A Healing Heart

❤️ HIM ❤️

It's him. He's all I can think about. He's the main focus of my day, the main character in all my dreams, and the only one I want to be with. Of course, if you would have told me five months ago that it would be him, I would have said you were insane. He was just a guy until May. Just a normal guy at my school. We were in the same English class, and that was about it. I knew him; just his name. I didn't know who he was or how he would change my life forever. He was just a guy; he had been at my school since the third grade. My mom had taught him in the fourth. But I liked him just as a friend. We didn't talk much at all... Until that one night when I got his phone number from a friend. That's the night everything changed. The night that was the start of something bittersweet.

It was the beginning of May my seventh grade year; I had tons of hopeless crushes on these guys I thought were gonna be mine. They all didn't like me. I was a nerd, and I knew it. No one would ever love a girl like me. I was not the "girlfriend" type. I had glasses and messed up teeth. I didn't wear makeup either. I was just a nerdy basketball player. No guy would ever choose me right? Wrong. That night at Brianna's sleepover she gave me his number. I only texted him to try to get him to leave her alone. He had been crushing on her all year. More like obsessing. So I said, "Hey. This is Natalie." And he responded with a hey like most people do. So we talked the whole night. When I woke up the next morning, we talked some more. There was something different about the words he was choosing. They weren't "friend" words. They were something more. And that day, he let me know. He didn't like Brianna anymore; he liked me... Yes this is how it began. The day I learned more about this familiar name: Carter.