Chapter One
I guess you could say I'm your everyday kid; I play an instrument like most guys, guitar of course. But I don't go around telling everyone I do. I keep that to myself. My life had been normal. Until after she came to me that day...
It happened about a week before the dance, I was at my locker getting my books when she came up to me, a walking angel. She came up to me and shoved something into my hand. I was dazed, was that who I thought it was? It was. It was the one girl I've had my eye on since the Third Grade. Why now? Why not before? Why, wait till 8th grade? So many questions raced through my mind, but there was one other thing...
Had this really happened?
I opened the note that she had put in my hand and I started to read it. The only thing on the paper was the date "4/11/99" I read it over and over looking on the front and back what had happened on April 11th 6 years ago? Was there something I overlooked? And then it hit me, it was the day she moved here. But what did it mean? I didn't get it.. I looked at the bell and panicked I had less then a minute to get to homeroom. I slammed my locker and ran to my class, sitting in my seat just as the bell rang. "Almost late again Mister Walker." My homeroom teacher said "I'm sorry Miss Johnson, my locker got jammed," I said thinking of a quick excuse. "Don't let it happen again." she replied.
After homeroom I walked to my first period class, Gym. I was never good at gym; I'm a very clumsy kid. Since second grade I've been the kid that everyone picked last. I was so bad at every sport I played, every sport but baseball. The bad thing is, we played baseball for only two weeks out of the whole year. In those weeks I was a star. But after, I was nothing.
"Liam! Hurry up!" My Gym Coach said as I hassled around the Gym trying to finish my laps. I never really was a runner, but the occasional time when I get a good time at running, no one noticed. It seems like the only time they do notice is when I do poorly. That didn't bother me much, until the day the names started coming. "Slug!" they would taunt, at first I didn't pay much attention to it. I knew I was slow but it didn't matter much to me.
Gym went by the slowest of all today, surprisingly enough, second through ninth periods went by like a blur. Before I knew it I was sitting there counting the seconds till the final bell rang and we were released. I could already see kids in the hallway from the bell just before. And then, I saw her. It was only for a brief moment when she walked by the classroom but it was enough to make my heart skip a beat. I was now on the corner of my seat, waiting for that bell. And then, RING RING RING. It chimed I was out the door before it finished chiming.
My eyes darted around the hallway searching for her. 'Where could she have gone?' I thought. And then I saw her, close to the end of the hall. "Rose! Rose!" I called wanting her to turn around. It never came, she just walked out the doors and away.