Temporary Bliss Camren

Temporary Bliss

When I heard people talk about love I usually didn't pay attention. Honestly I never got the big hoopla about such feelings, besides I had read all about love. I knew about the different ways people fall in love and all the lovey dovey things they did for each other. I knew about the terrible heart breaks and tears that were shed daily by the fools in love. It amazed me how easily people could fall in love. It irritated me hearing people throw out the three words,

"I love you" so casually and with no true meaning. My Facebook began to be filled with statuses about everyone's relationships and their dramas. Talk about annoying!! Twitter was no better with all the hash tags dealing with love. Blogs on Tumblr seemed to all be somehow related to love, even my instagram was about that damn word.

"What is so great about being in love anyways?' I asked myself. I looked for answers and asked my friends. "It's truly amazing", "It feels like you're touching the clouds" they'd say. Those weren't the answers I was looking for. They sounded like nonsense. I still didn't get how kisses could make you see fireworks or how one person could make you smile so much. Maybe they were unexplainable? I knew everything about love, right? Or at least I thought I did anyways.

Friday, July 16, 2016. That date changed my life forever. She never seemed like my type, but I guess you can't help who you fall for. Yeah, yeah I know that sounded corny, but hey it's true. I didn't expect to fall for her goofy grin or her dark brown hair. Her soft green eyes that gave me shivers. Nope, not once had I thought about having feelings for a girl like her. Her leather jacket and tattoos, her motorcycle, and I will never forget her annoying personality. Lauren was so cocky and thought she could make any girl fall for her, which she kind of sort of did. I hated her so much!

Of course I didn't care one bit of what it was to be in love, but I definitely didn't like seeing girls get heartbroken by people like Laurenr. Girls would literally throw themselves at Lauren which was disgusting. She'd always have these sly smirk that made me roll my eyes. She tried to talk to me often, but I'd always ignore her.

"Camila wait up." She said. "What do you want?" I replied making sure to emphasize how much I didn't want to talk to her. "Want a ride home?" She asked with such comfortableness as if we were friends. "From you? No thank you." I replied as I tried to keep walking.

She grabbed my arm, which caused me to stop. "Why are you so difficult?" she chuckled. "Maybe because I know all your little tricks. I'm not going to let you swoon me and then break me. I actually have respect for myself unlike all those other girls who think you're a God of some sort." I said.

She just stood there with no emotion visible on her face. That was just the beginning of all her attempts to talk to me. She'd take any opportunity to say something to me.

Lauren was so determined and confident it was a curse, well at least for me. Her constant attempts didn't go unnoticed by my friends who were crazy about me having an "admirer". They'd gossip like crazy and would laugh like a pack of hyenas when she came around. My cheeks would turn so rosy from the embarrassment I felt when they did that. Lauren seemed to enjoy making me feel embarrassed. She brought me flowers once and let me just say that day it seemed like everyone wouldn't stop staring at me.

"That's the girl Lauren brought flowers to." I heard people whisper as I walked down the halls. I hated being the center of attention since I was usually in the back of the class quiet as a mouse. My parents would nag about me being antisocial but honestly I just didn't want to talk to many people from school because they were ignorant.

I'm not sure how, but my mom found out about the whole Lauren trying to talk to me and she was static. She seemed more excited than me which made a lot of sense since this was the first person who had ever shown interest in me. I was happily surprised that they accepted the possibility of me liking girls. Lauren would not give up and everyone kept telling me to give her a chance and things became so overwhelming I decided to give her a shot. I mean one date, how bad it be right? Wrong!! It was perfect! She was a gentlewoman, she took me to the amusement park, and she made sure to compliment me every chance she got.