"Jules! Julia where are you? Julia… I'm sorry."
I am officially the biggest dirt bag in possibly the whole northern hemisphere. Huh. I wonder if they have a trophy. I mentally smirked. See? That just proves how much of a jerk I am. I just had the biggest fight with the possible love of my life and I'm smirking. Mentally, Eli, mentally you are smirking. I guess Julia does have a right to be pissed at me. I would be too. But, I had to tell her.
(Flash back) I was thinking all these thoughts on my way home. I decided to stop and get Julia some tea from the local coffee place. She had a pretty bad cold from our epic snowball fight [1]. On my way out of the coffee shop I tripped over a banana peel and ripped my skinny jeans right below my knee. And damn did it hurt [2]. After mumbling a few obscenities I got up and limped my way out of the coffee place to my car. I just got my car and it was so, so cool. It was an old truck. Actually, it was just like the one that girl drives in that book. You know the one about a vampire. I think it was called like Sunset or something [3].
Julia stayed at home today from school from a cold and it was killing me. I had to endure eight hours without my Jules. The whole day I was extremely jittery and irritable. That's what being apart from Julia did to me. It probably was unhealthy but it wasn't like I was going to lose her so l didn't really care. When it was 2:15 I decided that I couldn't possibly endure another forty-five minutes. I decided to skip the rest of the day and go back home to Jules. She had been staying with us since her step-mom turned abusive. She could never bear to tell her dad because he seemed so happy with her. That was Julia for you. She'd always run away from her problems. But, she also was extremely loyal and compassionate. All those qualities at one point had somewhat destroyed her. That's why she was living at my home. She just couldn't possibly tell him her step-mom was beating on her constantly. But, I loved her even more because of her flaws. If you can even call it love. I do know that I love Julia, but… I guess I don't know if I was IN love with her. I mean it's just that… I don't know. I really don't understand myself. I can get the most beautiful, wonderful, most caring girl in the world and not be IN love with her.
The rest of my half hour drive home was uneventful. When I got home I literally jumped out my truck and ran to the door. I was so happy to be home again. School alone was bad. School without Julia was hell. I unlocked the door and ran up to my room. I opened the door and there she was surfing the internet. "Hey Julia!" I said loudly. She jumped probably a good foot in the air. "Oh… uh, heyyy Eli…" she replied extremely nervously. I noticed that she also clicked out of the internet extremely fast. Hmmm… I'll have to look into that. "I wasn't expecting you to be home so early from school bunny pie[4]." She said a little bit less nervously, but I noticed how she wouldn't look me in the eyes. I was starting to get a little nervous myself. I mean what could possibly be wrong? Oh my god. She was going to break up with me. Or even worse she was pregnant. That would explain it. Oh my god. Oh my god! OH MY FRIGGIN' GOD! I can't be a dad! I'm only 15! I shouldn't even be driving by myself! Oh my god. "Julia…" I started in a shaky voice "if something BIG was happening would you tell me?" I saw her eyes widen with realization that she knew I knew. She let out a shaky laugh. Sort of like a I don't know what you are talking about laugh but I really do and I'm just laughing to fill the awkward silence and give me some time to think about how I can cover this in a lie kind of laugh.
"Well…" she said "we knew each other since we were like 7 right? And you and me we are special. We are different from everyone else right? And we have been dating since we were in the seventh grade right? Look at us now we are sophomores! That's three years! Three years! And we both love each other so much and we are LIVING TOGETHER for Heaven's sake and I mean-" "Julia" I cut her off "get to the point." "Eli" - she took a big breath- "I think it is time that you propose to me."
For a second I was relieved that she wasn't pregnant. Then totally mortification took over.
1: I have a cold from the most EPIC snowball fight. EVER.
2: Don't laugh! I did it before and it hurt like hell.
3: SHOUT OUT TO TWILIGHT YO!
4: I love it when people call people bunny pie. It's actually kind of gross but it sounds sweet. Um, yeah.
