*Arianna's POV*
Driving in my car makes me feel free. The day I got my license was the best news I could ever get.
In the summer was the best time to drive. With the wind blowing and the sun beaming, that’s when I roll my window down. Every time the wind hits my face I get a different feeling.
Living here in Canton, driving is one of the few things I can look forward to. Getting away from every thing that’s going on around me, except my friends of course.
“Hey can you put the windows up?” Nastasia asked.
“And why should I do that?” I asked.
“So I can get out of this leotard and breathe.”
“Alright. Alright.”
I didn’t understand Natasia sometimes. I know she hates dance now or she’s confused about it, but why keep on. Find a new hobby or something. Then again she’s perfect at almost everything, me I just wanna have a good time.
I’m not like Natasia, I don’t have tons of talents. I mean if singing in the shower counts then I have one. I’m just a normal teenage girl.
All I wanna do right now is go see him.
“Helloooo. Arianna, you alive or what?”
“Yeah Nat. What?”
“Hmm someone’s a little off today.”
“Nope just thinking like I always do.”
“Yeah right. You’re thinking about him aren’t you?”
Natasia always has to read into everything, even if it had nothing to do with her.
“Actually I’m not.”
“Bull. You think about him all the time!” Natasia yelled.
“Ok. Yeah I’m thinking about him. What do want me to do about it?”
“Ohh, I don’t know maybe tell him how you feel!”
This guy she’s yelling about, the “him” I keep thinking about is Thaniel. Other than the weird name I’ve known him since grade school, and we’ve been friends ever since. Even though being friends with him is not what I want, I want more.
I didn’t feel this way before. It all started at the end of the summer before we started high school. We met in our secret spot, the middle of the field no one owned yet. I saw him and then everything changed. He had changed or grown up in my eyes.
He got a little bit of color and his once gross pimples were gone. He was bigger, but not too big, like he’d been working out. Then those eyes, the brightest green I’d ever seen them and he cut his hair.
That day I felt a rush every time he grabbed me, or when we got too close. I thought I would be able to tell him how I felt, but I couldn’t.
Now we’re juniors in high school and every girl has wanted him ever since our freshman year.
I want to tell him how I feel, but every time I get the courage to, something inside stops me. Maybe I’m just being a big wuss, but I don’t want to scare him off. We’re not the same kids anymore; I actually have feelings for him.
“Nat shut up. You know I’m not gonna tell him.”
“I don’t understand why you won’t just tell him,” Nat argued with me.
“It’s just too complicated right now.”
“You say that all the time. Just grow a pair and do it.”
“Umm princess Nat, language!” I yelled in my mock British accent.
“You know I hate when you do that.”
“And youuuu know that I’m done talking about Thaniel. It’s time to change the subject.”
“Fine. Whatever. Soooo how’s your brother?”
Natasia knows that the only way to get back to talking about Thaniel you would have to mention my brother Leo. Thaniel and Leo weren’t really friends until Leo noticed that they were in the same league now, pretty boys.
“Natasia, you don’t care about Leo! This is all about Thaniel.”
“Hey you never know I could still have feelings for your bum of a brother.”
“He’s not a bum Nat. He just has a huge ego that leads him to getting a lot of girls in bed.”
“Well I’m sure he’s waking up to one right now.”
“Eh maybe.”
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More Than Anything
Teen FictionA story about and from the point of view of 6 teenagers who are all friends or in relationships with one another. With new obstacles and new people coming into their lives they learn more about themselves and secrets they never knew. As they grow up...
