone that I couldn’t believe was not me, I was jealous of this idiot. When my sister finally said ” we know you have always loved her ..how about you tell her before it’s too late.
A few more weeks passed, and although I wanted to make my feelings known .. she was still dating that idiot .... GOD I hate him and I didn’t even know him... I didn’t want to. I just knew what she told me of him she seemed to like him. that’s when I started dating girls left and right, They all tried to be friends with her, some were jealous of our friendship.. and I was jealous of him. I just kept hoping that she would tell me that she liked me too, every time that they argued, she would call me .. she trusted me enough to come running to me to cry... I felt like she did like , me the same way I did to her. That was until they broke up, and nothing had changed between us.
High school came around, and I fell for a manipulative sophomore .. Lily. , who threatened me to stay away from you. A lot of times you would call and I would ignore you . You call my mom, my sister and I would still ignore you. Then you wouldn’t even look at me in the hallway, we pretended we never knew each other... two strangers. Like all the other students you saw the drama unfold between Lily and me .. the other students gossiped about it, and you could hear the whispers about which side they were on when lily made small arguments into scenes for the whole school to see but your eyes shared the same sadness as mine.
Once we graduated high school you took the first flight out of New York to Florida, And I never saw you again. You were the perfectly flawed rose in my garden who was just over looked because I was to busy pulling out weeds. For that Alina I will always be regretful.
