Dearest Star,
I know this may sound stupid but I have to tell you this. Yesterday was amazing, you know. We won the basketball tournament but the other team was strong, too. They're a good team with a good foundation that anyone can tell. We won by chance, I'll admit it. It's not like some fairy tale where the main cast always win. We basically had a hard time overcoming their powers.
This is the main story. The last minute of the game was hard. The score was a tie. I dribbled the ball while trying to escape the block. It was then that I saw her. Her long wavy hair cascading down her shoulders. Her eyes covered with maroon-rimmed eyeglasses. Her lips pursed and brows furrowed. The reason why? I knew not.
She was sitting beside her best friend, the girlfriend of my best friend, Kieve. She was just watching with keen eyes and a curiosity I could never tell while her best friend was so loud as everyone else was. She was different, though.
The next moment I didn't know what happen. She stared at me with a tilt of her head to the left. I stared back and after that I suddenly had that determination to end that game with victory. The next second, the ball was in the air and in a nick of time it hit the basket. A very loud roar and cheering can be heard throughout the gymnasium but I didn't care at all. I care about this girl who enchanted me.
She was gone but I looked for her anyway.
Everyone congratulated me, us, and some patted me on the back. All I did was to smile. It seemed polite that time though my head is in turmoil.
But before the match, I saw her, just standing there while watching her best friend say something to Kieve. As I was approaching, of course to talk to Kieve (and to see her, too.) I overheard their conversation. It was a bet that she got to watch the game with a some serious condition that I think both the couple agreed to immediately just to get her watch the game.
They asked her about her book preferences. She likes classic books, Star. I have a lot of collection of them so I butted in and offered her, too.
She rejected me, as in R-E-J-E-C-T-E-D ME!. I've never been so ashamed in my whole life. She just walked away without saying goodbye or anything to her friends.
I earned a pitiful looked from the couple but I shrugged it off.
Sooner, Star, she'll see my worth.
-Timothy
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The Girl I Knew
General FictionWorking and studying hard was Jianna's routine to pursue her dreams and to be able to help her family someday. She forgot herself, her family, friends and everyone else to reach that set goals. Unexpectedly, someone from her past will remind her of...
