M&M Left A Bad Taste In My Heart

How It All Started

Joanna was a friend who at the time, I barely knew simply because we met on Facebook and had only been talking for a couple weeks online. Because we had never seen each other in real life, I was curious to know who she was and it was even more likely we would stumble across each other because we attended the same highschool.

Good enough, after a hell of a day of classes, I was heading to unlock my bicycle when I heard an unregistered voice in the distance calling out my name. Not knowing who it was, I answered with a simple hey to the unknown voice that I had heard, and to my surprise it was Joanna coming at me."It's cool to finally meet you Pacheco",she started with also establishing that my surname became my new nickname."Nice to me you too",I replied to her accepting my cliché nickname. We had a decent conversation, but I could not help but notice that she had a friend behind her. She had a pretty but timid smile.Her cute eyes reminded me of an anime character because of the great innocence I could see in them but I could never remember what anime it was. She seemed as if she would never hurt the tiniest bug on earth.She looked so peaceful to me. She was also very pretty which was very much the reason I could not hold on to a long concentrated conversation with Joanna. Finally, I waved at her with the friendliest smile I can give but not realizing that it could have been the creepiest. "Hi Joanna's friend! I am Michael!", She didn't reply as I expected but she did with a simple quick look at me and then focusing her eyes to any distant object. "My name is Monica, nice to meet you", she eventually said but not once looked at me,but it was ok because I am cool with shy people. A conversation quickly came out from the awkward atmosphere of the three of us not knowing each other but it died within minutes.

Out of nowhere, Joanna burst out in great enthusiasm yelling that tomorrow will be Monica's birthday. I didn't hesitate to take that as an opertunity to get to win Monica as a new friend of mine, so I quickly mentioned to her that I will bring her a little something that I knew she would like. We said goodbye to each other and I headed off on my bike home to go and find a teddy bear from a previous time of chaos of mine so that I could prepare it for her.

It was bed time for everybody in my house but I would Always refuse to sleep early simply because I never had the need to sleep but this time I had a reason not to.I couldn't stop thinking on that new girl that I had met that day. Was I being stupid on over thinking when I would meet a possible awesome friend?, Or was I yet again finding a new reason not to go to sleep.At the moment,I never knew which.

On the following day, I couldn't wait to run out of class at the sound of the dismissal bell to go find that mystery girl,but within time,we were dismissed and I went to find her. I wasn't surprised to find her standing alone on the heavily populated side walk because to me she looked like she would rather stick to herself most of the times.But I could have been wrong. I walked towards her and touched her on the shoulder with a gentle "hi" and I may had caught her off guard gazing into the distance."happy birthday Monica", I said to her also pulling out my hand from behind my back with a small pink teddy bear.I handed it to her and I was immediately greeted with the biggest and most genuine smile I had ever seen.Making her smile was a huge accomplishment for me so I was satisfied with that.She surprised me a hug and then said she had to go home so we said our goodbyes for that day.
Riding home that day felt like I was riding for miles.I couldn't stop think on her smile. Her eyes sparkled like no other and I was so mesmerized by them. I was greatly satisfied with what had happened that day and Little did I know that day started a brand new chapter in my life and would later on greatly affect my way of being and perspective of life.