Your typical high school Love story

The kiss to end all kisses

"Peyton omg what are you doing here?"

Oh, shit my lying backstabbing friend with her boyfriend and my ex.

"Well?" She asked.

I stand feet planted on the ground, terrified of what happens when I turn around. 

"Hi," Jake says turning around, while I'm still shell shocked. "I'm Jake Tillman, Peyton's boyfriend." I turn around, I'm awesome I can face my fears.

"Hi, GiGi. How are you." Gosh, I'm such an amazing actor, probably why I won three awards.

I turn around to find Giselle Manning, a torturous bitch. I haven't seen Gisselle since she stole my crush and started dating him. She looks quite honestly jealous to see Jake on my arm.

"Boyfriend?" Gisselle said twisting her high. Yep, she's definitely jealous.

"Peyton, you have a boyfriend? Wow, we've only been broken for a few months." Josh my ex says. Pff, as if,  months its been 11 almost a year.

"Josh we've been broken up for 11 months, best decision I ever made." I squeezed Jake's hand harder.

"What are you guys even doing here, you live all the way in Canyon Oaks," Gissele said with a big jealous smirk on her face.

"We were -" Jake cuts me off.

"I'm just taking my girl on a cute date. Figured this would be the place." Jake spoke like I was the love of his life.
"Really?" Nathan finally spoke.

"Yeah, it's nice here, the sunset comes over the horizon and creates a beautiful sunset. Almost as beautiful as this girl." Jake says tickling me.

If only he was really my boyfriend. He could make me happy. Smother me with kisses, hugs from behind, watching scary movies while eating junk food and him comforting me when the jump scares happen. Watch the sunrise with me, pull all-nighters, and just have someone there with me, to comfort me when things get bad, stop me from doing it, love me even if I'm in a dark state, just having someone love me is enough.

"Wow, Pey Pey you really have grown. Hope your eating all right, wouldn't want you to faint again." 

My heart stopped pumping blood and oxygen for a moment, my eyes go wide. Jealousy is a green-eyed bitch.

"Peyton is fine, whoever you are. Let's go P." Jake grabs my waist and leads me towards the pier.

When we get to the pier, a far enough distance from Gissele and the two idiots I stopped him.

"Why did you do that for me?" I asked him, breathless.

"For the same reason I gave you my number, I like you, Peyton, I've been at Canyon Oaks for like a month, and whenever I rode my skateboard down the main street I saw you. You always looked like you didn't have a care in the world, and I liked that."

"Kiss me." He likes me, I like him. What's the problem? And he does kiss me.

He grabs me, and kisses me. He picks me up and spins me around. The wind blows through my hair as he spins me, and I for the first time in 3 years feel free. He parts my lips and sets me down. That was my fifth kiss. First four were with Josh, at one party and I was a wee bit tipsy and I feel awful and grossed out about it.

He hugs me as he sets me down, and I feel safe.

"I'm sorry about your friends, but if it makes you feel better they're kind of assholes." Jake says still embracing me in our hug.

"Thanks, they're just mea, not for me." I said stifling back the wave of tears prepared to flood my cheeks.

"Come on lets go." Jake says getting out of our hug and leading me towards, the edge of the pier.

"Why are we here." I say as he sits down on the bench at the edge of the pier.

"Because I told you we were going to watch the sunset." I rest my head on his shoulder and we stay like this for an hour after the sunset left the sky and went dark.

Jake led me back to his car and he opened my door, how chivalrous. 

On the car ride we talk about the important things, cool, friends, sports, favorite things, and jobs.

When we get to my house he walks me to my porch.

"You know on a date, most of the time it ends with a kiss." He says as he looks deeply into my eyes.

"Well, if its customary." I joke as I grab his t shirt and pull his lips to mine. 

"Bye." He says as he parts my lips and walks back to his car.

I open my door and when its shut I jump up and down and spin. I run to my room and journal.

Dear Diary,

Today was the best day I've had in three years. I felt free, and happy. I know crazy right. But Jake Tillman is one of the nicest, hottest, and overall most incredibilest guy I've ever met. He helped me, but I don't know if he would date me, I mean I'm Positive Peyton to everyone except my family, they know the truth. They know about my well you know. Anyways yesterday I didn't get a chance to tell you that I got entered into a song writing competition. It's at the Dip and its tomorrow so hopefully they like the song. First place gets a trip to NEW YORK for two!! For the whole summer. Well I mean I would have to perform at the dip in New York three times a week and take workshops, but another perk of the prize is my song gets recorded and I get an audition for broadway Mean Girls!! Anyhoo its 1:19 am!! SO I'm going to shower and go to sleep and I'll talk to you later.

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I'm at the Dip waiting for it to be my turn. The dip is a local club in Canyon Oaks and it is humongous. The song for the competition has to be a song from the heart about a life story or I don't know experience, I wrote mine on all of my insecurity. When its mine turn I slowly walk to the stage trying find a friendly face.

"Hi, I'm Peyton and this is a song call I would take a walk in your shoes.

Walking along the bumpy pavement. Dragging my feet just waitin. 10,000 steps for my day to be complete. All my accessories are pretty and neat. But everything is destroying me.So why do I why do I have to endure this misery, but you know..

I would take a walk in your shoes. You've got everything going for you. The perfect smile, bod, and hairdo, oh how I wish I could be you.

Everyday I wait for you to appear, but most days you don't oh and I try to dissapear. I try and I try  waiting for my perfect life, but that doesn't exist, and I just try to persist but everyday I wanna run away from all my problems but 

I would take a walk in your shoes. You've got everything going for you. The perfect smile, bod, and hairdo, oh how I wish I could be you.

I know I can't run from my problems, I try to but I can't stop them, and nobody ever hears me and I'm always yelling, kickin, and screaming, oh but 2 years ago I had a home that I loved and now I can't even look in the mirrors anymore, cause all I see is who I was before.

I would take a walk in your shoes. You've got everything going for you. The perfect smile, bod, and hairdo, oh how I wish I could be you. Oh I wish I was still you. Pretty popular, perfect you."

I stop singing and am flooded with clapping and I'm happy.

I'm especially happy when I see Jake Tillman front row clapping and smiling.