Can't It Be Someone Else?

Chapter 1

"Hey clayton my name is paisley" I said in a very shy tone.
" hey there paisley my name is... well I guess you already know that. How are you doing today" he answerd back slowly. Me being the crazy ten year old self I was I ran back to the front of the bus and sat down quickly. The while bus rude from school to his house was very awkward since he sat two seats behind me. As clayton got off of the bus he smiled and winked at me. I felt so special that for once in my life a boy actually winked at me.

After that day we never talked again up until a couple of years ago when I went to the same high school with him. I hung out with him and his girlfriend at lunch and helped them through some relationship problems. Which I had no idea what to say most of the time because me, myself had not been in a relationship since 8th grade. After I started hanging out with them, him and his girlfriend kept getting in more and more arguments. Everyone in my family picked on me about liking him but I told them over and over again that I didn't. But I think I was just trying to make myself believe that. He was falling behind in school and asked me to help him not knowing at the time that I really did like him I said yes and we went to his sister's house every afternoon two months before school ended and I helped him for about 3 hours each day. I spent afternoons and the weekends helping him just so he would graduate two years before I did. Everybody to this day picks on me saying I like Clayton. And I didn't realize it until a couple of months ago I was at a family picnic with my cousin and I invited Clayton along as a friend because in the two months before school ended we had gotten close and became best friends so I thought it was fair to invite him along. While he was talking to my parents I was talking to my cousin she'd mentioned his name but I didn't think anything of it until I stayed the night with her. Me and her stayed up all night talking about him and our friendship, she was the one that made me realize that he was the one that I wanted and cared for the most. She told me that I should tell Clayton but I was scared every time I wanted to tell him my stomach turned into a butterfly pit and I felt like I was going to faint or worst vomit. I wanted to tell him I really did but I didn't know how. His sister told me that he was going on vacation with one of his very close friend. So while he was on vacation and I was not face-to-face with him I asked him what he really thought of about me. He said he really didn't know what I meant. I asked him on a scale of 1 to 10 what he thought of me and he said an 8. I did not complain because that was the highest number I've ever gotten from a guy that I've ever asked that same question too. He told me that before our situation that he liked me a lot but he never knew how to talk to me and tell me and I was aggravated at the fact that he could not tell me anything that I wasted my chance with him. We talked all night about what would happen if we actually did start dating and who would approve and who would get angry with us. The only thing I knew was that I was now in love with him.
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So guys this is the first chapter and I'm sorta freaking out here...this is a little bit of my life put in the story and I know that the first chapter is short but this was a spur of the moment thing and I didnt even have anything planned out yet or anything...please vote and comment what you think so far