DREAM CATCHER

4

Flashback.
Joshua was finishing up his work when his cellphone buzzed and he quickly picked it up from his desk.
For a minute,he looked around expecting his teacher to show up by side to confiscate his phone when he remembered that it was study hour.
He glanced at the screen and saw that he had just received a text message.
He read it,hurriedly gathered his books and headed for the dispensary.
On getting there,he wandered around aisle 2 for about three minutes glancing uncomfortably at the item he needed to pick up until Mrs Williams took pity on him and handed him the item.
He murmured a quick thank you and ran out the door.
He arrived at the auditorium and hurried inside shutting the door behind him and approached the changing room making sure to knock quietly three times.
She opened the door and pulled him inside, relief apparent on her face.
He immediately handed over the package and walked outside to wait for her.
When she came outside,she found him sitting on a bench looking really pale.
Libby: Josh, are you okay?
Josh: Yeah, I'm fine.
Libby: Are you sure? You look really pale.
Josh: Yes. I'm fine... Just...promise me one thing.
Libby: What's that?
Josh: Promise me,you will never do this to me again.
Libby: I'm sorry okay? I really am. I thought it would be tomorrow.
With everything going on at home....I just have been losing time. I'm so sorry.
Josh: I get it. Believe me, I do but you could have asked Maggie,Tina or Jillian.
Libby: Are you serious? I couldn't ask the girls..I would never hear the end of it.
You were the only person I could think of.
Josh: What about Dante? Isn't he your boyfriend?
Libby: I could never ask Dante for help with such a delicate issue.
Josh: Why? Because he's a boy?
Libby: Of course.
Josh: I'm a boy too you know.
Libby: Obviously! But you are not just a boy. You are my best friend Joshua. I have known you my whole life.
We live across the street from each other. We learned to crawl and walk together.
Your first word was "fwend" and mine was "yes".
I mean think about it. Most kids say "Dada" or "Mama" but not us. Your first word was you asking me to be your friend and I said yes.
Joshua, you are my favorite person in the entire world.
You are the only one I feel comfortable enough with to ask to bring me a tampon.
Josh: Seriously Lilibeth! I feel weird already carrying that thing from the dispensary past half the entire school. Did you have to say the name out loud?
Libby: Sorry. It won't happen again.
Josh: I would have died of embarrassment if Mrs Williams hadn't taken pity on me.
Of course,she knew right away that it was for you. You are the only one who makes me do crazy stuff like that.
Libby: Thank you. I owe you one. Big time.
Josh: Can I hold you to that?
Libby: Of course. Anything you want.
Josh: Anything?
L

ibby: Anything.
Josh: Okay...
Let's see....Break up with Dante.
Libby: I already did.
Josh: What? Why?
Libby: Nothing. I just felt like it.
Josh: Alright.. What happened with Dante. The truth.
Libby: It's not fun anymore. He was beginning to get clingy. I don't do clingy or mushy stuff. You know that.
Josh: Lilibeth...
Libby: Its fine okay. I'm fine. I'm not the one who got his heart broken.
Josh: You can't keep building walls to keep people out. Everyone you know will not leave you.
Libby: You don't know that.
My mother left me Joshua. If she can do that. What's stopping other people from doing just that.
Josh: I know that but your Dad is still here. I am here. We are not going to leave you.
Libby: I know. I know it in my head but my heart is different.
It's not so easy for me to trust that I won't get hurt. The only way to prevent it is if I do the hurting. I know it sounds stupid but...
Josh: It's not stupid. I get it.
But you don't feel that way about me. Do you?
Libby: No... It's different with you.
You are different. You and Dad.
I trust you two with my whole heart.
Can we talk about something else.
Josh: Like what?
Libby: Anything other than my trust issues.
Did you hear that?
Josh: Yes...Study hour is over.
Libby: Let's go home?
Josh: Of course your highness.

They hurried out of the auditorium and headed back to their classroom to get their bags.
As they walked home,they talked about a lot of things, laughing and teasing each other.

It was in moments like these that the seed was sown...the seed that blossomed in the coming years into the kind of love that legends are made of.
A beautiful love that withstood the test of time.........

I wonder where it all went wrong...