"I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU BECAUSE MY LOVE AND HATE COLLIDED."
Cassandra Watts was known as the singer who hid her voice away from those she loved, and all of those she didn't.
When a ten year battle between her and her most sacred enemy, Lee Felix (...
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Cassie "Jared..."
Three years. Three entire years worth of forgetting and imagining and hoping.
And here he stood right in front of me.
My first kiss. My first boyfriend. My first crush.
Jared's light brown hair was done in a stylish new way, differing from the way he wore it in freshmen year.
The dimple on his cheek stood out amazingly as he smiled, and my heart sped up incredibly.
No. No. No.
"Oh my gosh, Cassie? Is that really you?" I chuckled and nodded, and he moved forward and engulfed me in a hug.
His arms are spectacularly secure and muscular, he clearly was working out a lot and he must still be playing basketball.
As I pulled away, I gave him a carefree smile and said, "I've been great. You look...different." I then questioned why the hell I said that, and then I said quickly after, "Oh! I mean, you look different in a different way, or different in a-"
Jared chuckled and only shook his head while saying, "Same old Cassie."
I chuckled with him and said, "Yeah. But I've definetly changed."
Meeting those story-telling eyes, Jared then said, "Well all of us change. Don't ever feel ashamed of it, Cass."
God. I couldn't take him saying Cass like that.
Not whenever I was so in love with Felix. Not whenever Felix said Cass better than anyone else I've ever known.
Felix. I want Felix.
So, that's exactly why I sprinted in the other direction, Jared yelling my name as I ran.
I grabbed my bags and Alina looked up at me, mouth full of egg roll. Tugging on her sleeve, I said, "Come on. I got to get home to tell Jade something."
I was totally lying, but I had to get away from Jared. I had to get away from him before all those old memories of the past came flooding back, and I would be stuck thinking about him for days.
Alina made a surprised sound before she finally got up, and we ran to her car, a yelling Jared behind us and a distant memory implanted in my mind to remember forever.
***
That night as I laid in bed and hugged my plush panda to my chest, I couldn't help but remember the dimpled laugh of Jared Pearce.
I wanted to forget all of this afternoon for the main reason of forgetting him.
He couldn't just show up after three years and be laughing like that in front of me. It was all very ridiculous and a whole new way of tormenting me.
