Crazy Little Thing Called Love

M is for Max

So of course I was late to class and lied and said "my locker was jammed". But I was truly shocked. Either Leeroy was lying, but no he wouldn't lie, he'd admit it and tell me how I have to date him. I looked at the note again. Who had this handwriting and who's initials were L and M? I've gotta show this to Amanda, Jennifer, and Lisa. They'll help me. 

  We were at lunch and I had shown them the note. Jennifer and Lisa were so shocked, but Amanda was eve more shocked when she found out it wasn't Leeroy who wrote it. 

  "Well, I know what we have to do, we get out a paper and pencil and write out everyone in our grade with their names starting with the letter L" Jennifer brainstormed.

  So I got a paper and Lisa got out a pencil.

  "Soo, obviously Leeroy's out of the question. Who else is there hmm." I said.

  "I have an idea, let's start with boys since Charlette's obviously not a lesbian." Lisa said. 

  Me, Jennifer, and Amanda turned to Lisa and gave her a look that said 'No shit'.

  "Oh! Logan! write him down" Jennifer said. I wrote him down.

  Everyone brainstormed from there. "Luke" "Lucas" "Landon" "Leo" "Louis" "Lamar" "Larry" "Lorenzo".

  After we were done brainstorming we had a total of 14 names. We all sat there in silence looking down at the paper. 

 I took a bite of my cold cafeteria pizza. I sighed. "This is no use, i have nothing to do with any of these people except Leo whenever he asks me for the English homework. We're never gonna find out who wrote that note". I held in my tears and sniffled. "And the fact that any one of those people could possibly know I like, you know who, makes me real worried".

   "Wait." Amanda said and picked up the note. "Maybe whoever wrote this doesn't have a name that starts with an L." 

  "That makes no sense, the initials are L.M" I pointed out. 

"No no no, I mean, what if the initials are flipped, you know.. like a decipher" Amanda said and while spitting out tiny chinks of tomato sauce out of her mouth. 

  "So what you're saying is we now have to find boys in our grade with their name starting with M now?" Lisa asked.

  "Exactly. C'mon Charlette add a new row and start with boys in our grade with letter M. Michael" Amanda said.

  We started brainstorming again. "Michael" "Matthew" "Mason" "Mark" "Morgan" "Martin" "Marcus" "Max" "Miguel" "Milo" "Malcolm"

  I looked down at the note more relieved. This time I actually did have some things to do with these guys. Milo sat next to me in Social Studies and we would always make jokes about the teacher. Matthew was in my pe class, he always told me how I always seem to have a smile on my face. Then there's Max, he's hated me since the first grade. I never knew why. But now I knew it must've been him who wrote the threatening letter.