Part One: Love after tragedy for Maddie Packer
Maddie
My name is Maddie Packer and I am obsessed with fairytales, just kidding I am obsessed with leaving Center High and going off on my own. I can paint myself a hero of this story but I will choose to be the perfect storyteller, biased of all affiliation to the characters I am about to spill. This story will have neither a happy ending nor a sad ending. This is a story of finding love when it was most needed. I daresay a typical coming of age story.
The beginning
Last year during my senior year of High School. Derek Puller fell madly in love with me. You can say I aged graciously in the summertime and became a woman. A woman in the sense of filling out. I was always super skinny and barely any boobs, I was not sad over my looks, my mom would always tell me that it is better to be a late bloomer. My mother, the beautiful Leslie Richards claims to have been a late bloomer. I daresay it is untrue, but I know she always wants me to feel better about myself.
Now Derek Puller is an all-time hottie. He is an all american jock. He is obsessed with football and will obviously pursue this career after HIGH SCHOOL. Now on the first day back, I thought it was a prank that he just came over to me and spoke to me as if we have been friends forever. It was as if I was one of his best friends that he missed during the summer. I just stood there silently and confused. It was the perfect way to end the summer and begin the start of the school year. The morning Derek spoke to me the sun was bright and the wind gave me a slight chill that made my cheeks rosy. I remember I was wearing lilac shorts and my favorite white top. I wore it so many times that summer, it literally scored me all my best summer moments, but I digress. I was standing near my locker speaking to my best friend Marie. Derek waits for Marie to finish talking, she looks over to him and he completely ignores her, and looks straight at me and ask me how my summer went. Marie of course was quick to say, mine was great, Maddie and I went to New York this summer. My face was still red like a tomato but I managed to say, "New York was magical, yours"? Before he can answer, the bell rings and Marie gets the hint and starts walking toward class. I thought the moment would be gone, but he walks me to class and tells me he had the best time at football camp with his best friend Bud. Now Bud is such a dickwad, shit can I write that will anyone judge me. Ohh well, our moment ended with a "goodbye". I was so shocked that first period was spent just thinking about Derek and the fact that he knew I existed. Plus he looked like a Golden tan Greek God. The summer sure made him more muscular. Marie was texting me non stop, she was gearing for some gossip. I am not sure I want to spill anything yet, thinking about it, nothing much to say. Except if Amanda saw, it would be a possible unintended war. Plus everyone knows Amanda and Derek broke up before our junior year ended last spring. That's a story for another time.
