"I try not to think about what happens in my dreams compared to what's happening around me, but my dreams consume reality and I get stuck between what's real and what's imagined. But who's to say my dreams aren't reality or that reality isn't a dream? Reality is a word that could have been imagined. Who's to say I'm real or am I just a figment of someone else's imagination?", I scribbled into my journal, before I leave for school.
As I walk outside my house, my best friend Einstein (his real name is Nathan) ran toward me as if someone was chasing him and, of course, like every other day, someone was. It was always the same person; they had no idea what they were going to get from me today. I probably shouldn't have done it but I punched him, he looked shocked at the fact that a girl hit him because he had probably never been hit by a girl, but today he had. We left him to sit there shocked as we walked toward our school.
"School" I said as if questioning the idea of it, in which I was "What is school really about, Einstein?" I already new the answer, or did I? Was school just a place in which you learn about realistic things or was it a place where you learn about unrealistic things that were meant for the future? Maybe what they were teaching us didn't even exist.
"I don't know, maybe it's just a thing that "they" want us to do to occupy our time in the case of learning things that help us in our future." Einstein replying to my question.
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As Einstein and I walk into the school, we finish our conversation about what school was really about. Leaving him, I rush to my locker hoping that there was another note,(BTW, it's Friday a.k.a. Valentine's Day, and somebody has been leaving me a note on my locker all week.) there was, and I read it, it had said to me this person today after school in the field and of course me overthinking about what this meant decided to go to find out what was really happening due to the notes. After I decided that I was going to meet the person, I grab my textbooks and ran off to my first class before the bell rang.
As I study trigonometry in my math class, my first class of the day, Einstein walks in half way through the class.
"He's never late"I said to the girl sitting next to me. As Einstein walks in he grabs a chair and takes The empty spot next to me.
"Matt, you're late for math, your favourite subject, really?" I stayed to Einstein. With the voice that sounded like I was mad, but I wasn't, or at least I didn't think I was.
"yeah, your point is?" He replies back.
This isn't like him, he's never late to any class and he never asked this way, unless, no he couldn't be, is he keeping a secret for me?, That's the only time he asked like this.
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After my two morning classes I walk back to my locker and grab my wallet so I can get something to eat for lunch however when I get there, there was another note. I read over it and it tells me it to me at my secret admirer in the field at lunch. Being me, I had to sing ago when this person put it on my locker and I thought and thought but I couldn't figure it out, so I decided I better go meet the "mystery" person. As I left my locker to go meet him, Einstein rushed over and said "where are you going?"
"to the field to meet someone, why?"
"i'll walk you"
"OK, but, never mind."
As he walked the field we talk about life and school and food, I was pretty hungry. I started picking up my pace, seeing that I didn't want Einstein to follow me, but my trying only made things worse. He started picking up his pace to try to keep up to me. I started to get mad, like really, why is he following me?
So are yell "go away I don't want you here, I'm supposed to meet someone, so go away!"
As I finish my last word, he looked at me in the way that made me feel clueless, and I was. All this time, Einstein being late two classes and hiding things from me, was it him?
"I have something to tell you"Einstein said as if he has committed a crime.
"what is it?"
"it's me you're supposed to meet me, I'm the one who's been leaving you those notes, and I know you will never fall in love with the nerd, of course you wouldn't, you're so beautiful, and dime, well I me, so I understand if you want me to go away."
"Shut up, you're awesome, and I like you too, and you could totally get any girl you wanted."
"but you're the only girl for me, WAIT, you like me?"
"yes, are you stupid, of course I do. You're the only one who puts up with me so I had to eventually fall for you, and I did, but why me Einstein, why me?"
"because you're the girl I've been in love with since the eighth grade, and I know this is our last year together before we graduate and we might be going to different colleges and I know that you hate it when I see you dorky things, but I know you find it a bit adorkable, so I just have to ask, will you be my Ashley will you?"
"Nathan, of course, I will go with you, but don't think it's out of pity because I would never pity you. I could never pity you, I have to go, bye Nathan."
"Goodbye Ashley." Nathan whispers.
