Innocently In Love

Chapter 1:

    Well it all started because of my friends. I was 5 years old. All my closest friends were older than me, Im talking, 7 year olds, 9 year olds, 12 year olds, and even 15 year olds. Obviousely they talked about crushes and gossip.

    One day they were all sharing their deepest secrets and their crushes. I was just standing between all of them thinking, who the heck do I like? After a few minutes of thinking, my friend Yailin, who was 12, asked, "Who do you like, Elie?". I confidently answered, "Caleb". They symultaneously sighed, "Aww". And all at once they started talking, some said it was cute, others said I was too young to have a crush, but I didnt care I was determined on making him like me back.

Chapter 2:

    Caleb has always been my guy bestfriend, but now I know I feel something deeper for him. And Im gonna tell him, its a decision that I've made and theres no going back.

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    He's coming over tonight, since our parents are like BFFs, Im always at his house and he is always at my house, specially since we live in the same block.

    As I put my Barbies in a pile, I hear a knock on the door, it must be him. "I'll open, Mami!", I yell as I unlock the door. Yup, thats him and his family. They come in and my mom starts serving coffee, typical Cuban drink. I lead him and his brother, Nathan, to my room. As soon as they step in, Caleb grabs the blue Power Ranger, Nathan grabs a small green soldier, and I grab my Dora doll. We start playing, going from handle to handle and jumping here and there. "Caleb?", I ask. "Yes, Elie", he replies. "I think I like you". "No, you dont". "Ugh, yes I do". "Well, I dont like you" he says with a challenging smirk. "Dont sweat it my dear, you will some day", I say as I reply the same smirk.

Chapter 3:

    "Ha ha, gotcha!" I exclaim as I poke Caleb with my fake sword. "Ah yes, of course you got me, you are the greatest girl pirate alive!" he says with a wink.

     His mom calls us for lunch. We dont speak much as we eat.

    My dad works with his dad so Im like always at his place.

    While my dad is working with his dad behind their house, he puts on Micheal Jackson. "Do you know how to dance this?" he asks while he shows off his moves. "Uh not really I only know salsa, merengue, and bachata." I reply as I watched him dance.

    Next thing I know, he turned off the lights and we were in the dark with only enough light from the window to see his face and the furniture around us. He continued dancing and unexpectedly grabbed my hand. I was confused for a sec but allowed the rhythm to take over. Soon enough we were dancing in perfect synchronization.

    As we danced the time away, my dad entered the room to get a tool or some shit. He saw us dancing and gave me disapproving-ish-suspicious look. I immediately stopped and walked to the porch, leaving Caleb in the living room confused out of his mind, since I randomly stopped dancing.

   When I saw him walking towards me, I sat on the marble floor and beckoned him to sit next to me. We sat in silence for a while. He took a deep breath and I thought he was going to ask me why I stopped dancing, but he didnt he stated, "I saw a movie las night". "Cool, how was it?". "Great it was about this old guy who....". He went on and on about the movie and its whole plot. And little by little I noticed as he got closer and closer to me. His eyes shined with excitement as told me about the movie. I felt this random urge to kiss him, but no, I mean seriously I was like 5 or 6. Anyways, I was getting lost in his eyes as he spoke and every second I felt myself drowning into them. But of course his mom HAD to ruin the moment. She walked toward us and coughed. I immediately looked up, and so did he. "So what are you guys up to, huh?" she asked as she gave me the same disapproving-ish-suspicious look my dad gave me. "Nothing he's just telling me about a movie" I say. Still giving me the disapproving-ish-suspicious look she said "Hm, okay" and left.

    She really ruined the moment because after that, he stopped talking and decided we should play soccer instead.

Chapter 2:

    "Omg, Daira I need to tell you something" I whispered into the house phone. I was talking to my childhood best friend and I kind of, maybe forgot to tell her about my crush, I feel like the worst friend ever. "What is I?" she ask in an excited voice. "I think I like Caleb." I answered, you could feel the expecting tone in my voice. ".......", that was all I heard, it was sort of an awkward silence. Finally she spoke "Uh, Elie, I-I-I like Caleb too." I wanted to cry  not because I was mad that she liked the same guy, I did, but because she waited so long to tell me. I trusted her enough to tell her who I liked, but she didn't trust me. I locked the tears up and kept it in. "We're not gonna fight for a guy." I said in a very sophisticated way. "If he likes me than he likes me, and if he likes you than I'm gonna be happy for you, OK?" I spoke to her like a mother speaks to her hurt daughter, even though Daira is two years older than me. "Okay." she answered and I could tell she was in tears. After talking for a few minutes we hung up.

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    The days passed by, turning into weeks and then months and Daira and I were still BFFs, nothing had change. Caleb was still my guy best friend and I hung out with him and Daira as much as before. And once in a while I would ask Caleb if he liked me or Daira and he would always say he didn't like any of us. We went to parties and played all the time and nothing.

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