Prologue
They say that your high school graduation day is supposed to be the third biggest day in your life, right up there with your wedding and the birth of your first child. For me though, it seemed like it was going to be the end of the world. My name is Bella or as my parents sometimes call me Isabella Marie Swan and today is my high school graduation.
I'm not going to lie; I've been looking forward to this day for as long as I can remember. I loved my mom and my dad but I was ready to be out on my own and making my own decisions. My parents loved me and I completely understood this but sometimes they could be a little bit overprotective like every other parent in the world.
There was one problem that I was facing with this whole high school graduation celebration I was about to dive into; the fact that after today my best friend and me would be going separate ways. After today he would be leaving for the honors program at Dartmouth and I would be heading off for a trip to Europe to travel before I headed to the University of California at Los Angeles. This very well could be the last night I see my best friend for who knows how long.
There's also another thing I forgot to mention. I've been in love with my best friend since I was 14. I have never built up the guts to come out and say it to him though because I was too afraid of ruining the relationship I had with him. In my head we are meant to be. Everything just seems right. When our hands graze each other I can feel the sparks and when I look into his eyes I feel like I can see his soul. It's like the stories you pay to go and see in the movie theaters. The ones about true love and love at first sight.
The only difference between the movies and my reality is that I don't get the happily ever after ending in the end. Instead, I'm losing everything. I've watched for the past four years as my best friend dated various other high school girls. I've stayed up with him as he complained as his latest catch and all of his relationship problems. I've watched as he spent every Valentine's Day setting up romantic dates for a new girl each year.
When prom came around I watched as he placed the delicate corsage on his date's wrist. I went with him to pick out the matching tuxedo so that he would color coordinate with his beautiful prom date.
My heartstrings pull every time I see him with his arm wrapped around another girl. I went through out all of high school never going on one date because the whole time I was pining after my best friend but I never grew the balls to tell him.
So now here I stand in front of the full-length mirror in my room dressed in the ugly polyester cap and gown on the day of my graduation. It's come down to the wire. Do I tell him how much I truly love him or do I allow him to leave for Dartmouth without so much of a word about how I truly feel?
I wouldn't be Isabella Swan if I had the guts to tell him how I felt. So my decision stands, I'm going to let him get away. After tonight, who knows what will happen to us. I do know, however, that I am going to make our last night together a memorable one. I would remember this night for the rest of my life.
My name is Isabella Swan and I am in love with my best friend, Edward Cullen.
A/N: Okay guys so I've started the wheels on another story. I know that this is a short segment but I just wanted to get opinions on it and see what you guys think of the idea. I have a few directions that this story could take and I'm sure as I continue to write this it will take one of those directions.
Anyways, just please let me know what you think and if there is anyone out there interested in reading another story written by yours truly. Please enjoy this short segment of "Just Another Love Story." Don't forget to let me know what you think! (I really do love reviews and I'll try to reply to as many as possible.)
~Jess