This is my first story ever on here and I'm just trying out this style. I don't really know if it'll work so please leave any constructive criticism. Thank you and enjoy. Also let me know if I should do an audio recording.
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I remembered that you were my brother's best friend from elementary school. I never considered that you thought about me as a girl. Sure, we were only children then and I could hardly count as girly. I hardly wore dresses or skirts until the school enforced uniforms. Even then, it had never stopped me from playing baseball on the boys' team during PE or after school. I always thought that you liked girls like Kayla, my best friend at that age.
You were caught kissing in fifth grade.
The last thing I remembered about you was the last day of sixth grade. You pulled me aside after sixth period, an extra class we had after school was over, and told me that your family was moving to Oregon. You already told my brother. You said your dad got a job up there and that next year you wouldn't see me at Kings Middle School. I remembered that's when your parents pulled up and honked. You handed me a piece of paper and said, "Don't tell Kayla. Don't tell Timmy." Then you ran off.
Your note read: I really like you a lot and I want you to know I never kissed Kayla. She kissed me. Write me, please.
That was 1994.
I did write you and you wrote back, but I don't remember why we stopped. I don't remember why Kayla and I stopped being friends either.
All I know is that I can't believe you walked back into my world in 2005.
I didn't even know it was you. My good friend makes a passing comment about the cute blonde who just walked into the room looking in our direction. I only see your profile from the corner of my eyes as you pick a seat in the back of the room. I never really look at any guy she says is 'cute'. It's our secret code for 'I saw him first'. When the professor says my name during roll call, my friends passes me a note that says, cute guy just looked at you.
I don't take it seriously and think she's just joshing me, trying to get me to weigh in on her latest interest.
The professor later says Derek Oswell.
That's funny I knew a Derek Oswell once. He has dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. But he moved to Oregon a long time ago.
My friends writes, cute guy is named Derek.
I write back, now you know what name to moan.
She sticks her tongue out at me and we share silent giggles. Thank goodness we are regulars of the English department otherwise the professor wouldn't ignore us.
For the second half of class we are to count off and pair up. There are twenty of us and somehow you and I end up with the same number. I apologize to my friend before moving to join you, but she sees this as an opportunity for reconnaissance.
We pair off into your corner. I say, "Hi, I'm Jen."
You break out in an infectious grin, almost laughing. I feel a little weirded out by you for the moment. Why is he smiling like that? I think to myself.
You say, "I'm Derek, nice to meet you." and hold your hand out.
I reach over to shake your hand. Before you release my hand you gently squeeze it. Your handshake very firm. Your blue eyes sparkle like light bouncing off diamonds. I don't know why but my heart beats faster and I have to look away. So I pretend to rummage through my backpack. Thank goodness I left my notebook in it, so I don't look like an idiot.
You're not fooled by it at all. You can tell I'm a little flustered and it makes you happy.
She has no idea who you are, but you know exactly who she is. It's almost hard to believe, but more amusing that the same girl you knew when you were eleven was sitting right across you no longer wearing oversized t-shirts and hand-me-down boy jeans. Now she is wearing form fitting tops that have to be designed for one thing only: to drive men crazy. The once flat chested sixth grader now has herself a nice pair of round tits. She traded her brother's jeans for jean skirts of her own. It is a good thing she isn't hiding her smooth sturdy legs anymore. Even her boyish glasses are swapped for a pair of flirty ones. She looks so sexy. Don't stare, she'll think you're a pervert. But damn, she has to know how good she looks, right?
"So are you a Lit or Comp major?" I ask this weird guy who is still smiling.
"I'm not sure yet," you say.
"Oh, that's cool." It's not a big deal that many students don't actually decide their course of study before their first semester.
"You?"
"I'm a Lit major." I reply proudly.
You nod and then blurt out, "You don't remember me do you, Jen?"
This catches me off guard. "Uh..."
Great, now you've done it.
"Should I?" I look at you strangely, "This is the first time I've met you."
"So you didn't go to Lincoln Elementary and you don't have a brother named Timmy?" you ask quietly as to not scare me anymore than you already have.
How the hell would you know my brother's name or the elementary school I attended unless..."No way, man is it really you? "