'Just Friends'

Authors Note!

okay so i figured so you guys love cute stories so much i figured i'd tell you about how i fell in love for the first time :)

i was in 3rd grade when my teacher announced there would be a new student, i figured it wouldn't matter and it would just be another kid ya know. he walked in and he was so tall, he has these beautiful brown eyes, with dirty blonde hair and olive skin. his name was joshua. i thought he was cute obviously!! and so then from that day on i started talking to him little by little and my friends actually started shipping me and him, at the time i had no clue was shipping was but you can see where that brought me today. and with him it felt like fate, the second i met him it felt like i had known him forever. he teased me all the time and always made me laugh when he'd made goofy faces, he was so smart and loved sports. i really liked him, and my teacher would ALWAYS!! make us partners and even then when she would randomize partners me and him always somehow ended up together. everyone would say "oooohh" when we were partnered and around him i had confidence i never thought i could have. since the 3rd grade we were in every class together up to the 5th grade. he also never told me his middle name and on valentine's day he ALWAYS had a card for me but would always come next to me and i'd be so excited for mine and he'd just say "no i don't think it's time for you to get yours just yet" and it was soo annoying!! but at the same time i loved it, with him i felt good about everything. until one day i started getting bullied and i got extremely insecure, i lost who i was and all my confidence and happiness went down the drain. and then he wrote "you're dumb" on my paper as a joke and i got upset because i thought he meant it and i told on him. then from that day on it wasn't the same, he didn't tease me or talk to me anymore. then in 6th grade we ended up having no classes together at all and i was so upset, then that's when my mom gave me the news that we were moving to michigan and i would never get to see josh again. i was so upset, then in michigan i was there up until start of 9th grade which im still in 9th grade. and i moved out of my moms house and with my dad back to illinois which i where i grew up and went to school with josh! it's not in the exact area or same school but still. i thought i forgot about him but one day i had a dream about him, and it was so vivid. i thought he was gone from my mind but he wasn't, then i told my best friend and turns out her friend goes to school with him and is friends with him!

she asked him if he could ask for his number but turns out his family is catholic so he isn't allowed to have a phone yet. but i'm really hoping someday i can talk to him again, he's my first love and always will be. and i'd like to show him how much smarter i got since then ;)