Elise and I have always been close, as children we lived in the same neighborhood, rode the same bus to the same school, and endured the same unrelenting classes and annoying school aged boys. Through the years we were inseparable, two peas in a pod. If you saw one you saw the other, a bond that could never be broken. We'd attended the same schools and had the same classes all the way up until graduation. When it came time for college we parted ways with promises of rekindling our friendship in the future. We had to, after all, what's me without my best friend? Just Nadia. I've never been just Nadia, I've never been alone.
Those four years without Elise were hard for me. Instead of biking across the street for endless conversations about nothing in particular, I was reduced to hurried phone calls amidst busy dorm room life. I was depressed and alone in a world so new to me, it was during that time that I realized the feelings I had for Elise were far more than friendship. I ached for her at night, ached for her touch, her presence, her scent. Ached to be in her arms, ached to be near the girl I loved.
I think I've always loved Elise, not in the way that I do now. But I've always had an admiration for her. Her beauty, her brain, and everything that makes her who she is. That scar on her right cheek that she got in middle school that looks more like a dimple than a scar when she smiles. The way her forehead wrinkles up when she's thinking, how she snorts when she laughs too hard. Her beautiful chocolate skin, her gorgeous smile, her long curly hair, her lips, her legs. I love everything about her, I'm IN love with her and I can't wait to tell her to her face.
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Secret Love
RomanceNadia discovered while away at college that she's secretly in love with her best friend. Upon returning to New York she's ready to tell her how she feels and accept whatever comes her way. There's only one problem, Elise is engaged. Follow along to...
