*Reminisce in Remembrance*
I couldn't sleep. I didn't eat ever since i saw the most amazing birthday present i've ever received. The painting.
As i was thinking about Tyler and how just when i thought he couldn't be more perfect, he proved me wrong once again, i started to close my eyes and daydream about the first time I got a chance to propertly speak to Tyler -since I moved back to my hometown where I grew up in- after the whole incident where i had forgotten how gorgeous he actually was.
The first time I propertly spoke to him... I think i was doodling in my planner, drawing more balloons around the 1st of March which was mine and Leah's birthday.
Anyway, back to Tyler. He came in just as the school bell rang. I was still in daydream-mode (as usual), thinking about what Mum and Dad would get us for our 16th birthday. I wished that it was something memorable and something that could last, like a really cool phone (a sidekick/blackberry or something). You know what they say: Never wish for something because you might actually get it. Whoever said that was pretty accurate considering what actually happened.
As i was saying, i was in daydream world and the deafening sound of the bell brought me back to reality. I could not hav been less prepared for what was to come.
His imperfectly perfect smile formed across his face and I just could not let myself look away. His deep brown eyes were so welcoming yet every inch of it reflected a different, deep, dark emotion. It saddened me to the last. As he brushed his fingers through his hair, so onyx it personified night, i thought to myself that the seat next to me was the only one free. My heartbeat instantly accelerated and started racing like crazy (p.s.It hasn't down ever since). He sat next to me and introduced himself.
'Don't you recognize me Ty?', i asked him.
A moment later he looked at me like he'd just seen a ghost.
'Sophie?! Soph-is that really you?!'
'Yeah it's me!'
He hugged me, it was more like he crushed me. His warm embrace felt so safe, so right. I wanted to stay like that for the rest of my life.
His joy-filled eyes were sparkling, and i probably was smiling in a totally unattractive goofy way.
'I can't believe it's really you?'
'Who'd you think i was?'
'I dunno. I guess i was looking but i wasn't seeing. I'm trapped in my own thought, in my own little world...i guess'
He did that cute uncomfortably embarrased soft chuckle that i love.
'I get what you mean, if the school bell hadn't rang, i wouldn't have looked up to see you coming in'
I think i did an embarrased soft laugh that was almost identical to his because i felt like i said too much.
There was a moment of silence and we were both ignoring our teacher who had just given us a homework assignment that i didn't quite understand because Ty can be distracting. But he was the best distraction in the history of the world.
'We just moved back a few days ago', i informed T, breaking the silence.
'Why didn't you come by and visit?', he asked, grinning at me. Because i thought if i saw you again i would melt, like i am melting right now, i answered the question in my head.
I shrugged. 'Didn't think you'd remember me'.
'If i saw you, i would.'
'So, did i miss anything while i was gone?'
Translation, do you have a girlfriend now?
'Nope, i'm just the same old dependable Ty you knew when you were 5'
His smile grew and my eyes lit up with happiness. He was dependable and i loved him for always being there for me when we were growing up.
'What about you? Did i miss anything while you were travelling?'
'Nope, i'm just the same old headstrong, independent Soph you knew when you were 5'
We heard our teacher clear his throat at us because we obviously weren't paying any attention.
'Good', he whispered, smile intact, he reached for my planner and wrote down his new number. Next to it he wrote: Call me when you want to catch up, i feel like you've been gone forever. I smiled and wrote my number in his planner,and wrote next to it: how 'bout tonight. It wasn't a question but he wrote definetely anyway.
And then the bell rang.
