So Many Reasons To Be Happy

Madelyn

I was always like the other girls in Middle School. I was boy crazy and always had an eye for the popular boy, you know, the one who did his hair and could finish the pacer test the best? Yeah, him. Well when I moved the summer after tenth grade things changed for me. I was at a new school starting my junior year of high school. Life felt awful. That was until life flew at me like wind.
I remember when I first saw Kaleb. I don't think I could forget it, quite honestly. I fell in love. It was like coming to the realization that you've been blind you're whole life and now you see color for the first time. The way he smiled, the corners of his lips turning down. The moment was in slow motion. Perfect, slow motion.
Well, ya see after I first saw him, I immediately realized how silly this was. I pushed it off as boy crazy nonsense and reminded myself he probably doesn't have any classes with me. Pushing it aside I moved forward and ate my lunch, that very first day, alone. I had gotten used to it.
Finally last period had rolled around. Advanced Art. Thank god. One class I could stand. And it was as I walked in that I noticed right away the rainbows bursting from the table beside the windows. Him. He had advanced art. What a beautiful life.
I walked in and sat down at the table he sat at but diagonally across. He was sitting there pushing some papers into folders when he looked up at me. My stomach knotted. I could hear myself internally yelling to talk to him and crying out of sheer fear.
"Hi, I'm Madelyn. I'm new here." I say quietly, but just audible enough for him to catch it.
"Oh hi, I'm Kaleb." He grinned his radiant smile at me and I nearly fainted.
Then the bell rang and our moment was over. Damn. A moment missed.
"Good afternoon class, I'm Miss Anderson. I'll be your Advanced Art teacher this year. Now we have a lot of assignments that you will find challenging, but this class...", Miss Anderson continued talking us through a syllabus, forms and other shit that I didn't really care for at the moment. All I could do was stare out the window and think about how on earth I planned to survive the rest of this year.