From Girls To Boys

4

Marco's past

I was in 10th grade. I met a girl named Hitch. She was very pretty and very nice too. Protective over people she loved.

I just admired her from afar as they say. I tried multiple times to try and talk to her, but before I got the chance she was dragged away by her friends.

And during the break times at school I would sit alone in the library, writing love letters to her, from my deepest desires to what she would prefer in a boyfriend. They never went to her, I just kept them to myself. I had a whole jar of them in my room.

One day, I was in the library doing the usual and then, "hey Marco."

I was surprised, Hitch herself was standing in front of me. I quickly scrunched up the letter and said quickly, "uh, hi."

She smiled and said, "you looked lonely. I thought I should hang out with you."

I said with the most awkward tone, "oh um, ok."

She noticed the scrunch up the ball. She asked cheerfully, "what's that?"

I replied shyly, "it's uh nothing."

She snatched it out of my hand. She said cheerfully, "it must be a really cool drawing."

She opened it, my first thought was I fucked this up. But instead of her being scared off, she touched her heart. The reaction was very wholesome.

Then she looked around to see if anyone was nearby before unexpectedly kissing me.

When she pulled away, she said kinda flustered, "I really want to go to your place this afternoon."

I started smiling like a dork and nodded.

She said softly, "I'm glad I came up to you today. I think I found my prince charming. A cute freckled boy."

She squealed, "OMG, how can you be so fucking sweet and adorable."

My only thought was, Oh my god she is talking to me. She loves me.

She said softly, "well I kinda found you attractive, and I was just nervous to talk to you, but I thought F this, go talk to him. I am so glad I did."

My face was red af, I had a lot to say but nothing was coming out of my mouth, it was just, uh, Um, ok. She was just holding the conversation, well she was actually flirting.

Then, she asked softly, "why don't you talk much?"

All I could say was, "well, I, um... I uh."

She said softly but excitedly, "you're a shy boy. Aww, I like shy boys."

I just nodded slowly having no idea if this was a dream or real life.

After a few days, Hitch and I became official, I met her friends and they were really nice and they really didn't mind me being there. But if I had a complaint, which I do. Her friends tried to pressure me into doing it with her, I mean I would've given in, if they didn't ask to watch.

I always told them that I just wasn't ready and it continued for 2 months. I told Hitch about it and asked her to tell her friends to stop asking me about wanting to watch her and I 'doing it', because it was making me uncomfortable.

I don't know what I was expecting but she slapped me across the face and told me that we were over and she walked away. We haven't spoken since.

3 months passed by and a new girl came, Her name Mina Caroline. During this time I was still upset about Hitch. So I went back to my usual routine, just chill at the library and just do nerd stuff.

Then, "Marco is it?"

I looked behind me, and said softly but blandly, "uh, yeah. Need something?"

She moved in front of me and said softly with a sorry look in her eyes, "a bunch of girls were talking about you negatively."

"Hitch and her friends, I'm guessing."

"Yeah."

"Huh?"

It was quiet between us two. She broke the silence by saying, "you were in the right. You have every right to say no."

I scoffed and said, "try telling them that."

She kinda giggled, "hehe, I wouldn't be surprised if in the future they are in jail for sexual harassment."

I replied, "I would be surprised."

She looked at me with a surprised look. She asked, "why?"

"Well thanks to the society we live in, women get lesser consequences because they are a woman. If a man looks at a woman for even a miller second, he goes to jail for life."

Mina looked down and said, "forgot."

"It's fine, that's why I usually stay away from girls and just wait for them to come to me in a public area, so if that girl accused me of sexually harassing her. I would have witnessed say, well actually she came up to him first."

Mina nodded, she said softly, "I hate girls. First day here and I already have enemies."

I breathed a laugh. Then she stared at me... For a long time. I asked, "what is it?"

She warmly smiled and said, "your freckles are cute."

I smiled and exhaled out of my nose.

She ask giggling, "would you mind if I called you freckles?"

I said with a matter of fact tone, "you are probably expecting me to say, well it's not the first time, but it actually is believed or not."

She was jaw dropped and we started talking from there.