wandering

Chapter one

So here I am, on the train to Mississippi wondering how I got here, not literally, but how I got here with my life. My name is Grace Williams, I’m turning seventeen this year, and I live in the US in Washington.  I tried to run away, from everyone, be by myself, I guess I didn’t realise that it’s not even possible, people are everywhere we just have to try to fit in. Anyway it all started on a Friday when I was talking to my bestfriend of I think about 8 years now, he and I were at school, north hills collage walking to biology and I was telling him all about my crush on the most beautiful man on earth, I know it’s not typical to tell everything to a boy but I grew up with boys and I just find them easier to talk to, no drama with boys it’s all chill. Anyway as I was telling him about my massive crush, I was so engrossed in our conversation that I bumped into someone I looked up as I continued to tell Hugh about my crush only to find that it was my crush himself standing there, Elijah Eastwood, brown hair and the most beautiful smile in the whole world, he was actually smiling at me, I giggled and told him I was sorry, he went on to say that it was okay and gave me this smile and I seemed to forget that he just heard everything about my big crush on him but it came to me when he reminded me “so uh, Grace I’m pretty attractive right?” “It was a different Elijah, silly” I announced. He gave me a wink and laughed as he walked away, they bell went so Hugh and I hurried to get to class before the next bell, we had already had five lates this week and its 6 and you get a detention. School went on as normal, but I still felt pretty embarrassed about the whole Elijah situation. After school finished at about 5 o’clock I got my phone out and started to text him...

ME: “haha, you really are stuck up Eli thinking I like you ;)”

I sent the message and signed into Facebook as I waited, he replied after two minutes.

ELIJAH: “sure Grace ;) I know your little secret”

I decided to play hard to get, tried my hardest to not reply for a while but I couldn’t last, I sent my text after three minutes of pure pain, myself control really isn’t my best asset, I thought.

ME: “whatever you think Elijah, but it was an Elijah from lakeside high school, if you must know”

I thought that was a good call, as our school didn’t have much contact to that school.

ELIJAH: “oh and I believe in fairies”

I have to admit I laughed.

ME: “whatever you say Eli”

ELIJAH: “ I guess I like a girl from lakeside too then..”

I was devastated, my heart thumping. I tried to play it cool.

ME: “oh yeah and who would that be?”

After a while he replied

ELIJAH: “her name is Grace, but she goes to lakeside”

What? I can’t tell if this is Eli trying to be cute and telling me he likes me, but no it couldn’t be. I couldn’t think like that, I’d just learnt to get used to the idea that he’d never like me. I didn’t know what to say, I retyped my message about 5 times before I figured out what I was actually going to say.

ME: “cute.”

All of that time typing for cute? After a while my phone lit up with a message from Elijah, I opened it.

ELIJAH: “only to be completely honest with you I don’t know anyone from lakeside so I’d be lying if I said I liked a grace from that school. So, uh grace actually I need to tell you something...”

OH MY GOODNESS THIS IS NOT HAPPENING ELIJAH IS ABOUT TO TELL ME HE LIKES ME! IM JUMPING AROUND MY ROOM AND SMILING LIKE A LOSER, I CANT GET THE SMILE OFF OF MY FACE!