We Live, We Laugh, and We LOVE

INTRODUCTION

It's stupid. Nothing goes right for me. Nothing. I try and I try.. Nothing. I want to give up. I really do , but somehow it comes back. It haunts me, it possesses me, it follows me no matter where I go. It's the worst. This is the most cruelest thing I can be cursed upon... And it goes by the name of 'love.'

CHAPTER 1

It happened that very day that school started, that very day I was finally a senior. My last year, the last year to make a difference. The day I put everything into the past, and I just move on. I'm dropped off at Lincoln High School early, earlier than the teacher, too! I stand at my home room door, as I awkwardly hold my bags, I glance over to the other side of the hallway.

'Who is that?' I thought. This boy, this boy I've never seen before. He's new, he's got to be. But I can't stop staring.

He was tall, thin, but very much in shape. I couldn't stop looking. He had bronze hair that reflected off the sun, it was like a dream. He was a dream. Too perfect to exist. To perfect to know I existed. I couldn't keep from looking. Suddenly his gaze met mine, I turned away blushing, and I stared down at my brown combat boots. I blushed, I couldn't help it... No, I couldn't think.

"Rachal!! Omg!!" Screeched a familiar voice. Oh yeh, perfect, it's my best friend Destiny.

"Hi," I replied.

She pranced over and started to blab away, but I didn't fully listen. I was too focused on that boy across the hallway. We kinda watched each other for a while, yet nothing happened between us. Suddenly he walked over.

"Uh, hi.." He said "...I'm John"

"Hi John I'm-"

I was cut off by a ear-splitting bell ringing through the schools intercom. He was dragged into his classroom by eager classmates. I trudged into mine. I knew from that day forward, that this year will be the best I've had in a while, and it surely won't be forgotten.

"Ok so what's the dirt on him and you?" Destiny asked sitting on my desk.

"Nothing." I rejected and I pushed her off.

"I saw the looks you guys were giving each other. I'm not stupid Rach."

"Are you sure?"

"Oh you-"

"Destiny please go and take a seat. Now!" Ms. Boulder warned my best friend as she huffed off away to her seat. "Good morning 12B how are you?"

"Goooood.." The class muttered in unison.

"That's great..." Then Ms. Boulder talked on and on me on. I just zoned out.

I was thinking of him, John. My Mr. Right. The guy I wanted to be with. Some people don't tend to believe in 'love at first sight,' well I do. But, I like love, but I also fear it. I'm worried that what if it turns out to be a mistake. I don't want either of us to feel hurt. I'm scared he doesn't feel the same. Love is so complicated. Everybody has a different perspective on it. Well really, love is experienced in all different ways, there is no proper definition.

I know I shouldn't get ahead of myself. Nothing lasts forever I guess, but I felt it. The connection. It feels unrealistic, like I'm in some sort of trance. This all seems too fast, but I guess it was meant to be.

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First lunch of the year and I get to sit alone at a lunch table. Destiny hangs with her cheerleading squad at lunch. So here I am, all by myself, eating the disgusting crap they serve here at Lincoln and they call it 'food.' Today at least I was able to scrape the fur off the top. Maybe it's meatloaf surprise or something. Suddenly I hear a creak from the chair beside me.