Imagine this, you and your best friend are studying at the university in New York. Your grades are great and you like to go to school, actually you are a bit of the nerd in the class. You have no interest in the popular guys, but what if one of the...
Monday morning, I had a wonderful weekend. I saw my boyfriend, well my secret boyfriend, and I spend my chill day with my best friend. Today it was a kinda weird day. We didn't have school and tonight there is a baseball game. I'm very excited because we are going and I can't wait to see Jonah playing. I texted him
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"What are you going to wear?" I look up from my phone and looked at Isabella. "Hmm, not sure yet about my outfit. What about you?" I stood up and walked over to my closet "I thought about this", she showed me some clothes. "Then I'm going in this, we match perfectly with each other." I smiled and got dressed.
It was 7:30 pm and we decided to go to school. When we arrived at school we saw Hazel standing with her friends. We walked over. "Hi!" Hazel gave us a hug and while we were talking I looked around me, looking for Jonah. Suddenly I saw him and his family standing and talking with each other. What a cute family, I realized I was staring so as fast as I could I moved my head back to the conversation. "What about you E?" I looked at Isabella who just asked me something, but what? I don't know.. "Sorry what?" I said with blushed cheeks. "Dang girl, at which planet are you?" "Not on earth!" They started laughing, I laughed with them but I don't really know about what. My only thoughts were about Jonah..
8:30 pm, the game was about to start. Everybody came on the field and Jonah was searching for me. When our eyes crossed he smiled at me. "Wow did Jonah just smiled at you?" Isabella said while she turned to me. "No!? Why would you think that?" Yes he did, but I acted like I didn't knew anything. "Hmm, secrets Elisa?" Hazel said with a giggle. "No!" I started to defend myself but that was too obvious so I decided to let them talk, hopefully they wouldn't notice anything.
After 30 minutes of playing the big screens got a failure. We couldn't see what was happening on the field. And suddenly, a photo came on the screen. It was a picture of me and... At the party.. My mouth fell open in surprise, tears wanted to come out of my eyes but I stopped them.
My eyes and Jonah's eyes crossed.. I looked around and everybody was watching me. I stood up and ran away, I heard Isabella and Hazel screaming something after me, but I acted like I didn't heard them. I wanted to go, far away from school, far away from everybody. All my lies came out and I couldn't believe what I saw.. I ran to the street and stepped in a random taxi who brought me to a park. I stepped and walked over to a bench. At that moment, my tears rolled down over my cheek. I couldn't do it anymore. I lied, and now everybody will know that I feel dumb I feel stupid I feel heartbroken I feel scared Too many feelings at one time And there I sat, at a bench in a park in the evening. Crying, alone.. I couldn't stop crying anymore.. I couldn't believe what happened Why? Why did this happen to me? Why am I so stupid? Why did I thought I could hide this? Why did I thought I could do this?
Suddenly I felt a hand from someone on my shoulder. In a shock I looked up and I saw an old man sitting next to me. "Are you okay?" He said with his calming voice. I wiped away my tears and acted like nothing happened. "Yes I'm fine, thank you." "I'm not sure about that young lady." He seemed really worried, kinda creepy because which old man is this late in a park by himself? I was a little scared but I didn't thought about that, all I could think about was the lies.. And then I started to cry again. "I'm so- sorry..." "No, it's okay. Sometimes it's good to cry." I looked up, this man was so extremely calm and nice. I took a deep breath and decided to ask it. "I'm sorry to ask this.. but why are you here on your own at this time?" I looked at my phone, it was 9:30 pm.. kinda late. "Because this is a special time and place for me." He looked straight ahead and his voice became sadder then first. I felt bad for him but I didn't knew what to do. "My beautiful wife passed away 3 years ago.. and this was our favorite place. This was the place that we became official." He looked at me and I saw some tears in his eyes. That old man, I felt bad for him. "I'm sorry..." I said while I looked him in his eyes. "And what about you? It's not exactly save to be this late at a park." He said worriedly. "No, but I needed to go. Away from everybody and everything.." I looked down at the ground. Suddenly I started to tell the whole story. It was weird telling it to a stranger, but at the same time it felt good. I felt relieved that I finally could say to someone that I was in love. "All I can say to you.. uh-" he looked at me. "Elisa, Elisa Andersson." I reached out my hand and he grabbed it. "Benjamin Smith, you can call me Ben" Then I realized it.. I heard that name before, I tried to understand but I couldn't. Benjamin.. Benjamin.. Of course! The Starbucks guy! But how could he have the same name? And why is this man so much older then the Starbucks guy? "All I can say to you Elisa, is that you shouldn't worry. Sometimes it's hard to lie, and it's hard to have a forbidden relationship when nobody may know it. It's hard to lie to everybody around you.. and I can know that. But you and uhh- Jonah right?" I nodded yes "You and Jonah will ending together and you can be happy with him! Sometimes it's good to tell the lies." "why?" He kept talking about everything, and I kept listening. His voice was so calming and felt good to listen to. "My wife and I.. we weren't allowed to be together.. our parents had a huge fight and we couldn't be in love. One day I came to the park, to the place were we are right now, and I saw her sitting at this bench. My beautiful Emily Rose was sitting here, all by herself. I came to sit next to her and we started talking. At the end of the conversation we looked at each other and that's where our first kiss was. It felt so good, but at the same time it felt terrible. We decided to keep our relationship as a secret, and that was the longest secret I have ever kept." I felt a tear rolling down my cheek, and I wiped it away. It was not about myself, it was about the story he just told. I felt so bad for him. "Did anyone ever find out?" "Yes, they did, but after I explained to them they all understood us. And of course we had some persons who didn't, but if you're really in love, you don't care about them."
That story made me think, he said true words, and he knows what he said. Our story was totally not the same, but at some points it was. "I always say: love that we can't have, is the one that last the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest." He said while he looked at me. "And that's a true thing grandpa." Suddenly a boy with blond hair came from behind. "I know you!" My eyes opened more and more and I was looking at him in amazement. "And I know you, Elisa" the boy laughed. "You already know each other?" the old man asked me. "But wait what? You are Benjamin and- uh so do you?" I looked at the old man and Benjamin who just came, the boy from Starbucks. "I'm Benjamin the third, but i hate to say that. That's why I always say my name is Benjamin. Usually I always explain it to people but that's before they meet my grandpa. I didn't knew you are doing it the other way around." Benjamin said and I started to laugh, I totally forgot all the problems. "Also, I brought someone with me for you Elisa." I turned around and I saw Jonah, standing there with his sparkly eyes which were a little wet from tears. I stood up and gave him a hug. This hug lasted more then a few minutes. I didn't want to let him go, he was the one, and as the old Benjamin said: people who don't understand it, are not important in your life. After the long hug, Benjamin and the old man stood up. "We are going, I hope you two will figure it out." the young Benjamin said while he helped his grandpa standing up. "And don't forget young lady!, If you're truly meant to be together, life will find a way to make it happen." The old man smiled at me and they both walked away.
"Interesting words from an old man like him." Jonah laughed and we both sat down at the bench. "How did you met Benjamin, I mean Benjamin the third." I giggled and leaned my head on Jonah's shoulder. "Well, after you ran away, everybody looked at me. The match was stopped and everybody came to me.. they wanted an explanation. I couldn't give it because I was worried about you, but then all my teammates came to me. They al wanted to know about you and I couldn't hide it anymore. So I told them about you, and they didn't understand. They all yelled that I had to leave the team and they all were pissed off. Suddenly our coach came to me and said that I did the right thing. "He said what?" I turned my head into his direction and looked at him in amazement. "Yes, he said that I did the right thing. He was happy for me, because he thought I could use a girl like you. So I went to search for you, but after 15 minutes, I still didn't find you. So I went to Starbucks and I talked to that Benjamin guy. I said your name and he directly knew who you were. So he wanted to help me search for you, but he needed to pick his grandpa up. So we went to this park and then I saw you sitting here. And William and Mason are suspended because of the way they treated you after they found out about you by cameras. Oh, and the coach gave me a little punishment." he said with a giggle. "What is it?" "I need to clean all the changing rooms." he looked down at the ground and sighed. I started t laugh. "Don't you dare to laugh" he said while he had a huge smile on his face. "So now..-" "We are officially together." He gave me a kiss on my lips. A tear from happiness rolled down my cheek, I couldn't be happier.
What a crazy night, one big secret came out today and I never realized it could have a good ending. Jonah dropped me at my apartment and when I came inside I saw Hazel and Isabella sitting at the couch. They didn't said anything to me, I saw on their faces that they were disappointed and mad. "I'm sorry.. and I know it'll probably take time but I need you to say that I'm truly sorry." "You.. you've never lied to me." Isabella started to cry and I wanted to hug her but before I could do it, Hazel gave her a hug. It hurts me to see that Isabella has to cry because of me, but I didn't knew what to do at that time. "I know. And believe me it was hard and of course i didn't wanted to lie. But what could I've done? You would never accept it and nobody may know about it otherwise-" "Yes we know, but you could tell us you know." Hazel said and I sighed and stared at the wall. My life was good, I had my best friends, I had a new school, everything was good and happy. Till I met that guy and look what he has done. "I don't know.." I mumbled something to myself. "But.. you and Jonah huh?" I turned my head at Hazel who smiled a little. "What about us?" "Is it official?" Hazel asked. I nodded yes and I wanted to smile and yell 'yes' but I couldn't because of Isabella. She was still crying and I hurt her. "So that means...." Hazel watched at Isabella and then back to me. "Sooo Elisa has her first boyfriend!?!" She yelled and jumped at the same time. It was weird because 5 seconds ago she was completely mad at me and now she was really happy. "Okay, I'm still mad at you, but I'm happy that my best friends find true love." Isabella smiled a little and gave me a hug. Things take time, if someone did something wrong, you can't only see the wrong things. You also need to see the right things, but that takes time.
