Ever since second grade I've known Leon and Belle. We quickly became really close friends. We stayed that way for the next six years. In ninth grade we started to drift apart, well at least that's how I felt. Leon used to always sit with Belle and I at lunch but one day he started sitting with his other guy friends. We were still close, but as the year went on, he drifted away. Or at least from me. Belle and Leon had apparently talked a lot via there phones. I didn't really use my phone that much. I guess that's why Belle drifted away too. She started vlogging. She started hanging out with vloggers and computer genius's. I had to mingle quite a bit that year. I made some new friends that year though.
Most of them are still close friends of mine. Like Willow and Rose. I honestly consider them my closest friends. They probably don't think of me the same way, after all sometimes it feels like I'm a third wheel. They've been best friends since preschool after all. Other times I really feel like I'm with friends and that nothing can hurt me.
Except there is one thing that can. Ever since Leon started to drift away in ninth grade I finally realized that I liked him as more than a friend. I tried to prevent him from slipping away even more, but no matter what I did I he still slipped away more and more. I tried so hard to get him to stay but eventually we were barely acquaintances. I stupidly held on to the hope that I could get him back. Then summer came and we barely talked. We had a few conversations, if you'd even call them that. It was more of a "Hey" "Hi" "What's up?" "Nothin how about you?" "Not too much" "Cool" "Cool". Those conversations killed me.
I invited him and some of my other friends to a bonfire towards the end of the summer. He came but we didn't really talk like I had hoped. He talked more to Rose and Belle. Honestly I should have thought the bonfire through. I invited like five girls and Leon and Jackson. I just thought about seeing him and I thought somehow he and I would magically know everything about the other and start dating that very day. After we dropped him off at his house after the bonfire along with everyone else, I knew I had lost him. I also knew I would never get him back...
But that was ninth grade. Now I'm a sophomore. Rose and I had grew apart a little because we didn't have many classes together at all, but we were still pretty good friends. Willow and I were really close now. We had three of four classes together all year. Our schedules are almost exact and when we first compared our schedules to each other's we mixed them up. We eventually realized we had the wrong schedules and switched back but we always joke about going to the other persons class for them.
I had also gained a few other friends. Jasmine, Eve, Ace, and I guess you could count Kane. Kane was Eves' boyfriend. We sat next to each other in band. We both played trumpet. He was sixth chair in Symphonic Band and I was seventh. That's pretty good for two sophomores in a group of eighteen trumpet players. Of course half of them were in Concert Band, but that was a pretty good accomplishment. All the other trumpet players in Symphonic Band were either Juniors and Seniors.
Eve and I weren't that close until this year and neither was Jasmine and I. But both Eve and Jasmine are really close to me now. Belle and I are still friends. We aren't that close but at least we haven't completely drifted apart like Leon and I. We still have each others' numbers but we dodn't really talk or text. Honestly the only time that we talked was if we needed help with homework and we were both in the same class. A lot had changed since ninth grade.
