Goodbye, Hello

CHAPTER ONE; FIRST MEETING 

It was a normal, freezing morning at my school. The bell went off at 8:48am; it rang in my ears with a high-pitched intensity that was quite painful -they really needed to get that fixed-. It was my was my last day at this school, and tomorrow I will be at a new school called Taft High School in Lincoln City, Oregon. This morning I ran to my first class, which was P.E; I got changed and ran into the hall and saw Amber, My best friend. "Lexie!" she yelled as she smiled, but the smile never reached her eyes; she in fact had a surprisingly upset face as she approached me. I smiled at her feeling guilty for leaving her behind, because we have been best friends for 6 years now. She reached me in 6 short strides; she was honestly not that graceful. "Hey Amber, how are you this morning?" She embraced me tightly not wanting to let me go, but she finally had let go and I saw her eyes filling with tears "Hello..." She choked then she took deep breath then turned around to wipe her tears so I wouldn't notice. When she faced me again she looked immaculate; the only problem was her eyes were still red and now a bit puffy from the rubbing. "I'm terrible what do you think!? My best friend is abandoning me." She said now putting on a brave face. "Aww baby!" I squeezed her body against mine, as tightly as I possibly could and continued talking while hiding my face on her shoulder blades "I will always be your best friend, I love you and you can never be replaced. You're the only one who finds me funny; I am going to miss you so much! Never forget any of that you hear me." I let go of her and felt stupid because of tears involuntarily falling down my cheek. "Everybody gather around!" the teacher yelled with authority, so I grabbed her hand and our fingers intertwined together as we walked toward the teacher "everyone! Now!" after a few minutes of shouting everyone was there "Okay, boys and girls get into pairs, no same gender pairs for free time sport, choose a sport and do it together in other words" I groaned and through the corner of my eye I saw Jessie smirk at the noise that escaped my throat, Coach noticed no one moving so he started again "Okay! Now MOVE IT!!" Jessie came to stand next to me, "Lexie want to be partners?" I looked at him in disbelief and nodded helplessly "Good then." He said with a really smug smile. We watched as others paired off, of corse Amber paired of with Eric I looked at her nervous face and smiled at her encouragingly, as she started to talk to him I turned to face Jessie and his eyes were intent on my face, I felt really self conscious and asked him with caution "What? Do I have something on my face?" I turned my head facing down looking embarrassed "No I-I umm no, nothing is wrong, I just never realised how much I'm going to miss looking into your dark brown coloured eyes, and how much I'm going to miss the pale colour of your skin, or the rosy colour on your cheeks" He caressed my cheek, as I stared into his dark brown eyes and then something snapped inside of me, I grabbed his waist with one of my hands and the other one cupped nicely fitting under his chin and got on my tippee-toes and he leaned down and whispered in my ear "I wish we had more time, or I wish I would have asked you out sooner, 6 years isn't long enough, I could look at you forever and it still wouldn't be long enough" and then he picked me up and kissed me passionately I felt a tear, just one tear run down my face and remembered what my mum used to say to me when I was little 'You can cry one tear, and one tear only, so you better make it a good one.' At this moment his breath tasted like peppermint toothpaste and it tasted amazing on my tastebuds. He pulled his lips from mine, just to pull me into his chest, when he whispered the one thing that would hurt me "I think I'm in love with you" I felt a drop of some liquid drop off his chin and on to my collarbone and looked up to see he was in pain, so I clutched tighter to him. I forgot where we were when all this happened and I looked around after we had our fantasy moment and leaned out of his hug just to see Amber gawking at me, a smile widening across her face -I think she was hoping this would persuade me to stay, but it wouldn't it will just hurt more when I leave-, bigger than any I had ever seen on her face before, and giggled shyly as he pulled me back to him, I felt him start shaking almost like his chest was vibrating up and down and looked up in