ELA Lovers A short story by @DisneyQueen3 Chapter 1: I take my seat in class. Matthew, the boy who sits next to me in english, leans over to my desk and ask how's my day been. "Terrible, how's your day been?" He thinks for a moment "Decent, why was yours so bad?" I pause and cringe a little, should I really tell him? No. "Um, you know how Mrs. Hernandez is, art is just so annoying with her as the teacher!" He laughs, " I know right!" Mrs. Lorenz walks in and class starts. Chapter 2: We get an assignment and our told to work with our table group. I'm the only girl who sits at my table so I'm stuck with Matthew, James, and Haden. Haden is a little weird, James gets frustrated easily but it's kinda funny, and Matthew just has a naturally loud voice, it's kinda obnoxious. I sigh. As we work as a group I can't help but notice that every time Matthew talks I smile a little and every time he tells a joke I hide a small laugh. That's weird, I suddenly start to get really hot and kinda nervous. I shrug it off for the time being. When the bell rings Matthew walks next to me since our classes our in the same direction, something about the small gesture makes me smile. Chapter 3: In ELA we are working on our book reviews, me, Matthew, and Haden happen to all be doing the same book which isn't an unlikely situation considering we only had a list of like 20 books. Over time I realized that I had a crush on Matthew, I try not to show it, but I playfully tease him a lot more than I used to, definitely more flirtatious than I used to as well. He ask if he could bring home the copy of the book I was using for my project, I want to say no because it's due on Friday and it's Wednsday. I had full intentions on using the book for the project when I got home that night. I tell him I'll think about it since we have one more class together. He sighs but agrees, I do't want to let him down but I need to do what's best for me. Chapter 4: I think about the request in my next class. I really need to work on it but I am busy this evening. Ugh, but he can only work on it today! Maybe I should let him use it for today. In my next class, which I have with him, I tell him I'll give it to him after our last period. He says thank you and looks really relieved, I hide a small smile. Chapter 5: The last bell of the day rings. I grab the book from my bag as I see Matthew walks over towards me. I give him the book and our hands brush up against each other. I blush a little hut with my chocolately brown complexion you can't really tell. "Thanks Kristy, it means a lot." I hide a small smile, I make my face fall into a mix of a resting face and bored with life face and say "yeah whatever, just don't forget our deal. You get book you have to come to my club." He smiles, "I won't forget, just email me the info" I say "ok" and we head out seperate ways. Chapter 6: So my conflict gets cancelled and I'm stuck at home bored. I email Matthew. "Ugh! I wish I didn't give you the book, I'm bored at home because my conflict got cancelled!" he replies about 2 minutes later "I can email you quotes if you need" He's so sweet! I hate it! "YES! You owe me!" He replies, "I owe you? How." I think "You HAVE TO come to my club tomorrow." A reply pops up, "I already told you to send me the info." I roll my eyes "K, :30 am in room 803." Another reply "Thanks" I say something random but he responds. "You're much nicer on email." "You too." I tease him in person a lot but it's playful and we both know it. "Well, I think I'm a very nice person, especially to you. Also did you know you sent an extra picture that's not from the book?" He says "No." I'm confused "To me being nice or the extra picture?" He responds but kinda changes the subject. "I couldn't see that I sent the extra picture, it was too small." I ask him again, "Do you think I'm mean?" I know I'm doing this for validation from him that I shouldn't be seeking but I can't help it. He responds "No I don't think you are mean. I just think that when we are physically next to each other, we tend to be more aggressive." I smile, somehow this summed is up perfectly, whenever we're next to each other we tend to be playfully rude but over email we're way nicer which is still somewhat nice territory. I respond. "Somehow you bring out the worst in me" He replies, "I Know." Somehow those 2 words mean the word to me. Chapter 7: 3 months later, School's out, it's summer. Me and Matthew stay in touch. Emailing, texting, hanging out. One day we were sitting on the swings at a park in-between our houses. We were talking when I suddenly knew I had to tell him, right here, right now. "Um, I need to tell you something and it's pretty serious." His expression changes from a smile to worried face, I reassure him, "It's not bad, just important." His face relaxes slightly.
I take a deep breath and try to figure out how to tell him without putting our mutual friendship at risk. He looks at me with the most understanding look in the world, "You don't have to tell me anything you don't want to." Ugh, why was he so nice! "But I do have to tell you this. I um, I have a crush on you and I have for the past couple months." I quickly blurt out the last part. His face goes blank as he processes this information, then I small smile forms, "I have had a crush on you since the 2nd month of school" he blushes. I smile, "So what do you like about me?" he asks while smirking. I hit his arm playfully, "What happened to 'don't have to tell you anything I don't want to?'" I ask. He laughs and smiles, "Then don't." he says. That makes me smile even more. Epilogue: 2 years later, Me and Matthew have been dating for about a year now, he's so nice and sweet. Really, he always has been. He always knows the right things to say. Right now we're at our 8th grade formal and I'm trying so hard not to think about next year or I'll start crying. Matthew is zoned to a different high school, one that's actually my high school's enemies. I know we could still be together and we don't intend on breaking up over this but it's gonna be hard not going to school with him anymore. He grabs my hand and walks me out to the back of the building. Technically we are allowed to be out here, but there's no teachers around. We look up at the night sky. It's beautiful. He pulls me closer to his body which towers over me. He whispers, "I love you" so soft, so sweet, so simple. He leans forward towards my lips and we kiss for the first time. It's romantic and the setting is perfect. Neither of us want to back away first, so we don't. The End This is for @painterwoman's contest It's not very good.
