After school Natalie suggested we go to Starbucks, and who could ever deny Starbucks, so of course i agreed. Lucky enough for us, because we are at a loss for cars, and licenses, there is a start bucks right near our school so it was only about a five minute walk.
"I'll have a Iced Hazelnut Macchiato." I tell the barista.
"What's your name."
"Sam." I say and walk over to where you pick up your order. My coffee is ready in a few minutes and I join Natalie at a square table near the front of the store.
"So, what do you think about Hayes being back?" She asks, taking a sip of her cappuccino, a small line of whipped cream covering her upper lip. I giggle and she glares at me, swiping the back of her hand over her mouth.
"Um, I don't really know what to think."
That's what I honestly think. Me, Natalie, and Hayes were best friends since like, fifth grade or something. We did everything together and were pretty much inseparable, we even had sleepovers. Then the first day of eighth grade Hayes just didn't show up, and all the days after that, leading up until today. Natalie and I really loved being friends with him and trusted him with ever thing and we were absolutely crushed when he left, without any explanation, and failed to call or text us. I think it crushed me a little more that he didn't call or text because I may or may not have had a huge crush on him, and told him. Me being my dumb, naive eighth grade self, I swore he left because I told him I liked him, I left out the "huge" part of me liking him. For days I cried, making myself believe it was because I was a nerd and he thought I was ugly and repulsive. Now I did eventually get over that when Natalie and I realized, once we saw pictures, that he had just gone on a "Magcon" tour with his brother, Nash, and a bunch of their friends, then lived with his dad for a year. But it still hurt alot that he didn't even tell us.
"Do you think he wants to be our friends again?" Natalie says, breaking me out of my thoughts.
"I don't know. I mean, if he did, would you want to? We haven't even talked to him for two years."
She looks down at her coffee,"Well yeah. It's like, so much has happened in two years, it would be so hard to catch up with everything that has been going on. Like, he missed eighth grade and our first year of high school."
Taking a minute to think I continue,"Exactly. He missed two big years of our lives. But can we let everything that we had in those five years, all the memories, just go to waste because he left for two years."
"Everything that you tow had." She says looking me straight in the eyes.
I can feel my cheeks flush,"We, we didn't have anything. We were little kids."
She smiles,"Sammy, I think we both know, you had a better relationship with him than he and I did. A closer relationship."
I don't say anything but she continues,"So do you think you guys could have something again? Something more."
"No, no I'm over him...It was nothing, just a crush."
Am I though. I hadn't thought about it much in the last two years, but seeing him today brought something inside of me back, a feeling that I only had, have? For him. I try and push the thought out of my mind, if anything is going to happen between us, we have to start with being friends again and I have no idea how that's going to even work. My phone buzz's in my pocket and I pull it out to see a text from my mom.
*Hey sweetie, it's almost time for dinner. I'm not sure were you are, presumably somewhere with Natalie, but you need to start making your way home. Love you.*
