when we were wallflowers

Chapter 1

Snow-clad wintertime
A last, quiet petal hides
at the perfect lake.

The year was 1975 I recently moved to the city I wasent very popular I was 16 years old at the time. Heres our story.

As I moved the last box into my room my mom came in. "Come meet the neighbors please!" I shook my head and got up. I was a soft spoken child and I was very shy. "Oh how beautiful this child is!" I smiled the lady wore a yellow gown she was african american. She was nice mid 30s. "Well come on in sweetie." I followed my mom into the lady's house. I stood in the kitchen as the lady made a cup of coffee. I could hear someone playing 'Love of my life' by queen in a room. "Let me go tell him to turn that down stay here." The lady went into the room. The kid around 17-18 came walking out. He was around 6 foot obviously mixed. "Hey" his voice was raspy. "Hello" I said with a smile. "Oh how you guys would make a cute couple." My mother said. I started blushing and walked out the door going back to my house. I heared footsteps behind me. It was him. "Hi im phoenix you go to Natrona?" It was the highschool I was going to. "Um yeah haha." "Cool maybe we could meet up sometime?" I shook my head yes and went inside. Later that night there was a knock at my window. I opened it to see phoenix. "What are you doing here?!" "Get out and follow me." It was a school night and I knew my mom would beat my ass if she caught me. I told him no and shut my window.