.First Love
"I hate you!" Angel screamed.
"I hate you too!" I snapped. My name is Gabriel.
"Let's break up!" That's my girlfriend, Angel.
"FINE!" It was silent for a moment. She ran and hugged me.
"I'm sorry, I Iove you" she said. I hugged her back.
"I love you too" That's how we always fought. I loved her and she loved me.
Or so I thought.
"Hm...This school is so small" she said.
"Yeah" he replied. New kids. He slipped his hand from hers and wrapped it around her waist.
"Hi!" Angel said."I'm Angel"
"I'm Drake, and this is Ashlee" he introduced. Angel smiled.
"New guys are sexy" she said. Ashlee stepped in front of her.
"I'm his girlfriend" Ashlee snarled.
"Calm down, Love" Drake held her back.
"So?" she snapped. I witnessed everything that happened at the corner of the school. At that moment, I realized Angel was no angel. But a two-faced bitch. But no matter what...I still loved her. I was never and couldn't let her go. My first love..
But when Drake dumped Ashlee...
"We're OVER" Angel said. My heart broke... I couldn't think. This couldn't be happening!
"But..But I love you!" I called.
"So?" She began to walk away. I couldn't walk.. I couldn't breathe. My heart was racing. Very fast. How could she do this to me? Did she already forget the promises we made together? From promises to lies...
I slowly walked to the park, half and hour later from the incident that happened. Someone was crying on the bench, holding her head in her hands. I walked over.
"Are you, okay miss?" I asked. She lifted her head from her hands and looked at me. Ashlee.
"Oh...Hi Gabriel" she said as she wiped her tears away. No use. They just kept falling from her dark hybrid eyes. She smudged her black eyeliner and eyeshadow on her hands.
"Why were you crying?" I asked, sincerly. Ashlee looked at my face.
"I should be asking you the same thing" She answered pointing at my face. I touched the side of it and realized it was wet. I was still crying.
"Oh... I just got dumped by my first love.." I softly replied.
"Yeah, same..."
Boom. Rain began to lightly fall upon everyone as they ran to get dry. I was planning to do the same until Ashlee stood up, grabbed me by my arm and hugged me. I felt her grip get tighter as I hugged her back. The rain and her black-stained tears were stainning my white t-shirt and dog tag.
"C-can you do something for me, Gabriel?" she asked.
"Yeah?"
"Stay here... And hug me.. And.. And reminise the good times we had.. With our loves..." Ashlee gripped onto my shirt as I nodded.
"Hi, my name is Angel" she said.
"What a pretty name for a pretty girl like you" I said. She giggled and I winked at her. Love at first sight.
"Alot of guys like you Angel" I said as I hugged her.
"Well I like you" she replied. Angel made a face as I shrugged. She went up onto her tippy-toes and lightly pressed her lips against mines. I was shocked for a moment but then kissed her back. I was disappointed when she pulled away.
"There I left my mark" she tease. I let out a laugh and kissed her softly on her cheek.
"Well, thanks for tonight. The movie was great" Angel said. "See ya later, good night Gabriel." I nodded but then grabbed her wrist.
"Angel, I LOVE YOU!" I confessed as I let go. I shut my eyes tight, scared about her reaction. I opened them and she was in front of me, holding my hands and pressing her mouth against mines.
"I love you too" she smiled.
My first love... My first kiss.. And my first 'I love you' to a girl. Even though I'm sad... I don't regret anything in our 4 year relationship.
Ashlee and I just stayed in the rain and cried.
Beep. Beep. Beep. I slammed my hand onto my alarm clock. 9:21 a. m. Today will be the first day that I haven't kissed Angel in 4 years.
"Hey, Gabriel!" You awake?" Justin called. Justin is my 22 years old brother. My parents were having trouble at home and I didn't want to be a part of it. It wouldn't be healthy to graduate from a house of swearing, beating and blood.
"Yeah, I'm awake" I answered as I brushed my teeth. I spat into the sink.
"Well there's someone here for you!" I rose an eyebrow.
"'Kay, I'm coming down now." When I reached downstairs, a girl stood in the foyer; with a punk-ish, black dress and knee-length boots. Her hair was in the style of an asian mohawk and she had black make-up and emo guards.
"Hi Gabriel"
"Umm.. Do I know you?" I asked. She nodded.
"It's me. Ashlee. Ashlee Wills" my jaw dropped. It's been less than 24 hours since I saw her and she looks completely different. More punky.. More girly.. More Ashlee. Her other look totally didn't suit her body with pink skirts and tight t-shirts.
"Oh.. Okay. So what brings you here? Better yet, how do you know where I live?"
"I asked around. I wanted to know if you wanted to hang out today or something today" she said, quickly changing the subject.
"Uh.. Sure" I looked down and realized I was pretty much half naked in front of her, with only my boxers on. I only wore my boxers to bed, which wasn't smart in case we had company over in the morning. "Let me.. Put on something decent"
"Okay" she teased, patiently waiting. Then a smile formed on her face. During the month she's been at school, this was the first time I ever saw her smile.
"Hey, I wanted to thank you for yesterday" She said as we walked into a fair. I was slightly confused.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I.. I can get over Drake because you stayed and let me cry as much as I wanted with you" Ashlee replied.
"Well, you did the same for me" I answered.
"Yeah" she smiled and stared at her.
"You look very beautiful when you smile. You should do it more often" she shook her head and held her hands to her mouth.
"But my teeth are so bad though" Ashlee mumbled. I removed her hands away.
"No, they're perfect" I said "Honest" Ashlee let out a laugh, something else I never seen until now.
"Thank you, Gabriel"
"And thank you for your smile" I replied. Just then, we saw a flash.
"Oh, I'm sorry, you two are so cute together and I just had to take a picture" the photographer explained.
"Can you take another?" Ashlee asked as she pulled me in closer to her. I lightly blushed but made sure no one could notice. Flash. The photographer handed us each a copy of the picture. We did alot of things together after. Ashlee told me about alot of herself like she's been to Australia and Rome. She could also play the guitar, piano and drums and also went skydiving.
"Oh, it's 5:00 already? I should go" I said. "Would you like to come over to my house for dinner?"
"I don't want to be a bother.." I shook my head and she nodded.
We soon arived at Justin's house. He seemed to like Ashlee. Alot. And they had alot in common. It seemed like she was his friend rather than mines.
"Thanks for everything, dude" Ashlee said as she shoved the plate in front of her. She didn't show respect for Justin, or any other elder that I knew. Ashlee treated everyone the same, not caring about the saying "respect your elders".
"No problem" he said as he winked at her. I rolled my eyes.
"Justin, you're WAY too old for her" I scoffed.
"Only by 4 years" he remarked. After dinner, Ashlee, Justin and I sat in the living room. We talked about life and school until she wanted to go see my room. As we headed up, I could hear him cough out something like "Don't have sex" or "Use a condom" Either way, there's only one word that could describe Justin: PERVERT.
As I opened my bedroom door, Ashlee was stunned, or disgusted by my room. She looked around and sat on my bed.
"I like your room." She got up and started to walk around but stopped at my shelf full of pictures. "It's very you."
"See anything that interests you?" I asked. She nodded and handed me a picture of my family when I was around 5 years old. Ashlee pointed at me in the picture.
"Is this you?" she asked.
"Yeah, I was cute when I was a kid."
"Was?" Ashlee repeated with surprise in her voice. Then glanced at me. I nodded.
"Yeah, now I'm sexy" I grinned and looked towards her. She bursted out laughing. "That wasn't funny but at least you're laughing" I placed the picture back to the shelf. When she was done laughing, she looked at my alarm clock that shone a bright red colour.
"I should get going. It's almost 10"
"Oh.. Okay, see you at school, Monday?" I asked. Right after I said that, she kissed me on my cheek. It was short but sweet.
"Definately" Ashlee closed my bedroom door as she headed downstairs. My heart couldn't stop racing. It was beating so fast, but not so much like I was going to have a heart attack. I ignored the event that happened and hoped that my heart wouldn't continue to beat abnormally. But I had this same feeling before, when Angel first kissed me. Was.. Was I in love?