Only You.

Racing through the halls to avoid being late I am trying to keep my books from falling. The first day of sixth grade started this way for me. But if this hadn’t happened I would have never met him. I was turning the corner when my foot slid and I slammed right into this guy. My biology papers went everywhere. “Hey are you alright?” I heard him say. Looking up I saw him, he had deep blue eyes, and short blonde hair and he had a soccer jersey on. “Y-yeah.”I said. He was looking straight into my eyes. Unlike him I was wearing a Black sweatshirt. Black skinny jeans and my long bangs swept over my eyes. My black hair fell over my eyes. I went to go move them when he moved them with his hand. I saw how close he was to me and I blushed. “You should really keep your hair out of your face. Its quiet cute.” He smiled at me helped me get my things and began to walk off. I was about to ask his name he turned around and said “you should go to the pep rally today Jack.” He smiled at me and walked away. The rest of that day was like a blur. I decided to go to that pep rally. I sat in the way back in the corner with my best friend Blaire “are you sure this guy is gunna show up?” he asked me. “I’m sure. He told me to come for a rea-”I stopped and stared at the front of the gym “What’s wrong?” Blaire asked. “That’s him!” I pointed to the blonde guy in the front waving and twirling his arm getting everyone to go whoop whoop. “Him?!?! That’s a 7th grader! And he’s the student body president” Blaire said surprised “I’m surprised he actually talked to you.” I look down embarrassed knowing its true. “Oh hun! I didn’t mean it like that!” Blaire said trying to fix what he said. I put my hand up “its fine I know what you meant. Besides I think he’s straight. He wouldn’t be interested in a guy like me.” I say feeling worse. I lean against the bars and flinched from pain. I grab my right arm and realize it’s still bruised. Blaire notices. “Did he hit you again!” he said that somewhat loud and some people and the student president, Skylar as there calling him, look our way. I turn away from being embarrassed I want to run but I know I’d really be the center of attention and that’s the last thing I want. He leans closer to keep quiet “if he hit you again I swear-” I cut him off “It’s nothing! I just hit my arm. That’s all. I’m sorry Blaire I need to go…” I start to walk down the bleachers avoiding the stares I’m getting. Skylar looks my way but that’s about it. I walk down to the bathrooms and take my sweatshirt off. “This is bad…” I say quietly. The bruise is from my elbow to the middle of my arm going up. I touch the blue-ish purple black mark. I flinch. It still hurts. My mother’s boyfriend is a coke addict and he gets violent when he’s high. This isn’t the first time he’s hurt me though. It’s not like my mother would stop him. She’s a drunk and a drug addict. “This is insane.” I say to myself as a tear escapes my eye. To the present now I’m a sophomore in high school. I’ve had a crush on Skylar ever since that day. I’m in the middle of play practice when Blaire burst through the door “Jack! Jack!!!” he comes running through the door and running as fast as he can down the aisle to the stage “What is it Blaire?” he holds up the paper in his hand “You made first place in the math finals!!!” he says ecstatically. The girls that like me walked around me and started congratulating me. “Yeah, so?” I say unamused. He looks at me like I’m stupid “You get your picture in the paper with all the other top 5 list!” he said “So…” I say again. Blaire Face palms and hands me the paper “Guess who made second place Jack.” He smirks. I read the paper
Fall Valley High School Math regionalist
1st place: Jack Phantom 2nd year
2nd place: Skylar Longhorn 3rd year
3rd place: Jenny Pringle 4th year
4th place: Winter Stringer 3rd year
5th place: Tanner Grudge 3rd year
I couldn’t believe that I made first and Skylar made second! I was so nervous I blushed and almost fainted. Blaire jumped up and hugged me. “I’m so proud!” he said then let me go. He looped his arm with mine knowing I didn’t like that and took me down the stairs. “Sorry girls! I gotta borrow Jacky for a bit ok!” he said looking back and waving bye. I rolled my eyes. “Ok! Have fun Jacky!” Marcey said to me. I walked with jack to the office to meet the others. I was so nervous. “Relax it will be fine” when he said fine he pushed me into the office. I stumbled into the office. I turned read because they were all looking at me. “Hey! Congratulations Jack” I heard a familiar voice say. I look up to see Skylar looking at me with his amazing smile. Oh boy I thought as I looked into his eyes.