Forever. Maybe...

"Oh my god, I would rather be at home watching anime. This is so boring"

"Same" That was the first time I heard your voice. It was our 1st year of middle school and you had just moved to Clearfile. I hadn't seen you around the school before so I assumed you were with the popular group.

"Oh it's your turn" We were in gym class, oh how I despised it. But from that day on I would thank it, it made me meet you. We were outside on the practice football field playing kickball. Both of us had started to talk to the other finding out how much we had in common. You kicked the ball and immediately got out. It was my turn. I got to second base but then got out.

"Oh I'm an idiot, you don't even know my name. I'm Ace" I held my hand out for you to shake

"I'm Jinx" You said shaking my hand. That was when we had to go back inside. We didn't talk for the rest of the day. The next day we were on the same teams so we continued talking. We became friends so quickly, it was almost instant. I dragged you over to meet one of my friends, her name was Wang Xie Lan. None of us could pronounce it correctly so we called her Zu. You slowly were incorporated into our small group. You quickly became friends with Janelle, almost as quickly as you did with me. You started sticking by us when you could and it was a great time. You could have become popular, but you stuck by the nerds and lost that. Our friend broke up with her boyfriend and you were there comforting her with the rest of us. Summer rolled around and we didn't see each other for three months. You always had stuff to do and we could never see each other.

"ACCCCEEEE" You Screeched as you saw me. We hugged each other and caught up. We compared schedules and saw we had a few classes together. Math is the one I remember so clearly. We always played games with our other friend, Lilly-Mae. It was at this time when I started figuring out that I wasn't straight nor was I a girl. I came out to you and you supported me completely even though you said you were hetero. Our friend Jay figured out she also wasn't by me coming out. We both started out journey to finding out who we were. I started on trans male and bisexual and slowly realized that I was non-binary and pan. Jay was also non-binary but they felt at home with asexual.

"Jinx who do you have a crush on?"

"What! N-nobody!" I looked at you unimpressed

"Fine, Dillion" You said quietly. I started going off about how he was the worst and you shouldn't but I eventually gave in. Even back then I couldn't say no to you. I was there when you were complaining about him and also there when you were fangirling about him. You were broken when you found out he had a girlfriend and I was there when you needed reasons to hate his girlfriend. Us two had never gotten along, so it was easy to find reasons. At school dances, we were notorious for being on the dance floor the whole night and being the best at dancing. The DJ played a slow song for the couples of the night and of course Dillion and his girlfriend went out to waltz. You started crying at the tables and it was my job to cheer you up. I dragged you out on the floor and slow danced with you, even after all your complaining. After that song you were smiling and having a good time again. We danced and talked some more before another song came over the speakers for couples to dance again. We were already sitting on the sidelines from being tired. I was looking at this boy and I fell for him. His name was Tyler and he was a sweet nerd boy that was way out of my league. I tried to talk to him but it seemed impossible.

"Oh my god, if you don't back up in the next three seconds I'm going to kill you" Oh boy, him. His name was Tomas, and his favorite activity seemed to be annoying me. He was in your spanish class too and he was just as obnoxious in that class. The entire group hated him. From how much we complained about him, how could they not? Summer came again and we were ready for it. I had barely passed school that year and you had help me through it.We finally got away from all of the awful people of that school. Our friend Trish, who was a grade above us, had so much relationship drama that we had to choose for her. She ended up with the guy we had picked and she left us. She was off to the high school and we had to stay at Bowlan Middle for another year. Once summer started we never got to talk but I had got a boyfriend, Alex. We broke up after a week and it was nothing to me. I was just too shy to say no. This was the summer when I finally told you that I had chronic depression. You were surprised and asked if anyone else knew. Janelle did. It felt good to finally tell you.

"Jinx! Jinx! Over here!" I yelled to you across the hall. You looked at me shocked. I cut all my hair off and colored in four different colors. We hugged just like the year before and saw we had math with our friend Lilly-Mae again. We never got to sit together but that was fine. This was the year you finally got over Dillon, much to my agreement. In social studies, I looked over at you one day and fell hard, harder than I ever had for anyone. I could barely keep me cool around you anymore when I told our friends I had a crush on you. Our friend Jay, much to our shock, started crying.

" When you said you like Jinx it made me realize how close you two were. I want someone to be that close to!" I had no idea that Jay felt this alone. They thought that they were going to be alone forever after their break up with Zu. We affirmed that we were there for them and that they wouldn't be alone forever, to just give it time. After that I gave Jinx a note that had an encrypted message on it. She said she would decipher it later. That killed me on the inside, that note had my feelings on it. She never ended up figuring it out so I gave her an easier one and she didn't try that one either. I eventallully just sent her a note that said Y-O-U. She looked at me, shocked, she thought it was someone else. We went back and forth when I finally asked her to be my girlfriend. Jinx shyly wrote back yes and we were officially together. I got excited and told our close friends. All the reactions were positive, except one.

"How come you get to be happy and I don't?!" I remember Jay asking me this so clearly. It hurt honestly, I cared so much about them and they couldn't be happy for me. However, I stayed and comforted them even when I was hurting. That had happened a lot, me hurting but helping some else but no one helping me. I finally got Jay to calm down and we moved on from that. My and Jinx are still together with having no arguments. She makes me happy and I couldn't have asked for more. We don't think it will be this might last Forever. Maybe...