One day
She'd been friends with him for years now, you'd think eventually the silly infatuation with him would have gone away by now....but no he was still the only person that always made her feel like her 13 year old self, like sometimes her brain couldn't form thoughts when he was around because all she would do was blush.
13
She'd just gotten a phone and it seemed like finally everything was going right for her
One day after school she saw that he added her as a friend and her heart filled with childish hope and thus began their friendship
As a 13 year old girl who was friends with the boy she liked, she tended to see signs where they weren't any and eventually she convinced herself that maybe he liked her too ....
That wasn't the case but she didn't feel all to bad , I mean he hadn't made fun of her or treated her differently and weirdly that's what grew them closer as friends
14
She was entering high school and she had a new crush on another family friend and she didn't think of him all that often
He messaged her about his sister's wedding in a month "if they tell me to go sit next to my girlfriend, I'll come sit next to you" she rolled her eyes knowing that if it came down to it he'd do it just to piss her off. He took so much joy in irritating her
On the same day the other guy asked her out and she said yes
When he asked her what's new in her life she told him and he didn't speak to her til November except for the happy birthday message she got in June
Sometimes she thought maybe he's jealous or maybe he just doesn't want to talk to me
As soon as he knew they broke up he started speaking to her again
15
As the years went on their friendship grew and grew but for some reason it didn't feel like a normal friendship
She was friends with other boys but things just felt different with him. All her friends would tell her "he likes you and you are just blind" she considered it but she was scared to get her hopes up again
They would speak from when the woke up til they went to bed. He knew things about her that nobody else ever did.
She was the hopeless romantic type with her head always stuck in books and he hated books with a passion but whenever she'd read a new book he'd want to know all about it and eventually he started forcing her to read the books to him before bed
Before her birthday people would ask her to send pictures of herself so they could post her and she was complaining because 1 girl made her send 51 pictures of herself and for some reason he was upset because she only sent him 1 picture , so she sent all 51 pictures to him as well. He created an album in his gallery for her
Eventually he ditched the excuse and of it only being for her birthday and would just tell her the folder needed to be updated.... he continued to update the folder for 2 years
16
In the beginning of the year she lost some of her closest friends because they were being horrible and she broke up with the guy she was dating and she felt alone
He was there for her , he listened to her cry and overthink and feel bad about herself and he would always try and make her feel better even though according to him he hated seeing her like this and he hated that she'd pick people who would treat her horribly
And so they became closer than they ever had been before
He started telling her when he was upset and when he was feeling down which he never did before
She'd let him help her pick her outfits and her hair and get excited to tell him about her day and all her stories
And after November exams it changed even more he had been subtly flirting with her for years and then all of a sudden it wasn't so subtle
He'd confuse her and contradict himself
One day he'd tell her to give another guy a chance and the next he'd tell her to stop talking to the other guy because he could give her more butterflies then that guy ever could
And then at a get together the two of them stayed up while everyone else went to bed and spent the night talking and that's when he knew that he'd been blind for so many years and she's was always there
And the friendship officially became more after all the pining and waiting but it still felt like their friendship which forced them to realize that maybe they were never just friends maybe they were always more
And the two of them were so happy together so blissful but when you are that happy things always go wrong
First her grandmother was admitted into hospital and then he broke up with her out of nowhere for no reason
And then he on Valentines day he called her
He said he really needed to speak to her and they did but she didn't know that would be the last time she spoke to him ever again...
That Saturday her world came crashing down and she would never be able to see him again or speak to him
Who would argue with her for hours over nothing and make fun of her and be there for her
Who would listen to her stories about nothing and be interested in them
She didn't realize how much he meant to her and how much he was in her life til she was sitting and crying while doing bio homework because he used to tease her for finding it hard
She didn't realize how many stories she had to tell and she couldn't tell them to him anymore
She felt empty and broken and alone and everyone was telling her at least you weren't together for years and at least it wasn't serious but she still felt it all the same
He meant the world to her, she didn't Just lose the guy she loved , she lost her best friend and she was never gonna get the happy ending she'd been dreaming about forever because if it wasn't with him she didn't want it to be with anyone else
She was used to being the younger one but as soon as she turned 17 she'd always be older
Ik my writing isn't the best and I suck at it but I just wanted to get my life off my chest
