Bearing my Heart and Soul

My Love Letter

To the one I like,

When I first met you I didn't know what to think. You barely said more than a few words to me but you just wanted to talk to your brother. I introduced myself and you still didn't say much to me. When you touched my hand when we shook hands, I felt something different that I've never felt before from anyone. Not only did I get butterflies in my stomach, I felt like a light was shining above our heads. Your dark eyes to me sparkled and I couldn't really see much of anything in the world except you. Whenever you came to see your brother, my eyes always seemed to follow you wherever you went.

Whenever he left the room and it was just you and me, I felt nervous again. Mainly it was because I was shy, but I had a lot of things I wanted to say yet I didn't know how to say them to you. I took a deep breath and just asked you the basic questions. You gave me pretty straight-forward answers then things just became awkward again. The more I heard about you, the more I wanted to try and get to know the real you.

The more I hung out with you, the more I saw that we have some of the same friends. Whenever you weren't there, I'd hear all of these different stories about you from my friends and it just made me more curious about you. I heard that you're this ultimate bad boy and that you don't really have many friends. You just date girls just because you could or that you don't really do relationships. This just made me feel as if I don't really know you as well as I had thought.

One day when I was alone by this lake, you came up behind me. I told you that your brother isn't here and you said that you wanted to hang out with me. I shrugged at you and you just sat there next to me. I then told you about all of the things that I heard about you and you said that some of them were true but some weren't. You said that you didn't care what anyone had to say about you, you were comfortable with how you saw yourself and the rest of the world didn't matter.

This made me feel a whole new level of respect for you. At that moment, I knew that was when I started to develop feelings for you. Then we became friends and we grew dangerously closer. I never told you how I really felt because you told me that you don't want to date anyone. So I just kept them to myself. Now I really regret not saying anything, because I feel as if I've lost not only my best friend but I lost the only one who made me feel like I can be the real me.