Boyfriend Zone

First Days and New Friends

Liza's POV
Monday
August 18th, 2003
6:45 am
5 years old

I watch my mommy pull up to a big building. It says something on a long piece of paper, but I can't read it.

"Mommy what's that paper say?" I point to the building.

She turns and smiles while placing a hand on my knee. "Welcome back! We missed you!" I make an 'O' face.

I grab my Oswald back pack and grab my moms hand. I look up and give her a big, toothy smile. She squeezed my hand a little.

When I walk in I see a lady holding a big box of crayons. This boy is behind me. I try to get away. I don't want cooties.

As he gets in front of me I look at his backpack. Arthur? The teacher walks up to him. She kneels over, "Young man, what's your name."

He smiles, "I'm David. David Dobrik."

"Well, I'm Mrs. Logan. Now, big question. What color crayon do you want?" She holds out the box. He reaches in and pulls out,

"A black crayon?" I say louder than I thought. He looks at me and smiles.

I grab a pink one and walk to a table in the back. I take a coloring sheet from the middle of the table. The David kid sits beside me. I don't talk to him.

"What's your name? How old are you? Do you have brothers and sisters? What's your favorite color? Do you like the swings? Why are you so, dark?"

I look over at him. My mom and dad always told me to never let someone say something about my skin. "What? What's wrong with it? Why are you so mean?"

He looks scared, almost like he's sorry "Nothing. It's fine. I like it. You're like, a, um, little brown girl. It's cute." He smiles.

My cheeks feel warm. I look down and smile a little. "Thank you."

"Friends?" He holds one hand out. 

I smile wide, "Bestfriends!" I shake his hand.

Lizas POV
August 15th, 2005
8 years old

"David!" I yell as I run to him. I jump into his arms and he catches me.

He laughs and sits me down, "What's up Liza? How's your summer?" I shrug at him and grab his hand.

I go to find our name tags. We have tables of 4 together. I finally find mine beside another girl and two boys. I read the tags aloud so David can hear, "Liza, Gabby, Heath, and David! We sit by each other! We sit by each other!"

He chuckles at me. We sit down and he looks at me and smiles. "What?" I ask.

He relaxes and sits back. "Oh nothing. You're hair's just really, really pretty." I smile.

Before I can say anything, a girl walks up to me and smiles. "Hi! I'm Gabby." She sits and looks at me.

"Liza," I point to myself, "David." I point to him.

He waves at her and smiles. She sits down and looks around the room. "Where's Heath? Is he coming today?" She ask me and David. I shrug and he laughs.

I furrow my eyebrows at him and he stops laughing. He still has his big goofy grin on his face though.

This other boy walks up and sits in Heath's spot. He lays his head down and goes to sleep. Well, tries to.

"Heath. Heath. Heath. Heath!" She whined out the last one. He looks up annoyed, but doesn't say anything. "My name's Gabby. That's Liza and David." She points to us and we wave.