The First letter in Love is not U

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Chapter One

I twirl in front of my full length mirror, my short mid-thigh,

sparkly purple dress twirling with me. Today is my sixteenth birthday

and I am going to give myself to Will, I am ready for it and I know he

is too.

"Mikey, chica look at you!" My best friend since grade school, Linda

clambers into my room, already wasted. She looks ruffled, like she

just got out of bed, her black short sequined dress not quite straight

and the zipper isn't done up all the way. I don't know why she gives

her self away so easily. She is beautiful and should wait for love

like Will and I. Linda has long dark brown hair, big brown eyes full

lips and a creamy skin color, and her voice has a thick Mexican accent

which just makes her even cooler.

"I am looking, Linda and I see me." I smile at her from the

reflection in the mirror. Linda walks up and starts playing with my

long light blonde hair, unlike her, I am not Mexican and my family and

I really stick out in this neighborhood, but we are treated like

family, for some strange reason.

Unlike Linda, I am not curvy in all the right places nor very tall,

while she stands five foot seven I stand four foot ten on my best day,

and I have absolutely no curves what so ever. Don't get me wrong I

absolutely love myself for who I am, and secretly my favorite part

about me is my purple eyes, not many people in the world have purple

eyes and they make me feel special.

"Well, that's good. At least you're not seeing a monster. Lets go,

chica. Your party is about to start." She grabs my hand and pulls my

out the door. My feet are practically gliding over my hideously

stained orange carpet, she is pulling me so hard.

"Slow down Linda. We aren't going to be late." But she doesn't slow

down, and in my opinion ,she speeds up. Then, he's there standing in

his all six foot Mexican glory, smiling happily at me. My man. My

Will. He has light grey eyes, and same dark brown hair as Linda, and

just even one glance over you can tell he is ripped, but not in the

disgusting way though.

"Mmmmm.Baby, you look gorgeous." Will says as soon as Linda throws me

into his arms. In short, Linda really approves of Will, and she has

known him all her life. Will leans down and kisses me slow and

passionately, his smooth lips molding perfectly with mine.

"Thanks. Ready to go to the party?" I smile at him. He really is my

life I dont know what I would do without him.

Will grabs my hand and pulls me into the crook of his arm and holds

me close and walks outside. Now, see this day was going perfect till

now. When Will opened the door, the first thing I heard was the "boom"

of a gun, and I saw blood everywhere. Instantly Will pushes me into

the wall and stands in front of me, but he is only in front of me for

a second, he pulls out his gun and shoots one guy wearing a red

bandana and punches someone else at the same time.

Now, I knew that Will was in a gang, and I have seen him fight it

doesn't make me love him even a little less knowing he has killed

someone, but it does scare me at times knowing what his strong capable

hands are able to do. Not for one second do I think though that Will

wont come back, it just doesn't cross my mind, he is part of one of

the biggest gangs and he is one of the best in his gang; that thought

doesn't cross my mind till I hear another deafening crack and I see

Will go down.

I hear screaming I don't know where its coming from but it is coming

from someone, it might even be me, but the world has paused and I only

see my Will on the ground. I feel myself coming off the ground and

running over to him. When I get to him I fall to my knees, red

blossoming all over my pale skin, I grab Wills head and hold it in my

lap. His breath is becoming shallow and his eyelids are fluttering, he

lifts his strong hands to touch my face but he doesn't have enough

strength to. While all this is happening I don't notice a young

Mexican boy, around the age of fourteen slinking over to me, a large

smirk on his face like he is about to do something bad.

"William, you are not going to die, if you die I will come after you,

don't you die." I scream at him as one tear exits his eye and slides

down his face and then he is still. I feel pools of water coming out

of my eyes, and now I know I am the one screaming. Then the moment is

over and someone is grabbing me by the hair trying to drag me

backwards, I don't think I just act and smash my palm into the guys

nose, a move that Will taught me.

I fall back to the ground and grab onto Will and bury my head into

his lifeless chest and cry, I feel more arms try to pry me away a

little bit later but I hold onto Will even harder not letting go.

I think I fell asleep crying into Will, because the next thing I knew

I was waking up in a hospital with the white glare of the lights, and

the beeping machine and all. I look around the room thinking that

maybe, hopefully that was a nightmare and I fell down my stairs and

have been in the hospital the whole time; but no I catch a glimpse of

Nick, Will's best friend, grim faced and sitting in my hospital room

and I know Will is gone forever.