Unexpected Friendship

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The first time I had laid my eyes on her in sixth grade, she was flirting with my crush.

I was so angry back then, I just wanted to stomp up there and yell at her, to give her a piece of my mind.

But I didn't.

I didn't want to make a bad impression of myself, on the second day of school.

Especially in front of him.

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Throughout the year, I kept trying to get close to the boy who I thought about every night, the one who is in my dreams, then leaves as soon as he enters, as fast as the speed of light.

But every time I try to talk to him, she just suddenly appears...and snatches him...away from me.

Just. Like. That.

Without an explanation, without even a word to me.

It's like I'm vapor.

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On the last day of elementary school, I approached him by his locker and wished him a good summer break. I felt my heart burst when he returned those words.

I thought that I could finally ask him what I wanted to - and that was, to invite him to my birthday party, which was on the 8th of August.

But then, my window of opportunity just had to close. My favourite mirror just had to shatter.

He said no.

I asked him why. Was he busy that day? Did he have a game? He was a really good basketball player so I thought he had a tournament.

But no.

He was going on a cruise that week.

With her.

And before I could say another word, she just came along and whisked him off to another place, him completely forgetting that I was there.

I still had two years left.

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I didn't see him until the second week of seventh grade, because my friend had told me that he was going to another middle school.

Thank the lord he transferred back.

Unfortunately, she also transferred with him.

One day after school, I was walking home because my mom was at home taking care of my two little brothers, and I saw him and her, chasing each other around in the school yard.