Karma Said

Prologue

I guess you could say it all started in preschool. There were four of us. Ace, Colton, Robin, and me. We were best friends. And that's the problem I guess. Every friendship doesn't change into love, but every love starts with friendship.

We would play games, like most preschoolers, and I won't remember these days until my mom tells me stories and shows me pictures. And even then, I won't remember. I'll just imagine it in my head until that becomes what happened.

Fast forward to fifth grade. I don't talk to Adrian and Robin anymore. They don't go to our school. But I see Ace every day. He's not one of my closest friends, but he's there.

One of my best friends, well ex best friend, Harper, is neighbors with Ace. They're family friends.

Harper tells me that Ace has a crush on me. This is new territory for me. The thought of having someone like me has never really crossed my mind before. Even though I had a lot of guy friends back then. In fact, Harper was my only real girl friend.

So, I never really entertained the idea that somebody could like me. But now, Harper told me that Ace likes me and I'm like, "What?!"

We go out to the playground, and I see Ace. I call him over.

He comes up to me. Black hair, grey eyes. Not particularly attractive. Never really thought of him in that way. "Yeah, Sage?" He asks me.

"So... I heard you like me." I reply slowly.

He goes pink, completely embarrassed. And I guess in that moment I felt bad for him so I blurt out, "You make it really obvious, you know. Like, really obvious."

I don't know how I thought that would help, but I said it. Ace still says nothing. "Well, you can go now." I tell him.

He nods, and runs off to play tag with his friends.

The next day, I'm in science, and class is pretty much over. That day we were doing a bunch of cutting in class, for some sort of project. Ace was at my table, finishing cutting his papers, and I realized that no one else was around. Everyone else was already lined up to leave. And I don't know why, but I had an insane amount of courage just then, and I leaned over to Ace. I lightly touched the hand holding the scissors, and he looked at me. "Hey..." I tell him softly. "I like you too."

And that's all it took. His face erupted into a smile, one that took over his features and radiated happiness. And he was looking that way because of me. And that made me happy. That I could make someone smile like that.

He looked at me, his eyes trying to convey something. Like, it was some sort of inside moment which only the two of us were supposed to understand. That would be the first time he gives me that look, one that would drive me crazy in years to come.

It didn't matter that I didn't understand what I was feeling, whether I actually liked him or the thought of him. It didn't matter that I barely understood what I was doing. It just mattered that from that day, our fates were tied, no, they were actually tangled. And to pull them apart would take an extreme amount of pain.

Wizards, Demigods, Tributes, Gladers, Shadowhunters, and Divergent.

I've started something new.

So this is based off a true story, my life, so it's gonna be pretty dysfunctional.

Friends can break your heart too.

-Anonymous

Until then.

~Fate.