In This Cruel World

Hidden Love

"Your neighbor?" Michael asked in shock. "Yeah, she is really nice and inspirational" Yolanda said as she tucked a hair behind her ear. "Wow" Michael said. Michael realized that he might actually be meeting Ashley again. His best friend since he was two. The one he would go to. However most of all, his first love. Yeah, Michael's first love is his best friend. Michael wanted her to be his girlfriend but he found out that Ashley didn't want that and he was never going to ask her.
~flashback to third grade~
There she was. My best friend but most of all, my future girl. She was swinging on the swing and laughing. The sun kissed her skin ever so perfectly. Her curly hair flew in the wind so delicately. The beautiful smile that wore on her face. Her laugh soundtrack tingled my ears so sweetly that made me feel butterflies all over my stomach. Perfection at its finest all right. The girl I am the closest to. Suddenly,she stopped swinging and got up from it. She looked in my direction and faced me. She smiled that beautiful smile and ran towards me. She said my name and gave me a big hug. We stayed like this for what seems like hours of euphoria. Then, a bunch of kids were snickering at us. "Michael and Ashley sittin on a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" They sang laughing. Ashley pulled from out of my grip and said " Hey! Can't a boy and a girl just be the bestest friends ever? You guys are always thinking when a boy and a girl hug, they're a couple!" A guy huffed and said "But you guys were hugging too long!" "Yeah but we are just friends and that's what we will always be" Ashley said. When I heard those words, my heart was smashed. We are only just going to be friends? That's it? Then I heard a girl chime in and said "It looks like Michael thinks differently". Ashley looked at me concerned and asked "You want to be more than friends with me?" I looked at her and the bunch of kids. My lips quivered and then I ran guiltily into the school. I cried in the bathroom until Recess was over. Now there's no point in asking her to be my girl at all.
~end of flashback~
Michael was engulfed in the flashbacks and his thoughts when Yolanda said "Earth to Michael!" Michael snapped back to reality. "Oh I'm sorry" He said. "It's ok but I wanted to tell you that I'm gonna go home. Bye Michael, it was nice talking to you!" Yolanda said as she waved goodbye to Michael and strolled off more down the street. Michael decided to go back to his house. So he walked back to his house, thinking about Ashley.
When he got back to his house, he shit the door and went upstairs. He dressed himself in pajamas and went to bed without saying a word to anyone. Jermaine cane in his room and asked if he was fine. "Of course I'm fine. Don't worry about me" Michael responded. "Michael you haven't been yourself since we moved. Can you try to be happy, for me?" Jermaine pleaded with him. "What do you mean? I have been myself since we moved to California. So don't say that I haven't cause I have" Michael snapped. Jermaine looked at him in disbelief but then shook it off. "Ok" was all Jermaine said before he left Michael's room. Michael watched him leave and then closed his eyes going to sleep. He was kind of sad because of that flashback and Ashley. Matter of fact, not even sad. More like depressed. His heart was shattered that day. The hopes of getting Ashley to be his was ruined. Also, to top it all off Ashley might have some guy already which makes him angry inside. Michael had always and still believes that no guy is right for her but him. He has to woo her some way. But how?
-A/N: Yes Michael is secretly in love with Ashley. Didn't expect that huh? Big twist? Yeah so how do you like this story and how it's turning out to be?-