Who Knew?

Looking Back

  I walk though the long halls of the place I hated the most.  The smell of cleaner of floor and the white plain walls of this hell whole never changed even after four years. But this place did make me the person I am today. Even if it hurt me every day for four year but I'm getting ahead of myself
  The rooms where I learned eight years ago still look the same. Same square desk lined in rows facing the whiteboard. I remember this room being my own version of hell. They all used to torment me here. They made feel ashamed of who I was. If only they knew what I would become in those years to come.
  I walk down the twisted maze of the halls and out the quad of the campus, I headed to the place I felt safe and wanted. I walked and it sent me back, the smell of books. I came here every day to do work, study, and most of all read. I came here so often I became friends with the librarian Joyce. She was basically my like my mom, ever since what happened the following year I came to this place that caused me so much pain.

~ Flashback 8 years ago~

" Goodbye Maya we will miss you. Have fun at Lake view High School" said all my friends as the gave me one last hug at the end of our lunch period before we parted ways.
I walked to class with my heading spinning and my stomach in knots. Gosh I hated having to leave. I thought to myself. I continued to walk my head hanging to the towards the floor in saddest on having to leave the place that I finally started to feel like I belonged when suddenly.... BAM! I bump into someone's chest and fall to the floor with my binder that slams on the ground and breaks open, causing all my papers to start to drift  away because of the gentle breeze. Dang it. Why I am always so clumsy. I look up to the person I so careless slammed into. Why did it have to be him. "Oh I am so sorry let me help you." Why did it have to be Brody Marsin. I have had a crush on you since the fifth grade and I have been trying to get you to notice me and this is how it happens. I take his hand and blush scarlet red. "I..I ... I am so sorry I wasn't playing attrition and then I was walking and then I ran into you and now I am wasting your time I am so sor--ry." Dang Maya stop rambling to the poor boy and let him go by your clumsy but. I rush of to my next class before he can say a word. "That was embarrassing I cannot believe I did that." I say quietly to myself as I sit in my seat for 6th period.

"You can't believe you did what?"  I jumped at the sound of his voice.
"Dang it Zack you scared the heck out of me. You could have given me a heart attack. You know how I am." I say scolding him.
"Damn okay know need for the language." He adds with a smirk just before he burst into laughter.
"Zack stop you are causing people to stare and you know how my anxiety spikes."
"I am sorry but what happened that has you so on edge."

I tell him about the encounter with Brody. He gives me a pity look knowing how long I have like this guy and he hasn't noticed me. 

Wait I totally forgot to tell you guys who Zack is. Well Zack Smith is my best friend we have know each other even before birth. Our mom's are best friends and they have always wanted their kids to become friends so here are Zack and me, friends for 15 years.

"Well you will find someone who will see you when you move, but I must say it sucks you are leaving if it was up to me I would just lock you up in my basement so you can't leave." He states trying to hide his saddest with a joke.

~The present~

God that day went by faster than I wanted it to. Soon we were pack up and heading to California from my hometown in Washington. If only I knew that the new school would be my own version of hell.