Changing of the Seasons

Chapter 2

                      "What are you doing?" Sam asks. 

                     "Walking," I respond coldly. 

                      "Did you hear anything?" He asks nervously. 

                     "Nope," I lie, "I'm just getting some water for my dad."

                        I take a deep breath as I walk away. Shit, I think to myself, He still loves me. Shit shit shit!

                    My stomach hurts as I walk to school the next day. Instead of getting a ride from Kate, I decide to walk. I didn't want to go to school today. I didn't want to see Sam's face, because then I would be filled with guilt.

                      "Fuck it Frankie, I still love her! And she hates me!"

                       I can hear him sob in my brain. I cringe at the memory, and try to shake it out of my head. I need to think good thoughts. But good thoughts are no longer here. Bad thoughts have been imprinted in my brain, and they are peering out of my eyes, trying to get out. But it's impossible. My mind is a mouse trap, filled with blood and death. I go to my first class, just to find that Sam isn't there.

                          I know where he is. Whenever either of us had problems, we would run to the nature preserve just a couple blocks away from the high school. I know, humans aren't really supposed to go in there, but it was an escape. Escape from the real world. We would sit by the waterfall, on elevated rocks next to it so we can watch it flow. Our bad memories would whisk away into the waterfall, travelling deep into the rushing stream and never to be seen again. 

                           I start to feel a sense of longing when I think about it. It was so calm and peaceful, a little hideaway just for us. I start to think about if Sam took Penelope there. What if he did? He couldn't have. That was our little place. He could never betray me like that, right? 

                           In between classes, my longing gets to me and I run straight out the front doors. I start running as fast as I can to that nature preserve. I'm running faster and faster, just to get to him. I know exactly what will happen when I get there.

           I'll say,

         "Sam, I've missed you so much. Please come back to me. Please!"

              Then he'll say,

          "Piper, I've missed you too. I just pushed you away over the summer because I couldn't control loving someone whose a million miles away from me."

                 And I'll say,

                "It never stopped me."

            And then he'll lean closer. He'll tuck a loose strand of hair behind my ear and place those striking blue eyes on my own for a while. Then his lips would move closer to mine and BAM! It would happen. The guy I've liked for so long would be my first kiss. 

                     As I move into the dandelion field in front of the forest, I start to think about how unrealistic that is. He would never kiss me, not after this. He thinks I truly despise him. And I don't. Really, I don't. 

                       I trek through the forest for a while, until I can hear the rushing of the waterfall. I walk through our little shortcut and peer outside. Sure enough, there he is. He's sitting on the little seats we made a while back, right at the top of the waterfall. We created steps up there on a Saturday, just so we can watch the waterfall up close.