Revealed

11. Melissa

*Picture of Melissa*

Jayden: Lets meet up

Melissa: what time?

Jayden: half an hour good?

Melissa: ok i'll be waiting ;)

I can't wait. This was all I had wanted for about three years. Jayden never notices me though. In sophomore year, I asked him out with a pillow. I didn't realize what a stupid idea it was until AFTER he rejected me. I was mocked for weeks. I never truly recovered until junior year when I tried to get over him by dating Ace Caliver. Ugh, don't even get me started on him.

He was a complete waste of time.

He never texted me and when he did, it was like he didn't even want the conversation to continue. We only talked in school. Even though he sat in the same seat as me on the bus, it was like I was invisible. One night, a rare night when Ace felt like talking, he told me that he promised to "never break up with me". Then, less than half an hour later, he texted those stupid and disappointing five words. "I want to break up," he said. "My pastor at church just found out about a guy who was dating his daughter and they got into trouble. A lot of people in my church know about us. I just can't risk that."

What the hell?! When you love someone, you don't let what other people think get in the way of that!

And you especially don't break up with someone 20 freaking minutes after you promised to be a forever couple!

But Ace was whatever. After only one day, Stella and Solane had run up to me in the lunch line.

"Girl! I overheard Ace telling some of his boys that he was gonna ask you out again on the bus today!" Solane was the worst whisperer ever.

"Don't accept it. He shouldn't have broken up with you in the first place. I hate fake people like that." Stella was overly annoyed.

I shrugged what I heard off my shoulders. I wanted people to think that I didn't care, even though, I did. And my girls were right. On the bus, Ace didn't turn away from me like he normally did. He was so attentive.

"Babe. What I said yesterday, I didn't mean it. That's a side of me I never want you to see again. Please take me back." Ace had practically been begging me. And I had to admit, I kind of liked the attention. For a full week, I let him go on without an answer from me until I gave in. Then it was back to the old routine. No texts, no calls, and no other contact with me.

When summer came around, it was as if I didn't even have a boyfriend. He was such an ass. I never got any attention again.

So I ended things. I don't know what made me get so deep in my feelings but, a few months after our breakup, I poured my heart out to him. And in return, he basically told me that he was forced to ask me out and gradually learned to tolerate me. He even had the audacity to add that he got over me within a week. It had taken me months to make any progress trying to get over him! I was so hurt.

That's when Jayden came back into play. I had never stopped thinking about him. Then, senior year came around. That was my last chance to make an impression. Make people remember me not as the girl who got rejected by one of the hottest guys ever and dated a douche, but as the girl who glowed up and got cuffed with her hottie soulmate.

All year, I had been flirting. I don't know how much more obvious I could make it. And finally, three weeks and two days before graduation, the guy I had waiting a strong 1095 days for, finally wanted me. Solane and Stella say it's a bad idea. But when you hold onto things like I do for how long I have, you kind of get wrapped around the idea and want nothing else. I know there's a 99.9% chance of me getting hurt, but there's a 0.01% chance of me succeeding.

And you know what they say. You only live once. You never know if tomorrow might be your last day. So I thought it best to take my chances.