Amadrya's Match

Chapter 2

(Jasper)

What am I doing? I thought to myself, questioning my thought process,

That's just me cursing myself for what I was considering doing pretty soon. Listing pros and cons was not helping, that's for sure. What the heck am I talking about? I have a secret crush on Hope, it's been like this for the last couple of years, her and I have been best friends for as long as I remember and I've fallen hard, she is too amazing to let anyone else have her. Whenever she got into any relationship, I was overcome with jealousy, making crude comments on her relationship, trying to break them up. Seeing her become this powerful, strong-willed woman in front of my eyes, is astonishing, trust me, if you could see her, you'd be swooning. It's almost impossible not to remember her toothy little grin during a water fight we were having at 8-years old, she was absolutely adorable and she was so confident in herself.

It is heartbreaking when she makes low comments about herself, and when she gets consumed by her insecurity, it is so upsetting to see. Her eyes dull, her smile, almost never seen, her body language really slumps and she rarely vocalizes her opinions during conversations, which is why this memory is so precious to me, it was a time when our worries were nonexistent,

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"Come on, really, Jas!" Hope yelled up at me as I spritzed water in her mouth.

"Yep." I said, popping the p.

"Okay, if that's how you want to play it, fine," She said and then spritzed my stomach.

"Owe." I whispered.

"Good," She smiled toothily.

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I smiled at the vague memory as I lugged myself around the kitchen. I had stuck to myself to tell Hope how I felt in debate.

I spread some butter on my warm toast and cut it into triangles. I took a bite and threw my head back in pleasure, bread and butter can never go wrong. I decided that I would take a packed lunch to school because I wanted to spend lunch researching my geography homework. My teacher decided that just because I was sometimes absent from class - personal reasons, she would give me extra credit, what she doesn't know is that I was planning to move to Greece with Hope. I was planning to tell her that I bought a ticket when I profess my love for her.

I walked to my bathroom and washed my face with my seaweed-smelling soap. When I dried my face, I picked up my rucksack with my debate points, my lunch and my textbooks in it. When I walked out the house with my jacket and shoes on, my body only then recognized that it was raining outside. I wrapped my jacket tighter around me so to protect me at least somewhat. I mentally cursed myself for not checking the weather, I mean what was the point of having a phone if I don't use it for stuff like this.

I walked to my car, trying not to get too wet, my car was a 7-minute walk away from my house because there was no parking in front of it. When I got in, I drove to school hurriedly. I saw Hope's dad's car in the school parking lot and reminded myself of the plan.

Pull her to the sideTell her about my feelingsSee her reactionTell her about the plane ticketLive happily ever after

Scratch that last bit, first I'd actually have to get to Greece to even have a slight chance of living happily ever after. I smiled to myself at the thought of being able to spend time alone with Hope on a mass scale. I walked into the school after breaking out of my reverie and came to a sight of desert. The whole school was practically empty except for the classrooms. It soon hit me that the bell had rung and that I was late. I cursed and ran to my homeroom.