It's Not Like I Planned It This Way (Watty Awards 2013)

textbooks

a week after our kiss

i opened my locker and a note slipped out

i thought it was from you

i blushed hard

i figured i would wait until i was home alone to open it

so i slipped it in my purse

and headed back to class

we only had three classes together

art, gym, and study hall

i was in algebra 2

while you were in chemistry

you were awfully smart

i was still in biology

as was the rest of our grade

the class bell rung and i walked to my car

when i felt cold, clammy hands

shove me against a set of blue lockers

my body hurt

and the mystery abuser

whispered into my ear

open the envelope

as they walked away

shooken up, i took out and opened the envelope

a picture of me and you kissing slipped out

and landed on the floor

i gasped and picked it up

and ripped it to pieces

nobody could know

i didn't know you were standing behind me

with flowers in your hands

planning on giving them to me

i didn't know tears were overflowing your eyes

because you ran away too fast

so fast that you dropped your chemistry textbook

it landed on my foot

i didnt know that my toe was broken

from that damned book

i didn't know.