I Love Antonio

Chapter 1: How it all began

Some say we found each other by fate, some say God, but I say pure luck. But you wouldn't know unless I told you. So I'll start from the beginning. My name is Angelina Swaggerty (yes that's my real name) and I am 16. I live with both my parents, their best friend Jason, my brother Isaiah, and my boyfriend Antonio. But trust me it wasn't always like that. I'm originally from Newport Tennessee. Where I have 13 aunts, 4 uncles, and about 24 first cousins. Life there wasn't so fun. It was scary, depressing, and a dark whole in my life. My dad had a bad drinking and drug problem. And like most addicts he was abusive in several ways. One day when I was 9 my mom picked my brother and i up from school early. Like any child I was ready to go, excited to leave school. Little did I know I was never going back. It's seemed as thou we were driving for hours and we finally ended up in this city called Glassburo New Jersey. Then and there my mom told us we were going to be staying in a women's and children's protection shelter for awhile. I never even got to say goodbye. We were there along with 4 other single families. They were our only contacts, so we all grew pretty close. There were rules there, nobody can know our number, where we live, or who we are. We lived like that for 9 months. Until we found a home in a place called Harvest Point or what others call "the waters". They were nice apartments with letters at the top of each building to individualize them. We lived in L16. It was summer and I had no friends till I met Giavante or just Gigi. We hung out in my house everyday. Then one day my mom said I could play outside so, we was was walking around the complex and then I saw him. He was Puerto Rican, dirty blond and brown hair, green/brown eyes, and the biggest smile I had ever seen playing football in the middle of the road. The world seemed to slow down for the next 15 seconds in literal slow motion. When I looked at him I knew then and there it was, what everyone had been talking about, love at first sight. I lost my breath and train of thought, I had never felt this way before. Then he stared back at me and he threw the ball behind him and walked over to us. He asked Gigi who I was and I was introduced to him. His name was Antonio. The name struck me and so did the face but I wasn't worried about that. He told me to call him poncho. We became a trio. We even called ourselves the G.A.P. (Giavante.Angelina.Poncho). They were my best friends. Everyday I would get closer and closer to Poncho. I fell head over heals in love with him. But it seemed like my fantasy world had flipped upside down when his girlfriend Tahja came to visit. No I didn't know he even had a girlfriend. It broke me a little. She only came once a month for a weekend I guess. But all I knew was when she was gonna he was all mine. We had places we liked to call the spot. The spots are where I got cuddled,kissed, or pretty much anything from Poncho. You can assume by now me and Antonio started "talking" while he was dating Tahja. I felt bad but didn't care at least I had some of him. We would go to the spot everyday which was his friend Tristan and Dalton's house and play truth or dare, are you nervous, and hot hands. Then one day we all decided let's make it a chill day. So me and Gigi chilled on the beds while the boys played video games. All the sudden poncho gets up, grabs a blanket, and lays right next to me. I was so scared for no reason. He wrapped his right arm around me and just holds me. I had never been cuddled before and there it was. It was one of the best feelings to me. Laying chest to chest with someone you care about. I could feel his heart racing and I know he felt mine too. He was so warm, I'll never forget how warm his body was next to mine. Then he just looked up at me and said "do you want me to get off?" I didn't know what to say it was wrong for a church girl like me to be cuddle up to the opposite sex but it felt so right! He was being so respectful by asking I felt compelled to say "your fine" and so I did. Mind you Gigi is literally right behind me jealous as can be. But I didn't feel bad I was gonna get my time in. We did this for weeks. Then winter came. It got darker sooner I wasn't aloud out as much. I would just stay in the house watching tv with my dog Lucy. Then I heard a knock on my bedroom window on the 3rd floor. It was him waving for me to come down. I knew I shouldn't have but I did. I snuck out in the snow with Antonio. Then came along Tristan and Dalton killing the mood. It was almost midnight when I decided to go back in, but right before I did Antonio followed me to the porch grabbed my face and kissed me for the first time. It was perfect, my first kiss was with the perfect person because his lips were so warm even tho it was freezing outside. He told me to go and that he would see me tomorrow. I watched him leave out my window watching him put that handsome smile on his face as he went.