Prologue
He was working on school work preparing for a test they had. He was with his best friend studying or at least trying to. He found her so distracting, with her blonde curly hair, stormy grey eyes, and a funny personality.
"Hey can I ask you a question?" she asked.
"Sure." he said pulling his eyes up.
"Do you like someone?" she asked innocently.
"What do you mean?"
She filled her eyes and the boy thought it was the cutest thing.
"Do you like, like someone?"
You he almost said and how could he not. But she would never like him how could she? He had braces, ugly glasses, untamable hair, and a small scrawny body to top it off. But he decided to play it off and see what happens.
"Yes." he smiled.
"Who?" she asked intrigued.
"Its a secret." he said.
She glared and then thought for a moment which caused the boy to panic. Could she possibly try and figure out it was her? But then he came up with an idea and with her it was so obvious that she would be unable to figure it out, she would over think it.
"How about this we give clues to each other."
"Alright." she groaned.
"So your admitting you like someone now?" he asked.
"Yes I am now deal with it." she said.
He was slightly panicking not only did she like someone but that it might be him. As if, he thought to himself, she probably liked one of the tall mature ones in their grade.
"I'll go first," she said,"its someone I've known for years and he has more confidence than he realizes and his eyes and hair are to die for."
He looked at her slightly confused, those clues didn't get him anywhere. For everything that she said it is probably not me.
"For me its her personality that I like and her smile, but most of all her eyes are just the best part." I smiled.
She frowned struggling to fit that with anyone, and she knew quite a lot of people. Who knew those simple things would go so far.
2 weeks later
He stood there in a state of shock as his best friend left for San Francisco. He managed to say goodbye but never got to do more than that, and now she was gone. She did leave him with a picture and a note she told him to read when she was gone. He now felt as if his world was completely turned upside down and thrown inside out. Because she was moving, she was not at school the last week she was here and that gave hims taste of what waste come.
He immediately began receiving the bullying that Annabeth kept away all those years by simply being his friend. Some of his other friends had already turned on him because they now knew that they couldn't get to her now that she was gone. All he did now was stand their with his parents holding the note she gave him and watched her walk away, if only he had more time.