A Small Town Story

Chapter 2

 

It all started my freshman year…

 

I'm not going to lie, I was a very immature freshman and I had a lot of growing up to do. Which I did after everything had happened.

There was this boy. His name was Tyler and I had known him my whole entire life, heck I grew up with him and he was one of my bestest friends.

He attended the same church as me so I saw him every Sunday and Wednesday and most of the time way more than that.

I feel for Tyler. Hard.

At this time I was barely fourteen and he was fifteen. Only a year older. It scared me since I never really felt like I had before about a guy. I mean sure I had my silly little crushes and though that some guys were attractive looking but not a feeling this strong.

I always ask myself if it was really love then? I was young and I honestly didn't know what love was. Wait correction, I did know what love was. Just not that kind of love.

I knew the type of love you felt for your family or the type of love you felt for an inanimate object but no love love if you know what I mean.

So, I decided to tell Tyler that I liked him. You wanna know how I told him? A note.

A note I re-wrote for days. To this day I still have one of the notes I wrote but chose not use. Why I keep it, I have no clue but I do.

It was on a Sunday morning. September 9th to be exact. Yes I remember the date quit judging me.

As I was saying, me being the sacred person I was, I gave to note to my friend who in return gave it to Tyler. Oh, and I bolted out of the room.

Yeah, I was just that cool. Just kidding not really.

After he was given the note and I went home, I waited and waited but nothing was heard from Tyler. That night I went back to my Church for the Sunday night service and I saw him. Nothing was said to me. He didn't even look my way.

I was confused. I really was.

That same night I was laying in my bed and I decided that I wasn't going to wait any longer. Yeah, I was quite impatient.

My text was simple. “Did you get my note.” That’s all it said. When my phone beeped signaling that I had a new message I panicked. After five minutes of giving myself a pep talk I opened this message. It read:

“Yeah.”

That’s what it said. I wanted a real answer though. So, I responded with,

“And..? What do you think?”

I paced back forth repeatedly for who knows how long. Actually it was only like five minutes but at that time it felt like eternity. Then another beep came from my phone.

“I don't know. I have a girlfriend now.”

This was news to me. With us being as close as we were I had absolute no clue that he had a girlfriend or I wouldn't have told him that I liked him.

I said nothing back. There was no way that I was going to try and come between him and his girlfriend. No way. I am not that desperate and mean.

So, I sat back and watched my life get destroyed. Now not because he was dating this girl no. Some how everyone found out about my “crush” and again I say that it is a small town so in the matter of weeks everyone knew.

Nothing bad really started happening until his girlfriend found out and she made my life terrible. It was like her mission to destroy me.

It only got worse when the broke up for the first time. You are probably wondering why things got worse at this point and not better. Well, they fought and she decided to spread around lies about Tyler.

And me being the stupid and caring friend I was, I stood up for him. I guess that she didn't like this very much because next thing I knew everyone was some how turned against me. Even some of my family. Everyone has secrets. Some how mine got out.

I had stood up for Tyler but when I needed him the most he changed. A lot and not in a good way either. He treated me like I was a stranger and that hurt me.

With everyone turning against me and no one to turn to I was lost. At this time my friends said nothing.

I was lost.

Very lost.

To this day I still don't known what kept me from giving up. I am very thankful I did not give up because I would not be here today telling you this story.

Tyler and Kelsey got together once more. I was shocked beyond belief. After all she said about him and all she had done he still took her back.

The torcher didn't cease though. Nope, it just got worse and I just let it happen. I never stood up for myself and I still hate myself for it.

That is until one day I finally snapped.

It was around Christmas time and we had a lot of things going on with in our small community and especially with in my church. So clearly I saw Tyler a lot.

One of the days we where out Christmas caroling and he spoke to me. This was the first time in over two months so I simply ignored him even though I was happy of the inside that he had finally spoken to me.

He got mad and called me rude and asked me what my problem was. That is when I snapped and went off.

I was tired of being weak and being treated like crap.

From that day forward everything was different. Everything about me seemed to change. Not necessarily  in a bad way like I didn't go down hill crazy or anything I just matured and became scared to love again.

 

Ok ok I am done with this flash back. Back to the present now.

 

I guess I must have been in my flash back for a while because next thing I hear was my teacher calling my name up at the front and everyone looking at me.

“Taylor are you ok?” My teacher Mrs.Dryman asked me.

I nodded my head and went back to working. A few minutes later I left the classroom since the bell had rung and I went to go meet up with my friends since it was break.

“We all should hang out tonight.” Ashley suggested. We all agreed but we had no clue what to do since there was not much to do.

In the end we decided to go to the movies. I think Zoe was totally excited for this because there it a couple of seniors that work there that according to Zoe are “mighty fine looking”.

We all planned to meet up there after school. This should intresting. Because I known some how some way Zoe will do something to attract the attetion of these boys.

Her plans almost always invole me.

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There you go chapter two! I hope you all enjoyed it!

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