When We Were Younger | Book 1

Sophie

Sophie (current):

I'm walking home, it's a short walk since we live pretty close. I still live at home with my parents. I just graduated and I'm looking for a job, unsuccessfully. You'd think it would be easier, but it's not.

Seeing Bill and Tom again after all these years felt good and weird at the same time.
We spend almost all our time togheter when we were younger. We did everything together. They were the first people who never judged me for the way I looked.

I look different now. But I am the same person. And they always saw the real me.
Bill and Tom had an unusual style themselves.

They knew what it was like not to fit in.
When I first got to my new school, I was a target immediately. And when I started being friends with Bill and Tom I got bullied just like them.

It sometimes was very dangerous for us to just get back home after school. Or to get to school at all.
I remember this one time Bill got beaten up so badly, he had to stay in the hospital for a few days.

He wasn't able to go to school for weeks.
Most of our other friends got bullied as well.
I think that's what made us all so close.
It's a good thing we lived close to each other so we never had to make the trip to school or back home alone.

It's different now that I look like this. People think I'm nice, cute and beautiful.
Some guys who used to bully me even made a move on me. But that will obviously never happen.

I don't want someone who is that shallow.
I really missed Bill and Tom after they left. I can't blame them tho. They had to follow their dream and get out of this little town.
I probably would've done the same if I had the chance.

I never thought I would see them again. How coincidental to ran into Tom when I'm jogging.

I recognized him right away and I have to admit, he looks even better then he used to! I never told anyone, but I always had a crush on Tom. You can even say I was in love with him.

Ofcourse, he wasn't interested in me like that.
He could get any girl he wanted. He was always good at flirting with girls, and he did a lot of flirting!
When they left, those feelings went away, thank god!

Me and my boyfriend, Marco, are togheter for a little over a year. He's a few years older then me and he moved here a year and a half ago.
When we met it was obvious that he was into me.
I kind of played hard to get, but I couldn't help myself and eventually I gave in to my feelings for him.