And then there was light

Platonic Friendship

Being friends with someone you had a crush on for almost a decade can be difficult, but for me, it's not. It really isn't. I have a friend now that I can confide in with what I'm going through and he has someone too. I don't think he has ever had someone like that, and I am happy I am that person for him. 

Anyway, Pearl and I are walking over to the local library to study for a test we have later this week. 

"I really wish Mrs. Edwards could move our exam to next week. How does she expect to get all of this information in our heads when she just finished teaching us everything?" Pearl rants. 

"I don't know Pearl, but I sure as hell ain't failing." I need to get good grades. Not just because my parents and my teachers are counting on me to maintain my average, which is an A, for now, but also because I want to get a good job. I want to be able to help my future patients as a psychologist and be that person for them. That person whom which they can confide just like I can confide in Nate. I didn't have a Nate for most my life. 

We study for a bit, but soon Pearl brings up my relationship with the one and only. 

"Sooo, what's up with you and Nate?"

"Nothing. We're just friends." I cringe at the fact that that line gets said a little too much in romantic comedies.

"Mmhmm. I've heard that before."

"Yeah, in those rom coms you watch way too often." I say trying to prove her wrong. It doesn't work. 

"Well, you know what? They're not always wrong", she says. I'm about to deny my feelings for Nate when my mind wanders to him, his lips, his eyes, and his dreamy smile. I must have looked like I was in a completely different world for a moment because I am quickly brought back to reality with someone waving their hand in my face. 

"Earth to Jasmine!" I hear a male voice saying. Nate. God, it's like he's everywhere. 

"Oh hey Nate! What are you doing here?" I am well aware of Pearl across from me freaking out like he's about to ask me out to prom. 

"Oh I just came here to study. Same as you", he says with that beautiful smile of his. I mentally slap myself. Way to go Jasmine on that platonic relationship of yours. 

"You? Studying? That's something I never heard before." I mock trying to prove to Pearl that my friendship with Nate is just that, a friendship. 

"Yeah well I got the looks AND the brains," he says with pride. 

"You keep telling yourself that," I say. He chuckles and waves to me before walking  further into the library. 

"Wow, never thought I'd see the day," I say more to myself than Pearl. "The padawan has become the master." She rolls her eyes at my reference to Star Wars and for the rest of the evening I try to convince her to watch the series.