Aria & Damon

Prolouge

My name is Aria Steel I'll be 18 in 3 weeks. And there is only one thing that I want. Ive wanted it all my life. But of course its the only thing I will never have.

Damon West.

Prologue

According to my mom Damon and I have known each other our whole lives. Hes always lived two houses down from mine. But the earliest memory I have of Damon is when we were four. It was my birthday and I was sitting on my living room floor playing with my dolls. And Damon comes running in through the front door and tackles me. I'm lying flat on the floor and feeling pretty angry. But then I open my eyes and his face was right above mine. He has the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They are so light blue they are almost silver. His black hair was a little long then and was hanging in his eyes, and he was smiling the sweetest smile a four year old boy could smile. I couldn't help but smile back. "Happy Birthday Are ya," he says. (He couldn't say my name right back then.) He stood up and then he helped me up. He hugged me and right as he did that my mom snapped a picture. She said it was one of the sweetest things she had ever seen.

I still have that picture. Its on my mirror in my bedroom. To this day I still smile every time I see it.

Damon and I were inseparable all the way up to the last couple of months before the end of 8th grade. We had been through so much together. Even the day when we were in the 5th grade, when Damon's mother died. He came over to my house crying and I just wrapped my arms around him and held him. I kept telling him that everything would be OK. And he kissed me on the cheek and told me that I was the best friend anyone could ever ask for. But one afternoon I was outside mowing the lawn when Damon came over and told me that he had a girlfriend. When I asked him who it was, he smiled that same smile he always saved for me. Except he wasn't smiling it at me this time, he was looking past me. I turned around and what I saw made my blood run cold. He was looking at my neighbor (and worst enemy) Sarah Bowman. She was laying on a lawn chair talking on the phone. She was the most popular girl in school. Even then, She always wore mini skirts and revealing tops. She had her dark brown hair cut really short that year, and in contrast to her hair, her emerald green eyes were brilliant. Oh and she had the biggest boobs in our grade level. For a 13 year old, they were huge. She waved at us and sent a wink his way before going back to her conversation. I turned back around and told him congratulations. I was happy for him. I wasn't of course, but he was my best friend and I wanted to be supportive. He asked me if I was OK with it. On the inside I was screaming NO!! I'M NOT OK WITH IT! WHY WOULD YOU EVEN WANT TO DATE HER! But I just smiled at him and said of course I was OK with it. Why wouldn't I be. He smiled. His normal regular smile he gives everyone, but me. And I knew things had changed. But despite that I acted like they didn't. I acted like the two of them together didn't bother me at all. But I saw what everyone else saw in them. They looked good together. After all, Damon was the star of the basketball team and she was the captain of the cheerleaders. I was just your average student. The only sport I ever played was Soccer. And I was only OK at it. Not the best but not the worst. I only started playing it because Damon said I should. I knew that I could never compete with Sarah. She was everything I wish I could've been then. She was a snob, but she was beautiful. I tried to be her friend once when she first moved in next door in the 4th grade. But even then she was a girly girl. She sneered at me and told me if she wanted to hang out with a boy she would get a boyfriend. I never thought I looked like a boy. My hair has always been long. I never wore boy clothes. Despite the fact that I always wished I looked like her Ive always been told that I'm pretty. She was just being mean to me. And shes been mean to me ever since.

For a while Damon and I went on being friends, I could see changes in him everyday as he fell more and more in love with her. Sarah started to get jealous of how much time we spent together, and Damon and I started growing apart. I hardly saw him anymore. He'd come over occasionally and hang out but, that was slowly ending too. The last time he came over, we were in the front yard and he was giving me a goodbye hug, just like he always did. "I really love her," he whispered in my ear, "I'm so happy with her, I hope you don't mind that I haven't been seeing you much." I shook my head, a tear coming to my eye, I blinked it back. He grabbed my hand and asked me what was wrong. "Nothing," I tell him. I fake a smile, "I'm just so happy for you." He smiled and Thanked me, He leaned in and kissed me on the cheek, said, "I'll see ya later." and started home. I stood there with my hand on my heart watching him walk away. When I turned around I saw Sarah looking out of her bedroom window. She gave me a really mean look, then closed the curtains. I went to bed that night knowing that something bad was gonna happen.

And something did. The next day at school Damon had a sad look on his face. When I asked him what was wrong, he told me that he had some bad news. "We cant see each other for awhile. Sarah says that I should spend more time with her because I'm her boyfriend." I shake my head and say, "But you already spend so much time with her. I hardly see you anymore! Shes just jealous of our friendship. That's all. She doesn't want you around me because, she knows how close we are." Damon shakes his head, "I love her Aria. You're still my best friend. I just cant see you for a while OK?" By this point I was angry, my heart was breaking. "NO! Its not OK Damon. You're seriously gonna let her ruin our friendship? Shes not worth it! Ive always been here for you. ALWAYS! When has she been there for you? She didn't even know who you were until this year! She always called you Damien or Donovan. We've been friends our entire lives! I know who you are, but does she really know you? Does she know about your mom? Does she know you hate brown chocolate but you love white? Does she know that when you smile you light up the world? Does she know that when you were 10 you broke your arm trying to do a nose grind with your skateboard. Does she know that every year on the anniversary of your mothers death you make a memorial boat of all your moms favorite things and send in out into the water? I bet she doesn't know any of those things. You've only been together for 3 months Damon. We've known each other for almost 14 years!" I was starting to cry then, But they were angry tears. Damon looks at me with a sad expression on his face and tells me, "I'm sorry Aria, But I LOVE her. I'm IN love with her." He reaches his hand out towards me and I snap, "Don't touch me, If you love her so much why are you still standing here. GO! Go to your precious little bitch, I'll tell you one thing though, Someday she is gonna break your heart. And I wont be there when that happens. You wont have me anymore to run to when bad things happen. I wont be there to tell you everything will be OK. I wont be there to hold your hand and help you through it." 'And you wont be there for me through all of these things either.' I thought to myself.

Damon's face filled with hurt and anger. And he said to me, "It looks to me like you're the Bitch Aria. That's fine I don't need you. I HAVE Sarah." And then he turned and walked away.

We didn't speak for the rest of the school year. When summer came he still didn't come back to me. That summer a boy from school named Ian Matthews and I got pretty close, We started dating. But by the end of the summer we both knew it wasn't working out, We would work better as friends. He knew my heart was with someone else. My heart has always been with Damon. Ive loved him for as long as I could remember.

When the school year rolled around again. And we all went to high school. I was hoping that Damon had changed his mind. We ended up having Homeroom together. I had missed him like crazy. I went up to him that day to ask him how he was. But he just looked at me like he didn't know who I was. Like we were never friends. And that hurt. So I turned around and walked away.

We haven't spoken since that day. Not unless we had to during class and then it was always formal. Never talking about anything but work.

I have other friends now, including Ian. But none of them ever took Damon's place in my heart. I still love him as much now as I did 12 years ago on my fourth birthday. We'll be Seniors this year, and after that I'll probably never see him again. The very least thing that I want for my birthday is for us to be friends again. But in my heart Ive always wanted us to be more than that.

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The pic to the right ---> is Pretty much what Aria looks like (minus the blue in her hair)

OK so that's the prologue. The actual story will begin soon. Please let me know if you like it. or even if you don't. Comment :)