When you are young the summer is everything. School seems to last forever and when summer comes you can't keep track of the days. Then as you grow older the school days breeze by and the summer seem to go on for years.
We met in the summer, both of us turning 15 and both looking for something. Edward was smart, witty and always knew what to say. Me, I was average; I couldn't make a joke if my life depended on it and I wasn't impressed with myself. Edward was tall (5'11" to be exact) and I was short (5'5"). He was skinny but had some major self-esteem issues because he liked to call himself fat. I wasn't the skinniest kid but I wasn't the fattest either. Edward had his bronze hair grown out and always swept over his right eye. My hair came to the middle of my back. It was plain brown and hung down. I had the most stubborn hair in the world. Edward and I were polar opposites. That's how it always was with us.
After we first met we were inseparable. We talked 24 hours a day. He was my best friend. I couldn't live without him. He knew how to make me smile. A task no one seemed up to at the time. I'll admit I had a crush on him. Who wouldn't he had everything. The good looks, the brains, and he was hilarious. I had a handful of friends who were drooling over him. I even hooked him up with a few of them, Two actually. Alice liked him at one point. So, I was a good friend and tried to get them together. I guess Edward wasn't into her because he told her that he preferred to just be friends. Then there was another one of my friends, Rosalie. They dated for a week before they broke up. She "loved" him still though but he just thought of her as a sister.
One day Edward and I were sitting on my couch. We were watching Dracula; it was our favorite movie to watch together. I was dumb enough to tell him that I had a crush on someone. Of course he wanted to know who it was. I wouldn't tell because it was him. We fought back and forth until I finally gave in. "It's you." I said covering my face with my hands. He looked at me and blinked a few times.
"Oh." Was all he said. Not that I expected anything else. I actually thought he would gag then run away. I never had a lot of faith in people. I had walls they seemed impossible for me to tear down, but somehow Edward managed to. That's why I loved him. He knew how to open me up. He could read me like a book. I wasn't as lucky though. I had no idea what he was thinking or how he felt about me. I was completely clueless.