I Fell In Love With My Best Friend

Chapter One*

CURRENTLY REVISING AND UPDATING SO THE CHAPTERS IVE UPDATED WILL HAVE THIS * BESIDE THE CHAPTER
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I remember the day we first met, it was the beginning of seventh grade. He was the new student, not knowing anyone. So having walked over and introduced myself, being the nice person I was. He had looked so lonely over there. At the moment I didn't know this was the boy I would fall in love with. But I will get to that later on.

"Hey, I'm Addison," I said bearing a bright smile. I held out my hand, he reached out and shook mine. His hands were course and rough for a child's which shocked me, but I never mentioned that mainly because what 11 year old mention that someone's hands feel weird.

"What's your name?" I asked looking into his brown eyes. Starring just a little too long, with a sort of cheesy smile on my face. I still do not know how I did not scare him off from the beginning.

"Travis," He said smiling back, showing that little gap between his front two teeth. Which, was attractive on him, while me on the other hand having a set of even more screwed up teeth which no guy on earth would find attractive until I would soon get a set of train tracks across my teeth to come in the next year or so.

"Well nice to meet you Trav-" I said but my statement was ended by the teacher calling us to go to lunch. Which by my surprise we ended up sitting together that day at lunch and many days after that. We ended up becoming best friends, but nothing more. For god sake we did not even know what love was at that age, who says we even know what that is now. As seeing after all these years coming up to my senior year that we still have not got the perfect ending I thought we were destined to have. But life is not a fairytale, and you do not get everything you want. As through the years my parents were in and out of multiple jobs, trying to keep the family afloat. Then after my dad was diagnosed with cancer, we had all seemed to lose hope, my mom began staying in her room all day. I only caught glimpses of her as she headed to the kitchen to grab so premade sandwiches and a glass of wine. Casey and I learned what times she would head out, just to have dinner fixed in time. Even when dad was cancer free, the whole family was never the same. My dad was not able to go back to work because of his siezures. Then Travis our senior year, while we were still friends he seemed to constantly ditch me to hang out with his better more popular friends. And that was the end of that.

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Back to how I said I fell in love with my best friend. I remember at the beginning of my junior year, after not seeing him for months during summer break. Since he went to check on his mom and dad since they lived miles away from our little town here in Georgia. He had moved here with his aunt and uncle. Because of family problems, which I'm guessing were not solved yet. I realized I missed talking to my best friend like I did every summer. We hung out every summer when we had the chance and when our parents agreed to drive us. This summer he was gone, it is like I was a clingy girlfriend. I wish I could call myself but it seemed he had no interest in my like that, I guess I was like a sister to him. He was one of those guy friend who you can tell almost anything to. So when I saw him at school on the first day back. He had gotten a few inches taller so he was finally a few inches taller than me now. His brown eyes were searching around the room. He was searching for someone, but it did not seem to be me. I saw that he had found the person he was looking for.

Abbie Mitzel, the girl that I despised since she had picked on me almost everyday in eight grade. As that was the year my life went to shit, and she had made it even shittier. But I just like to think she had no idea what I was going through or she would not do it. Maybe she even had a shittier life, but that is just me trying to find the good and excuses for everything. She was the type of girl if she didn't like you, she picked on you over almost every thing you did. If she liked you, you just weren't having to go through hell almost everyday. As you can see I was on her despised list higher than most,but I didn't know about Travis. As he reached her, she held out her hand, and he took it in his. I tried to keep my mouth closed, bile was creeping up my throat. This couldn't be what I think it was. It could not be. There fingers intertwined. No. I covered my mouth with my hand before yelling out how stupid he was for dating that witch.

After all those years of me calling him later after school crying about what terrible thing she had done that day. I did not realize until now he probably got annoyed by me venting to him everyday. And now it's like sheis trying to torture me. Abbie is going to make him despise me and then what we have as a friendship will be gone. Then I got to thinking why do I care who he dates, it's not like after years of being friends he's going to stop talking to me because of her. Then I got to thinking, I like him, not just as a friend. I like him more than a friend. And for the first time I realized I'm jealous.

"Hey Addison," I heard a voice behind me. I turned around to see those beautiful brown eyes staring at me.

"Hey Travis," I said then I realized who was standing beside him, their fingers entwined. I looked back and forth between the two of them. I started to ask but my mouth just hung open like it was ready for flies to find away in.

"You okay?" Travis asked waving his hand in front of my face laughing. It's like he thinks I don't care that him and that devil are dating.

"Yeah," I said in a low hushed voice. Then the bell was my lifesaver and rang. Travis unwound his fingers with her, kissing her on the lips and headed in the opposite direction to his class. Abbie didn't move one bit.

"Just because you and him are friends you better not ruin this or you will regret ever messing with this," She said in a harsh tone.

"Okay," I said in a low tone, she sensed my fear. A smile spread across her face as she sensed she had won.

This day seemed to ruin my chances of ever talking to Travis without that devil thinking we were flirting, or whatever she thought was flirting. Even if it was just talking. She would find a way to ruin our friendship, and trust me she would find away. She found a way to ruin everything that I had in my life.