A Teenage Love Story

Prologue

Ben's POV:
I sat in the library reading Harry Potter for the sixth time in a month waiting for my mom to get off work. I used Harry Potter to escape the haunting reality that was my becoming my life: I was gay. This doesn't seem like a big deal, but in a town of 2000 people and growing up in a catholic family this spelled doom for my life. I began to get lost in the pages until I heard a voice, "Is that the new Harry Potter book?" Confused I looked up and my life began. I could tell you something sappy about how my heart skipped a beat and time seemed to move in slow motion, but it didn't happen like that, as dumb as it sounds when I looked up the first thing I noticed was how bright his shoes were. I finally found words, "You know it's summer and those neon shoes look absolutely ridiculous." Then he laughed, and it wasn't his laugh, it wasn't even how perfectly straight his teeth were, it was the way his eyes crinkled and reflected the dim library lights. I was captured, completely and utterly entranced by two beautiful brown eyes.