Romance Shorts

#21 - Valentines

It was a warm morning and you where on the bus to school, when a love song came on the radio and it twigged, its valentines day!

When you reach school, your best friend runs over to you squealing and shows you a bag of Haribo hearts and rings. A little note attached to them says that they are from George, her boyfriend.

"Lucky!" you squeal. "I need to go to my locker, coming?" you ask and she nods and follows. You get your key put of your bag and unlock the locker and as you do so, several things tumble out your locker!

"What?!" you say instinctively.

You pick the red and pink envelopes up and turn them over. The first one says 'open the the other one first' and the one underneath says 'open me!'

You and your friend are confused, and she urges you to open it. You open it and it says:

"I'm usually pretty silly,
when I show you how I care,
but today is very special, and
be silly, I don't dare.

I thought of sending flowers,
but thought, no, not to you.
I thought of sending candy,
but that was silly too.

I wanted to send a card,
with all the frills along,
or send you all my love
in a silly little song.

I could have sent balloons,
but that is getting old.
I could have sent a heart
made of 14kt. gold.

I could have sent a teddy bear
to snuggle with at night,
but I'd rather it be me you snuggle with,
when you turn out the light!

I coul-"

You read it but stop at the bottom as it has been ripped off. It's really cheesy and you laugh, but you are no closer to working out who it's from.

"Look," you friend says pointing to the piece of paper, "it says to open the other one."

You hand her the poem and take the red envelope and open it. Inside is a quarter of a paper heart. And a little note is attached.

"Look in your friends locker to find out more."

She races over to her locker and unlocks it. Inside is another red envelope with another quarter of the paper heart.

The note tells you to go to art, where you find another piece, and in geography you find the last. there is a little note attached to the last one saying:

"If you look hard enough, by the willow tree, there I will be waiting underneath for thee."

You go to the willow and sat on the bench underneath is {guys name}, who you have a massive crush on. your friend walks of to meet George and leaves you alone.

He is sat cross legged on the bench, with a guitar on his lap and some cardboard round his neck saying "I belong to {your name}."

He looks up at you, as he sees you staring and his chocolatly gold eyes look in to your eyes and make you melt.

"Hello." he says calmly.

"Hi." you mumble quietly.

"I believe you have my heart."he says matter of factly. You look at him confused and then realise.

"Oh!" you say and piece back the prices of the paper heart back together and hand it to him.

"You mended my heart." he says with a grin.

"Well I believe you have a few more verses of a valentines poem to read me." you say back.

He smiles and pats the place next to him, and you take it. He looks into your eyes and fixes your gaze, and recites from memory:

"I couldn't think of how to show it,
in any special way,
So I guess there's only one thing left
for me to briefly say.

I love you {your name},
and I'm so glad you're mine.
So would you, if I asked real nice,
be my Valentine?"

And if that wasn't already enough, he starts to play a soft, melodic song on his guitar.

Happy valentines!