Have you ever had the feeling that you are here for a reason, or to be with a certain person? Well here is a time where that question comes into a factor and actually comes true. These two were made for each other the way God made it and they didn't know it until they were 18 years old. These people are the best that you would ever know and I am honored to have known them for as long as I have. That's not the point the point is that God has a plain for everyone and has a partner for everyone but people in general are idiotic and can't find "the one". This is a time where the two have known each other for their entire lives and didn't even know. These two people were around one another for their entire schooling and but never really talked to each other but for some reason they both knew that there was something. The problem is that both of them were in a relationship with someone else. Take the boy Justin For example, he was in a relationship with someone who was a singer and really didn't understand anything else and tried but just didn't understand why Troy was like he was. Troy was a fan of a baseball team who hasn't been to the World Series for 66 years and hasn't won the World Series for 100+ years, yet every year he watches every game and thinks that this is the year that they will go all the way. The girl, Gabriella, she was in a relationship with someone who never cared what she wanted to do. She wants to be a team trainer for a couple of different teams and he just dates her to go to all the games for free but she really likes him. The rest of this tale is going to be through the eyes of the boy as he explains how they came to be and their friendship blossmed.

1.

I was going through a box of old photos that I haven't seen in ten years and I came across a photo of me and Gabriella playing in the leaves and laughing and looking like we are the best of friends. Sure I've seen Gabriella in school and in some of my classes but I really never talked to her and never really gave much thought to the idea of having a friend that I never talk to, so I brought the photo to my dad and asked him.

"Oh yea that is taken when we were in the old house in Broad Ripple and yea you two were good friends then I wonder how they are doing."

That's it when I was a young boy in Broad Ripple she and I was the best of friends and now we never talk I wondered why that was. One day I decide to rekindle that friendship that we had in Broad Ripple. We just started talking about what we were going to do after high school and what we wanted to do with the rest of our lives just tiring to be friends and we were having fun too. We noticed that we had so much in common it was silly that we weren't better friends. The day before a group test that Gabriella and I had I was at work when one of my friends said something that made me laugh so I decide to share it with her so I went on facebook and had this conversation with her.

"Hey I just wanted to tell you platos a la aqui," I started out with.

"LOL huh?" she responded.

"It's just something to get you to laugh. It's a saying that we use at my work when one of us are getting stressed over the little thing. Tomorrow just relax when you take the test and you'll be fine." I retorted.

"How did you know I was stressing? Oh yea my status! Yea… I'm writing a six page paper. I haven't started studying yet :/" she said nervously.

"No I was at work relaxing and I realized that we had a test. My buddy and I were talking and he said platos a la aqui then said chango five times then cursed at me just messing to keep me relaxed. I figured that you'd b freaking out so it's just to get you to loosen up and trust yourself. Your smart person but on test and quizzes you look uncertain about your answers. Just relax and trust yourself and trust your first choice," I insured her.

The next week after the test Gabriella and I got to actually talk during class.

"So Michelle what are you doing next year?" I asked

"Oh I don't know maybe IUPUI how about you?" she responded with. I was wearing a ball state shirt so I just retorted with "Uh Ball State."

"Oh ha duh what major?" she questioned.
"Telecommunications" I said quickly.

""Huh is that the same as TV?" she pondered.

"Yea kind of also radio goes under that category and my minor is going to be in coaching," I said confidently.

"I can see you being a coach honestly" she said sweetly.

So Gabriella and I just kept talking and laughing at one another every day we had that class I looked forward to our conversations. One day our teacher hit himself with a pen that he was throwing up in the air and it hit him in the face. Gabriella and I looked at each other with that I can't believe he just did that look and busted out laughing. After we caught our breath I turn to her and ask her "Is this class better than the class we had last year?"

"It's funnier than last year for sure," she said softly.

"Yea but the teacher we had last year was pretty funny too," I responded.

The next few days she and I kept that communication going through facebook. I would ask her how she was doing. She and I would talk for hours on end. One night I could not sleep and went on to the social networking site to see if there was anyone to talk to, however; at 3 a.m. not expecting anyone to talk to. As the page loads I find Gabriella still online.

"Hey what are you still doing up so late?" I asked.

"Oh nothing I just could not sleep… wait what are you doing up this early in the morning?" She retorted as I thought she would.

"Just doing research on the next game that I have to announce, and just prepping for the Coach's show that I have to put together."

"Oh well I'll just let you get back to it then ." She sent me.

"No I can talk I got most of it done now I'm just working on the score sheet for the game , and that does not take that long to fix up, so what's up?" I said.

"No it's ok I'll see you tomorrow in class." She said then logged off from the site. Frustrated I turned off my laptop knowing I was not going to get anymore work done tonight.

The next day I was getting ready for a show that I host every game day with the head coach of the boys basketball team of Carmel. I had all of my notes that I worked on all last night for ready to go. I went into the bathroom to change into my suit that I was going to wear on TV when I ran into Gabriella.

"Troy can we talk?" she asked

"Gabriella, I have to change into my cloths that I'll be wearing on camera. Can this please wait until the interview is over?" I asked hastily. Feeling bad about how I snapped at her I turn to her and said, "Feel free to sit in the studio and watch the show live. I promise that we will talk after the show is over."

She thought about it hard and finally walked away. I changed into the suit and mentally prepared for the show. Coach walks through the door ready to go. My producer does a mic check on the two of us, and just as the show was about to start my friend Chris, who was running the video switcher, comes out and says, "Troy there is a girl outside the studio saying that she was invited to watch the taping do you know anything about this."

"Yea I told her it was ok. Can we get started now?" I said quite agitated. The show starts and Gabriella sits down in a chair off camera in the studio. As I started the intro all I saw was her looking at the show in progress. I shook off the first time our eyes met; however the next time I knew that I was not going to be shown on tape I could not take my eyes off her. I continue the interview as of it didn't bother me, but Chris saw that something was bothering me he spoke into my ear piece that I was wearing asking if I was ok. I just nodded to signify that I was fine. At that moment I saw Gabriella's eyes start to water and she ran off. The moment the show finished I ran off the set and chased her. I caught up to her just outside the radio station and I asked, "Gabriella what in the world is going on?"

"oh it is nothing," she managed to say under her tears "I'm sorry it's just me and my boyfriend have had some trouble, and I am just getting really sick of it."

"Is this what you tried to tell me last night?" I asked concerned about my new old friend.

"No. I was going to tell you that I was tired of it and that I was going to break up with him and see if you wanted to go out instead. It was a dumb idea I saw your show, and I knew that as soon as I walked in you got frustrated with everything because I was there. Don't worry about it like I said it was a stupid idea and I'm sorry I brought it up."

"Hey hey hey listen I was frustrated because I thought that the way Chris was acting before the show was not rite. I am sorry that you and your boyfriend are having some trouble, but if you want to end thing between you and him and wanted to give me a chance I think that would be a mistake on both parts. You cannot just run when things get tough. Now, if you really have no more feelings for him and are starting to have feelings for me; then, I would love to take you out some time. I just want you to think this one through because Gabriella I do think that you are a smart person. Think it over and either message me or text me." I said and walked back into the TV studio leaving her there to think it over.

I was looking up stats for the Basketball game I was getting ready to call in the upcoming days and, as that was going on I had a tab on facebook talking to my color guy about that week's game that we were to announce. All of a sudden I got a text message from Gabriella saying for me to check her relationship status. I was busy working on the game so I ignored the text for the time being. My friend, Corey, on the other hand saw what Gabriella wanted me to see and gave me a call.

"Dude did you see Gabriella's relationship status man?" He asked.

"No man I go t to get ready for the game. What's up?" I said puzzled.

"You will have to see for yourself." He insisted.

"Man I got a ton of work to do I might later. I got to do a better announcing job than I did last week. I had trouble getting my facts out." I said starting to get upset at him.

"No you need to see what she has down." He just kept pushing that button for some reason.

"I said I will do it tomorrow. I really got to focus because this game is going to go into state competition for sports play-by-play." I said extremely abrupt and frustrated.

"Ok I hope you know what you are doing brother." He says disappointed.

"All right man I'll talk to you later." I said quickly.

I still had a lot of work to do if I wanted to bring home a state title. I got finished up with my research around 4 am. I went to bed ready to go to class the next day. I still haven't checked Gabriella's relationship status on facebook. The next day I was walking out of my TV class to my study hall and Chris's girlfriend Morgan caught up with me and asked, "Hey are you doing ok you looked spacey in class today. What time did you go to bed last night cause normally you only look this bad when you are overthinking about your abilities. "

"Yea I guess I'm just nervous of the game today and it has started to get to me. I didn't get to sleep til around 4:30 this morning." I said wiping my eyes.

"Damn Troy look you are a great announcer, and you have a good color guy with you just trust your stuff and your partner and things will go smooth." Morgan said trying jut to get me to relax.

"I know that Justin is good color guy and I'm ok announcing but for some reason I'm nervous as hell about this game. I haven't felt this nervous since the season opener when I was a player." I said leaning against the rail.

"Well I know that you are going to do well because you know your stuff and I'll be at the game doing sideline tonight so if that helps." She said trying to cheer me up.

"Actually it kinda does." I said laughing. At that moment Gabriella sees me walking with Morgan and I could tell that she wanted to talk to me so I said my good byes to Morgan and went to catch up with Gabriella.

"How's it going?" I asked

"Well did you see my relationship status?" she asked coldly.

"No I was working on the info on the game that we have tonight." I said defensively.

"Oh I'm sure." She snaps and walks away. I ran to catch up with her and said, "Yea I was this game for some reason has me nervous that hasn't happened for years, so can you tell me why you are upset cause im running off of 3 hours of sleep and need caffeine in my system before tonight." I said getting annoyed at something I did not do to her.

"Why don't you just ask that girl you were hitting on." She spat and then ran off before I knew what was going on I had to get to my study hall.

Not knowing how I felt I went to my study hall when Corey stopped me before I could get to my seat.

"Dude, did you see Gabriella's relationship status yet?" Cory asked.

"Dude for the last time no I have been busy getting ready for tonight's game" I said really confused about what just happened and why the hell Corey wanted me to check this thing so badly.

"Come on man just check it real fast and then I'll let up and let you get a Monster" Corey said.

"Fine if it will shut your ass up I'll check fucking facebook." I said annoyed, tired and just wanting some fucking Monster. I pull up facebook to see that Gabriella Montez Is single. I Get my monster and run off to try to find Gabriella before she thinks I really have no feelings for her. I've had a crush on her since I saw her last year in my history/English class but she has had the same boyfriend this whole time.